Reginald H. Morris

British-Canadian cinematographer (1918–2004)

Reginald Herbert Morris (July 4, 1918 – January 8, 2004) was a British-Canadian cinematographer.^[1] He was most noted as a three-time Genie Award nominee for Best Cinematography, receiving nominations at the 1st Genie Awards in 1980 for Murder by Decree ,^[2] at the 2nd Genie Awards in 1981 for Phobia ,^[3] and at the 5th Genie Awards in 1984 for A Christmas Story .^[4]

Born in Ruislip, England, he was the younger brother of cinematographer Oswald Morris.^[5] He had a number of credits as a camera assistant in British films of the 1930s and 1940s, before moving to Canada in 1955.^[1] He had his first credits as lead cinematographer on short documentary and drama films for the National Film Board of Canada, most notably the 1958 film The Quest .^[1] His first credit on a narrative feature film was Don Haldane's 1963 film Drylanders .^[1]

His other credits as a cinematographer included the films King of the Grizzlies , Black Christmas , Second Wind , The Food of the Gods , Shadow of the Hawk , Welcome to Blood City , Murder By Decree , Empire of the Ants , Marie-Anne , H. G. Wells' The Shape of Things to Come , Middle Age Crazy , Tribute , Porky's , Murder by Phone , Porky's II: The Next Day , Turk 182 and Loose Cannons , the television miniseries The Fortunate Pilgrim , and episodes of the television series Seaway and The Hitchhiker .

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Mark Irwin and Natalie Edwards, "A Conversation/On Hand Too". Cinema Canada , February 1976. pp. 28-31.
^ Jay Scott, "Changeling leads Canadian Film Award nominees". The Globe and Mail , February 8, 1980.
^ Jay Scott, "Genie nominations released". The Globe and Mail , February 10, 1981.
^ Jay Scott, "11 nominations for Chapdelaine in Genie race". The Globe and Mail , February 10, 1984.
^ Dennis McLellan, "Oswald Morris, Oscar-winning cinematographer, dies at 98". Washington Post , March 21, 2014.