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name: "Jack Draper"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jack-draper"
fi1m_id: "jack-draper"
imdb_id: "nm0005691"
tmdb_id: 455064
wikidata_id: "Q24203452"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "5 March 1892"
died: "1 October 1962"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-22T01:10:12.042384+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Jack Draper

## Identity

Jack Draper

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jack-draper
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jack-draper
- **IMDb ID:** nm0005691
- **TMDB ID:** 455064
- **Wikidata ID:** Q24203452
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Draper_(cinematographer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24203452, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005691/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/455064

Cinematographer. Born 5 March 1892 in Spencer, Indiana, USA. Died 1 October 1962.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 5 March 1892, Spencer, Indiana, USA
- **Died:** 1 October 1962
- **Also known as:** Lauren Draper, Jack L. Draper, Jack Lauron Draper, L.A. Draper, Lauren A. Draper, Lauron A. Draper, Lauron C. Draper, Lauron Draper, Lauron Drapper
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Draper_(cinematographer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q24203452, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005691/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/455064

## Biography

Jack Draper (1892–1962) was an American cinematographer. He began working in the United States in the mid-1920s and later moved to Mexico, where he became a leading cinematographer during the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

He served as director of photography on many films, including *You're Missing the Point* (1940), *Soy un prófugo* (1946), *Tarzan and the Mermaids* (1948), *The Black Sheep* (1949) and *The Atomic Fireman* (1952). Footage he shot for an Orson Welles project in the 1950s was used in the 1992 release of *Don Quixote*.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Don Quixote* (1992), Fi1m 54, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/don-quixote.md)

## Complete filmography (102)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Don Quixote* (1992), Director of Photography — Fi1m 54, [page](https://film.one/film/don-quixote.md)
- *The World of the Vampires* (1961), Director of Photography
- *Muchachas que trabajan* (1961), Director of Photography
- *The Treasure of the Indian* (1961), Director of Photography
- *The Phantom of the Operetta* (1960), Director of Photography
- *El Violetero* (1960), Director of Photography
- *Amor en la sombra* (1960), Cinematography
- *The Crying Woman* (1960), Director of Photography
- *¡Yo sabia demasiado!* (1960), Director of Photography
- *Dos hijos desobedientes* (1960), Cinematography
- *Simitrio* (1960), Director of Photography
- *To Each His Own Life* (1960), Cinematography
- *El ciclón* (1959), Director of Photography
- *800 Leagues Over the Amazon* (1959), Director of Photography
- *The Woman and the Beast* (1959), Director of Photography
- *El caso de una adolescente* (1958), Director of Photography
- *La mafia del crimen* (1958), Director of Photography
- *The Marked Woman* (1957), Director of Photography
- *El gato sin botas* (1957), Director of Photography
- *La Diana Cazadora* (1957), Director of Photography
- *La dulce enemiga* (1957), Director of Photography
- *La adúltera* (1956), Director of Photography
- *Serenata en México* (1956), Director of Photography
- *De carne somos* (1955), Director of Photography
- *A Stranger on the Stairs* (1955), Director of Photography
- *Robbers' Roost* (1955), Director of Photography
- *Stronger Than Love* (1955), Director of Photography
- *Morir para vivir* (1954), Director of Photography
- *La entrega* (1954), Director of Photography
- *Romance de fieras* (1954), Director of Photography
- *Reto a la vida* (1954), Director of Photography
- *Huracán Ramírez* (1953), Director of Photography
- *¡Yo soy gallo dondequiera!* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Plunder of the Sun* (1953), Director of Photography
- *From the Village to TV* (1953), Director of Photography
- *Prefiero a tu papá* (1952), Director of Photography
- *The Atomic Fireman* (1952), Director of Photography
- *La miel se fue de la luna* (1952), Director of Photography
- *Night Falls* (1952), Director of Photography
- *Two Faces Have the Destiny* (1952), Director of Photography
- *Acapulco* (1952), Cinematography
- *Kill Me Because I'm Dying!!!* (1951), Director of Photography
- *¿Qué te ha dado esa mujer?* (1951), Director of Photography
- *For Loving a Woman* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Full Spead Ahead* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Bullfighter and the Lady* (1951), Director of Photography
- *Over the Waves* (1950), Cinematography
- *No desearás la mujer de tu hijo* (1950), Director of Photography
- *The Black Sheep* (1949), Director of Photography
- *The Seminarian* (1949), Director of Photography
- *The Woman I Lost* (1949), Cinematography
- *La dama del velo* (1949), Cinematography
- *Dicen que soy mujeriego* (1949), Director of Photography
- *Out on the Big Ranch* (1949), Photoscience Manager, Cinematography
- *Rosenda* (1948), Director of Photography
- *Mystery in Mexico* (1948), Director of Photography
- *Tarzan and the Mermaids* (1948), Director of Photography
- *Cartas Marcadas* (1948), Director of Photography
- *El canto de la sirena* (1948), Cinematography
- *Fly Away, Young Man!* (1947), Director of Photography
- *Gran Casino* (1947), Director of Photography
- *El ahijado de la muerte* (1946), Cinematography
- *Los nietos de Don Venancio* (1946), Director of Photography
- *Soy un prófugo* (1946), Director of Photography
- *La reina de la opereta* (1946), Director of Photography
- *Canaima* (1945), Director of Photography
- *La pícara Susana* (1945), Director of Photography
- *La mujer que engañamos* (1945), Director of Photography
- *El sombrero de tres picos* (1944), Director of Photography
- *Adiós juventud* (1943), Director of Photography
- *El ametralladora* (1943), Director of Photography
- *Espionaje en el golfo* (1943), Director of Photography
- *Romeo y Julieta* (1943), Director of Photography
- *Tentación* (1943), Director of Photography
- *El fanfarrón: ¡Aquí llegó el valentón!* (1943), Director of Photography
- *I'm a Real Mexican* (1942), Director of Photography
- *Dark Angel* (1942), Cinematography
- *Passion Island* (1942), Cinematography
- *El que tenga un amor* (1942), Director of Photography
- *Mil estudiantes y una muchacha* (1942), Director of Photography
- *The Prodigious Barber* (1942), Director of Photography
- *When the Children are Gone* (1941), Director of Photography
- *Neither Blood Nor Sand* (1941), Assistant Director of Photography
- *You’re Missing the Point* (1940), Director of Photography
- *Cantinflas y su prima* (1940), Director of Photography
- *Al son de la marimba* (1940), Cinematography
- *In the Times of Don Porfirio* (1940), Director of Photography
- *Cantinflas Ruletero* (1940), Director of Photography
- *Cantinflas boxeador* (1940), Director of Photography
- *A Macabre Legacy* (1939), Director of Photography
- *Siempre listo en las tinieblas* (1939), Director of Photography
- *Caballo a caballo* (1939), Director of Photography
- *Hombres del mar* (1938), Director of Photography
- *Almas rebeldes* (1937), Director of Photography
- *Las mujeres mandan* (1937), Director of Photography
- *The Super Madman* (1937), Cinematography
- *Let's Go with Pancho Villa!* (1936), Director of Photography
- *Beautiful Sky* (1936), Director of Photography
- *The Dead Speak* (1935), Director of Photography
- *Monsters of the Deep* (1931), Director of Photography
- *Across the Plains* (1928), Director of Photography
- *The Texas Bearcat* (1925), Cinematography

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