Biography
Christian Blackwood was an American film director and cinematographer. He was initially a child actor, then a cinematographer acclaimed for his work in Charlotte Zwerin's Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser. But his major work was as the director of over 80 films, mostly documentaries, over a 25-year career. His most famous films are Observations Under The Volcano and On the Set of Death of a Salesman, behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of movies by John Huston and Volker Schlöndorff from the famous novel and play. The latter film won him the grand prize at the Sundance Film Festival. Christian Blackwood died in 1992 of lung cancer. He was married to film writer, producer and fine art photographer, Carolyn Marks Blackwood. His film archives are stored in the Museum of Modern Art.
Filmography
all 44
Movies 42
Director 22
TV Shows 2
Producer 1
self 1
Conversations with Philip Guston (2003)
Concert of Wills: Making the Getty Center (1997)
Joan Mitchell: Portrait of an Abstract Painter (1993)
Art in an Age of Mass Culture (1991)
Butoh: Body on the Edge of Crisis (1990)
Motel (1989)
Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser (1988)
Frank Gehry: The Formative Years (1988)
Signed: Lino Brocka (1987)
Private Conversations: On the Set of ‘Death of a Salesman’ (1986)
Observations Under the Volcano (1984)
The Soldier's Tale (1984)
All By Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story (1982)
Philip Guston: A Life Lived (1982)
Edith Head (1981)
Memoirs of a Movie Palace: The Kings of Flatbush (1980)
Roger Corman: Hollywood's Wild Angel (1978)
Yesterday's Witness (1976)
Hollywood's Musical Moods (1976)
Christo: Works in Progress (1974)
Isamu Noguchi (1972)
American Art in the 1960s (1972)
Robert Motherwell: Summer of 1971 (1972)
Larry Rivers (1972)
San Domingo (1970)
Summer in the City (1970)
Sex-Business: Made in Pasing (1970)
Scenes Seen with Allen Jones (1970)
Jim Dine: London (1970)
David Hockney's Diaries (1970)
Harlem Theater (1969)
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann (1969)
Christo: Wrapped Coast (1969)
Monk in Europe (1968)
Monk (1968)
Hans Werner Henze: Summer of 1966 (1967)
...und dann bye bye (1966)
Charly May (1965)
Not Reconciled (1965)
Deutscher Filmpreis (1951)
The Murderers Are Among Us (1946)
Hannah Arendt: On Walter Benjamin
Motel
Aznavour: Breaking America
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1942-07-07
Deathday1992-07-22 (50 years old)
Birth PlaceBerlin, Germany
RelationshipsCarolyn Marks Blackwood (1992-01-01 - 1992-07-22)
CitizenshipsUnited States of America
Also Known AsChristian Schwarzwald
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