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Born October 15, 1900 • San Francisco • California
Died September 13, 1987 (aged 86) • Beverly Hills • California
Awards And Honors Academy Award • Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award (1976)
Notable Works “Anthony Adverse” • “I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang” • “Little Caesar” • “Mister Roberts” • “Random Harvest” • “The Gold Diggers of 1933” • “Thirty Seconds over Tokyo”

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Little Caesar
Madame Curie
Little Women
Scene from the film Quo Vadis (1951) with Peter Ustinov as Nero seated on an ornate couch, gesturing, and Leo Genn as Petronius standing left in Roman attire, with guards behind them.
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Francis Ford Coppola, with a beard, sits on a camera dolly surrounded by crew and actors on the set of The Godfather: Part II, with storefronts in the background.
Francis Ford Coppola
American director and screenwriter
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
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
William Wyler
William Wyler
German-born American director
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
Austrian-born American director and producer
George Stevens
George Stevens
American director
Cecil B. DeMille, wearing a dark suit and patterned tie, smiles while looking to the side in this black-and-white portrait.
Cecil B. DeMille
American film director
George Lucas wearing a black suit and tie with a white shirt, standing in front of a dark backdrop at the 2017 LACMA Art Film Gala in Los Angeles.
George Lucas
American director, producer, and screenwriter
American director Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kramer
American film producer and director
Warren Beatty wearing a dark jacket, white shirt, and light tie, posing at an event with a dark background, 2006.
Warren Beatty
American actor, director, and producer
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Arthur Freed
American film producer
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
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.
Elia Kazan
American director and author
Mankiewicz, Joseph L.
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
American filmmaker
Sydney Pollack
Sydney Pollack
American director, producer, and actor
Mel Brooks in a tuxedo smiles widely and points at his Emmy Award trophy while posing in front of a blue Emmy Awards backdrop.
Mel Brooks
American director, producer, screenwriter, and actor
Leo McCarey, seated sideways in a director's chair, looks toward the camera in a black-and-white portrait from around 1930.
Leo McCarey
American director

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