Chris Seager

Chris Seager

Born 1949
Leicester, Leicestershire, England, UK

Biography

CHRIS SEAGER BSC is a BAFTA and RTS winning cinematographer whose many television credits include The Way We Live Now (2001); the multi award winning State of Play (2003); Archangel (2005); the RSC's Emmy nominated Hamlet (2009) and Game of Thrones (2013). In addition to his BAFTA wins for Sex Traffic (2004) and The Girl in the Cafe (2005) Seager has received no less than six BAFTA nominations for excellence in photography and lighting across his television career. His film credits include the award winning Beautiful Thing (1995); White Noise (2005) and Stormbreaker (2006). He was voted onto the British Society of Cinematographers' Board of Governors in 2002 and elected Vice President in 2008.

Strand Releasing

Cinematographer

Movies
2020

Six Minutes to Midnight

2016

A Kind of Murder

2014

Set Fire to the Stars

2013

Penthouse North

2011

Fast Freddie, the Widow and Me (TV movie)

 

Retreat

2010

Joe Maddison's War (TV movie)

2009

Hamlet (TV movie)

 

New in Town

Ads

Ads

2008

Flick

 

The Merry Gentleman

 

Wild Child

2007

Straightheads

 

The Walker

2006

Stormbreaker

2005

Archangel (TV movie)

 

The Girl in the Café (TV movie)

 

White Noise

2004

Sex Traffic (TV movie)

2003

Suspicion (TV movie)

 

The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: Playing for the Ashes (TV movie)

 

The Young Visiters (TV movie)

2002

Ashes and Sand

 

Ella and the Mothers (TV movie)

 

Lenny Blue (TV movie)

 

The Biographer (TV movie)

2000

Lorna Doone (TV movie)

 

Madame Bovary (TV movie)

 

Vent de colère (TV movie)

1999

Bad Blood (TV movie)

 

In the Name of Love (TV movie)

 

The Passion (TV movie)

1998

Big Cat (TV movie)

 

Frenchman's Creek (TV movie)

 

Seesaw (TV movie)

1997

Fever Pitch

1996

Beautiful Thing

 

Indian Summer

 

The Peacock Spring (TV movie)

1995

Cold Comfort Farm (TV movie)

 

Stonewall

1992

The Vampyr: A Soap Opera (TV movie)

Series
2024

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

 

Beyond Logic (S01E10)

 

Axis Mundi (S01E09)

2023

Carnival Row

 

Carnival Row (S02E10)

 

Facta Non Verba (S02E08)

 

Kindred (S02E07)

  more episodes (4)
 

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

 

The Way Out (S01E05)

2019

Carnival Row

 

Unaccompanied Fae (S01E06)

 

Grieve No More (S01E05)

 

Some Dark God Wakes (S01E01)

2018

The Alienist

 

Castle in the Sky (S01E10)

 

Many Sainted Men (S01E07)

 

Ascension (S01E06)

2017

The White Princess

 

Old Curses (E08)

 

Two Kings (E07)

 

English Blood on English Soil (E06)

  more episodes (5)
2016

Undercover

 

Episode 3 (E03)

 

Episode 2 (E02)

 

Episode 1 (E01)

2015

Galavant

 

It's All in the Executions (S01E08)

 

My Cousin Izzy (S01E07)

 

Comedy Gold (S01E04)

  more episodes (3)
 

Grandfathered

 

Pilot (E01)

2014

Dracula

 

Come to Die (E08)

 

Servant to Two Masters (E07)

 

Tyrant

 

Pilot (S01E01)

2013

Call the Midwife

 

Episode 1 (S02E01)

 

Dracula

 

From Darkness to Light (E04)

 

Goblin Merchant Men (E03)

 

Game of Thrones

 

Second Sons (S03E08)

 

The Bear and the Maiden Fair (S03E07)

2012

Call the Midwife

 

Christmas Special (S01E07)

 

Episode 6 (S01E06)

 

Episode 5 (S01E05)

  more episodes (4)
2011

The Hour

 

Episode 6 (S01E06)

 

Episode 5 (S01E05)

 

Episode 4 (S01E04)

  more episodes (3)
2010

Agatha Christie's Marple

 

The Secret of Chimneys (S05E02)

 

Five Daughters

 

The Nativity

2003

State of Play

 

Episode 6 (E06)

 

Episode 5 (E05)

 

Episode 4 (E04)

  more episodes (3)
2001

The Way We Live Now

2000

The Sins

1997

A Dance to the Music of Time

 

Post War (E04)

 

The War (E03)

 

The Thirties (E02)

 

The Twenties (E01)

1995

Tears Before Bedtime

1994

Once Upon a Time in the North

1993

If You See God, Tell Him

1992

Nice Town

1991

Ashenden

1986

Screenplay

 

Yes, Prime Minister

1985

Screen One

 

Screen Two

1984

Ever Decreasing Circles

1981

Bergerac

Documentaries
1981

Forty Minutes (series)

Shows
1975

Arena

Short
1997

Daphne & Apollo