Iconic cinematographer Roger Pratt has died aged 77.
The British star, who was nominated for an Oscar in 1999, passed away in December, with his death confirmed by the British Society of Cinematographers this week.
His cause and date of death has not been revealed at this time.
Pratt’s impressive body of work includes Batman (1989), Frankenstein (1994), Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002), Troy (2004), Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005), Inkheart (2008) and The Karate Kid (2010).
His stellar work was honored with a nomination for Best Cinematography at the Oscars for The End of the Affair, starring Ralph Fiennes and Julianne Moore.
He also picked up BAFTA nominations in 1999 and 2000 for The End of the Affair and Chocolat starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp.
He frequently collaborated with Monty Python legend Terry Gilliam with the pair first meeting on the set of 1975’s Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
Iconic cinematographer Roger Pratt has died aged 77 – pictured 2004
Pratt’s impressive body of work includes Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002 – pictured)
Pratt , the son of a vicar grew up in the Midlands and attended Loughborough Grammar School.
His first exposure to film came as he watched religious movies in church, with the ‘mesmerized’ star saying: ‘A box full of rolls of film, projectors, screens, loudspeakers. The lights go out, the whirring of mechanics…then real people talking, moving, laughing, and dying (I mention dying because they were about Christ and his crucifixion).
He studied at Durham University in 1966 and graduated from the General Arts programme in 1969, before enrolling at the London Film School.
He frequently worked with director Lord Richard Attenborough, lending his expertise to Shadowlands (1993), In Love and War (1996) and Grey Owl (1999).