Wolfgang Suschitzky, BSC, was an Austrian-born British documentary photographer, as well as a cinematographer perhaps best known for his collaboration with Paul Rotha in the 1940s and his work on Mike Hodges' 1971 film Get Carter.
10 Facts About Wolfgang Suschitzky
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Wolfgang Suschitzky's father was a Viennese social democrat of Jewish origin, but had renounced his faith in 1908 and become an atheist, or "konfessionslos".
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Wolfgang Suschitzky opened the first social democratic bookshop in Vienna, and Suschitzky was born in the apartment above the bookshop.
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Wolfgang Suschitzky married a Dutch woman, Helena Wilhelmina Maria Elisabeth Voute in Hampstead and they moved to the Netherlands.
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Wolfgang Suschitzky travelled to England in 1935 and became a film cameraman for Paul Rotha, with whom he had a long working relationship.
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Wolfgang Suschitzky worked on Jack Clayton's short film The Bespoke Overcoat which won an Oscar for "Best Short Subject, Two-reel" at the 1956 Oscars.
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Wolfgang Suschitzky photographed the British crime film The Small World of Sammy Lee, directed by Ken Hughes.
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Wolfgang Suschitzky's other credits include two films directed by Jack Couffer, Ring of Bright Water and Living Free, which was the sequel to Born Free.
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For Wolfgang Suschitzky, who was described as having "social conscience of a documentarian and the eye of a german expressionist", the depiction of work and working people occupies a central place in his photographic oeuvre.
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Wolfgang Suschitzky died on 7 October 2016 at the age of 104 in London.