Ken Coles

Forename/s: 
Ken
Family name: 
Coles
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Interview Number: 
422
Interview Date(s): 
20 Apr 2022
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Duration (mins): 
109

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 Ken Coles joined the film industry as a clapper boy at Pinewood with his first film being Up in the World with Norman Wisdom  (1956) and he went on to a decades-long career progressing through to camera operator and then DOP, working over the years on films as diverse as A Bridge Too Far (1977), and three of the Harry Potter movies (2004/5).  He worked among others with Marlon Brando, Bette Davis, Peter Finch, Fred Astaire, David Niven and Roger Moore.