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John Shann(1938-2013)

  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • Cinematographer
  • Visual Effects
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John Shann was born in 1938 in Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was a cinematographer, known for Bloody New Year (1987), Night After Night After Night (1969) and Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967). He died in 2013.
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Known for

Bloody New Year (1987)
Bloody New Year
4.5
  • Cinematographer
  • 1987
Night After Night After Night (1969)
Night After Night After Night
5.0
  • Camera and Electrical Department
  • 1969
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967)
Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
7.8
TV Series
  • Visual Effects
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
Tales of the Unexpected
7.6
TV Series
  • Camera and Electrical Department

Credits

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Camera and Electrical Department

  • Space Detectives
    TV Series
    • camera
    • 2000
  • Storm Over 4
    TV Movie
    • camera operator
    • 1998
  • Omnibus (1967)
    Omnibus
    7.2
    TV Series
    • camera
    • 1997
  • The Saint Matthew Passion
    TV Movie
    • camera operator
    • 1994
  • Americana (1992)
    Americana
    7.5
    TV Mini Series
    • cameraman
    • 1992
  • Jeremy Beadle in Beadle's About (1986)
    Beadle's About
    6.2
    TV Series
    • location cameras
    • film cameras
    • film camera
    • 1990–1992
  • World in Action (1963)
    World in Action
    7.5
    TV Series
    • camera operator
    • 1981–1991
  • Sylvester McCoy, Richard Platt, Deborah Leighton, and Dywayne Thomas in The Pied Piper by Adrian Mitchell (1986)
    The Pied Piper by Adrian Mitchell
    Video
    • lighting cameraman
    • 1986
  • Love Song (1985)
    Love Song
    7.3
    TV Movie
    • operating cameraman
    • 1985
  • Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
    Tales of the Unexpected
    7.6
    TV Series
    • camera operator
    • operating cameraman
    • 1980–1984
  • Whatever You Want (1982)
    Whatever You Want
    6.6
    TV Series
    • film camera
    • 1982
  • Miss Morison's Ghosts (1981)
    Miss Morison's Ghosts
    6.9
    TV Movie
    • camera operator
    • 1981
  • Politics What's it all About? (1978)
    Politics What's it all About?
    TV Series
    • film camera
    • 1981
  • A Buxton Benefit (1979)
    A Buxton Benefit
    TV Special
    • film camera
    • 1979
  • Masterspy (1977)
    Masterspy
    7.2
    TV Series
    • film cameraman
    • 1979

Cinematographer

  • Remember a Day (2000)
    Remember a Day
    5.9
    • Cinematographer
    • 2000
  • Space Island One (1998)
    Space Island One
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Cinematographer
    • 1998
  • Dispatches (1987)
    Dispatches
    6.6
    TV Series
    • photography
    • 1988
  • Bloody New Year (1987)
    Bloody New Year
    4.5
    • director of photography
    • 1987
  • Elisabeth Söderström in The Human Voice (1985)
    The Human Voice
    TV Movie
    • Cinematographer
    • 1985
  • Bestseller (1985)
    Bestseller
    TV Movie
    • Cinematographer
    • 1985
  • Britten: War Requiem (1985)
    Britten: War Requiem
    TV Movie
    • Cinematographer
    • 1985
  • Warbirds Air Display
    Short
    • Cinematographer
    • 1984
  • One Woman Plays (1983)
    One Woman Plays
    TV Movie
    • Cinematographer
    • 1983
  • The Pantomime Dame (1982)
    The Pantomime Dame
    • Cinematographer
    • 1982
  • Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions (1980)
    Mary Millington's True Blue Confessions
    4.2
    Short
    • Cinematographer
    • 1980
  • World in Action (1963)
    World in Action
    7.5
    TV Series
    • photography
    • 1976–1980
  • No Man's Land (1978)
    No Man's Land
    8.5
    TV Movie
    • Cinematographer
    • 1978

Visual Effects

  • Ed Bishop, Cy Grant, and Francis Matthews in Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars (1981)
    Revenge of the Mysterons from Mars
    3.5
    TV Movie
    • visual effects camera operator: second unit
    • 1981
  • Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons (1967)
    Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
    7.8
    TV Series
    • visual effects camera operator: second unit
    • 1967–1968

Personal details

  • Born
    • 1938
    • Buckinghamshire, England, UK
  • Died
    • 2013

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