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Facts

Born December 4, 1913 • Montreal • Canada
Died June 20, 1978 (aged 64) • London • England
Notable Works “A Prize of Gold” • “Avalanche Express” • “Bright Victory” • “Champion” • “Daddy’s Gone a-Hunting” • “Earthquake” • “Edge of Doom” • “From the Terrace” • “Happy Birthday, Wanda June” • “Home of the Brave” • “Limbo” • “My Foolish Heart” • “Nine Hours to Rama” • “Peyton Place” • “Phffft” • “Return to Paradise” • “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” • “The Harder They Fall” • “The Inn of the Sixth Happiness” • “The Prize” • “The Seventh Victim” • “Trial” • “Valley of the Dolls” • “Von Ryan’s Express”

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Peyton Place
Marilyn Maxwell seated with a cigarette, looking away as Kirk Douglas leans toward her in a tense scene from the 1949 film Champion.
The Harder They Fall
Charlton Heston in Earthquake
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Allan Dwan
American director
Arthur Hiller in a black tuxedo holding his Oscar statuette for the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award at the 74th Academy Awards ceremony.
Arthur Hiller
Canadian-born American director
Raymond Massey.
Raymond Massey
Canadian-American actor, director, and producer
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Judith Malina
American theater director and actress
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Harold Ramis
American actor, writer, and director
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Ethan Coen
American filmmaker
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Michael Cimino
American director
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Joel Coen
American filmmaker
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Stan Brakhage
American filmmaker
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David Maysles
American documentary filmmaker
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James Ivory
American director
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Jesse Lasky
American producer
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Maggie Gyllenhaal
American actress
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Steven Spielberg wearing a tuxedo and bow tie, smiling at the camera on the red carpet at the Cannes International Film Festival.
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Woody Allen speaking into a microphone with hands raised beside his face during a press conference, against a red background.
Woody Allen
American director, writer, and actor
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
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
American filmmaker
Vincente Minnelli, seated at right, discusses a storyboard with actress Lana Turner, seated at left in costume, on the set of The Bad and the Beautiful.
Vincente Minnelli
American director
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor