Biography
Howard Atherton is an English cinematographer. Born Howard William Atherton on 12 August 1947 in Ilford, Essex, he has been active in the film industry since 1971.
Atherton served as director of photography on Fatal Attraction (1987), directed by Adrian Lyne, and collaborated with Lyne again on Indecent Proposal (1993) and Lolita (1997). His other feature credits include Bad Boys (1995), Mermaids (1990), Deep Rising (1998), Hanging Up (2000) and Lassie (2005). He worked as a camera operator on Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975).
Atherton received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Cinematography for the 1996 miniseries Gulliver's Travels. He is a member of the British Society of Cinematographers.
