Freddie Francis

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1917-12-22 (90 years old)

Deathday

2007-03-17

Place of Birth

Islington, London, England, UK

Freddie Francis

Biography

Frederick William (Freddie) Francis BSC (22 December 1917 – 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director. He achieved his greatest successes as a cinematographer, including winning two Academy Awards, for Sons and Lovers (1960) and Glory (1989). As a director, he has cult status on account of his association with the British production companies Amicus and Hammer in the 1960s and 1970s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Freddie Francis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Production

1999

The Straight Story

as Director of Photography

1991

Cape Fear

as Director of Photography

1984

Dune

as Director of Photography

1980

The Elephant Man

as Director of Photography

1960

The Battle of the Sexes

as Cinematography

1989

Glory

as Director of Photography

1981

The French Lieutenant's Woman

as Director of Photography

1967

Torture Garden

as Director

1975

1963

Paranoiac

as Director

1973

1965

The Skull

as Director

1957

Time Without Pity

as Director of Photography

1972

1970

Trog

as Director

1966

The Deadly Bees

as Director

1989

Brenda Starr

as Director of Photography

1964

Nightmare

as Director

1960

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

as Director of Photography

1975

The Ghoul

as Director

1964

Traitor's Gate

as Director

1966

The Psychopath

as Director

1965

Hysteria

as Director

1971

1974

Craze

as Director

1987

Dark Tower

as Director

1952

24 Hours of a Woman's Life

as Camera Operator

1983

The Jigsaw Man

as Director of Photography

1964

Night Must Fall

as Director of Photography

1988

Clara's Heart

as Director of Photography

1985

Code Name: Emerald

as Director of Photography

1956

A Hill in Korea

as Director of Photography

1984

Memed My Hawk

as Director of Photography

1996

Rainbow

as Director of Photography

1961

The Innocents

as Director of Photography

1959

Virgin Island

as Director of Photography

1960

Sons and Lovers

as Director of Photography

1962

The Brain

as Director

1957

The Scamp

as Cinematography

1952

Moulin Rouge

as Camera Operator

1956

Moby Dick

as Second Unit Director of Photography

1974

Son of Dracula

as Director

1993

A Life in the Theatre

as Director of Photography

1992

School Ties

as Director of Photography

1958

Next to No Time

as Cinematography

1947

Mine Own Executioner

as Camera Operator

1989

Her Alibi

as Director of Photography

1953

Beat the Devil

as Camera Operator

1962

1952

Angels One Five

as Camera Operator

1950

Golden Salamander

as Camera Operator

1958

Room at the Top

as Director of Photography

1954

Monsieur Ripois

as Camera Operator

1990

The Plot to Kill Hitler

as Director of Photography

1943

The New Lot

as Camera Operator

1984

1953

Twice Upon a Time

as Camera Operator

1960

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

as Director of Photography

1991

The Man in the Moon

as Director of Photography

1947

Nightbeat

as Camera Operator

1994

Princess Caraboo

as Director of Photography

1949

The Small Back Room

as Camera Operator

1982

The Executioner's Song

as Director of Photography

1951

The Tales of Hoffmann

as Camera Operator

1994

Calliope

as Cinematography

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