Arthur J. Ornitz

Emerging from a New York family tied to Hollywood’s blacklist, he studied film at UCLA and entered the industry as a documentary cameraman for Joris Ivens and Floyd Crosby in the late 1930s. A short-film debut, Wanted - A Master, earned an Academy Award nomination for Best Short Subject (One-Reel), and wartime service placed him in the U.S. Army Signal Corps under Frank Capra. After a period in De… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources