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name: "Fred Koenekamp"
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roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "11 November 1922"
died: "31 May 2017"
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# Fred Koenekamp

Cinematographer. Born 11 November 1922 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Died 31 May 2017.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 11 November 1922, Los Angeles, California, USA
- **Died:** 31 May 2017
- **Active:** 1970–1973
- **Also known as:** Fred J. Koenekamp, Fred J. Koenkamp
- **Works often with:** Franklin J. Schaffner, Jerry Goldsmith

## Biography

Fred J. Koenekamp was an American cinematographer who worked in film and television from the 1960s to the 1990s. The son of cinematographer Hans F. Koenekamp, he began his career in 1947 as a film loader at RKO and later spent more than a decade at MGM, where he served as director of photography on the series *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (1964–67), for which he received Emmy recognition.

Koenekamp received an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for *The Towering Inferno* (1974, shared with Joseph Biroc). He earned further Oscar nominations for *Patton* (1970) and *Islands in the Stream* (1977). He collaborated frequently with director Franklin J. Schaffner on films including *Patton*, *Papillon* (1973) and *Islands in the Stream*. Other credits include *The Amityville Horror* (1979), *The Champ* (1979) and *The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension* (1984). In 2005 he received the American Society of Cinematographers Lifetime Achievement Award.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, hollywoodreporter.com, theasc.com, variety.com.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Papillon* (1973), Fi1m 74, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/papillon.md)
- *Patton* (1970), Fi1m 82, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/patton.md)

## Also known for

- *The Towering Inferno* (1974), Director of Photography
- *The Amityville Horror* (1979), Director of Photography
- *The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension* (1984), Director of Photography
- *Mission: Impossible* (1966), Director of Photography
- *Beyond the Valley of the Dolls* (1970), Director of Photography
- *The Champ* (1979), Director of Photography
- *The Swarm* (1978), Director of Photography
- *The Outer Limits* (1963), Director of Photography

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