Stanley Kubrick: Quick Facts

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Facts

Born	July 26, 1928 • New York City • New York
Died	March 7, 1999 (aged 70) • Hertfordshire • England
Notable Works	“2001: A Space Odyssey” • “A Clockwork Orange” • “Barry Lyndon” • “Day of the Fight” • “Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb” • “Eyes Wide Shut” • “Fear and Desire” • “Full Metal Jacket” • “Killer’s Kiss” • “Lolita” • “Paths of Glory” • “Spartacus” • “The Killing” • “The Shining”

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Stanley Kubrick stands among film cameras outdoors, gesturing while directing on the set of Barry Lyndon, with crew members and trees in the background.

Stanley Kubrick: photograph for Look magazine

Stanley Kubrick: photograph for Look magazine

Stanley Kubrick: photograph for Look magazine

Virginia Leith and Paul Mazursky in an intense close-up scene outdoors from Stanley Kubrick's film Fear and Desire.

Kirk Douglas as Colonel Dax crouches in a trench during a battle scene in the World War I film Paths of Glory, with soldiers and sandbags around him.

Kirk Douglas as Spartacus, wearing Roman armor and holding a sword aloft while riding a horse, with soldiers carrying spears behind him in the film Spartacus (1960).

scene from Spartacus

Sue Lyon as Lolita hula-hoops in the yard while James Mason as Humbert Humbert sits nearby reading, in a scene from the film Lolita directed by Stanley Kubrick.

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Mankiewicz, Joseph L.

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

American filmmaker

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

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

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

John Huston

American director, writer, and actor

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

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

George Stevens

George Stevens

American director

Otto Preminger

Otto Preminger

American filmmaker

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

Director Nicholas Ray, right, leans in to talk with James Dean, center, and Natalie Wood, left, who sits with a script on the set of Rebel Without a Cause.

Nicholas Ray

American author and director

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

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

Ben Affleck wearing a dark suit, blue shirt, and navy tie, posing for a photo at the premiere of the film AIR with a blurred event backdrop behind him.

Ben Affleck

American actor, writer, and director

Ryan Murphy in a patterned green tuxedo holds an Emmy Award trophy while standing in front of a black backdrop with the word Emmy visible.

Ryan Murphy

American producer, director, and writer

Peter Bogdanovich

Peter Bogdanovich

American director, critic, and actor

Pakula, Alan J.

Alan J. Pakula

American director, producer, and screenwriter

Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) directing on the set of the film - Barry Lyndon (1975) motion picture director movie screenwriter

Stanley Kubrick