John Hooper

Camera operator

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Filmography

Monarch of the Glen

Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.

7.4

Lovejoy

The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.

6.6

The Cinder Path

In a heroic journey of epic proportions, everyman Charlie McFell wrestles with his demons — including a coldhearted wife, economic hardship, the horror of the world's first Great War, and a painful secret he'd rather forget.

6.2

The Hour of the Pig

In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous and political intrigues. At the same time, he is pushed to defend a pig, owned by the mysterious gypsy Samira. The pig has been arrested for the murder of a young boy.

6.1

Hostages

True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.

5.7

Buddy's Song

Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad's teddy boy rocker days...

6.8

A Question of Attribution

Sir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.

5.6

Poison Candy

A criminal couple, hiding out on a remote property, become the unwitting victims of a blackmail plot by the most unlikely of conspirators.

4.3

The Weather in the Streets

Passion comes calling when a man suffering through an unhappy marriage in 1920s England runs into first love.

5.5

The Yellow Wallpaper

A woman goes slowly mad as she is confined to a room for weeks on end by her husband.

5.7

Schalcken the Painter

Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?

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How Many Miles to Babylon?

Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.

7.5

102 Boulevard Haussmann

In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serviceman.

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Son of Iron Horse

For years the world's railways have steadily declined. Now trains are facing their biggest revolution since the discovery of steam and the age of the Iron Horse.

7.3

David Hockney: Secret Knowledge

Artist David Hockney discusses his theory that artists were secretly using optical devices such as mirrors and lenses in creating their work as early as the 15th century.

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Raymond Carver: Dreams Are What You Wake Up From

When Raymond Carver died in 1988, he was mourned as a national literary figure and shortlisted for the Pulitzer prize yet only ten years earlier he was marooned in a drying-out clinic. From his experiences, his alcoholism, bankruptcies, years spent in trailer parks and motel rooms, BBC 'Omnibus' shows how Carver produced stories and poems about the other side of the American dream - about the people whose dreams go belly-up.

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