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Joseph Ruttenberg, A.S.C. (July 4, 1889 – May 1, 1983) was a Russian-born American photojournalist and cinematographer.
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. Born into a Jewish family in Berdychiv Zhytomyr oblast, Ukraine , Joseph Ruttenberg emigrated to the United States, arriving in Boston, Massachusetts on 7 January 1895. 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.
Joseph Ruttenberg Biography / Wiki
Name | Joseph Ruttenberg |
Also Know | Joe Ruttenberg |
Gender | Male |
Known For | Camera |
Place of Birth | Berdychiv, Zhytomyr oblast, Ukraine |
Date of Birth | 1889-07-04 |
Age(as in 2022) | 93 |
Deathday | 1983-05-01 |
Other Info
Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
The Philadelphia Story | Director of Photography | 1940-12-05 | When a rich woman’s ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself…. |
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | Director of Photography | 1941-08-12 | Dr. Jekyll believes good and evil exist in everyone and creates a potion that allows his evil side, Mr. Hyde, to come to the fore. He faces horrible c… |
Kismet | Director of Photography | 1955-10-08 | A roguish poet is given the run of the scheming Wazir’s harem while pretending to help him usurp the young caliph…. |
Love Has Many Faces | Director of Photography | 1965-02-24 | A woman (Lana Turner) lives in Acapulco with moochers and a husband (Cliff Robertson) who married her for her money…. |
Man on Fire | Director of Photography | 1957-08-22 | Bitter over their divorce, a wealthy businessman (Bing Crosby in a rare non-singing, unsympathetic role) prevents his ex-wife from seeing their child…. |
Harlow | Director of Photography | 1965-06-23 | Hollywood drama loosely based on the life of film actress Jean Harlow, with Carroll Baker in the title role. One of two feature film biographies, both… |
A Day at the Races | Director of Photography | 1937-06-11 | Doctor Hugo Hackenbush, Tony, and Stuffy try and save Judy’s farm by winning a big race with her horse. There are a few problems. Hackenbush runs a hi… |
It Happened at the World’s Fair | Director of Photography | 1963-04-03 | Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny’s gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to … |
Cause for Alarm! | Director of Photography | 1951-03-30 | A bedridden and gravely ill man believes his wife and doctor are conspiring to kill him, and outlines his suspicions in a letter…. |
Fury | Director of Photography | 1936-06-05 | Joe, who owns a gas station along with his brothers and is about to marry Katherine, travels to the small town where she lives to visit her, but is wr… |
Crossroads | Director of Photography | 1942-07-23 | A French diplomat who’s recovered from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember…. |
Presenting Lily Mars | Director of Photography | 1943-04-29 | Starstruck Indiana small-town girl Lily is pestering theatrical producer John Thornway for a role but he is reluctant…. |
The Valley of Decision | Director of Photography | 1945-05-03 | Mary Rafferty comes from a poor family of steel mill workers in 19th Century Pittsburgh. Her family objects when she goes to work as a maid for the we… |
The Reluctant Debutante | Director of Photography | 1958-08-14 | Jimmy and Sheila Broadbent, welcome to London Jimmy’s 17-year-old daughter, Jane. Jane is from Jimmy’s first marriage to an American and has come to v… |
Gigi | Director of Photography | 1958-05-15 | A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who’s gone f… |
Invitation to the Dance | Director of Photography | 1956-05-22 | Three completely different stories are told through dance…. |
Killer McCoy | Director of Photography | 1947-12-01 | Tommy McCoy grew up poor and scrappy. As a young man he discovers that he can fight with his powerful right arm. He becomes successful at boxing, howe… |
The Wreck of the Mary Deare | Director of Photography | 1959-11-17 | A disgraced merchant marine officer elects to stay aboard his sinking cargo ship in order to prove the vessel was deliberately scuttled and, as a resu… |
Three Godfathers | Director of Photography | 1936-03-06 | In a town called New Jerusalem, three bandits hold up a bank. After a gun battle with the townspeople, the three robbers retreat into the scorching Ar… |
Balalaika | Director of Photography | 1939-12-15 | A Russian prince disguised as a worker and a cafe singer secretly involved in revolutionary activities fall in love…. |
Woman of the Year | Director of Photography | 1942-02-05 | Rival reporters Sam and Tess fall in love and get married, only to find their relationship strained when Sam comes to resent Tess’ hectic lifestyle…. |
Desire Me | Director of Photography | 1947-10-31 | A war widow falls in love with the man who informed her of her husband’s death…. |
Men Without Names | Director of Photography | 1935-06-29 | A G-man woos a newswoman and corners bank robbers with a hostage in a factory…. |
B.F.’s Daughter | Director of Photography | 1948-03-24 | Wealthy Polly Fulton marries a progressive scholar whose attitudes toward capitalism and acquired wealth puts their marriage in jeopardy…. |
The Subterraneans | Director of Photography | 1960-06-23 | A disillusioned writer explores the subterranean depths of San Francisco’s North Beach district…. |
Green Mansions | Director of Photography | 1959-03-19 | A young Venezuelan idealist flees his native land to escape a revolution. Hoping to find peace, he goes to the mountains and the forests of the Amazon… |
Small Town Girl | Director of Photography | 1953-04-10 | Rick Belrow Livingston, in love with Broadway star Lisa, is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. He persuades the judge’s d… |
The Great Waltz | Director of Photography | 1938-11-04 | Composer Johann Strauss risks his marriage over his infatuation with a beautiful singer…. |
The Hook | Director of Photography | 1963-02-15 | Three soldiers in Korea go through inner torment when they’re ordered to execute an enemy soldier…. |
Side Street | Director of Photography | 1950-03-23 | A struggling young father-to-be gives in to temptation and impulsively steals an envelope of money from the office of a corrupt attorney. Instead of a… |
Two Loves | Director of Photography | 1961-05-24 | American-born Anna Vorontosov teaches school in a remote, primitive section of northern New Zealand. Her experimental teaching methods have won her th… |
The Prisoner of Zenda | Director of Photography | 1952-11-04 | An Englishman vacationing in Ruritania is recruited to impersonate his cousin, the soon-to-be-crowned king after the monarch is drugged and kidnapped…. |
Who’s Got the Action? | Director of Photography | 1962-12-25 | A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money…. |
BUtterfield 8 | Director of Photography | 1960-11-04 | The story about Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, who falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family w… |
Comrade X | Director of Photography | 1940-12-13 | An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country…. |
Waterloo Bridge | Director of Photography | 1940-05-17 | On the eve of World War II, a British officer revisits Waterloo Bridge and recalls the young man he was at the beginning of World War I and the young … |
Broadway Melody of 1940 | Director of Photography | 1940-02-09 | Johnny Brett and King Shaw are an unsuccessful dance team in New York. A producer discovers Brett as the new partner for Clare Bennett, but Brett, who… |
Gaslight | Director of Photography | 1944-05-04 | A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion…. |
Who’s Been Sleeping in My Bed? | Director of Photography | 1963-12-25 | TV star Jason Steel reluctantly becomes the sounding board for his best friends’ bored wives, and must fend off their advances while managing his own … |
Man Hunt | Director of Photography | 1936-01-29 | A bored small-town teacher gets mixed up with an escaped bank robber…. |
The Shopworn Angel | Director of Photography | 1938-07-15 | During WWI Bill Pettigrew, a naive young Texan soldier is sent to New York for basic training. He meets worldly wise actress Daisy Heath when her car … |
My Friend the Devil | Director of Photography | 1922-11-19 | Silent romantic drama…… |
The Thief | Director of Photography | 1920-12-11 | Silent film comedy drama….. |
Somebody Up There Likes Me | Director of Photography | 1956-07-04 | The story of boxer Rocky Graziano’s rise from juvenile delinquent to world champ…. |
Big City | Director of Photography | 1937-09-03 | Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob contr… |
The Bribe | Director of Photography | 1949-02-03 | United States Federal agent Rigby travels to the Central American island Carlotta to investigate a stolen aircraft engines smuggling racket…. |
Mrs. Miniver | Director of Photography | 1942-07-03 | English middle-class family, The Minivers, experience life in the first months of World War II…. |
Until They Sail | Director of Photography | 1957-10-08 | Four sisters in New Zealand fall for four U.S. soldiers en route to the Pacific theater in WWII…. |
That Forsyte Woman | Director of Photography | 1949-11-03 | Soames and Irene Forsyte have a marriage of convenience. Young Jolyon Forsyte is a black sheep who ran away with the maid after his wife’s death. Teen… |
The Ice Follies of 1939 | Director of Photography | 1939-03-10 | Mary and Larry are are a modestly successful skating team. Shortly after their marriage, Mary gets a picture contract, while Larry is sitting at home,… |
Three Comrades | Director of Photography | 1938-06-02 | A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their … |
The Magnificent Yankee | Director of Photography | 1950-12-20 | Director John Sturges’ 1950 film biography of Oliver Wendell Holmes… |
The First Hundred Years | Director of Photography | 1938-03-12 | David and Lynn are a happily married couple. When David gets his dream job in another state, Lynn, a high-powered executive, doesn’t want to leave NYC… |
On Borrowed Time | Director of Photography | 1939-07-07 | Young Pud is orphaned and left in the care of his aged grandparents. The boy and his grandfather are inseparable. Gramps is concerned for Pud’s future… |
Let’s Ask Nostradamus | Director of Photography | 1953-06-06 | Nostradamus writes a letter to his young son, and his prophecies are compared to events of the French Revolution…. |
Madame Curie | Director of Photography | 1943-12-16 | Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concern… |
The Struggle | Director of Photography | 1931-12-10 | A young couple’s marriage is jeopardized by the husband’s descent into alcoholism…. |
Bubbling Over | Director of Photography | 1934-04-19 | In this all-black short musical comedy, a woman has a husband so lazy she can stick a pin in him without him waking up… but announcing lunch gets hi… |
Woman in the Dark | Director of Photography | 1934-11-08 | A recently released prisoner lives alone in his cabin so that his bad temper won’t get him back in any more trouble, but his peaceful existence is dis… |
A Fallen Idol | Director of Photography | 1919-05-18 | The Hawaiian Princess Laone’s love for Keith Parrish is thwarted by social pressure. After being persuaded to refuse Mr. Parrish’s proposal she attemp… |
Two-Faced Woman | Director of Photography | 1941-12-31 | A woman pretends to be her own twin sister to win back her straying husband…. |
Mrs. Parkington | Director of Photography | 1944-10-12 | In this family saga, Mrs. Parkington recounts the story of her life, beginning as a hotel maid in frontier Nevada where she is swept off her feet by m… |
Her Twelve Men | Director of Photography | 1954-08-11 | An inexperienced female teacher is hired at a private elite school for boys where she raises a few eyebrows among the all-male faculty…. |
Piccadilly Jim | Director of Photography | 1936-08-14 | Jim’s father wants to marry Eugenia, but her sister Netta refuses to allow it. When Jim sees Ann at a club, he falls for her even though she is with L… |
Mad Holiday | Director of Photography | 1936-11-13 | A temperamental film star’s vacation turns deadly when he uncovers a murder…. |
Young Man with Ideas | Director of Photography | 1952-05-02 | A Montana lawyer (Glenn Ford) gets distracted after moving to California with his wife (Ruth Roman) and children…. |
Ziegfeld Girl | Director of Photography | 1941-04-25 | Discovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl’s life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on … |
Interrupted Melody | Director of Photography | 1955-05-05 | Interrupted Melody is the inspirational filmed biography of world-renowned Australian soprano Marjorie Lawrence. She’s a foremost Wagnerian, equal t… |
Because You’re Mine | Camera Operator | 1952-10-01 | A famous opera singer (Mario Lanza) falls for his sergeant’s (James Whitmore) sister (Doretta Morrow) at boot camp…. |
Ada | Director of Photography | 1961-08-25 | A popular but naive country singer is elected governor of a southern state and, once in office, decides to dismantle the corrupt political machine tha… |
The Swan | Director of Photography | 1956-04-26 | Princess Beatrice’s days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant co… |
Speedway | Director of Photography | 1968-06-07 | A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account…. |
Kind Lady | Director of Photography | 1951-06-20 | Mary Herries has a passion for art and fine furniture. Even though she is getting on in years, she enjoys being around these priceless articles. One d… |
Bachelor in Paradise | Director of Photography | 1961-11-01 | A. J. Niles is the author of a series of ‘Bachelor Books’. These books describe the romantic life of a bachelor in various cities of the world. But wh… |
The Miniver Story | Director of Photography | 1950-10-26 | The Second World War is over, and the Miniver family is trying to keep themselves together in post-War Britain, among continuing shortages and growing… |
Julia Misbehaves | Director of Photography | 1948-08-08 | Julia and William were married and soon separated by his snobbish family. They meet again many years later, when their daughter he has raised invites … |
Julius Caesar | Director of Photography | 1953-06-04 | The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for the idealist and the republic…. |
The Great Caruso | Director of Photography | 1951-04-16 | Loosely traces the life of tenor Enrico Caruso (1873-1921). He loves Musetta, in his home town of Naples, and then Dorothy, the daughter of one of the… |
The Cocoanuts | Camera Operator | 1929-05-23 | During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery…. |
The Last Time I Saw Paris | Director of Photography | 1954-01-01 | Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her siste… |
Brigadoon | Director of Photography | 1954-09-08 | Americans Jeff and Tommy, hunting in Scotland, stumble upon a village – Brigadoon. They soon learn that the town appears once every 100 years in order… |
The Prodigal | Director of Photography | 1955-05-06 | A wealthy young Hebrew traveling in Damascus renounces his faith after he is seduced by an alluring pagan priestess and cheated of his fortune by the … |
The Women | Cinematography | 1939-09-01 | A happily married woman lets her catty friends talk her into divorce when her husband strays…. |
Nostradamus and the Queen | Cinematography | 1953-09-29 | An elderly Catherine de Medici reflects back on how the prophecies of Nostradamus accurately predicted the fates of her husband, her three sons and he… |
Sylvia | Cinematography | 1965-02-10 | Sylvia West (Carroll Baker) may not be who she says she is. Her fiancé, the very well-to-do Frederick Summers (Peter Lawford), hires an investigator … |
Adventure | Cinematography | 1945-12-28 | A rough and tumble man of the sea falls for a meek librarian…. |
Random Harvest | Cinematography | 1942-12-17 | An amnesiac World War I vet falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-… |
Tell No Tales | Cinematography | 1939-06-12 | A newspaper editor turns a kidnapping into the banner headlines and exclusive story that could save his publication…. |
Live, Love and Learn | Cinematography | 1937-10-29 | A starving, uncompromising artist and an heiress fall in love on first sight and immediately get married. She loves his outrageous behaviour, his stra… |
If Winter Comes | Cinematography | 1923-03-07 | Mark Sabre hires young Effie Bright to keep his snobbish, cold-hearted wife Mabel company while he goes off to war. When he returns home from the fron… |
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