Freddie Francis
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| Born: 12/22/1917 Islington, London, England, UK |
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Biography: A clapper boy in British films while a teenager, Freddie Francis became a camera assistant and in the mid-1950s was an operator for Oswald Morris, the director of photography on John Huston's Moulin Rouge (1953) and Beat the Devil (1954); he also directed second-unit footage for Huston's Moby Dick (1956). As a director of photography himself, Francis worked for directors Karel Reisz (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning [1961], Night Must Fall [1964]), Jack Cardiff (Sons and Lovers [1960]), and fellow Huston-alumnus Jack Clayton (Room at the Top [1959], The Innocents [1961]). In the early 1960s he began directing but still occasionally shot films for such directors as Reisz and David Lynch. |
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DVDs that Freddie Francis appeared in...
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- 07/28/2009 - Fanex Files: Hammer Films
DVDs that Freddie Francis worked on "behind the scenes"...
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- 09/29/2009 - Elephant Man [Deluxe Edition] [Blu-ray] - Cinematographer
- 09/15/2009 - Essential Art House: The Tales of Hoffmann [Criterion Collection] - Camera Operator
- 09/13/2009 - Cape Fear [$5 Halloween Candy Cash Offer] - Director
- 06/02/2009 - Glory [Blu-ray] - Cinematographer
- 01/27/2009 - Memed My Hawk - Cinematographer
- 01/06/2009 - The Plot to Kill Hitler - Cinematographer
- 10/28/2008 - Beat the Devil [Blu-ray] - Cinematographer
- 10/14/2008 - The Girl Swappers - Director
- 09/23/2008 - The Deadly Bees - Director
- 08/19/2008 - The Small Back Room [Criterion Collection] - Director