Francis Kenny

For the Australian rules footballer, see Frank Kenny.

Francis Kenny
Kenny, ASC 2014
Born	Indianapolis, Indiana, U.S.
Years active	1971–2025
Children	1

Francis Kenny A.S.C. is an American cinematographer.

Background and education

Kenny is a twice board member of the American Society of Cinematographers and member of the AMPAS Executive Committee for Cinematographers.

Kenny was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, attending schools in Indianapolis, Indiana; Cleveland, Ohio; Atlanta, Georgia; New Orleans, Louisiana:, Portland, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; and high school in New Orleans, Louisiana. At the age of 16, he entered The University of Texas at Austin; he later attended Harvard University; and Hofstra University. He holds degrees in sociology, English literature and communications.

His father, Francis Bernard Kenny, graduated from Princeton University, worked for the Shell Oil Company and eventually became treasurer. His grandfather, Herman Adkins, was a test pilot for the government at the Indianapolis Experimental Station (Civil Aeronautics Authority) and flew the NC-11 "flying laboratory." ^[1] The airplane is now located at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. Herman Adkins later built The Happy Landings Resort, Lake of the Ozark, in Sunrise Beach, Missouri. Adkins was a member of the secretive club for aviators called The Quiet Birdmen.

Career

Francis Kenny began his career working on documentaries with the filmmaker David Hoffman, whom he met at Hofstra University.

Kenny was the cinematographer on the Academy Award-winning feature documentary He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin . He has photographed commercials and documentaries in Afghanistan, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Lebanon, Sri Lanka, Australia, Singapore, Sumatra, Korea, Hong Kong, Japan, England, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and Morocco.

He became an active member of The American Society of Cinematographers in 1996. He served as the Chairman of the ASC Membership Committee from 2001 until 2011. In 2012, he received the ASC Presidents Award. ^[2]

Personal life

He currently resides in Santa Monica, California, with his daughter, who attends Parsons School of Design. ^[3]

Filmography

Film

Documentary film

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1975	How to Say 'No' to a Rapist... and Survive	David Hoffman	With David Hoffman, Joseph Consentino, Jerry Pantzer and Jack Reidel; Also credited as editor
1981	The Wing
1983	He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'	Emile Ardolino	With Don Lenzer, John Lindley, James McCalmont, Phil Parmet, Scott Sorenson and Carl Teitelbaum
	The U.S. Army Rapid Deployment Force	Carl Colby David Hoffman
	Riding for America	David Hoffman
2004	The Conscientious Objector	Terry Benedict	With Suki Medencevic and Darko Suvak

Feature film

Year	Title	Director
1987	Campus Man	Ron Casden
	Salvation!	Beth B
1989	Heathers	Michael Lehmann
1991	New Jack City	Mario Van Peebles
	Cold Heaven	Nicolas Roeg
	House Party 2	George Jackson Doug McHenry
1992	Class Act	Randall Miller
1993	Ed and His Dead Mother	Jonathan Wacks
	Coneheads	Steve Barron
	Wayne's World 2	Stephen Surjik
1994	Jason's Lyric	Doug McHenry
1996	A Thin Line Between Love and Hate	Martin Lawrence
	Harriet the Spy	Bronwen Hughes
1997	Bean	Mel Smith
1998	Denial	Adam Rifkin
	A Night at the Roxbury	John Fortenberry
1999	She's All That	Robert Iscove
2000	Scary Movie	Keenen Ivory Wayans
2001	Kingdom Come	Doug McHenry
	Finder's Fee	Jeff Probst
	How High	Jesse Dylan
2003	From Justin to Kelly	Robert Iscove
2005	Edison	David J. Burke
2007	Cover	Bill Duke

Television

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1981	Great Performances		Episode "Edith Wharton: Looking Back"
1988-1989	Knightwatch
1989	Unsub		All 8 episodes
1990	The Flash	Robert Iscove Mario Azzopardi Gus Trikonis Aaron Lipstadt Jonathan Sanger Danny Bilson Bruce Bilson Christopher Leitch	12 episodes
1995	The Wright Verdicts	Frederick King Keller Martha Mitchell James A. Contner
2010-2014	Justified		55 episodes
2016	Greenleaf	Clement Virgo Donna Deitch Charles Stone III Charles Randolph-Wright Janice Cooke Rob J. Greenlea Allan Kroeker	10 episodes
2017-2025	S.W.A.T.		44 episodes

Miniseries

Year	Title	Director	Notes
1984	Stroke of Genius	Amanda Pope	Documentary series
2013	Bonnie & Clyde	Bruce Beresford

TV movies

Year	Title	Director
1989	Sweet Bird of Youth	Nicolas Roeg
1992	Condition: Critical	Jerrold Freedman
1993	Dying to Love You	Robert Iscove
1994	The First Gentleman	John Pasquin Bryan Spicer
1996	Dark Angel	Robert Iscove
	Pretty Poison	David Burton Morris
1997	The 119	Robert Iscove
2002	Keep the Faith, Baby	Doug McHenry
2005	Three Wise Guys	Robert Iscove
	The New Partridge Family	Alan Myerson
	Getting Played	David Silberg
2009	One Hot Summer	Betty Kaplan
2012	Steel Magnolias	Kenny Leon
2014	Gun Hill	Reggie Rock Bythewood
2015	Paradise Pictures
2017	Flint	Bruce Beresford

References

1. "From Civil Aeronautics Authority (CAA) to FAA". faa.gov. Retrieved September 5, 2023.
2. "The ASC". www.theasc.com. Archived from the original on January 11, 2012.
3. "Home". www.xrds.org.

External links

• www.franciskenny.us Archived March 28, 2018, at the Wayback Machine
• Francis Kenny at IMDb