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Following his Academy Award win for Sons and Lovers, Francis began his career as director of feature films. His first feature as director was Two and Two Make Six (1962). For the next 20-plus years, Francis worked continuously as a director of low-budget films, most of them in the genres of horror or psycho-thriller.
Freddie Francis (1917-2007) Freddie Francis. Director. Cinematographer. Camera and Electrical Department. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Play trailer 3:09. The Innocents (1961) 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 ...
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- Islington, London, England, UK
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- Isleworth, Middlesex, England, UK
Dec 22, 2017 · Dr Terror’s House of Horror (1965) Director: Freddie Francis. Dr Terror’s House of Horror (1965) No one loved the portmanteau horror film quite like Milton Subotsky, co-founder of Amicus Productions, the upstart company out to steal Hammer’s crown. He produced seven under the Amicus banner (writing three, including this one, himself ...
Freddie Francis. Cinematographer: The Straight Story. 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. He claimed this taught him more about the art of photography than any other form of training could. He then became a clapper...
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- March 17, 2007
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 ...
One of the world's most accomplished cameramen, as well as an excellent director of gothic films, Freddie Francis brings a cameraman's eye and his own uniquely despairing sensibility to his numerous cinematographic assignments, and to the many horror films he has directed in his long career.
Mar 21, 2007 · FREDDIE FRANCIS (1917-2007) I’d like to join Tim Lucas and others in acknowledging the passing of Freddie Francis, a fine underrated director and one of the greatest of English cinematographers. He deservedly won an Academy Award for his photography of Edward Zwick’s Glory, and probably should have won for his work with Martin Scorsese (the ...
