Leo Hurwitz

from New York, New York

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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.

Timeline

2016Aged 107

  • Poster for Discovery in a Painting

    Editor

1989Aged 80

  • Poster for Message to Man

    Self

  • Poster for Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

    Self

1980Aged 71

  • Poster for Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

    Himself

  • Poster for Dialogue with a Woman Departed

    Himself

1970Aged 61

  • Poster for Discovery in a Landscape

    Narrator

  • Poster for Light and the City

    Producer

  • Poster for This Island

    Director

1967Aged 58

  • Poster for For Life, Against the War

    Director

1966Aged 57

  • Poster for The Sun and Richard Lippold

    Producer

  • Poster for In Search of Hart Crane

    Producer

1964Aged 55

  • Poster for An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy

    Editor

1961Aged 52

  • Poster for Here at the Water's Edge

    Director

1956Aged 47

  • Poster for The Museum and the Fury

    Editor

1955Aged 46

  • Poster for Dancing James Berry

    Writer

1953Aged 44

  • Poster for The Young Fighter

    Producer

1952Aged 43

  • Poster for Emergency Ward

    Editor

1951Aged 42

  • Poster for America Applauds: An Evening for Richard Rodgers

    Director

1948Aged 39

  • Poster for Strange Victory

    Writer

1943Aged 34

  • Poster for Tomorrow We Fly

    Director

1942Aged 33

  • Poster for Native Land

    Editor

1937Aged 28

  • Poster for Heart of Spain

    Editor

1936Aged 27

  • Poster for The Plow That Broke the Plains

    Director of Photography

  • Poster for The Wave

    Screenplay

1934Aged 25

1933Aged 24

  • Poster for Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

    Cinematography

1932Aged 23

  • Poster for The National Hunger March 1931

    Director

  • Poster for Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

    Director

  • Poster for Bonus March 1932

    Cinematography