Ephraim Katz

Ephraim Katz (born March 11, 1932 in Tel Aviv ; † August 2, 1992 in Manhattan , New York City ) was an Israeli author, journalist and documentary filmmaker, best known for his film encyclopedia, which first appeared in 1979.

Katz studied law and economics at Hebrew University and later political science at Hunter College in New York and film at New York University . He was a film critic and reporter in Israel before moving to New York City in 1959. There he made documentaries such. B. for CBS and was co-author of a book about Adolf Eichmann and his arrest. Many other documentaries, films for school purposes and for industry followed. He died of emphysema .

His life's work is The Film Encyclopedia , which was first released in 1979. The entire first edition, which was already very extensive, comes from him (with over 7000 lexicon article entries). His death prevented him from completing the second edition, but it was published by his colleagues Fred Klein and Ronald Dean Nolen in 1994 and has since appeared in further editions. In 1990 a paperback edition appeared. The book is considered an English-language standard work (like The Filmgoers Companion by Leslie Halliwell before ).

He was married and had two daughters.

Fonts

Ephraim Katz: The Film Encyclopedia. Crowell, New York, NY 1979, ISBN 0-690-01204-7 (7th edition, with Ronald Dean Nolen: The Film Encyclopedia. The Complete Guide to Film and the Film Industry. HarperCollins, New York NY 2012, ISBN 978-0 -06-202615-6 ).
with Quentin Reynolds and Zwy Aldouby: Minister of Death. The Adolf Eichmann story. Viking Press, New York NY 1960.

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↑ First published in 1965 and updated from this until his death in 1989.

personal data
SURNAME	Katz, Ephraim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Israeli film journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH	March 11, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH	Tel Aviv
DATE OF DEATH	2nd August 1992
Place of death	Manhattan , New York City

[1] First published in 1965 and updated from this until his death in 1989.