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London-born Douglas Slocombe has long been regarded as one of the film industry's premiere cinematographers, but he began his career as a photojournalist for Life magazine and the Paris-Match newspaper before World War II. During the war he became a newsreel cameraman, and at war's end he went to work for Ealing Studios as a camera operator... See full bio »

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1989 Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (director of photography)
 
1986 Lady Jane
 
1985 Water
 
1984 Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (director of photography)
 
1983 Never Say Never Again
 
1983 The Pirates of Penzance
 
1981 Raiders of the Lost Ark (director of photography)
 
1980 Nijinsky
 
1979 Lost and Found
 
1979 The Lady Vanishes (director of photography)
 
1978 Caravans
 
1977 Julia (director of photography)
 
1977 Nasty Habits
 
1976 The Bawdy Adventures of Tom Jones
 
1976 The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
 
1975 That Lucky Touch
 
1975 Rollerball (director of photography)
 
1975 The Maids
 
1975 Love Among the Ruins (TV movie)
 
1975 Hedda
 
1974 The Destructors
 
1974 The Great Gatsby (director of photography)
 
1973 Jesus Christ Superstar (director of photography)
 
1973 The Return (short)
 
1972 Travels with My Aunt
 
1971 Murphy's War (director of photography)
 
1970 The Music Lovers
 
1970 The Buttercup Chain
 
1969 The Italian Job
 
1968 The Lion in Winter (director of photography)
 
1968 Boom!
 
1967 Robbery
 
1967 Fathom
 
1967 The Fearless Vampire Killers
 
1966 The Blue Max
 
1965 Promise Her Anything
 
1965 A High Wind in Jamaica
 
1964 Guns at Batasi (director of photography)
 
1964 The Third Secret
 
1963 The Servant (director of photography)
 
1962 Freud
 
1962 The L-Shaped Room (photographed by)
 
1961 Wonderful to Be Young!
 
1961 Scream of Fear (director of photography)
 
1960 The Boy Who Stole a Million
 
1960 Circus of Horrors
 
1958 Tread Softly Stranger
 
1958 Davy
 
1957 All at Sea
 
1957 Big Time Operators
 
1957 ITV Play of the Week (TV series)
– Heaven and Earth (1957)
 
1957 Decision Against Time
 
1956 Panic in the Parlor
 
1955 Touch and Go
 
1955 Ludwig II: Glanz und Ende eines Königs
 
1954 Lease of Life
 
1954 The Love Lottery
 
1953 The Titfield Thunderbolt (director of photography)
 
1952 Crash of Silence (director of photography)
 
1952 His Excellency
 
1951 The Man in the White Suit (director of photography)
 
1951 The Lavender Hill Mob (director of photography)
 
1950 Cage of Gold
 
1950 Dance Hall
 
1949 A Run for Your Money
 
1949 Kind Hearts and Coronets (director of photography)
 
1948 Another Shore
 
1948 Saraband
 
1947 It Always Rains on Sunday (director of photography)
 
1947 The Loves of Joanna Godden
 
1947 Hue and Cry (director of photography)
 
1946 The Captive Heart
 
1945 The Girl of the Canal
 
1945 Dead of Night
 
1944 For Those in Peril (outdoors)
 
1943 San Demetrio London (uncredited)
 
1942 The Big Blockade
 
1942 Greek Testament (documentary)
 
1941 Ships with Wings (uncredited)
 
1940 Lights Out in Europe (documentary short) (uncredited)
 
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1977 Close Encounters of the Third Kind (director of photography: India sequence)
 
1949 Whisky Galore (director of photography: second unit - uncredited)
 
1944 Champagne Charlie (camera operator - uncredited)
 
1943 Underground Guerrillas (photography: second unit - uncredited)
 
1942 Went the Day Well? (reporter cameraman - as D. Slocombe)
 
1942 The Foreman Went to France (photography: second unit - uncredited)
 
1942 Find, Fix and Strike (documentary short) (camera operator)
 
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2004 Mackendrick on Film (documentary)
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2003 Indiana Jones: Making the Trilogy (video documentary)
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2003 The Making of 'The Italian Job' (video documentary)
 
2002 Forever Ealing (TV documentary)
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1981 The Making of 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' (TV documentary)
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He was awarded the O.B.E. (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2008 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to the film industry. See more »

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