Filmmaker Jack Cardiff dies aged 94

Updated on 22 April 2009

By Nicholas Glass

Watch the Channel 4 News feature with the Oscar-winning cinematographer Jack Cardiff and Freddie Francis.

The British filmmaker was best known for his work on The African Queen and Black Narcissus for which he won an Academy Award in 1948.

He was once hailed as "the best in the world" by actress Marilyn Monroe.

Watch this profile of Jack Cardiff from the Channel 4 News archive.

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