Harry Hurwitz
Harry Hurwitz was an American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer.Biography
Hurwitz attended The High School of Music & Art and New York University, where he received a BS in 1960 and an MA in 1962. Before becoming a director, Hurwitz worked intermittently as a drawing instructor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Cooper Union, Parsons School of Design, and Queens College; he also taught filmmaking courses at New York University, Purchase College, the New York Institute of Technology, and the Pratt Institute. His directorial debut film The Projectionist also included the first acting role for actor/comedian Rodney Dangerfield. He often used the pseudonym "Harry Tampa".
In the early 1970s, Hurwitz was an artist-in-residence at the University of South Florida in Tampa. It was at that time that he produced the black and white serigraphic self-portrait that briefly appears on the walls of the main character May's apartment in the 1986 film Echo Park.Painting
As a painter, Hurwitz has work in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery of Art and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. He taught painting and drawing at various American colleges.Filmography
