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- Works
- 1
Top works
- The Mexican portfolio
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Film & TV
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
- Message to Man — Self1989
- Strand, Under the Dark Cloth — Self1989
- Dialogue with a Woman Departed — Himself1980
- Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika — Himself1980
- Discovery in a Landscape — Narrator1970
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1985-01-22
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 6
- Total plays
- 7
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Leo
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Brooklyn
- Place of death
- Manhattan
- Occupation
- filmmaker
- Educated at
- Harvard University
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Work location
- United States
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- date of birth
- 1909-07-23
- name in native language
- Leo Hurwitz
- start of work period
- 1932-00-00
- end of work period
- 1999-00-00
- date of death
- 1991-01-19
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