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#2: Photo by L.S. Doron
Born: 12 December 1938, Tel Aviv, Palestine [now Israel].
Career: Ph commercials dir by Koby Havia [for Honda], a.o. Ph music videos dir by Yoav Gurfinkel, a.o.
Father of Jonathan Gurfinkel [actor/dir] and Yoav Gurfinkel [doph/dir].
Appeared in the doc/57m 'Bright Light: A Look by Cameramen at Israeli Newsreels 1955-1968' [1999, Uri Shine & Yachin Hirsch].
Awards: Israeli Film Academy Award nom [1994] for 'Etz hadomim tafus'; Israeli Film Academy Award nom [1997] for 'Minotaur'; Israeli Film Academy Award [1998] for 'Dangerous Acts'; Israeli Film Academy Award nom [2001] for 'Ish hahashmal'; Israeli Film Academy Award [2003] & Madridimagen FF 'Best Cinematography' [2005] for 'Ha-asonot shel Nina/Nina's Tragedies'; Israeli Film Academy Award nom [2004] for 'Sof ha'olam smola'.
FILMS | |
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1964 |
Hor b'levana/A Hole in the Moon [Uri Zohar] b&w |
1964 |
Dalia vehamalahim/Dalia and the Sailors [Menahem Golan] b&w; cph: Harry Waxman |
1965 |
Pitzutz b'hatzot/A Night in Tiberias [Hervé Bromberger] b&w; cph: Pierre Petit |
1966 |
Moishe ventalator/Moishe Air-Condition [Uri Zohar] ? |
1967 |
Shlosha yamim veyeled/Not Mine to Love/Three Days and a Child [Uri Zohar] b&w; + co-scrpl |
1968 |
Kol mamzer melech/Every Bastard a King/Every Man a King [Uri Zohar] c |
1968 |
Hashchuna shelanu/Fish, Football and Girls [Uri Zohar] ? |
1968 |
Iris [David Greenberg] b&w |
1969 |
Bloomfield/The Hero [Richard Harris (replaced Uri Zohar)] started prod with U. Zohar, but was replaced by ph Otto Heller |
1969 |
Te'alat Blaumilch/The Big Dig/Blaumilch Canal [Ephraim Kishon] c; cph: Manny Wynn |
1969 |
Matzor/Siege [Gilberto Tofano] b&w |
1970 |
Ha-shoter azulai/The Policeman/Policeman Azoulay [Ephraim Kishon] c |
1970 |
Hitromamut/Take Off [Uri Zohar] c |
1970 |
Malkat hakvish/The Highway Queen [Menahem Golan] c |
1971 |
Katz v'Carasso/The Contract/Katz and Carrasso [Menahem Golan] c |
1971 |
Ha-tarnegol/The Rooster/The Boys Will Never Believe It [Uri Zohar] c |
1971 |
Hetzi hetzi/Fifty Fifty [Boaz Davidson] c |
1972 |
Shod hatelephonim hagadol/The Great Telephone Robbery [Menahem Golan] c |
1972 |
Escape to the Sun/Habricha el hashemesh [Menahem Golan] b&w-c |
1973 |
Matana mishamayim/A Gift from Heaven [Gad Ben-Artzi] c |
1973 |
Kazablan [Menahem Golan] p/c |
1974 |
Einayim g'dolot/Big Eyes [Uri Zohar] c |
1974 |
Ihiyeh tov salmonico/Haaba/The Father [Freddy Steinhardt] c |
"Hagiga b'snuker"
1975 |
Hagiga b'snuker/Festival at the Poolroom/Snooker [Boaz Davidson] c |
1976 |
Rak hayom/Only Today [Ze'ev Revach] ? |
1976 |
Doda Clara/Aunt Clara [Avraham Heffner] c |
1976 |
Kid Vengeance/Vendetta/Take Another Hard Ride/Vengeance [Joe Manduke] c |
1977 |
The Phantom Kid [Peter Hammond] c; 2uc: Moshe Laron |
1977 |
Hershele [be' Tel Aviv] [Yoel Zilberg] c; + co-scrpl |
1977 |
Hatzilu et hamatzil/Save the Lifeguard [Uri Zohar & Itzik Kol] c |
1977 |
Bo nefotzetz million/Let's Blow a Million/Million Dollar Heist [Shmuel Imberman] c |
1978 |
Al tish'ali im ani ohev/Don't Ask Me If I Love/Worlds Apart [Barbara Noble] c |
1978 |
The Magician of Lublin/Ha-kosem mi'Lublin [Menahem Golan] c |
1978 |
Ha-hu'al b'lool hatarnagalot/The Fox in the Chicken Coop [Ephraim Kishon] c |
1979 |
Nisuin nusah Tel Aviv/Marriage Tel Aviv Style [Yoel Zilberg] c |
1979 |
Imi hageneralit/My Mother the General [Yoel Zilberg] c |
1979 |
The Apple/Star-Rock [Menahem Golan] p/c |
1981 |
Enter the Ninja/Ninja I [Menahem Golan (replaced Emmett Alston)] c; addph: Roy H. Wagner; 2uc: Ricardo Remias |
1981 |
Ha-ish she ba lakahat/The Man Who Flew in to Grab [Prosper Pariente] ? |
1981 |
Elef nishikot k'tanot/A Thousand Little Kisses [Mira Recanati] c |
1982 |
Hamsin/Eastern Wind [Daniel Wachsmann] c |
1982 |
Ahava ilemeth/Mute Love/The Secret of Yolanda [Joel Silberg] c |
1982 |
Revenge of the Ninja/Ninja II [Sam Firstenberg] c; addph: Hanania Baer; 2uc: Reed Smoot |
1982 |
Tell Me That You Love Me/Miri [Tony Mordente & Tzipi Trope] c |
1983 |
Sahara [Andrew V. McLaglen (replaced John Guillermin)] J-D-C Scope/c; London ph: Armando Nannuzzi; 2uc: Nino Cristiani; spph: George Hurrell Sr. |
1983 |
The Naked Face [Bryan Forbes] c |
1984 |
Mata Hari [Curtis Harrington] c |
1985 |
Za'am v'tehilah/Rage and Glory [Avi Nesher] c |
1985 |
Rappin' [Joel Silberg] c; 2uc: Oliver Wood |
1985 |
America 3000 [David Engelbach] c; 2u c.op: Gadi Danzig |
1985 |
Ha-me'ahev/The Lover [Michal Bat-Adam] c |
1985 |
The Delta Force [Menahem Golan] c; 2uc: Hans Khules Jr. |
1986 |
Rumpelstiltskin [David Irving] c; cameraman 2u (Italy): Micky Benyamini |
1986 |
Sleeping Beauty [David Irving] c; 2uc: Danny Shneor |
1986 |
Over the Top/Meet Me Half Way [Menahem Golan] p/c |
1986 |
The Emperor's New Clothes [David Irving] c; 2uc: Nicho Leon |
1987 |
Ha-holmim/Once We Were Dreamers/Unsettled Land [Uri Barbash] c; co-2uc; ph: Amnon Salomon |
1987 |
Appointment with Death [Michael Winner] c; 2uc: Giancarlo Ferrando (Italy), Danny Shneor (Israel) & David Wynn-Jones (as David Wynne-Jones) (London) |
1987 |
Rambo III [Peter MacDonald] J-D-C Scope/c; prod was started by ph Ric Waite and dir Russell Mulcahy, but Waite was fired with Mulcahy and replaced by Gurfinkel, who was in turn fired and replaced by credited ph John Stanier |
1988 |
Salsa [Boaz Davidson] c; 2uc: Frank Holgate & Gideon Porath |
1988 |
Lool [Boaz Davidson & Uri Zohar] b&w; cph: Adam Greenberg; re-edited tv-series; see Television |
1988 |
Ha-kayitz shel Aviya/The Summer of Aviya [Eli Cohen] c |
1989 |
A Man Called Sarge [Stuart Gillard] c |
1989 |
Ahavata ha'ahronah shel Laura Adler/The Last Love of Laura Adler [Avraham Heffner] c |
1990 |
Cover-Up [Manny Coto] c |
1991 |
Me'ever layam/Beyond the Sea/Over the Ocean [Jacob Goldwasser] c |
1991 |
American Samurai [Sam Firstenberg] c/V; 2uc: Danny Shneor (as Schneor); addph: Jay Brown & Josh Medak |
1991 |
Blink of an Eye/First Light [Bob Misiorowski] c; filmed 1991-92 |
1992 |
Kvalim/Cables [Tzvi Shissel] c; cph: Oren Schmuckler |
1992 |
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III [Stuart Gillard] c; 2uc: Rexford Metz & (add) Chuck Colwell; vfx superv: Jeffrey A. Okun; optical ph: Scott Sohan & Paul Howarth |
1994 |
Sh'hur/Practical Magic [Shmuel Hasfari] c |
1994 |
Etz hadomim tafus/Under the Domim Tree [Eli Cohen] c |
1995 |
Shiv'a [Dina Zvi-Riklis] ?; short/50m |
1995 |
Sherman ba'horef [Uri Inbar] c |
1995 |
Minotaur/Mossad [Jonathan Tammuz] c; 2uc (USA) (+ 2nd c.asst Israel): Adam Vardi |
1996 |
Ha-makom bo metim ha'jukim b'se'iva tova/The House Where Cockroaches Live to a Ripe Old Age [Ofra Sarel-Koren] c; doc/60m |
1997 |
The Minion/Fallen Knight/Knight of the Apocalypse [Jean-Marc Piché] c; 91m & 96m; 2uc Israel; ph: Barry Parrell |
1998 |
Deshaim s'gulim/Purple Lawns [Dina Zvi-Riklis] c; short/57m |
1998 |
Mesukenet/Dangerous Acts [Shemi Zarhin] c |
2000 |
The Last Patrol/The Last Warrior [Sheldon Lettich] c/V |
2000 |
Ish hahashmal/Electricity Man/Rutenberg [Eli Cohen] c |
2000 |
The Order/Jihad Warrior [Sheldon Lettich] c/V; 2uc: Yoav Kosh; addph: Jonathan Nixon |
2002 |
For My Children [Michal Aviad] v/c; doc/65m; cph: Meir Wigoder, Eytan Harris, a.o. |
2003 |
Sof ha'olam smola/This World/Turn Left at the End of the World [Avi Nesher] c |
2003 |
Ha-asonot shel Nina/Nina's Tragedies [Savi Gavison] c |
2004 |
Oriental [Avi Nesher] c; doc/45m |
2005 |
Shoshelet Schwartz [Amir & Shmuel Hasfari] c |
2005 |
Melah ha'arets/Salt of the Earth [Uri Barbash] c |
2007 |
HaBodedim/The Loners [Renen Schorr] c |
2008 |
A Matter of Size/Sippur gadol [Sharon Maymon & Erez Tadmor] c |
2009 |
HaMadrich LaMahapecha/Revolution 101 [Doron Tsabari] c; drama + doc/84m; doc ph: Ido Berlad, Ariel Glikson, Gabi Moati, a.o. |
TELEVISION | |
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1969 |
Lool/Chicken Coop [Boaz Davidson & Uri Zohar] 4-part series/b&w, 1970-73; cph: Adam Greenberg; re-edited into the feature film 'Lool' (1988/94m) |
1984 |
Evergreen [Fielder Cook] 3-part miniseries; Israel ph; ph: Woody Omens |
1990 |
Held Hostage: The Sis and Jerry Levin Story [Roger Young] tvm |
1993 |
Ha-behirah v'hagoral/Choice and Destiny [Tsipi Reibenbach] doc/118m/16mm; cph: Avi Koren |
1997 |
Shalosh ahayot/Three Sisters [Tsipi Reibenbach] doc/67m/16mm; cph: Roni Katzenelson & Yoram Millo |
1998 |
Begin [Uri Inbar] tvm/40m |
FILMS AS CAMERA OPERATOR |
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[Left] with prod Mordechai Navon [center] - "Havura shekazot"
1963 |
Havura shekazot/What a Gang [Zeev Havatzelet] ph: Nissim Leon |
1963 |
El Dorado [Menahem Golan] ph: Nissim Leon |