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Christian Blackwood
Berlin, Germany
Christian Blackwood was an American film director and cinematographer. He was initially a child actor, then a cinematographer acclaimed for his work in Charlotte Zwerin's Thelonio…
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Christian Blackwood was an American film director and cinematographer. He was initially a child actor, then a cinematographer acclaimed for his work in Charlotte Zwerin's Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. But his major work was as the director of over 80 films, mostly documentaries, over a 25-year career. His most famous films are Observations Under The Volcano and On the Set of Death of a Salesman, behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of movies by John Huston and Volker Schlöndorff from the famous novel and play. The latter film won him the grand prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Christian Blackwood died in 1992 of lung cancer. He was married to film writer, producer and fine art photographer, Carolyn Marks Blackwood. His film archives are stored in the Museum of Modern Art.
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2003
Conversations with Philip Guston
Movie Director of Photography
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1990
Real Sex
TV show Director
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1990
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis
Movie Director of Photography
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1989
Motel
Movie Director
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1988
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser
Movie Director of Photography
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1988
Point of View
TV show Director
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1987
Signed: Lino Brocka
Movie Director
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1986
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’
Movie Producer
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1985
Aznavour: Breaking America
Movie Director
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1984
The Soldier's Tale
Movie Director
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1984
Observations Under the Volcano
Movie Director
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1982
All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story
Movie Director
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1982
Philip Guston: A Life Lived
Movie Cinematography
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1981
Edith Head
Movie Director
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1981
Sam Fuller: Writings with a Camera
Movie Director
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1980
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush
Movie Director
More credits
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1978
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel
Movie Director
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1976
Yesterday's Witness
Movie Producer
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1976
Hollywood's Musical Moods
Movie Director
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1972
Isamu Noguchi
Movie Director
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1972
Larry Rivers
Movie Cinematography
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1970
San Domingo
Movie Cinematography
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1970
Summer in the City
Movie Director
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1970
Sex-Business: Made in Pasing
Movie Director of Photography
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1970
David Hockney's Diaries
Movie Director
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1970
Jim Dine: London
Movie Director
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1969
Harlem Theater
Movie Director of Photography
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1969
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
Movie Director
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1969
Christo: Wrapped Coast
Movie Cinematography
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1968
Monk
Movie Cinematography
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1968
Monk in Europe
Movie Director
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1967
Lockenköpfchen
Movie Director of Photography
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1967
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966
Movie Cinematography
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1965
Not Reconciled
Movie Cinematography
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1951
German Film Award
TV show Self
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1946
The Murderers Are Among Us
Movie Otto Brückner
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Juilliard
Movie Director
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Tapdancin'
Movie Director
