Freddie Francis


Birthday: December 22, 2017

A clapper boy in British films while a teenager, Freddie Francis became a camera assistant and in the mid-1950s was an operator for Oswald Morris, the director of photography on John Huston's Moulin Rouge (1953) and Beat the Devil (1954); he also directed second-unit footage for Huston's Moby Dick (1956). As a director of photography himself, Francis worked for ...more
  • 1998
  • American Society of Cinematographers
  • International Award
  • win
  • 1997
  • British Society of Cinematographers
  • Lifetime Achievement Award
  • win
  • 1992
  • British Academy of Film and Television
  • Best Cinematography
  • Cape Fear
  • nom
  • 1990
  • British Academy of Film and Television
  • Best Cinematography
  • Glory
  • nom


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