Die tollkühnen Männer in ihren fliegenden Kisten
His expertise in colour cinematography meant that he was frequently chosen by British film makers of the 1950s to work on their projects, and he worked on a number of successful comedies, including "Genevieve" (1953), "The Captain's Table" (1958) and "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" (1965). He worked on projects in other genres as well, such as "The Spanish Gardener" (1956), the war film "Sink the Bismarck!" (1960), "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" (1968), and Billy Wilder's "The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes" (1970). He was nominated for several BAFTA Awards for Best British Cinematography, including a win in 1966 for Stanley Donen's film "Arabesque".