Personal Info
Gender:Unspecified
Birth Date:1909-06-23 00:00:00
Birth Place:New York, New York
Known For:Directing
Death Date:1991-01-18 00:00:00
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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.
Filmography (40)
Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
Role: Self1989
Message to Man
Role: Self1989
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Role: Himself1980
This Island
director1970
The Young Fighter
producer1953
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
producer1980
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
writer1980
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
editor1980
Here at the Water's Edge
director1961
Emergency Ward
director1952
The Young Fighter
director1953
Emergency Ward
editor1952
The Museum and the Fury
director1956
The Museum and the Fury
producer1956
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
director1964
Dialogue with a Woman Departed
director of photography1980
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
director1933
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
editor1933
No Image
America Today
director1934
Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932
cinematography1933
Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre
director1932
In Search of Hart Crane
writer1966
In Search of Hart Crane
producer1966
In Search of Hart Crane
director1966
The Museum and the Fury
writer1956
The Museum and the Fury
editor1956
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
writer1964
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
producer1964
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
editor1964
Tomorrow We Fly
director1943
Discovery in a Landscape
director1970
Native Land
director1942
Native Land
writer1942
Native Land
editor1942
Heart of Spain
editor1937
Strange Victory
director1948
Strange Victory
writer1948
For Life, Against the War
director1967
Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
Role: Himself1980
Dancing James Berry
writer1955