Freddie Francis

Freddie Francis

Nascimento : 1917-12-22, Islington, London, England, UK

Morte : 2007-03-17

História

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 1960s and 1970s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Freddie Francis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Freddie Francis
Freddie Francis

Filmes

Between Horror, Fear, and Beauty
Crew members recount the production of the 1961 gothic film The Innocents.
Amicus: House of Horrors
For the first time on DVD, the Alpha Archives Collection proudly presents a two part feature length documentary celebrating the history of the Amicus Productions film company. Founded in the early 1960s by Americans Milton Subotsky and Max J. Rosenberg, Amicus produced some classic (now cult) horror movies, including Dr. Terror's House Of Horrors, The House That Dripped Blood, Tales From The Crypt, Asylum and From Beyond The Grave. Featuring interviews with key individuals who worked for Amicus (actors, directors, etc.), and with many rare photographs and production designs throughout, this documentary is a must-see for fans of British horror cinema.
Jack Cardiff, Vida e Obra de um Cameraman
Self – Interviewee
Ser o primeiro em alguma coisa é uma honra poucas vezes alcançada, e irá colocá-lo nos livros de História para sempre. O Eurochannel convida-os a conhecer uma impressionante lenda, um dos maiores cineastas da Grã-Bretanha, em Jack Cardiff: Vida e obra de um Cameraman.
Inside the Fear Factory
Himself
An overview of the history of Great Britain's Amicus Films, which was a rival of Hammer Studios in the horror field. Included are interviews with company co-founder Max Rosenberg, cameraman Freddie Francis and director Roy Ward Baker, and clips from various Amicus productions.
Impressions of Dune
Documentary about the making of Dune.
The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed
Self
This collage of interviews with the producers, John Hurt, and the makeup man comes off as both interesting and informative. Hurt's recollections about the role and the crazy makeup he worked in, are fascinating, as are the stories about the makeup artist using the real remains of John Merrick archived in the London hospital. A shorter bit has the artist explaining the exact construction of his amibitious makup, and he also narrates a slide show that includes color photos of the finished work. There are some mind-boggling stills of the real Merrick's grotesquely contorted skull, where excess bone seems to have grown like tallow dripping from a horrible candle, or a foaming tumor of excess calcification.
The Making of 'Cape Fear'
Self
Princesa Caraboo
Director of Photography
Bristol, England, early 19th century. A beautiful young stranger who speaks a weird language is tried for the crime of begging. But when a man claims that he can translate her dialect, it is understood that the woman is a princess from a far away land. She is then welcomed by a family of haughty aristocrats that only wants to heighten their prestige. However, the local reporter is not at all convinced she is what she claims to be and investigates. Is Caraboo really a princess?
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
Thanks
Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. England's most successful independent film company, the "fear factory" of Hammer Studios, has a history filled with feuds, censorship battles and streaks of luck both good and bad. Now the legacy of horror returns, featuring interviews with such Hammer legends as Raquel Welch, Veronica Carlson, Caroline Munro, Ingrid Pitt, Jimmy Sangster, Hazel Court, Martine Beswicke, Freddie Francis, Val Guest and Ray Harryhausen. Plus you'll be treated to behind-the-scenes home movies and nonstop shock scenes from over 40 classic films, including Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, The Devil Rides Out, Curse of the Werewolf and many more! It's the definitive study of one of the greatest names in horror!
Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror
Himself
Explore the most legendary horror studio of all time with this fascinating, frightening journey hosted by terror titans Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. England's most successful independent film company, the "fear factory" of Hammer Studios, has a history filled with feuds, censorship battles and streaks of luck both good and bad. Now the legacy of horror returns, featuring interviews with such Hammer legends as Raquel Welch, Veronica Carlson, Caroline Munro, Ingrid Pitt, Jimmy Sangster, Hazel Court, Martine Beswicke, Freddie Francis, Val Guest and Ray Harryhausen. Plus you'll be treated to behind-the-scenes home movies and nonstop shock scenes from over 40 classic films, including Horror of Dracula, Curse of Frankenstein, The Devil Rides Out, Curse of the Werewolf and many more! It's the definitive study of one of the greatest names in horror!
A Vida no Palco
Director of Photography
A veteran actor and a young up-and-comer join for a season of reparatory theatre.
Código de Honra
Director of Photography
Vindo de uma família humilde, o jovem David Greene (Bredan Fraser) conseguiu uma bolsa em uma grande e tradicional escola. Lá, ele se torna a estrela do time de futebol americano do colégio, gerando a admiração e a inveja de muitos de seus colegas. Mas tudo muda quando uma verdade vem a tona: David é judeu. A partir daí, os preconceitos ficam cada vez mais visíveis.
Cabo do Medo
Director of Photography
Max Cady, um violador que foi preso e condenado há 14 anos, cumpriu a sua pena e foi libertado. Desejoso de se vingar do seu advogado, Sam Bowden, que o prejudicou deliberadamente por saber que ele era realmente culpado, vai para a cidade onde ele vive com a sua família, começando a assediá-los até os deixar completamente aterrorizados.
No Mundo da Lua
Cinematography
Duas irmãs descobrem o amor em uma pequena cidade. Uma delas é Dani Trant (Reese Witherspoon), cujo objeto de desejo é o belo jovem Court Foster (Jason London). Maureen (Emily Warfield), a irmã mais velha, também está às voltas do primeiro amor.
O Plano Para Matar Hitler
Director of Photography
A historical recreation of the 1944 attempt by several German High Command Officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler and take control of the German government.
Tempo de Glória
Director of Photography
Durante a Guerra Civil americana, Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick), um jovem sem experiência, mas de uma influente família, recebe o comando do primeiro batalhão composto exclusivamente por soldados negros.
Brenda Starr
Director of Photography
Fearless reporter Brenda Starr needs a big scoop if she wishes to retain her lofty status within the world of journalism, so she ventures deep into the Amazon to investigate a story involving a mad scientist's plot to blow the planet to smithereens. Her investigation pits her against a collection of dastardly villains and the myriad dangers of the jungle.
Adorável Sedutora
Director of Photography
Blackwood é um autor de romances de mistério que, sem inspiração, resolve frequentar os tribunais em busca de uma ideia. Ele fica fascinado por uma romena misteriosa acusada de assassinato e recupera a criatividade ao se envolver com a moça.
Dark Tower
Director
A partially under construction office tower is being haunted by a deadly presence which seems to target the building's architect.
The Doctor and the Devils
Director
In Victorian England, two grave robbers supply a wealthy doctor with bodies to research anatomy on, but greed causes them to look for a more simple way to get the job done.
Duna
Director of Photography
Em 10.190 D.C., um duque e sua família são mandados pelo Imperador para Arrakis, um árido planeta conhecido como Duna, que tem uma matéria essencial às viagens interplanetárias: a Especiaria. O motivo desta mudança é que o Imperador planeja destruir o duque e sua família, mas seu filho escapa e procura se vingar usando a ecologia deste mundo como uma de suas armas.
What Waits Below
Story
The US military is running a test for a special type of radio transmitter, to be used to communicate with submarines, in a deep system of underground caves in Central America. When the signal from one of the transmitters suddenly disappears, a team of soldiers led by Major Elbert Stevens and cave specialists led by Rupert 'Wolf' Wolfsen including scientist Leslie Peterson are sent in to find out what happened. Exploring deep underground, they stumble upon a tribe of albino cave-dwellers who have apparently been isolated from the rest of the world for thousands of years. The cave-dwellers are hurt by radio frequencies and are able to see in infra-red frequencies, tracking the explorers by their body heat.
O Xeque Mate
Director of Photography
Philip Kimberly, the former head of the British Secret Service who defected to Russia, is given plastic surgery and sent back to Britain by the KGB to retrieve some vital documents. With the documents in hand, he instead plays off MI6 and the KGB against each other.
A Canção do Carrasco
Director of Photography
A história de Gary Gilmore, um assassino condenado que fez lobby por sua própria execução.
A Mulher do Tenente Francês
Director of Photography
Duas histórias, em épocas diferentes, porém muito semelhantes. Os atores Mike e Ana vivem um conturbado relacionamento, em que a insegurança dela impede que os dois se entendam. Ao mesmo tempo, os personagens que interpretam em um filme se afastam após uma forte consequência social da época.
O Homem Elefante
Director of Photography
A história de John Merrick, um desafortunado cidadão da Inglaterra vitoriana que era portador do caso mais grave de neurofibromatose múltipla registrado, tendo 90% do seu corpo deformado. Esta situação tendia fazer com que ele passasse toda a sua existência se exibindo em circos de variedades como um monstro. Inicialmente era considerado um débil mental pela sua dificuldade de falar, até que um médico, Frederick Treves, o descobriu e o levou para um hospital. Lá Merrick se liberou emocionalmente e intelectualmente, além de se mostrar uma pessoa sensível ao extremo, que conseguiu recuperar sua dignidade.
Legend of the Werewolf
Director
A travelling circus in 19th century France adopts and showcases a feral "wolf boy", who grows into adulthood only to kill the one-man band. He runs off to Paris, where he develops a jealous, overprotective crush on a prostitute, leading him to attack her client, incurring a pursuit by a determined police surgeon.
The Ghoul
Director
A former clergyman (Peter Cushing) in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.
Craze
Director
Jack Palance stars as a demented art dealer & antique-shop owner who performs nightly rituals in honor of the African god Chuku, whom he believes will reward him with unimaginable wealth and power if he merely offers up human sacrifice. His methods are fairly creative, ranging from impalement, slashing and burning, to scaring people to death with an ooga-booga fright mask. But it's all about to blow up in his face...
Son of Dracula
Director
Due to be crowned King of the Netherworld by his mentor Merlin the Magician, Count Downe–the son of Count Dracula–falls in love with the beautiful but human Amber and finds himself in conflict with Baron Frankenstein, who is vying for the same honorary title.
Testemunha da Loucura
Director
Neste filme de horror dividido em episódios, o Dr. Tremayne é um enigmático psiquiatra que dirige um manicômio e narra a um especialista o caso de quatro pacientes. O primeiro é um garotinho cujo amigo imaginário é um tigre; o segundo declarou ter sido possuído pelo espírito de um antepassado ao adquirir velhos bens que pertenciam ao falecido; o terceiro nutre uma bizarra obsessão por uma árvore cujo tronco lembra as formas de uma mulher, e o quarto caso é o de uma mulher envolvida acidentalmente com um cerimonial pagão e canibalismo. No final, a verdade sobre os quatro casos vem à tona.
A Essência da Maldade
Director
Emmanuel Hildern, um cientista da época vitoriana, retorna a Londres com um esqueleto que achou em Papua Nova Guiné. Ao acidentalmente expô-lo à água, a carne volta a crescer nos ossos e a criatura se regenera e volta á vida.
Contos do Além
Director
Cinco estranhos vão a uma excursão para ver cavernas antigas e se perdem do grupo, mas encontram o sinistro guardião de uma cripta que conta como cada um deles morreu através de cinco histórias.
The Vampire Happening
Director
An American actress inherits a castle in Transylvania. What she doesn't know is that her ancestor, the Baroness Catali, was in actuality a vampire countess, and emerges from her tomb to ravage the nearby village and Catholic seminary.
Trog: A Caverna do Homem Monstro
Director
O antropólogo Dr. Brockton desenterra um troglodita primitivo - um "elo perdido" da Idade do Gelo: meio homem das cavernas, meio macaco - em uma caverna local. Por meio de experiências médicas, ela consegue se comunicar com ele e domesticá-lo antes que ele seja solto por um desenvolvedor de terras irado e enlouquece, aterrorizando os cidadãos locais.
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly
Director
A wealthy, fatherless British clan kidnaps bums and hippies and forces them to participate in an elaborate role-playing game in which they are the perfect family; those who refuse or attempt escape are ritualistically murdered.
Drácula: O Perfil do Diabo
Director
Após gerar pavor na província de Caynemberg, Drácula foi aparentemente eliminado. Um ano após sua "morte" Ernst Muller, um Monsenhor, visita a região e vê que ninguém vai à missa, pois a sombra do castelo cai sobre a igreja e todos sentem a presença do mal, inclusive o padre local. Com isso o Monsenhor, acompanhado pelo padre, parte para exorcizar o castelo. Porém o padre está tão apavorado que não consegue ir até ao castelo, então o Monsenhor continua sozinho e pede que o padre o espere. O pavor do padre era tão grande que ele se assusta com um temporal e cai num pequeno precipício, onde estava o túmulo de Drácula. O padre se feriu na queda e um pouco do sangue vai até os lábios de Drácula, que ressuscita. Paralelamente o Monsenhor lacrou o castelo com uma cruz na porta e foi embora. Ao ver a cruz na porta, Drácula fica cheio de ódio e pergunta ao padre quem fez aquilo. O religioso, apavorado, diz que foi o Monsenhor, então Drácula planeja se vingar dele.
Torture Garden
Director
Five people visit a fairground sideshow run by the sinister Dr. Diabolo. Having shown them a handful of haunted-house-style attractions, he promises them a genuinely scary experience if they will pay extra.
They Came from Beyond Space
Director
A group of scientists are possessed by an alien force when they investigate a meteor shower in a rural field.
The Deadly Bees
Director
Trouble strikes when an exhausted pop singer, sent on a vacation to a farm, realizes that the farm's owner grows deadly bees.
As Bonecas da Morte
Director
Inspector Holloway is investigating a series of brutal murders in which a doll of each victim is found at the scene. The dolls, as it turns out,were purchased by the crippled Mrs. Von Sturm, whose home is overcrowded with a doll collection. Her pale, wide-eyed, neurotic son is the prime suspect and the daughter of one of the victims discovers the shocking truth.
A Maldição da Caveira
Director
An occult investigator buys the 150-year-old skull of the Marquis de Sade, which turns out to be possessed by evil spirits.
Hysteria
Director
An American wakes up in an English hospital unable to remember anything of his life before a recent car accident. With only a photograph torn from a newspaper to guide him, and an unknown benefactor, he attempts to unravel what looks increasingly like a bizarre murder.
As Profecias do Dr. Terror
Director
Five strangers board a train and are joined by a mysterious fortune teller who offers to read their Tarot cards. Five separate stories unfold: An architect returns to his ancestoral home to find a werewolf out for revenge; a doctor discovers his new wife is a vampire; a huge plant takes over a house; a musician gets involved with voodoo; an art critic is pursued by a disembodied hand.
Traitor's Gate
Director
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
O Monstro de Frankenstein
Director
Once hounded from his castle by outraged villagers for creating a monstrous living being, Baron Frankenstein returns to Karlstaad. High in the mountains they stumble on the body of the creature, perfectly preserved in the ice. He is brought back to life with the help of the hypnotist Zoltan who now controls the creature. Can Frankenstein break Zoltan's hypnotic spell that incites the monster to commit these horrific murders or will Zoltan induce the creature to destroy its creator?
Cilada Diabólica
Director
A young student is haunted by recurring dreams of her mother murdering her father, but her nightmare is just beginning as she tries to prove to her loved ones that she is not insane.
Paranóico
Director
A psychotic man schemes to drive his sister mad so that he can claim her inheritance, but a deadly game of cat-and-mouse begins when an imposter intervenes.
The Brain
Director
A millionaire businessman's brain is kept alive after a fatal accident, and communicates clues to a doctor on the trail of the killer
Two and Two Make Six
Director
An US airman stationed in the UK strikes down his commanding officer. Believing he killed him, the airman goes on the run with a girl. They run into a couple that looks like them and a mix up happens.
Os Inocentes
Director of Photography
O filme é baseado na estória de Henry James"Turn of the Screw", um suspense psicológico sobre uma mulher que trabalha como governanta de dois órfãos. Vivendo em uma casa vitoriana, começa ter visões de fantasmas e suspeita que o comportamento bizarro das crianças é influenciado por poderes sobrenaturais.
Tudo Começou num Sábado
Director of Photography
Um operário de 22 anos se solta nos finais de semana: bebendo, brigando e namorando duas mulheres, uma das quais é mais velha e casada, mas grávida de seu filho. (e 16 - Estimado 16 Anos)
Filhos e Amantes
Director of Photography
The son of a working-class British mining family has dreams of pursuing an art career, but when he strikes up an affair with an older, married woman from the town it enrages his kind but possessive mother.
O Estigma da Infâmia
Director of Photography
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
A Batalha dos Sexos
Cinematography
Angela Barrows é uma mulher de negócios comedora de homens, enviada por seu empregador americano para investigar suas oportunidades de exportação em Edimburgo. No caminho, ela conhece Robert MacPherson, um empresário que pede sua ajuda para trazer sua empresa para o século XX. A equipe, liderada por Martin, tem outras ideias - e uma batalha entre os antigos e os novos métodos de negócios logo começa. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
Virgin Island
Director of Photography
A British woman marries an American writer in spite of her family's disapproval and goes to live with him on a tropical island.
Almas em Leilão
Director of Photography
Final dos anos 1940, Yorkshire, Inglaterra. O jovem ambicioso Joe Lampton (Laurence Harvey), que acaba de se mudar da sombria fábrica da cidade de Dufton, chega a Warnley para assumir um cargo seguro, mas mal remunerado, no Departamento do Tesoureiro do Borough. Determinado a ter sucesso, e ignorando as advertências de um colega, Soames (Donald Houston), ele é atraído por Susan Brown (Heather Sears), filha do magnata industrial local, Brown (Donald Wolfit). Ele lida com a ascensão social de Joe enviando Susan para o exterior; Joe procura consolo com Alice Aisgill (Simone Signoret), uma mulher mais velha e infeliz que se apaixona por ele. (e 14 - Estimado 14 Anos)
Next to No Time
Cinematography
Unassuming planning engineer David Webb finds himself on the Queen Elizabeth to New York with instructions to negotiate a high-powered loan. His lack of confidence means he is completely out of his depth, at least until he finds his personality changes every day during the hour the ship's clocks stop to make allowance for their westward passage.
The Scamp
Cinematography
Tod is a motherless boy, who is mistreated by his violent father. He eventually finds happiness with kindly foster parents.
A Sombra da Forca
Director of Photography
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”
Moby Dick
Second Unit Director of Photography
Consumido por uma raiva completamente insana, Capitão Ahab (Gregory Peck) tem apenas um objetivo na vida: Vingar-se de Moby Dick, a grande baleia branca que o feriu e desfigurou. O obcecado capitão de um baleeiro usa seu poder de comando como uma desculpa para navegar pelos Sete Mares em uma busca sem fim pelo seu objeto de ódio. Lutando contra uma tripulação amotinada, o calor tropical e tormentas violentas, Ahab finalmente encontra com sua inimiga e começa um confronto que irá culminar em uma luta épica de uma fúria sem fim…
O Diabo Riu Por Último
Camera Operator
A caminho da África estão um grupo de patifes, que esperam ficar ricos lá, e um aparentemente inocente casal britânico. Eles se encontram e as coisas acontecem .... Um quarteto de bandidos internacionais - Peterson, O'Hara, Ross e Ravello - está encalhado na Itália enquanto seu navio está sendo reparado. Com eles também estão os Dannreuthers. Os seis estão indo para a África, presumivelmente para vender aspiradores de pó, mas na verdade vão para comprar terra supostamente rica com urânio. Eles são acompanhados por outros que aparentemente têm objetivos semelhantes.
24 Hours of a Woman's Life
Camera Operator
A compulsive gambler stumbles towards losing everything when Merle Oberon decides to save him from himself.
Anjos Um-Cinco
Camera Operator
No verão de 1940 o piloto T.B. Baird chega direto da escola de voo para se juntar a um esquadrão de vanguarda da RAF no auge da Batalha da Grã-Bretanha. Depois de um começo infeliz e uma derrota de seu oficial comandante, Baird (apelidado de "Séptico" devido a suas iniciais) deve se esforçar para impressionar seu Capitão do Grupo, recuperar seu orgulho, se entrosar com seus companheiros de esquadrão e sobreviver a uma das batalhas aéreas mais intensas da história. Esta é a história de apenas um dos "Poucos" e como eles conseguiram lutar contra o poder da Luftwaffe, apesar do avassalador poder aéreo alemão. (e Livre - Estimado Livre)
A Salamandra de Ouro
Camera Operator
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things right.
De Volta ao Pequeno Apartamento
Camera Operator
De Volta ao Pequeno Apartamento detalha as angústias de um pesquisador e especialista em desarme de bombas militares Sammy Rice. Ele vive um relacionamento complexo com a secretária Susan e é contratado pelo governo para orientar sobre uma nova e perigosa arma alemã.
Mine Own Executioner
Camera Operator
Fearing her husband could become a killer, a woman seeks a psychiatrist's help.
The New Lot
Camera Operator
A new batch of Army recruits, from diverse backgrounds and with varying degrees of commitment, is shaped into an efficient fighting unit.