Man with a Camera

Man with a Camera
Original title card
Genre	Crime / Drama
Written by	James Edmiston Paul David Wilton Schiller
Directed by	Paul Landres Gerald Mayer
Starring	Charles Bronson
Theme music composer	Herschel Burke Gilbert
Composer(s)	Leon Klatzin
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	29
Production
Producer(s)	Don W. Sharpe Warren Lewis For MWC Productions, Inc.
Location(s)	Hollywood, California at Desilu Studios, doubling for New York City
Cinematography	Paul Ivano Robert B. Hauser Black-and-White
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	ABC
Original run	Oct. 10, 1958 – Feb. 8, 1960

Man with a Camera is a 1950s television crime drama starring Charles Bronson.

Throughout the 1950s, Charles Bronson spent most of his early acting career in TV-shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in the ABC series The Man with a Camera.

Plot

In the series Bronson portrayed Mike Kovac, a former World War II combat photographer freelancing in New York City, who specialized in getting the photographs that other lensmen could not. He usually assisted newspapers, insurance companies, the police and private individuals, all of whom wanted a filmed record of an event.

By often acting as a private eye, Kovac gets himself into plenty of troubles involving criminals of every kind, helping with cases the police could not handle.

Besides an array of cameras for normal use, for surreptitious work Kovac employed cameras hidden in a radio, cigarette lighter and even his necktie. He also had a phone in his car, and a portable darkroom in the trunk where he could develop his negatives on the spot.

Kovac's police liaison was Lieutenant Donovan (James Flavin), though he frequently came for advice from Anton Kovac (Ludwig Stössel), his immigrant father.

Main cast

* Charles Bronson

* Ludwig Stössel

* James Flavin

Selected guest stars

• Rachel Ames
• Roscoe Ates
• Phyllis Avery
• Arthur Batanides
• Steve Brodie
• Sebastian Cabot
• Anthony Caruso
• Booth Colman
• Russ Conway
• Yvonne Craig
• Norma Crane
• Audrey Dalton
• Angie Dickinson
• Dolores Donlon
• Don Durant
• Robert Ellenstein
• Bill Erwin
• Frank Faylen
• Virginia Field
• Don Gordon
• I. Stanford Jolley
• Berry Kroeger
• Tom Laughlin
• Ruta Lee
• Gavin MacLeod
• Howard McNear
• Jimmy Lydon
• Theodore Marcuse
• Dennis Patrick
• John M. Pickard
• Phillip Pine
• Bert Remsen
• Lee Roberts
• Doris Singleton
• Harry Dean Stanton
• Ludwig Stössel
• Lawrence Tierney
• Casey Walters
• Dick Wessel
• Jesse White
• Grant Williams

List of episodes

Season 1

#	Title	Original Airdate
01	Second Avenue Assassin	October 10, 1958 [1]
02	The Warning	October 17, 1958 [2]
03	Profile of a Killer	October 17, 1958
04	Turntable	November 7, 1958
05	Closeup on Violence	November 14, 1958 [3]
06	Double Negative	November 21, 1958 [4]
07	Another Barrier	November 28, 1958 [5]
08	Blind Spot	December 5, 1958 [6]
09	Two Strings of Pearls	December 12, 1958 [7]
10	Six Faces of Satan	December 19, 1958 [8]
11	Lady on the Loose	December 26, 1958 [9]
12	The Last Portrait	January 2, 1959 [10]
13	The Face of Murder	January 9, 1959
14	Mute Evidence	January 16, 1959
15	The Big Squeeze	January 23, 1959

Season 2

#	Title	Original Airdate
16	The Killer	October 19, 1959
17	Eye Witness	October 26, 1959
18	The Man Below	November 2, 1959
19	Black Light	November 9, 1959
20	The Positive Negative	November 16, 1959
21	Missing	November 23, 1959 [11]
22	Live Target	December 7, 1959
23	Girl on the Dark	December 14, 1959
24	The Bride	December 21, 1959
25	The Picture War	January 4, 1960
26	Touch-Off	January 11, 1960
27	Hot Ice Cream	January 25, 1960
28	Fragment of a Murder	February 1, 1960
29	Kangaroo Court	February 8, 1960

Production

Man with a Camera was filmed on locations in Hollywood (doubling for New York City) at Desilu Studios. The series had two abbreviated seasons in 1958-59 and 1959-60 and was aired on the ABC-TV network, Friday nights at 9:00 pm. The entire run of the serial 29 episodes was released in 2007 by the Infinity Entertainment Group, in collaboration with the Falcon Picture Group and the UCLA Film & Television Archive, from which the source prints were obtained.

Sources

• Charles Bronson at the Internet Movie Database
• Man with a Camera at the Internet Movie Database

References

1. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: Second Avenue Assassin episode
2. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: The Warning episode
3. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: On Violence episode
4. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: Double Negative episode
5. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: Another Barrier episode
6. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: Blind Spot episode
7. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: Two Strings Of Pearls episode
8. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: Six Faces Of Satan episode
9. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: Lady On The Loose episode
10. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: The Last Portrait episode
11. ^ YouTube.com – Man with a Camera: Missing episode

External links

• Man with a Camera: Complete Collection
• Man with a Camera at TV.com