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Born in London in 1929, cinematographer Billy Williams shot more than 40 high profile films throughout his career, being nominated for an Oscar for ‘On Golden Pond’ and ‘Women in Love’, then winning the Oscar for ‘Gandhi’ in 1983. He received an OBE in 2009. [Listener: Neil Binney]

TRANSCRIPT: Cher was the star of 'Suspect. She was about 43 years old, I think, at the time and she wanted to look absolutely flawless, and this was made clear to me by the makeup man, who also worked with Faye Dunaway, and so I... the only way I could light her was by a soft light directly above the lens or maybe slightly to the left or right, and with good make-up and a little bit of diffusion, that could be achieved. But when she went into make-up everything was pinned back to draw everything tight and then she wore this very dark wig, so all the scenes in the court room had to be lit by a front light, but we were shooting a thriller and so there were many occasions when I wanted to shoot with cross-light or three-quarter backlight, so I had to kind of try and make the two things work by just treating her separately from the rest of the scene. Towards the end of the picture, there's a chase sequence which takes place in the real cells beneath the court room in Washington and I was able there to change my way of lighting her, because instead of using a soft light, I used hard light, and you get a harder light with a... a Fresnel lamp by opening the door, so I did it mainly with 2Ks; by opening the door you get a really sharp effect from prison bars and so on, so I had her moving in and out of light and shade, which created, you know, an exciting and dramatic effect, which, you know, made a change from seeing her always flatly lit.

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