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Daniel L. Fapp is a Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 21 april 1904 at Kansas City (USA)

Daniel L. Fapp

Daniel L. Fapp
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Nationality USA
Birth 21 april 1904 at Kansas City (USA)
Death 19 july 1986 (at 82 years) at Laguna Niguel (USA)
Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography

Daniel L. Fapp (April 21, 1904 – July 19, 1986) was an American cinematographer, best known as director of photography for West Side Story (1961), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, and The Great Escape (1963). He also was nominated for Academy Awards for his cinematography for Desire Under the Elms (1958), The Five Pennies (1959), One, Two, Three (1961), The Unsinkable Molly Brown (1964),Ice Station Zebra (1968) and Marooned (1969).

Best films

West Side Story (1961)
(Director of Photography)
The Great Escape (1963)
(Director of Photography)
Let's Make Love (1960)
(Director of Photography)
Marooned (1969)
(Director of Photography)
Shanghai Express (1932)
(Second Assistant Camera)
To Each His Own (1946)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Edith Head
Edith Head
(31 films)
Hal Pereira
Hal Pereira
(25 films)
Hans Dreier
Hans Dreier
(18 films)
Victor Young
Victor Young
(14 films)
Bess Flowers
Bess Flowers
(11 films)
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Filmography of Daniel L. Fapp (87 films)

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Cameraman

Marooned
Marooned (1969)
, 2h14
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Space adventure films, La fin du monde, Films about music and musicians, Dans l'espace, Films about the Apollo program, Films based on science fiction novels, Musical films, Space opera, Disaster films, American disaster films
Actors Gregory Peck, Richard Crenna, David Janssen, James Franciscus, Gene Hackman, Lee Grant
Roles Director of Photography
Rating59% 2.950272.950272.950272.950272.95027
Three American astronauts – commander Jim Pruett (Richard Crenna), "Buzz" Lloyd (Gene Hackman), and Clayton "Stoney" Stone (James Franciscus) – are the first crew of an experimental space station on an extended duration mission. While returning to Earth, the main engine on the Apollo spacecraft Ironman One fails. Mission Control determines that Ironman does not have enough backup thruster capability to initiate atmospheric reentry, or to re-dock with the station and wait for rescue. The crew is marooned in orbit.
Ice Station Zebra, 2h28
Directed by John Sturges
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan, Tony Bill, Lloyd Nolan, Alf Kjellin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.297133.297133.297133.297133.29713
A satellite reenters the atmosphere and ejects a capsule which parachutes to the Arctic, coordinates 85N 21W (approx 320 miles WNW of Nord, Greenland, in the Arctic Ocean ice pack). During an ice storm, a figure soon approaches, guided by a homing beacon, while a second person secretly watches from nearby.
Sweet November, 1h54
Directed by Robert Ellis Miller
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Sandy Dennis, Anthony Newley, Theodore Bikel, Burr DeBenning, Sandy Baron, Marj Dusay
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67% 3.3955553.3955553.3955553.3955553.395555
Successful British box manufacturer Charlie Blake (Anthony Newley) meets Sara Deever (Sandy Dennis) when they both take a driver's exam in New York City. She tries to get a few answers from him, but he is the one who gets expelled for cheating. They run into each other later and go out on a date.
5 Card Stud, 1h43
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime, Western
Actors Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Inger Stevens, Roddy McDowall, Yaphet Kotto, Katherine Justice
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.1978453.1978453.1978453.1978453.197845
In 1880, a gambler in the small town of Rincon, just outside of Denver, Colorado, is caught cheating at a five-card stud poker game. The players led by the volatile Nick Evers take the cheating gambler to hang him. One of the players, Van Morgan, tries to prevent the others from administering frontier justice, but is unable to stop the man's lynching. Morgan leaves town, but later returns when he hears that a couple of the other players from that ill-fated game have become victims of grisly murders.
Double Trouble, 1h30
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Crime, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, John Williams, Michael Murphy, Yvonne Romain, Chips Rafferty, Norman Rossington
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51% 2.5538352.5538352.5538352.5538352.553835
Lorsque le chanteur Guy Lambert va en tournée en Europe, il est poursuivi par deux belles femmes, maladroit voleurs de bijoux, et un mystérieux tueur.
Spinout
Spinout (1966)
, 1h33
Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Musical films, Road movies
Actors Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Diane McBain, Jimmy Hawkins, Cecil Kellaway, Una Merkel
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.8992552.8992552.8992552.8992552.899255
Mike McCoy (Elvis), the lead singer for a traveling band who is also a part-time race car driver, enjoys his carefree single life, which is threatened by three different women who seek to marry him.
Lord Love a Duck, 1h45
Directed by George Axelrod
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about education
Actors Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Ruth Gordon, Harvey Korman, Max Showalter
Roles Director of Photography
Rating62% 3.146173.146173.146173.146173.14617
From his prison cell, Alan Musgrave dictates his experiences of the previous year, which he dedicated to fulfilling the unending wishes and ambitions of high school senior Barbara Ann Greene. The daughter of Marie, a cocktail waitress sinking unhappily into her forties, Barbara wants every kind of success and for everyone to love her. Signing a pact with Alan in wet cement, Barbara soon has the 12 cashmere sweaters needed to join an exclusive girls' club. She drops out of school to become the principal's new secretary and gets involved in church activities run by strait-laced but hyper-hormonal Bob Bernard. When Barbara Ann decides she wants Bob for her husband, Alan facilitates by keeping Bob's eccentric mother Stella, who disapproves of Barbara Ann, perpetually plastered. Then Barbara meets schlock producer T. Harrison Belmont, the King of Beach Party movies, and decides to become the biggest star that ever was. Bob refuses, however, to allow his wife to have a Hollywood screen test, so Barbara Ann decides she wants a divorce. Since Bob's mother frowns upon divorce, Alan takes matters into his own hands to kill Bob. Although Bob proves to be almost indestructible, by graduation time Alan has him in a wheelchair. At the graduation ceremony, Alan pursues Bob with a tractor, humorously killing him and everyone else on the speakers' platform. Barbara Ann goes on to Hollywood fame in her debut film "Bikini Widow", while Alan is sent to prison.
Our Man Flint, 1h48
Directed by Daniel Mann
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Comic science fiction
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Comedy science fiction films, Political films
Actors James Coburn, Lee J. Cobb, Gila Golan, Edward Mulhare, Benson Fong, Shelby Grant
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63% 3.199573.199573.199573.199573.19957
Spy extraordinaire Derek Flint (James Coburn) is an ex-agent of Z.O.W.I.E. (Zonal Organization for World Intelligence and Espionage) who is brought out of retirement to deal with the threat of Galaxy, a world-wide organization led by a trio of mad scientists: Doctor Krupov (Rhys Williams), Doctor Wu (Peter Brocco), and Doctor Schneider (Benson Fong). Impatient that the world's governments will never improve, the scientists demand that all nations capitulate to Galaxy. To enforce their demands, they initiate earthquakes, volcanoes, storms and other natural disasters with their climate-control apparatus, for the only purpose to bring the nations to give up weapons and nuclear energy.
Spinout
Spinout (1966)

Directed by Norman Taurog
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Transport films, Films about automobiles, Auto racing films, Musical films
Actors Elvis Presley, Shelley Fabares, Diane McBain, Deborah Walley, Jack Mullaney, Cecil Kellaway
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57% 2.8992552.8992552.8992552.8992552.899255
Mike Mc Coy est le leader d'un groupe de rock et sa vie change à la rencontre de trois femmes complètement différentes les unes des autres qui le demandent en mariage. Less, la bassiste du groupe, Cynthia, une fille à papa complètement excentrique puis Diana qui écrit des livres sur les hommes entraîneront notre rocker dans les pires fantaisies !
I'll Take Sweden, 1h37
Directed by Frederick de Cordova
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Bob Hope, Tuesday Weld, Frankie Avalon, Dina Merrill, Roy Roberts, John Qualen
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52% 2.6061952.6061952.6061952.6061952.606195
Single father Bob Holcomb (Hope), a widower, is unhappy with the guitar-playing boy (Avalon) his daughter JoJo (Weld) chooses as a husband-to-be. An executive with an oil company, Bob accepts a transfer to the firm's Stockholm branch and he takes JoJo along, hoping it will distract her.
Send Me No Flowers, 1h40
Directed by Norman Jewison
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall, Clint Walker, Patricia Barry, Paul Lynde
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68% 3.447483.447483.447483.447483.44748
George Kimball (Rock Hudson), a hypochondriac, lives with his wife Judy (Doris Day) in the suburbs. Judy learns from the milkman that their neighbors, the Bullards, are getting a divorce, and shares the news with George.
The Pleasure Seekers, 1h47
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Actors Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Carol Lynley, Gene Tierney, Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.8032252.8032252.8032252.8032252.803225
Three beautiful American women come to Madrid and fall in love. Susie Higgins (Pamela Tiffin) arrives and moves in with her old friend Maggie Williams (Carol Lynley) and roommate Fran Hobson (Ann-Margret). Susie experiences a culture shock, when she is informed by Maggie and Fran that all rich, attractive men are taken, and all attractive but poor ones are too proud to take on American women.
The Unsinkable Molly Brown, 2h8
Directed by Charles Walters
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Biography, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Themes Seafaring films, Films about music and musicians, Transport films, RMS Titanic in fiction, Musical films, Films based on plays, Films based on musicals, Disaster films, Films about seafaring accidents or incidents
Actors Debbie Reynolds, Harve Presnell, Ed Begley, Hermione Baddeley, Martita Hunt, Fred Essler
Roles Director of Photography
Rating65% 3.2952153.2952153.2952153.2952153.295215
Rescued from the Colorado River as an infant and raised by Shamus Tobin, tomboy Molly Brown is determined to find a wealthy man to marry. She journeys to Leadville, Colorado and is hired as a saloon singer by Christmas Morgan. After miner Johnny Brown renovates his cabin, the two wed, and he sells his claim in a silver mine for $300,000. Soon after the money Molly hid in the stove accidentally is burned, Johnny discovers the richest gold vein in state history.
The Pleasure Seekers
Directed by Jean Negulesco
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Ann-Margret, Anthony Franciosa, Carol Lynley, Gardner McKay, Pamela Tiffin, André Lawrence
Roles Director of Photography
Rating56% 2.8032252.8032252.8032252.8032252.803225
Trois jeunes femmes co-locataires découvrent les joies de l'amour à Madrid en faisant la connaissance de la gente masculine.
Move Over, Darling, 1h43
Directed by Michael Gordon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about marriage
Actors Doris Day, James Garner, Polly Bergen, Thelma Ritter, Don Knotts, Chuck Connors
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68% 3.4471253.4471253.4471253.4471253.447125
Ellen Wagstaff Arden (Doris Day), a mother of two young girls named Jenny and Didi, was believed to be lost at sea following an airplane accident. Her husband, Nick Arden (James Garner), was one of the survivors.