for Tomorrow, Hurwitz was played by Anthony LaPaglia. From 1964 to 1966 he made a group of films for National Educational Television, including Essay on Death, dealing with the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, The Sun and Richard Lippold and In Search of Hart Crane. NYU From 1969 to 1974, Hurwitz was professor of film and chairman of the Graduate Institute of Film and Television at New York University. His work has been the subject of several retrospectives showings, including ones at the Museum of Modern Art, the Public Theater and the Cinemathique Francaise in Paris. At his death he was working on a script for a film on the abolitionist John Brown. Personal life and death Hurwitz married then later divorced choreographer Jane Dudley; their son, Tom Hurwitz, is a documentary cinematographer. His second marriage was to Peggy Lawson who died in 1971. His third wife, Nelly Burlingham, died in 2019. Leo Hurwitz died age 81 on January 18, 1991, of colon cancer at his home in New York City. Filmography As Director: Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980) Verdict for Tomorrow (1961) The Museum and the Fury (1956) Strange Victory (1948) Native Land (1942) As (Co-)Producer: Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980) Discovery in a Landscape (1970) Light and the City (1970) The Museum and the Fury (1956) Strange Victory (1948) Native Land (1942) Heart of Spain (1936) As Cinematographer: The Specialist (1999) Dialogue with a Woman Departed (1980) The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) In the 2015 British drama film The Eichmann Show, Anthony LaPaglia portrayed Leo Hurwitz. See also Paul Strand Workers Film and Photo League (USA) The Plow That Broke the Plains (1936) Native Land (1942) References External links UCLA International Institute Videos Leo Hurwitz official website - includes extensive biographical information and links to many of his films 1909 births 1991 deaths People from Williamsburg, Brooklyn American documentary filmmakers American Marxists Harvard University alumni 20th-century American Jews