Occupation Cinematographer Ex-spouse Rose Ruttenberg Children Virginia Ruttenberg | Role Photojournalist Name Joseph Ruttenberg | |
Born July 4, 1889 ( 1889-07-04 ) St. Petersburg, Russia Died May 1, 1983, Los Angeles, California, United States Awards Academy Award for Best Cinematography Movies Gigi, Somebody Up There Likes Me, The Philadelphia Story, Mrs Miniver, Gaslight Similar People George Froeschel, Adrienne Fazan, Edwin B Willis, Bronislaw Kaper, Herbert Stothart | ||
Joseph Ruttenberg - Cinematographer
Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 - May 1, 1983) was a Russian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer.
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Ruttenberg was accomplished at 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), which marked the start of a remarkably successful career.
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. 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 on May 1, 1983.
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