Frank Tidy

Frank Tidy (17 May 1932 – 27 January 2017) was an English cinematographer.

Early life

Born in Liverpool, Tidy initially worked in stop motion animation before beginning working as a cinematographer.^[1] Along with Roger Woodburn and Peter Biziou, he founded the company Valley Films, and would work on hundreds of commercials, many of which directed by eventual film director Ridley Scott and his brother Tony Scott. In 1977, he would serve as cinematographer on Scott's directorial debut The Duellists, for which he received a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Cinematography.

Tidy's filmography would eventually include Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, Under Siege and Chain Reaction. He was a Genie Award nominee for Best Cinematography in 1986 for the film One Magic Christmas.^[2]

Tidy died on 27 January 2017, aged 84, at a Kent nursing home following a battle with dementia.^[3]

Filmography

Director of photography

Film

Year	Film	Director	Notes
1977	The Duellists	Ridley Scott
1979	Dracula	John Badham	Uncredited
1980	The Lucky Star	Max Fischer
1982	The Grey Fox	Phillip Borsos	First collaboration with Phillip Borsos
1983	Spacehunter: Adventures in the Forbidden Zone	Lamont Johnson
1985	The Mean Season	Phillip Borsos	Second collaboration with Phillip Borsos
	Code of Silence	Andrew Davis	First collaboration with Andrew Davis
	One Magic Christmas	Phillip Borsos	Third collaboration with Phillip Borsos
1986	Sweet Liberty	Alan Alda
1986	John and the Missus	Gordon Pinsent
1987	Hot Pursuit	Steven Lisberger	First collaboration with Steven Lisberger
1988	The Raggedy Rawney	Bob Hoskins
1989	Slipstream	Steven Lisberger	Second collaboration with Steven Lisberger
1989	The Package	Andrew Davis	Second collaboration with Andrew Davis
1991	The Butcher's Wife	Terry Hughes
1992	Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot	Roger Spottiswoode
1992	Under Siege	Andrew Davis	Third collaboration with Andrew Davis
1994	Wagons East	Peter Markle
1995	Steal Big Steal Little	Andrew Davis	Fourth collaboration with Andrew Davis
1996	Getting Away with Murder	Harvey Miller
1996	Chain Reaction	Andrew Davis	Fifth collaboration with Andrew Davis
1997	Hoodlum	Bill Duke
2004	Some Things That Stay	Gail Harvey

Actor

Year	Film	Director	Role
1987	Hot Pursuit	Steven Lisberger	Britisher
1991	The Butcher's Wife	Terry Hughes	—

Direct-to-video films

Year	Film	Director
1975	Parker Pens: Finishing School	Alan Parker

TV movies

Year	Film	Director
1988	April Morning	Delbert Mann
1989	Sorry, Wrong Number	Tony Wharmby
1989	Final Notice	Steven Hilliard Stern
1990	Personals	Steven Hilliard Stern
	The Kissing Place	Tony Wharmby
	Hitler's Daughter	James A. Contner
	The Last Best Year	John Erman
1992	Through the Eyes of a Killer	Peter Markle
1993	Shattered Trust: The Shari Karney Story	Bill Corcoran
1994	One More Mountain	Dick Lowry
1994	She Led Two Lives	Bill Corcoran
1995	Black Fox	Steven Hilliard Stern
	Black Fox: The Price of Peace
	Black Fox: Good Men and Bad
1996	The Boys Next Door	John Erman
1996	A Holiday for Love	Jerry London
1997	The Third Twin	Tom McLoughlin
1998	My Father's Shadow: The Sam Sheppard Story	Peter Levin
1998	Dead Husbands	Paul Shapiro
2000	The Christmas Secret	Ian Barry
2001	Jewel	Paul Shapiro

Camera and electrical department

Year	Film	Director	Role
1992	The Women of Windsor	Steven Hilliard Stern	Cinematographer: UK second unit

TV series

Year	Title	Notes
1981−82	The Phoenix	5 episodes