Joseph Ruttenberg

Joseph Ruttenberg ( born July 4, 1889 in Saint Petersburg, † 1 May 1983; Los Angeles ) was an American cinematographer.

Life

Ruttenberg comes from a Jewish- Russian family from Saint Petersburg. When he was ten years old, his family emigrated to the United States where they settled in Boston. There he began to work as a photojournalist as a young man for a Boston newspaper. In 1915 he went to the Fox Film Corporation in New York and was trained as a cameraman. In 1917, he photographed then as an image -shaping Cinematographer ( director of photography ) his first silent film. In the late 1920s he left Fox and began to work at Paramount Pictures. In 1934 he came from New York to Hollywood and became a cameraman at MGM. For his work at MGM, he was nominated ten times for an Oscar and won the trophy four times. In 1968, he retired into private life.

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