One of the film industry's most respected cinematographers and a pioneer in his field, Oswald Morris, died on Monday. The Oscar-winning DP, who was also made a BAFTA fellow in 1997, was 98. Following a stint in the army during WWII, Morris' film career truly took off when he served as director of photography on Ronald Neame's Golden Salamander, his first feature in such a capacity. Such was the respect for Morris' work, often painstakingly researched, with influences from history and art, that he frequently collaborated again and again with directors such as Neame, John Huston and Sidney Lumet, though it was his work on Norman Jewison's Fiddler on the Roof that garnered him an Academy Award. He is survived by his three children, Gillian, Christine and Roger, and by an impressive collection of ten grandchildren and ten great-grandchildren.
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