Leo Hurwitz
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
- Directing
- Born
- 1909-06-23 · New York, New York
- Died
- 1991-01-18
Known for
- The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) — Director of Photography
- Native Land (1942) — Director
- Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980) — Himself
- Strand, Under the Dark Cloth (1989) — Self
- Strange Victory (1948) — Director
- The Sun and Richard Lippold (1966) — Writer
- Heart of Spain (1937) — Editor
- Tomorrow We Fly (1943) — Director
- The National Hunger March 1931 (1932) — Director
- This Island (1970) — Director
- For Life, Against the War (1967) — Director
- Discovery in a Landscape (1970) — Narrator
- Message to Man (1989) — Self
- Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika (1980) — Himself
- Bonus March 1932 (1932) — Director
- Dancing James Berry (1955) — Writer