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Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 - May
1, 1983) was a photojournalist and Academy Award-winning cinematographer.[1]
Ruttenberg was accomplished winning accolades. 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.
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.
Joseph Ruttenberg retired from MGM in 1968 and died in Los Angeles in
1983.
Filmography
- The Painted Madonna (1917)[4]
- The Blue Streak (1917)
- The Slave (1917)
- Wife Number Two (1917)
- Thou Shalt Not Steal (1917)
- A Heart's Revenge (1917)
- The Debt of Honor (1918)
- Peg of the Pirates (1918)
- Doing Their Bit (1918)
- The Woman Who Gave (1918)
- The Yellow Dog (1918)
- Woman, Woman! (1919)
- A Fallen Idol (1919)
- My Little Sister (1919)
- The Shark (1920)
- From Now On (1920)
- The Tiger's Club (1920)
- The Thief (1920)
- The Mountain Woman (1921)
- Know Your Men (1921)
- A Virgin Paradise (1921)
- Beyond Price (1921)
- Silver Wings (1922)
- The Town That Forgot God (1922)
- Who Are My Parents? (1922)
- My Friend the Devil (1922)
- If Winter Comes (1923)
- Does It Pay? (1923)
- School for Wives (1925)
- The Fool (1925)
- My Friend, the Devil (1922)
- Silver Wings (1922)
- The Town That Forgot God (1922)
- Does It Pay? (1923)
- If Winter Comes (1923)
- The Fool (1925)
- School for Wives (1925)
- Summer Bachelors (1926)
- The Struggle (1931)
- The Knife of the Party
(1934)
- Woman in the Dark (1934)
- The People's Enemy (1935)
- Frankie and Johnnie (1935)
- Gigolette (1935)
- Three Godfathers (1936)
- Mad Holiday (1936)
- Fury
(1936)
- Man Hunt (1936)
- Picadilly Jim (1936)
- Big City (1937)
- Everybody Sing (1937)
- A Day at the Races (1937)
- Dramatic School (1938)
- The
Great Waltz (1938)
- Three Comrades (1938)
- Spring Madness (1938)
- The First Hundred Years (1938)
- The Shopworn Angel (1938)
- On Borrowed Time (1939)
- Balalaika (1939)
- The Women (1939)
- The Ice Follies of 1939 (1939)
- Tell No Tales (1939)
- Comrade X
(1940)
- Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
- The Philadelphia
Story (1940)
- Waterloo Bridge
(1940)
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Awards
Academy
Awards wins:
Golden Globe Award win:
Academy Award nominations:
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.[5]
- ^
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 Allmovie.
- ^
Goble, Alan. The Complete Index to World Film, since 1885.
2008. Index home page.
- ^
Film Reference. Joseph
Ruttenberg publications section, 2007. Last accessed: December 22,
2007.
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