ROBERT FRAISSE

Born: 1940, Paris, France.

Education: Vaugirard School for Cinema [École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière] [1960], Paris.

Career: Was c.asst for 11 years and worked with doph Michel Kelber, Henri Alekan, Claude Renoir, Christopher Challis, David Watkin, a.o.

Ph numerous commercials dir by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Henrik Klokker Hansen [for Subaru], a.o.

Was a member of the AFC.

Awards: 'Oscar' AA nom [1993] & 'César' Award nom [1993] for 'L'amant'; CableACE Award nom [1995] for 'Citizen X'; Camerimage 'Silver Frog' [2000] for 'Vatel'; BSC Award nom [2001] for 'Enemy at the Gates'.

FILMS
1970	Connaissez-vous les statues de Paris? [Marc de Gastyne] 16mm/c; doc/14m
1972	Un homme libre/A Free Man [Roberto Muller] c
1973	24 heures en bleu [Pierre Willemin] c; doc/15m; cph: Pierre Willemin & René Guissart
1974	Moi je veux voir la mer... [Christian-Paul Arrighi] 16mm/c
1975	Emmanuelle, l'anti-vièrge/Emmanuelle 2/Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman [Francis Giacobetti & Francis Leroi] p/c
1975	Histoire d'O/The Story of O [Just Jaeckin] c; cph: Yves Rodallec
1976	Madame Claude/The French Woman [Just Jaeckin] c
1977	122, rue de Provence/One Two Two [Christian Gion] c
1977	Le dernier amant romantique/The Last Romantic Lover/Playmate [Just Jaeckin] c; cph: Yves Rodallec
1978	Collections privées [seg #1 'L'île aux sirènes' dir by Just Jaeckin] c; 3 seg; other ph: Tatsuo Suzuki (seg #2) & Noël Véry (seg #3)
1981	Lady Chatterley's Lover/L'amant de Lady Chatterley [Just Jaeckin] c
1981	Ma femme s'appelle reviens/Singles [Patrice Leconte] c
1982	Circulez, y'a rien à voir [Patrice Leconte] c
1983	L'addition/The Patsy/The Caged Heart/The Bill [Denis Amar] c
1984	Le jumeau/The Twin [Yves Robert] p/c
1984	Le téléphone sonne toujours deux fois [Jean-Pierre Vergne] c
1985	La gitane/The Gypsy [Philippe de Broca] c
1986	Cours privé [Pierre Granier-Deferre] c
1986	Le débutant [Daniel Janneau] c
1987	Chateauroux district [Philippe Charigot] c
1987	Spirale [Christopher Frank] c
1987	La passerelle/The Catwalk [Jean-Claude Sussfeld] c
1988	À gauche en sortant de l'ascenseur [Edouard Molinaro] p/c
1990	Parechocs [Michel Thibaud] c; short/7m
1991	L'amant/The Lover [Jean-Jacques Annaud] c
1992	Un crime [Jacques Deray] c
1994	Wings of Courage/Guillaumet, les ailes du courage [Jean-Jacques Annaud] IMAX 2-D & 3-D/c; short/40m
1994	Keys to Tulsa [Leslie Greif] c; 2uc: James Wrenn
1995	Fantôme avec chauffeur [Gérard Oury] c
1996	Maximum Risk/Bloodstone/The Exchange [Ringo Lam] s35/c; co-2uc; ph: Alexander Gruszynski
1996	Seven Years in Tibet [Jean-Jacques Annaud] p/c; ph foreign loc: Allen Smith, David Breashears & Dominique Gentil
1997	Ronin [John Frankenheimer] s35/c; aph: Charlet Recors; filmed 1997-98
1999	La bûche/Season's Beatings [Danièle Thompson] c
1999	Vatel [Roland Joffé] s35/c
1999	Ces messieurs de la maréchaussée [Emmanuel Rigaut] b&w; short/6m
1999	Enemy at the Gates/Stalingrad - Enemy at the Gates [Jean-Jacques Annaud] s35/c; addph: Geoff Boyle; 2uc: Allen Smith; vfx ph: Peter Talbot
2002	Tempo [Eric Styles] c

[Right] - "Luther"

2002	Luther [Eric Till] c
*2002*	Spoils [Nicholas Meyer] originally scheduled to start in October 2000, then 2001, then September 2002; status unknown
2002	The Notebook [Nick Cassavetes] J-D-C Scope/c; beauty unit ph: Keith Sherer; replaced doph Rogier Stoffers; + small part
2004	Hotel Rwanda [Terry George] s35/c; add footage ph: Vincent G. Cox
2004	Alpha Dog [Nick Cassavetes] Hawk Scope/c; addph: Francis Kenny
2005	La doublure/The Valet [Francis Veber] scope/c

[Right] with Bille August - "Goodbye Bafana"

2006	Goodbye Bafana/The Color of Freedom [Bille August] s35/c; 2uc: Chris Lomax
2006	Babylon A.D. [Mathieu Kassovitz] s35/c; ph Paris; ph: Thierry Arbogast
*2007*	Purple Mountain/The Rape of Nanking [Simon West] filming started in August; status unknown
*2007*	Counterfight/Majik [Mark Hammond] scheduled to start shooting in October; status unknown
2008	L'emmerdeur [Francis Veber] s35/c; aph: Charlet Recors; remake of film (1973, Edouard Molinaro; ph: Raoul Coutard)
*2009*	Deauville [Miguel Cruz Carretero] pre-production
2010	Girl on a Bicycle [Jeremy Leven] scope/c; addph: Markus Förderer
2011	Comme un chef [Daniel Cohen] HD (ARRI ALEXA Plus)-to-digital (scope)/c
2013	The Other Woman [Nick Cassavetes] Hawk Scope (+ D-Cinema)/c; 2uc: Jack Donnelly

TELEVISION
1980	Asphalte/Asphalt [Denis Amar] tvm
1991	Strangers [ep (30m) 'The Last Game' dir by Daniel Vigne] 3-part series
1994	Citizen X [Chris Gerolmo] tvm
2009	Le vernis craque/The Varnish Cracks [Daniel Janneau] 2-part tvm ('Le déjeuner des canotiers' [d'Auguste Renoir] & 'Un bal au moulin de la Galette' [de Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec]) (2011)
2010	La collection "Écrire pour..." [ep 'Dormir debout' dir by Jean-Luc Perréard] series; ep (10m) of 3rd season '5 fois Nathalie Baye', 2011; for Canal+

FILMS AS CAMERA ASSISTANT/OPERATOR
1961	La vendetta [Jean Chérasse] co-2nd c.asst; ph: Roland Pontoizeau
1961	Le caporal épinglé/The Elusive Corporal [Guy Lefranc & Jean Renoir] co-c.asst; ph: Georges Leclerc
1962	Le procès/The Trial [Orson Welles] 2nd c.asst; ph: Edmond Richard
1964	Journal d'une femme en blanc [Claude Autant-Lara] c.asst; ph: Michel Kelber
1966	Une femme en blanc se révolte [Claude Autant-Lara] c.asst; ph: Michel Kelber
1966	Fantômas contre Scotland Yard [André Hunebelle] co-c.asst; ph: Marcel Grignon
1967	Estouffade à la Caraïbe/The Looters/Gold Robbers [Jacques Besnard] c.asst; ph: Marcel Grignon
1967	Les grandes vacances [Jean Girault] c.asst; ph: Marcel Grignon
1968	Le gendarme se marie/The Gendarme Gets Married [Jean Girault] co-c.asst; ph: Marcel Grignon
1969	Appelez-moi Mathilde [Pierre Mondy] 1st c.asst; ph: Marcel Grignon
1970	Point de chute [Robert Hossein] 1st c.asst; ph: Daniel Diot
1970	Le cinéma de papa/Le cancre [Claude Berri] 1st c.asst; ph: Jean Penzer
1970	Un beau monstre/Love Me Strangely/A Strange Love Affair [Sergio Gobbi] co-c.asst; ph: Daniel Diot
1971	L'odeur des fauves [Richard Balducci] c.op; ph: Tadasu-G-Suzuki
1973	Emmanuelle [Just Jaeckin] c.op; ph: Richard Suzuki
1988	Dark Holiday/Passport to Terror [Lou Antonio; tvm] c.op France; ph: Larry Pizer