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Arthur Wooster (born May 18, 1929 in London, UK) is a British film director, cinematographer and camera operator best known for his work as a second unit director and special effects and underwater photographer on several of the James Bond films. He also worked on second unit photography for many other films, as well as being the cinematographer for classic British comedy shorts The Plank and Rhubarb, some episodes of Sharpe, and several documentaries. In 1983 he received the BAFTA Michael Balcon Outstanding British Contribution to Cinema Award.

Films
He worked on several James Bond films: as second unit photographer For Your Eyes Only, Octopussy, A View to a Kill, and The Living Daylights; and as additional unit photographer on GoldenEye, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day. He was also second unit or additional unit director on all of these films and Licence to Kill.

He also worked as an assistant, additional or second-unit photographer on International Velvet (assistant camera), Raise the Titanic (director of photography for underwater sequences and Europe), Warlords of Atlantis (second-unit director responsible for the underwater scenes), Christopher Columbus: The Discovery (ocean voyage unit), The Count of Monte Cristo (second unit and underwater). Again he was often credited as second unit director.

He worked with John Schlesinger on a segment of Visions of Eight about the 1972 Munich Olympics. He also directed the opening sequence of Snow White: A Tale of Terror.

He was responsible for mountain photography sequences in Fred Zinnemann's Five Days One Summer. According to second unit camera assistant Mo Anthoine, Wooster was a "smashing bloke" but "a walking death-trap. He'd jump in anywhere mainly through blind bloody ignorance." Anthoine praised him for his helpfulness and willingness to educate Anthoine during the filming.

He also worked with comedian Eric Sykes as the cinematographer on the comedy shorts The Plank (1967) and Rhubarb (1969).

He has one credit as director, the documentary short Lebanon: A Will to Live (1980).

Coronation in 3D
With Bob Angell he filmed the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in colour 3D, using two cameras, for Pathé News. However the footage was lost for more than 50 years, resurfacing in 2009.

Family
His son Tim Wooster is also a cinematographer.