Known for Camera
Gilbert Taylor (April 12, 1914 - August 23, 2013) was a British cinematographer, known for his work in films including Dr. Strangelove, The Omen, and Star Wars.
Born
April 12, 1914
Died
August 23, 2013 (age 99)
Birthplace
Bushey Heath, Hertfordshire, England, UK
Filmography
65 films, 2 shows


The Bedroom Window
1987 · 1h 54m
country: United States
Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia sees a girl being attacked from her lover Terry's bedroom window. The assailant flees and his victim is saved. But that same night another girl is found murdered.


Voyage of the Rock Aliens
1984 · 1h 37m
country: United States
Aliens land in the mythical town of "Speelburgh, U.S.A" searching for the source of rock & roll. What they find is a gang of teenagers, led by Dee Dee and Frankie, along with Frankie's posse/rock band, the Pack. The leader of the aliens takes a shine to Dee Dee and all sorts of trouble breaks out.


Lassiter
1984 · 1h 40m
country: Hong Kong
A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.


Losin' It
1983 · 1h 40m
country: Canada
In 1965, four Los Angeles school friends -- Woody, Dave, Spider and Wendell -- go on a series of misadventures when they head to Tijuana, Mexico, for a night of cruisin', causing trouble, and to lose their virginity.


Venom
1981 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
International terrorists attempt to kidnap a wealthy couple's child. Their plan comes unstuck, however, when a deadly Black Mamba, sent by mistake instead of a harmless snake, escapes and terrorizes both them and their hostages.


Green Ice
1981 · 1h 56m
country: United Kingdom
A down on his luck engineer gets involved in an adventure with a mysterious woman and an emerald magnate.


Flash Gordon
1980 · 1h 51m
country: Italy
A football player and his mates travel to the planet Mongo and find themselves fighting the tyranny of Ming the Merciless to save Earth.


Meetings with Remarkable Men
1979 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
The story of G.I. Gurdjieff an Asian mystic who after a lifetimes study developed a form of meditation incorporating modern dance.


Dracula
1979 · 1h 49m
country: United Kingdom
In 1913, charming, seductive, and sinister Count Dracula travels to England seeking an immortal bride.


Escape to Athena
1979 · 2h 5m
country: United Kingdom
During the World War II, the prisoners of a German camp in a Greek island are trying to escape. They not only want their freedom, but also seek an ineffable treasure hidden in a monastery at the summit of the island's mountain.


Breaking Up
1978 · 1h 40m
country: United States
JoAnn Hammil faces a harrowing fight to rediscover her personal identity when her husband of 15 years announces that he is leaving her and their children to search for the indefinable joy he feels he is missing from his life.


Star Wars
1977 · 2h 1m
country: United States
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.


The Omen
1976 · 1h 51m
country: United Kingdom
Immediately after their miscarriage, the US diplomat Robert Thorn adopts the newborn Damien without the knowledge of his wife. Yet what he doesn’t know is that their new son is the son of the devil.


Soft Beds, Hard Battles
1974 · 1h 47m
country: United Kingdom
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.


Frenzy
1972 · 1h 56m
country: United Kingdom
London is terrorized by a vicious sex killer known as The Necktie Murderer. Following the brutal slaying of his ex-wife, down-on-his-luck Richard Blaney is suspected by the police of being the killer. He goes on the run, determined to prove his innocence.


Macbeth
1971 · 2h 21m
country: United Kingdom
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.


Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx
1970 · 1h 30m
country: Ireland
In Dublin, a working class family has been unsuccessful in convincing their son to get a real job: the son prefers his job of scooping up horse's dung and selling it for flower gardens. An American exchange student almost runs him over and gets to know him. The dung man has ignored warnings from his family and suddenly the horses have been banned from Dublin. His new love is leaving for America and he must find a way to cope with the new reality.


A Day at the Beach
1970 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Bernie is a silver tongued wanderer with a fondness for drink and no clear goal in life. What was supposed to be a day of fun at the seaside turns to dust as he drinks his way through a seaside resort community, trailing his little niece Winnie.


Before Winter Comes
1969 · 1h 43m
country: United Kingdom
Drama/Comedy set in a refugee camp in occupied Austria after World War II. A shrewd multi-lingual interpreter who mediates between Russian and British military brass enters into a friendly rivalry with British Major Giles Burnside, who is in charge of assigning the displaced persons into either the American or Russian zones.


Work Is a 4-Letter Word
1968 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.


Theatre of Death
1967 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
The Theatre of Death in Paris specialises in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town he realises there could be links with the theatre.


Cul-de-sac
1966 · 1h 52m
country: United Kingdom
On the run and in search of help, two wounded gangsters find refuge in the secluded castle of a feeble man and his wife; however, under the point of a gun, nothing is what it seems.


The Bedford Incident
1965 · 1h 42m
country: United Kingdom
During a routine patrol, a reporter is given permission to interview a hardened cold-war warrior and captain of the American destroyer USS Bedford. The reporter gets more than he bargained for when the Bedford discovers a Soviet sub and the captain begins a relentless pursuit, pushing his crew to breaking point.


Repulsion
1965 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
Beautiful young manicurist Carole suffers from androphobia (the pathological fear of interaction with men). When her sister and roommate, Helen, leaves their London flat to go on an Italian holiday with her married boyfriend, Carole withdraws into her apartment. She begins to experience frightful hallucinations, her fear gradually mutating into madness.


A Hard Day's Night
1964 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.


Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
1964 · 1h 35m
country: United Kingdom
After the insane General Jack D. Ripper initiates a nuclear strike on the Soviet Union, a war room full of politicians, generals and a Russian diplomat all frantically try to stop it.


The Punch and Judy Man
1963 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
Walter Pinner is the titular Punch And Judy Man plying his trade in the seaside town of Piltdown. Unhappily married to his social climbing wife, who gets him to perform at the 60th Anniversary celebrations of the town in front of all the local dignitaries, his hatred of snobbery comes to a hilarious head.


A Prize of Arms
1962 · 1h 45m
country: United Kingdom
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.


It's Trad, Dad!
1962 · 1h 18m
country: United Kingdom
The hero and heroine want to popularize trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to a London television studio to ask trad jazz musicians to perform in concert.


Petticoat Pirates
1961 · 1h 27m
country: United Kingdom
Stoker Charlie (the diminutive Drake) helps 150 Wrens under Superintendent Maxine Audley, who've hijacked a frigate, HMS 'Huntress', to prove they're the equal of their male counterparts.


The Full Treatment
1960 · 1h 48m
country: United Kingdom
Race car driver Alan Colby and his new wife Denise are involved in a car crash where he sustains a serious head injury, causing him to have murderous feelings toward Denise. After Denise persuades him to honeymoon with her on the Cote D'Azur in France, they enlist the aid of a French psychiatrist who offers to regress Alan back to the time of the accident and cure him.


Alive and Kicking
1959 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
Three elderly residents of a nursing home, fed up with their monotonous existence, engineer an escape from their drab surroundings and head for an impromptu holiday on an Irish island.


Operation Bullshine
1959 · 1h 24m
country: United Kingdom
During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as him paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.


No Trees in the Street
1959 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
Based on the play by Ted Willis, the film is set in the years just before World War II, when England hadn't completely dug itself out of the worldwide depression. Melvyn Hayes is featured as an aimless teenager, who tries to escape his squalid surroundings by entering a life of crime. He falls in with local hoodlum Herbert Lom, who holds the rest of the slum citizens in the grip of fear including Hayes' own family. No Trees in the Street chronicles Hayes' sordid progress from nickel-and-dime thefts to murder.


She Didn't Say No!
1958 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Bridget Monaghan, a single mother who has had six children by different fathers, shocks the conservative inhabitants of an Irish village.


Ice Cold in Alex
1958 · 2h 5m
country: United Kingdom
A group of army personnel and nurses attempt a dangerous and arduous trek across the deserts of North Africa during the second world war. The leader of the team dreams of his ice cold beer when he reaches Alexandria.


No Time for Tears
1957 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
The interwoven dramas of staff and patients in Mayfield Children's Hospital, where the doctors and nurses are in the business of restoring children's lives. One small child risks losing his sight, while twin boys fool the doctors over which one has appendicitis. Meanwhile, behind the scenes, new nurse Margaret Collier suffers pangs of unrequited love for houseman Dr. Nigel Barnes.


The Good Companions
1957 · 1h 44m
country: United Kingdom
The story revolves around the Dinky Doos, a provincial musical troupe living from hand to mouth.


My Wife's Family
1956
country: United Kingdom


The Silken Affair
1956 · 1h 36m
country: United Kingdom
An accountant who is creative with his firm's books uses the money to fund a romantic spree.


Yield to the Night
1956 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
Locked in her cell, a murderer reflects on the events that have led her to death row.


As Long as They're Happy
1955 · 1h 31m
country: United Kingdom
The suburban peace of the Bentley household is shattered when John Bentley is informed by his wife Stella that their two married daughters, Pat and Corrine, are in trouble and need funds to come home and bring their husbands, Peter, a penniless Parisian artist, and Barnaby, a Texas cowboy, with them. And the youngest daughter, Gwen, has tricked an American singer, Bobby Denver, into visiting them on the pretext that it is the home of a noted British film magnate. When all the women in the household – including the maid – fall for the singer's charms, Bentley consults a crackpot psychiatrist, Dr. Schneider, who almost succeeds in ousting not the singer but Bentley's wife, with his advice to Bentley to make her jealous by living it up with Pearl, a showgirl recruited for the purpose.


Seagulls Over Sorrento
1954 · 1h 32m
country: United Kingdom
A Navy lieutenant is borrowed by the British to supervise torpedo experiments after one of their scientists is killed.


Front Page Story
1954 · 1h 39m
country: United Kingdom
A workaholic newspaper editor lets his wife leave on the holiday without him just at that time some important news stories break, including a plane crash, the one which his wife took....


The Weak and the Wicked
1954 · 1h 28m
country: United Kingdom
Jean Raymond an upper class woman with a gambling addiction, is given a twelve-month prison sentence resulting from her inability to pay her debts. At first she is overwhelmingly depressed by life in the women's prison; gradually, however, her misery is relieved by the many close friends she makes there. This sympathetic drama traces the contrasting lives and often faltering progress of the inmates of a women's prison.


Sailor of the King
1953 · 1h 23m
country: United Kingdom
A British naval officer has a brief affair with a woman in England and never knows that she bears him a son. 20 years later the boy is on a ship under his command when he is tracking a German Raider. When the boy is captured after his ship is sunk, he finds a way to slow the German's progress while a lethal hunt for him goes on.


The Yellow Balloon
1953 · 1h 16m
country: United Kingdom
A young boy is blackmailed by a crook who saw him unwittingly cause his friend's death.


High Treason
1951 · 1h 33m
country: United Kingdom
Men from Scotland Yard and military intelligence build a dossier on a sabotage ring.


Circle of Danger
1951 · 1h 26m
country: United Kingdom
An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.


Seven Days to Noon
1950 · 1h 34m
country: United Kingdom
When Professor Willingdon becomes wary of the nuclear weapons he is helping build, he steals a warhead and threatens to detonate it in London in seven days unless the government begins nuclear disarmament. As Willingdon goes into hiding, Detective Folland of Scotland Yard sets out to find him. Willingdon's daughter Ann also joins the cause, hoping she can talk sense into her father before he causes a catastrophe.


The Guinea Pig
1948 · 1h 37m
country: United Kingdom
A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.