Frank V. Phillips

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Frank V. Phillips (born April 7, 1912 in San Bernardino , California - † April 10, 1994 in Prescott , Arizona ) was an American cinematographer .

Live and act

Born in California, he joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1931 as an errand boy. A little later he decided on a career as a football player and went to the University of Notre Dame in South Bend , Indiana . After the early death (plane crash) of football star Knute Rockne , who worked there as a coach , Phillips returned to Hollywood .

He started there initially as a film insert and acted as the right hand man of the director Irving Reis . Phillips learned his craft as a cameraman as an assistant to the experienced cameramen Harry Stradling Sr. and George J. Folsey . Their colleague Robert Surtees engaged Frank Phillips in 1950 and gave him the opportunity to work as a simple cameraman for the first time in the adventure film King Solomon's Diamonds . In this role, Phillips was then also involved in classic films such as You should be my lucky star and giants . For Twentieth Century Fox Frank Phillips in 1954 first used as a cinematographer: he was left with a second-unit unit in Monte Carlo resulting sequences of the racing film The favorite place sole responsibility into the picture.

In 1956, Frank Phillips switched to television, for which he was to photograph hundreds of individual episodes of popular series such as Navy Log, Hotel de Paree, Have Gun - Will Travel, Maverick , Colt .45, Perry Mason and Adventure in Paradise . When Phillips temporarily left television in 1963, he was doing the hugely popular Smoking Colts western series . With the crime series Hawaii five-zero , he finally ended his work for television series.

Phillip's real career breakthrough didn't begin until the latter half of the 1960s when he became the house cameraman for a number of family-friendly entertainment films for the Walt Disney Company . A significant number of these productions were notable box office hits in the 1970s. Frank Phillips was nominated for an Oscar in 1980 for his work on the lavish science fiction film The Black Hole . At the age of 70, Phillips retired into private life.

Filmography

Films as a head cameraman

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 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 223.

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personal data
SURNAME Phillips, Frank V.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH San Bernardino , California
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 1994
Place of death Prescott , Arizona