Oscar-nominated cinematographer who helped create the look of Tim Burton’s Batman and Terry Gilliam’s Brazil, as well as two Harry Potter films
The cinematographer Roger Pratt, who has died aged 77, rendered some of cinema’s most spectacular fantasy worlds. His films included Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) and Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005) but his finest work involved bringing to the screen two vivid and nightmarish dystopias in the 1980s.
In Brazil (1985), which went by the working title of 1984½ and concerned an office drone (Jonathan Pryce) whose dreams of heroism plunge him into conflict with authority, Pratt helped to realise the retro-futuristic vision of a film that its director Terry Gilliam imagined taking place “everywhere in the 20th century, on the Los Angeles/Belfast border”.
