Francisco Marín

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Francisco Herrada Marín (born March 30, 1920 in Barcelona , † December 17, 1983 there ) was a Spanish cameraman .

Life

Francisco Herrada Marín began his professional career at the age of twelve. His first job was as an apprentice to the carpenter at the 'Estudios Orphea'. He found his later career as a camera technician, under the camera veterans José Gaspar and Ramón de Baños he served as an assistant. In the 1950s, Marín worked mainly in Mexico , where he made documentaries as a simple cameraman.

Back in Spain, Francisco Marín was allowed to photograph films independently from 1960. The Catalan was almost exclusively behind the camera in low-quality mass entertainment for a wide audience. Marín mainly photographed so-called paella and spaghetti westerns, but also sandal and adventure films, agent thrillers and historical epics of rather inferior quality. Many of his works, including two subsidiary works in the German Karl May film series in 1965, were created in international co-production and used the Spanish outdoor locations as an impressive backdrop. Some of these films, including two Ringo films, Tepepa and Also the Angels Eat Beans , enjoyed great popularity with audiences.

Marín's career ended in the mid-1970s with three of the worst productions in Spanish cinema of the decade.

Filmography

literature

  • Francisco Llinás: Directores de fotografía de cine español. Filmoteca Española, Madrid 1989. pp. 456 f

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See film reviews in Carlos Aguilar: Guía del video-cine. P. 563, p. 878, p. 923
personal data
SURNAME Marín, Francisco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Herrada Marín, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH March 30, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona
DATE OF DEATH 17th December 1983
Place of death Barcelona