Frank Stanley
Frank Walter Stanley (born May 5, 1922 in New York , † December 21, 1999 in Sarasota , Florida ) was an American cameraman .
Life
Stanley had begun studying at Columbia University in his home state New York before the USA entered the war in 1941. After his discharge from the military (with the US Marines ) he went to California, where he began his professional career as an assistant in the film laboratory. One of his first more important jobs was that of special effects photographer for Cecil B. DeMille's epic Bible The Ten Commandments .
Stanley then served as a simple cameraman on films such as Howard Hawks ' Animal Catching Adventure Hatari! , Robert Mulligan's Oscar-winning judicial and racial drama Who Bothered the Nightingale and Blake Edwards ' spy musical Darling Lili . At the Edwards-Western Missouri he served as chief cameraman of the second unit. In the same year, Frank Stanley became chief cameraman.
Up until the early 1980s, Stanley photographed a plethora of highly commercial, mostly professionally made A-productions - including some works by Clint Eastwood . He received an Oscar nomination for his work on Tom Sawyer's adventure , and for Steven Spielberg's 1941 War and Military Parody - Where Please Go to Hollywood , he made some additional recordings in 1978. In the same year he shot his best-known work Ten - The Dream Woman , a comedy directed by Blake Edwards.
In the 1970s and 1980s, Frank Stanley was also behind the camera on a plethora of television films.
Filmography
As a head cameraman
- 1971: The Cowboy ( JW Coop )
- 1971: The Killer in the White Coat ( The Carey Treatment )
- 1971: A Separate Peace
- 1973: Tom Sawyer's Adventure (Tom Sawyer)
- 1973: Meeting in the morning
- 1973: Callahan
- 1973: The last ones bite the dogs
- 1974: Willie Dynamite
- 1974: On behalf of the dragon
- 1975: What use is a beef steak to a dead dog? ( Mr. Ricco )
- 1976: Car Wash - The freaky laundromat
- 1977: A Hero Ain't Nothin 'But a Sandwich
- 1977: heroes of today ( Heroes )
- 1978: Two hot guys on the highway ( Corvette Summer )
- 1978: The big trick ( The Big Fix )
- 1978: Ten - The dream woman
- 1979: The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
- 1979: Oh, Moses!
- 1980: Secret Mission Hollywood ( Under the Rainbow )
- 1981: Grease 2
- 1983: The Prodigal
- 1985: Love, Mary (TV)
More film work
- 1962: Hatari (Hatari!) - as camera assistant
- 1962: Who disturbs the nightingale (To Kill a Mockingbird) - as a camera assistant
- 1971: Missouri (Wild Rovers) - as cameraman, second unit
- 1977: Close Encounters of the Third Kind - as an additional cameraman
- 1979: 1941 - Where are you going to Hollywood (1941) - as an additional cameraman
Web links
- Frank Stanley in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stanley, Frank |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stanley, Frank Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cameraman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 5, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | new York |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 21, 1999 |
| Place of death | Sarasota , Florida |