John Wilcox

Personal Info

Know For

Camera

Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-05-07 (74 years old)

Deathday

1979-05-31

Place of Birth

Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, England, UK

John Wilcox

Biography

John Laurence Wilcox was a British cinematographer active from the early 1940's up to his death in 1979. During that period he worked on numerous films, either as DOP (Director of Photography), director of second camera units on large budget films, or simply as a cameraman. In the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s he lensed several popular films, such as Carve Her Name with Pride, The Cockleshell Heroes, Safari, The Mouse That Roared, and Summer Holiday. In the mid 1960s, he struck up a good working relationship with horror director Freddie Francis, and they worked together on horror classics such as The Skull, Hysteria, The Evil of Frankenstein,...

Production

1964

The Evil of Frankenstein

as Director of Photography

1977

Terror of Frankenstein

as Director of Photography

1974

The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires

as Director of Photography

1965

Dr. Who and the Daleks

as Director of Photography

1959

The Mouse That Roared

as Director of Photography

1963

Summer Holiday

as Director of Photography

1955

The Cockleshell Heroes

as Director of Photography

1966

Daleks' Invasion Earth: 2150 A.D.

as Director of Photography

1964

Nightmare

as Director of Photography

1965

Hysteria

as Director of Photography

1954

Hell Below Zero

as Director of Photography

1956

April in Portugal

as Director of Photography

1953

The Red Beret

as Director of Photography

1958

Carve Her Name with Pride

as Director of Photography

1961

The Guns of Navarone

as Additional Photography

1949

The Third Man

as Additional Photography

1958

Harry Black and the Tiger

as Director of Photography

1975

Legend of the Werewolf

as Director of Photography

1954

The Black Knight

as Director of Photography

1975

The Ghoul

as Director of Photography

1951

Mr. Denning Drives North

as Director of Photography

1965

The Skull

as Director of Photography

1974

Shatter

as Director of Photography

1962

Some People

as Director of Photography

1952

Who Goes There!

as Director of Photography

1971

The Last Valley

as Director of Photography

1966

Judith

as Director of Photography

1976

The Eagle Has Landed

as Second Unit Director of Photography

1972

Au Pair Girls

as Director of Photography

1951

Outcast of the Islands

as Director of Photography

1943

The New Lot

as Director of Photography

1956

Zarak

as Director of Photography

1960

Light Up the Sky!

as Director of Photography

1956

Safari

as Director of Photography

1960

A Touch of Larceny

as Director of Photography

1972

Steptoe & Son

as Director of Photography

1970

Connecting Rooms

as Director of Photography

1961

Mr. Topaze

as Director of Photography

1978

The Hound of the Baskervilles

as Director of Photography

1974

Craze

as Director of Photography

1966

The Psychopath

as Director of Photography

1959

Expresso Bongo

as Director of Photography

1963

The King's Breakfast

as Director of Photography

1964

633 Squadron

as Additional Photography

1969

The Chairman

as Director of Photography

1966

The Deadly Bees

as Director of Photography

1962

Waltz of the Toreadors

as Director of Photography

1962

Only Two Can Play

as Director of Photography

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