Daniel L. Fapp
Daniel L. Fapp (* April 21, 1904 in Kansas City, Kansas; † July 19, 1986 in Laguna Niguel, California ) was an American cinematographer and three decades one of the leading chief surgeons of the classic Hollywood entertainment.
Life and work
Raised in Kansas Fapp was 19 -year-old to Paramount as a laboratory assistant and moved in the next 17 years gradually over the positions of a camera assistant and second cameraman to cinematographer. In this role, Fapp photographed since 1940, a considerable number of high-class top productions, in which he proved to be both bold black and white as well as color film accomplished photographer.
Most commonly, the cameraman worked with directors Mitchell Leisen, Frank Tashlin and Norman Taurog. Fapps name stands for expensive and large-scale prestige projects such as On the Beach ( where he, however, only the car racing sequence photographed ), one, two, three, Escape and West Side Story. For the latter film musical, he received an Oscar. But Fapp also photographed conventional melodramas of the 1940s, Jerry Lewis / Dean Martin comedies of the 1950s and honest comedies of the 1960s - classic star vehicle with Kassenzugpferden as last Doris Day, Elvis Presley, Rock Hudson and Gregory Peck. After the astronauts Strip Marooned be Fapp pulled 65 -year-old back from the cinema.
Daniel Fapp had also worked sporadically for television, for example, in some episodes of the TV series Bonanza.