Editing Nicolas Roeg (section)

===Cinematography===
In 1947, after completing [[national service]] in the [[British Army]] as a unit projectionist,<ref name="telegraphobit"/> Roeg entered the film business as a tea boy, moving up to clapper-loader, the bottom rung of the camera department, at [[Marylebone Studios]] in London.<ref>{{cite web|url = http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/456125/|title = Screenonline|website = British Film Institute (BFI)|publisher = BFI}}</ref> For a time, he worked as a camera operator on a number of film productions, including ''[[The Sundowners (1960 film)|The Sundowners]]'' and ''[[The Trials of Oscar Wilde]]''.<ref name=teamaker/>

Roeg was a second-unit cinematographer on [[David Lean]]'s ''[[Lawrence of Arabia (film)|Lawrence of Arabia]]'' (1962) and this led to Lean's hiring Roeg as cinematographer on his next film, ''[[Doctor Zhivago (film)|Doctor Zhivago]]'' (1965); Roeg's creative vision clashed with that of Lean and eventually he was fired from the production and replaced by [[Freddie Young]], who received sole credit for cinematography when the film was released in 1965.<ref name="Wood">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2005/jun/03/hayfilmfestival2005.hayfestival|title=Nicholas Roeg|newspaper=The Guardian|access-date=10 July 2010|date=3 June 2005|last=Wood|first=Jason}}</ref> He was credited as cinematographer on [[Roger Corman]]'s ''[[The Masque of the Red Death (1964 film)|The Masque of the Red Death]]'' and [[François Truffaut]]'s ''[[Fahrenheit 451 (1966 film)|Fahrenheit 451]]'', as well as [[John Schlesinger]]'s ''[[Far from the Madding Crowd (1967 film)|Far from the Madding Crowd]]'' and [[Richard Lester]]'s ''[[Petulia]]''; the latter is the last film on which Roeg was solely credited for cinematography and also shares many characteristics and similarities with Roeg's work as a director.<ref>{{cite web |last=Danks |first=Adrian |title=The Art of Falling Apart: ''Petulia'' and the Fate of Richard Lester |url=http://www.screeningthepast.com/issue-35-first-release/the-art-of-falling-apart-petulia-and-the-fate-of-richard-lester |access-date=2023-06-12 |website=screeningthepast.com}}</ref>