Oliver Stapleton
Oliver C. Stapleton (born April 12, 1948 in London , Great Britain ) is a British cameraman .
Life
Stapleton grew up in South Africa , where he attended university in Cape Town and made amateur films. Back in England, he attended the National Film and Television School in his native London until 1980 and then worked as a cameraman for music videos with his fellow film school student Julien Temple . One of his best-known works in this area was the a-ha video The Sun Always Shines on TV Stapleton won the camera award at the MTV Video Music Awards in the category 'Best Cinematography in a Video'.
In the mid-1980s, Stapleton finally switched to the cinema, for which he had worked for the first time at the beginning of the same decade. There he quickly became the most important photographer of the new British avant-garde cinema for which Stapleton captured such important productions as Stephen Frears ' My wonderful laundrette , The stormy life of Joe Orton and Sammy and Rosie do it in unusual pictures. Hollywood then became interested in him, and Stapleton moved to Los Angeles in 1987 .
In the following years he was behind the camera in a series of mostly conventional, albeit highly professional, A-productions: smooth mainstream entertainment, which the ambitious cameraman - with the exception of further collaboration with freaks, " Grifters " - seldom asked for as a visual artist .
Filmography (selection)
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Web links
- Oliver Stapleton in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Stapleton, Oliver |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stapleton, Oliver C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 12, 1948 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London |