With dir John Furse [right] "Blind Flight" [2003] - photo by Paul Chedlow |
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IAN WILSON [BSC] |
Born: 23 April 1939, London, UK.
Education: Nottingham School of Art [Graphic Design/Photography]; London International Film School, UK.
Career: Worked for the United Nations in Greece before entering the film industry.
Ph & dir commercials.
Member [now honorary member] of the BSC.
Awards: BAFTA TV Award nom 'Best Film Cameraman' [1982] for 'The Flame Trees of Thika'; Guldbagge Award nom [1999] for 'Hela härligheten/Love Fools'; 'Emmy' Award nom [2000] for 'A Christmas Carol'.
FILMS |
1961 |
Displaced Persons [Antony Thomas] ?; doc/?m |
1962 |
Gala Day [John Irvin] 16mm/b&w; doc/24m; cph: John Mantell, Alan More & Maurice Hatton |
1963 |
Tree's Company [R.E. Scott] 16mm/b&w; comm doc/23m |
1966 |
Filon [Graham Parker] c; comm doc/7m; for British Industrial Plastics |
1966 |
The Private Right [Michael Papas] b&w |
1967 |
Tell Me Lies [Peter Brook] b&w-c |
1967 |
Swordcraft [James W. Roberts] 16mm/c; comm doc/23m; for Wilkinson Sword |
1967 |
Girl Smugglers [Bob Kellett & Barry Mahon] b&w; 63m |
1967 |
Mafia No! [John Irvin] 16mm/b&w-c; doc/29m |
1968 |
The Tempest [Ian Wilson] 16mm/c; doc/28m; cph: David Findlay |
1968 |
The Committee [Peter Sykes] b&w; short/58m |
1968 |
Dialogue [Christopher Mason] c; comm doc/28m; cph: Louis Wolfers; for British American Tobacco Co. |
1969 |
Six Lessons on the Violin by Yehudi Menuhin [Christopher Mason] 6-part comm educational doc series/16mm |
1969 |
Enigma Variations [James Archibald] c; ballet film/34m |
1969 |
And Soon the Darkness [Robert Fuest] c |
1970 |
The Breaking of Bumbo [Andrew Sinclair] c |
1970 |
Sweet Thames [James Archibald] c; comm doc/19m; for Argo Record Company |
1970 |
Bartleby [Anthony Friedmann] c |
1970 |
Images [Hugh Raggett] c; comm doc/21m; for Kodak |
1970 |
Magic Ride [Don Higgins] c; comm doc/25m; for Cunard |
1970 |
Heuga [Hugh Raggett] c; comm doc/19m |
1970 |
Up Pompeii [Bob Kellett] c |
1970 |
Fright/Night Legs/I'm Alone and I'm Scared [Peter Collinson] c |
1971 |
Girl Stroke Boy [Bob Kellett] c |
1971 |
Up the Chastity Belt/Naughty Knights/The Chastity Belt [Bob Kellett] c |
1972 |
The House in Nightmare Park/Night of the Laughing Dead/Crazy House [Peter Sykes] c |
1972 |
Kronos/Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter/Vampire Castle [Brian Clemens] c |
1973 |
Gawain and the Green Knight [Stephen Weeks] p/c; 2uc: Peter Hurst |
1973 |
Children of Rage [Arthur Allan Seidelman] tao35/c |
1973 |
The Cobblers of Umbridge [Ned Sherrin] c; short/28m |
1974 |
Three for All [Martin Campbell] c |
1974 |
The Steam Pig [?] prod abandoned |
1975 |
Janus [Anthony Wilkinson] c; comm doc/37m; for Rank Xerox |
1975 |
The Butterfly Ball [Tony Klinger] c; perf film/87m |
1976 |
Land of the Falcon [Charles Mapleston] c; comm doc/23m; for British Tourist Authority |
1976 |
Queen Kong [Frank Agrama] c |
1978 |
The Quatermass Conclusion [Piers Haggard] c; comp (102m) of ep tv-miniseries 'Quatermass'; released theatrically outside the UK; see Television (1978) |
1978 |
Music in Progress: Mike Westbrook – Jazz Composer [Charles Mapleston] 16mm/c; mus doc/44m |
1980 |
Keep the Home Fires Burning [Charles Mapleston] c; comm short/18m |
1982 |
Privates on Parade [Michael Blakemore] c |
1987 |
Dream Demon [Harley Cokliss] c; 2uc: Jeremy Gee |
1987 |
Wish You Were Here/Too Much [David Leland] c |
1987 |
The Loss Adjuster [Mole Hill] c; short/11m |
1988 |
Checking Out [David Leland] p/c |
1988 |
Erik the Viking [Terry Jones] c; 2uc: Luke Cardiff |
1989 |
The Big Man/Crossing the Line [David Leland] c; uwph: Michael Valentine |
1990 |
Dakota Road [Nick Ward] c |
1991 |
The Crying Game [Neil Jordan] c |
1992 |
The Secret Rapture [Howard Davies] c |
1993 |
Backbeat [Iain Softley] p/b&w-c; 2uc: Alan Almond |
1995 |
Emma [Douglas McGrath] c |
1995 |
Øen i fuglegaden/The Island on Bird Street [Søren Kragh-Jacobson] c |
1995 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream [Adrian Noble] c; 2uc: Stefan Lange |
1996 |
Savior [Peter (= Predrag) Antonijevic] p/c; 2uc: Radoslav Vladic |
1997 |
Hela härligheten/Love Fools [Leif Magnusson] scope/c |
1997 |
Little Voice [Mark Herman] c; 2uc; ph: Andy Collins |
1998 |
Swing [Nick Mead] c |
199? |
Fiore de Henriquez [?] 16mm/c; doc/?m |
1999 |
Back to the Secret Garden [Michael Tuchner] c |
2000 |
Fat Chance [Hugo Currie & Toby Leslie] c; short/10m |
2001 |
Below [David N. Twohy] c; 2uc: Peter Talbot |
2002 |
I'll Be There [Craig Ferguson] c |
2003 |
Blind Flight [John Furse] c; 2uc: Laurence Manly; 2uc Tunisia: Ali Ben Abdallah |
2003 |
A Way of Life [Amma Asante] c; addph: Martin Hawkins & Nanu Segal |
2004 |
Niagara Motel [Gary Yates] c; addph: Lisa Wiegand; 2u loc ph: Peter Rohde |
2005 |
Lights II - Return of the Shadow [Marcus Dillistone] 16mm+35mm-to-35mm/c; comm short/?m; cph: Tony Pierce-Roberts; demo film for Fuji film stocks Eterna 400, 250 & 250D |
2007 |
Primo [Richard Wilson] c |
TELEVISION |
1968 |
Mother's Little Helpers [prod: Dennis Wolf] doc/30m; ep Granada-tv series 'World in Action', 1963-98 |
1968 |
Grosvenor Square Demonstration/The Demonstration [exec prod: David Plowright] doc/30m; cph: Nic Knowland, Mike Dodds & Norman Roundell; ep Granada-tv series 'World in Action' |
1968 |
Music! [Michael Tuchner] mus doc/90m; ep NBC-tv series 'Experiment in Television' (1970) |
1968 |
Merchants of War [prod: Leslie Woodhead] doc/30m; cph: Ian McFarlane; ep Granada-tv series 'World in Action' |
1968 |
The Shrinking World of L. Ron Hubbard [prod: Charlie Nairn] doc/b&w/26m; cph: David MacDonald; ep Granada-tv series 'World in Action' |
1968 |
Spies for Hire [Michael Beckham] doc/30m; cph: Brian Grainger & Norman Roundell; ep Granada-tv series 'World in Action' |
1969 |
Barenboim on Beethoven [Christopher Nupen] 13-part mus series/364m; cph: David Findlay & Chris Ashbrook |
1969 |
The Stones in the Park [prod/dir by Jo Durden-Smith & Leslie Woodhead] mus doc/53m; cph: Bill Brayne, Nic Knowland, a.o.; filmed 5 July |
1976 |
The New Avengers [ep #10 'Sleeper' dir by Graeme Clifford & #12 'Dirtier by the Dozen' dir by Sidney Hayers] 26-part series, 1976-77; 1st season, 1976-77; other ph: Michael Reed, Ernest Steward (+ cph #10), a.o. |
1978 |
Quatermass [Piers Haggard] 4-part miniseries, 1979; see Films (1978) |
1978 |
Danger UXB [ep #3 'Just Like a Woman' dir by Roy Ward Baker] 13-part series, 1979; other ph: Peter Jessop, Norman G. Langley & Tony Mander |
1981 |
The Flame Trees of Thika [Roy Ward Baker] 7-part miniseries |
1982 |
Birth of a Nation [Mike Newell] tvm; ep #1 of 4-part ITV-series 'Tales Out of School' |
1991 |
Edward II [Derek Jarman; assoc d: Ken Butler] tvm; ep BBC-tv series 'Screen Two' |
1993 |
Doomsday Gun [Robert Young] tvm |
1999 |
A Christmas Carol [David Jones] tvm |
2001 |
Murder [Beeban Kidron] 4-part miniseries, 2002 |
2002 |
Copenhagen [Howard Davies] tvm |
MISCELLANEOUS |
1964 |
The Foster Gang [Percival Rubens] c.op; ph: Charles Minster |
FILMS & TELEVISION AS DIRECTOR |
1962 |
The Veterans [co-d: Ian Curtis; tv-doc/14m] ph: ? |
1968 |
The Tempest [doc; + cph] see Films |
1970 |
Why Asbestos? [comm doc/20m/16mm] ph: ? |
1977 |
Malta [comm doc/18m] ph: Roderick Baron |