Ken Westbury obit

Ken Westbury obituary

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Cinematographer who played a key role in bringing a dreamlike quality to many scenes in the BBC drama Pennies from Heaven 

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Pennies from Heaven, Dennis Potter’s groundbreaking 1978 television series about a travelling sheet music-seller of the 1930s, featured Bob Hoskins in daydreaming scenes where he lip-synced to popular songs of the time. Ken Westbury’s cinematography, particularly his use of light, was instrumental in giving those sequences a surreal, dreamlike quality that provided the fantasy element into which the drama – and the character – could escape from reality.

Westbury, who has died of skin cancer aged 96, became a film camera operator and director of photography in television after a grounding in cinema at Ealing Studios on classic comedies such as Whisky Galore! and Kind Hearts and Coronets (both 1949).

Over 40 years, mostly with the BBC, he switched from the police series Z Cars (from 1962 to 1964) and period pieces including The Forsyte Saga (1967) to sci-fi, filming for four different Doctor Who adventures between 1966 and 1978.

When he worked with Potter again on The Singing Detective (1986), directed by Jon Amiel, the New York Times wrote: “Mr Amiel and his cinematographer, Ken Westbury, use every inch of the television screen to make the most of shapes, colours, light and movement.” Of the drama’s unusual technical demands, Westbury recalled: “We had to pan completely 180 degrees round the [hospital] ward and finish at exactly the right moment on the nurse at the desk as the tune ended.”

Earlier, in television’s black-and-white era, with the flamboyant director Ken Russell, he made programmes for the arts series Monitor. The most notable was The Debussy Film: Impressions of the French Composer (1965), a biopic written by Russell and Melvyn Bragg, with Oliver Reed in the lead role.

Westbury helped to achieve the director’s vision through his stark, sensual images and, again, use of light, such as in a woodland scene where it pierces through tree leaves as Debussy swings in a hammock while his lover plays with a balloon.

Working as a cinematographer shooting on film sometimes took him abroad. For all three series of the female prisoner-of-war drama Tenko (1981-84) and the 1985 feature-length Tenko Reunion, Westbury enjoyed time in Singapore. He was in Switzerland for Dr Fischer of Geneva (1984), starring James Mason, and again for Potter’s lavishly produced adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel Tender Is the Night (1985), also shot in France.

Ken was born in Shepherd’s Bush, west London, to Kathleen (nee Gibson) and Albert Westbury, a postal worker. In 1942, on leaving Willesden technical college aged 15, he joined the camera workshop at Ealing Studios – famous for its screen comedies – running errands and sweeping the floor. He progressed to clapper loader, working on films such as Champagne Charlie (1944), then focus puller.

During three years’ national service (1945-48) after the second world war, he was a wireless operator and armoured-car driver with the Household Cavalry’s Life Guards, serving in Germany, Egypt and Palestine.

Westbury returned to Ealing Studios as clapper loader on Whisky Galore!, with location filming on Barra, in the Western Isles, Scotland. He clocked up more than 20 other feature films, including the comedy The Man in the White Suit (1951) and the wartime drama The Cruel Sea (1953).

Ealing’s golden era eventually ended and, in 1956, the studios were sold to the BBC, which based its film department there. Westbury joined it and, within a year, was promoted to film camera operator.

He worked on many popular TV series, including the police drama Dixon of Dock Green (from 1961 to 1964), reuniting him with Jack Warner, who as the programme’s title character had starred in the 1950 Ealing Studios film The Blue Lamp, on which Westbury was clapper loader.

Westbury enjoyed particular success shooting The Forsyte Saga, the BBC’s last major drama to be made in black-and-white, which was popular worldwide. His other period productions included the nautical “soap with salt” The Onedin Line (1971), filming along the Devon coast, and When the Boat Comes in (1976), set in the Depression-hit north-east of England between the wars.

He also did location filming for Warship (1973-77), including helicopter shots of the vessel breaking the waves for the opening titles and a rocky journey through the Bay of Biscay, and Donald Wilson’s 10-part adaptation of Anna Karenina (1977), in Hungary.

In 1978, for the wartime-resistance drama Secret Army, he filmed across England’s home counties and in Belgium, while the romantic costume serial Penmarric (1979) took him to Cornwall.

Providing film inserts for Doctor Who included enterprisingly shooting through wagon wheel spokes for the western adventure The Gunfighters (1966) and battling bad weather in a helicopter over the Thames estuary for Fury from the Deep (1968).

On reaching 60, then the BBC’s compulsory retirement age, Westbury turned freelance and filmed for programmes across all channels, from Malcolm Bradbury’s comedy The Gravy Train (1990) on Channel 4, and Chimera (1991) and a 1999 Ruth Rendell Mysteries story on ITV, to the 1994 and 1995 series of Pie in the Sky and 1997 episodes of Silent Witness on the BBC.

As the director of photography on the ITV production of the Catherine Cookson story The Black Velvet Gown (1991), he helped the film win an International Emmy award as best drama. He personally won the Royal Television Society’s 1987 judges’ award.

In 1949, Westbury married Doreen White; she died in 2013. He is survived by their four children, Nigel, Janet, Mark and Simon. The cinematographer John Daly is his son-in-law.

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film cameramanfilm camera

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1978

1 episode

 

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TV Mini Series

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1977

 

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1976

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film cameraman

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8.3

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1976

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1975

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7.8

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1974

1 episode

 

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1974

 

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1962–1972

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TV Mini Series

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1972

 

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7.5

TV Series

film cameraman

1972

2 episodes

 

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1972

1 episode

 

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7.6

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1971

11 episodes

 

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7.3

TV Mini Series

film cameraman

1971

2 episodes

 

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6.9

TV Mini Series

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1971

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7.0

TV Series

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2 episodes

 

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7.2

TV Series

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1971

1 episode

 

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7.1

TV Series

film cameraman

1970

1 episode

 

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camera operator

1967

 

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7.2

TV Series

film cameramancamera operator

1964–1967

4 episodes

 

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1967

 

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8.4

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camera operatorfilm cameraman

1967

13 episodes

 

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7.0

TV Series

film cameracamera operator

1966

5 episodes

 

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6.2

TV Series

camera operator

1966

1 episode

 

Sunday Night

7.4

TV Series

cameraman

1966

1 episode

 

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TV Mini Series

film cameraman

1965

6 episodes

 

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6.9

TV Series

film camera

1965

1 episode

 

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7.6

TV Series

film cameraman

1965

1 episode

 

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7.6

TV Series

film cameraman

1965

1 episode

 

Sherlock Holmes (1964)

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7.4

TV Series

camera operator: film sequences

1965

1 episode

 

Oliver Reed in R3 (1964)

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8.4

TV Series

film cameraman

1965

1 episode

 

Jack Warner in Dixon of Dock Green (1955)

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6.9

TV Series

film cameraman

1961–1964

6 episodes

 

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camera operator

1964

 

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film cameraman (as Kenneth Westbury)

1964

 

Earl Cameron, Lee Grant, and Fred Sadoff in The Respectful Prostitute (1964)

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7.0

TV Series

film cameraman

1964

1 episode

 

John Gregson in First Night (1963)

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8.0

TV Series

film cameraman

1963–1964

2 episodes

 

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film cameraman

1963

1 episode

 

Moonstrike (1963)

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8.1

TV Series

cameraman

1963

6 episodes

 

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cameraman

1963

1 episode

 

Bob Dylan, David Warner, Ursula Howells, Reg Lye, and Maureen Pryor in The Madhouse on Castle Street (1963)

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8.5

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film cameramanfilm camera

1960–1963

5 episodes

 

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cameraman

1962

 

The Andromeda Breakthrough (1962)

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6.8

TV Series

camera operatorfilm camera

1962

6 episodes

 

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cameramanfilm cameraman

1961–1962

3 episodes

 

Compact (1962)

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6.7

TV Series

film cameraman

1962

1 episode

 

Persuasion

5.8

TV Mini Series

film cameraman

1960–1961

4 episodes

 

Rupert Davies in Maigret (1960)

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7.8

TV Series

film cameraman

1961

2 episodes

 

Carla Challoner, Ernest Milton, Cyril Shaps, and Gillian Ferguson in The Adventures of Alice (1960)

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9.4

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film cameraman

1960

 

The Charlie Drake Show

6.7

TV Series

film cameraman

1960

2 episodes

 

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film cameraman

1960

6 episodes

 

Spy-Catcher (1959)

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8.2

TV Series

film cameraman

1960

7 episodes

 

Panorama (1953)

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7.0

TV Series

film camera team: India

1960

1 episode

 

The Spur of the Moment

TV Movie

film cameraman

1959

 

Lana Morris and Andrew Osborn in Solo for Canary (1958)

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TV Series

film cameraman

1958

6 episodes

 

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film cameraman

1958

15 episodes

 

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1950)

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre

7.2

TV Series

camera operator

1958

1 episode

 

Meet Us in London

TV Series

cameraman (as Kenneth Westbury)

1957

 

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7.0

focus puller (uncredited)

1956

 

Johnny Brandon, Vera Day, Fred Emney, Davy Kaye, Freddie Mills, and Cardew Robinson in Fun at St Fanny's (1955)

Fun at St Fanny's

4.8

focus puller (uncredited)

1955

 

PT Raiders (1955)

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6.7

clapper loader (uncredited)

1955

 

Out of the Clouds (1955)

Out of the Clouds

5.7

focus puller: second unit (uncredited)

1955

 

Cornell Borchers, Yvonne Mitchell, and Michel Ray in The Divided Heart (1954)

The Divided Heart

6.9

focus puller (uncredited)

1954

 

Sheila Sim and Anthony Steel in West of Zanzibar (1954)

West of Zanzibar

5.6

camera operator: second unit (uncredited)

1954

 

High and Dry (1954)

High and Dry

6.9

clapper loader (uncredited)

1954

 

Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)

Meet Mr. Lucifer

5.9

clapper loader (uncredited)

1953

 

Jack Hawkins in The Cruel Sea (1953)

The Cruel Sea

7.4

clapper loader (uncredited)

1953

 

The Gentle Gunman (1952)

The Gentle Gunman

6.4

clapper loader (uncredited)

1952

 

Crash of Silence (1952)

Crash of Silence

7.4

clapper loader (uncredited)

1952

 

I Believe in You (1952)

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6.8

clapper loader (uncredited)

1952

 

Secret People (1952)

Secret People

6.2

focus puller (uncredited)

1952

 

His Excellency (1952)

His Excellency

5.5

second unit: focus puller (uncredited)

1952

 

The Man in the White Suit (1951)

The Man in the White Suit

7.2

camera assistant (uncredited)

1951

 

Pool of London (1951)

Pool of London

7.1

clapper loader (uncredited)

1951

 

The Magnet (1950)

The Magnet

6.8

clapper loader (uncredited)

1950

 

Jean Simmons and David Farrar in Cage of Gold (1950)

Cage of Gold

6.4

clapper loader (uncredited)

1950

 

Diana Dors, Petula Clark, Jane Hylton, and Natasha Parry in Dance Hall (1950)

Dance Hall

6.0

clapper loader (uncredited)

1950

 

Dirk Bogarde and Peggy Evans in The Blue Lamp (1950)

The Blue Lamp

6.8

clapper loader (uncredited)

1950

 

Irina Baronova, John Clements, Valerie Hobson, Susan Shaw, and Jack Warner in Train of Events (1949)

Train of Events

6.5

clapper loader (uncredited)

1949

 

Alec Guinness in Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Kind Hearts and Coronets

8.0

clapper loader: second unit (uncredited)

1949

 

Joan Greenwood and Basil Radford in Whisky Galore! (1949)

Whisky Galore!

7.1

clapper loader (uncredited)

1949

 

Chesney Allen, Bud Flanagan, and Elsa Tee in Here Comes the Sun (1946)

Here Comes the Sun

5.9

focus puller (uncredited)

1946

 

Patricia Roc, Françoise Rosay, and Tom Walls in Johnny Frenchman (1945)

Johnny Frenchman

6.3

clapper loader (uncredited)

1945

 

Chesney Allen and Bud Flanagan in Dreaming (1944)

Dreaming

6.0

assistant camera (uncredited)

1944

 

The Return of the Vikings

assistant camera (uncredited)

1944

 

Frances Day and Tommy Trinder in While Nero Fiddled (1944)

While Nero Fiddled

5.4

clapper loader (uncredited)

1944

 

Tommy Trinder in Champagne Charlie (1944)

Champagne Charlie

6.5

clapper loader (uncredited)

1944

 

The Halfway House (1944)

The Halfway House

6.6

clapper loader (uncredited)

1944

 

For Those in Peril (1944)

For Those in Peril

6.3

clapper loader (uncredited)

1944

 

San Demetrio London (1943)

San Demetrio London

6.7

clapper loader (uncredited)

1943

 

Will Hay in My Learned Friend (1943)

My Learned Friend

7.1

clapper loader (uncredited)

1943

 

Underground Guerrillas (1943)

Underground Guerrillas

6.1

clapper loader (uncredited)

1943

 

Far into the Night (1943)

Far into the Night

6.6

clapper loader (uncredited)

1943

 

Thanks

Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen' (2022)

Troughton in Tibet: Making 'The Abominable Snowmen'

Video

special thanks

2022

 

Self

Fishing Reels: Making Johnny Frenchman

Video

Self

2020