Biography
Jack Cardiff OBE (1914–2009) was a British cinematographer, director and photographer. He began his career as a child actor in silent films and moved behind the camera in the 1930s, becoming one of the first operators of the three-strip Technicolor process on Wings of the Morning (1937).
He is best known for his colour cinematography on three films directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger: A Matter of Life and Death (1946), Black Narcissus (1947), for which he won an Academy Award, and The Red Shoes (1948). Other notable credits include Under Capricorn (1949) for Alfred Hitchcock and The African Queen (1951) for John Huston. Cardiff later directed Sons and Lovers (1960), receiving an Academy Award nomination for Best Director. He was appointed OBE in 2000 and received an Academy Honorary Award in 2001.
