# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/leo-hurwitz
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:25:21.904Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/leo-hurwitz"
name: "Leo Hurwitz"
slug: "leo-hurwitz"
description: "Leo Hurwitz was an American documentary filmmaker. Among the films he directed were Native Land (1942) and Verdict for Tomorrow (1961), the Peabody Award-winning and Emmy Award-nominated film of the Eichmann trial. He was blacklisted during the McCarthy period for his strong left-wing political beliefs."
tagline: "Documentary film director (1909–1991)"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/mk3yshXb2ZMUSeV6DLc0BhuA29.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1909-06-23"
deathDate: "1991-01-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           44.21
  momentum:             13.59375
  historical:           7.21242
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0007238/"
    handle:    "nm0007238"
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D1%83%D1%80%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%86%2C_%D0%9B%D0%B5%D0%BE"
    title: "Гурвиц, Лео"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "ليو هورويتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%88_%D9%87%D9%88%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B2"
    title: "ليو هورويتز"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Hurwitz"
    title: "Leo Hurwitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Hurwitz"
    title: "Leo Hurwitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Hurwitz"
    title: "Leo Hurwitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Hurwitz"
    title: "Leo Hurwitz"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3229564"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/131469"
    title: "Leo Hurwitz"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump