Danny Cohen was born in London in 1963, his grandparents having been German Jews who fled the Nazis for England in 1963. Danny took a social sciences degree at university but was interested in photography, particularly stills work and became a photographic technician at Middlesex Polytechnic and then a camera assistant on documentaries and commercials for eight years. His first credit as a director of photography was for the gentle sitcom 'The Book Group' and for the cinema, the horror film 'Creep'. He has collaborated severally with Shane Meadows on the films 'Dead Man's Shoes' and 'This is England' and the latter's television spin-offs and with Tom Hooper, gaining an Academy Award for 'The King's Speech'.
