- He served in the RAF for six years during WWII, filming the results of night-time raids over Germany at the request of Winston Churchill.
- Close personal friend of Roman Polanski.
- When the British film industry went through hard times in the mid-1970s, he and his wife set up a dairy farm with 250 cattle.
- He was a founder member of the British Society of Cinematographers and won a lifetime achievement award from the organisation in 2001.
- With his wife, he operated a dairy farm with 250 head of cattle in the 1970's.
- British cinematographer.
- Taylor had planned to be an architect, but after becoming an assistant to cinematographer William Shenton in 1929, when he was fifteen years old, he changed course.
- Joined the Royal Air Force in 1939 and spent World War II photographing nighttime bombing raids over Germany. Later he and his small unit of cameramen covered the liberation of concentration camps and the signing of the armistice.
- Began in 1929 as a camera assistant at Gainsborough.
- Spent six years during World War II with the RAF Volunteer Reserve, shooting footage of night time bombing raids over Germany.
- He started out in 1929 as a camera assistant at Gainsborough Studios in London.
- Although he had a great success with his cinematography for "A Hard Day's Night", he refused to work on the follow-up, "Help", a year later, claiming he had been greatly disturbed by the phenomenon of "Beatlemania" and by the hysteria shown by so many Beatles fans.
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