Fred Jackman Jr.

Biography

Fred Jackman Jr. was a pioneering American director of photography and film editor, born Frederic Hammond Jackman on January 8, 1913, in Los Angeles, California. He began his career as a cameraman on the 1935 western "Moonlight on the Prairie" and went on to work on numerous low-budget films, including science fiction classics like "The Flying Saucers Attack" (1956) and musicals like "C'est la fête au harem" (1965).