Joseph Ruttenberg
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| Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. | ||||||||||
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| Born | July 4, 1889 St. Petersburg, Russia | |||||||||
| Died | May 1, 1983 Los Angeles, California, USA | |||||||||
| Occupation | Cinematographer | |||||||||
| Spouse(s) | Rose Ruttenberg | |||||||||
| Children | Virginia Ruttenberg | |||||||||
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Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 - May 1, 1983) was a photojournalist and Academy Award-winning cinematographer.[1]
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[edit] Career
Born into a Jewish family in St. Petersburg, Russia, Joseph Ruttenberg was ten years old when his family emigrated to the United States, settling in Boston, Massachusetts. As a young man he went to work at the Boston Globe newspaper as a photojournalist but left in 1915 to accept a job with the Fox Film Corporation in New York City to train as a cinematographer. Two years later he was behind the camera for his first silent film--The Painted Madonna (1917)--in what would be a remarkably successful career.[2]
In the late 1920s Ruttenberg went to work for Paramount Pictures in New York. His first talkie assignment was The Struggle (1931), D.W. Griffith's final film.[3] Then in 1934 Ruttenberg signed on with MGM, moving to Hollywood where he was invited to join the American Society of Cinematographers.
At MGM, Ruttenberg was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Cinematography ten times, winning four. In addition, he won the 1954 Golden Globe Award for his camera work on the film Brigadoon.
Joseph Ruttenberg retired from MGM in 1968 and died in Los Angeles in 1983.
[edit] Awards
Academy Awards wins:
- The Great Waltz (1938)
- Mrs. Miniver (1942)
- Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
- Gigi (1958)
Golden Globe Award win:
- Brigadoon (1954)
Academy Award nominations:
- Waterloo Bridge (1940)
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
- Madame Curie (1943)
- Gaslight (1944)
- Julius Caesar (1953)
- Butterfield 8 (1960)
[edit] Filmography (partial)
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[edit] Publications
- "Photographing Pre-Production Tests," in American Cinematographer (Hollywood), January 1956.
- "Sound-Stage Sea Saga," in American Cinematographer (Hollywood), April 1960.
- Positif (Paris), September 1972.
- Seminar in American Cinematographer (Hollywood), July 1975.
- Focus on Film (London), Spring 1976.
- In Dance in the Hollywood Musical, by Jerome Delamater, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1981.
- Film History (Philadelphia), vol. 1, no. 1, 1987.[4]
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Joseph Ruttenberg at the Internet Movie Database.
- ^ Steeman, Albert. Internet Encyclopedia of Cinematographers, "Joseph Ruttenberg page," Rotterdam, The Netherlands, 2007. Last accessed: December 22, 2007.
- ^ Joseph Ruttenberg at All Movie Guide.
- ^ Film Reference. Joseph Ruttenberg publications section, 2007. Last accessed: December 22, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Joseph Ruttenberg at the Internet Movie Database.
- Joseph Ruttenberg at All Movie Guide.
- Joseph Ruttenberg: eight film trailers at Spike TV (iFilm).
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