Biography
Peter Hannan (born 1 February 1941) is an Australian cinematographer who has spent the majority of his career in Great Britain. He began working in the film industry as an assistant cameraman on Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and has served as director of photography on more than thirty films since 1972.
His credits as director of photography include Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983), Insignificance (1985), Withnail and I (1987) and Absolutely Anything (2015). He has also worked as second-unit director of photography on films such as Sleepy Hollow (1999), Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and Children of Men (2006). Hannan received a BAFTA TV Award for Best Photography and Lighting for Longitude (2000) and a Scientific and Engineering Academy Award in 2005, shared with others, for the development of the remote camera head known as the Hot-Head.
