Norman Spencer, David Lean’s collaborator and UK’s second oldest man, dies aged 110

Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif in Lawrence Of Arabia for which Spencer was tasked with wrangling 800 camels and 600 men in the battle scenes. Photograph: FlixPix/Alamy

Norman Spencer, who worked on some of the most acclaimed films made in Britain in the 1940s and 50s, has died at the age of 110.

Spencer worked as a producer, screenwriter, production designer and actor, most frequently with longtime collaborator David Lean. After meeting in 1942, they went on to work on movies including Blithe Spirit, Great Expectations, The Bridge on the River Kwai and Lawrence of Arabia.