Isidore Mankofsky

Nacimiento : 1931-09-22, New York City, New York, USA

Muerte : 2021-03-11

Historia

Isidore Mankofsky (September 22, 1931 – March 11, 2021) was an American cinematographer. Description above from the Wikipedia article Isidore Mankofsky, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Películas

Too Loud a Solitude
Director of Photography
An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their contents and extrapolating from them eccentric scenarios of wit.
4 Faces
Director of Photography
A southern pastor under fire, a father with an addicted son, an SS man in South America and a holocaust survivor in four tales, portrayed by the same actor.
She Cried No
Director of Photography
A college freshman is date-raped and tries to press charges.
¡Han llegado!
Second Unit Director of Photography
Un astrofísico que trabaja para la NASA, capta unas extrañas señales procedentes del espacio, que aparentemente encierran un mensaje inteligente. Pero cuando informa del hecho a sus superiores, es despedido. Después de localizar unas señales similares que se emiten desde México, el científico decide viajar a ese país con el fin de investigar el origen de las mismas. Allí descubre que los extraterrestres han llegado a la Tierra.
The Heidi Chronicles
Director of Photography
Heidi Holland is a woman on the long and often bumpy road of self-discovery from the 1960s to 1990s. The movie follows her path from high-school egghead, to feminist supporter, to intellectual art dealer/mother, and chronicles her ups and downs and revelations.
Whose Daughter is She?
Director of Photography
Whose Daughter is She?
Father and Scout
Director of Photography
A father gets a crash course in the outdoors in this made for television comedy for kids. Comedian Bob Saget stars as an urban living dad who decides to take his son Michael (Brian Bonsall) -- working his way to Eagle Scout -- on a camping trip. Poor dad is well-meaning, but fumbles his way through a series of mishaps.
Telling Secrets
Director of Photography
Through a series of elaborate schemes, a wealthy woman arranges for the murder of her husband's mistress and then takes steps so that the crime won't be traced back to her. The detective investigating the murder soon realizes her role in it, and sets out to find a way to pin the murder on her.
Day-O
Director of Photography
A five-year-old named Grace creates an imaginary friend, because her parents only pay attention to the new baby, Tony. Now at 35, his sole friend reappears to help her.
Stompin' at the Savoy
Director of Photography
As the Harlem Renaissance flourishes in jazzy New York City, Pauline, Esther and Alice struggle to survive. By day, they toil at dreary jobs, dreaming of stardom, riches and happiness. By night, they dance their troubles away at the famous Savoy Ballroom. But when World War II appears on the horizon, the girls find their fortunes unfolding too unevenly to reconcile, and they inevitably begin to drift apart.
Rumbo a Broadway
Director of Photography
Eugene Jerome es un joven de 22 años que comparte con su hermano mayor Stan la afición por escribir comedias. Ambos están escribiendo un sketch que creen que les hará triunfar en el mundo del espectáculo. Pero para eso deben dejar su excéntrico hogar y trasladarse a Broadway...
Sarta de mentiras
Director of Photography
Vickie Daniel, una mujer de baja cuna que estaba casada con un hombre rico, es acusada del asesinato de su marido. Pero el juicio revela que en el matrimonio existieron malos tratos y torturas por parte del marido.
Appearances
Director of Photography
A drama centering on the joys, conflicts, and crises on a middle-class family and on its ex-football star father's efforts to keep it on track and intact despite the death of a child and the strain between his wife and father.
Tú a Boston y yo a California 3
Director of Photography
Cuando Jeff planea volver a casarse, sus hijas trillizas Megan, Lisa y Jessie tratan de traerlo junto a Susan. (FILMAFFINITY)
Una cana al aire
Director of Photography
Aventuras y desventuras de un escritor divorciado y mujeriego que, tras ser abandonado por su esposa, mantiene relaciones con varias mujeres que sólo le causarán problemas.
Davy Crockett: Rainbow in the Thunder
Director of Photography
In a well received addition to the Disney original, Johnny Cash and Tim Dunigan play Davy Crockett. Crockett and Andrew Jackson, now old men, share their memories (and differences) about an Indian uprising they put down 25 years prior.
Clinton and Nadine
Director of Photography
Eager to find his brother's murderer, Clinton enlists the aid of Nadine, an expensive call girl. Together they get sucked into a plot to smuggle guns to the Contra forces in Nicaragua.
Billionaire Boys Club
Director of Photography
The Billionaire Boys Club is based on the true story of Joe Hunt (Nelson), a shady investor who built an empire on B.S. back in the early '80s. Known as the BBC, the story involves a couple of guys recruited into Hunt's company on the promise of making millions. However, every time Hunt's lapdogs think his boss has used his cleverness to make them filthy rich, they instead find themselves with financial losses. Trying to recoup a mounting pile of debt made from giant b.s. deals, the ruthless Hunt involves select members of the BBC to aid in the worst of crimes to get what they want. But a few, scared of how far Hunt will go, try to stop Hunt's brutal reign of terror possibly before real damage begins.
Evil Town
Director of Photography
A mad scientist seeks eternal youth by developing a drug derived from human pituitary glands, aided by the local townsfolk, who help abduct visitors to their town for his experiments.
Un verano loco
Cameraman
El verano ha comenzado y Hoop McCann ha terminado el instituto. Su gran sueño es ser admitido en la Escuela de Arte y convertirse en escritor de cómics. Su amigo George le ha invitado a pasar las vacaciones en la isla de Nantucket, junto a su hermana y, durante el viaje de ida, recogen a una atractiva joven, Cassandra, que se encuentra metida en problemas. Este será el comienzo de unas vacaciones inolvidables donde no faltarán las aventuras y el amor...
Un verano loco
Director of Photography
El verano ha comenzado y Hoop McCann ha terminado el instituto. Su gran sueño es ser admitido en la Escuela de Arte y convertirse en escritor de cómics. Su amigo George le ha invitado a pasar las vacaciones en la isla de Nantucket, junto a su hermana y, durante el viaje de ida, recogen a una atractiva joven, Cassandra, que se encuentra metida en problemas. Este será el comienzo de unas vacaciones inolvidables donde no faltarán las aventuras y el amor...
Triplecross
Director of Photography
Three cops become instant millionaires after saving a rich crime victim. They retire from the force and use their money to become flamboyant private detectives. They get involved in cases involving the death of an artist, underworld figures, blackmail and a fix on baseball games.
Beverly Hills Madam
Director of Photography
A bordello catering to rich and wealthy clients, run by Lil Hutton experiences a series of crises as one girl ends up pregnant, and another dead. As a subplot, a young woman, Julie Taylor, makes a trip to LA to surprise a friend, but never finds her. Julie is mugged, and seeks help from Lil Hutton. She sees how much the prostitutes are making, and is tempted into the lifestyle. On her first "job" is hired by a rich father for his 18-year old virgin son as a birthday gift, and they fall in love. But the relationship comes to a quick end as soon as the son learns she is a "whore"; Julie breaks down and runs off after realizing prostitution is a cold and loveless occupation that cannot fulfill her emotional emptiness.
La batalla del planeta de los Ewoks
Director of Photography
Un ejército de merodeadores, bajo las órdenes del Rey Terak y la bruja Charal, atacan el Poblado Ewok. Cindel y Wicket huyen al bosque, donde se encuentran con Teek y el ermitaño Noa. Cindel y Wicket necesitarán la ayuda de Noa para derrotar a los merodeadores...
Más vale muerto
Director of Photography
Una vez que su novia le abandona por un esquiador palurdo, Lane decide que el suicidio es su única salida. Pero sus intentonas serán cada vez más fallidas, trayéndole sólo más angustia y desconcierto
Silencio en mi corazón
Director of Photography
Skip Lewis es un adolescente con problemas que un día se precipita en coche por un acantilado. Su familia mantiene que todo fue un accidente. Sin embargo, Skip le contó a su mejor amigo, que fue la última persona que le vio, que estaba pensando suicidarse y ahora este se siente culpable de no haber intentado detenerle.
La cama en llamas
Director of Photography
Francine Hughes es arrestada por prenderle fuego a su casa mientras Mickey, su ex marido, dormía plácidamente. Las pruebas son irrefutables y es acusada de asesinato con premeditación
I Married a Centerfold
Director of Photography
Tenacious young engineer flips over the centerfold model he spots on television and embarks on a romantic adventure on a bet with his buddies.
Getting Physical
Director of Photography
The world of female bodybuilding provides the backdrop for this tale of an aspiring young actress who initially becomes interested in the sport as a means of self-defense following a physical attack by two men, but then finds that while concentrating on building up her body her relationship with her parents, with whom she is living, and her new-found boyfriend, a young cop, is breaking down. Several noted bodybuilders and iron-pumpers, male and female, put in appearances to give this production an added authenticity.
When She Says No
Director of Photography
After divorced college professor Rose Michaels invites three of her male colleagues to her room during a teacher's convention, she later accuses them of rape, but the men say otherwise.
Hobson's Choice
Director of Photography
Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.
La princesa del estadio
Director of Photography
La familia Maida se mudó a Oregón, y su hija Tami quiere jugar como mariscal de campo para el equipo de fútbol de la escuela secundaria. Solo hay un problema. Ella es una niña. Con todos, desde el entrenador hasta su vecino de al lado, ella probará que no solo puede jugar al fútbol, ​​sino que también puede ganar el campeonato estatal. (Basado en una historia real)
Night Partners
Director of Photography
Elizabeth and Lauren are two Bakersfield housewives who volunteer to help the local police by working with crime victims to help catch criminals.
Baby Sister
Director of Photography
Sultry college dropout Annie Burroughs moves in with her older sister Marsha and proceeds to break up the relationship between Marsha and her live-in boyfriend David Mitchell so Annie can begin a sensuous love affair and have David all for herself.
Not Just Another Affair
Director of Photography
A lady marine biologist, determined to save herself until marriage, meets a handsome attorney who is not used to being rejected sexually, and it becomes a battle of wills as to who will emerge the winner.
In the Custody of Strangers
Director of Photography
A teenage delinquent who goes on a drunken joyride is left in jail overnight by his parents in the hope that he might learn a lesson from it. But events follow which result in the boy spending far longer behind bars than anyone had foreseen.
Retrato de una bailarina (TV)
Director of Photography
Historia de tres showgirls en Las Vegas, cada una de ellas en un punto diferente de su carrera.
Jacqueline Kennedy, vida privada
Director of Photography
A los cinco años de edad, Jacqueline Bouvier tiene que enfrentarse al divorcio de sus padres y al nuevo matrimonio de su madre, quien desde siempre deseó hacer de ella una primera dama. Más tarde se traslada a un internado para señoritas, donde vive una serie de nuevas experiencias. Al cabo de un tiempo Jackie se convierte en periodista, trabajo que le permite conocer a John F. Kennedy.
Golden Gate
Director of Photography
A venerable San Francisco publishing family becomes embroiled in a bitter power struggle between the iron-fisted, but ailing, patriarch's son and a ruthless businessman who tries for a takeover.
Fly Away Home
Director of Photography
Ambitious pilot to a prospective series revolving around a combat cameraman in Vietnam. Carl Danton is in Saigon on assignment at the start of the 1968 Tet offensive with a cynical boss in the local bureau chief. His love interest is a Vietnamese doctor whose brother happens to be a leader in the Viet Cong and whose influential parents are involved in high-level corruption.
Midnight Lace
Director of Photography
A TV reporter is mercilessly stalked by a mysterious assassin in this remake of the 1960 Doris Day thriller.
El cantor de jazz
Director of Photography
Remake de "El cantor de jazz". Yussel (Neil Diamond), un joven cantante judío, está decidido a triunfar en el mundo de la música. En contra de los deseos de su severo padre y de su esposa, viaja a California en busca del éxito. Allí conoce a una mujer que comparte sus sueños, pero la fama lo aleja cada vez más de sus raíces.
En algún lugar del tiempo
Director of Photography
Tras una representación teatral, Richard Collier, el autor, recibe un regalo de una anciana. Pasados unos años, Richard cree reconocer en el retrato de una antigua actriz a la enigmática dama, ya fallecida. La belleza y el encanto de la fotografía le subyugan de tal forma que, utilizando la hipnosis, se traslada a 1912, conoce a la artista y mantiene con ella un romance.
Goldie and the Boxer
Director of Photography
Lighthearted tale of a 10-year-old girl who, when her boxer father dies, strikes up a relationship with a struggling fighter who was his sparring partner and takes on the job of managing him from obscurity to the championship.
Love for Rent
Director of Photography
Two small-town sisters go to Hollywood and find themselves seduced by the glamor of the big time and big money as high-priced professional escorts.
La película de los Teleñecos
Director of Photography
Después de un accidental encuentro con un cazatalentos, la Rana Gustavo (llamada René en Latinoamérica) se dirige a Hollywood para convertirse en una estrella del espectáculo. A lo largo del camino, se unen a él el fabuloso Fozzie, el gran Gonzo y la deslumbrante cerdita Peggy con la ilusión de convertirse también en grandes estrellas del cine. Pero sus esperanzas se desvanecen cuando Gustavo cae en las garras de un magnate de la comida rápida que pretende promocionar su negocio de ancas de ranas fritas...
The Second Coming of Suzanne
Director of Photography
Jared Martin plays an aspiring film maker obsessed with the idea of Christ as a woman, and tries to film his vision with Sondra Locke as his subject. 'Based' on a song by Leonard Cohen.
Locos asesinos
Director of Photography
Unos ancianos están a punto de ser desahuciados de sus casas debido a las obras de demolición que se están realizando en el barrio. Pero se niegan, y para ello empezarán a cometer asesinatos contra sus instigadores.
¡Grita Blácula grita! (Drácula negro II)
Director of Photography
Una vez más el príncipe de las tinieblas sigue vampirizando. Lisa es una experta en vudú. Totalmente atraída por Drácula intenta salvarle.
Trick Baby
Director of Photography
Two Philadelphia con men try to evade gangsters they have conned and cops who are trying to put them in jail.
Lobos Sobre Ruedas
Director of Photography
Una extraña secta de monjes que le rinden culto a Satán, han conseguido convertir a una banda de moteros en peligrosos hombres lobo. La lucha entre las dos bandas será mortal y Helen, una chica neutral, tendrá que escapar de este infierno.
Jud
Director of Photography
A Vietnam vet, Jud Carney. returns to Los Angeles at Christmas time, finds out it's not how he thought it was going to be. When Jud discovers his fiancee has left him, he moves into a boarding house peopled with "types." Flashback memories of the war and the suicide of fellow house resident, reduce Jud to a broken and bitter man.
Bartleby
Director of Photography
Bartleby, an enigmatic man who calmly refuses to carry out his duties, is introduced in this period dramatization of Melville’s haunting story as a scrivener in a 1969 film production of Encyclopedia Britannica Educational Corporation.
The Lottery
Director of Photography
Every year, on June 27th, in a small village in New England, inhabited by no more than 300 people, a lottery is held in which a family is chosen as part of a ritual to ensure a good harvest.
The Lady, or the Tiger?
Director of Photography
A visually experimental adaptation of the classic Frank Stockton short story.