| Paul Ivano | |
| Birth Name: | Paul Ivano-Ivanichevitch (Romanized Serbian) |
| Birth Place: | Nice, France |
| Death Place: | Woodland Hills, California |
| Occupation: | Cinematographer |
| Spouse: | Margaret (Greta) Ginsburg Ivano[1] [2] |
Paul Ivano, ASC (May 13, 1900 – April 9, 1984), was a Serbian–French–American cinematographer whose career stretched from 1920 into the late 1960s.[3] [4] Born Paul Ivano Ivanichevitch, to Serbian parents in Nice, France, he served for two years with the Franco–American Ambulance Corps and the American Red Cross Ambulance Corps from 1916 to 1918.[5] After the conclusion of World War I, he remained in the Balkans, acting as a photographer and interpreter for the American Red Cross. He arrived in the United States in 1919, and moved to California, the following year. In 1947 he was the cameraman who made the first aerial helicopter shots for an American feature film in Nicholas Ray's film noir They Live by Night.[6] [7]
| Cinematographer | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Film | Genre | Other notes | |
| 1949 | Search for Danger | |||
| 1945 | Pursuit to Algiers | mystery film | ||
| 1945 | The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry | film noir | director of photography | |
| 1945 | The Frozen Ghost | |||
| 1945 | Senorita from the West | |||
| 1944 | The Suspect | director of photography | ||
| 1944 | The Impostor | |||
| 1943 | Flesh and Fantasy | |||
| 1936 | The Plow That Broke the Plains | documentary film, selected in 1999, to be preserved in the U.S. National Film Registry | cinematography (uncredited) | |
| 1929 | Queen Kelly | a film by Erich von Stroheim | ||
| 1921 | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse | top-grossing film of 1921 | ||