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.
