Gerry Fisher

[3] Early employment by Kodak and De Havilland Aircraft was followed by service in the Royal Navy during WW II.

[2] After years in this capacity on films such as An Inspector Calls (1954), he was promoted to camera operator on Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), before finally becoming director of photography on Joseph Losey's Accident (1967).

[2] The film directors Fisher frequently collaborated with included Losey, Tony Richardson, Sidney Lumet, John Huston, William Peter Blatty, John Frankenheimer and, latterly, Michael Ritchie.

Fisher and his wife retired to The Film and Television Charity's Glebelands Care Home at Wokingham in Berkshire.

He died on 2 December 2014, at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in nearby Reading, at the age of 88.