Meet the Team

Anderson Clark

Director/Producer

Anderson is a scientist/cancer biologist, photographer and filmmaker living in the Boston area. His first project was an award-winning documentary short film about the AIDS crisis. The USS Franklin documentary will be his first feature film. Anderson began this film project with Ray Bailey, USS Franklin shipmate and lifelong friend of Anderson’s father who was also a WWII Navy veteran.

Caleb McLaughlin

Director of Photography

Caleb is known to take on many different roles, most often as a director, DP and post-production supervisor. He regularly works with Amazon Music, most recently on media surrounding their new Thursday Night Football presence. Caleb is a resident of Nashville, TN.

Timothy O’Laughlin

Director of Photography Cinematographer

Tim is a seasoned cinematographer in Nashville, TN with a broad range of experience including documentaries, television, and live sports. Over the years he’s traveled the world extensively working with the International Skating Union and Red Brick Sports. 

Zach Noblitt

Location Sound Mixer

Zach brings more than a decade of experience in film and television ranging from reality (CBS: Survivor) to documentary (Netflix: Dolly Parton). Zach calls Nashville home, but enjoys traveling the world to work on film shoots. 

Fearless Productions \\ Sarah Rachael Wainio

Transcription Support

Sarah is a documentary producer and content creator whose credits include Food Network, Magnolia Network, MTV, FacebookWatch, Netflix, TLC, and HBO. She also has transcribed all of the interviews and dialog from the four years of footage produced so far for this documentary.

Clay Rausch

Super guy

Clay is a journalist and photographer who created the website and MailChimp for the project, all the while working full-time and being a good husband to his wife Margaret, favorite granddaughter of Franklin shipmate Holly Rausch.

Jason Smith

Consultant

Jason’s first documentary I Voted? Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival with Katie Couric as an executive producer. This film was used for research purposes by the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Currently, Jason is developing a baseball themed project for Apple TV with executive producers Magic Johnson and Peter Guber. He has consulted for the USS Franklin documentary, drawing on his experience as a filmmaker.

NICOM \\ Dr. John Arnold

Research

NICOM, Inc. The National Information Company, directed by Dr. John Arnold, is headquartered in the DC Metro area, providing archival research and retrieval to organizations, law firms, and individuals.  “Performing research on the Franklin has been rewarding for us at NICOM as we navigated a unique set of challenges. Fortunately, it is the elusive nature of research that drives us forward at NICOM. We have found that we thrive on the ‘impossible-to-find’ material and welcome the challenges of research, of which the Franklin was one of our more satisfying projects. We are especially grateful to Andy Clark for having afforded us this opportunity.”

Trey Hamilton

Music Clearances

Trey has handled music clearances for a variety of projects from network television specials to independent documentaries through both his freelance work and his past positions at Clear Cut Inc., the Grand Ole Opry, & Concord Music. When he’s not working, Trey enjoys catching movies at Nashville’s Belcourt Theatre or going to concerts at one of the city’s many music venues.

Gary W. Schnurrpusch, Captain, US Navy (Retired) 

Expert

CAPT Schnurrpusch brings direct and relevant Navy expertise to the project. He has 50 years of combined experience in the Navy fleet operations and Defense analysis.  His fleet career included command-at-sea of three primary Navy warships, Battle Force Air Defense Command, and four Navy proven subspecialist designations.  Following fleet retirement, CAPT Schnurrpusch also served in numerous senior leadership positions as a private sector Defense contractor.  He contributed important advice and quantitative analysis to senior decision-makers about critical needs and trade-offs in Navy warfare capabilities, operations, and program acquisitions.

CAPT Schnurrpusch has been an active and supporting member of the USS FRANKLIN (CV-13) family for 35 years.  Designated “honorary survivor” by FRANKLIN crewmen when he commanded the modern day anti-submarine frigate USS O’CALLAHAN (FF-1051) and the guided missile frigate USS GARY (FFG-51).  These two warships were named for the two FRANKLIN recipients of the Congressional Medal of Honor for their personal heroism onboard FRANKLIN in battle near Japan when the carrier was catastrophically attacked with Japanese bombs in March 1945.  Moreover, CAPT Schnurrpusch also commanded the Aegis guided missile cruiser USS BUNKER HILL (CG-52), named for the aircraft carrier USS BUNKER HILL (CV-17), which was part of the same task force with FRANKLIN and suffered critical kamikaze attacks in May 1945.

CAPT Schnurrpusch brings valuable insights and understanding about naval operations and the crews who fought with courage for their nation, for their Navy, and especially for each other … shipmates … in a time of danger, loss, but triumph.