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Denys N. Coop is a Actor, Other and Cinematography British born on 20 july 1920 at Reading (United-kingdom)
Denys N. Coop, ou Denys Coop, est un directeur de la photographie anglais, né le 20 juillet 1920 à Reading (Berkshire), mort le 16 août 1981 à Londres.
Membre de la BSC, il en a été le président de 1973 à 1975.
Il est ensuite cadreur sur une trentaine de films (travaillant notamment avec les directeurs de la photographie Oswald Morris et Georges Périnal) sortis entre 1945 et 1970, dont Le Troisième Homme de Carol Reed (1949), Richard III de Laurence Olivier (1955), Bonjour tristesse d'Otto Preminger (1958) et Lolita de Stanley Kubrick (1962).
Comme chef opérateur, il contribue à vingt-six films (majoritairement britanniques, sortis à partir de 1961, dont Billy le menteur de John Schlesinger (1963, avec Tom Courtenay et Wilfred Pickles), La Griffe de Franklin J. Schaffner (1967, avec Yul Brynner et Britt Ekland) et Asylum de Roy Ward Baker (1972, avec Peter Cushing et Britt Ekland). Le dernier est Rosebud d'Otto Preminger (avec Peter O'Toole et Richard Attenborough), sorti en 1975.
Hormis un film sorti en 1981 (année de sa mort) pour des prises de vues additionnelles, il termine sa carrière comme technicien des effets visuels, avec Superman de Richard Donner (1978), puis Superman 2 de Richard Lester (1980).
Superman permet à Denys N. Coop d'obtenir en 1979 un Oscar des meilleurs effets visuels et, la même année, un British Academy Film Award. Auparavant, au cours des années 1960, il avait obtenu trois nominations au British Academy Film Award de la meilleure photographie, sans obtenir lé récompense.
(1980)
(Other)
(1961)
(Camera Operator)
(1958)
(Camera Operator)
(1949)
(Camera Operator)
(1972)
(Director of Photography)
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Denys N. Coop
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Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 20 july 1920 at Reading (United-kingdom)
Death 16 august 1981 (at 61 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Special Achievement Academy Award
Birth 20 july 1920 at Reading (United-kingdom)
Death 16 august 1981 (at 61 years) at London (United-kingdom)
Awards Special Achievement Academy Award
Membre de la BSC, il en a été le président de 1973 à 1975.
Biography
Denys N. Coop est premier ou deuxième assistant opérateur sur une quinzaine de films sortis entre 1936 et 1948, dont Au revoir Mr. Chips de Sam Wood (1939) et Le Voleur de Bagdad de Ludwig Berger et Michael Powell (1940). Son début de carrière est interrompu par la Seconde Guerre mondiale, durant laquelle il sert dans la Royal Air Force.Il est ensuite cadreur sur une trentaine de films (travaillant notamment avec les directeurs de la photographie Oswald Morris et Georges Périnal) sortis entre 1945 et 1970, dont Le Troisième Homme de Carol Reed (1949), Richard III de Laurence Olivier (1955), Bonjour tristesse d'Otto Preminger (1958) et Lolita de Stanley Kubrick (1962).
Comme chef opérateur, il contribue à vingt-six films (majoritairement britanniques, sortis à partir de 1961, dont Billy le menteur de John Schlesinger (1963, avec Tom Courtenay et Wilfred Pickles), La Griffe de Franklin J. Schaffner (1967, avec Yul Brynner et Britt Ekland) et Asylum de Roy Ward Baker (1972, avec Peter Cushing et Britt Ekland). Le dernier est Rosebud d'Otto Preminger (avec Peter O'Toole et Richard Attenborough), sorti en 1975.
Hormis un film sorti en 1981 (année de sa mort) pour des prises de vues additionnelles, il termine sa carrière comme technicien des effets visuels, avec Superman de Richard Donner (1978), puis Superman 2 de Richard Lester (1980).
Superman permet à Denys N. Coop d'obtenir en 1979 un Oscar des meilleurs effets visuels et, la même année, un British Academy Film Award. Auparavant, au cours des années 1960, il avait obtenu trois nominations au British Academy Film Award de la meilleure photographie, sans obtenir lé récompense.
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(1980)(Other)
(1961)(Camera Operator)
(1958)(Camera Operator)
(1949)(Camera Operator)
(1972)(Director of Photography)
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Billy Liar (1963)
, 1h38Directed by John Schlesinger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Tom Courtenay, Julie Christie, Mona Washbourne, Finlay Currie, Leonard Rossiter, Gwendolyn Watts
Rating72%
Billy Fisher (Tom Courtenay) lives in Yorkshire with his parents (Wilfred Pickles and Mona Washbourne) and grandmother (Ethel Griffies), and works as an undertakers' clerk overseen by the rigid Mr. Shadrack (Leonard Rossiter). Billy wishes to get away from his stifling job and family life. To escape the boredom of his humdrum existence, he constantly daydreams and fantasizes, often picturing himself as the ruler and military hero of an imaginary country called Ambrosia. He also makes up stories about himself and his family, causing him to be nicknamed "Billy Liar".
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Venom (1981)
, 1h33Directed by Tobe Hooper, Piers Haggard
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about animals, Films about children, Films about snakes
Actors Klaus Kinski, Oliver Reed, Nicol Williamson, Sarah Miles, Sterling Hayden, Susan George
Roles Additional Photography
Rating57%
An international criminal enlists Ruth Hopkins' maid and chauffeur in a scheme to kidnap her asthmatic ten-year-old son Philip for ransom. As the plot begins to unfold, Philip has just brought home a snake from a local importer, unaware that his new pet has been accidentally switched with a deadly black mamba destined for a toxicology lab. The lab reports the mix-up, and a police officer is dispatched to the Hopkins residence, only to be shot by the panicking chauffeur. The London townhouse is surrounded by police, trapping the criminals, the child, and his grandfather inside with the mamba, which is now loose in the ventilation system.
Superman II (1980)
, 2h3Directed by Richard Donner, Richard Lester
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about children, Space adventure films, Politique, Films about terrorism, Sur la Lune, Films set in the future, Superman films, Films about extraterrestrial life, Superhero films, Super-héros inspiré de comics, Sur la Lune, Films about extraterrestrial life, Alien invasions in films, Arme nucléaire, Disaster films, White House in fiction
Actors Christopher Reeve, Margot Kidder, Gene Hackman, Ned Beatty, Jackie Cooper, Sarah Douglas
Roles Other
Rating67%
Prior to the destruction of Krypton, the criminals General Zod (Terence Stamp), Ursa (Sarah Douglas) and Non (Jack O'Halloran) are sentenced to banishment into the Phantom Zone for insurrection and murder, amongst other crimes.
Inserts (1975)
, 1h57Directed by John Byrum
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Richard Dreyfuss, Veronica Cartwright, Jessica Harper, Bob Hoskins
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62%
Prior to the opening credits we see portions of the stag film that is shot in the course of the movie. Voices are overheard that make it apparent that men and women are watching this in the present day. At the end a man complains that there was no "Come shot", something that will later develop into a plot point.
Rosebud (1975)
, 2h6Directed by Otto Preminger, Yves Amoureux
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Action
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about writers, Films about journalists, Films about terrorism, Political films
Actors Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin, Brigitte Ariel, Peter Lawford
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52%
Larry Martin (O'Toole) is a Newsweek reporter, secretly working for the CIA as he travels around the globe tasked, along with Israeli intelligence, to work for the release of five wealthy girls kidnapped by the anti-Israel terrorist Palestinian Liberation Army from the yacht Rosebud. Martin must contend with the girl's fathers, all of whom are wealthy, connected and concerned. Sloat (Attenborough), the extremist head of Black September, is connected with the kidnappings, and is subsequently hunted down after his plans for a centralized global terrorist network are uncovered.
, 1h31Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Horror
Actors Peter Cushing, Herbert Lom, Patrick Magee, Stephanie Beacham, Ian Ogilvy, Geoffrey Whitehead
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
In 1795, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of the husband, Charles Fengriffen (Ogilvy). The bride, Catherine Fengriffen (Beacham), falls victim to a curse placed by a wronged servant on the Fengriffen family and its descendants.
The Vault of Horror (1973)
, 1h23Directed by Roy Ward Baker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Anthology film, Horror
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Vampires in film
Actors Terry-Thomas, Curd Jürgens, Daniel Massey, Tom Baker, Dawn Addams, Denholm Elliott
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Framing Story Five strangers board a descending lift, one by one, in a modern office block in London. They reach the sub-basement, though none of them have pressed for that destination. There they find a large, elaborately furnished room which appears to be a gentlemen's club. The lift door has closed and there are no buttons to bring it back, nor any other exit. Resigned to waiting for help, they settle down with drinks and talk. The conversation turns to dreams, and each man tells of a recurring nightmare.
The Little Ark (1972)
Directed by James B. Clark
Origin USA
Genres Adventure
Actors Theodore Bikel, Truus Dekker, Lo van Hensbergen, Jeroen Krabbé
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
The Darwin Adventure (1972)
, 1h31Directed by Jack Couffer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama
Actors Nicholas Clay, Ian William Richardson, Robert Flemyng, Aubrey Woods, Denise Gyngell, John Baskcomb
Roles Director of Photography
Rating70%
10 Rillington Place (1971)
, 1h51Directed by Richard Fleischer
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Horror, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Serial killer films, Films about psychiatry, Films about capital punishment
Actors Richard Attenborough, Judy Geeson, John Hurt, Jimmy Gardner, Isobel Black, André Morell
Roles Director of Photography
Rating74%
The film begins in 1944 with John Christie murdering his neighbor Muriel Eady: he lures her to his flat in 10 Rillington Place by promising to cure her bronchitis with a "special mixture", then incapacitates her with carbon monoxide gas, strangles her with a piece of rope, and has (implied) sex with her corpse. He buries her in his flat block's communal garden, where a dog uncovers one of his previous victims.
The Executioner (1970)
, 1h47Directed by Sam Wanamaker
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Peppard, Joan Collins, Judy Geeson, Oskar Homolka, Ernest Clark, Charles Gray
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
John Shay (George Peppard), a British MI5 agent, had grown up in the United States, and who was nearly killed while on assignment abroad. Convinced that he was framed, he returns to London to uncover the mole responsible for the set-up. John Shay suspects that his colleague Adam Booth (Keith Michell) is a Russian spy. The action takes place in London, Athens, Istanbul and Corfu, where Shay goes in his investigation trying to gather evidence that Booth is a double agent. When Shay's superiors are not convinced, and even after a special hearing clears Booth of any wrongdoing, he takes matters into his own hands and executes Booth.
The Birthday Party (1968)
, 2h3Directed by William Friedkin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy-drama
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Robert Shaw, Patrick Magee, Dandy Nichols, Sydney Tafler, Moultrie Kelsall, Helen Fraser
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
The protagonist is a lodger in his late 30s named Stanley (Webber), played by Robert Shaw, who is staying at a seaside boarding house; he is visited by two unexpected additional guests, menacing and mysterious strangers, Goldberg (Sydney Tafler) and McCann (Patrick Magee). Their neighbour, Lulu (Helen Fraser) brings her a parcel, a boy's toy drum presented to Stanley as his "birthday present." Goldberg and McCann offer to host Stanley's birthday party after Stanley's landlady, Meg (Boles), played by Dandy Nichols, tells them that it is Stanley's birthday, although Stanley protests that it is really not his birthday. In the course of the party, Goldberg and McCann break Stanley down and ultimately take him away from the house purportedly to get medical attention (from "Monty") in their car. The film ends (as the play ends) after Meg's husband Petey (Moultrie Kelsall), a deckchair attendant, who did not attend the party because he was out playing chess, calls after Stanley, "Stan, don't let them tell you what to do"; at the end, Meg, still somewhat hung over, is unaware that Stanley has been taken away, since Petey has not told her that, and tells him that she was "the belle of the ball.
The Double Man (1967)
, 1h45Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Yul Brynner, Britt Ekland, Clive Revill, Anton Diffring, Moira Lister, Lloyd Nolan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59%
Dan Slater (Yul Brynner) est un agent de la CIA qui enquête sur l'« accident » mortel de son fils, survenu dans les Alpes autrichiennes. Basé à Washington, il se rend sur place pour les obsèques et tombe dans un piège monté par les services secrets est-allemands qui veulent le remplacer par un sosie, Kalmar.
Arrivederci, Baby! (1966)
Directed by Ken Hughes
Genres Comedy, Crime
Actors Tony Curtis, Rosanna Schiaffino, Lionel Jeffries, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Nancy Kwan, Fenella Fielding
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
A man goes around marrying wealthy women, and then murdering them. However, his third wife has married him with similar intentions.
One Way Pendulum (1965)
, 1h30Directed by Peter Yates
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Eric Sykes, George Cole, Julia Foster, Peggy Mount, Alison Leggatt, Mona Washbourne
Roles Director of Photography
Rating58%
Study of absurdity in a suburban family: father rebuilds the Old Bailey in the living room, and the son teaches weighing machines to sing in the bathroom.