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Gilbert Taylor
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12 April 1914 - 23 August 2013
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Gilbert Taylor began his career in cinema in 1929 when he entered Gaumont British as a fifteen-year-old. For a long time he worked as an assistant operator, later he was an operator at Gaumont British and other studios. During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force. After serving six years, he returned to cinema, working with directors brothers John and Roy Bowling: first as a cameraman in Brighton Rock (1947), then as a director in Sea Pig (1948), Seven Days Before Noon (1950) and Treason
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Gilbert Taylor began his career in cinema in 1929 when he entered Gaumont British as a fifteen-year-old. For a long time he worked as an assistant operator, later he was an operator at Gaumont British and other studios. During World War II he served in the Royal Air Force. After serving six years, he returned to cinema, working with directors brothers John and Roy Bowling: first as a cameraman in Brighton Rock (1947), then as a director in Sea Pig (1948), Seven Days Before Noon (1950) and Treason (1951). In the work on the picture, he sought primarily not for external aesthetic beauty, but for the dramatic authenticity of what is happening on the screen. Taylor’s most successful work in black and white cinema was the films of Roman Polansky “Disgust” (1965) and “Stupid” (1966), for which he was nominated for the British Academy of Film and Television. Taylor was the operator of such films as "A Hard Day's Evening" (1964, dir. Richard Lester), "Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned Not to Worry and Loved the Atomic Bomb" (1964, directed by Stanley Kubrick), "Macbeth" (1971, dir. Roman Polansky), "The Excitement" (1972, dir. Alfred Hitchcock).
Since the mid-seventies, he worked in large-budget films: "Omen" (1976, Richard Donner), "Star Wars: Episode IV: A New Hope" (1977, George R.), "Hopeace" (1980), "Horge" (19F. He was twice awarded the awards of the British Society of Cinematographers - in 1976 as the best cinematographer for the film "Omen", and in 2001 he was awarded the honorary award "For the achievements of a lifetime."
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