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Filmmaker · Australia, England

Nicolas Roeg

Died in 2018

Nicolas Roeg was born in 1928 in London. He entered the film industry as an apprentice editor in 1947, moved to the camera and became a cinematographer: he worked on the second unit of Lawrence of Arabia and shot a film by François Truffaut made in England. He turned to directing in 1970, at first with Donald Cammell, and then filmed in Australia, in Venice, in the United States and in the United Kingdom. He preferred improvisation to fixed shots and shot a great deal of footage. He died on 23 November 2018.

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