Biography: life and films
Freddie Francis was an English film director and cinematographer whose birth name was Frederick William Francis. He was born in Islington, London, England, UK on 22nd December 1917 and died in Isleworth, Middlesex, England, UK on 17th March 2007, aged 89.His best films as a cinematographer include Jack Clayton's Room at the Top (1959), Karel Reisz's Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960), The Innocents (1961), David Lynch's The Elephant Man (1980) and The Straight Story (1999), and whose best work as a film director include Nightmare (1964), The Evil of Frankenstein (1964), Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965), Torture Garden (1967) and Tales That Witness Madness (1973).
Freddie Francis was cinematographer on 29 films, directed 28 films and scripted 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Karel Reisz (3 films), David Lynch (3), Robert Mulligan (2) and Jack Clayton (2).
His most frequent genres include: Horror (27 films), drama (22), Thriller (16), comedy (13), romance (4), comedy-romance (4), history (3), War (3), crime-thriller (2), Fantasy (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Freddie Francis over all films is: 2.9
Filmography
Key: d = director; c = cinematographer; w = writer
A Hill in Korea (1956) [c]
The Scamp (1957) [c]
Time Without Pity (1957) [c]
Next to No Time (1958) [c]
Virgin Island (1958) [c]
The Battle of the Sexes (1959) [c]
Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960) [c]
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960) [c]
The Brain (1962) [d]
The Day of the Triffids (1962) [d]
Two and Two Make Six (1962) [d]
Paranoiac (1963) [d]
Das Verrätertor (1964) [d]
Diary of a Bachelor (1964) [w]
Night Must Fall (1964) [c]
Nightmare (1964) [d]
The Evil of Frankenstein (1964) [d]
Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) [d]
Hysteria (1965) [d]
The Skull (1965) [d]
The Psychopath (1966) [d]
They Came from Beyond Space (1967) [d]
Dracula Has Risen from the Grave (1968) [d]
Mumsy, Nanny, Sonny and Girly (1969) [d]
Trog (1970) [d]
Gebissen wird nur nachts (1971) [d]
Tales from the Crypt (1972) [d]
Tales That Witness Madness (1973) [d]
Craze (1974) [d]
Son of Dracula (1974) [d]
Legend of the Werewolf (1975) [d]
The Ghoul (1975) [d]
The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981) [c]
The Jigsaw Man (1983) [c]
Dune (1984) [c]
Memed My Hawk (1984) [c]
Code Name: Emerald (1985) [c]
Return to Oz (1985) [c]
The Doctor and the Devils (1985) [d]
Dark Tower (1987) [d]
Clara's Heart (1988) [c]
Brenda Starr (1989) [c]
Glory (1989) [c]
Her Alibi (1989) [c]
Cape Fear (1991) [c]
The Man in the Moon (1991) [c]
School Ties (1992) [c]
Princess Caraboo (1994) [c]
Rainbow (1995) [c]
The Straight Story (1999) [c]
Continental Films, quality cinema under the Nazi Occupation
Kafka's tortuous trial of love
The very best of the French New Wave
