Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray

Known for: Directing
Biography: 1911-08-07
Deathday: 1979-06-16 (67 years old)

Biography

Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle; 7 August 1911 – 16 June 1979) was an American film director best known for the films Rebel Without a Cause and Johnny Guitar. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers.


His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. He is appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963, including They Live By Night (1948), In A Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956), and King of Kings (1961), as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death.


During his lifetime, Ray was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Rebel Without a Cause, twice for the Golden Lion, for Bigger Than Life (1956) and Bitter Victory (1957), and a Palme d'Or for The Savage Innocents (1960). Three of his films were ranked by Cahiers du Cinéma in their Annual Top 10 Lists.


Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well regarded and he was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "... there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray."

Filmography

all 45

Movies 44

Director 28

self 7

Writer 2

Producer 1

TV Shows 1

Self (archive footage)
Edge of Outside

Edge of Outside (2006)

Movie
The General
Hair

Hair (1979)

Movie
US Minister (uncredited) / Director
55 Days at Peking

55 Days at Peking (1963)

Movie
Director / Screenplay
Bitter Victory

Bitter Victory (1957)

Movie
Director / Additional Writing
Bigger Than Life

Bigger Than Life (1956)

Movie
Man in Last Shot (uncredited) / Director / Story
Rebel Without a Cause

Rebel Without a Cause (1955)

Movie
6.25
Director / Producer / Writer
Johnny Guitar

Johnny Guitar (1954)

Movie
1
Adaptation / Director
On Dangerous Ground

On Dangerous Ground (1951)

Movie
Director / Adaptation
They Live by Night

They Live by Night (1949)

Movie
1
Bakery Clerk (uncredited) / Dialogue
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)

Movie
6
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Information

Known For
Directing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1911-08-07

Deathday
1979-06-16 (67 years old)

Birth Place
La Crosse, United States of America

Relationships
Gloria Grahame (1948 - 1952)

Children
Anthony Ray

Citizenships
United States

Also Known As
니콜라스 레이

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