Levie Isascks

Levie Isaacks — Cinematographer Levie Isaacks, A.S.C. has worked on location and in Hollywood for the last 30 years as a cinematographer and Director of Photography. He was the photographer for the Academy Award-nominated documentary, “For All Mankind.” Born in Houston, Texas, of deaf parents, Levie used sign language to say his first words. He served in the U.S. Army as a platoon leader in Vietnam and was decorated with a Bronze Star for heroism and an Army commendation for valor, leaving the Army as a captain to return to college. His cinema life began while working part-time at a local television station in Austin, Texas, while attending the University of Texas. There he was handed a newsreel camera and that is when the love affair with film and telling stories began.  After graduation, he continued to work in broadcast journalism and later in commercials and documentary films in his home state of Texas. There, he was also able to garner experience as a camera operator on films shooting on location in Texas. When the time came to move to Los Angeles to try his hand at being a Director of Photography of movies and television, he got his first feature film at Roger Corman’s Concord studios in Venice, California.  From that time until now, he has practiced his craft on independent feature films, direct to DVD sequels and television. Levie was nominated for a “Cable ACE” award for an episode of “Tales From the Crypt” and an ASC nomination for “Man UP’ a series for ABC and his TV credits include “Dawson’s Creek” , “CSI New York “and “Malcolm In The Middle,”  which won a Peabody award.  His feature credits include movies for MGM, Universal and Paramount studios. Levie Isaacks, A.S.C.