Christian Blackwood

Personal Info

Know For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

1942-07-07 (50 years old)

Deathday

1992-07-22

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Christian Blackwood

Biography

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 ...

Acting

1946

Production

2003

Conversations with Philip Guston

as Director of Photography

1984

1984

Observations Under the Volcano

as Director of Photography

1987

1987

1970

Jim Dine: London

as Director

1978

Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel

as Director of Photography

1969

Harlem Theater

as Director of Photography

1970

1970

Sex-Business: Made in Pasing

as Director of Photography

1982

1970

San Domingo

as Cinematography

1989

Motel

as Producer

1989

Motel

as Director

1981

Edith Head

as Producer

1981

Edith Head

as Director

1968

Monk

as Producer

1968

Monk

as Cinematography

1969

Christo: Wrapped Coast

as Cinematography

1987

Signed: Lino Brocka

as Cinematography

1987

1976

1970

Summer in the City

as Director of Photography

1989

Motel

as Director of Photography

1990

Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis

as Director of Photography

1968

Monk

as Director

1968

Monk in Europe

as Director

1965

Not Reconciled

as Cinematography

1976

1972

Larry Rivers

as Cinematography

1972

Isamu Noguchi

as Director

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Juilliard

as Director

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