Adrian Biddle on AllMovie

Highly respected American cinematographer Adrian Biddle is best known for his collaborations with filmmaker Ridley Scott. It was with Scott that Biddle began working as a camera assistant in 1977 on The Duellists and in 1979 on Alien. He went on to film commercials until 1986 when he filmed Aliens. In 1987, he switched gears to film two much brighter fantasies, The Princess Bride and Willow (1988). Biddle was responsible for the breathtaking panoramas of Thelma and Louise (1991) and for the equally beautiful depictions of wild Moab, Utah in City Slickers 2: The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994). His career picked up after filming the Sylvester Stallone sci-fi actioner Judge Dredd (1995). First he filmed Fierce Creatures (1997) and then Disney's live-action remake of 101 Dalmations (1996) as well as the sci-fi epic Event Horizon (1997).