Ken Coles

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Forenames(s): Ken
Family name: Coles
Work area/Craft/Role: Camera Operator
Industry: TV, Film
Websites: IMDb, BFI, The Movie Database
Interview no: 422
Interview date(s): 20 April 2022
Interviewer(s): Mike Dick
Camera: Alec Hall-Shaw
Production Media: video
Duration (mins): 109

 Ken Coles joined the film industry as a clapper boy at Pinewood with his first film being Up in the World with Norman Wisdom  (1956) and he went on to a decades-long career progressing through to camera operator and then DOP, working over the years on films as diverse as A Bridge Too Far (1977), and three of the Harry Potter movies (2004/5).  He worked among others with Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, Peter Finch, Fred Astaire, David Niven and Roger Moore.

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