Last take for fine filmmakers

Freddie Francis, who died on Saturday aged 89, was one of Britain's most gifted cinematographers, earning Oscars for his work…

Freddie Francis, who died on Saturday aged 89, was one of Britain's most gifted cinematographers, earning Oscars for his work on Sons and Lovers (1961) and Glory (1990).

His distinctive early work included Room at the Top, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning and The Innocents, before he switched to directing, mostly on horror movies such as Dracula Has Risen From the Grave and Tales From the Crypt.

He returned to cinematography in 1980 for The Elephant Man, the first of three films with David Lynch, along with Dune and The Straight Story (above), and such notable films as The French Lieutenant's Woman, The Executioner's Song and Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear.

And director Stuart Rosenberg, who died last weekend at the age of 79, worked on episodic US TV drama before making his mark in feature films with the prison drama Cool Hand Luke (1967). It was the first of four Rosenberg movies starring Paul Newman, followed by WUSA, Pocket Money and The Drowning Pool. Rosenberg's other credits included The April Fools, The Amityville Horror, Brubaker and The Pope of Greenwich Village.