BEN SMITHARD   BSC

Born: c. 1970, UK.

Education: Bournemouth & Poole College of Art & Design [now Arts University College Bournemouth].

Career: Ph commercials dir by Tom Hooper, Dominic Savage, Jeff Thomas, Miranda Bowen, a.o. Ph music videos.

Member of the BSC since 2011.

His brother Austin is a film dir.

Awards: 'Emmy' Award [2010] for 'Cranford/Return to Cranford' [Part 2].

Website: Ben Smithard



 FILMS & TELEVISION

2000

Jean [Anthony Fabian] b&w-c; short/10m

2000

Cereal Killer [Robert Heath] c; short/12m

2000

The Sequel [Mark Williams] c; short/5m

2002

Glastonbury [Julien Temple] c; mus doc/135m; superv cameraman; filmed 2002-05

2004

Breaking the Fifth [Austin Smithard] dv-to-35mm scope/c

2004

Wire in the Blood [ep #14 'Synchronicity' dir by Terry McDonough] 31-part tv-series, 2002-08; 3rd season, 2005; for ITV1

2005

Spooks/MI-5 [ ep #31 & #32 dir by Jeremy Lovering] tv-series/s16, 2002-present; 4th season, 2005; for BBC1 & BBC3

2005

Eleventh Hour [ep #1 'Resurrection' & #2 'Containment' dir by Terry McDonough] 4-part tv-miniseries, 2006; other ph: Graham Frake; for ITV1

2006

The Street [ep #3 '[No. 36 Bold Street:] The Flasher' & #4 '[No. 12 Bold Street:] Football' dir by Terry McDonough] 18-part tv-series, 2006-09; 1st season, 2006; other ph: Daf Hobson, Steve Lawes, a.o.; for BBC1

2006

The Royle Family: The Queen of Sheba [Mark Mylod] tv-special/60m; 18-part tv-series, 1998-2000 + specials; for BBC2

2006

Vincent [ep #5 & #7 dir by Terry McDonough] 8-part tv-series, 2005-06; 2nd season; for ITV1

2006

Instinct [Terry McDonough] 2-part tvm; for ITV1 (2007)

2007

Cranford/Cranford Chronicles [ep #1 'June 1842' dir by Simon Curtis (SC), #2 'August 1842' dir by SC, #3 'November 1842' dir by SC, #4 'April 1843' dir by Steve Hudson & #5 'May 1843' dir by SC] 5-part tv-series/HD (Genesis); for BBC1 & WGBH-tv; see 2009

2008

The Damned United [Tom Hooper] s16+s35+v-to-35mm (+ D-Cinema)/b&w-c

2008

A Short Stay in Switzerland [Simon Curtis] tvm; for BBC1 (2009)

2008

Freefall [Dominic Savage] tvm; for BBC2 (2009)

2009

Cranford/Return to Cranford [ep #1 'Return to Cranford: Part 1/Part One: August 1844' & #2 'Part Two: October 1844' dir by Simon Curtis] 2-part tv-special/HD (Genesis); for BBC1 & WGBH-tv; see 2007

2009

10 Minute Tales [ep #7 'The Three Kings' dir by Richard Eyre] 11-part tv-series; for BSkyB (Sky1)

2009

The Day of the Triffids [Nick Copus] 2-part tvm/HD (Sony F35); 2uc: Hamish Doyne-Ditmas

2009

Money [Jeremy Lovering] 2-part tvm/HD (Sony F35 + Canon EOS 5D & 7D); for BBC2 (2010)

2010

The Trip [Michael Winterbottom] 6-part tv-series/HD; also 107m feature film version

2010

My Week with Marilyn [Simon Curtis] s35 (+ D-Cinema)/c

2011

I, Anna [Barnaby Southcombe] s35 (Aaton Penelope/2-perf)/c

2011

Love Life/True Love [Dominic Savage] 5-part tv-series/RED Epic; for BBC1

2012

Henry IV [Richard Eyre] 2-part tvm/HD (Genesis)+RED Epic; 2uc: Hamish Doyne-Ditmas; ep 4-part BBC2-series 'The Hollow Crown'

2012

Belle [Amma Asante] HD (Sony F65)/c

2013

Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa/Alan Partridge: The Movie [Declan Lowney] RED Epic/c; addph: David Luther


 MISCELLANEOUS

1992

[Warlock:] Tale of a Vampire [Shimako Sato] gaffer; ph: Zubin Mistry

1993

[The Stranger:] In Memory Alone [Bill Baggs] c.asst; ph: Dick Kursa

1993

The Airzone Solution [Bill Baggs] gaffer; ph: Dick Kursa

1994

I Was Catherine the Great's Stable Boy [Stephen Leslie; short] gaffer; ph: Tom Ingle Jr.