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Also Known As Elia Kazanjoglous
Born September 7, 1909 • Istanbul • Turkey
Died September 28, 2003 (aged 94) • New York City • New York
Founder The Actors Studio
Awards And Honors Tony Awards • Academy Award (1999) • Kennedy Center Honors (1983) • Academy Award (1955) • Academy Award (1948)
Notable Works “A Face in the Crowd” • “A Streetcar Named Desire” • “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn” • “America, America” • “Baby Doll” • “East of Eden” • “Elia Kazan: A Life” • “Gentleman’s Agreement” • “Man on a Tightrope” • “On the Waterfront” • “Panic in the Streets” • “Splendor in the Grass” • “Viva Zapata!”

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Elia Kazan stands on a docked ship set with arms outstretched, directing a scene for Panic in the Streets in New Orleans, with crew members and rigging visible behind him.
James Dunn and Peggy Ann Garner in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
John Garfield, Gregory Peck, Dorothy McGuire, and Celeste Holm seated and standing around a dining table, smiling, in a scene from Gentleman's Agreement (1947).
Waters, Ethel
Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois and Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski stand close together in an emotional scene from A Streetcar Named Desire, 1951.
Hunter, Kim; Brando, Marlon: A Streetcar Named Desire
Marlon Brando as Emiliano Zapata sits shirtless on a bed beside Jean Peters as Josefa Zapata in a dramatic scene from the film Viva Zapata! directed by Elia Kazan.
Thomas Handley, Marlon Brando, and Eva Marie Saint in On the Waterfront
Lee J. Cobb and Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront
James Dean as Cal Trask and Julie Harris as Abra stand close together, smiling, in a fairground scene from the film East of Eden (1955).
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Mel Brooks
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Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
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Mike Nichols, wearing a black tuxedo and bow tie, stands smiling at a podium with a star-shaped award in front of him at the AFI Lifetime Achievement Awards.
Mike Nichols
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Orson Welles
Orson Welles
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Barbra Streisand in 2010, wearing a layered necklace and a black jacket, with straight shoulder-length hair, smiling slightly at an event.
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Martin Scorsese smiling in a tuxedo and bow tie, holding an Oscar statuette at the Academy Awards, with a gold Oscar statue in the background.
Martin Scorsese
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Billy Wilder poses in a suit and hat, leaning against a streetlamp with a sign reading Sunset Blvd. in a promotional photo for the film Sunset Boulevard.
Billy Wilder
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Warren Beatty wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and light tie, posing at an event with a dark background, 2006.
Warren Beatty
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Robert Redford as Bill McKay stands at a microphone in a suit and striped tie, with a large campaign poster of himself in the background, in the film The Candidate.
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