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Elia Kazan
Elias Kazantzoglou, known as Elia Kazan, was a Greek-American film and theatre director, producer, screenwriter and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
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entertainment · American theatre director and filmmaker (1909–2003) · film director · screenwriter · film producer · writer · theatre director · film actor · actor · film screenwriter · director · producer · also Elia Kazan, Elias Kazantzoglou, Elia Kazanjoglou, Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου, Kazan
Born 7 September 1909 · Died 28 September 2003 · Q72717
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2026· 3 entries
“The star lashed out at the spot where he knew Kazan was most vulnerable, the director”
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Moviefone: Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey (1995)
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2024· 1 entry
IndieWire: A New Blu-ray of Elia Kazan’s Most Obscure Film Offers a Tantalizing Glimpse of What Could’ve Been
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2023· 1 entry
collider: 10 Best Elia Kazan Movies, According to Letterboxd
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2021· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Elia Kazan and Complete Book Reviews
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2017· 1 entry
Carol Drinkwater accused Kazan of sexual harassment and attempted rape in 1975 when she was under consideration for a part in Kazan's film The Last Tycoon
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2010· 2 entries
NPR: 'Elia Kazan Collection' A Must-Have For Film Fans
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Martin Scorsese co-directed the documentary film A Letter to Elia as a personal tribute to Kazan
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2009· 1 entry
A previously unproduced screenplay by Williams, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, was released as a film
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2003· 2 entries
Died 2003-09-28.
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insider.si.edu: Elia Kazan and Arthur Miller
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1999· 4 entries
Awarded Academy Honorary Award (1999).
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At the 71st Academy Awards, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro presented the Honorary Oscar to Kazan
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Dozens of actors chose not to applaud as 250 demonstrators picketed the event
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The audience was noticeably divided in their reaction, with some, including Jack Nicholson, Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Ian McKellen, Frank Langella and Amy Madigan, refusing to applaud, and others, such as actors Kathy Bates
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1988· 2 entries
“I did whatever was necessary to get a good performance including so-called Method acting. I made them run around the set, I scolded them, I inspired jealousy in their girlfriends ... The director is a desperate beast! ... You don”
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Kazan said, "I did whatever was necessary to get a good performance including so-called Method acting
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1982· 3 entries
Orson Welles was asked a question about Kazan at the Cinémathèque française in Paris
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President Ronald Reagan presented him with the Kennedy Center honors award, a national tribute for lifetime achievement in the arts
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To Frances Rudge continued until his death in 2003
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1976· 2 entries
The Last Tycoon, based on the unfinished novel by F
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That "I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did, and betray my own soul
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1972· 1 entry
Written by his eldest son Chris Kazan and shot entirely on 16mm film
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1961· 2 entries
After a "series of bad films, her career was already in decline", notes Rathgeb
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Kazan introduced Warren Beatty in his first starring role in Splendor in the Grass (1961), with Natalie Wood; the film was nominated for two Oscars and won one
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1959· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Director (1959).
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In a letter to Kazan, he writes, "Some day you will know how much I value the great things you did with my work, how you lifted it above its measure by your great gift
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1955· 3 entries
Won Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Drama for East of Eden (1955).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for On the Waterfront (1955).
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Directed John Steinbeck's East of Eden, starring James Dean
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1954· 3 entries
Directed On the Waterfront, written by screenwriter Budd Schulberg, which was a film about union corruption in New York
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Again used Brando as a star in On the Waterfront
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The first time he had ever flown, bringing his clothes in a brown paper bag
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1952· 3 entries
During the midst of the Red Scare that journalist Michael Mills calls "arguably the most controversial period in Hollywood history"
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Was the low point in his career, although he remained convinced he made the right decision to give the names of Group Theatre colleagues who had been Communist Party members
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At the height of the Hollywood blacklist
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1951· 2 entries
After introducing and directing Marlon Brando and Karl Malden in the stage version, he went on to cast both in the film version of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which won four Oscars and was nominated for twelve
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Lee Strasberg became its director after Kazan left for Hollywood to focus on his career as a movie director
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1950· 1 entry
Kazan directed Panic in the Streets, starring Richard Widmark, a thriller shot on the streets of New Orleans
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1949· 2 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Director (1949).
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Again tackled a controversial subject when he directed Pinky, which explored issues of racism in the United States, and was nominated for three Academy Awards
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1948· 1 entry
Awarded Academy Award for Best Director for Gentleman's Agreement (1948).
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1947· 3 entries
Awarded Tony Award for Best Director (1947).
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Directed the courtroom drama Boomerang
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Founded the Actors Studio, a non-profit workshop, with actors Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford
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1942· 1 entry
Achieved his first notable success by directing a play by Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth, starring Tallulah Bankhead and Fredric March
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1940· 1 entry
Kazan had a large supporting role as a flamboyantly dressed gangster in the boxing thriller City for Conquest starring James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, and Anthony Quinn
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1935· 1 entry
Played the role of a strike-leading taxi driver in a drama by Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty, and his performance was called "dynamic", leading some to label him the "proletarian thunderbolt"
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1932· 2 entries
After spending two years at the Yale University School of Drama, he moved to New York City to become a professional stage actor
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And co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947
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1909· 1 entry
Born 1909-09-07.
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