Alec Mills

Alec Mills (Born 10th May 1932) is a retired British cinematographer and was the main unit camera operator on Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi.

Starting aged fourteen in the film industry at Carlton Hill Studios in London, he went on work extensively for Disney as a camera assistant throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s before getting his break as camera operator on The Saint television series (1966-68). In 1969 he was camera operator on his first James Bond film, On Her Majesty's Secret Service, and went on to operate on another four films in the series (The Spy Who Loved Me, Moonraker, For Your Eyes Only and Octopussy) before becoming director of photography on The Living Daylights and Licence to Kill.

Mills was the principal director of photography on some twenty-one films before retiring from active filmmaking in 2001, having also directed two films (Bloodmoon and Dead Sleep) for Village Roadshow in Australia. Following his retirement he became a tutor at the National Film & Television School in Beaconsfield, England, before writing his autobiography, Shooting 007 and other Celluloid Adventures, which is due to be published by History Press in July 2014.