Tasman Higgins

{{Short description|Australian cinematographer (1888–1953)}}

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| birth_name=Tasman George Higgins

| birth_date={{birth date|1888|04|08|df=yes}}[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/higgins-tasman-george-7063 adb.anu.edu.au Tasman George Higgins]

| birth_place=Glebe, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

| death_date={{death date and age|1953|06|04|1888|04|08|df=yes}}

| death_place=Parramatta, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

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| occupation=Cinematographer

| yearsactive=1912–1944

| spouse=Gladys Mary Walker (m. 1915–1953) (his death)

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Tasman Higgins (8 April 1888 – 4 June 1953) was an Australian cinematographer during the early days of the Australian film industry, working for such directors as Charles Chauvel, Raymond Longford, Beaumont Smith, Louise Lovely and Rupert Kathner. He was the brother of Arthur and Ernest Higgins, with whom he occasionally collaborated.[http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/higgins-tasman-george-7063 Tasman Higgins] at Australian Dictionary of Biography

His most notable association was with Charles Chauvel, starting with In the Wake of the Bounty (1933), which was Errol Flynn's first film and involved three months of location filming on Pitcairn Island.C. E. Chauvel, In the Wake of "The Bounty": To Tahiti and Pitcairn Island (Sydney, 1933) Other credits include Heritage (1935), Uncivilised (1936) and the cavalry scenes of Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940).Andrew Pike and Ross Cooper, Australian Film 1900–1977: A Guide to Feature Film Production, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1998, 193.