Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Known Credits

Gender

Male

Birthday

1909-06-23

Deathday

1991-01-18 (81 years old)

Place of Birth

New York, New York

Leo Hurwitz

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.

Known For

7.8%

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Nov 23, 1980

6.2%

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

Dec 13, 1989

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Discovery in a Landscape

Jan 1, 1970

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Message to Man

Jun 1, 1989

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Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

Jan 2, 1980

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Acting

1989		Strand, Under the Dark Cloth as Self
1989		Message to Man as Himself

1980		Dialogue with a Woman Departed as Himself
1980		Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika as Himself

1970

Discovery in a Landscape as Narrator

Camera

1980

Dialogue with a Woman Departed as Director of Photography

1936

The Plow That Broke the Plains as Director of Photography

Crew

1933

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 as Cinematography

1932

Bonus March 1932 as Cinematography

Directing

2016

Discovery in a Painting as Director

1980

Dialogue with a Woman Departed as Director

1970		Discovery in a Landscape as Director
1970		Light and the City as Director
1970		This Island as Director

1967

For Life, Against the War as Director

1966		In Search of Hart Crane as Director
1966		The Sun and Richard Lippold as Director

1964

An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy as Director

1961

Here at the Water's Edge as Director

1956

The Museum and the Fury as Director

1955

Dancing James Berry as Director

1953

The Young Fighter as Director

1952

Emergency Ward as Director

1948

Strange Victory as Director

1942

Native Land as Director

1934

America Today as Director

1933

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932 as Director

1932		Bonus March 1932 as Director
1932		Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre as Director
1932		National Hunger March 1931 as Director
1932		The National Hunger March 1931 as Director