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Born: 6 February 1904, New York, N.Y., USA, as Samuel E. Leavitt.
Died: 21 March 1984, Woodland Hills, Calif., USA.
Career: Entered film industry in the early 1930s as c.op at the Biograph Studios in the Bronx, New York City, chiefly operating for Joseph Ruttenberg. Short period with Paramount in New York [1934], then moved to Hollywood. Was member of the ASC.
Awards: Golden Globe nom [1953] for 'The Thief'; 'Oscar' AA [1958; b&w] for 'The Defiant Ones'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1959; b&w] for 'Anatomy of a Murder'; 'Oscar' AA nom [1960; color] for 'Exodus'; 'Emmy' Award nom [1973] for 'Banacek'.
On working with Don Siegel: 'I think 'Crime in the Streets' should have been an award winner, for both of us. We had our differences on that picture and other pictures, but they were constructive differences. That's the way you are supposed to make a picture, between cameraman and director. He'd tell me when we got on the set what he wanted and what mood the scene should have and how he thought it should be done. Then it would be up to me to use my judgment. He's easier and smoother than most directors and he knows what he's doing. The biggest tiff we ever had was while we were shooting 'Spanish Affair' in Spain. Richard Kiley and the girl, Carmen Sevilla, were walking down the street and I wanted to get a mood shot of them walking and he wanted to do it another way, in one long take. He got upset and we both had little to say to each other for quite a while. He had been upset and I had talked back because I don't care who it is, the biggest director or producer, if I have something to say, I talk back to them. That's why I don't get a great many pictures.' [From 'Don Siegel: Director' by Stuart M. Kaminsky, 1974.]
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FILMS |
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1932 |
Ljubav i strast/Born to Kiss [Frank Melford] b&w; 61m; cph: William O. Steiner & Frank Zucker |
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1934 |
Undercover Men/Under Cover [Sam Newfield] b&w; 61m; made in Canada |
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1935 |
Thoroughbred/The King's Plate [Sam Newfield] b&w; 64m; made in Canada |
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1951 |
Cripple Creek [Ray Nazarro] c; uncred 2uc; ph: William V. Skall |
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1952 |
The Thief [Russell Rouse] b&w |
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1953 |
Mission Over Korea/Eyes of the Skies [Fred F. Sears] b&w |
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1953 |
China Venture/China Bound [Don Siegel] b&w |
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1953 |
Goof on the Roof [Jules White] b&w; short/16m; with The Three Stooges |
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1953 |
Southwest Passage/Camels West [Ray Nazarro] 3-D/c |
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1953 |
A Star Is Born [George Cukor] cs/c; ph 'Born in a Trunk' number (dir by Richard Barstow): Harold Rosson; Harry Stradling Sr. was scheduled as ph, but delays caused a scheduling conflict; ph Winton Hoch started the film in WarnerScope, but was replaced by S. Leavitt when the format was changed to CinemaScope; a cs test seq was ph by Milton Krasner |
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1954 |
Carmen Jones [Otto Preminger] cs/c |
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1954 |
An Annapolis Story/The Blue and the Gold [Don Siegel] c; pfx: Ray Mercer |
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1955 |
The Bold and the Brave [Lewis R. Foster] sus/b&w; optical efx: Alex Weldon |
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1955 |
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell/One Man Mutiny [Otto Preminger] cs/c |
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1955 |
The Man with the Golden Arm [Otto Preminger] b&w |
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1955 |
Crime in the Streets [Don Siegel] b&w |
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1956 |
Sierra Stranger [Lee Sholem] b&w |
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1956 |
The Wild Party [Harry Horner] b&w; spec pfx: Louis DeWitt & Jack Rabin |
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1956 |
Hot Rod Girl [Leslie H. Martinson] b&w |
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1956 |
Spanish Affair [Don Siegel] vv/c; 2uc: Theodore Pahle; spec pfx: John P. Fulton; process ph: Farciot Edouart |
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1957 |
The Careless Years [Arthur Hiller] b&w |
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1957 |
Time Limit [Karl Malden] b&w |
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1957 |
Eighteen and Anxious [Joe Parker] b&w |
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1957 |
Hell Ship Mutiny [Lee Sholem & Elmo Williams] b&w; 66m; uwph: Robert Cummings & Bill Judd |
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1958 |
The Fearmakers [Jacques Tourneur] b&w |
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1958 |
The Defiant Ones [Stanley Kramer] b&w |
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1958 |
The Indian [Gene Fowler] abandoned after one week of shooting |
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1958 |
Pork Chop Hill [Lewis Milestone] b&w |
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1959 |
The Crimson Kimono [Samuel Fuller] b&w |
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1959 |
Anatomy of a Murder [Otto Preminger] b&w |
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1959 |
Five Gates to Hell [James Clavell] cs/b&w |
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1959 |
Seven Thieves [Henry Hathaway] cs/b&w |
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1959 |
From the Terrace [Mark Robson] cs/c; uncred New York ph; ph: Leo Tover |
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1960 |
Exodus [Otto Preminger] sp70/c |
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1960 |
The Right Approach [David Butler] cs/b&w |
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1961 |
Cape Fear [J. Lee Thompson] b&w |
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1962 |
Advise & Consent [Otto Preminger] p/b&w |
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1962 |
Diamond Head [Guy Green] p/c |
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1963 |
El camino real/Fray Junípero Serra [Jaime Prades] scope/c; doc/21m |
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1963 |
Johnny Cool [William Asher] b&w |
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1964 |
Shock Treatment [Denis Sanders] cs/b&w; spec pfx: L.B. Abbott & Emil Kosa Jr. |
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1964 |
Two on a Guillotine [William Conrad] p/b&w |
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1964 |
Major Dundee [Sam Peckinpah] p/c |
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1964 |
My Blood Runs Cold [William Conrad] p/b&w |
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1965 |
Brainstorm [William Conrad] p/b&w |
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1965 |
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine/Dr. G and the Bikini Machine [Norman Taurog] p/c |
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1966 |
An American Dream/See You in Hell, Darling [Robert Gist] c |
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1966 |
I Deal In Danger [Walter Grauman] c; cph: Kurt Grigoleit; re-edited first 4 ep ('The Last Man', 'Target, David March', 'The Fortress Below' & 'The Weapon Within') of tv-series 'Blue Light'; see Television (1965) |
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1966 |
Murderers' Row [Henry Levin] c; 2uc: Mark H. Davis |
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1967 |
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner [Stanley Kramer] c; process ph: Larry Butler |
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1967 |
Where Angels Go... Trouble Follows [James Neilson] c |
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1968 |
The Wrecking Crew [Phil Karlson] c |
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1968 |
The Desperados [Henry Levin] c; 2uc: John Cabrera |
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1969 |
The Grasshopper/The Passing of Evil/Passions [Jerry Paris] c |
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1971 |
Star Spangled Girl [Jerry Paris] c |
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1974 |
The Man in the Glass Booth [Arthur Hiller] c |
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1977 |
Good Guys Wear Black [Ted Post] c; co-addph; ph: Robert Steadman |
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TELEVISION |
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1953 |
Where's Raymond? [Marc Daniels, a.o.] series/b&w, 1953-54; renamed 'The Ray Bolger Show' (1954-55) |
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1954 |
The Star of Bethlehem [James Mason] tvm/?m |
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1955 |
The Count of Monte Cristo [ep #1 'The Affair of the Three Napoleons/The Plot' dir by Budd Boetticher] 39-part series/b&w, 1955-56; 1st season, 1955 |
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1965 |
Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea [ep #55 'The Monster's Web/Web of Destruction' dir by Justus Addiss] 110-part series, 1964-68; 2nd season, 1965-66; cph: Winton Hoch; other ph: Robert Bronner, Carl Guthrie & Winton Hoch |
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1965 |
Blue Light [pilot 'The Last Man' dir by Walter Grauman] 17-part series, 1966; see Films (1966) |
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1965 |
Batman [ep #1 'Hi Diddle Riddle' dir by Robert Butler (RB) & #2 'Smack in the Middle' dir by RB] 120-part series, 1966-68; 1st season, 1966; other ph: Jack Marta, Ralph Woolsey & Howard Schwartz |
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1967 |
The Flying Nun [various] 82-part series, 1967-70; other ph: Emil Oster |
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1970 |
The Partridge Family [ep #1 'What? And Get Out of Show Business?' dir by Jerry Paris] 96-part series, 1970-74; 1st season, 1970-71; other ph: Fred Jackman Jr. & Irving Lippman |
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1971 |
The Screaming Woman [Jack Smight] tvm |
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1971 |
Evil Roy Slade [Jerry Paris] tvm |
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1972 |
Banacek [pilot 'Detour to Nowhere/Banacek' dir by Jack Smight (JS), ep #1 'Let's Hear It for a Living Legend' dir by JS, #2 'Project Phoenix' dir by Richard T. Heffron (RTH), #3 'No Sign of the Cross' dir by Daryl Duke, #4 'A Million the Hard Way' dir by Bernard L. Kowalski, #5 'To Steal a King' dir by Lou Antonio, #6 'Ten Thousand Dollars a Page' dir by RTH, #7 'The Greatest Collection of Them All' dir by George McCowan & #8 'The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack' dir by RTH] 17-part series, 1972-74; 1st season (8 ep), 1972-73 |
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1972 |
The Longest Night [Jack Smight] tvm |
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1976 |
The Fantastic Journey [pilot 'Vortex' dir by Andrew V. McLaglen] 10-part series, 1977; other ph: Irving Lippman |
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FILMS AS CAMERA OPERATOR |
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1934 |
No More West [Nick Grinde; short/19m] ph: ? |
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1934 |
Frankie and Johnnie [Chester Erskine & (uncred) John H. Auer] ph: Joseph Ruttenberg |
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1934 |
Woman in the Dark/Woman in the Shadows [Phil Rosen] ph: Joseph Ruttenberg |
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1934 |
Gigolette/Night Club/Mistaken Heiress [Charles Lamont] ph: Joseph Ruttenberg |
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1934 |
Gambling [Rowland V. Lee] prod staff; ph: Jack MacKenzie |
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1935 |
The People's Enemy/Racketeers [Crane Wilbur] ph: Joseph Ruttenberg |
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1937 |
Love on Toast [E.A. Dupont] 2nd cam; ph: Charles Schoenbaum |
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1937 |
Every Day's a Holiday [A. Edward Sutherland] ph: Karl Struss |
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1943 |
Bathing Beauty [George Sidney] ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1944 |
The Picture of Dorian Gray [Albert Lewin] ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1944 |
Anchors Aweigh [George Sidney] ph: Robert Planck & Charles P. Boyle |
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1944 |
Thrill of a Romance [Richard Thorpe] ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1944 |
Her Highness and the Bellboy [Richard Thorpe] 2nd cam; ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1945 |
Easy to Wed [Edward Buzzell; (uncred) Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick)] ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1945 |
Holiday in Mexico [George Sidney] 2nd cam; ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1946 |
The Romance of Rosy Ridge [Roy Rowland] ph: Sidney Wagner |
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1947 |
The Pirate [Vincente Minnelli] ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1947 |
Easter Parade [Charles Walters] ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1948 |
The Barkleys of Broadway/The Gay Barkleys [Charles Walters] ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1948 |
In the Good Old Summertime [Robert Z. Leonard & (uncred) Buster Keaton] ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1949 |
Tension [John Berry] ph: Harry Stradling (Sr.) |
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1951 |
Rancho Notorious [Fritz Lang] ph: Hal Mohr |
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1951 |
I Love Lucy [various; tv-series] ph: Robert De Grasse, Karl Freund, Sidney Hickox, a.o. |
