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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% 59% The World of Henry Orient
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86% 83% Patterns
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83% 80% Baby Doll
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75% 60% 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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The Brotherhood 60% 24% 1968 Cinematographer Bye Bye Braverman 33% 33% 1968 Cinematographer The Group 75% 60% 1966 Cinematographer The World of Henry Orient 91% 59% 1964 Cinematographer Gone Are the Days 1963 Cinematographer All the Way Home 1963 Cinematographer Long Day's Journey Into Night 95% 85% 1962 Cinematographer Splendor in the Grass 74% 90% 1961 Cinematographer The Fugitive Kind 59% 63% 1960 Cinematographer 12 Angry Men 100% 97% 1957 Cinematographer Baby Doll 83% 80% 1956 Cinematographer Patterns 86% 83% 1956 Cinematographer On the Waterfront 99% 95% 1954 Cinematographer L'Atalante 100% 89% 1934 Cinematographer Zou Zou 64% 1934 Cinematographer À Propos de Nice 74% 1930 Director
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