Ephraim Katz (1932–1992)
Author of The Film Encyclopedia, First Edition
About the Author
Works by Ephraim Katz
The Film Encyclopedia, 4th Edition: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume (2001) 78 copies
The Film Encyclopedia 5e: The Most Comprehensive Encyclopedia of World Cinema in a Single Volume (Film Encyclopedia) (2005) 47 copies, 1 review
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1932-03-11
- Date of death
- 1992-08-02
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Hunter College, New York
New York University - Occupations
- writer
journalist
filmmaker - Organizations
- CBS
NBC - Short biography
- Ephraim Katz was a film reporter and critic in Israel, before moving to the United States in 1959. He made documentaries for CBS-TV, including The Taste of Sunday, one of its first in color, and later for NBC-TV. He directed many documentaries, educational and industrial films, but his greatest contribution to cinema was his work The Film Encyclopedia (1979).
At the time of his death, Katz was in the process of updating it. He was married to Helen Katz, and the couple had two daughters, Alyssa and Laura. - Nationality
- Israel (birth)
USA - Birthplace
- Tel Aviv, British Palestine
- Places of residence
- New York, New York, USA
- Place of death
- New York, New York, USA
- Associated Place (for map)
- New York, New York, USA
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Reviews
This was my successor to Leslie Halliwell's Filmgoer's Companion, and it is a much thicker more complete book. Unlike Halliwell's book, it has enough meat to be a pretty fun browse, even now, though not as complete or ultimately as useful as IMDB.
The best single volume movie reference book around. This edition has a few new entries and new credits for older entries, but it could stand a completely new overhaul for the next edition.
reference book but badly out of date. still good for films and stuff before c. 1980.
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Statistics
- Works
- 7
- Members
- 562
- Popularity
- #44,483
- Rating
- 4.0
- Reviews
- 3
- ISBNs
- 16