Denys Coop

Denys Coop BSC (20 July 1920 – 16 August 1981) was a British cinematographer. He is sometimes credited as Denys N. Coop. As Camera Operator on The Third Man, he was responsible for many of the now iconic 'Dutch' angles and striking compositions, which had previously not been seen in cinema, but now form an everyday part of film language. Denys was a past president of the British Society of Cinematographers. He began his career in the cinema as apprentice to Freddie Young. In the 1960s he was Director of Photography on films such as A Kind of Loving (1962), This Sporting Life (1963), Billy Liar (1963) and Bunny Lake Is Missing (1967). In 1979, he was one of a team of artists to win a special Oscar for visual effects in Superman. In...