Another showbiz legend passes away, this time Ronald Neame, who died yesterday at the age of 99.
Neame was a skilled cinematographer who worked on Alfred Hitchcock's Blackmail, and also collaborated with David Lean during the latter's Cineguild days: In Which We Serve, This Happy Breed and Blithe Spirit were all photographed by him, he was production manager on Brief Encounter and tweaked many of Lean's scripts. However, Neame was also a prolific director in his own right: I love his Alec Guinness collaborations, The Horse's Mouth and Tunes of Glory, and he also directed the much-beloved The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Scrooge and The Poseidon Adventure.
RIP Mr. Neame.
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