Elia Kazan

Elia Kazan

1909-09-07 Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey] 51 Credits

Biography

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 ...

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Faye

Faye

2024

as Self (archive footage)

6.2
Acting

Through honest reflection, complemented by insight from colleagues and friends, Faye Dunaway contextualizes her life and filmography, laying bare her ...

An American Named Kazan

An American Named Kazan

2019

as Self (archive footage)

6.0
Acting

Elia Kazan represented the American dream. An immigrant who came without anything and who became the Prince of Hollywood and Broadway after World War ...

Arthur Miller: Writer

Arthur Miller: Writer

2017

as Self (archive footage)

7.1
Acting

One of the greatest playwrights of the 20th century, Arthur Miller created such celebrated works as Death of a Salesman and The Crucible, which contin...

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire

2014

as Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)

7.3
Acting

In his early days as an actor, Marlon Brando (1924-2004) was a shy young man with theatrical ambitions, like many others; but his charisma and superb ...

Inside Rupert Pupkin

2014

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Thelma Schoonmaker on Martin Scorsese and 'The King of Comedy'

A Letter to Elia

A Letter to Elia

2010

as Self (archive footage)

6.4
Acting

Director Martin Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan. Utilizing precisely c...

An Actor Named Brando

An Actor Named Brando

2006

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

A short overview of Brando's career.

A Man Named Brando

2006

as Self

Acting

Documentary short on Marlon Brando included in the DVD extras of The Streetcar Named Desire.

A Streetcar in Hollywood

A Streetcar in Hollywood

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.5
Acting

How the play was adapted to Film

A Streetcar on Broadway

A Streetcar on Broadway

2006

as Self (archive footage)

6.5
Acting

Interviews and photos about the play on Broadway

East of Eden: Art in Search of Life

2005

as Himself

6.0
Acting
Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin

Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin

2003

as Self (Archive footage)

Acting

Director Elia Kazan and playwright Arthur Miller were once best friends and professional colleagues, to most that knew them then in both capacities as...

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'

2001

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

Darryl F. Zanuck ignores the protests of his peers and makes a movie about antisemitism called "Gentleman's Agreement" (1947).

Diaspora

2001

Writer

Writing

Short film.

Life at Any Cost

1998

6.5
Acting

A tribute and portrait of the Swedish filmmaker Bo Widerberg. Thommy Berggren presents slices and comments on Widerberg.

Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey

Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey

1995

as Self

5.8
Acting

This documentary on the life and work of Academy award-winning director Elia Kazan highlights his colorful life on Broadway and in film, which is exem...

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage

1994

as Self (archive footage)

Acting

A study of Tennessee Williams's life and work as a whole, ranging from his youth in Mississippi and in St. Louis to success and acclaim, followed by t...

Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret

1990

as Self

Acting

A leading acting teacher who trained some of the most famous performers of the stage and screen, Sanford Meisner was a founding member of the Group Th...

Hello Actors Studio

Hello Actors Studio

1988

as Self

6.0
Acting

After Lee Strasberg’s death in 1982, the most prestigious talents from the Actors Studio assumed the leadership of this exceptional organization. For ...

Mist

Mist

1988

as Old man in the coffee house

4.7
Acting

Two Turkish brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the political fence. When one of the brothers is murdered, the boys' father suspects that hi...

Empire City

Empire City

1985

as Self

9.0
Acting

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the participation of some of New York's leading political an...

Elia Kazan: An Outsider

Elia Kazan: An Outsider

1982

as Self

5.7
Acting

Hour long documentary on the legendary director.

I Am Wanda

I Am Wanda

1980

as Self

6.0
Acting

Documentary about American film director and actress Barbara Loden featuring an interview filmed in 1980.

The Last Tycoon

The Last Tycoon

1976

Director

6.3
Directing

Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the while working himself to death.

The Visitors

The Visitors

1972

Director

6.1
Directing

Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson a...

The Arrangement

The Arrangement

1969

Novel, Writer, Producer

6.7
Writing Producing Directing

An adman attempts to rebuild his shattered life after suffering a nervous breakdown.

A New Lifestyle

1969

as Self

Acting

Mini-doc on the set of Elia Kazan's "The Arrangement" (1969).

America America

America America

1963

Producer, Director, Writer

6.9
Producing Directing Writing

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and dreams of going to America.

Splendor in the Grass

Splendor in the Grass

1961

Producer, Director

7.5
Producing Directing

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madne...

Wild River

Wild River

1960

Director, Producer

7.2
Directing Producing

A young bureaucrat for the Tennessee Valley Authority goes to rural Tennessee to oversee the building of a dam. He encounters opposition from the loca...

A Face in the Crowd

A Face in the Crowd

1957

Producer, Director

7.6
Producing Directing

The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king...

Baby Doll

Baby Doll

1956

Director, Producer

7.1
Directing Producing

Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for fi...

East of Eden

East of Eden

1955

Producer, Director

7.6
Producing Directing

In the Salinas Valley in and around World War I, Cal Trask feels he must compete against overwhelming odds with his brother for the love of their fath...

On the Waterfront

On the Waterfront

1954

Director

7.9
Directing

Terry Malloy is a kindhearted dockworker, and former boxer, who is tricked by his corrupt bosses into leading his friend to death. After falling in lo...

Man on a Tightrope

Man on a Tightrope

1953

Director

6.5
Directing

The owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performe...

Viva Zapata!

Viva Zapata!

1952

Director

6.9
Directing

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppressive dictatorship of president Porfirio Díaz in the...

A Streetcar Named Desire

A Streetcar Named Desire

1951

Director

7.6
Directing

A disturbed, aging Southern belle moves in with her sister for solace — but being face-to-face with her brutish brother-in-law accelerates her downwar...

The Screen Director

1951

as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

6.0
Acting

A documentary short film depicting the work of the motion picture director. An anonymous director is shown preparing the various aspects of a film for...

Panic in the Streets

Panic in the Streets

1950

as Cleaver - Mortuary Assistant (uncredited)

6.9
Acting

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a...

Panic in the Streets

Panic in the Streets

1950

Director

6.9
Directing

A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a...

Pinky

Pinky

1949

Director, Additional Writing

7.1
Directing

Pinky, a light skinned black woman, returns to her grandmother's house in the South after graduating from a Northern nursing school. Pinky tells her g...

Gentleman's Agreement

Gentleman's Agreement

1947

Director

7.0
Directing

A magazine writer poses as a Jew to expose anti-Semitism.

The Sea of Grass

The Sea of Grass

1947

Director

6.3
Directing

On America's frontier, a St. Louis woman marries a New Mexico cattleman who is seen as a tyrant by the locals.

Boomerang!

Boomerang!

1947

Director

7.0
Directing

When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the p...

Watchtower Over Tomorrow

Watchtower Over Tomorrow

1945

Co-Director

5.0
Directing

Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nations.

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

1945

Director

7.6
Directing

In Brooklyn circa 1900, the Nolans manage to enjoy life on pennies despite great poverty and Papa's alcoholism. We come to know these people well thro...

Blues in the Night

Blues in the Night

1941

as Nickie Haroyen

6.3
Acting

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and love affairs, as they try to stay together and find ...

City for Conquest

City for Conquest

1940

as 'Googi'

6.8
Acting

The heartbreaking but hopeful tale of Danny Kenny and Peggy Nash, two sweethearts who meet and struggle through their impoverished lives in New York C...

People of the Cumberland

1937

Assistant Director

5.8
Directing

The film takes place in rural Tennessee, where communities have experienced economic and environmental devastation created by the coal mining industry...

Pie in the Sky

1935

6.4
Acting

At a skid row mission, a cleric opines as men wait to eat. After his sermon, he brings out a pie and cuts it into small slices. The two men at the end...

Strangers All

Strangers All

1935

as Protester Calling for a Ballot at Communist Meeting

5.5
Acting

Domestic drama about an elderly woman and her four squabbling adult children.