Jack Draper
American cinematographer

Jack Draper

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American cinematographer
Gender:
Male
Birth:
5 March 1892(Spencer, Owen County, Indiana, USA)
Death:
1962(Mexico City, First Mexican Empire, Mexico)
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Introduction

Jack Draper (1892–1962) was an American cinematographer. He worked in Mexico for most of his career, where he was a leading film worker of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Selected filmography

  • Pony Express Rider (1926)
  • Across the Plains (1928)
  • Cheyenne Trails (1928)
  • Jazzland (1928)
  • Trails of Treachery (1928)
  • The Phantom (1931)
  • Here's the Point (1940)
  • In the Times of Don Porfirio (1940)
  • I'm a Real Mexican (1942)
  • Simón Bolívar (1942)
  • Romeo and Juliet (1943)
  • The Two Orphans (1944)
  • My Memories of Mexico (1944)
  • Mischievous Susana (1945)
  • I Am a Fugitive (1946)
  • Ramona (1946)
  • Fly Away, Young Man! (1947)
  • Over the Waves (1950)
  • Kill Me Because I'm Dying! (1951)
  • Full Speed Ahead (1951)
  • What Has That Woman Done to You? (1951)
  • The Night Falls (1952)
  • The Atomic Fireman (1952)
  • Tehuantepec (1954)
  • Acapulco (1956)
  • Puss Without Boots (1957)
  • A Thousand and One Nights (1958)
  • The Phantom of the Operetta (1960)
  • To Each His Life (1960)
  • Three Black Angels (1960)
  • Love in the Shadows (1960)
  • Don Quixote de Orson Welles (1992)

Bibliography

  • Charles Ramírez Berg. The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films. University of Texas Press, 2015.