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Also Known As Arthur Hiller Penn
Born September 27, 1922 • Philadelphia • Pennsylvania
Died September 28, 2010 (aged 88) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “Alice’s Restaurant” • “Bonnie and Clyde” • “Dead of Winter” • “Little Big Man” • “Night Moves” • “Penn & Teller Get Killed” • “The Chase” • “The Miracle Worker” • “The Missouri Breaks”
Notable Family Members brother Irving Penn

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Arthur Penn looks through a Panavision film camera while directing The Missouri Breaks, wearing a hat and sunglasses on his head.
Inga Swenson, Victory Jory, Andrew Prine, Anne Bancroft, and Patty Duke in a tense dining room scene from the 1962 film The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn.
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Robert Redford, Marlon Brando, and Miriam Hopkins in a night street scene from The Chase (1966), with Redford in the center, Brando on the left in a sheriff's uniform, and Hopkins on the right.
Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow, wearing a fedora and vest, sits on the bumper of a vintage car holding a gun in the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde.
Dustin Hoffmann sits in a metal bathtub while Faye Dunaway, dressed in period clothing, washes his feet in a scene from the film Little Big Man (1970).
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