Edward Scaife
English cinematographer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Edward Scaife BSC (23 May 1912 ā November 1994) was an English cinematographer, who worked five times with the director John Huston.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]
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Born | (1912-05-23)23 May 1912 |
Died | November 1994 (aged 81ā82) Chichester, West Sussex, England |
Occupation | Cinematographer |
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Sometimes credited as Ted Scaife, he worked originally in the sound department of a London film company.[8] From 1940 onwards, he was a member of the camera crew in productions such as Michael Powell's Black Narcissus (1947) and Huston's African Queen.[9] From 1951 he was first employed as a chief camera man, and photographed films of all genres, including Night of the Demon (1957), 633 Squadron (1964), Khartoum (1966), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), before retiring from the industry in 1979.[1]