Michael Reed (cinematographer)

Michael Reed, BSC (born 7 July 1929) is a Canadian-born British cinematographer who worked on several films in the 1960s and 1970s, including Dracula: Prince of Darkness and Shout at the Devil.[1] Through the early 1950s he worked in the camera department at Hammer Films as a clapper loader and focus puller on films such as The Man in Black and Meet Simon Cherry as well as graduating to being the 2nd unit Director of Photography on the earlier James Bond films (Goldfinger, Thunderball and You Only Live Twice).[2] After working on television series such as The Saint and a number of lavish looking Hammer horror films, Reed graduated to big scale film-making with the James Bond film On Her Majesty's Secret Service in 1969.