Walter Frentz belongs to the record of cinema as a figure whose work outlasted the productions that carried it.
The record lists Walter Frentz as German photographer and film producer (1907–2004).
Walter Frentz was born at Heilbronn in 1907. His recorded nationality is Germany.
The studio system was at its height in this period: contracts were long, the output was industrial, and a handful of studios decided who worked.
He worked as film director, photographer and cinematographer.
Film is a collaborative art in which individual credit is always contested and occasionally deserved.
That the work was made from Germany shaped it: national industries differ in what they finance, who they cast and which audiences they can reach.
Walter Frentz died in 2004, aged 97. The films remain, which is the only form in which a screen career survives.
Achievements
- Worked as film director, photographer and cinematographer
