Career
He was initially a child actor, then a cinematographer acclaimed for his work in Charlotte Zwerin"s Thelonious Monk: Straight, Number Chaser. But his major work was as the director of over 80 films, mostly documentaries, over a 25-year career. His most famous films are Observations Under The Volcano and On the Secretariat of Death of a Salesman, behind-the-scenes looks at the creation of movies by John Huston and Volker Schlöndorff from the famous novel and play.
Christian Blackwood died in 1992 of lung cancer.
His film archives are stored in the Museum of Modern Artist