Paul Ivano
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Paul Ivano | |
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Ivano (right) with camera assistants Robert Lazlo and Frank Heisler and Ella Raines on the set of The Suspect (1944) | |
| Born | Paul Ivano-Ivanichevitch (Romanized Serbian) May 13, 1900 |
| Died | April 9, 1984 (aged 83) |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Spouse(s) | Margaret (Greta) Ginsburg Ivano[1][2] |
Paul Ivano, ASC (May 13, 1900 – April 9, 1984), was a Serbian–French–American cinematographer whose career stretched from 1920 into the late 1960s.[3][4][5] Born Paul Ivano Ivanichevitch, to Serbian parents in Nice, France, he served for two years with the Franco–American Ambulance Corps and the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps, between 1916 and 1918.[4][6] After the conclusion of World War I, he remained in the Balkans, acting as a photographer and interpreter for the American Red Cross.[4] He arrived in the United States in 1919, and moved to California, the following year.[4] In 1947 he was the cameraman who made the first aerial helicopter shots for an American feature film in Nicholas Ray's film noir They Live by Night.[7][8]
Select filmography
| Cinematographer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Genre | Other notes | |
| 1949 | Search for Danger | |||
| 1945 | Pursuit to Algiers | Detective | ||
| The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry | Film noir | Director of photography | ||
| The Frozen Ghost | ||||
| Senorita from the West | ||||
| 1944 | The Suspect | Director of photography | ||
| The Impostor | ||||
| 1943 | Flesh and Fantasy | |||
| 1936 | The Plow That Broke the Plains | Short documentary film, selected in 1999, to be preserved in the U.S. National Film Registry | Cinematography (uncredited) | |
| 1929 | Queen Kelly | After this Erich von Stroheim silent film, Ivano worked in sound movies for less prestigious directors in the 1930s. | ||
| 1921 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | Top-grossing film of 1921 | ||
Television
The Lawless Years
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