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DAVID GURFINKEL   ICA

 

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

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

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

 

[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