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Ellsworth Fredericks is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 2 june 1904 at New York City (USA)

Ellsworth Fredericks

Ellsworth Fredericks
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Nationality USA
Birth 2 june 1904 at New York City (USA)
Death 16 august 1993 (at 89 years) at San Marcos (USA)

Ellsworth Fredericks (parfois crédité Ellsworth Fredricks), A.S.C., né le 2 juin 1904 à New York (État de New York), mort le 16 août 1993 à San Marcos (Banlieue de San Diego, Californie), est un directeur de la photographie américain.

Biography

Au cinéma, Ellsworth Fredericks débute sur I Like Your Nerve (1931) comme premier assistant opérateur, activité qu'il exerce sur quelques autres films jusqu'à La Malle de Singapour (1935). Dans l'intervalle, il est aussi cadreur sur Docteur X (1932) et Tarzan et sa compagne (1934). Il reprend cette deuxième fonction de cadreur à l'occasion de La Charge fantastique (1941) et Quand le jour viendra (1943), et surtout, sur onze films sortis entre 1948 et 1950, dont neuf où il assiste le chef opérateur Ted McCord. Parmi les réalisateurs dont il est cadreur, citons Michael Curtiz (cinq films, y inclus Docteur X nommé plus haut et Boulevard des passions en 1949) et John Huston (deux films sortis en 1948, Le Trésor de la Sierra Madre et Key Largo).

Ellsworth Fredericks devient lui-même directeur de la photographie sur un court métrage de Richard L. Bare sorti en 1952 (il retrouve ce réalisateur pour huit autres courts métrages, le dernier en 1955). Le premier long métrage dont il dirige les prises de vues est Mon grand de Robert Wise (1953, avec Jane Wyman et Sterling Hayden). En tout, il exerce à ce poste sur cinquante-et-un films américains (y compris les courts métrages déjà évoqués). Ses deux derniers sortent en 1969, dont le western Charro de Charles Marquis Warren, avec Elvis Presley et Ina Balin.

Il est également chef opérateur des réalisateurs William Wyler (le western La Loi du Seigneur en 1956, avec Gary Cooper et Dorothy McGuire), Don Siegel (L'Invasion des profanateurs de sépultures en 1956, avec Kevin McCarthy et Dana Wynter), Joshua Logan (ex. : Sayonara en 1957, avec Marlon Brando), Elia Kazan (Le Fleuve sauvage en 1960, avec Montgomery Clift et Lee Remick), ou encore John Frankenheimer (Sept jours en mai en 1964, avec Burt Lancaster et Kirk Douglas), entre autres.

Sayonara pré-cité lui vaut en 1958 une nomination à l'Oscar de la meilleure photographie.

À la télévision, Ellsworth Fredericks est directeur de la photographie sur douze séries (de 1951 à 1959) et trois téléfilms (diffusés en 1964, 1966 et 1967).

Best films

Sayonara (1957)
(Director of Photography)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
(Director of Photography)
High Time (1960)
(Cinematography)

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Filmography of Ellsworth Fredericks (36 films)

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Cameraman

Eye of the Cat, 1h42
Directed by David Lowell Rich
Origin USA
Genres Horror
Actors Michael Sarrazin, Gayle Hunnicutt, Eleanor Parker, Laurence Naismith, Jennifer Leak, Truman Linden Chiles
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.043033.043033.043033.043033.04303
Tante Danny (Eleanor Parker) vît avec son neveu Luke (Tim Henry) et ses nombreux chats. À son décès, elle a décidé de léguer sa fortune à ses animaux de compagnie. Quand Wylie (Michael Sarrazin), le frère de Luke, revient vivre à la maison accompagné de sa nouvelle compagne, Kassia (Gayle Hunnicutt), celle-ci change d'avis et en fait son héritier. Ce qui arrange bien Wylie qui a pour projet d'éliminer sa tante une fois le testament signé et de partir avec son héritage ...
Charro!
Charro! (1969)
, 1h38
Directed by Charles Marquis Warren
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Actors Elvis Presley, Ina Balin, Victor French, Barbara Werle, James Sikking, Paul Brinegar
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.8009652.8009652.8009652.8009652.800965
Jess Wade, a former member of a gang of outlaws led by Vince Hackett, is tricked into believing that an old flame of his and Vince's, Tracy Winters, wanted to meet him in a seedy Mexican saloon. Jess later sees Billy Roy Hackett, Vince's younger brother, summoning Vince and the other members of the gang into the saloon. Jess, realizing he was set up, orders the bar patrons to leave as a shoot out later ensues. After making a break for the door Jess is later stopped by another gang member, Gunner, and is trapped. Forcing Jess to relinquish his gun and to go with them to their hideout in the mountains, Vince later tells him that the gang had stolen a gold-plated cannon that was used by Emperor Maximilian in his ill-fated fight against popular Mexican leader Benito Juarez. After explaining to him about them stealing the cannon, Vince tells Jess that he let the word get out that, although a now-deceased member of the gang named Norm was the one who helped steal the cannon that it was Jess who stole it and had sustained a neck wound as a result of being shot by one of the guards, according to a wanted poster out on him. Ordering his men to subdue Jess on the ground, Vince takes a branding iron and burns a wound to his neck. Taking Jess' horse, Vince and the gang later leave Jess and take off. The gang's motive is to force a ransom from the town they stole the cannon from, but the gang also uses the cannon to hold the townspeople at bay. Only Wade can save the people from his former gang.
The Power
The Power (1968)
, 1h48
Directed by Byron Haskin
Genres Science fiction, Thriller
Themes Films based on science fiction novels
Actors George Hamilton, Suzanne Pleshette, Aldo Ray, Richard Carlson, Yvonne De Carlo, Earl Holliman
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.953662.953662.953662.953662.95366
Professor Jim Tanner, a biochemist, discovers evidence of a person with psychic abilities among his co-workers in a research laboratory. His colleagues include geneticist Margery Lansing, physicist Carl Melkinen, biologist Talbot Scott and chairman Norman Van Zandt, all working for Navy liaison Arthur Nordlund.
With Six You Get Eggroll, 1h35
Directed by Howard Morris
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about families
Actors Doris Day, Brian Keith, Barbara Hershey, Pat Carroll, George Carlin, Alice Ghostley
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.199043.199043.199043.199043.19904
Abby McClure (Doris Day) is a widow with three sons who runs the lumberyard her husband owned. Her matchmaking sister Maxine (Pat Carroll) tricks her into calling widower Jake Iverson (Brian Keith) and inviting him to the business dinner party Abby is having later that night. Not interested in the trouble his sexy, adultery-minded neighbor Cleo (Elaine Devry) is trying to get him into, Jake arrives at Abby’s, only to be bored by all of the matchmaking dialogue. Jake makes up an excuse to leave, but later runs into Abby at an all-night supermarket. Embarrassed by being caught in a fib, Jake meets Abby at a local drive-in run by the wise-cracking Herbie (George Carlin) and the two stay out until 2am. A romance develops, much to the chagrin of Jake’s teenage daughter, Stacey (Barbara Hershey); and Abby’s three sons, Flip, Mitch and Jason (John Findlater, Jimmy Bracken, and Richard Steele). The children make certain that neither Jake nor Abby can be comfortable at the other’s home, so the pair wind up more than once at the drive-in, before finally falling in love. Getting fed up with the situation, they elope, not telling their children that they have married until the next day after being discovered in bed together.
The Last Challenge, 1h45
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Angie Dickinson, Chad Everett, Jack Elam, Robert Horton, Kevin Hagen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.003353.003353.003353.003353.00335
A cocky young man from Tennessee, Lot McGuire (Chad Everett), seeks to back up his notion that he's the fastest gun there is. "If a man is second best, he might as well be dead," says McGuire. He travels to a town with the intention of forcing a duel with Marshal Dan Blaine (Ford), who's renowned for his skill with a gun.
Return of the Gunfighter, 1h38
Directed by James Neilson
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Robert Taylor, Chad Everett, Ana Martin, John Davis Chandler, Ana Martín, Michael Pate
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.183373.183373.183373.183373.18337
An old gunslinger Ben Wyatt (Taylor) is released from prison after five years. He meets Lee Sutton (Chad Everett), who is on the run for killing a man in a gunfight. Wyatt finds that his close friends the Domingos have been killed. He takes Sutton, who is weak from being wounded in the gunfight, to find Anisa Domingo (Ana Martin), the daughter of Wyatt's slain friends. Wyatt agrees to let Anisa help him find her parent's killers.
The Last Challenge, 1h45
Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Western
Actors Glenn Ford, Angie Dickinson, Chad Everett, Gary Merrill, Jack Elam, Delphi Lawrence
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.003353.003353.003353.003353.00335
Depuis qu'il a décidé de passer du côté de la loi, le shérif Dan Blaine fait tout pour oublier son passé de pistolero. Pourtant, sa réputation de fin tireur attire l'attention de jeunes hors-la-loi qui aimeraient se mesurer à lui dans un duel. Cette même ambition pousse Lot McGuire à s'installer dans la ville. Malgré la solide amitié qui s'est construite entre le shérif et le jeune voyou et les multiples tentatives de Lisa, la propriétaire du saloon, pour l'empêcher, le duel a finalement lieu...
Mister Buddwing, 1h40
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Angela Lansbury, Katharine Ross, Jack Gilford
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.0002353.0002353.0002353.0002353.000235
Waking up on a New York park bench, a man's mind is a total blank. He has no identification on him, just a slip of paper in his pocket with a phone number on it.
Picture Mommy Dead, 1h22
Directed by Bert I. Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror
Themes Films about families
Actors Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Wendell Corey, Signe Hasso, Maxwell Reed
Roles Director of Photography
Rating53% 2.657612.657612.657612.657612.65761
Susan Shelley thinks her father, Edward, killed her mother, Jessica, years ago. Newly released from an asylum after 3 years, she is reunited with her father and a new stepmother, Francene, but suspicious goings-on threaten to push her over the edge.
Seven Days in May, 1h58
Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Romance
Themes Politique, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam
Roles Director of Photography
Rating77% 3.8965953.8965953.8965953.8965953.896595
The story is set in the early 1970s, ten years in the future at the time of the film's 1964 release, and the Cold War is still a problem (in the 1962 book, the setting was May 1974). U.S. President Jordan Lyman has recently signed a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviet Union, and the subsequent ratification has produced a wave of public dissatisfaction, especially among the President's opposition and the military, who believe the Soviets cannot be trusted.
The Young Lovers, 1h50
Directed by Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Peter Fonda, Sharon Hugueny, Nick Adams, Deborah Walley, Beatrice Straight, Joseph Campanella
Roles Director of Photography
Rating54% 2.717722.717722.717722.717722.71772
While attending college, Eddie (Peter Fonda) shares an apartment with another student, nicknamed Tarragoo (Nick Adams). Tarragoo's girlfriend Debbie (Deborah Walley) and her friend Pam (Sharon Hugueny), who is studying to be a teacher and lives with her widowed mother (Beatrice Straight), are frequent visitors. Eddie and Pam develop a close relationship and, during the time her mother is away from home for a few days, Pam allows Eddie to stay the night. Finding herself pregnant, she tells Eddie who reacts with unhappiness, being low on funds and dismayed by the prospect of losing his scholarship. Pam discusses the situation with her mother, considers having an abortion, decides against it, and makes plans to leave. Meanwhile, Eddie, with help from professors Schwartz (Malachi Throne) and Reese (Joseph Campanella), improves his educational standing by passing an exam, and consults with Tarragoo and Debbie who advise him to take the morally correct path. At the crossroads of integrity, Eddie chooses rectitude and goes to Pam's mother, intent upon telling her so. Learning that Pam has already departed, he aims to follow her, with the conviction that whatever life offers, they will be able to face it together.
The Stripper, 1h35
Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays, Children's films
Actors Joanne Woodward, Richard Beymer, Claire Trevor, Robert Webber, Carol Lynley, Louis Nye
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2835453.2835453.2835453.2835453.283545
She dreamed of a career in the movies, but Lila Green has found little success. She joins a group of traveling entertainers and is abandoned near her Kansas hometown by manager and boyfriend Ricky Powers.
Escape from Zahrain, 1h33
Directed by Ronald Neame
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Adventure
Themes Monde imaginaire
Actors Yul Brynner, Anthony Caruso, Sal Mineo, Jay Novello, Madlyn Rhue, Jack Warden
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60% 3.00083.00083.00083.00083.0008
Dans le pays fictif de Zahrain, un leader nationaliste arabe est délivré par un groupe de jeunes partisans lors d'un transfert de prison. Fuyant la police nationale à ses trousses, il décide de voler une ambulance avec laquelle il compte se sauver, en rejoignant le pays voisin à travers le désert.
Sanctuary
Sanctuary (1961)
, 1h30
Directed by Tony Richardson, David S. Hall
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Lee Remick, Yves Montand, Bradford Dillman, Howard St. John, Reta Shaw, Harry Townes
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.050193.050193.050193.050193.05019
In 1928, in the county of Yoknapatawpha, Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, a 30-year-old black woman, is condemned to death for the willful murder of the infant son of her white employer Mrs. Gowan Stevens, the former Temple Drake. On the eve of the scheduled execution, Temple tries to save Nancy by telling her father, the governor, of the events leading up to the murder.