- Osmond Borradaile was born on July 17, 1898 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The Four Feathers (1939), After the Fog (1930) and The Thief of Bagdad (1940). He was married to Christiane Lippens. He died on March 23, 1999 in Canada.
- SpouseChristiane Lippens(September 10, 1931 - 1995) (her death, 3 children)
- He won/ was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1982. ( Canada's highest civilian honour).
- In 1916, he enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force and served in France.
- In Hollywood from silent days, often associated with the director Cecil B. DeMille. Latterly in Britain, working for Alexander Korda and London Films. An adventurer at heart (his peers called him "Crazy Canuck"), specialist in outdoor and nature cinematography, he often toiled under hazardous conditions enduring either searing heat, locust plagues or being dive-bombed in the Mediterranean and nearly killed.
- In 1952, he retired from the film industry and moved with his family to the 80-acre Cheam Farm at Chilliwack, British Columbia, where he became a dairy farmer.
- He was a Canadian cameraman, cinematographer, and veteran of World War I and World War II.
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