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name: "John Daly"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/john-daly-110587"
fi1m_id: "john-daly-110587"
imdb_id: "nm0198459"
tmdb_id: 110587
wikidata_id: "Q133708488"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "28 August 1955"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-07T12:19:46.632640+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# John Daly

## Identity

John Daly

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/john-daly-110587
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** john-daly-110587
- **IMDb ID:** nm0198459
- **TMDB ID:** 110587
- **Wikidata ID:** Q133708488
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133708488, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198459/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110587

Cinematographer. Born 28 August 1955 in London, England, UK.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 28 August 1955, London, England, UK
- **Active:** 1981–1995
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q133708488, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0198459/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/110587

## Streaming the US now

- **BritBox:** [*Persuasion*](https://film.one/film/persuasion.md) (84)

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## Biography

John Daly is a British cinematographer. He began his career in 1976 at the BBC Film Department at Ealing Studios, progressing through the camera department on documentaries, comedy and drama before becoming a cameraman in 1987. His first credit as director of photography was the 1990 BBC film Close Relations.

Daly photographed the 1994 television film Pat and Margaret and episodes of the series Bergerac (1981). He received a BAFTA Television Award for Photography and Lighting for Roger Michell's Persuasion (1995). He won a second BAFTA for the 1998 Granada miniseries Far from the Madding Crowd and left the BBC the same year to work freelance on film and television productions.

*Sources: imdb.com, screenonline.org.uk, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Persuasion* (1995), Fi1m 84, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/persuasion.md)

## Complete filmography (30)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Meadowlands* (2007), series, Director of Photography
- *Not Going Out* (2006), series, Lighting Director
- *Lila Says* (2005), Director of Photography
- *Lloyd & Hill* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Me & Mrs. Jones* (2003), Director of Photography
- *Hot Money* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Dog Eat Dog* (2001), Director of Photography
- *The Parole Officer* (2001), Director of Photography
- *Greenfingers* (2001), Director of Photography
- *The Railway Children* (2000), Camera Operator, Director of Photography
- *Essex Boys* (2000), Director of Photography
- *Fanny & Elvis* (1999), Director of Photography
- *Shockers* (1999), series, Director of Photography
- *The Student Prince* (1998), Director of Photography
- *Titanic Town* (1998), Cinematography
- *Far from the Madding Crowd* (1998), series, Director of Photography
- *Far from the Madding Crowd* (1998), Director of Photography
- *A Royal Scandal* (1997), Director of Photography
- *The Moonstone* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Broken Glass* (1996), Director of Photography
- *Wilderness* (1996), series, Cinematography
- *Persuasion* (1995), Director of Photography — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/persuasion.md)
- *Pat and Margaret* (1994), Director of Photography
- *Sin Bin* (1994), Cinematography
- *Genghis Cohn* (1993), Director of Photography
- *Black Daisies For The Bride* (1993), Director of Photography
- *Omnibus: John Ford, Part One* (1992), Cinematography
- *Poison Candy* (1989), Camera Operator
- *Blackpool Wakes* (1989), Camera Operator
- *Bergerac* (1981), series, Director of Photography

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