Alex Thomson entered the film
industry in 1946. He worked as regular camera operator to
Nicolas Roeg in the 1960s before becoming a
director of photography in 1968. His career suffered a hiatus in the
mid 1970s when he was injured after falling off a camera rostrum on the
set of
Jesus Christ Superstar (1973).
He was nominated for an Oscar in 1982 for his cinematography on
Excalibur
