RICHARD CRASKE Director of Photography
18 Letchford Gardens. London NW10 6AN Home: 020 8969 2642
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The Tutankhamun Conspiracy 2001
Channel 5 / TLC
Drama//doco shot in Egypt and London
featuring Giles Watling
pick of the day Sunday Times ,Mail on Sunday, Time Out
Sunday Morning 2000
20 min short // super 16mm
Dir Robert Farrar
Cork / Sun Dance/London film festivals entry
The Hope 1998
Principle Photography Shot on 35mm
Directed by: Erik Talkin
Location: London
Featured Parker Posey and Marcus D Amico
The Phoenix & the Magic Carpet 1997
Second Unit: Director of Photography
Directed by: Zoran Perisic
Shot on: 35mm Anamorphic
Location: Tobago, England and at Pinewood Studios
Company Smart Egg Films
In the Name of the Father 1993
2nd Camera 35mm Photography
Directed by Jim Sheridan
Location Liverpool
Featured Daniel Day Lewis and Emma Thompson
Short Films
2000/2002
The Hole Shot on HDF Yoyo Channel 5 Dir P. Richardson 16mm Dir Rick Hawkes 35mm
Shirking 16mm Modern Myth
Dir Jason Edwards Dir P. Richardson 16mm Fire Juggler 16mm Dir M, Good Smith
Commercial companies
AKA PIZZAZ PICTURES, MMAD, SPACE CITY, CHEMISTRY,INITIAL FILMS
MPC, FIRE HOUSE, SSM FREESPORTS, REPUBLIK FILMS
Corporates HPICM ,World, PTV, Clever Media etc programs for Most blue chip companies
Documentaries
Spooky Happenings 2002 PILOT tv ghost series for BBC
Wise Buddah 2001/2002 for the BBC includes Spin City,
Boy George Show ,Ghost Stories and Walt Disney
SSM FREESPORTS Motor cross, Los Angeles , Entry for
The Dangerous Cameraman Award 2001
CAFÉ 1999/2000 The Irish Empire “A World Apart” // part 3
BBC / RTE / SBS Australia / New Discoveries for Discovery Europe / The Flow National Geo / ARTE
The Millenium Dome 1999 Producer John Hackney / The Body Zone
The Eye Room Film
Take Off 1998 /1999 13 part series Sky tv / British Airways
Tv Travel Shop, Belgium/ Spanish Tourist Office
Etc Music Videos
Bee Gees / Celine Dion (Blue Screen} Brittany
Spears ,T Spoon, Lisa May, Tequila Sisters
Louis Hoover
1980 to 1993 range of experience gained as clapper/loader, focus puller on commercials and feature films, which include Gulag,White Nights Return to Oz, , View to a Kill, Young Sherlock Holmes, Empire of the Sun
Link, Hearts of Fire, Consuming Passions, Gunbus etc BECTU member