Kramer Morgenthau
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Kramer Morgenthau, A.S.C. (born June 6, 1966), is an American cinematographer and a member of both the Morgenthau and the Lehman family.
Background
Morgenthau was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts.[1]
His father, Henry Morgenthau III,[2] was a producer of documentaries for the flagship PBS station, WGBH-TV, in Boston and his mother, Ruth (née Schachter),[3] was a Polish Jewish refugee from WWII Vienna;[4] was a professor of international politics at Brandeis University; served as an advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter on Africa;[4] and in 1988 ran unsuccessfully as a Democratic candidate for Congress in Rhode Island.[5] He has one brother, Henry "Ben" Morgenthau and one sister, Sarah Elinor Morgenthau Wessel.[6]
His great-great-grandfather was businessman Mayer Lehman. His grandfather was Henry Morgenthau Jr., the U.S. Treasury secretary during the Roosevelt administration. His great-grandfather, Henry Morgenthau Sr., was the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I; his uncle is Robert M. Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney for 35 years.
Career
His early career began in New York as a documentary filmmaker, which led him to shoot Allan Miller's Academy Award-nominated film, Small Wonders, as well as Sundance Festival feature film, Joe & Joe, which began his years as a festival fixture, shooting seven more features and documentaries that played there.
Morgenthau is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Cinematographers, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the International Cinematographers Guild.
Personal life
In 2011, he married Tracy Fleischman in a Jewish ceremony at the former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana in Los Angeles.[1]
He currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and twin children.[citation needed]
Filmography
Film
Television
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | Itzhak Perlman: Fiddling for the Future | Allan Miller | TV special |
| 2005 | Blind Justice | Gary Fleder | Episode "Pilot" |
| Over There | Also directed episode "Orphans" | ||
| 2006 | The Evidence | Gary Fleder | Episode "Pilot" |
| Saved | Darnell Martin | Episode "A Day in the Life" | |
| 2008 | Life on Mars | Gary Fleder | Episode "Out Here in the Fields" |
| 2009 | FlashForward | David S. Goyer | Episode "No More Good Days" |
| 2010 | Boardwalk Empire | Jeremy Podeswa Tim Van Patten Brian Kirk Simon Cellan Jones |
Episodes "Anastasia, "Family Limitation", "Hold Me in Paradise", "The Emerald City" and "A Return to Normalcy" |
| 2011 | The Playboy Club | Alan Taylor | Episode "Pilot" |
| 2012 | Game of Thrones | Episodes "The North Remembers" and "The Night Lands" | |
| Vegas | James Mangold | Episode "Pilot" | |
| 2013 | Sleepy Hollow | Len Wiseman | Episode "Pilot" (Also made an uncredited cameo as George Washington) |
| 2017 | The Orville | Jon Favreau | Episode "Pilot" |
| 2027 | Oswald the Lucky Rabbit | Episode "Pilot" |
TV movies
| Year | Title | Director |
|---|---|---|
| 1999 | The Caseys | Michael Steinberg |
| 2002 | Untitled Paul Simms pilot | Timothy Van Patten |
| 2004 | The Five People You Meet in Heaven | Lloyd Kramer |
| 2011 | Too Big to Fail | Curtis Hanson |
| 2018 | Fahrenheit 451[9] | Ramin Bahrani |
| 2019 | American Son | Kenny Leon |
Documentary works
Film
| Year | Title | Director | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Synthetic Pleasures | Iara Lee | With Marcus Hahn Toshifumi Furusawa |
| Small Wonders | Allan Miller | ||
| Varga Girl | Wolfgang Hastert | ||
| 1999 | Music Bridges Over Troubled Waters | Marc Cadieux | |
| 2003 | Mayor of the Sunset Strip | George Hickenlooper | With Igor Meglic |
| 2004 | Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family | Susan Kaplan | With Sarah Cawley, Samuel M. Henriques and Don Lenzer |
| A Different Kind of Blue | Murray Lerner |
References
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- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Tracy Fleischman and Kramer Morgenthau". The New York Times. December 23, 2011.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Henry Morgenthau III obituary". The Washington Post.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hevesi, Dennis (12 November 2006). "Ruth S. Morgenthau obituary". The New York Times.
- ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bernstein, Adam (November 16, 2006). "Ruth S. Morgenthau, 75; Expert on Aid to Africa". The Washington Post.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Hevesi, Dennis (2006-11-12). "Ruth S. Morgenthau, 75, an Adviser to Carter, Is Dead". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2015-07-13.
- ^ Morgenthau Family Tree Script error: No such module "webarchive".; retrieved October 3, 2015.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Returning to the World of 'The Sopranos'". Variety. October 2021.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Burn After Reading: Fahrenheit 451". American Cinematographer.
External links
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