Dick Pope, the veteran British cinematographer finest recognized for his decades-long collaboration with legendary filmmaker Mike Leigh has died. He was 77.
The British Society of Cinematographers confirmed the information Tuesday with a press release.
“It’s with deepest unhappiness that we study of the passing of our pal and colleague Dick Pope BSC,” the assertion learn. “Dick had a status for being a beautiful collaborator and somebody who was passionate in regards to the artwork type of Cinematography. He was eager to embrace new applied sciences and concepts whereas additionally guaranteeing the abilities and crafts of those who got here earlier than him weren’t misplaced. To this finish ,Dick would visitor tutor at faculties such because the Nationwide Movie and Tv Faculty.”
Pope was born in Bromley, Kent in 1947. He started his commerce as a documentary filmmaker, engaged on the British present affairs sequence World In Motion. He moved into Tv drama within the early Eighties and earned his first BAFTA nod for his work on the Channel 4 sequence Porterhouse Blue.
Pope labored on 11 movies along with his longtime collaborator Mike Leigh. Their first movie collectively was Life is Candy (1990). Their different joint credit embody seminal options like Bare, Secrets and techniques & Lies, Peterloo, One other Yr, and Vera Drake. Pope picked up an Oscar nod for his work on Leigh’s 2014 interval drama Mr Turner.
Different administrators Pope labored with embody Baroness Beeban Kidron, Mike Newell, Christopher McQuarrie, Barry Levinson, Richard Linklater, Gurinder Chadha, Chiwetel Ejiofor, and Edward Norton.
Pope’s final credit score is Leigh’s newest function Onerous Truths, which debuted at this 12 months’s Toronto Movie Pageant. In a current interview with Indiewire, Leigh stated that Pope had undergone “main coronary heart surgical procedure” simply earlier than they began capturing the movie.
The BSC ended: “We pay tribute to our fantastic pal and colleague and our ideas exit to his household particularly his spouse Pat at this tough time.”
