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name: "Jimmy Glasberg"
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roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "22 March 1940"
died: "13 January 2023"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-17T04:54:03.821176+00:00"
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# Jimmy Glasberg

Cinematographer. Born 22 March 1940 in Nîmes, Gard, France. Died 13 January 2023.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 22 March 1940, Nîmes, Gard, France
- **Died:** 13 January 2023
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2038681

## Biography

Jimmy Glasberg (1940–2023) was a French cinematographer. He began his career in the 1960s as a news and television reporter cameraman, developing expertise in handheld and shoulder-mounted camera work during the era of direct cinema and documentaries.

He is known for his contributions to Claude Lanzmann’s *Shoah* (1985), on which he served as one of several cinematographers alongside Dominique Chapuis, Phil Gries and William Lubtchansky. Glasberg also worked on music films, including the 1967 Stax Tour featuring Otis Redding and Sam & Dave, and feature films such as *Hu-Man* (1975). He remained active in French television and independent productions into the 2000s.

*Sources: afcinema.com, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Shoah* (1985), Fi1m 93, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/shoah.md)

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