Director
Leo Hurwitz
June 23, 1909 · 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.
Often works with
Full filmography · 21
Discovery in a Painting
Director
2016
This Island
Director
1970
Discovery in a Landscape
as Narrator and Director
1970
Light and the City
Director
1970
For Life, Against the War
Director
1967
In Search of Hart Crane
Writer and Director
1966
The Sun and Richard Lippold
Writer and Director
1966
An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy
Director and Writer
1964
Here at the Water's Edge
Director
1961
The Museum and the Fury
Director and Writer
1956
Dancing James Berry
Writer and Director
1955
The Young Fighter
Director
1953