The cinematographer Billy Williams, who has died aged 95, was Oscar-nominated for Ken Russell’s adaptation of Women in Love (1969) and the sentimental tearjerker On Golden Pond (1982), which starred two generations of Fondas, Henry and his daughter Jane, acting together for the first time, alongside Katharine Hepburn.
He finally won the Oscar for Richard Attenborough’s biopic Gandhi (1981), sharing the prize with Ronnie Taylor, who stepped in for him when he had to twice withdraw from the production due to a slipped disc. They each completed around 10 weeks’ work on the movie.
