Born: 10 September 1936, Helsingborg, Sweden, as Alf Jörgen Persson.

Education: Film School of the Swedish Film Institute [SFI] [1964-66].

Career: Ph commercials dir by Arne Gustafsson, Per Berglund, Ulf Andrée, a.o.

Awards: Chaplin-priset [1967] & BAFTA Film Award nom [1969] for 'Elvira Madigan'; fsf 'Golden Aperture Plate' [1982] for 'Den enfaldige mördaren'; 'Robert' Award [1987], 'Bodil' Award [1987] & NYFCC Award nom [1988] for 'Pelle Erobreren'; European Cinematographer of the Year [1989, shared] for 'Kvinnorna på taket'; 'Guldbagge' Award nom [1992] for 'Den goda viljan'; 'Guldbagge' Award nom [1994] for 'Zorn'; Camerimage 'Golden Frog' nom [1997] for 'Jerusalem'; 'Guldbagge' Award nom [2001] for 'En sång för Martin'.

FILMS

1964        Morgon [Gösta Ågren] 16mm/?; short/?m; prod SFI

1965        Bogserbåten [Bengt Anderhagen] 16mm/b&w; short/8m; prod SFI

1965        Ett avsked [Bertil Sandgren] b&w; short/15m; prod SFI

1965        Ryttarinnan [Kauko Gustavsson] c; short/?m; prod SFI

1965        On Fighting Witches [Robert Shaye] b&w; short/19m; cph: R. Shaye, Peter Davis, a.o.

1965        Heja Roland!/30 Times Your Money [Bo Widerberg] b&w

1966        Tillgripa våld [Gösta Ågren] 16mm/b&w; short/43m; prod SFI

1966        Elvira Madigan [Bo Widerberg] c

1968        Ådalen '31/The Ådalen Riots [Bo Widerberg] ts/c

1968        Den vita sporten/The White Match [Bo Widerberg, Jörgen Persson, Inge Roos, a.o.] 16mm-35bu/c; doc/102m; cph: B.

                    Widerberg, I. Roos, Lennart Malmer, a.o.

1969        En kärlekshistoria/A Swedish Love Story [Roy Andersson] c

1970        Den magiska cirkeln/Salaligan/Beyond the Line of Duty [Per Berglund] scope/c

1970        Joe Hill/The Ballad of Joe Hill [Bo Widerberg] c; cph: Petter Davidson

1971        Niklas och figuren/Niklas and His Pal [Ulf Andrée] c; cph: Jack Churchill

1972        Angela [, Love Comes Quietly] [Nikolai van der Heyde] c

1972        Visions of Eight [seg #7 'The Decathlon' dir by Milos Forman] c; doc/110m; 8 seg; cph: Shaun O'Dell; other ph: Walter

                    Lassally, Ernst Wild, Igor Slabnevich, a.o.; chief ph cons: Michael Samuelson

1973        Lågan [?] 16mm/c; short/19m; cph: Bengt Dalunde

1973        En handfull kärlek/A Handful of Love [Vilgot Sjöman] c

1973        Help! De dokter verzuipt/Help! The Doctor Is Drowning [Nikolai van der Heyde] c

1974        Kom till Casino! [Gösta Bernhard & Mille Schmidt] c; cph: Rune Ericson & John Olsson

1974        Gangsterfilmen/En främling steg av tåget/A Stranger Came by Train [Lars Thelestam] c

1975        De dwaze lotgevallen van Sherlock Jones [Nikolai van der Heyde] c

1977        Hempas Bar/Hempa's Bar [Lars Thelestam] c

1977        Den åttonde dagen/The Eighth Day [Anders Grönros] s16-35bu/c

1978        Madicken på Junibacken/Maggie of June Hill [Göran Graffman] c; also 6-part tv-miniseries

1979        Du är inte klok, Madicken/You’re Out of Your Mind, Maggie [Göran Graffman] c

1979        Prins Hatt under jorden [Peter Hald & Ninne Olsson] c

1979        Bolero [Per Berglund] 16mm/c; short/13m; cph: Petter Davidson & Hans Welin

1980        Sällskapsresan/The Charter Trip [Lasse Åberg] c

1980        Min syster kan grekiska [L. Olivier Rahmat] 16mm/c

1981        Tuppen/The Rooster [Lasse Hallström] c

1981        Den enfaldige mördaren/The Simple-Minded Murderer [Hans Alfredson] c

1983        Kalabaliken i Bender/Kalabalik [Mats Aréhn] c

1983        P & B [Hans Alfredson] c

1983        The Inside Man/Slagskämpen [Tom Clegg] c

1984        Åke och hans värld/Åke and His World [Allan Edwall] c

1984        Ruben Nilson, visdiktaren - målaren - plåtslagaren [Karsten Wedel] 16mm/?; doc/48m; cph: Mischa Gavrjusjov

1985        Mitt liv som hund/My Life as a Dog [Lasse Hallström] c

1985        Falsk som vatten/False as Water [Hans Alfredson] c

1985        Lights Please/En film om ljus och mörker [Lars Svanberg] 16mm/c; doc/15m; cph: Rolf Lindström, Roland Sterner

                    & Lennart Peters

1985        Ormens väg på hälleberget/The Serpent's Way [Bo Widerberg] c

1986        Pelle Erobreren/Pelle the Conqueror [Bille August] c; 2uc: Fritz Schrøder

1987        Aïda [Claes Fellbom] s35/c; opera film/161m

1987        Vargens tid/Time of the Wolves [Hans Alfredson] p/c

1989        Peter och Petra [Agneta Elers-Jarleman] c

1989        Gekko [Stephan Apelgren] 16mm/c; short/15m

1989        Kvinnorna på taket/The Women on the Roof [Carl-Gustaf Nykvist] c; cph: Ulf Brantås

1990        Black Jack [Colin Nutley] c

1990        Den goda viljan/The Best Intentions [Bille August] c; also 2-part tvm

1991        Sofie [Liv Ullmann] c; addph: Søren Berthelin

1992        Påklädningen [Lars Mullback] c; short/12m

1993        The House of the Spirits [Bille August] p/c; 2uc: Anette Haellmigk

1993        Zorn [Gunnar Hellström] c

1994        Vita lögner/White Lies [Mats Aréhn] c

1996        Smilla's Sense of Snow/Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee/Smilla's Feeling for Snow [Bille August] p/c; 2uc:

                    Arthur Wooster; 3uc: Jan Weincke

1996        Jerusalem [Bille August] c; 167m

1996        Digging to China [Timothy Hutton] c

1997        Les Misérables [Bille August] p/c; addph: Jan Weincke; 2uc: Arthur Wooster

1999        Trolösa/Faithless [Liv Ullmann] c

2000        En rikedom bortom allt förstånd [Alexander Öberg] c; short/20m

2000        En sång för Martin/A Song for Martin [Bille August] s35/c

2007        Varg/Wolf [Daniel Alfredson] s35/c

TELEVISION

1971        Stora skälvan [Leif Krantz] 6-part miniseries

1978        Madicken [Göran Graffman] 6-part miniseries; see Film (1978)

1981        Hundarnas morgon [Lars Thelestam] tvm; cph: Rolf Lindström

1989        Vägen hem/A Long Way Home [Colin Nutley] tvm

1992        The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles [ep #18 'Vienna, November 1908' & #19 'Northern Italy, June 1918', both dir by

                    Bille August] 44-part (8 unaired in USA) series, 1992-96/16mm; see David Tattersall