Claude Friese-Greene
Claude Friese-Greene , born Claude Harrison Greene (born May 3, 1898 in London-Fulham , † January 6, 1943 in London-Islington ) was a British cameraman , producer and director .
Life
The son of inventor William Friese-Greene discovered cinematography at a very young age through his father. He started his career at the age of 14 at the small production company Brightonia . The following year, Claude Friese-Greene began working as a cameraman and also experimented with color film research with his father. Almost at the same time, the teenager and father William founded their own production company.
At the age of 17, Claude Friese-Greene was drafted into the Royal Air Force , where he founded the Military Aerial Photography Department. After his release due to injuries, he continued to work with aerial photographs and photographed, among other things, parachute jumps of the doubles of the US sensational film actor Eddie Polo . After the end of the First World War, he continued his work behind the camera, initially with documentaries. He later resumed his research in color film, this time in the laboratories of British & Colonial Films . Friese-Greene then went to New York City , where he worked for the production company Famous Players Lasky's Corporation .
The Briton returned to his home country in 1928 and became a cameraman for British International Pictures (BIP). Up until the mid-1930s, he photographed a series of not too elaborate silent and sound films for BIP . Most recently he worked for the much smaller companies ABPC and IP . Since 1933 he has worked several times with film artists who fled to Great Britain from Nazi Germany, such as Friedrich Zelnik , Gitta Alpár and Dolly Haas . In 1935 he also photographed Lilian Harvey's only British film production, Invitation to the Waltz . Of the films of those years, the major historical drama Drake of England and the artist portrait The Great Handel , which he photographed shortly before his death, are of some importance.
Claude Friese-Greene died at the beginning of 1943 in the London district of Islington under as yet unexplained circumstances.
Filmography (selection)
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literature
- Frank Arnau (ed.): Universal film lexicon. Berlin and London 1932, p. 456
Individual evidence
- ^ Friese-Greene on ancestry.com
Web links
- Claude Friese-Greene in the Internet Movie Database (English)
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| SURNAME | Friese-Greene, Claude |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Greene, Claude Harrison (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cameraman, producer and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1898 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London Fulham |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1943 |
| Place of death | London Islington |