Man with a Camera (TV series)

Infobox Television
show_name = Man with a Camera


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genre = Crime/Drama
creator =
writer = James Edmiston
Paul David
Wilton Schiller
director = Paul Landres
Gerald Mayer
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starring = Charles Bronson
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theme_music_composer = Herschel Burke Gilbert
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composer = Leon Klatzin
country = USA
language = English
num_seasons = Two
num_episodes = 29
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producer = Don W. Sharpe
Warren Lewis
For MWC Productions, Inc.
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editor =
story_editor = Richard M. Bluel
William Koenig
Ralph Murphy
location = Hollywood, California at Desilu Studios, doubling for New York City
cinematography = Paul Ivano
Robert B. Hauser
Black-and-White
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runtime = 30 minutes
channel = ABC
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first_aired = Oct. 10, 1958
last_aired = Feb. 8, 1960
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imdb_id = 0051293
tv_com_id = 6146

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

Plot

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".

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 he 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 in 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

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.

ources

*imdb title|id=0000314|title=Charles Bronson
*imdb title|id=0051293|title=Man with a Camera

External link

* [http://www.hepcatdistribution.com/prodDetail.cfm?item=IEG002010 Man with a Camera: Complete Collection]