DANIEL L. FAPP

GREAT CINEMATOGRAPHERS

#2: 'Oscar' [1961] for "West Side Story"

DANIEL L. FAPP

Born: 21 April 1904, Kansas City, Kansas, USA.

Died: 19 July 1986, Laguna Niguel, Calif., USA.

Career: Began his film career at 19 in the Paramount lab. Became c.asst in 1925 and 2nd cameraman & c.op in 1929. Became doph in March 1941 when doph Ted Tetzlaff became a director and wanted Fapp to ph his first directorial effort, 'World Premiere'. Remained with Paramount until 1959. Became freelance.

Was a member of the ASC since 1941.

Awards: 'Oscar' AA nom [1958; b&w] for 'Desire Under the Elms'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1959; color] for 'The Five Pennies'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1961; b&w] for 'One, Two, Three'; 'Oscar' AA [1961; color] for 'West Side Story'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1964; color] for 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1968] for 'Ice Station Zebra'; Oscar' AA nom [1969] for 'Marooned'.

'A long-serving cameraman whose work is often mystifyingly ignored in surveys of Hollywood photographers, Daniel L. Fapp has nevertheless provided striking images for a remarkably varied selection of films over the years. Perhaps his comparative neglect can partly be put down to the fact that he hardly ever collaborated with the more fashionable of the Hollywood directors. Even so, one would be hard put to find a more sumptuously photographed period film than 'Kitty' or more telling use of wide-screen imagery than in his Sixties films. Admittedly, a good deal of his work is probably destined to lie neglected in forgotten film vaults and only to be resurrected for the annual meetings of the Henry Aldrich and Martin & Lewis fan clubs [though 'Pardners' and 'Hollywood or Bust' are finely shot in amazingly luminous and attractive colors]. Fortunately, the likes of 'Let's make Love', 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown' and 'Lord Love a Duck' will be around to give great pleasure for many years to come. And, for those of a more bizarre taste, there is always the over-bright, pointedly crude, comic-strip imagery of 'Li'l Abner' which - whether one likes it or not - brilliantly conjures up the satiric world of Al Capp.' [David Badder in 'Film Dope', #15, September 1978.]

FILMS
1941	World Premiere [Ted Tetzlaff (made his debut and replaced Otis Garrett who had to undergo an operation)] b&w; replaced ph John Mescall during pre-production
1941	Glamour Boy/Hearts in Springtime [Ralph Murphy & (uncred; started film, but fell ill) Ted Tetzlaff] b&w
1941	Henry and Dizzy [Hugh Bennett] b&w; film #5 of 11-part Paramount series (1939-44)
1941	True to the Army [Albert S. Rogell] b&w
1942	My Heart Belongs to Daddy [Robert Siodmak & (uncred) Cullen Tate] b&w
1942	Priorities on Parade [Albert S. Rogell] b&w; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1942	Lady Bodyguard [William Clemens] b&w; 69m
1942	Henry Aldrich Swings It/Henry Swings It [Hugh Bennett] b&w; 64m; film #6 of 11-part Paramount series (1939-44)
1942	Henry Aldrich Gets Glamour/Henry Gets Glamour [Hugh Bennett] b&w; film #7 of 11-part Paramount series (1939-44)
1943	Henry Aldrich Haunts a House/Henry Haunts a House [Hugh Bennett] b&w; film #8 of 11-part Paramount series (1939-44)
1943	Henry Aldrich, Boy Scout/Henry, Boy Scout [Hugh Bennett] b&w; 66m; film #9 of 11-part Paramount series (1939-44)
1943	Henry Aldrich Plays Cupid/Henry Plays Cupid [Hugh Bennett] b&w; 63m; film #10 of 11-part Paramount series (1939-44)
1943	Paramount Victory Short No. T2-4: The Aldrich Family Gets in the Scrap [Hugh Bennett] b&w; short/14m
1943	Henry Aldrich's Little Secret/Henry's Little Secret [Hugh Bennett] b&w; film #11 of 11-part Paramount series (1939-44)
1943	And Now Tomorrow [Irving Pichel] b&w; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1944	Kitty [Mitchell Leisen] b&w; sfx ph: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1944	Hold That Blonde! [George Marshall] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1945	You Came Along [John Farrow] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1945	To Each His Own [Mitchell Leisen] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1945	Easy Come, Easy Go [John Farrow] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1946	Suddenly, It's Spring [Mitchell Leisen] b&w; process ph: Farciot Edouart

1946	Golden Earrings [Mitchell Leisen] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1947	The Big Clock [John Farrow] b&w; uncred cph (?); ph: John F. Seitz
1947	Dream Girl [Mitchell Leisen] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1947	Hazard [George Marshall] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1948	Song of Surrender/Abigail, Dear Heart/Now and Forever/The Sin of Abby Hunt [Mitchell Leisen] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1948	[Damon Runyon's] Sorrowful Jones [Sidney Lanfield] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1948	Bride of Vengeance/A Mask for Lucretia [Mitchell Leisen] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1949	Red, Hot and Blue [John Farrow] b&w; fill-in ph: Lionel Lindon

1949	No Man of Her Own/I Married a Dead Man [Mitchell Leisen] b&w; sfx ph: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1949	September Affair [William Dieterle] b&w; uncred fill-in ph (while Charles Lang Jr. was ill); ph: Charles Lang Jr. & (European scenes, filmed in August) Victor Milner

[Top right] with dir Rudolph Maté [left] and actor William Holden

[bottom/black hat] - "Union Station"

1950	Union Station [Rudolph Maté] b&w; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1950	The Redhead and the Cowboy [Leslie Fenton] b&w; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1950	[Damon Runyon's] The Lemon Drop Kid [Sidney Lanfield & (uncred retakes) Frank Tashlin] b&w; ph in July-August with dir S. Lanfield; uncred retakes ph (2 weeks in November-December): John F. Seitz; process ph: Farciot Edouart; sfx ph: Paul K. Lerpae
1950	Darling, How Could You!/Rendezvous [Mitchell Leisen] b&w
1951	The Stooge [Norman Taurog] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1951	Anything Can Happen [George Seaton] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1951	Sailor Beware [Hal Walker] b&w; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1951	Jumping Jacks [Norman Taurog] b&w; 2uc: Loyal Griggs; spec pfx: Gordon Jennings; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1952	The Girls of Pleasure Island [F. Hugh Herbert & (replaced F.H. Herbert, who fell ill) Alvin Ganzer] c; cph: W. Howard Greene; spec pfx: Jan Domela, Gordon Jennings & Irmin Roberts
1952	The Caddy [Norman Taurog] b&w; spec pfx: John P. Fulton & Paul K. Lerpae; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1953	Money from Home [George Marshall] c; originally in 3-D; spec pfx: John P. Fulton & Paul K. Lerpae; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1953	Knock on Wood [Norman Panama & Melvin Frank] c; 2uc: William Williams; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1953	Living It Up [Norman Taurog] c; 2uc: W. Wallace Kelley; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1954	Run for Cover/Colorado [Nicholas Ray] vv/c; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1954	The Far Horizons [: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition]/Untamed West [Rudolph Maté] vv/c; 2uc: William Williams; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1954	You're Never Too Young [Norman Taurog] vv/c; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1955	Artists and Models [Frank Tashlin] vv/c; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1955	Bing Presents Oreste [Edward Dmytryk] vv/c; mus short/?m; spec pfx: John P. Fulton
1955	The Birds and the Bees [Norman Taurog] vv/c; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1955	Pardners [Norman Taurog] vv/c; 2uc: W. Wallace Kelley; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1956	Hollywood or Bust [Frank Tashlin] vv/c; 2uc: W. Wallace Kelley; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1956	The Joker Is Wild/All the Way/The Joker [Charles Vidor] vv/b&w; uwph: Jordan Klein Sr.; spec pfx: John P. Fulton
1957	The Devil's Hairpin [Cornel Wilde] vv/c; 2uc: W. Wallace Kelley; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1957	Desire Under the Elms [Delbert Mann] vv/b&w; spec pfx: John P. Fulton
1957	Kings Go Forth [Delmer Daves] b&w; filmed August-September (in France) & November-December
1958	The Trap/The Baited Trap [Norman Panama] vv/c; 2uc: W. Wallace Kelley; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1958	The Five Pennies [Melville Shavelson] vv/c; 2uc: W. Wallace Kelley & (uncred) Irmin Roberts; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1959	On the Beach [Stanley Kramer] b&w; ph car race seq (filmed in Calif., USA); ph: Giuseppe Rotunno
1959	Li'l Abner [Melvin Frank] vv/c; spec pfx: John P. Fulton
1959	All the Young Men [Hall Bartlett] b&w; 'According to an 'American Cinematographer' article, director of photography Daniel Fapp "violated a theory of exposure long held by most photographers" and opened up one stop above the exposure indicated on his light meter when he shot snow scenes, rather than decreasing exposure one stop. Fapp also shot so as to use the sun's light as a cross-light or back-light, rather than the key source, for which he used arc booster lights. Fapp shot night sequences "day-for-night".' [From the TCM website.]
1960	Let's Make Love [George Cukor] cs/c; uncred fill-in ph: William C. Mellor (while Fapp was ill); filmed January-March & April-June (interruption due to Screen Actors Guild strike)
*1960*	King of Kings [Nicholas Ray] str70/c; started film, but became ill; ph: Milton Krasner, Franz Planer & Manuel Berenguer

[Left/glasses] - "West Side Story"

1960	West Side Story [Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins] sp70/c; visual cons: Saul Bass; pfx: Linwood Dunn; filmed August 1960-February 1961
1961	One, Two, Three [Billy Wilder] p/b&w; replaced doph Göran Strindberg during pre-production
1961	Bachelor Flat [Frank Tashlin] cs/c; spec pfx: L.B. Abbott

D. Fapp [in front of cam/glasses]; behind him dir Melville Shavelson and actor Charlton Heston [top/center]

"The Pigeon That Took Rome"

1962	The Pigeon That Took Rome [Melville Shavelson] p/b&w; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1962	The Great Escape [John Sturges] p/c; filmed June-October
1963	Fun in Acapulco [Richard Thorpe] c; 2uc: Irmin Roberts; spec pfx: Paul K. Lerpae; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1963	A New Kind of Love [Melville Shavelson] c; 2uc: Loyal Griggs; spec pfx: Paul K. Lerpae; process ph: Farciot Edouart
1963	Move Over, Darling [Michael Gordon] cs/c; spec pfx: L.B. Abbott & Emil Kosa Jr.
1964	The Unsinkable Molly Brown [Charles Walters] p/c; spec vfx: A. Arnold Gillespie, Robert R. Hoag & J. McMillan Johnson
1964	Send Me No Flowers [Norman Jewison] c
1964	The Pleasure Seekers [Jean Negulesco] cs/c
1965	I'll Take Sweden [Frederick De Cordova] c

1965	Our Man Flint [Daniel Mann] cs/c; spec pfx: L.B. Abbott, Emil Kosa Jr. & Howard Lydecker
1965	Lord Love a Duck [George Axelrod] b&w
1966	Spinout/California Holiday [Norman Taurog] p/c; spec vfx: J. McMillan Johnson & Carroll Shepphird
1966	Double Trouble [Norman Taurog] p/c
1967	Sweet November [Robert Ellis Miller] c
1968	Ice Station Zebra [John Sturges] sp70 (presented in Super Cinerama)/c; arctic unit ph: John M. Stephens; add arctic ph: Nelson Tyler; spec vfx: J. McMillan Johnson, Carroll Shepphird & Clarence Slifer; optical efx: Robert R. Hoag
1968	5 Card Stud [Henry Hathaway] c
1969	Marooned/Space Travelers [John Sturges] p (+ 70bu)/c; 2uc: W. Wallace Kelley; aph: Nelson Tyler; spec vfx: Lawrence Butler, Donald C. Glouner & Robie Robinson

MISCELLANEOUS
Worked with doph Harry Fischbeck [more than 50 films], Victor Milner, Bert Glennon, Alfred Gilks, a.o.
1925	The Golden Princess [Clarence Badger] c.op; ph: H. Kinley Martin
1928	Marquis Preferred [Frank Tuttle] co-c.asst; ph: Harry Fischbeck
1929	Street of Chance [John Cromwell] c.op; ph: Charles Lang Jr.
1930	The Spoilers [Edward Carewe] c.op; ph: Harry Fischbeck
1930	El dios del mar [Eduardo Venturini] co-2nd cam; ph: David Abel; Spanish-language version of 'The Sea God' (d: George Abbott; ph: Archie Stout)
1931	The Secret Call [Stuart Walker & (assoc dir) Robert Lee] co-2nd cam; ph: David Abel
1931	Huckleberry Finn [Norman Taurog] co-2nd cam; ph: David Abel
1931	Monkey Business [Norman Z. McLeod] c.op; ph: Arthur L. Todd
1931	Rich Man's Folly [John Cromwell] c.op; ph: David Abel
1931	The False Madonna/The False Idol [Stuart Walker] co-c.op; ph: Henry Sharp
1931	Shanghai Express [Josef von Sternberg] 2nd cam; ph: Lee Garmes
1931	This Reckless Age [Frank Tuttle] co-2nd cam; ph: Henry Sharp
1932	Horse Feathers [Norman Z. McLeod] co-c.op; ph: Ray June
1932	The Night of June 13th [Stephen Roberts] c.op; ph: Harry Fischbeck
1932	Tonight Is Ours [Stuart Walker & (assoc dir) Mitchell Leisen] co-c.asst; ph: Karl Struss
1932	Terror Aboard [Paul Sloane] c.op; ph: Harry Fischbeck
1933	The Eagle and the Hawk [Stuart Walker] 2nd cam; ph: Harry Fischbeck
1933	Big Executive [Erle C. Kenton] co-c.op; ph: Harry Fischbeck
1934	Thirty Day Princess [Marion Gering] c.op; ph: Leon Shamroy
1941	Kiss the Boys Goodbye [Victor Schertzinger] 2nd cam; ph: Ted Tetzlaff