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
Cast Credits

Strand, Under the Dark Cloth
Character: Self
MOVIE • 1989

Message to Man
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 1989

Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 1980

Leo T. Hurwitz: Filme für ein anderes Amerika
Character: Himself
MOVIE • 1980

Discovery in a Landscape
Character: Narrator
MOVIE • 1970
Crew
Crew Credits

Discovery in a Painting
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 2016

Discovery in a Painting
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 2016

Discovery in a Painting
Role: Director
MOVIE • 2016

Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1980

Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Role: Editor
MOVIE • 1980

Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1980

Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 1980

Dialogue with a Woman Departed
Role: Director of Photography
MOVIE • 1980

Discovery in a Landscape
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1970

Light and the City
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 1970

Discovery in a Landscape
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 1970

Light and the City
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1970

This Island
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1970

For Life, Against the War
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1967

In Search of Hart Crane
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1966

In Search of Hart Crane
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 1966

In Search of Hart Crane
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1966

The Sun and Richard Lippold
Role: Writer
MOVIE • 1966

The Sun and Richard Lippold
Role: Producer
MOVIE • 1966

The Sun and Richard Lippold
Role: Director
MOVIE • 1966