Born: 11 August 1949, Maintenon [Eure-et-Loire], France.

Career: Served in the military in Cameroon [1971]. Entered film industry in 1973 as c.asst. Ph commercials. Ph music videos [1982, a: Marianne Faithfull, d: Serge Gainsbourg; a.o.]. Teaches at la Fémis.

Awards: 'César' Award [1985] for 'Un dimanche à la campagne'; 'César' Award nom [1990] for 'La vie et rien d'autre'.

1982        Le cachot [Michel Sibra] 16mm/c; short/36m

1983        Un dimanche à la campagne/A Sunday in the Country [Bertrand Tavernier] c

1984        Signé Charlotte/Sincerely Charlotte [Caroline Huppert] c

1984        Souvenirs souvenirs [Ariel Zeïtoun] p/c

1985        'Round Midnight/Autour de minuit [Bertrand Tavernier] p/c

1985        Little Dorrit [Christine Edzard] c; 2 parts: 'Nobody's Fault' & 'Little Dorrit's Story'

1987        La passion Béatrice/The Passion of Beatrice [Bertrand Tavernier] c

1988        Saxo [Ariel Zeïtoun] c

1988        L'ami retrouvé/Reunion [Jerry Schatzberg] p/c

1988        La princesse sur un autre pois [Muriel Teodori] c; short/7m

1989        La vie et rien d'autre/Life and Nothing But [Bertrand Tavernier] p/c

1989        December Bride [Thaddeus O'Sullivan] c; addph (Winter shoot): Sean Corcoran; 2uc: Peter Dorney

1989        Impromptu [James Lapine] c

1990        Lacenaire/The Elegant Criminal [Francis Girod] c

1990        Afraid of the Dark/Double vue [Mark Peploe] c

1992        Max et Jérémie/Max and Jeremy [Claire Devers] c

1993        War of the Buttons [John Roberts] c

1993        La reina de la noche/The Queen of the Night [Arturo Ripstein] c

1994        All Men Are Mortal [Ate de Jong] c

1994        Victory [Mark Peploe] p/c; 2uc: Sean Corcoran

1994        3000 scénarios contre un virus/3,000 Scenarios to Combat a Virus [seg (4m) 'Les deux amants' dir by Jean

                    Achache] c; 30seg/109m; other ph: Caroline Champetier, Gérard de Battista, Patrick Blossier, a.o.

1995        North Star/Alaska/Tashunga/Grand Nord [Nils Gaup] c

1995        The Ogre/Der Unhold/Le roi des aulnes [Volker Schlöndorff] b&w-c

1996        The Fifth Province [Frank Stapleton] c

1996        Mojo [Jez Butterworth] c

1997        The Commissioner [George Sluizer] c; cph: Witold Stok

1997        Le clone [Fabio Conversi] c

1998        C'est pas ma faute!/I Didn't Do It! [Jacques Monnet] c

1998        Les collègues [Philippe Dajoux] c

1999        About Adam [Gerard Stembridge] c

1999        The Bass Player [Denis Lawson] b&w; short/18m; uwph: Mike Valentine

1999        The Day the Ponies Come Back [Jerry Schatzberg] p/c

2000        Fleur à la bouche [Hervé Icovic] c; short/10m

2000        J'ai faim!!! [Florence Quentin] c

2002        Il était une fois le Rex [Michel Pascal] BetaSP/c; doc/51m

2002        Retour en ville [Karim Canama] c; short/19m

2003        Avant l'oubli [Augustin Burger] c

2004        Journée rouge [Philippe Rouquier] c

2004        Zaïna, cavalière de l'Atlas [Bourlem Guerdjou] c; aph: Charlet Recors

2005        Les Européens/The Europeans [seg 'Songe d'un jour d'été' dir by Gerard Stembridge] c; 5 seg (originally 7)

2005        Très bien, merci [Emmanuelle Cuau] c; + small part

2007        In the Electric Mist [Bertrand Tavernier] scope/c; 2uc: Michael Applebaum

2007        Alarm [Gerard Stembridge] c

1981        Scarface [Serge Gainsbourg] tvm/5m

1986        The Murders in the Rue Morgue [Jeannot Szwarc] tvm

1991        The Railway Station Man [Michael Whyte] tvm; aph: Adam Dale; ep BBC-tv series 'Screen Two'

1991        Double Vision [Robert Knights] tvm

1998        Shooting the Past [Stephen Poliakoff] 4-part miniseries; cph: Ernie Vincze; in USA 2-part ep of PBS-tv 'Masterpiece

                    Theatre' (1999)

1975        Black Moon [Louis Malle] apprentice; ph: Sven Nykvist

1975        Le locataire/The Tenant [Roman Polanski] apprentice; ph: Sven Nykvist

1976        Madame Claude/The French Woman [Just Jaeckin] co-c.op; ph: Robert Fraisse 

1977        Le diable probablement [Robert Bresson] c.asst; ph: Pasqualino De Santis

1979        À nous deux/Us Two [Claude Lelouch] c.op; ph: Bernard Zitzermann

1979        L'école est finie [Olivier Nolin] co-c.op; ph: Bernard Zitzermann

1998        Let the Good Times Roll [Dalia Ibelhauptaite; short] co-special thanks; ph: Fraser Taggert