Jack Draper (cinematographer) explained

Jack Draper (1892–1962) was an American cinematographer.^[1] He worked in Mexico for most of his career, where he was a leading film worker of the Golden Age of Mexican cinema.

Selected filmography

• Pony Express Rider (1926)
• Across the Plains (1928)
• Cheyenne Trails (1928)
• Jazzland (1928)
• Trails of Treachery (1928)
• The Phantom (1931)
• Poppy of the Road (1937)
• Horse for Horse (1939)
• Every Madman to His Specialty (1939)
• Here's the Point (1940)
• In the Times of Don Porfirio (1940)
• To the Sound of the Marimba (1941)
• I'm a Real Mexican (1942)
• Simón Bolívar (1942)
• Romeo and Juliet (1943)
• Christopher Columbus (1943)
• The Two Orphans (1944)
• My Memories of Mexico (1944)
• A Woman's Diary (1944)
• Mischievous Susana (1945)
• I Am a Fugitive (1946)
• The Road to Sacramento (1946)
• The Operetta Queen (1946)
• Ramona (1946)
• Fly Away, Young Man! (1947)
• Marked Cards (1948)
• The Last Night (1948)
• The Black Sheep (1949)
• The Woman I Lost (1949)
• Over the Waves (1950)
• You Shall Not Covet Thy Son's Wife (1950)
• Black Angustias (1950)
• Kill Me Because I'm Dying! (1951)
• Full Speed Ahead (1951)
• What Has That Woman Done to You? (1951)
• Radio Patrol (1951)
• The Cry of the Flesh (1951)
• The Night Falls (1952)
• The Atomic Fireman (1952)
• Sister Alegría (1952)
• Tehuantepec (1954)
• Acapulco (1956)
• Puss Without Boots (1957)
• A Thousand and One Nights (1958)
• The Phantom of the Operetta (1960)
• To Each His Life (1960)
• Three Black Angels (1960)
• Love in the Shadows (1960)
• Don Quixote de Orson Welles (1992)

Bibliography

• Charles Ramírez Berg. The Classical Mexican Cinema: The Poetics of the Exceptional Golden Age Films. University of Texas Press, 2015.

Notes and References

1. Berg p.195