Faxon M. Dean — Little Close-Ups of the A. S. C. (1922) 🇺🇸

Faxon Dean, A. S. C, is the man who photographed “The Copperhead,” featuring Lionel Barrymore, for Paramount.

Faxon is so modest he much prefers to be neither seen nor heard, but likes to just peg along at his work and let that do the talking for him.

To get a biographical sketch of Mr. Dean one would have to tag him around like Boswell did Dr. Johnson, only he’d have a lot harder time than Boswell, for that observant gentleman did not have to follow his subject on location from mountain to sea to desert, back to the studio, up to the deep snows, to the tall timber, to the slums and the deuce knows where.

The writer’s idea of an exciting time is to try to induce some of these modest fellows to talk about their work. Most of them are almost as garrulous as the Venus de Milo and our friend Dean is one of them, therefore, the reader must use his imagination in reading this sketch of our friend and fellow cinematographer.

He filmed “The Frontier of the Stars” for Lasky [Jesse L. Lasky], featuring Thomas Meighan, and then went to Realart as chief cinematographer for Mary Miles Minter, Paramount star, where he now is.

Some of his productions with Miss Minter are “The Little Clown,” “The Fighting Chance,” “A Cumberland Romance,” “All Souls Eve,” “Don’t Call Me Little Girl,” and others.

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Collection: American Cinematographer, February 1922

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