C. M. Pennington-Richards, film cameraman and director, was born on December 17, 1911. He died on January 2, 2005, aged 93.
C. M. Pennington-Richards worked on dozens of British films and television series from the 1930s to the 1970s, starting off as a cameraman before graduating to directing. It was probably as a cinematographer that he made his greatest contribution to British film on such titles as Fires Were Started (1943), The Wooden Horse (1950) and Scrooge (1951).
He also ran a chicken farm near Wisley, in Surrey, with his wife Beause, who came from a wealthy Fijian background — her family owned an island which they sold to the actor Raymond Burr. When Pennington-Richards left the film industry he set up as a motorcycle