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# Christopher Challis

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Christopher George Joseph Challis BSC, FRPS was an English cinematographer. He was well-known for his collaborations with the directing duo of Powell and Pressburger, and worked on more than 70 feature films from the 1940s onwards. He won a BAFTA Award for his work on Arabesque (1966), among four to

##  Quotes by Christopher Challis

> [“Micky was a hard taskmaster. He could be very unkind. He was out to judge people, I think pretty quickly, and once…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-challis/micky-was-a-hard-taskmaster-he-could-be-very-unkind-he-was-out-to/)

Christopher Challis

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