Alfredo Fraile

Alfredo Fraile Lallana (April 25, 1912, Madrid, Spain – May 21, 1994, Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish cinematographer and film producer.

Biography

Alfredo Fraile was best known in the film industry for his role as a producer, although he started his career in cinema as a cinematographer. He began his work in cinema as a camera operator, which was the term used for cinematographers at that time. In 1942, guided by his friend Rafael Gil, he made his debut as a cinematographer in the film Traces of Light.

He married María Josefa Laméyer Pascual (1919–2015), with whom he had eight children.

Alfredo Fraile died in May 1994 at the age of 82 in his hometown of Madrid.

Selected filmography

• Follow the Legion (1942)
• Traces of Light (1943)
• Eloisa Is Under an Almond Tree (1943)
• The Nail (1944)
• The Prodigal Woman (1946)
• The Faith (1947)
• The Princess of the Ursines (1947)
• Don Quixote (1947)
• The Sunless Street (1948)
• Mare Nostrum (1948)
• Peace (1949)
• The Lioness of Castille (1951)
• Dawn of America (1951)
• I Was a Parish Priest (1953)
• Judas' Kiss (1954)
• Malvaloca (1954)
• The Other Life of Captain Contreras (1955)
• Death of a Cyclist (1955)
• Let's Make the Impossible! (1958)
• La vida alrededor (1959)
• At Five O'Clock in the Afternoon (1961)

Awards

• CEC Awards

Literature

• . Aurum. 2003. ISBN 978-1-85410-889-0

External links

• at IMDb
• . rescatandosombras.es