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Ben Colman (1907-1988)

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Birthplace:
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Born:
January 30, 1907

Died:
February 22, 1988

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Film Production

Camera Operator:
1956  Hot Cars
1956  Rebel in Town
1957  Jungle Heat
1957  The Girl in Black Stockings

Director of Photography:
1956  Hot Cars
1956  Rebel in Town
1957  Jungle Heat
1957  The Girl in Black Stockings
1969  Chastity
1972  Haunts of the Very Rich
1972  The Delphi Bureau
1972  The Eyes of Charles Sand
1973  Frankenstein
1973  Key West
1973  The Norliss Tapes
1973  The Picture of Dorian Gray
1973  What Are Best Friends For?
1974  The Turn of the Screw
1975  Switch [Pilot]
1977  Sex and the Married Woman
1978  Battlestar Galactica
1979  Mirror, Mirror
1980  Conquest of the Earth
1980  Dan August: Once Is Never Enough
1980  Dan August: The Jealousy Factor
1984  The Cowboy and the Ballerina

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TV Production

Director of Photography:
1978  Battlestar Galactica
1979  Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
1980  Galactica 1980
1981  The Fall Guy

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  • Regarding those polls wherein "franchise" movies were submitted as one project until BFI's policy changed to regard them separately, I treated them as ties and renumbered the affected lists accordingly (e.g. the Godfather films).

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