Edward Scaife BSC (23 May 1912 – November 1994) was an English cinematographer, who worked five times with the director John Huston.
Sometimes credited as Ted Scaife, he worked originally in the sound department of a London film company. From 1940 onwards, he was a member of the camera crew in productions such as Michael Powell's Black Narcissus (1947) and Huston's African Queen. From 1951 he was first employed as a chief camera man, and photographed films of all genres, including Night of the Demon (1957), 633 Squadron (1964), Khartoum (1966), and The Dirty Dozen (1967), before retiring from the industry in 1979.
Selected filmography 1947: Black Narcissus (Camera operator) 1949: The Third Man (Camera operator) 1951: Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (2nd Unit Photographer) 1951: Outcast of the Islands 1951: The African Queen (Second Unit photography) 1953: The Intruder 1954: An Inspector Calls 1954: Twist of Fate (1954 film) (U.S. ' Beautiful Stranger ') 1955: A Kid for Two Farthings 1956: Smiley 1957: Night of the Demon 1959: The House of the Seven Hawks 1959: Tarzan's Greatest Adventure 1960: Carry on Constable 1962: The Dock Brief 1962: The List of Adrian Messenger (European Unit Director of Photography) 1963: Tarzan's Three Challenges 1964: 633 Squadron 1965: Young Cassidy 1966: Khartoum 1967: The Dirty Dozen 1968: Dark of the Sun 1969: Play Dirty 1969: A Walk with Love and Death 1969: Sinful Davey 1970: The Kremlin Letter 1971: Catlow 1978: The Water Babies (Scaife won Best Cinematography award at Fantafestival, 1981)
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