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- Francis loved making films and shot his last film The Straight Story in 1989 at the age of eighty-two. He was asked by his biographer Tony Dalton, “What is the best advice you could give a cinematographer today?” Francis replied, “Don’t do it unless you love it, otherwise it’s a terrible job.” Francis died on 17 March 2007.
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After nearly two decades as a director, Francis returned to cinematography with The Elephant Man (1980). This established a collaboration with director David Lynch, for whom he also shot Dune (1984), and The Straight Story (1999). He won his second Oscar for the American Civil War film Glory (1989).
Dec 22, 2017 · Freddie Francis. Born 100 years ago today, Freddie Francis was one of the great cinematographers in British cinema. Best known for his pioneering use of black and white CinemaScope, he’d come up through the ranks of all the major British studios, cutting his teeth as camera operator on films by John Huston (Moulin Rouge), Zoltan Korda (The ...
Freddie Francis. Cinematographer: The Elephant Man. During his last years at school he spent most of his time writing a thesis on 'the future of film' On leaving school he joined Gaumont British Studios at Lime Grove as an apprentice to a stills photographer for a year.
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Mar 23, 2007 · Freddie Francis, a British cinematographer who won Academy Awards for "Sons and Lovers" (1960) and "Glory" (1989), died Saturday in London, British media reported.
Mar 21, 2007 · The beginning of a remarkable nightmare sequence in that film is borrowed almost shot-for-shot from Hitchcock’s The Wrong Man, but Francis takes it further. For one thing, Francis’s film, unlike Hitchcock’s, is shot in color and widescreen.
Mar 20, 2015 · Sadly Freddie Francis, in many ways a British institution passed away in 2007. Francis had three careers: between the 1930s and 1960s he made the natural progression from being a camera operator in early British B features to major productions.
Mar 26, 2007 · Freddie Francis, a versatile British cinematographer whose talent for creating atmosphere won him two Oscars, died on March 17 in London. He was 89. He had suffered a stroke in December and never...
