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Also known as. English. Freddie Francis. cinematographer, film director (1917-2007) Frederick William Francis.
Freddie Francis started his career as an apprentice to a still photographer and at age 17 began in motion pictures as a clapper boy. His first shot at cinematography came with the British Army Kinematographic unit during World War II, but after the war he returned to feature films as a camera operator, working with such seminal figures as Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, John Huston and Zoltan Korda.
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Mar 17, 2007 · Freddie Francis married Gladys Dorrell in 1940, with whom he had a son; in 1963 he married Pamela Mann Francis, with whom he had a daughter and a second son. He died at age 89 as the result of the lingering effects of a stroke. His son Kevin Francis is a film producer.
Nov 17, 2020 · Directed by Freddie Francis, who won two Oscars as a cinematographer for Sons and Lovers (1960) and Glory (1989), Trog remains one of the strangest horrors of its era. Crawford’s admirers are ...
Aug 31, 2020 · Freddie Francis – The Evil of Frankenstein [+Extras] (1964) Penniless, Baron Frankenstein (Peter Cushing), accompanied by his eager assistant Hans (Sandor Elès), arrives at his family castle near the town of Karlstaad, vowing to continue his experiments in the creation of life. Fortuitously finding the creature he was previously working on ...
Let down by its formulaic plot, Hysteria is the last and least interesting of the three psycho-thrillers directed for Hammer by Freddie Francis, who had previously distinguished himself with two of the genre's best entries, Paranoiac (1963) and Nightmare (1964) before lending his talents to rival company Amicus on the memorable The Skull (1965 ...
