Sam Leavitt

Samuel Leavitt,

Leavitt began his career as an assistant camera operator working on 1930s films.[1] Leavitt was a camera operator on films including Rancho Notorious (1952) and on TV's I Love Lucy in the early 1950s^[2] before becoming a director of photography in films.

Leavitt was nominated for Academy Awards for Exodus (Best Cinematography Color) (1960)and Anatomy of a Murder (1959) (Best Cinematography Black and White) in the two years following his Oscar win for The Defiant Ones.

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Filmography

Feature films

• The Thief (1952)
• China Venture (1953)
• Mission Over Korea (1953)
• A Star Is Born (1954)
• Carmen Jones (1954)
• Southwest Passage (1954)
• An Annapolis Story (1955)
• The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955)
• The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)
• The Bold and the Brave (1956)
• Crime in the Streets (1956)
• Hot Rod Girl (1956)
• The Wild Party (1956)
• The Careless Years (1957)
• Eighteen and Anxious (1957)
• Hell Ship Mutiny (1957)
• Time Limit (1957)
• The Defiant Ones (1958)
• The Fearmakers (1958)
• Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
• The Crimson Kimono (1959)
• Five Gates to Hell (1959)
• Pork Chop Hill (1959)
• Exodus (1960)
• Seven Thieves (1960)
• The Right Approach (1961)
• Advise & Consent (1962)
• Cape Fear (1962)
• Diamond Head (1963)
• Shock Treatment (1964)
• Brainstorm (1965)
• Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965)
• Major Dundee (1965)
• My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
• Two on a Guillotine (1965)
• An American Dream (1966)
• I Deal in Danger (1966)
• Murderers' Row (1966)
• Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
• Where Angels Go, Trouble Follows (1968)
• The Wrecking Crew (1968)
• The Desperados (1969)
• The Man in the Glass Booth (1975)

Short films

• Goof on the Roof (1953)

Television films

• Evil Roy Slade (1972)
• The Longest Night (1972)
• The Screaming Woman (1972)

References

External links

• Sam Leavitt at
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