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Christopher Challis (born 18th March, 1919) is a distinguished British cinematographer who has worked on more than 70 feature films since starting in the industry in the 1940s.

After working as camera operator on a number of films for Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, he made his debut as director of photography on The End of the River
in 1947, one of their projects as producers. He went on to photograph most of their 1950s films, including The Small Back Room
, The Elusive Pimpernel
, The Tales of Hoffmann
, Oh... Rosalinda!!
, Ill Met by Moonlight
and The Battle of the River Plate
.

His expertise in colour cinematography made him a popular choice for British films of the 1950s, and he made a number of successful comedies, including Genevieve (1953), The Captain's Table (1958) and Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines
(1965), and later worked on a variety of projects such as the 1960 war classic Sink the Bismarck!
, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), and Billy Wilder's The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes
in 1970.

He was nominated for several BAFTA Awards for Best British Cinematography, including a win in 1966 for Stanley Donen's film Arabesque
.

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