Anthony B. Richmond

For the Italian filmmaker sometimes credited as "Anthony Richmond", see Tonino Ricci.

Anthony B. Richmond
Born	Anthony Barry Richmond (1942-07-07) 7 July 1942 (age 82) London, England, UK
Occupation(s)	Cinematographer, producer, director
Years active	1967–present
Spouses	Jaclyn Smith ​ ​ (m. 1981; div. 1989)​ Amanda DiGiulio ​ (m. 1995)​
Children	6, including George
Relatives	Fran Kranz (former-son-in-law)

Anthony Barry Richmond BSC, ASC (born 7 July 1942) is an English cinematographer, film producer, and director. He is known for his collaborations with Nicolas Roeg, which include Don't Look Now (1973), The Man Who Fell to Earth (1976), and Bad Timing (1980). He was the cinematographer for the 10-camera filming of the final Beatles film Let It Be (1970), the original footage from which was re-edited by Peter Jackson into the highly acclaimed docu-series The Beatles: Get Back (2021).^[1] For his work on Don't Look Now, Richmond received the 1973 BAFTA for Best Cinematography. His other notable credits include the cult horror films Candyman (1992), Tales from the Hood (1995), Ravenous (1999), and Cherry Falls (2000), as well as mainstream comedies such as Legally Blonde (2001) and The Sweetest Thing (2002). His sole directorial credit is the 1985 drama Déjà Vu.

Richmond is a member of the American and British Societies of Cinematographers. He was married to actress Jaclyn Smith from 1981 to 1989, with whom he had two children. He later married film producer Amanda DiGiulio.

Filmography

Short film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1967	A Cathedral in Our Time	Bob Kellett	Documentary short
1969	Twenty-Nine	Brian Cummins
1972	Today Mexico, Tomorrow the World	Peter Shillingford	With Harvey Harrison
1996	Museum of Love	Christian Slater
2011	Audio Tour	John Francis Daley Jonathan Goldstein

Feature film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1968	Only When I Larf	Basil Dearden
	Sympathy for the Devil	Jean-Luc Godard
1971	The Insomniac	Rodney Giesler
1972	Madame Sin	David Greene
1973	Don't Look Now	Nicolas Roeg
1974	Vampira	Clive Donner
	Stardust	Michael Apted
1975	Change	Bernd Fischerauer
1976	The Man Who Fell to Earth	Nicolas Roeg
	The Eagle Has Landed	John Sturges
1977	Silver Bears	Ivan Passer
1978	The Greek Tycoon	J. Lee Thompson
1979	Love and Bullets	Stuart Rosenberg	European photography
1980	The American Success Company	William Richert
	Bad Timing	Nicolas Roeg
	Head On	Michael Grant
	Nightkill	Ted Post
1981	Improper Channels	Eric Till
1984	Slapstick of Another Kind	Steven Paul
1986	That's Life!	Blake Edwards
1988	The In Crowd	Mark Rosenthal
	Sunset	Blake Edwards
1989	Cat Chaser	Abel Ferrara
1991	Scissors	Frank De Felitta
	Timebomb	Avi Nesher
	The Indian Runner	Sean Penn
1992	Candyman	Bernard Rose
1993	The Sandlot	David Mickey Evans
1995	Tales from the Hood	Rusty Cundieff
	The Immortals	Brian Grant
1996	Bastard Out of Carolina	Anjelica Huston
	First Kid	David Mickey Evans
1997	Playing God	Andy Wilson
1999	Ravenous	Antonia Bird
	A Walk on the Moon	Tony Goldwyn
	Agnes Browne	Anjelica Huston
	Cherry Falls	Geoffrey Wright
2000	Men of Honor	George Tillman Jr.
2001	Someone like You	Tony Goldwyn
	Legally Blonde	Robert Luketic
2002	The Sweetest Thing	Roger Kumble
2003	My Teacher, My Friend II	David Mickey Evans	With Kim Lee Ong
	Shade	Damian Nieman
	Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd	Troy Miller
2004	Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights	Guy Ferland
	A Cinderella Story	Mark Rosman
2005	Just Friends	Roger Kumble
2006	John Tucker Must Die	Betty Thomas
	Employee of the Month	Greg Coolidge
2007	Good Luck Chuck	Mark Helfrich
	The Comebacks	Tom Brady
2008	The Rocker	Peter Cattaneo
	Autopsy	Adam Gierasch
2009	Miss March	Trevor Moore Zach Cregger
	Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel	Betty Thomas
2011	Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son	John Whitesell
2012	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days	David Bowers
2013	Coffee Town	Brad Copeland
2017	Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul	David Bowers

Documentary film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1968	One + One	Jean-Luc Godard
1970	Let It Be	Michael Lindsay-Hogg
1979	The Kids Are Alright	Jeff Stein	With Peter Nevard and Norman Warwick
1996	The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus	Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Television

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1969	ITV Saturday Night Theatre	Derek Bennett	Episode "In Another Country"
2012	Audrey	Betty Thomas	All 6 episodes

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1984	Sentimental Journey	William Cosel James Goldstone	With Richard C. Kratina
1986	John Grin's Christmas	Robert Guillaume
1988	The Loner	Abel Ferrara
1989	The Road Raiders	Richard Lang
	Prime Target	Robert L. Collins
	Settle the Score	Edwin Sherin
1992	In the Arms of a Killer	Robert L. Collins
	Midnight's Child	Colin Bucksey
	Four Eyes and Six Guns	Piers Haggard
	Angie, the Lieutenant	Robert L. Collins
1993	A Case for Murder	Duncan Gibbins
	Heart of Darkness	Nicolas Roeg
1994	Motorcycle Gang	John Milius	Part of the Rebel Highway series
1995	Full Body Massage	Nicolas Roeg
1998	The Garbage Picking Field Goal Kicking Philadelphia Phenomenon	Tim Kelleher
1999	And the Beat Goes On: The Sonny and Cher Story	David Burton Morris
2001	Sister Mary Explains It All	Marshall Brickman
2005	Riding the Bus with My Sister	Anjelica Huston
2008	Sex and Lies in Sin City	Peter Medak
2009	Acceptance	Sanaa Hamri	With Frank Byers
2011	William & Kate: The Movie	Mark Rosman

Miniseries

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1997	Rough Riders	John Milius
2014	The Assets	Peter Medak	Episodes "The Straw Poll" and "Avenger"
2021	The Beatles: Get Back	Peter Jackson	Re-edit of the original footage used for Let It Be (1970)

Awards and nominations

BAFTA Awards

Year	Category	Title	Result
1973	Don't Look Now	Best Cinematography	Won

British Society of Cinematographers

Year	Category	Result
2024	Lifetime Achievement Award	Won

External links

• Anthony B. Richmond at IMDb
• Tony Richmond interview at Future Movies

References

1. "'The Beatles: Get Back' is a New (Happy) Ending to a Story We All Know". The Observer. 26 November 2021.