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Full name: Michael (Mike) David Fox
Born 1935, London, UK.
Cinematography career spans 1954 - present.
General:
Mike Fox started his film career in 1954 with Morton M. Lewis's Sunset Film
Productions Ltd., which occupied the entire top floor at 77 Dean Street,
Soho, London, W1. It was there that he first got to know Tony Young and Wendy Danielli,
who having founded Grosvenor Films Ltd on 19th January, 1954, were renting one of the
offices in Sunset's studio/office space.
Patents:
GB 943,046 (filed June 29, 1962; published
Nov. 27, 1963) Improvements in adjustable supports for cinematographic
cameras.
GB 2,277,607 (filed Jan 7, 1994, published Nov. 2, 1994) Illuminating subjects for cinematography and the like. (also obtained in several other countries).
GB 2, 281,130 (filed Aug. 20, 1993, published Feb., 22, 1994) Illuminating subjects for cinematography and photography.
Miscellaneous:
While working on The Telegoons,
Mike nagged Tony Young mercilessly to try and get Spike Milligan to come
down for a visit to the production studio, but Spike just would not
come. Mike says that he thinks Spike was going through one of his depressive
periods at that time (first half of 1963).
Filmography:
Easy Target (2002)(runtime: 10) Director of photography/Lighting
Camera (Note: Matt Fox was focus puller)
Shadow of the Vampire
(2000) Camera operator
One More Kiss (1999) (Suzie Halewood
writer; runtime: 97) Director of
photography
Two Minute Warning (1999)(Suzie
Halewood director; runtime: 2) Director of photography
Wild Man Blues (1997) Second camera: London concert (as Michael
Fox)
Fools of Fortune
(1990) Camera operator
Dangerous Liaisons
(1988) Camera operator
Hope and Glory (1987)
Camera operator
Let's Go
(1985) Camera operator
...aka Let's Go, Pal
(1985) (Japan)
Superman (1978) Camera
operator
...aka Superman, The Movie (1978)
The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
(1976) Cameraman
The Night Digger (1971) Camera operator
...aka The Road Builder
(1971)
Lord Jim (1965)
"The Telegoons" (1963,
TV puppet series)
Focus puller (uncredited) for all of the first series, and all but three
episodes in the second series. For these three episodes ( #1, #4
and #9) Mike Fox was upgraded to camera operator (achieving his first screen
credits), due to director of photography Phil
Grindrod being in hospital due to illness.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) Focus
puller: second unit (uncredited)
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