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BIRTHDAY

December 22, 1917

Islington, London, England, UK

DIED

March 17, 2007

RECENT CREDITS

The Straight Story (FILM) Oct. 15, 1999

Rainbow (FILM) Jan. 1, 1997

Princess Caraboo (FILM) Sep. 16, 1994

School Ties (FILM) Sep. 1, 1992

Brenda Starr (FILM) Apr. 15, 1992

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BIOGRAPHY

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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 Horrors [1965], Torture Garden [1967], and Tales from the Crypt [1972]).

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N.Y. film critics name 'Topsy-Turvy year's best

Dec. 16, 1999

In a surprising move, the members of the New York Film Critics Circle, an association of film reviewers from major Manhattan-based newspapers and magazines, selected "Topsy-Turvy" as the Best Picture of 1999.Part biopic, part backstage drama, "Topsy-Turvy" is an opulent motion picture that focuses on the prickly relationship between librettist William Schwenk Gilbert and compos...

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