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Freddie Francis
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Director, Cinematographer, Camera Operator Born: December 22, 1917 in London, England, UK Death: March 17, 2007 in London, England, UK Biography: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 directors "Karel Reisz" ("Saturday Night and Sunday Morning" [1961], "Night Must Fall" [1964]), "Jack Cardiff" ("Sons and Lovers" [1960]), and fellow Huston-alumnus "Jack Clayton" ("Room at the Top" [1959], "The Innocents" [1961]). In the early 1960s he began directing but still occasionally shot films for such directors as Reisz and "David Lynch". As a director, Francis has specialized in horror films, notably at Hammer, but also for producers "Max J. Rosenberg" and "Milton Subotsky" and the anthology films "Dr. Terror's House of... Full Biography
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