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Freddie Francis Biography (1917-)

Born in 1917, in London, England; married Pamela Mann; children: Kevin.

Nationality

English

Gender

Male

Birth Details

1917

London, England

Famous Works

• Credits; Film Work; Cinematographer, Except Where Indicated
• Camera operator (second unit), The Macomber Affair, United Artists (UA),1947.
• Camera operator, Mine Own Executioner, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1947.
• Camera operator, Night Beat, British Lion, 1947.
• Camera operator, The Small Back Room (also known as Hour of Glory), British Lion, 1948.
• Camera operator, The Elusive Pimpernel (also known as The Fighting Pimpernel), British Lion, 1950.
• Camera operator, Gone to Earth (also known as The Wild Heart and Gypsy Blood), RKO/Selznick, 1950.
• Camera operator, Golden Salamander, General Film Distributors, 1950.
• Camera operator, Angels One Five, Templar, 1951.
• Camera operator, The Tales of Hoffman, Lopert, 1951.
• Camera operator, 24 Hours of a Woman's Life (also known as Affair in Monte Carlo), Allied Artists, 1952.
• Camera operator, Outcast of the Islands, British Lion, 1952.
• Camera operator, Moulin Rouge, UA, 1952.
• Camera operator, Beat the Devil, UA, 1953.
• Camera operator, Rough Shoot (also known as Shoot First), UA, 1953.
• Camera operator, Twice upon a Time, Fine Arts, 1953.
• Camera operator, Beau Brummell, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), 1954.
• Camera operator, Monsieur Ripois (also known as Knave of Hearts, Lover Boy, and Lovers, Happy Lovers!), Twentieth Century-Fox, 1954.
• Camera operator (second unit), Dry Rot, Independent Film Distributors/British Lion, 1956.
• Camera operator (second unit and special effects), Moby Dick, Warner Bros., 1956.
• A Hill in Korea (also known as Hell in Korea), British Lion, 1956.
• Time without Pity (also known as No Time for Pity), Eros/Astor, 1957.
• Room at the Top, Romulus, 1959.
• Strange Affection (also known as The Scamp), Brenner, 1959.
• The Battle of the Sexes, Continental, 1960.
• Next to No Time!, Show, 1960.
• Sons and Lovers, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1960.
• Virgin Island (also known as Our Virgin Island), Films-around-the- World,1960.
• The Horsemasters, Buena Vista, 1961.
• The Innocents, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1961.
• Never Take Candy from a Stranger (also known as Never Take Sweets from aStranger and The Molester), Sutton/Pathe, 1961.
• Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, Continental Distributing, 1961.
• Night Must Fall, MGM, 1964.
• The Elephant Man, Paramount, 1980.
• The French Lieutenant's Woman, UA, 1981.
• Dune, Dino De Laurentiis/Universal, 1984.
• The Jigsaw Man, United Film Distribution, 1984.
• Memed My Hawk, Focus, 1984.
• Code Name: Emerald, MGM/UA, 1985.
• Clara's Heart, Warner Bros., 1988.
• Her Alibi, Warner Bros., 1989.
• Glory, TriStar, 1989.
• Dark Tower, Spectrafilm, 1989.
• The Man in the Moon, MGM/Pathe, 1991.
• Cape Fear, Universal, 1991.
• School Ties, Paramount, 1992.
• Brenda Starr, Triumph Releasing, 1992.
• Princess Caraboo, TriStar, 1994.
• Also camera operator for the short films The Sorcerer's Apprentice, 1955,and The Intrepid Mr. Twigg, 1968.
• Credits; Film Director
• Two and Two Make Six (also known as A Change of Heart and The Girl Swappers), Union, 1962.
• The Day of the Triffids, Allied Artists, 1963.
• Nightmare, Universal, 1963.
• Paranoiac, Universal, 1963.
• The Evil of Frankenstein, Universal, 1964.
• Hysteria, MGM, 1965.
• The Brain (also known as Vengeance and Le cerveau), Paramount, 1965.
• Dr. Terror's House of Horrors, Regal, 1965.
• The Skull, Paramount, 1965.
• The Psychopath, Paramount, 1966.
• Traitor's Gate (also known as Das Verratertor), Columbia, 1966.
• The Deadly Bees, Paramount, 1967.
• They Came from beyond Space, Embassy, 1967.
• Dracula Has Risen from His Grave, Warner Bros., 1968.
• Torture Garden, Columbia, 1968.
• Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny, and Girly (also known as Girly), Cinerama, 1970.
• Trog, Warner Bros., 1970.
• Gebissen wird nur Nachts--Happening der Vampire (also known as Vampire Happening), Constantin Film, 1971.
• Tales from the Crypt, Cinerama, 1972.
• The Creeping Flesh, Columbia, 1972.
• Tales that Witness Madness, Paramount, 1973.
• Craze (also known as The Infernal Idol), Warner Bros., 1974.
• Son of Dracula (also known as Young Dracula), Apple, 1974.
• The Ghoul, Rank, 1975.
• (With Andre Pieters) Golden Rendezvous, Film Trust/Milton Okun, 1977.
• The Doctor and the Devils, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1985.
• (As Ken Barnett) Dark Tower, Spectrafilm, 1989.
• Director of the film Legend of the Werewolf, 1975.
• Credits; Television Cinematographer; Movies
• The Executioner's Song, NBC, 1982.
• The Plot to Kill Hitler, CBS, 1990.
• A Life in the Theatre, TNT, 1993.
• Credits; Television Director; Episodic
• Man in a Suitcase, ABC, 1968.
• Star Maidens, syndicated, 1977.