Worked on five films of the director John Schlesinger in the 1960's.
Filmed a documentary for the British Army in Germany and "unleashed chaos" after supplying beer to the soldiers, events he later described as akin to "the atmosphere of a painting by Hieronymus Bosch".
Began as a rewind boy on the classic Ealing comedy "The Titfield Thunderbolt" before graduating to assistant editor in 1951.