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Boris Kaufman

Highest Rated: 100% L'Atalante (1934)

Lowest Rated: 33% Bye Bye Braverman (1968)

Birthday: Aug 24, 1906

Birthplace: Bialystok, Poland, Russian Empire

Younger brother of Soviet filmmakers Dziga Vertov and Mikhail Kaufman who went to France in the mid-1920s and shot all of Jean Vigo's films, among others. In the US after WWII, he photographed a number of shorts and documentaries before being hired as cinematographer on Elia Kazan's "On The Waterfront" (1954).

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Highest rated movies

100% 89% L'Atalante
Watchlist 100% 97% 12 Angry Men Watchlist 99% 95% On the Waterfront Watchlist
95% 85% Long Day's Journey Into Night
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91% 58% The World of Henry Orient
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86% 84% Patterns
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83% 80% Baby Doll
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75% 59% The Group
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74% 90% Splendor in the Grass
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60% 24% The Brotherhood
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Boris Kaufman

BABY DOLL, cinematographer Boris Kaufman (glasses, dark shirt, sitting to the left on the camera dolly), director Elia Kazan (sitting next to the camera), foreground right: Eli Wallach, Carroll Baker, on set, 1956 PATTERNS, Cinematographer Boris Kaufman, Van Heflin, Elizabeth Wilson, Director Fielder Cook, 1956. ON THE WATERFRONT, Director Elia Kazan (ctr), Marlon Brandon (r) on the set with Hoboken Director of Public Safety Arthur Marotta (l) and cinematographer Boris Kaufman (rear), 1954 View more photos

Filmography

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Credit
60% 24% The Brotherhood Cinematographer - 1968
33% 33% Bye Bye Braverman Cinematographer - 1968
75% 59% The Group Cinematographer - 1966
91% 58% The World of Henry Orient Cinematographer - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Gone Are the Days Cinematographer - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet All the Way Home Cinematographer - 1963
95% 85% Long Day's Journey Into Night Cinematographer - 1962
74% 90% Splendor in the Grass Cinematographer - 1961
59% 63% The Fugitive Kind Cinematographer - 1960
100% 97% 12 Angry Men Cinematographer - 1957
83% 80% Baby Doll Cinematographer - 1956
86% 84% Patterns Cinematographer - 1956
99% 95% On the Waterfront Cinematographer - 1954
100% 89% L'Atalante Cinematographer $24.1K 1934
No Score Yet 64% Zou Zou Cinematographer - 1934
No Score Yet 74% À Propos de Nice Director - 1930