He has also been a Director of Photography, including the second unit for Peter Jackson's trilogy The Lord of the Rings.
He started as a trainee cine-camera operator for television with the New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation in 1966.
In the 2005 Queen's Birthday Honours, Bollinger was appointed a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit, for services to cinematography.
[2] He lives at Blacks Point, near Reefton on the West Coast of New Zealand, with his wife Helen.
You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article related to film in New Zealand is a stub.