Kramer Morgenthau

Kramer Morgenthau, A.S.C. (born June 6, 1966), is an American cinematographer and a member of both the Morgenthau and the Lehman family.

Background Morgenthau was raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts. was a producer of documentaries for the flagship PBS station, WGBH-TV, in Boston and his mother, Ruth (née Schachter), was a Polish Jewish refugee from WWII Vienna; was a professor of international politics at Brandeis University; served as an advisor to Presidents John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter on Africa; He has one brother, Henry "Ben" Morgenthau and one sister, Sarah Elinor Morgenthau Wessel.

His great-great-grandfather was businessman Mayer Lehman. His grandfather was Henry Morgenthau Jr., the U.S. Treasury secretary during the Roosevelt administration. His great-grandfather, Henry Morgenthau Sr., was the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire during World War I; his uncle is Robert M. Morgenthau, Manhattan district attorney for 35 years.

Career His early career began in New York as a documentary filmmaker, which led him to shoot Allan Miller's Academy Award-nominated film, Small Wonders, as well as Sundance Festival feature film, Joe & Joe, which began his years as a festival fixture, shooting seven more features and documentaries that played there.

Morgenthau is an active member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the American Society of Cinematographers, the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, and the International Cinematographers Guild.

Personal life In 2011, he married Tracy Fleischman in a Jewish ceremony at the former Cathedral of Saint Vibiana in Los Angeles.

He currently lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and twin children.

Filmography

Film

Television Year Title Director Notes 1998 Itzhak Perlman: Fiddling for the Future Allan Miller TV special2005 Blind Justice Gary Fleder Episode "Pilot" Over There Also directed episode "Orphans"2006 The Evidence Gary Fleder Episode "Pilot" Saved Darnell Martin Episode "A Day in the Life" 2008 Life on Mars Gary Fleder Episode "Out Here in the Fields" 2009 FlashForward David S. Goyer Episode "No More Good Days" 2010 Boardwalk Empire Jeremy PodeswaTim Van PattenBrian KirkSimon Cellan Jones Episodes "Anastasia, "Family Limitation", "Hold Me in Paradise","The Emerald City" and "A Return to Normalcy" 2011 The Playboy ClubAlan Taylor Episode "Pilot"2012 Game of Thrones Episodes "The North Remembers" and "The Night Lands" Vegas James Mangold Episode "Pilot" 2013 Sleepy Hollow Len Wiseman Episode "Pilot" (Also made an uncredited cameo as George Washington) 2017 The OrvilleJon Favreau Episode "Pilot" 2027 Oswald Episode "Pilot"

TV movies Year Title Director 1999 The Caseys Michael Steinberg 2002 Untitled Paul Simms pilot Timothy Van Patten 2004 The Five People You Meet in Heaven Lloyd Kramer 2011 Too Big to Fail Curtis Hanson 2018 Fahrenheit 451 Ramin Bahrani 2019 American Son Kenny Leon

Documentary works Film Year Title Director Notes1995 Synthetic Pleasures Iara Lee With Marcus Hahn Toshifumi Furusawa Small Wonders Allan Miller Varga Girl Wolfgang Hastert 1999 Music Bridges Over Troubled Waters Marc Cadieux 2003 Mayor of the Sunset Strip George Hickenlooper With Igor Meglic 2004 Three of Hearts: A Postmodern Family Susan Kaplan With Sarah Cawley, Samuel M. Henriques and Don Lenzer A Different Kind of Blue Murray Lerner