Neal L. Fredericks was born in Newport Beach, California. Neal lived all over the world, in Asia and Europe, and was based in Los Angeles, California. As a director of photography .
Died while filming the movie Cross Bones. He was the only casaulty when a small Cessna plane carrying four crew members filiming scenery for the film crashed into the sea surrounding the Dry Tortugas islands of Florida.
Studied filmmaking at Towson University, near Baltimore.