Leo Hurwitz
Personal Info
Known for
Directing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1909-06-23
Day of Death
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
Acting
(1989)
Message to Man
as Himself
(1989)
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
as Self
(1980)
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
as Himself
(1980)
(1970)
Discovery in a Landscape
as Narrator
Crew
(2016)
Discovery in a Painting
Director, Producer, Editor
(1980)
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, Director of Photography
(1970)
Discovery in a Landscape
Director, Producer
(1970)
Light and the City
Producer, Director
(1970)
This Island
Director
(1967)
For Life, Against the War
Director
(1966)
The Sun and Richard Lippold
Writer, Producer, Director
(1966)
In Search of Hart Crane
Director, Writer, Producer
(1964)
(1961)
Here at the Water's Edge
Director
(1956)
The Museum and the Fury
Director, Producer
(1955)
Dancing James Berry
Writer, Director
(1953)
The Young Fighter
Producer, Director
(1952)
Emergency Ward
Director, Editor
(1948)
Strange Victory
Director, Writer
(1942)
Native Land
Director, Writer, Editor
(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, Editor, Cinematography
(1932)
National Hunger March 1931
Director
(1932)
Bonus March 1932
Director, Cinematography
(1932)
The National Hunger March 1931
Director
(1932)