Bud Fraker, famous Audrey Hepburn "Breakfast at Tiffany's" Photographer among other stars

Bud Fraker was born in 1916 in Altoona, Pennsylvania. He became interested in photography and decided to go California to pursue a career. In 1934 he studied photography at Los Angeles City College and began working part-time at the Columbia Studios stills laboratory under his brother William 'Bill' Fraker, who was the director of the department.  Following his brother's death, Fraker was hired by Hollywood photographer A. L. 'Whitey' Schafer at Columbia.

Soon after he became the Director of Still Photography at Columbia Studios and took many photos of the stars in the late 1930s.

He moved on from there with Schafer in 1942 to work for Paramount studios in the Publicity Photography Department and assisted in the portrait gallery.  Upon Schafer's death he became the studio's own Director of Still Photography, which he did in the 1940s to the 1960's.

Among the films he did still photography on included "Twentieth Century," with Carole Lombard, "King Creole" with Elvis Presley and "Breakfast at Tiffany's" with Audrey Hepburn.  He took the famous portrait photos of her with the long cigarette holder, Tiffany diamond jewelry and black dress.

As a matter of fact, although he photographed many of Paramount's top stars, his most enduring work records Audrey Hepburn during the production of her first two films as a star, 'Roman Holiday' (1953) and 'Sabrina' (1954).

After that he decided to leave Paramount and he began doing freelance work for other studios while running his own photo lab. He retired in 1979.  He passed away in 2002.

Anita Ekberg

 

Anna Magnani

 

Anne Baxter

 

Barbara Stanwyck

 

Betty Hutton

 

Marlon Brando

 

Carole Lombard and John Barrymoore

 

Dean Martin

 

Elvis Presley

 

Clark Gable

 

Ginger Rogers

 

Tragic star Inger Stevens

 

Lizbeth Scott

 

Paulette Goddard

 

Sophia Loren

 

Rosemary Clooney

 

Jane Russell

 

Shelly Winters

 

Sylvia Lewis

 

Elizabeth Taylor

 

Vera Ellen

 

William Holden

 

The photographer had a great relationship with Grace Kelly as well as Audrey Hepburn as you can see below:

 

 

 

Grace below with Fraker:

 

The famous sessions with Audrey during filming and publicity shots made for the filming of "Breakfast at Tiffany's"

 

 

 

 

 

Audrey's great love of animals shown below:

 

Filming 'Tiffany's':

 

 

 Other shots of Fraker taking photos of Audrey:

 

 

 His famous photos of Audrey with the long cigarette holder have influenced many art illustrators as shown below:

 

 

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