Between Horror, Fear, and Beauty

Amicus: House of Horrors

Cameraman: The Life and Work of Jack Cardiff

Inside the Fear Factory

Impressions of Dune

The Terrible Elephant Man Revealed

The Making of 'Cape Fear'

Flesh and Blood: The Hammer Heritage of Horror

The Straight Story

Rainbow

Princess Caraboo

A Life in the Theatre

School Ties

Cape Fear

The Man in the Moon

The Plot to Kill Hitler

Glory

Tales from the Crypt

Brenda Starr

Her Alibi

Clara's Heart

Dark Tower

The Doctor and the Devils

Code Name: Emerald

Dune

What Waits Below

Memed My Hawk

The Jigsaw Man

The Executioner's Song

The French Lieutenant's Woman

The Elephant Man

Star Maidens

Legend of the Werewolf

The Ghoul

Craze

Son of Dracula

Tales That Witness Madness

The Creeping Flesh

The Vampire Happening

Trog

Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny & Girly

Dracula Has Risen from the Grave

The Champions

Torture Garden

Man in a Suitcase

They Came from Beyond Space

The Deadly Bees

The Psychopath

The Skull

Hysteria

Dr. Terror's House of Horrors

Traitor's Gate

The Evil of Frankenstein

Night Must Fall

Nightmare

The Day of the Triffids

Paranoiac

The Saint

The Brain

Two and Two Make Six

The Innocents

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Sons and Lovers

Never Take Sweets from a Stranger

The Battle of the Sexes

Virgin Island

Room at the Top

Next to No Time

The Scamp

Time Without Pity

A Hill in Korea

Moby Dick

Monsieur Ripois

Beat the Devil

Twice Upon a Time

Moulin Rouge

24 Hours of a Woman's Life

Angels One Five

Golden Salamander

The Small Back Room

Nightbeat

Mine Own Executioner

The New Lot

Frederick William Francis BSC (22 December 1917 – 17 March 2007) was an English cinematographer and film director whose filmmaking career spanned over 60 years, from the late 1930s until the late 2000s. One of the most celebrated British cinematographers of his time, he received numerous accolades for his photography, including two Academy Awards and five BAFTA Awards. As a director he was best known for his horror films, notably those made for production companies Amicus and Hammer in the 1960s and 1970s.
Francis started his film career as a cameraman for John Huston and for the directing team of Powell and Pressburger before becoming a cinematographer for notable British films such as Jack Clayton's drama Room at the Top (1959), Jack Cardiff's Sons and Lovers (1960) – which earned him his first Oscar – and the psychological horror film The Innocents (1961). He became well-known for his rich black-and-white CinemaScope framing, and was regarded as one of the top cameraman in the British film industry. He made his directorial debut with the romantic comedy Two and Two Make Six (1962), but gained the most attention for his horror films and thrillers. During the 1960s he was a house director for Hammer Productions, where he made Paranoiac (1963; an early starring vehicle for Oliver Reed), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), and Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968). In the 1970s he worked mainly for Amicus Productions, for which he notably directed the horror anthology Tales from the Crypt (1972).
After nearly two decades as a director, Francis returned to cinematography with The Elephant Man (1980). This established a collaboration with director David Lynch, for whom he also shot Dune (1984), and The Straight Story (1999). He won his second Oscar for the American Civil War film Glory (1989). He also earned acclaim for his work on Karel Reisz's The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), and Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991).
In addition to his Oscar and BAFTA wins, Francis received an international achievement award from the American Society of Cinematographers in 1997, a lifetime achievement award from the British Society of Cinematographers the same year, and BAFTA's special achievement award in 2004.



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