Leo Hurwitz
Known for: Directing
Born: June 22, 1909 in New York, New York - Died: January 17, 1991
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
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Discovery in a Landscape
Narrator
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Himself
Message to Man
Himself
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
Self
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
Himself
Native Land
Director
Strange Victory
Director
National Hunger March 1931
Director
Bonus March 1932
Cinematography
The National Hunger March 1931
Director
Dancing James Berry
Writer
Light and the City
Producer
Discovery in a Painting
Producer
The Sun and Richard Lippold
Writer
The Young Fighter
Producer
Heart of Spain
Editor
This Island
Director
For Life, Against the War
Director
Here at the Water's Edge
Director
Emergency Ward
Director
The Museum and the Fury
Director
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Director
The Plow That Broke the Plains
Director of Photography
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
Editor