Biography
Edward Colman (1905–1995) was an American cinematographer. He began his career in the 1930s as an assistant cameraman and contributed aerial photography to Hell's Angels (1930). He later worked in Britain on films including Things to Come (1936).
From 1953 he maintained a long association with Walt Disney Studios, serving as director of photography on numerous live-action features and the television series Dragnet. He received Academy Award nominations for his work on The Absent-Minded Professor (1961) and Mary Poppins (1964), and an Emmy nomination for Dragnet in 1956. His other Disney credits include The Shaggy Dog (1959), That Darn Cat! (1965), The Ugly Dachshund (1966), The Gnome-Mobile (1967), Blackbeard's Ghost (1968) and The Love Bug (1968). He retired after the latter film.
Colman was a member of the American Society of Cinematographers and the brother of cinematographer Ben Colman.
