Paul Ivano

Paul Ivano
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
Nice, France
Died April 9, 1984 (aged 83)
Woodland Hills, California
Occupation Cinematographer
Spouse Margaret (Greta) Ginsburg Ivano

Paul Ivano, ASC (May 13, 1900 – April 9, 1984), was a Serbian–French–American cinematographer whose career stretched from 1920 into the late 1960s. 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 from 1916 to 1918. After the conclusion of World War I, he remained in the Balkans, acting as a photographer and interpreter for the American Red Cross. He arrived in the United States in 1919, and moved to California, the following year. 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.

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Cinematographer
Year Film Genre Other notes
1949 Search for Danger
1945 Pursuit to Algiers mystery film
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 documentary film, selected in 1999, to be preserved in the U.S. National Film Registry cinematography (uncredited)
1929 Queen Kelly a film by Erich von Stroheim
1921 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse top-grossing film of 1921
Dorothea Lange photograph of Paul Ivano, beside the camera at center, and documentary film pioneer Pare Lorentz, at left, in October 1935, near Bakersfield, California, at work on The Plow That Broke the Plains

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