Arthur J. Ornitz

Nascimento : 1916-11-27, New York City, New York, USA

Morte : 1985-07-10

História

Arthur J. Ornitz (November 28, 1916 – July 10, 1985) was an American cinematographer.

Filmes

O Romance Real de Charles e Diana
Director of Photography
The second Charles and Diana movie, with two virtual unknowns in the leads: Christopher Baines had acted on the British stage and on the BBC, but Catherine Oxenberg, a U.S.-born, British-raised professional model, here made her acting debut. Of particular interest was the casting of Dana Wynter as Queen Elizabeth, Stewart Granger as Prince Philip, Olivia de Havilland as the Queen Mother, and Ray Milland as a general factotum around the Palace.
Hanky Panky
Director of Photography
The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
Tattoo
Director of Photography
Karl Kinsky, an unbalanced tattoo artist, becomes obsessed with Maddy, a model he meets when he is hired to body-paint several women for a photo shoot, making the women look like they have large tattoos. As Kinsky grows more obsessed with Maddy, he becomes increasingly determined that Maddy should bear his "mark" -- forever.
The Chosen
Director of Photography
In a 1940s New York, two Jewish teenage boys are determined to remain friends despite the deep differences between their two families.
Amarga Sinfonia de Auschwitz
Director of Photography
Duas mulheres formam um conjunto de cordas no campo de concentração de Auschwitz e, graças à qualidade de sua música, são poupadas das câmaras de gás durante muito tempo pelos nazistas. Vanessa Redgrave está excepcional no papel da judia Fania Fénelon, uma musicista de talento, figura humana de extrema dignidade e sensibilidade, que orienta e presta apoio à mais jovem, esta inconformada com a situação e frágil diante da fome. Num cenário de horrores, uma visão concreta das duas faces da moeda da moral humana: A essência e a barbárie.
Hardhat & Legs
Director of Photography
A sex education teacher falls for a construction worker with a gambling problem.
Os Peregrinos
Director of Photography
In 1620, the Assembly of the Pilgrims decides to emigrate to the young America because of the persecution they suffer by the English crown. The film tells the adventurous journey of the Pilgrims to an unknown land and future.
A História de Oliver
Director of Photography
Após a perda da amada esposa, Oliver vive um período de tristeza e depressão. Incentivado pelo terapeuta e amigos a procurar uma nova companheira, conhece Marcie, uma bela e rica empresária. Agora Oliver divide-se entre a nova paixão e o amor partido, dificultando seu novo relacionamento.
Uma Mulher Descasada
Director of Photography
Mulher de classe média alta de Nova Iorque precisa se adaptar a sua nova realidade após o fim do seu casamento de mais de 16 anos.
Wilma
Director of Photography
The story of American track sprinter Wilma Rudolph, who overcame physical handicaps to win three gold medals in the 1960 Olympics.
The Quinns
Director of Photography
A drama about three generations of Irish-American firefighters in the New York City Fire Department, and their careers, romances, and growing pains. This pilot film was not picked up to series.
Thieves
Director of Photography
Martin and Sally Cramer grew up on the hardscrabble Lower East Side, where Sally still teaches; meanwhile, Martin's the head of a fancy private school. Romantic dalliances with others convince them that they're meant to be together despite their differences, a decision that's cemented, oddly enough, by an over-the-top argument that draws the police.
Próxima Parada: Bairro Boêmio
Director of Photography
O retrato de jovens pretensiosamente boêmios. Um judeu aspirante a ator sai do apartamento dos pais no Brooklyn em busca de sua sorte na vida boêmia de Greenwich Village em 1953. Ele luta para entender seus sentimentos sobre a natureza dominante de sua mãe, enquanto também tenta manter seu relacionamento com sua namorada. (e 18 - Estimado 18 Anos)
Forever Young, Forever Free
Director of Photography
"e’Lollipop" is the extraordinary story of two inseparable South African children, Tsepo and his orphaned friend Jannie. Jannie is sent to a missionary station in Tsepo’s village where they become best friends as Jannie finds his place in his new home. Life is full of childhood fun and antics until tragedy strikes: Jannie, now 10 years old, is seriously injured. In the face of much adversity, Tsepo and his community pull together so that Jannie can get specialised medical treatment. A daunting challenge lies ahead... At what cost will Jannie survive? Tsepo and Jannie’s inspirational story unfolds against the breathtaking backdrops of a dramatic African landscape and New York City in the mid-1970s. "e’Lollipop" is a life-changing story that reminds us of the true value of friendship, community, sacrifice and family - despite our color or creed.
Law and Disorder
Director of Photography
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
Desejo de Matar
Director of Photography
Em Nova York vive Paul Kersey, um homem pacífico que tem sua vida destroçada quando três marginais invadem seu apartamento, estupram sua filha, que fica em estado gravíssimo, e matam Joanna, sua mulher. Após uma viagem a uma cidade do Arizona, na qual todos andam armados e a criminalidade é mínima, Kersey, decide eliminar qualquer um que o ameace, pois a polícia se mostra incapaz de encontrar os culpados. Assim, Kersey se arma e começa a patrulhar as ruas, matando assassinos e ladrões e ficando obcecado em fazer justiça. Paralelamente ele é caçado por Frank Ochoa, um detetive da polícia que deseja encontrar o homem que está fazendo o trabalho dos tiras.
Serpico
Director of Photography
A história real de um policial honesto de Nova York que denunciou a corrupção na polícia, e como consequência seus colegas se voltaram contra ele.
Ruge o Ódio
Director of Photography
When his partner is killed, tough Irish detective Eddie Ryan vows to avenge the death, whatever the cost. As he begins unraveling clues, his behavior becomes so outrageous that he's obliged to turn in his badge, but the experience only emboldens him. Ryan eventually learns that his partner was caught up in a Puerto Rican gun-running scheme masterminded by a crook named Sweet Willie, who wants to foment revolutionary war.
Black Snake
Director of Photography
A man searches for his brother on an island where a vicious woman keeps slaves on a plantation.
Honor Thy Father
Director of Photography
Joseph Bologna stars as Bill Bonanno in this made-for-television adaptation of the controversial bestseller from Gay Talese, chronicling the rise of New York's infamous Bonanno organized crime family. When his father disappears in 1964 and Bill is compelled to take over the "empire," other mafiosi attempt to take what's theirs. Brenda Vaccaro and Richard S. Castellano fill out the impressive cast of this gripping crime tale.
Possuídos Pelo Mal
Director of Photography
Manhattan socialite begins to fear for her troubled younger brother when he starts behaving bizarrely and he seems to have been friends with a backstreet murderer.
Assim Falou o Amor
Director of Photography
Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.
O Golpe de John Anderson
Director of Photography
Duke Anderson sai da prisão e reúne uma equipe de alto nível para roubar um apartamento de luxo. O que ele não sabe é que o prédio possui um novo sistema de vigilância, com câmeras de segurança que registram todos os seus movimentos.
Nas Sombras da Noite
Director of Photography
The story of vampire Barnabas Collins, the possible cure offered him by Dr. Julia Hoffman, and his search for love amidst the horror.
Os Rapazes da Banda
Director of Photography
Os níveis de tensão começam a aumentar e os nervos começam a aflorar conforme uma festa de aniversário se aproxima do clímax e os convidados vão revelando suas naturezas e suas personalidades reprimidas quando um homem heterossexual, convidado por acidente, se vê em meio à uma festa gay.
Change of Mind
Director of Photography
A white man's brain is transplanted into a black man's skull.
Me, Natalie
Director of Photography
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.
Os Dois Mundos de Charly
Director of Photography
Um homem intelectualmente deficiente passa por um experimento que lhe dá a inteligência de um gênio. Charly é um homem adulto com deficiência cognitiva, lutando para sobreviver no mundo moderno. Suas frequentes tentativas de aprender, ler e escrever são difíceis, e ele é alvo de brincadeiras cruéis na padaria, onde faz pequenos trabalhos de zeladoria. Sua professora, a Sra. Kinnian, matricula Charly em um estudo clínico onde ele é observado por um cirurgião e um psicólogo que coloca Charly numa "disputa" com um rato chamado Algernon, resolvendo labirintos. Algernon é geralmente o vencedor, graças a um experimento envolvendo proteínas cerebrais que aumentou bastante sua inteligência. O experimento prossegue com a cirurgia em Charly, que a princípio não parece afetado. Mas, quando Charly suspeita gradualmente das consequências do experimento, ele luta para saber se o procedimento foi ou não uma boa ideia. (e 12 - Estimado 12 Anos)
The Tiger Makes Out
Director of Photography
During a typically disaster-filled day, Ben Harris, an angry and frustrated bachelor mailman living in a cluttered Greenwich Village basement, learns he has been paying rent to a woman who hasn't owned his building in 6 years. No longer able to endure the injustices of society, he decides to activate the ferocious tiger within himself by abducting a helpless female and dragging her back to his lair.
A Thousand Clowns
Director of Photography
Twelve-year-old Nick lives with his Uncle Murray, a Mr.Micawber-like Dickensian character who keeps hoping something won't turn up. What turns up is a social worker, who falls in love with Murray and a bit in love with Nick. As the child welfare people try to force Murray to become a conventional man (as the price they demand for allowing him to keep Nick), the nephew, who until now has gloried in his Uncle's iconoclastic approach to life, tries to play mediator. But when he succeeds, he is alarmed by the uncle's willingness to cave in to society in order to save the relationship.
Carol for Another Christmas
Director of Photography
Daniel Grudge, a wealthy industrialist and fierce isolationist long embittered by the loss of his son in World War II, is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve who lead him to reconsider his attitude toward his fellow man.
O Mundo de Henry Orient
Director of Photography
Enquanto tenta seduzir uma mulher casada (Paula Prentiss), o pianista Henry Orient (Peter Sellers) é interrompido por duas colegiais precoces, Valerie (Tippy Walker) e Marian (Merrie Spaeth). A princípio, ele não se importa, mas como as coincidências se repetem Henry acha que as garotas são espiãs do marido da amante. Valerie acaba se apaixonando pelo pianista.
Act One
Director of Photography
This autobiographical story traces the career of playwright Moss Hart. Moss struggles as a dramatic writer until he concentrates his efforts on writing comedy. He suffers through a series of professional and romantic failures before a meeting with George S. Kaufman which changes his fortunes.
Réquiem por um Lutador
Director of Photography
Mountain Rivera (Anthony Quinn) é um lutador de boxe à beira da aposentadoria que não consegue arrumar um emprego normal e é obrigado por seu empresário a participar de lutas-livres, daquelas que mais parecem um circo.
Jacktown
Cinematography
A young man is charged with statutory rape.
Preceito de Honra
Director of Photography
An aging doctor's resentment of his young assistant could lead to tragedy.
Teenage Millionaire
Director of Photography
A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations. It becomes a hit.
The Connection
Director of Photography
A title card announces that the film is a result of found footage assembled by cameraman J.J. Burden working for the acclaimed documentary filmmaker Jim Dunn, who has disappeared. Leach, a heroin addict, introduces the audience to his apartment where other heroin addicts, a mix of current and former jazz musicians, are waiting for Cowboy, their drug connection, to appear. Things go out of control as the men grow increasingly nervous and the cameraman keeps recording.
After Hours
Director of Photography
Documentary short showcasing the genius of jazz greats Coleman Hawkins, Roy Eldridge, Cozy Cole, and Milt Hinton, among others.
The Pusher
Director of Photography
A detective investigating the murder of a heroin addict discovers that there is a connection between the junkie and his fiance, who is his boss' daughter.
Kiss Her Goodbye
Director of Photography
In this tense psychological drama, an emotionally unstable young woman and her brother drift from town to town. When a sympathetic motel maid takes pity on the girl -- and becomes romantically involved with her brother -- it could inadvertently spell doom for all of them.
The Goddess
Director of Photography
Booze, pills and loneliness mark a young actress' rise to stardom.
Unknown Man's Story
Director of Photography
Erik Dahl escapes from prison where he is serving a sentence for smuggling. He seeks out his family, but the police have already been there, and he will have to flee. Erik alters their appearance and start a new life as fishmonger in a small town, but he plans to leave the country...
Řecké děti
Director of Photography
Power and the Land
Director of Photography
A documentary showing the struggle to bring electricity to rural areas of the United States.
Wanted - A Master
Director
A dog living in a junkyard learns that all stray dogs will be exterminated by 3 o'clock that afternoon, so sets off to find a master before the deadline.