Paul Ivano
Serbian–French–American cinematographer
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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 Pavle Ivanišević to Serbian parents in Nice, France, where the name was transcribed/recorded as "Paul Ivano Ivanichévitch", he served for two years with the Franco-American Ambulance Corps and the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps from 1916 to 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 made cinematic history as the cameraman who captured the first-ever aerial helicopter shots for an American feature film in Nicholas Ray's film noir They Live by Night.[7][8]
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May 13, 1900
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 | Pavle Ivanišević (Romanized Serbian) May 13, 1900 Nice, France |
| Died | April 9, 1984 (aged 83) Woodland Hills, California |
| Occupation | Cinematographer |
| Spouse | Margaret (Greta) Ginsburg Ivano[1][2] |
Select filmography
| Cinematographer | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Genre | Other notes |
| 1949 | Search for Danger | ||
| 1945 | Pursuit to Algiers | mystery film | |
| 1945 | The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry | film noir | director of photography |
| 1945 | The Frozen Ghost | ||
| 1945 | Senorita from the West | ||
| 1944 | The Suspect | director of photography | |
| 1944 | 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 | |
