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Arthur J. Ornitz is a Director, Director of Photography and Cinematography American born on 27 november 1916 at New York City (USA)

Arthur J. Ornitz

Arthur J. Ornitz
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Nationality USA
Birth 27 november 1916 at New York City (USA)
Death 10 july 1985 (at 68 years) at New York City (USA)

Arthur J. Ornitz (parfois crédité Arthur Ornitz), né le 28 novembre 1916 à New York (État de New York), ville où il est mort le 10 juillet 1985, est un directeur de la photographie américain, membre de l'ASC.

Biography

Après une première expérience comme chef opérateur sur un court métrage documentaire américain de Joris Ivens sorti en 1940, Arthur J. Ornitz collabore à quatre films danois (dont trois réalisés par Astrid Henning-Jensen) sortis de 1950 à 1952.

Son premier film américain est La Déesse de John Cromwell (1958, avec Kim Stanley et Lloyd Bridges). Le dernier est La Folie aux trousses de Sidney Poitier (1982, avec Gene Wilder et Gilda Radner). Entretemps, citons Requiem pour un champion de Ralph Nelson (1962, avec Anthony Quinn et Mickey Rooney), Minnie et Moskowitz de John Cassavetes (1971, avec Gena Rowlands et Seymour Cassel), Serpico de Sidney Lumet (film américano-italien, 1973, avec Al Pacino et John Randolph), ou encore Une femme libre de Paul Mazursky (1978, avec Jill Clayburgh et Alan Bates).

Pour la télévision, hormis la série East Side/West Side en 1964 (un épisode), Arthur J. Ornitz travaille sur dix téléfilms diffusés entre 1964 et 1983.

Il est le fils du scénariste américain Samuel Ornitz (1890-1957).

Best films

An Unmarried Woman (1978)
(Director of Photography)
Death Wish (1974)
(Director of Photography)
A Thousand Clowns (1965)
(Director of Photography)
Charly (1968)
(Director of Photography)

Usually with

Paul Mazursky
Paul Mazursky
(2 films)
Val Avery
Val Avery
(5 films)
Eli Wallach
Eli Wallach
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Arthur J. Ornitz (37 films)

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Director

Cameraman

Hanky Panky, 1h50
Directed by Sidney Poitier
Origin USA
Genres Science fiction, Comedy, Action, Adventure, Horror, Crime
Actors Gene Wilder, Gilda Radner, Kathleen Denise Quinlan, Richard Widmark, Robert Prosky, Josef Sommer
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55% 2.799322.799322.799322.799322.79932
An architect (Wilder) accidentally gets caught up in a web of intrigue and murder when he ends up on the run on false murder charges. Kate (Gilda) is a woman out to find her brother's killer. The two team up, but not before first thinking the other is the killer. The duo end up on a wild cross-country ride from New York City to the Grand Canyon
Tattoo
Tattoo (1981)
, 1h43
Directed by Bob Brooks
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror, Erotic thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Bruce Dern, Maud Adams, Leonard Frey, John Getz, Cynthia Nixon, John Snyder
Roles Director of Photography
Rating52% 2.609572.609572.609572.609572.60957
Karl Kinsky (Dern) is a mentally ill tattoo artist who is hired to create temporary tattoos for some models. He becomes obsessed with one of them, Maddy (Adams), whom he kidnaps to force her to wear "his mark." He keeps her captive as he creates his masterpiece on her body. Throughout the ensuing captivity, Maddy tries several times to escape, but her attempts are continually thwarted by Kinsky.
The Chosen
The Chosen (1981)
, 1h48
Directed by Jeremy Kagan
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion, Films about Jews and Judaism, Children's films
Actors Maximilian Schell, Rod Steiger, Robby Benson, Barry Miller, Ron Rifkin, Robert John Burke
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.59583.59583.59583.59583.5958
The film takes place in Brooklyn, beginning near the conclusion of the Second World War. Reuven Malter is a middle-class Modern Orthodox Jewish teenager, and the son of David Malter, a college professor and dedicated Zionist. At a baseball game between their schools, Reuven meets Danny Saunders, another Jewish teenage boy. At first, the meeting is one of enmity since Danny accidentally injures Reuven's eye during the game; this results in Reuven wearing an eye patch for a good portion of the movie. Danny goes to Reuven's house to apologize to him and the teens gradually become friends, despite their differing backgrounds. It turns out that Danny is the eldest son of a Hasidic Rebbe, the dynastic leader the Hasidic Jews in that neighborhood. However, Danny is somewhat distant from him. Danny has also been going to the nearby public library and reading books on psychology. He amazes Reuven with his ability to remember word-for-word what he has read. It turns out that Reuven's father has been showing him these books. Reuven and Danny also go to a Sabbath service in Danny's Hasidic community as Danny is eager for Reuven to meet his father. Danny's father approves of their friendship - however, Rebbe Saunders disapproves of Prof. Malter's writings, which doesn't surprise the professor. Rebbe Saunders also wishes for Danny to become a rabbi and to eventually succeed him in leading his Hasidic community, as this has been tradition for several generations, but Danny doesn't seem very eager to pursue this.
Playing for Time, 2h30
Directed by Daniel Mann, Joseph Sargent
Genres Drama, Historical, Musical
Themes Films about religion, Musical films, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Vanessa Redgrave, Jane Alexander, Maud Adams, Christine Baranski, Robin Bartlett, Marisa Berenson
Roles Director of Photography
Rating72% 3.6441653.6441653.6441653.6441653.644165
Fénelon, a Jewish singer-pianist, is sent with other prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp in a crowded train during World War II. After having their belongings and clothes taken and their heads shaved, the prisoners are processed and enter the camp. Fénelon is recognized as being a famous musician and she finds that she will be able to avoid hard manual labor and survive longer by becoming a member of the prison's female orchestra, Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz.
Oliver's Story, 1h31
Directed by John Korty
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Ryan O'Neal, Candice Bergen, Nicola Pagett, Benson Fong, Ed Binns, Kenneth McMillan
Roles Director of Photography
Rating46% 2.312272.312272.312272.312272.31227
Oliver Barrett IV is emotionally devastated by the death of his young wife Jenny. As he tries to lose himself in his work as a lawyer, the long hours don't ease his pain, especially when he finds that his leftist views conflict with those of the senior partners at the firm.
An Unmarried Woman, 2h4
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Children's films
Actors Jill Clayburgh, Alan Bates, Michael Murphy, Jill Eikenberry, Patricia Quinn, Kelly Bishop
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71% 3.5959353.5959353.5959353.5959353.595935
Wealthy New York City wife Erica Benton's (Jill Clayburgh) perfect life is shattered when her stockbroker husband Martin (Michael Murphy) leaves her for a younger woman. The film documents Erica's attempts at being single again, where she suffers confusion, sadness, and rage.
Thieves
Thieves (1977)
, 1h32
Directed by John Berry
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films based on plays, Films about marriage
Actors Marlo Thomas, Charles Grodin, Irwin Corey, Héctor Elizondo, Mercedes McCambridge, John McMartin
Roles Director of Photography
Rating46% 2.3468852.3468852.3468852.3468852.346885
This script must be run from the command line
Wilma
Wilma (1977)
, 1h30
Directed by Bud Greenspan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Shirley Jo Finney, Cicely Tyson, Jason Bernard, Joe Seneca, Denzel Washington, Larry B. Scott
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.097873.097873.097873.097873.09787
Next Stop, Greenwich Village, 1h51
Directed by Paul Mazursky
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy
Themes Children's films
Actors Lenny Baker, Shelley Winters, Ellen Greene, Lois Smith, Christopher Walken, Antonio Fargas
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69% 3.4934453.4934453.4934453.4934453.493445
The film takes place in 1953. Larry Lipinsky is a young Jewish boy from Brooklyn, New York, who has dreams of stardom. He moves to Greenwich Village, much to the chagrin of his extremely overprotective mother. Larry ends up hanging out with an eccentric bunch of characters while waiting for his big break. He has a group of tight-knit friends, which includes a wacky girl named Connie; Anita, an emotionally distraught young woman who constantly contemplates suicide; Robert, a young WASP who fancies himself a poet; and Bernstein, a gay man. All the while, he tries to maintain a stormy relationship with Sarah, his girlfriend. This band of outsiders becomes Larry's new family as he struggles as an actor and works toward a break in Hollywood.
Death Wish
Death Wish (1974)
, 1h33
Directed by Michael Winner
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction, Erotic films, Rape and revenge films, Auto-justice
Actors Charles Bronson, Hope Lange, Vincent Gardenia, William Redfield, Steven Keats, Jeff Goldblum
Roles Director of Photography
Rating68% 3.4498353.4498353.4498353.4498353.449835
Paul Kersey is an architect living in Manhattan with his wife Joanna and daughter Carol Toby. One day, Joanna and Carol are followed home from the store by a group of thugs who break into the apartment, fatally injure Joanna and sexually assault Carol.
Law and Disorder
Directed by Ivan Passer
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Actors Carroll O'Connor, Ernest Borgnine, Karen Black, Leslie Ackerman, Ann Wedgeworth, Jack Kehoe
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61% 3.092233.092233.092233.092233.09223
In the crime-infested New York City of the 1970s, two residents and friends, Willie and Cy, decide to join the Auxiliary wing of the New York City Police
Serpico
Serpico (1973)
, 2h5
Directed by Sidney Lumet
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Biography, Action, Historical, Crime, Politic
Themes La corruption policière
Actors Al Pacino, John Randolph, M. Emmet Walsh, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Tony Roberts
Roles Director of Photography
Rating76% 3.8488053.8488053.8488053.8488053.848805
Working as a uniformed patrolman, Frank Serpico excels at every assignment. He moves on to plainclothes assignments, where he slowly discovers a hidden world of corruption and graft among his own colleagues. After witnessing cops commit violence, take payoffs, and other forms of police corruption, Serpico decides to expose what he has seen, but is harassed and threatened by his peers. His struggle leads to infighting within the police force, problems in his personal relationships, and his life being threatened. Finally, after being shot in the face during a drug bust on February 3, 1971, he testifies before the Knapp Commission, a government inquiry into NYPD police corruption between 1970 and 1972. After receiving a New York City Police Department Medal of Honor and a disability pension, Serpico resigns from the force and moves to Switzerland.
Black Snake, 1h22
Directed by Russ Meyer
Origin USA
Genres Erotic, Thriller, Action, Adventure
Themes Seafaring films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Sexploitation films
Actors David Prowse, David Warbeck, Anouska Hempel, Percy Herbert, Anthony Sharp
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51% 2.567792.567792.567792.567792.56779
L'histoire est centrée sur la cruauté d'une propriétaire d'esclaves et sa domination sur les hommes. L'intrigue se situe sur une île de Nouvelle-Zélande.