9.0
9.0
Empire City
1985
as Self
Elia Kazan
Also known as: Elias Kazantzoglou, Elia Kazanjoglou, Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου
Directing
Born:September 7, 1909
Died:September 28, 2003(aged 94)
Birthplace:Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
Nationality:United States
Height:5'8" (173 cm)
Education:Williams College, Yale School of Drama, Juilliard School, New Rochelle High School
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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 (47 movies)
7.9
7.9
On the Waterfront
1954
Director
7.6
7.6
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951
Director
7.6
7.6
A Face in the Crowd
1957
Director
7.5
7.5
East of Eden
1955
Director
7.5
7.5
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
Director
7.4
7.4
Splendor in the Grass
1961
Director
7.3
7.3
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014
as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
7.2
7.2
Wild River
1960
Producer
7.1
7.1
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017
as Self (archive footage)
7.1
7.1
Pinky
1949
Director
7.0
7.0
Boomerang!
1947
Director
7.0
7.0
Baby Doll
1956
Producer
7.0
7.0
Gentleman's Agreement
1947
Director
6.9
6.9
America America
1963
Writer
6.9
6.9
Panic in the Streets
1950
Director
6.9
6.9
Viva Zapata!
1952
Director
6.8
6.8
City for Conquest
1940
as 'Googi'
6.6
6.6
A Letter to Elia
2010
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
The Arrangement
1969
Director
6.5
6.5
A Streetcar in Hollywood
2006
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006
as Self (archive footage)
6.5
6.5
Life at Any Cost
1998
6.5
6.5
Hello Actors Studio
1988
as Self
6.5
6.5
Man on a Tightrope
1953
Director
6.3
6.3
Pie in the Sky
1935
6.3
6.3
The Last Tycoon
1976
Director
6.2
6.2
Blues in the Night
1941
as Nickie Haroyen
6.1
6.1
The Sea of Grass
1947
Director
6.0
6.0
The Screen Director
1951
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
6.0
6.0
An American Named Kazan
2019
as Self (archive footage)
6.0
6.0
I Am Wanda
1980
as Self
6.0
6.0
East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
2005
as Himself
6.0
6.0
The Visitors
1972
Director
5.8
5.8
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
1995
as Self
5.7
5.7
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982
as Self
5.5
5.5
Strangers All
1935
as Protester Calling for a Ballot at Communist Meeting
4.7
4.7
Mist
1988
as Old man in the coffee house
A Man Named Brando
2006
as Self
A New Lifestyle
1969
as Self
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994
as Self (archive footage)
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003
as Self (Archive footage)
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
2001
as Self (archive footage)
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990
as Self
An Actor Named Brando
2006
as Self (archive footage)
Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014
as Self (archive footage)
Diaspora
2001
Writer
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