Boris Kaufman
Boris Kaufman (originally Russian Борис Абелевич Кауфман / Boris Abelewitsch Kaufman ; born August 24, 1906 in Białystok , now Poland ; † June 24, 1980 in New York City ) was an American cameraman . In 1955 he was awarded the Oscar and the Golden Globe .
Life
Boris Kaufman was the younger brother of the documentary filmmaker Dziga Wertow and the cameraman Michail Kaufman . He comes from a Jewish- intellectual family from the Polish city of Białystok, which belonged to Russia until 1918 . After the Russian October Revolution of 1917, his parents moved west with him to the re-emerging Poland, while his brothers went to the Soviet Union . The brothers never met again and only stayed in touch by letter.
Kaufman went to Paris to the Sorbonne and after graduating worked with the French filmmaker Jean Vigo . At the beginning of the Second World War , Boris Kaufman fought in the French army against Nazi Germany . After the French surrender , he emigrated to Canada .
In 1942 he went to the USA , where he worked as a cameraman for reports and documentaries. In 1954 Elia Kazan hired him for the feature film Die Faust im Nacken , which brought him an Oscar and a Golden Globe Award for best camera. In the following years he worked mainly with Sidney Lumet in addition to Kazan . Kaufmann led the camera in his debut film The Twelve Jurors . In 1970 he finished his work as a cameraman. In 1979 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Filmography (selection)
- 1933: Insufficient Behavior (Zéro de Conduite) - Director: Jean Vigo
- 1934: L'Atalante - Director: Jean Vigo
- 1934: Zouzou - Director: Marc Allégret
- 1935: Lucrèce Borgia - Director: Abel Gance
- 1940: Serenade (Sérénade) - Director: Jean Boyer
- 1944: Hymn of the Nations - Director: Alexander Hammid short film
- 1947: Journey Into Medicine (documentary)
- 1949 Roller Derby Girl - Director: Justin Herman Short film
- 1954: On the Waterfront (On the Waterfront) - Director: Elia Kazan
- 1956: Baby Doll - Do not desire the other woman (Baby Doll) - Director: Elia Kazan
- 1957: The Twelve Jurors (12 Angry Men) - Director: Sidney Lumet
- 1959: Something like that from women! (That Kind of Woman) - Directed by Sidney Lumet
- 1959: The Fugitive Kind (The Fugitive Kind) - Director: Sidney Lumet
- 1961: Splendor in the Grass (Splendor in the Grass) - Director: Elia Kazan
- 1962: Long Day's Journey into Night - Director: Sidney Lumet
- 1963: All the Way Home - Director: Alex Segal
- 1964: Henrys Liebesleben (The World of Henry Orient) - Director: George Roy Hill
- 1964: The Pawnbroker (The Pawnbroker) - Director: Sidney Lumet
- 1965: Film - Directed by Alan Schneider after Samuel Beckett
- 1966: Die Clique (The Group) - Directed by Sidney Lumet
- 1968: Bye Bye Braverman - Director: Sidney Lumet
- 1968: Up Tight! - Directed by Jules Dassin
- 1968: Order Mord (The Brotherhood) - Director: Martin Ritt
- 1970: Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon - Director: Otto Preminger
Individual evidence
Web links
- Boris Kaufman in theInternet Movie Database(English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Kaufman, Boris |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1906 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Białystok |
DATE OF DEATH | June 24, 1980 |
Place of death | New York City |