American Cinematographer - March 1993 - 52

Freddie
An

Young, BSC:

Epic Trail of Achievement
by Bob Fisher

screen

Daughter in 1970. These epic films

men were

Achievement Award. "Freddie

created another dimension for the

it

Young has had a remarkable ca¬
reer," says ASC President William
A. Fraker. "He played a leading
role in the evolution of cinematog¬
raphy as an art form. His body of
work is extraordinary. This is a
well-deserved and appropriate
tribute to a colleague who has

audience, immersing viewers in the
story via stunning imagery.

earned
tion."

our

admiration and affec¬

Young's name conjures up

unforgettable visual memories of
Lawrence in the searing desert,
where the sun looms as a huge red
ball over a seemingly endless hori¬
zon; or of Zhivago trudging
through the vast frigid wastelands
of Siberia. The cinematographer
won

50

collaborations with David

On February 21, F.A. (Freddie)
Young, BSC, became the first recipi¬
ent of the American Society of Cinematographers' International

three Oscars for his wide¬

American

Cinematographer

Lean - Lawrence of Arabia in 1962,
Dr. Zhivago in 1965, and Ryan's

quit school when I was 14," he re¬
calls. "My family was hard up, it
was

wartime, and a lot of the older
in the service. That made

possible for
job."

a

teenager to get a

His first job was at a mu¬
nitions plant, but after a few weeks,

In addition to the acco¬
lades for his monumental triptych
with Lean, Young earned other

Young applied for work at

Oscar nominations for Ivanhoe and
Nicholas and Alexandra in 1952 and

film," he recalls. "My brother and I
would go to the cinema every Sat¬

1971, respectively, and captured an
Emmy for his work on Macbeth in
1963. But those are only a few of the
more
prominent milestones mark¬
ing a career that stretched over nine

urday. The studio asked what I was
interested in, and I said photogra¬
phy. They said I could start the next
day. I was hired as a lab techni¬

Gaumont Studios. "I

March 1993

keen

on

cian."

decades.

Young was born in En¬
gland in 1902, just seven years af¬
ter the first movie theater opened in
New York City. He made an inaus¬
picious entry into the fledgling
movie industry in 1917. "I had to

was

Although Young's family
was

a

concerned that he "had chosen

precarious profession which

could disappear at any moment,"
his career ended up spanning most
of the history

industry. He

of the motion picture
was

shooting

com-



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