John Alcott

John Alcott. Cinematographer: Barry Lyndon. John Alcott, the Oscar-winning cinematographer best known for his collaboration with director Stanley Kubrick, was born in 1931, in Isleworth, England, the son of movie executive Arthur Alcott, who would become the production controller at Gainsborough Studios during the 1940s. Alcott began his film career as a clapper boy, the lowest member of a camera crew. By the early 1960s he had worked his way up...