Gerald Hirschfeld

Nascimento : 1921-04-25, New York, New York, USA

Morte : 2017-02-13

Filmes

Making Frankensense of Young Frankenstein
Self
Via reminiscences from writer/actor Gene Wilder and others, this documentary recalls the making of the 1974 film Young Frankenstein.
Child in the Night
Director of Photography
A child psychologist, Hollis who's marriage collapsed after she learned she was barren, bonds with Luke Winfield, who witnessed his father's murder at the hands of rain-slicker wearing killer with a cargo hook. Along the way she befriends Detective Bass as he investigates a series of homicides, each with the same M.O. As Hollis gets closer to Luke she discovers some trouble family secrets ensuring she is next to be slain.
The Neon Empire
Director of Photography
New York mobster Junior Moloff begins plans to transform Las Vegas into a mecca of prostitution and gambling.
Malone, o Justiceiro
Director of Photography
Agente da CIA aposentado volta à ativa quando é ameaçado por um poderoso milionário, enfrentando assassinos pagos para matá-lo.
Head Office
Director of Photography
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
Love Lives On
Director of Photography
A 15-year-old girl must choose between continuing her pregnancy and undergoing treatment for her fast-growing cancer.
The House of God
Cinematography
Comedy about a couple of interns in a hospital named 'The House of God'.
Sou ou Não Sou?
Director of Photography
Mel Brooks comprova que é realmente um tesouro magnífico com sua engenhosa e incrivelmente engraçada refilmagem do clássico de Ernst Lubitsch de 1942. Corretamente descrito como "mundialmente famoso na Polônia", o astro dos palcos Frederick Bronski (Brooks) apresenta Pérolas de Hamlet, enquanto sua sedutora esposa e companheira de palco (Anne Bancroft) diverte-se nos camarins com um jovem e encantador aviador (Tim Matheson). Mas tudo isso é interrompido quando a Trupe Teatral de Bronski é alistada para enganar os nazistas e salvar a resistência polonesa. Miraculosamente desafiados por seus duvidosos disfarces, imitações e números musicais estão um amoroso coronel da SS (o indicado ao Oscar®, Charles Durning) e seu terrível colaborador polonês (Jose Ferrer).
Um Cara Muito Baratinado
Director of Photography
Fledgling comic Benjy Stone can't believe his luck when his childhood hero, the swashbuckling matinee idol Alan Swann, gets booked to appear on the variety show he writes for. But when Swann arrives, he fails to live up to his silver screen image. Instead, he's a drunken womanizer who suffers from stage fright. Benjy is assigned to look after him before the show, and it's all he can do to keep his former idol from going completely off the rails.
Estranhos Vizinhos
Cinematography
Num bairro suburbano, homem de meia idade leva uma vida pacata e sem perspectivas com sua entediada esposa. Até o dia em que conhece seus novos vizinhos, um casal formado por um sujeito bonachão e a mulher sexy e provocante.
Sunday Lovers
Director of Photography
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
Why Would I Lie?
Cinematography
Cletus is a compulsive liar. He prefers the term 'fabrication' to lie though. When Cletus becomes a social worker he's assigned the case of a boy called Jorge (with a 'J') who was taken from his mother. Cletus sets out to reunite Jorge with his mother, but to do so he has to fabricate many a story to keep Jorge from being adopted. In search of the mother, Cletus meets and falls in love with a women's advice councillor.
Americathon
Director of Photography
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
The Bell Jar
Director of Photography
Adaptation of the 1963 novel by Sylvia Plath. Details a young woman's summer in New York working for a Mademoiselle-like magazine, return home to New England, and subsequent breakdown all amidst the horrors of the fifties, from news of the Rosenbergs' execution to sleazy disc jockeys and predatory college boys.
Slow Dancing In The Big City
Additional Photography
An aging out of shape reporter falls for a pretty but seriously ill ballerina.
O Maior Amante do Mundo
Cinematography
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.
O Carro: A Máquina do Diabo
Director of Photography
Uma cidadezinha do Oeste americano é aterrorizada por um carro preto que mata impiedosamente qualquer um que cruze o seu caminho. Policiais da região são mobilizados para capturar o assassino, mas caberá ao oficial Wade evitar que o diabólico automóvel mate novamente.
Pânico na Multidão
Director of Photography
Psicopata armado com rifle parte para uma caçada humana apenas por diversão num estádio lotado com 100 mil espectadores. Logo equipes da polícia e da SWAT estão atrás do psicótico assassino. Faltam dois minutos para a partida acabar e a multidão entra em pânico.
Dragonfly
Director of Photography
A man, recently released from a mental hospital, tries to track down his family.
O Último Guerreiro
Director of Photography
Uma misteriosa praga destruiu a fauna e a flora do planeta - e conseqüentemente todos os alimentos. No ano de 2012, grupos de sobreviventes disputam o lixo à custa da própria vida. Apenas um deles conserva traços de humanidade - e poucos grãos, sementes de um futuro melhor, que tentam reconstruir através do plantio de vegetais geneticamente modificados. Quando os bandidos liderados por um tirano tentam invadir a fortaleza dos cientistas, o futuro da humanidade passa a depender de um único homem: o Último Guerreiro!
Shell Game
Director of Photography
A convicted con artist sets out to expose the head of a charity fund who has been embezzling money to cover his huge gambling losses.
O Jovem Frankenstein
Director of Photography
Chamado ao castelo de seu finado avô na Transilvânia, o jovem Dr. Frankestein logo descobre um manual descrevendo passo a passo como trazer um cadáver de volta à vida. Auxiliado pelo corcunda Igor e pela curvilínea Inga, ele cria um monstro que só deseja ser amado.
The Dion Brothers
Cinematography
Two rural West Virginia brothers leave home, rob an armored car and become fugitives.
W
Director of Photography
Is a young woman being stalked by her ex, or is she imagining things?
The Affair
Cinematography
A crippled lady songwriter meets an older lawyer who becomes her first love.
Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams
Director of Photography
Rita, a middle aged New York City homemaker, finds herself in an emotional crisis which forces her to re-examine her life, as well as her relationships with her mother, her eye doctor husband, her alienated daughter and estranged son.
Two People
Cinematography
Evan Bonner is a deserter from the Vietnam war; he is on his way back to America to give himself up when he meets Deirdre McCluskey, a beautiful if petulant model. The two make an unlikely couple, but once in France the magic of Paris works its charm and these two vulnerable people finally find each other.
Brincadeira de Criança
Director of Photography
Jovem professor Paul Reis (Beau Bridges) ingressa em escola tradicional e se surpreende com a violência entre alunos. Desconfiando que algum docente os está incitando, ele inicia uma investigação cujos principais suspeitos são dois antigos rivais: os respeitados mestres da instituição Jeromy Malley (James Mason) e Joseph Dobbs (Robert Preston).
T.R. Baskin
Director of Photography
Enthusiastic young woman runs away to Chicago to start a new life. She is soon confronted with the emotional coldness of the big city and has to search for her place in the scheme of things.
O Massacre dos Pistoleiros
Director of Photography
Uma noite de 1881, Doc Holliday, um famoso jogador de poker, entra no 'No Name Saloon'. Lá, ele desafia um homem no poker, apostando seu cavalo contra a mulher de seu oponente. Doc vence e de agora em diante, Katie Fisher, também conhecida como Katie Elder, vai segui-lo aonde quer que vá.
Quando Nem um Amante Resolve
Director of Photography
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful, and blatantly sadistic writer.
Rififi no Harlem
Director of Photography
Dois policiais entram em uma reviravolta envolvendo um reverendo suspeito, que organiza viagens para a áfrica para os habitantes do Harlem, bairro predominantemente negro nos Estados Unidos
Some Kind of a Nut
Director of Photography
A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard.
O Último Verão
Director of Photography
During summer vacation on Fire Island, three young people become very close. When an uncool girl tries to infiltrate the trio's newly found relationship, they construct an elaborate plot that has violent results.
Mastermind
Cinematography
Zero Mostel plays an inspector on the trail of criminals who have captured a robot called Chatze(sp?) played by Felix Silas. The inspector has delusions that he is a great Samurai warrior and the movie flashes back and forth between present day and ancient times.
Goodbye, Columbus
Director of Photography
A Jewish man and a jewish woman meet and while attracted to each other find that their worlds are very different. She is the archetypical Jewish-American-Princess, very emotionally involved with her parents world and the world they have created for her while he is much less dependent on his family. They begin an affair which brings more differences to the surface.
Dage i min fars hus
Director of Photography
The Incident
Director of Photography
Two hoodlums terrorize the passengers of a late-night New York City subway train.
Limite de Segurança
Director of Photography
Um avião americano cheio de bombas de hidrogênio está passando por Moscou com problemas técnicos.
Mandrake the Magician
Cinematography
Mandrake and Lothar battle enemy agents who have kidnapped the beautiful Princess Narda to force the magician to assist them locate a counter-intelligence agent who possess vital information.
Mister Universe
Director of Photography
A gullible and honest "Mr. Universe" winner, Tommy Tomkins, gets added to the stable of a con-man and a wrestling prompter.
With These Hands
Director of Photography
Produced by the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, the film used actors to recreate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire and compare working conditions of the early 20th century to that of the 1950s.
Guilty Bystander
Director of Photography
O ex-policial Max Thursday se embebeda em um hotel barato quando sua ex-mulher aparece com más notícias e o manda numa corrida desesperada contra o tempo e a bebida. Uma relíquia noir independente do diretor Joseph Lerner, filmada inteiramente em Nova York. Um filme independente repleto de bebida e paranoia, filmado inteiramente em lugares reais nas ruas de Nova Iorque.
C-Man
Director of Photography
A customs agent follows a jewel smuggler's trail of corpses from Paris to New York.
Shades of Gray
Director of Photography
After the suppression of "Let There Be Light" (a documentary about combat-induced post-traumatic stress disorders which presented many inconvenient and demoralizing truths), the U.S. Army Signal Corp created this dramatized up-beat remake of the film. Only this time, the production excluded the involvement of John Houston, the producer of the original documentary.