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Richard Ranken

  • Cinematographer
  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • Sound Department
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Richard Ranken is known for Ladette to Lady (2005), Driving Wild (2016) and Britain's Best Home Cook (2018).
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    • Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award
      • 1 nomination total

    Known for

    Gill Harbord in Ladette to Lady (2005)
    Ladette to Lady
    7.6
    TV Series
    • Cinematographer
    Driving Wild (2016)
    Driving Wild
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Cinematographer
    Britain's Best Home Cook (2018)
    Britain's Best Home Cook
    7.9
    TV Series
    • Camera and Electrical Department
    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War (2022)
    Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
    7.3
    • Cinematographer
    • 2022

    Credits

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    Cinematographer

    • A House Through Time (2018)
      A House Through Time
      8.3
      TV Mini Series
      • director of photography
      • 2018–2026
    • Who Do You Think You Are? (2004)
      Who Do You Think You Are?
      8.0
      TV Series
      • photography
      • 2008–2026
    • Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me (2025)
      Judi Dench: Shakespeare, My Family and Me
      7.4
      TV Special
      • director of photography
      • 2025
    • Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War (2022)
      Eric Ravilious: Drawn to War
      7.3
      • Cinematographer
      • 2022
    • Falklands War: The Untold Story (2022)
      Falklands War: The Untold Story
      7.7
      TV Special
      • director of photography
      • 2022
    • Martin Clunes: Islands of the Pacific (2022)
      Martin Clunes: Islands of the Pacific
      7.7
      TV Mini Series
      • director of photography
      • 2022–2024
    • Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure (2019)
      Judi Dench's Wild Borneo Adventure
      8.2
      TV Mini Series
      • director of photography
      • 2019
    • Drain the Oceans (2018)
      Drain the Oceans
      7.5
      TV Series
      • director of photography
      • 2019
    • Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain (2017)
      Blitz: The Bombs That Changed Britain
      8.4
      TV Series
      • photography
      • 2017
    • Diana: Her Story (2017)
      Diana: Her Story
      7.7
      TV Movie
      • director of photography
      • 2017
    • When Football Banned Women (2017)
      When Football Banned Women
      7.1
      TV Movie
      • photography
      • 2017
    • Rupert Everett in 50 Shades of Gay (2017)
      50 Shades of Gay
      6.5
      TV Movie
      • Cinematographer
      • 2017
    • Tourettes: Teenage Tics (2017)
      Tourettes: Teenage Tics
      7.3
      TV Movie
      • photography
      • 2017
    • Phillip Schofield in When Phillip Met Prince Philip: 60 Years of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award (2016)
      When Phillip Met Prince Philip: 60 Years of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award
      5.2
      TV Movie
      • Cinematographer
      • 2016
    • Virginia McKenna's Born Free (2016)
      Virginia McKenna's Born Free
      TV Movie
      • Cinematographer
      • 2016

    Camera and Electrical Department

    • Farewell Doc Martin
      8.3
      TV Special
      • by: additional photography
      • 2022
    • The Real Peaky Blinders (2022)
      The Real Peaky Blinders
      6.5
      TV Series
      • camera
      • 2022
    • Celebrity Best Home Cook (2021)
      Celebrity Best Home Cook
      8.3
      TV Series
      • cameras
      • 2021
    • Britain's Best Home Cook (2018)
      Britain's Best Home Cook
      7.9
      TV Series
      • camera
      • 2020
    • Raw Recruits: Squaddies at 16 (2016)
      Raw Recruits: Squaddies at 16
      8.4
      TV Series
      • additional photography
      • 2019
    • WWIs Secret Shame: Shell Shock (2018)
      WWIs Secret Shame: Shell Shock
      7.2
      TV Movie
      • camera
      • 2018
    • Britain's Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall (2018)
      Britain's Fat Fight with Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall
      6.6
      TV Mini Series
      • camera
      • 2018
    • Panorama (1953)
      Panorama
      7.0
      TV Series
      • camera
      • 2017
    • Kerry Daynes, Cliff Lansley, and Dawn Archer in Faking It: Tears of a Crime (2017)
      Faking It: Tears of a Crime
      6.4
      TV Series
      • additional camera
      • 2017
    • Who Do You Think You Are? (2004)
      Who Do You Think You Are?
      8.0
      TV Series
      • additional photography
      • 2017
    • Eamonn and Ruth: How the Other Half Lives (2015)
      Eamonn and Ruth: How the Other Half Lives
      6.7
      TV Series
      • camera
      • camera operator
      • 2016
    • Black and British: A Forgotten History (2016)
      Black and British: A Forgotten History
      8.1
      TV Mini Series
      • camera
      • 2016
    • David Ogden Stiers, Stacy Keach, Neil Ross, Jay O. Sanders, Craig Sechler, J.T. Turner, and David Pogue in Nova (1974)
      Nova
      8.7
      TV Series
      • camera operator
      • 2005–2016
    • Secrets of the Mona Lisa (2015)
      Secrets of the Mona Lisa
      7.0
      TV Movie
      • camera
      • 2015
    • Cristiano Ronaldo in Ronaldo (2015)
      Ronaldo
      6.3
      • camera operator
      • 2015

    Sound Department

    • Frontline (1983)
      Frontline
      8.6
      TV Series
      • sound
      • 2012

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