Man with a Camera

For other uses, see Man with a Movie Camera (disambiguation).

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	USA
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	29
Production
Producer(s)	Don W. Sharpe Warren Lewis For MWC Productions, Inc.
Production 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
Release
Original network	ABC
Original release	October 10, 1958 – February 8, 1960

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

Throughout the 1950s, Bronson spent most of his early acting career performing in TV shows as well as small parts in films, until he landed the lead in this ABC series. This is the only series in which he played the lead role. He would go on to have supporting roles either as a guest star or a recurring character in dozens of TV shows after this series was cancelled.

Plot

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 assists newspapers, insurance companies, the police and private individuals, all of whom want a filmed record of an event.

By often acting as a private eye, Kovac gets himself into plenty of trouble 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 employs cameras hidden in a radio, cigarette lighter and even his necktie. He also has 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 is Lieutenant Donovan (James Flavin), though he frequently seeks advice from Anton Kovac (Ludwig Stössel), his immigrant father.

Main cast

• Charles Bronson as Mike Kovac
• James Flavin as Lieutenant Donovan
• Ludwig Stössel as Anton Kovac

Selected guest stars

List of episodes

Bronson as Mike Kovac.

Production and DVD Release

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 series' 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.

Alpha Video has released three individual volumes on DVD, each containing four episodes from the series.^[12][13][14] A fourth volume was released on February 25, 2014.^[15] On October 17, 2017, Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete series on DVD + Digital. ^[16]

Sources

• Charles Bronson on IMDb
• Man with a Camera on IMDb

References

External links

• Man with a Camera at TV.com

 All episodes online: http://mikekovac.blogspot.com/