Daniel L. Fapp

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Daniel L. Fapp (born April 21, 1904 in Kansas City , Kansas , † July 19, 1986 in Laguna Niguel , California ) was an American cameraman and for three decades one of the leading chief operators of classic Hollywood entertainment.

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Fapp, who grew up in Kansas, came to Paramount at the age of 19 as a laboratory assistant and gradually moved up from the positions of camera assistant and second cameraman to chief cameraman over the next 17 years. In this role, Fapp has photographed a considerable number of high-class top productions since 1940, in which he proved to be both a bold black-and-white and an accomplished color film photographer.

Most often the cameraman worked with the directors Mitchell Leisen , Frank Tashlin and Norman Taurog . Fapp's name stands for expensive and large-scale prestige projects such as The Last Shore (where he only photographed the car race sequence, however), West Side Story (1960), Eins, Zwei, Drei (1961) and Broken Chains (1962). He received an Oscar for the musical West Side Story . He was nominated for this six more times. But Fapp also photographed conventional melodramas from the 1940s, Jerry Lewis / Dean Martin comedies from the 1950s and staid comedies from the 1960s - classic star vehicles with box office horses such as Doris Day , Elvis Presley , Rock Hudson and Gregory Peck . After the astronaut strip Lost in Space (1969), Fapp retired from the cinema at the age of 65.

Daniel Fapp had also worked sporadically for television, for example on some episodes of the television series Bonanza .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 2: C - F. John Paddy Carstairs - Peter Fritz. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 614.

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personal data
SURNAME Fapp, Daniel L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Kansas City , Kansas, United States
DATE OF DEATH July 19, 1986
Place of death Laguna Niguel , California, United States