Biography
Tony Pierce-Roberts is a British cinematographer. Born on 24 December 1945 in Birkenhead, England, he moved with his family to Central Africa at the age of eleven and began working with the Central African Film Unit. He later joined the BBC in London as an assistant cameraman and rose to director of photography, photographing series including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), for which he won a BAFTA Television Award.
Pierce-Roberts is best known for his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions. He shot A Room with a View (1985), Howards End (1992) and The Remains of the Day (1993), receiving Academy Award and BAFTA nominations for the latter two films, as well as a British Society of Cinematographers award for Howards End. His other credits include The Client (1994), Underworld (2003), Doom (2005) and Vampire Academy (2014).
