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David Franco

Born September 14, 1963 · France (age 63)

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Known For

The Song of Names · 2019

The Song of Names

★ 6.72019

MovieDramaMusic

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith · 2005

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

★ 7.52005

MovieAdventureAction

When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

The Whole Nine Yards · 2000

The Whole Nine Yards

★ 6.52000

MovieComedyCrime

After a mobster agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison, he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbours figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit—suburban style.

Ray Donovan: The Movie · 2022

Ray Donovan: The Movie

★ 6.82022

MovieCrimeDrama

A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each of them struggles to overcome their violent upbringing, but destiny dies hard, and only their fierce love for each other keeps them in the fight.

A deranged prison warden with a nasty habit of killing escapees forces the boyfriends of his teenage twin daughters into a shotgun wedding, after they claim to be pregnant. All hope seems lost, until the husbands hatch a madcap plan to rob a money train to freedom.

3000 Miles to Graceland · 2001

3000 Miles to Graceland

★ 5.92001

MovieActionAdventure

It was an ingenious enough plan: rob the Riviera Casino's count room during an Elvis impersonator convention. But Thomas Murphy decided to keep all the money for himself and shot all his partners, including recently-freed ex-con Michael Zane. With $3.2 million at stake, the Marshals Service closing in, Michael must track down Murphy.

Code Name: The Cleaner · 2007

Code Name: The Cleaner

★ 5.12007

MovieActionComedy

Cedric the Entertainer plays Jake, a seemingly regular guy who has no idea who he is after being hit over the head by mysterious assailants. When he finds himself entangled in a government conspiracy, Jake and his pursuers become convinced that he is an undercover agent.

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The Song of Names · 2019

The Song of Names

★ 6.72019

MovieDramaMusic

A man searches for his childhood best friend, a Polish violin prodigy orphaned in the Holocaust, who vanished decades before on the night of his first public performance.

Director of Photography

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith · 2005

Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

★ 7.52005

MovieAdventureAction

When the sinister Sith unveil a thousand-year-old plot to rule the galaxy, the Republic crumbles and from its ashes rises the evil Galactic Empire. Jedi hero Anakin Skywalker must choose a side.

Additional Director of Photography

A former U.S. soldier returns to his hometown to find it overrun by crime and corruption, which prompts him to clean house.

Second Unit Director of Photography

The Whole Nine Yards · 2000

The Whole Nine Yards

★ 6.52000

MovieComedyCrime

Director of Photography

Ray Donovan: The Movie · 2022

Ray Donovan: The Movie

★ 6.82022

MovieCrimeDrama

Director of Photography

Director of Photography

3000 Miles to Graceland · 2001

3000 Miles to Graceland

★ 5.92001

MovieActionAdventure

Director of Photography

Code Name: The Cleaner · 2007

Code Name: The Cleaner

★ 5.12007

MovieActionComedy

Director of Photography

The Assignment · 1997

The Assignment

★ 6.31997

MovieThrillerAction

Jack Shaw has experienced the terror first-hand. He's a top CIA agent who's tracked international killer-for-hire Carlos "The Jackal" Sanchez for over twenty years and barely survived Carlos' devastating bombing of a Parisian cafe. Now, he finally gets a break when he discovers Carlos' dead ringer: American naval officer and dedicated family man Annibal Ramirez.

Director of Photography

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience · 2015

Game of Thrones The IMAX Experience

★ 8.62015

MovieDramaFantasy

The first episode of this IMAX screening takes place entirely at The Wall with the Night’s Watch (S4 EP9) hopelessly outnumbered as they attempt to defend Castle Black from the Wildings and features one the fiercest and most intense battle scenes ever filmed for television. The second episode (S4 EP10), features Dany coming to grips with the realities of ruling a kingdom, Bran learning the startling reality of his destiny and Tyrion facing the truth of his unfortunate situation.

Director of Photography

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee · 2007

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

★ 6.52007

MovieWesternDrama

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is told through two unique perspectives: Charles Eastman, a young, white-educated Sioux doctor held up as living proof of the alleged success of assimilation, and Sitting Bull the proud Lakota chief whose tribe won the American Indians’ last major victory at Little Big Horn.

Director of Photography

Silent Trigger · 1996

Silent Trigger

★ 5.31996

MovieDramaAction

Waxman is a former Special Forces soldier who is now working as a heavily armed assassin for a top secret government agency. When a covert mission goes terribly wrong, Waxman and fellow assassin Clegg become that agency's prime targets.

Director of Photography

A troubled and angry 11-year-old orphan from a small Texas town, ends up at a Boy Choir school after the death of his single mother. Completely out of his element, he finds himself in a battle of wills with a demanding Choir Master who recognises a unique talent in this young boy as he pushes him to discover his creative heart and soul in music.

Director of Photography

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out · 2003

44 Minutes: The North Hollywood Shoot-Out

★ 6.62003

MovieActionDrama

After a failed bank robbery, two heavily armed men hold the Los Angeles Police Department at bay for 44 minutes.

Director of Photography

Ruffian is an American made-for-television movie that tells the story of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Champion thoroughbred filly Ruffian who went undefeated until her death after breaking down in a nationally televised match race at Belmont Park on July 6, 1975 against the Kentucky Derby winner, Foolish Pleasure. Made by ESPN Original Entertainment, the film is directed by Yves Simoneau and stars Sam Shepard as Ruffian's trainer, Frank Whiteley. The producers used four different geldings in the role of Ruffian. Locations for the 2007 film included Louisiana Downs in Shreveport, Louisiana and Belmont Park in Elmont, New York.

Director of Photography

Livingston is trying to merge the Russians, Chinese and Italian gangsters into one group with huge amounts of money and power. FBI agent Susan and DEA agent Max are trying to stop them.

Director of Photography

King Nicholas XX is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St. Nicholas. But he is a no-show, preferring his lavish seaside lifestyle and sexy girlfriend.

Director of Photography

Chaos and Desire · 2002

Chaos and Desire

★ 5.32002

MovieDramaMystery

Suspecting that the cecassion of the tides may indicate an impending earthquake, Seismologist Alice arrives in her hometown of Baie-Comeau, Quebec to commence her investigation. Soon confronted by numerous figures from her past, the unusual weather and inexplicable behavior of the citizens lead Alice to believe that something beyond her comprehension is occurring to her old hometown...

Director of Photography

Z: The Beginning of Everything · 2015

Z: The Beginning of Everything

★ 7.02015

MovieDramaHistory

The story of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, a brilliant and beautiful Southern belle who became the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age.

Cinematography

Lady X is a woman who works during the day as a model but turns into a fighter for justice at night with the help of her karate master Chang.

Director of Photography

A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.

Director of Photography

Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss · 2004

Call Me: The Rise and Fall of Heidi Fleiss

★ 4.62004

MovieDramaRomance

The story of Heidi Fleiss, known as "The Hollywood Madam", who was the daughter of a prominent Los Angeles doctor and eventually became a prostitute for a well-known Los Angeles madam. She took over her boss' operation and soon was raking in $300,000 a month by hiring only the most beautiful and highest-class hookers and catering to wealthy Hollywood types, European and American corporate executives and Arab sheiks. Her operation was broken up by Los Angeles police in 1993, and she eventually went to prison for income-tax evasion.

Director of Photography

Based on a true story, Vendetta tells the shocking and tragic story of a group of Sicilian immigrants working on the New Orleans docks in the 1890's. After the Chief of Police was brutally murdered, much of the city's Sicilian population was rounded up and brought in for questioning. Eventually, thirteen were formally tried for murder and nine went to trial, and while they were acquitted, a series of brutal lynchings showed they had as much to fear from the city's general populace as they did from the corrupt police force.

Director of Photography

I Love a Man in Uniform · 1993

I Love a Man in Uniform

★ 6.41993

MovieDramaThriller

Henry Adler, an outwardly normal banker, yearns to make it in show business and still answers to his overbearing father. When Henry is hired to act in a television police drama, he realizes his big break has arrived and decides to do whatever it takes to get into the role — even if that means donning his police costume in public during off hours. It isn't long, however, before Henry begins to take the law into his own hands as his violent side chillingly emerges.

Director of Photography

Game of Thrones · 2011

Game of Thrones

★ 8.52011

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

Seven noble families fight for control of the mythical land of Westeros. Friction between the houses leads to full-scale war. All while a very ancient evil awakens in the farthest north. Amidst the war, a neglected military order of misfits, the Night's Watch, is all that stands between the realms of men and icy horrors beyond.

Director of Photography

Desperate Housewives · 2004

Desperate Housewives

★ 7.92004

SeriesMysteryDrama

Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the loveliest of suburbs, Mary Alice ended it all. Now she's taking us into the lives of her family, friends and neighbors, commenting from her elevated P.O.V.

Director of Photography

Stranger Things · 2016

Stranger Things

★ 8.52016

SeriesAction & AdventureMystery

When a young boy vanishes, a small town uncovers a mystery involving secret experiments, terrifying supernatural forces, and one strange little girl.

Director of Photography

Westworld · 2016

Westworld

★ 8.02016

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyWestern

A dark odyssey about the dawn of artificial consciousness and the evolution of sin. Set at the intersection of the near future and the reimagined past, it explores a world in which every human appetite, no matter how noble or depraved, can be indulged.

Director of Photography

Fallout · 2024

Fallout

★ 8.12024

SeriesAction & AdventureSci-Fi & Fantasy

The story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there's almost nothing left to have. 200 years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind — and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them.

Director of Photography

Set in the sprawling mecca of the rich and famous, Ray Donovan does the dirty work for LA's top power players, and makes their problems disappear. His father's unexpected release from prison sets off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.

Director of Photography

Masters of the Air · 2024

Masters of the Air

★ 7.82024

SeriesDramaWar & Politics

During World War II, airmen risk their lives with the 100th Bomb Group, a brotherhood forged by courage, loss, and triumph.

Director of Photography

In December 1776, Benjamin Franklin is world-famous for his electrical experiments. But his passion and power are put to the test when he embarks on a secret mission to France—with the fate of American independence hanging in the balance.

Producer

Set in 1932 Los Angeles, the series focuses on the origin story of famed defense lawyer Perry Mason. Living check-to-check as a low-rent private investigator, Mason is haunted by his wartime experiences in France and suffering the effects of a broken marriage. L.A. is booming while the rest of the country recovers from the Great Depression — but a kidnapping gone very wrong leads to Mason exposing a fractured city as he uncovers the truth of the crime.

Director of Photography

Alien: Earth · 2025

Alien: Earth

★ 7.32025

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

When the mysterious deep space research vessel USCSS Maginot crash-lands on Earth, Wendy and a ragtag group of tactical soldiers make a fateful discovery that puts them face-to-face with the planet's greatest threat.

Director of Photography

V · 2009

★ 6.82009

SeriesSci-Fi & FantasyDrama

A re-imagining of the 1980s miniseries about the world's first encounter with an alien race in which the aliens call themselves The Visitors, and have a seemingly friendly agenda that may or may not be a cover for something more malevolent.

Director of Photography

Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.

Director of Photography

A murdered body on a bridge between El Paso and Juarez bring together El Paso detective Sonya Cross and Chihuahua State Police detective Marco Ruiz.

Director of Photography

Little America · 2020

Little America

★ 6.62020

SeriesDramaComedy

Observe the funny, romantic, heartfelt, inspiring, and surprising stories of immigrants in America.

Director of Photography

Inventing Anna · 2022

Inventing Anna

★ 6.82022

SeriesDrama

Audacious entrepreneur or con artist? A journalist chases down the story of Anna Delvey, who convinced New York's elite she was a German heiress.

Director of Photography

The Last Don II · 1998

The Last Don II

★ 6.81998

SeriesCrimeDrama

As the elder don dies, his young heir moves into the position. He quickly proves to be as ruthless as he tries to discover who has launched a plot to overthrow his rule and may be infiltrating other families. In a left over plot line, his aunt discovers that the young don had her son murdered first setting her off in a plot to kill him. Then when she is stopped she is driven into the arms of a conflicted priest. Meanwhile, an undercover FBI agent moves into the family home as a teacher for the don's handicapped daughter.

Director of Photography