Richard Campbell Pope (3 August 1947 – 21 October 2024) was a British cinematographer.

[1] Pope was a member of the British Society of Cinematographers and was twice nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography.

Born in Bromley on 3 August 1947, Richard Campbell Pope took an early interest in photography.

[2] He trained at the Pathé lab in London, and began his career in 1968 working as a camera operator on documentaries.

[2] He began his collaboration with Mike Leigh with 1990's Life is Sweet, and continued to work with him for over thirty years, until Hard Truths (2024).