Biography
Wolfgang Suschitzky (29 August 1912 – 7 October 2016) was an Austrian-born British cinematographer and photographer. Born in Vienna, he moved to England in 1935 and began working as a cameraman for documentary filmmaker Paul Rotha, with whom he maintained a long collaboration on films including World of Plenty (1943) and No Resting Place (1951).
He later shot features such as The Small World of Sammy Lee (1963), Ulysses (1967), Entertaining Mr Sloane (1970) and Theatre of Blood (1973). Suschitzky is best known for his cinematography on Mike Hodges’s Get Carter (1971). He was also noted for his still photography of London street life in the 1930s and 1940s. His son Peter Suschitzky is a cinematographer.
