- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- September 7, 1909
- Place of Birth
- Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
- Died
- September 28, 2003
Elia Kazan
Elia Kazan ( September 7 , 1909, Kayseri – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director and actor, described as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". He also produced, and wrote screenplays and novels. Born in the Kayseri, Ottoman Empire to Greek parents, they emigrated to New York when he was four. After two years studying acting at Yale, he acted professionally for eight years before becoming a stage and film director. Kazan co-founded the influential Group Theater in 1932 and Actors Studio in 1947, and together with Lee Strasberg, introduced Method acting to the American stage and cinema as a new form of self-expression and psychological "realism". Having been an actor himself for eight years, he brought sensitivity and understanding of the acting process, and was later considered the ideal "actor's director". He himself acted in o…
Filmography
movieThe Making of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
2019
movieAn American Named Kazan
2019 · Self (archive footage)
movieArthur Miller: Writer
2017 · Self (archive footage)
movieMarlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014 · Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014 · Self (archive footage)
movieA Letter to Elia
2010 · Self (archive footage)
movieAn Actor Named Brando
2006 · Self (archive footage)
A Man Named Brando
2006 · Self
movieA Streetcar in Hollywood
2006 · Self (archive footage)
movieA Streetcar on Broadway
2006 · Self (archive footage)
East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
2005 · Himself
movieArthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003 · Self (Archive footage)
movieBackstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
2001 · Self (archive footage)
Diaspora
2001 · Writer
movieLife at Any Cost
1998
movieElia Kazan: A Director's Journey
1995 · Self
movieTennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994 · Self (archive footage)
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990 · Self
movieHello Actors Studio
1988 · Self
movieMist
1988 · Old man in the coffee house
movieEmpire City
1985 · Self
movieElia Kazan: An Outsider
1982 · Self
movieNatalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
1982
movieI Am Wanda
1980 · Self
tvThe Kennedy Center Honors
1978 · Self
movieThe Last Tycoon
1976 · Director
tvApostrophes
1975 · Self
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self
movieThe Visitors
1972 · Director
movieThe Arrangement
1969 · Writer, Novel, Producer, Director
A New Lifestyle
1969 · Self
tvThe Dick Cavett Show
1968 · Self - Guest
Die Drehscheibe
1964 · Self
movieAmerica America
1963 · Producer, Director, Writer
tvThe Merv Griffin Show
1962 · Self
tvThe Mike Douglas Show
1961 · Self
movieSplendor in the Grass
1961 · Director, Producer
movieWild River
1960 · Director, Producer
movieA Face in the Crowd
1957 · Director, Producer
movieBaby Doll
1956 · Director, Producer
tvCinépanorama
1956 · Self
movieEast of Eden
1955 · Director, Producer
movieOn the Waterfront
1954 · Director
movieMan on a Tightrope
1953 · Director
tvThe Oscars
1953 · Self
movieViva Zapata!
1952 · Director
movieA Streetcar Named Desire
1951 · Director
The Screen Director
1951 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
moviePanic in the Streets
1950 · Cleaver - Mortuary Assistant (uncredited), Director
moviePinky
1949 · Director, Additional Writing
movieGentleman's Agreement
1947 · Director
movieThe Sea of Grass
1947 · Director
movieBoomerang!
1947 · Director
movieWatchtower Over Tomorrow
1945 · Co-Director
movieA Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · Director
movieBlues in the Night
1941 · Nickie Haroyen
movieCity for Conquest
1940 · 'Googi'
moviePeople of the Cumberland
1937 · Assistant Director
moviePie in the Sky
1935
movieStrangers All
1935 · Protester Calling for a Ballot at Communist Meeting