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Dick Pope
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Born August 3, 1947Died October 22, 2024 (77 years)
Richard Campbell Pope (August 3, 1947 – October 21, 2024) was a British cinematographer, known for his work with director Mike Leigh.
Born in Bromley, Richard Campbell Pope took an early interest in photography. He trained at the Pathé lab in London, and began his career in 1968 working as a camera operator on documentaries. He began working as a cinematographer on feature films in the 1980s. He began his collaboration with Mike Leigh in 1990's Life is Sweet, and continued to work with him for over thirty years, until Hard Truths (2024).
Born in Bromley, Richard Campbell Pope took an early interest in photography. He trained at the Pathé lab in London, and began his career in 1968 working as a camera operator on documentaries. He began working as a cinematographer on feature films in the 1980s. He began his collaboration with Mike Leigh in 1990's Life is Sweet, and continued to work with him for over thirty years, until Hard Truths (2024).
Dick Pope Filmography
| 2015 | The Oscars · as Self - Nominee |
| 2012 | Side by Side · as Self |
| 2008 | Happy-Go-Lucky: B-Roll · as Self |
| 2005 | Vera Drake: Cast and Crew Documentary · as Self - Cinematographer |
| 2003 | imagine... (TV Series) · as Self - Cinematographer |
| 2024 | Hard Truths · as Director Of Photography |
| 2022 | The Outfit · as Director Of Photography |
| 2020 | Supernova · as Director Of Photography |
| 2019 | Motherless Brooklyn · as Director Of Photography |
| 2019 | The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind · as Director Of Photography |
| 2018 | Peterloo · as Director Of Photography |
| 2015 | Legend · as Director Of Photography |
| 2015 | |
| 2014 | Mr. Turner · as Director Of Photography |
| 2014 | Cuban Fury · as Director Of Photography |
| 2012 | A Running Jump · as Director Of Photography |
| 2011 | |
| 2011 | Thin Ice · as Director Of Photography |
| 2010 | Another Year · as Director Of Photography |
| 2010 | It's a Wonderful Afterlife · as Director Of Photography |
| 2008 | Me and Orson Welles · as Director Of Photography |
| 2008 | Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging · as Director Of Photography |
| 2008 | Happy-Go-Lucky · as Director Of Photography |
| 2008 | Intercom · as Cinematographer |
| 2007 | Honeydripper · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | Man of the Year · as Director Of Photography |
| 2006 | The Illusionist · as Director Of Photography |
| 2004 | Vera Drake · as Director Of Photography |
| 2002 | Nicholas Nickleby · as Director Of Photography |
| 2002 | All or Nothing · as Director Of Photography |
| 2001 | 13 Conversations About One Thing · as Director Of Photography |
| 2000 | The Way of the Gun · as Director Of Photography |
| 1999 | Topsy-Turvy · as Director Of Photography |
| 1999 | The Debt Collector · as Director Of Photography |
| 1997 | Swept from the Sea · as Director Of Photography |
| 1997 | Career Girls · as Director Of Photography |
| 1996 | Secrets & Lies · as Director Of Photography |
| 1995 | Nothing Personal · as Director Of Photography |
| 1995 | The Great Kandinsky · as Director Of Photography |
| 1995 | An Awfully Big Adventure · as Director Of Photography |
| 1994 | Pleasure · as Cinematographer |
| 1994 | The Air Up There · as Director Of Photography |
| 1993 | Naked · as Director Of Photography |
| 1992 | The Blackheath Poisonings (TV Series) · as Director Of Photography |
| 1992 | Fool's Gold: The Story of the Brink's-Mat Robbery · as Cinematographer |
| 1992 | A Sense of History · as Director Of Photography |
| 1990 | Life Is Sweet · as Director Of Photography |
| 1990 | The Reflecting Skin · as Director Of Photography |
| 1989 | Forever Green (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |
| 1988 | The Fruit Machine · as Director Of Photography |
| 1987 | Porterhouse Blue (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |
| 1986 | Coming Up Roses · as Director Of Photography |
| 1985 | The Girl in the Picture · as Director Of Photography |
| 1984 | Screen Two (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |
| 1983 | Alan Bush: A Life · as Director Of Photography |
| 1982 | Whoops Apocalypse (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |
| 1981 | 40 Minutes (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |
| 1980 | Punk and Its Aftershocks · as Director Of Photography |
| 1980 | Women in Rock · as Director Of Photography |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |
| 1963 | World in Action (TV Series) · as Cinematographer |







