Richard Campbell Pope (August 3, 1947 – October 21, 2024) was a British cinematographer, known for his work with director Mike Leigh. Born in Bromley, Richard Campbell Pope took an early interest in photography. He trained at the Pathé lab in London, and began his career in 1968 working as a camera operator on documentaries. He began working as a cinematographer on feature films in the 1980s. He began his collaboration with Mike Leigh in 1990's Life is Sweet, and continued to work with him for over thirty years, until Hard Truths (2024).
Happy-Go-Lucky
(Director of Photography)
Secrets & Lies
(Director of Photography)
Vera Drake
(Director of Photography)
All or Nothing
(Director of Photography)
Life Is Sweet
(Camera Operator)
Man of the Year
(Director of Photography)
Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging
(Director of Photography)
Topsy-Turvy
(Director of Photography)
Another Year
(Director of Photography)
A Running Jump
(Camera Operator)
A Running Jump
(Director of Photography)
Friday Night Shirt
(Director of Photography)
Rude Boy
(Camera Operator)
The Illusionist
(Director of Photography)
Naked
(Camera Operator)
Me and Orson Welles
(Director of Photography)
Angelica
(Director of Photography)
Bernie
(Director of Photography)
Inseminoid
(Camera Operator)
Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
(Director of Photography)
Career Girls
(Camera Operator)
The Reflecting Skin
(Director of Photography)
Legend
(Director of Photography)
The Cure In Orange
(Camera Operator)
Naked
(Director of Photography)
Topsy-Turvy
(Camera Operator)
Hard Truths
(Director of Photography)
The Air Up There
(Director of Photography)
Vera Drake
(Camera Operator)
Life Is Sweet
(Director of Photography)
An Awfully Big Adventure
(Director of Photography)
Nothing Personal
(Director of Photography)
Nineteen Eighty-Four
(Camera Operator)
Swept from the Sea
(Director of Photography)
Nicholas Nickleby
(Director of Photography)
It's a Wonderful Afterlife
(Director of Photography)
The Debt Collector
(Director of Photography)
A Bigger Splash
(Camera Operator)
The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
(Director of Photography)
Cuban Fury
(Director of Photography)
A Sense of History
(Director of Photography)
Mr. Turner
(Director of Photography)
The Way of the Gun
(Director of Photography)
Career Girls
(Director of Photography)
Punk and Its Aftershocks
(Director of Photography)
Coming Up Roses
(Director of Photography)
Motherless Brooklyn
(Director of Photography)
Thin Ice
(Director of Photography)
Motherless Brooklyn
("B" Camera Operator)
Honeydripper
(Director of Photography)
Supernova
(Director of Photography)
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band : Hammersmith Odeon, London '75
(Camera Operator)
Peterloo
(Director of Photography)
Bernie
("A" Camera Operator)
Another Year
(Camera Operator)
The Girl in the Picture
(Director of Photography)
The Outfit
(Director of Photography)
Alan Bush: A Life
(Director of Photography)
The Great Kandinsky
(Director of Photography)
The Fruit Machine
(Director of Photography)
Women in Rock
(Director of Photography)
All or Nothing
(Camera Operator)
A Promise of Bed
(Camera Operator)
Happy-Go-Lucky
(Camera Operator)
Loving Feeling
(Clapper Loader)
The Blackheath Poisonings
(Director of Photography)