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Christopher George Joseph Challis BSC, FRPS (18 March 1919 – 31 May 2012) was a British cinematographer who worked on more than 70 feature films from the 1940s onwards.
Christopher Challis. Cinematographer: Arabesque. Christopher was very keen on films when he was at school and made 16mm films so when his father met the managing director of Gaumont British News he was told to send the lad along resulting in him becoming a camera assistant,' sound was just starting to come in.
- Christopher Challis
- May 31, 2012
- March 18, 1919
Christopher Challis. Cinematographer: Arabesque. Christopher was very keen on films when he was at school and made 16mm films so when his father met the managing director of Gaumont British News he was told to send the lad along resulting in him becoming a camera assistant,' sound was just starting to come in.
- March 18, 1919
- May 31, 2012
Jul 12, 2012 · Christopher Challis was one of the leading cinematographers of British cinema's heyday, whose films framed tales of dance and derring-do, romance and comic invention.
Jan 23, 2012 · Christopher Challis was a British cinematographer who worked with Jack Cardiff, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Stanley Donen and Billy Wilder. Read personal tributes from Martin Scorsese, Thelma Schoonmaker and Jenny Agutter.
Aug 17, 2012 · Christopher Challis, who has died aged 93, was a distinguished cinematographer on more than 70 feature films, including Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) and Chitty...
Christopher Challis was a distinguished cinematographer on more than 70 feature films, including Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines (1965) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1969) and many of the films of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger.
