Frank Tidy

Frank Tidy (born May 17, 1932 in Liverpool , United Kingdom ; † January 27, 2017 in Kent ) was a British cameraman for predominantly North American film and television.

Live and act

Tidy began his career in the 1950s as a stop-motion cameraman for a London-based animation studio. In this capacity, the man from Liverpool was also involved in the 1963 James Bond film With Love from Moscow . In 1965 he founded their own small production company, Valley Films, with Roger Woodburn and Peter Biziou . Subsequently, Tidy devoted himself mainly to the photography of television commercials, where he photographed an abundance (around 150 pieces) of clips under the direction of Ridley Scott . When Scott switched to film directing in 1976, he brought Frank Tidy over to him, and the two of them shot the film The Duellists together , which received extremely favorable reviews and also earned Tidy a BAFTA nomination.

Based in Hollywood since the early 1980s, Tidy photographed an abundance of very conventional entertainment films for both cinema and television - in addition to dramas and melodramas, often action-packed products with genre stars such as Sylvester Stallone , Steven Seagal and Chuck Norris - which, however, hardly ever exist displayed an artistic claim. Shortly after the turn of the millennium, Frank Tidy gradually let his career come to an end, and, most recently suffering from dementia , he retired to his home in the English county of Kent, where he died in early 2017.

Filmography (selection)

• 1977: The Duellists (The Duellists)
• 1980: The Lucky Star
• 1982: The Gray Fox
• 1983: Spacehunter : Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
• 1984: Cusack - Der Schweigsame (Code of Silence)
• 1984: The Mean Season (The Mean Season)
• 1985: If Dreams Were True (One Magic Christian)
• 1985: Sweet Liberty
• 1986: John and the Missus
• 1987: Mr. Alligator ... See you later (Hot Pursuit)
• 1987: Raggedy - A Tale of Love, Escape and Death (The Raggedy Rawney)
• 1988: One day in April (April Morning)
• 1988: The Killer Brigade (The Package)
• 1989: Linked to death (Sorry, Wrong Number)
• 1989: Bloody Sketches (Final Notice)
• 1989: Rendezvous with a murderer (Personals)
• 1989: Billy's Death (The Kissing Place)
• 1990: Life is Beautiful (The Last Best Year)
• 1990: Hitler's Daughter
• 1990: The man of her dreams (The Butcher's Wife) (also film role)
• 1991: stop! Or my mommy shoots! (Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot)
• 1992: Red alert (Under Siege)
• 1992: Through the Eyes of a Killer
• 1993: Return to Medicine River (Medicine River)
• 1994: The Last Pass (One More Mountain)
• 1994: Wagons East!
• 1995: Black Fox
• 1995: Different Minds (Steal Big, Steal Little)
• 1996: Getting Away With Murder
• 1996: Out of Control (Chain Reaction)
• 1996: Harlem, NYC - The Price of Power (Hoodlum)
• 1997: The Third Twin
• 1998: Dead Husbands
• 2000: Flight of the Reindeer (The Christmas Secret)
• 2001: Jewel
• 2004: Some Things That Stay

Web links

• Frank Tidy on cinematographers.nl
• Obituary in The Hollywood Reporter
• Frank Tidy in the Internet Movie Database (English)