Geoffrey Unsworth  

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Geoffrey Gilyard Unsworth, OBE, BSC (26 May 1914 – 28 October 1978) was a British cinematographer who worked on nearly 90 feature films spanning over more than 40 years. He is best known for his work on films such as Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, Bob Fosse's Cabaret and Richard Donner's Superman.

Selected filmography

Actor

• The First Great Train Robbery (1978) - (uncredited)

Cinematographer

• The People's Land (1941)
• Gardens of England (1941)
• World Garden (1942), a film about Kew Gardens
• Teeth of Steel (1942)
• World Garden (1942)
• Make Fruitful the Land (1945)
• The Laughing Lady (1946)
• The Man Within (1947)
• Jassy (1947)
• Scott of the Antarctic (1948)
• The Blue Lagoon (1949)
• The Spider and the Fly (1949)
• Double Confession (1950)
• Trio (1950)
• The Clouded Yellow (1951)
• Where No Vultures Fly (1951)
• The Planter's Wife (1952)
• Turn the Key Softly (1953)
• The Million Pound Note (1953)
• The Purple Plain (1954)
• The Seekers (1954)
• A Town Like Alice (1956)
• Jacqueline (1956)
• Tiger in the Smoke (1956)
• Hell Drivers (1957)
• A Night to Remember (1958)
• North West Frontier (1959)
• Whirlpool (1959)
• On the Double (1961)
• The 300 Spartans (1962)
• Tamahine (1963)
• Becket (1964)
• Othello (1965)
• Genghis Khan (1965)
• Half a Sixpence (1967)
• The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
• 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
• The Assassination Bureau (1969)
• The Reckoning (1969)
• Three Sisters (1970)
• Cromwell (1970)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1972)
• Cabaret (1972)
• Baxter! (1973)
• Zardoz (1974)
• Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
• The Abdication (1974)
• Lucky Lady (1975)
• Royal Flash (1975)
• The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
• A Matter of Time (1976)
• A Bridge Too Far (1977)
• Superman (1978)
• The First Great Train Robbery (1978)
• Tess (1979)
• Superman II (1980) with Robert Paynter
• Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006) with Robert Paynter