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Elia Kazan
Directing

Elia Kazan
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1909-09-07,Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
Gender
Male
Biography
Elia Kazan ( September 7 , 1909, Kayseri – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director and actor, described as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". He also produced, and wrote screenplays and novels. Born in the Kayseri, Ottoman Empire to Greek parents, they emigrated to New York when he was four. After two years studying acting at Yale, he acted professionally for eight years before becoming a stage and film director. Kazan co-founded the influential Group Theater in 1932 and Actors Studio in 1947, and together with Lee Strasberg, introduced Method acting to the American stage and cinema as a new form of self-expression and psychological "realism". Having been an actor himself for eight years, he brought sensitivity and understanding of the acting process, and was later considered the ideal "actor's director". He himself acted in only a few films, including City for Conquest (1940), alongside James Cagney. Overall, Kazan influenced the films of the 1950s and 1960s by his run of provocative, issues-driven subjects, and acting. Moreover, his personal brand of cinema, employing real locations over sets, unknowns over stars, and realism over convenient genres, proved influential to a whole generation of independent filmmakers in the 1960s. Film author Ian Freer concludes that "If his achievements are tainted by political controversy, the debt Hollywood — and actors everywhere — owes him, is enormous." In 2010, Martin Scorsese co-directed the documentary film, A Letter to Elia, as a personal tribute to Kazan, who he credits as the inspiration for his becoming a filmmaker.

Filmography

City for Conquest

6.8

City for Conquest
1940-09-21

Blues in the Night

6.2

Blues in the Night
1941-11-15

A Letter to Elia

6.4

A Letter to Elia
2010-09-04

Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey

5.8

Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
1995-08-14

Elia Kazan: An Outsider

5.7

Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982-09-15

5.5

Strangers All
1935-04-01

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies

7.903

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
1995-05-21

4.7

Mist
1988-03-18

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

7.3

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014-09-20

A New Lifestyle

0

A New Lifestyle
1969-04-04

6.6

Pie in the Sky
1935-04-09

The Screen Director

6

The Screen Director
1951-03-12

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

0

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994-12-19

6

I Am Wanda
1980-12-01

An American Named Kazan

6

An American Named Kazan
2019-03-10

9

Empire City
1985-07-01

Panic in the Streets

6.842

Panic in the Streets
1950-07-27

A Streetcar on Broadway

6.5

A Streetcar on Broadway
2006-01-01

A Streetcar in Hollywood

6.5

A Streetcar in Hollywood
2006-01-01

Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin

0

Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003-09-03

Arthur Miller: Writer

7.3

Arthur Miller: Writer
2017-12-08

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

0

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990-08-27

An Actor Named Brando

0

An Actor Named Brando
2006-05-02

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

0

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
2001-10-21

Hello Actors Studio

6

Hello Actors Studio
1988-11-09

Inside Rupert Pupkin

0

Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014-05-14

The Kennedy Center Honors

7.2

The Kennedy Center Honors
1978-12-28

7

The Oscars
1953-03-19

The Dick Cavett Show

6.559

The Dick Cavett Show
1968-06-06

Die Drehscheibe

6

Die Drehscheibe
1964-04-01

The Merv Griffin Show

5.3

The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01

8

Cinépanorama
1956-02-04

8.5

Apostrophes
1975-01-10

0

Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25