
Sam Leavitt
Leavitt began his career as an assistant camera operator working on 1930s films. Leavitt was a camera operator on films including Rancho Notorious (1952) and on TV's I Love Lucy in the early 1950s before becoming a director of photography in films.
Leavitt was nominated for the Academy Awards in Best Cinematography Color for Exodus (1960) and Best Cinematography Black and White for Anatomy of a Murder (1959) in the two years following his Oscar win for The Defiant Ones.
Leavitt was born in New York City and died in Woodland Hills, California.
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