14 Facts About Oswald Morris

Oswald Morris was raised in Middlesex, and attended the Bishopshalt School.

Oswald Morris achieved the rank of flight lieutenant and winning both the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Force Cross.

Oswald Morris was the camera operator during the shooting of Lean's Oliver Twist.

Oswald Morris first acted as director of photography on Golden Salamander.

Oswald Morris collaborated with film director John Huston on eight films, beginning with Moulin Rouge, and including Moby Dick.

For Moby Dick, Oswald Morris developed what David Peloquin has called a "retro-silvered pictorial" which "was designed to capture the look of nineteenth-century whaling prints with their muted colors and silver sheen".

Oswald Morris wrote in his autobiography that he and Huston wanted a "soft wash" effect "in which we would etch in the characters".

Morris' brother Reginald H Morris was a cinematographer based in Canada.

Oswald Morris was a Fellow of The Royal Photographic Society and was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 1998.

In 1966, Oswald Morris married Lee Turner, a member of the continuity production staff on the Franco Zeffirelli film of The Taming of the Shrew.

Oswald Morris was one of the interviewees in the book Conversations with Cinematographers by David A Ellis, published by Scarecrow Press.

Oswald Morris died on March 17,2014, at the age of 98, at his home in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England.

Oswald Morris's survivors included his three children, 10 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren.

In June 2009, the recently completed central building of the National Film and Television School was officially named The Oswald Morris Building in his honour.