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.
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.
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Filmography (Movies)
An American Named Kazan
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:10/03/2019
Arthur Miller: Writer
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:08/12/2017
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
Character:Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)
Release Date:20/09/2014
Inside Rupert Pupkin
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:14/05/2014
A Letter to Elia
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:04/09/2010
An Actor Named Brando
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:02/05/2006
A Man Named Brando
Character:Self
Release Date:02/05/2006
A Streetcar in Hollywood
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2006
A Streetcar on Broadway
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:01/01/2006
East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
Character:Himself
Release Date:31/05/2005
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
Character:Self (Archive footage)
Release Date:03/09/2003
Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:21/10/2001
Life at Any Cost
Character:
Release Date:20/08/1998
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
Character:Self
Release Date:14/08/1995
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
Character:Self (archive footage)
Release Date:19/12/1994
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
Character:Self
Release Date:27/08/1990
Hello Actors Studio
Character:Self
Release Date:09/11/1988
Mist
Character:Old man in the coffee house
Release Date:18/03/1988
Empire City
Character:Self
Release Date:01/07/1985
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
Character:Self
Release Date:15/09/1982
I Am Wanda
Character:Self
Release Date:01/12/1980
A New Lifestyle
Character:Self
Release Date:04/04/1969
The Screen Director
Character:Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Release Date:12/03/1951
Panic in the Streets
Character:Cleaver - Mortuary Assistant (uncredited)
Release Date:27/07/1950
Blues in the Night
Character:Nickie Haroyen
Release Date:15/11/1941
City for Conquest
Character:'Googi'
Release Date:21/09/1940
Pie in the Sky
Character:
Release Date:09/04/1935
Strangers All
Character:Protester Calling for a Ballot at Communist Meeting
Release Date:01/04/1935
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