Biography
Oswald Morris, also known as Ossie Morris, was a British cinematographer whose career spanned six decades. He began in the film industry in 1932 as a clapper boy at Wembley Studios and later served as an RAF bomber pilot during the Second World War. After the war he worked as a camera operator before his first credit as director of photography on The Golden Salamander (1950).
Morris collaborated extensively with director John Huston on eight films, beginning with Moulin Rouge (1952). He was director of photography on Sleuth (1972) and many other notable productions including Lolita (1962), Oliver! (1968), Fiddler on the Roof (1971), The Man Who Would Be King (1975) and The Dark Crystal (1982). He won an Academy Award for Fiddler on the Roof and received BAFTA awards for several films. His brother Reginald H. Morris was also a cinematographer.
