Fred Murphy (cinematographer)
Fred Murphy ( born December 16, 1942 in New York City ) is an American cinematographer.
Life
Murphy had studied architecture at the School of Design at Rhode Iceland. He then drove for several years as a sailor at sea on an oceanographic ship.
His start in film was Murphy as a " gofer ", then worked as an electrician for commercial film and photographed in the early 1970s no-budget films and experimental short films. From the mid- 1970s, Murphy was at schmalstbudgetierten some films directed by newcomers such as Martha Coolidge and Claudia Weill behind the camera. Weill's / Murphy's amusing women's history took place in 1978 Girlfriends international attention.
Since the mid- 1980s, Fred Murphy managed the leap into the A- league of Hollywood cinematographers. He now also photographed more expensive mainstream products, but also always returned to more personal, silent films like A Trip to Bountiful, The Dead and enemies - a love story back. However, Murphy's specialty is comedy. Above all, the director Paul Mazursky undertook Murphy several times.
Since the new millennium, Fred Murphy was also committed for several successful television series.