Cinematographer en Director of photography

* 1914, London, England, UK  -  † 28 October 1978, Brittany, France

Former camera operator who graduated to cinematographer in the mid-1940s. Unsworth demonstrated a deft command of black-and-white in films such as the documentary-like A NIGHT TO REMEMBER (1958) but was chiefly noted for his lush colour work, particularly on period films. Unsworth won a British Film Academy Award (Stella) for BECKET (1964) and, in addition to shooting 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968), is credited with helping devise some of its groundbreaking special effects. Unsworth's other outstanding credits include CABARET (1972), for which he won his first Oscar, and Roman Polanski's sumptuous TESS (1979), during the production of which he died of a heart attack. His Oscar for TESS was shared with Ghislain Cloquet.

Filmografie van Geoffrey Unsworth
1946   The Laughing Lady 
1946   Meet the Navy
1947   Jassy
1947   The Man Within/The Smugglers
1948   Blanche Fury        
1948   Scott of the Antarctic
1949   The Blue Lagoon   
1949   The Spider and the Fly   
1949   Fools Rush In
1950   Trio
1950   Double Confession
1951   The Clouded Yellow      
1951   IVORY HUNTER/ Where No Vultures Fly         
1951   Made in Heaven
1951   Penny Princess     
1952   OUTPOST IN MALAYA/ The Planter's Wife

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1952  The Story of Robin Hood and His Merrie Men
1953   The Sword and the Rose/When Knighthood Was in Flower 
1953   Turn the Key Softly
1953   MAN WITH A MILLION/ The Million Pound Note
1954   The Purple Plain
1954   The Seekers /LAND OF FURY       
1955   Eric Winstone's Stagecoach
1955   Simba
1955   Passage Home
1955   Value for Money  
1956   Jacqueline  
1956   A Town Like Alice/RAPE OF MALAYA     
1956   Tiger in the Smoke
1958   Bachelor of Hearts       
1958   Dangerous ExileE                    
1958   Hell Drivers/Hard Drivers       
1958   A Night to Remember      
1959   Whirlpool
1959   FLAME OVER INDIA/North West Frontier       
1960   The World of Suzie Wong        
1961   Don't Bother to Knock            
1961   On the Double      
1962   The 300 Spartans                    
1962   The Main Attraction               
1962   Playboy of the Western World        
1963   Tamahine
1963   An Evening with the Royal Ballet 

1964   Becket
        

1965   Genghis Khan/ Dzingis-Kan       
1965   You Must Be Joking!
1965   Pop Gear/go Go Mania
1965   Othello      
1965   You Must Be Joking!       
1967   Half a Sixpence                       
1967   Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad  

1968   2001: A Space Odyssey  
 

1968   The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom      
1968   The Dance of Death       
1969   The Assassination Bureau       
1969   The Magic Christian      
1969   The Reckoning      
1970   Cromwell                                        
1970   Goodbye Gemini/Twinsanity              
1970   Three Sisters                
1971   Say Hello to Yesterday                   
1971   Unman, Wittering and Zigo               
1972   Alice's Adventures in Wonderland    

1972   Cabaret   

1972   Columbo: Dagger of the Mind
1973   Voices/Nightmare
1972   Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing    
1973   Baxter!       
1973   Don Quixote           
1974   The Abdication                       
1974   The Internecine Project
1974   Murder on the Orient Express 
1974   Zardoz         
1975   Lucky Lady                                 
1975   The Return of the Pink Panther        
1975   Royal Flash
1976   A Matter of Time                    
1977   A Bridge Too Far                     

1978   Superman 

1979   The First Great Train Robbery
1979   Tess 
1980   Superman II