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Ephraim Katz
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Ephraim Katz (born March 11, 1932 in Tel Aviv, Israel - died August 8, 1992 in Manhattan) a writer, journalist, and film maker who devoted his life to gathering the information in The Film Encyclopedia.
Living in Israel, Ephraim became a film reporter and critic, then moved to the United States in 1959. In New York City he made television documentaries for CBS, including "The Taste of Sunday," one of its first in color, and later for NBC. His 1960 book "Minister of Death," co-written with Quentin Reynolds and Zwy Aldouby, told of the capture of Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi war criminal.
Efraim Katz directed many documentaries, educational and industrial films, but his greatest contribution to cinema was his single volume The Film Encyclopedia (1979). One of the most comprehensive critical and historical works on film in print, he wrote the first volume alone. The Film Encyclopedia contains biographical and critical information about many major and minor figures in films including actors, directors, producers, and production people. It also chronicles the history of cinema around the world and contains definitions and descriptions of technical processes and film terminology. Katz studied law and economics at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem. He later studied political science at Hunter College, New York and cinema at New York University.
Ephraim Katz had two daughters who live in the USA. He died of emphysema.[1]