Leo Hurwitz
Born: 1909-06-23 in New York, New York
Died: 1991-01-18
Known For: Directing
Biography
Son of a Russian anarchist, Leo Hurwitz graduated Harvard summa cum laude and became a leader in New York’s left wing film movement from the early 1930s on. In the Workers’ Film and Photo League, NYKino, and Frontier Films, Hurwitz remained the quintessential politically committed cameraman, editor, writer, and director.
Filmography
2016
- Discovery in a Painting ... (Director)
1989
- Strand, Under the Dark Cloth as Self
- Message to Man as Self
1980
- Dialogue with a Woman Departed as Himself
- Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika as Himself
1970
- This Island ... (Director)
- Discovery in a Landscape as Narrator
- Light and the City ... (Producer)
1967
- For Life, Against the War ... (Director)
1966
- In Search of Hart Crane ... (Director)
- The Sun and Richard Lippold ... (Writer)
1964
- An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy ... (Director)
1961
- Here at the Water's Edge ... (Director)
1956
- The Museum and the Fury ... (Director)
1955
- Dancing James Berry ... (Writer)
1953
- The Young Fighter ... (Producer)
1952
- Emergency Ward ... (Director)
1951
- America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers ... (Director)
1948
- Strange Victory ... (Director)
1943
- Tomorrow We Fly ... (Director)
1942
- Native Land ... (Director)
1937
- Heart of Spain ... (Editor)
1936
- The Plow That Broke the Plains ... (Director of Photography)
1934
- America Today ... (Director)
1933
- Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 ... (Director)
1932
- Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre ... (Director)
- Bonus March 1932 ... (Director)
- The National Hunger March 1931 ... (Director)