Trevor Coop

Trevor Coop is a British feature film and drama camera operator.
Career history
Trevor began his career in the film industry at Denham Labs in the 1960s. He was soon working as clapper loader on films such as Stanley Kubrick's 2001, The Battle of Britain, Ryan's Daughter and Quatermass and the Pit.
During his formative years Trevor had the privilege of working with such legendary directors as David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, Milos Foreman, George Cukor. Importantly in his education in film making Trevor worked on more than 20 major productions under the guidance of triple Oscar winning cinematographer Freddie Young. This work with Freddie Young was from the roles of clapper/loader in the late 1960s, through focus puller and operator. In the years up to Freddie's retirement in the mid-1980s Trevor was photographing his 2nd units. Trevor has also had the experience, particularly in the last decade, of the smaller budget feature and TV movie where the brief is to create top quality material without the extensive schedule or budget. Most notably on the “Young Indiana Jones Chronicles”, for George Lucas, once again with David Tattersall B.S.C.
Between 1966 and 2001 when not working on feature and TV productions Trevor worked in all grades from Loader through to DP on well over 1000 commercials. The result of which was the 1997 winning of the British Television Craft Awards ‘Best Camera Operator’ title.
His films as a camera operator include the Oscar and Bafta winning Amadeus, Henry V, Chocolat, Anna and the King, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace, Troy, Wit, Closer, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, ', Les Misérables, Swept from the Sea, In the Bleak Midwinter, The Madness of King George and many more.
Coop's recent work as 2nd Unit DoP includes Highlander-The Source, Charlie Wilson's War and as a camera operator on Save Angel Hope.
His father, Denys Coop was an Oscar and Bafta winner for his work on Superman: The Movie.
Organisation/Community work
Trevor was one of the founding members of the Guild of British Camera Technicians (GBCT) and served as its chairman (2003-2007).

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