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.

Known For

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

Acting

1970

Discovery in a Landscape

as

Narrator

1980

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

as

Himself

1989

Message to Man

as

Himself

1989

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth

as

Self

1980

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika

as

Himself

Production

1970

Light and the City

as

1970

Discovery in a Landscape

as

2016

Discovery in a Painting

as

1966

The Sun and Richard Lippold

as

1953

The Young Fighter

as

1980

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

as

1956

The Museum and the Fury

as

1966

In Search of Hart Crane

as

Crew

1932

Bonus March 1932

as

1933

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

as

Directing

1942

Native Land

as

1980

Dialogue with a Woman Departed

as

1948

Strange Victory

as

1932

Bonus March 1932

as

1932

National Hunger March 1931

as

1932

The National Hunger March 1931

as

1970

Discovery in a Landscape

as

2016

Discovery in a Painting

as

1970

Light and the City

as

1966

The Sun and Richard Lippold

as

1970

This Island

as

1967

For Life, Against the War

as

1961

Here at the Water's Edge

as

1955

Dancing James Berry

as

1952

Emergency Ward

as

1953

The Young Fighter

as

1956

The Museum and the Fury

as

1964

An Essay on Death: A Memorial to John F. Kennedy

as

1933

Hunger: The National Hunger March to Washington, 1932

as

1934

America Today

as

1932

Detroit Workers News Special 1932: Ford Massacre

as

1966

In Search of Hart Crane

as