Elia Kazan
Biografia
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 only a few films, including City for Conquest (1940), alongside James Cagney. Overall, Kazan influenced the films of the 1950s and 1960s by his run of provocative, issues-driven subjects, and acting. Moreover, his personal brand of cinema, employing real locations over sets, unknowns over stars, and realism over convenient genres, proved influential to a whole generation of independent filmmakers in the 1960s. Film author Ian Freer concludes that "If his achievements are tainted by political controversy, the debt Hollywood — and actors everywhere — owes him, is enormous." In 2010, Martin Scorsese co-directed the documentary film, A Letter to Elia, as a personal tribute to Kazan, who he credits as the inspiration for his becoming a filmmaker.
Filmografia
Filmy i seriale od najnowszych
The Making of A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
Film • 2019
Un Américain nommé Kazan
Film • 2019
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Arthur Miller: Writer
Film • 2017
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Marlon Brando o sobie
Film • 2015
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Marlon Brando, un acteur nommé désir
Film • 2014
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Inside Rupert Pupkin
Film • 2014
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A Letter to Elia
Film • 2010
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An Actor Named Brando
Film • 2006
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A Man Named Brando
Film • 2006
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A Streetcar in Hollywood
Film • 2006
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A Streetcar on Broadway
Film • 2006
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East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
Film • 2005
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James Dean: Forever Young
Film • 2005
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Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
Film • 2003
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Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
Film • 2001
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Liv till varje pris
Film • 1998
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Film • 1995
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Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Film • 1994
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Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Film • 1990
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Hello Actors Studio
Film • 1988
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Sis
Film • 1988
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Empire City
Film • 1985
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Elia Kazan: An Outsider
Film • 1982
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Natalie - A Tribute to a Very Special Lady
Film • 1982
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Ich bin Wanda – Portrait der Schauspielerin und Regisseurin Barbara Loden
Film • 1980
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The Kennedy Center Honors
Serial • 1978
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Apostrophes
Serial • 1975
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Spécial cinéma
Serial • 1974
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A New Lifestyle
Film • 1969
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The Dick Cavett Show
Serial • 1968
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Die Drehscheibe
Serial • 1964
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The Merv Griffin Show
Serial • 1962
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The Mike Douglas Show
Serial • 1961
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Cinépanorama
Serial • 1956
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Oscary
Serial • 1953
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The Screen Director
Film • 1951
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Panic in the Streets
Film • 1950
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Blues in the Night
Film • 1941
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City for Conquest
Film • 1940
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Pie in the Sky
Film • 1935
Strangers All
Film • 1935
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