Fred Murphy

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Fred Murphy (born December 16, 1942 in New York City ) is an American cameraman .

Life

Murphy had studied architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design . He then went to sea as a sailor on an oceanographic ship for several years .

Murphy made his debut in film as a "girl for everything", then worked as an electrician for commercials and photographed no-budget films and experimental shorts in the early 1970s . From the mid-1970s Murphy was behind the camera in the tightest budget films of some newcomers such as Martha Coolidge and Claudia Weill . Weills / Murphy's amusing women's story Girl Friends also received international attention in 1978.

Since the mid-1980s, Fred Murphy made it into the A-League of Hollywood cameramen. He now photographed more expensive mainstream products, but returned more personal time and again, silent films like A Trip to Bountiful - Travel to happiness , The Dead and enemies - the story of a love back. Murphy's specialty is comedies. Especially the director Paul Mazursky engaged Murphy several times.

Since the new millennium, Fred Murphy has also signed up for several successful television series, for example he filmed the majority of the episodes of the successful drama series Good Wife between 2009 and 2016.

Filmography (selection)

Movies unless otherwise stated

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 5: L - N. Rudolf Lettinger - Lloyd Nolan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 592.

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personal data
SURNAME Murphy, Fred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cameraman
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York, United States