Michael Coulter

• Name — Michael Coulter • Other Names — * Mick Coulter • Mike Coulter • Birth Name — Michael Daley Coulter • Born — 29 August 1952 • Birthplace — Glasgow, Scotland, UK • Years Active — 1972–present • Relatives — Charles Gormley (brother-in-law) • Website — http: www.michael-coulter.com/

Coulter was born in Glasgow in 1952. He was introduced to the local film business by his director brother-in-law, the Charles Gormley. He started as a gopher for local production companies making industrial films, before moving on to load the black and white film stock into camera magazines at football matches. He went freelance in 1975.

Coulter became acquainted with writer/director Bill Forsyth, shooting in his 1972 documentary short Islands of the West. He subsequently filmed Forsyth's first feature, That Sinking Feeling (1979). Coulter operated for Chris Menges on Forsyth's next pictures, Local Hero (1983) and Comfort and Joy (1984), which Coulter describes as "unmissable opportunities to work with a man I admired tremendously". During the early 1980s he also worked on many documentaries. "Documentaries made you resourceful, inventive. You had to make things work somehow. Also the life-experience of 'travel broadening the mind' was important for me". He enjoyed a brief stint in France during the early 1980s, as an assistant to cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, but it was back in the UK that he passed a watershed. He was just about to start work as the camera operator on No Surrender (1985), when the original director of photography had to pull out. He has shot numerous commercials directed by Charles Sturridge, Tom Hooper, Mark Mylod, David Jellison (for Kleenex), Gerard de Thame (for Nissan, Rolex, and KIA), among others. Coulter is represented by McKinney Macartney Management in the UK and Gersh in the US.

• Year — Title — Director — Notes • 1990 — 4 Play — Ross Devenish — Episode "Madly in Love" • 2018 — Shetland — Rebecca Gatward — 3 episodes • 2019 — Wild Bill — Annie Griffin — 2 episodes • 2020 — Breeders — Chris Addison — 5 episodes • 2022 — Outlander — Christiana Ebohon-Green Justin Molotnikov — 3 episodes TV movies • Year — Title — Director • 1990 — The Widowmaker — John Madden • 1993 — Foreign Affairs — Jim O'Brien • 1995 — The Infiltrator — John Mackenzie • 1996 — Eskimo Day — Piers Haggard • 2024 — A Scottish Love Scheme — Heather Hawthorn Doyle

Michael Coulter is recorded as cinematographer and photographer.