Michael Daley Coulter was born on 29 August 1952 and is a Scottish cinematographer.
12 Facts About Michael Coulter
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Michael Coulter achieved prominence for his collaborations with writer-director Bill Forsyth, and went on to work on high-profile films like Four Weddings and a Funeral, Sense and Sensibility, FairyTale: A True Story, Notting Hill, Mansfield Park, Love Actually, The Bank Job, and The Hustle.
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Michael Coulter was nominated for an Academy Award and a BAFTA Award for his work on Sense and Sensibility.
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Michael Coulter is a member of the British Society of Cinematographers, and BAFTA Scotland.
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Michael Coulter was introduced to the local film business by his director brother-in-law, the Charles Gormley.
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Michael Coulter started as a gopher for local production companies making industrial films, before moving on to load the black and white film stock into camera magazines at football matches.
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Michael Coulter subsequently filmed Forsyth's first feature, That Sinking Feeling.
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Michael Coulter operated for Chris Menges on Forsyth's next pictures, Local Hero and Comfort and Joy, which Michael Coulter describes as "unmissable opportunities to work with a man I admired tremendously".
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Michael Coulter enjoyed a brief stint in France during the early 1980s, as an assistant to cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, but it was back in the UK that he passed a watershed.
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Michael Coulter was just about to start work as the camera operator on No Surrender, when the original director of photography had to pull out.
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Michael Coulter has shot numerous commercials directed by Charles Sturridge, Tom Hooper, Mark Mylod, David Jellison, Gerard de Thame, among others.
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Michael Coulter is represented by McKinney Macartney Management in the UK and Gersh in the US.