Leo Hurwitz
June 23, 1909 (115 years old) in New York, New York
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
Credits
- 1989 · Strand, Under the Dark Cloth as Self
- 1989 · Message to Man as Himself
- 1980 · Dialogue with a Woman Departed as Himself
- 1980 · Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika as Himself
- 1970 · Discovery in a Landscape as Narrator