Sam Leavitt

Born: 02/06/1904 New York City, NY

Decades Active:
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Biography: An apprentice and assistant cameraman in the silent days, Sam Leavitt became a camera operator in the 1930s. Among his credits were such splashy MGM Technicolor musicals as Bathing Beauty (1944) and Anchors Aweigh (1946). Leavitt found himself harking back to his silent-movie career for his first director of photography assignment: The Thief (1952), a dialogue-less experiment directed by Ray Milland. In films until retiring after 1975's The Man in a Glass Booth, Sam Leavitt won an Oscar for his black-and-white lensing of Stanley Kramer's The Defiant Ones (1958), and was Oscar-nominated for his work on Otto Preminger's Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and Exodus (1960). ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

DVDs that Sam Leavitt worked on "behind the scenes"...

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05/12/2009 - Time Limit - Cinematographer
09/30/2008 - Hell Ship Mutiny - Cinematographer
02/12/2008 - Guess Who's Coming to Dinner [40th Anniversary Edition] - Cinematographer
01/08/2008 - Evil Roy Slade - Cinematographer
07/10/2007 - Seven Thieves - Cinematographer
04/24/2007 - I Deal in Danger - Cinematographer
10/18/2005 - The Man with the Golden Arm [50th Anniversary 2-Disc Special Edition] - Cinematographer
09/20/2005 - Major Dundee [The Extended Version] - Cinematographer
05/31/2005 - Diamond Head - Cinematographer
05/10/2005 - Advise and Consent - Cinematographer