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Elia Kazanjoglous, 엘리아 카잔, Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου, Еліа Казан, Ηλίας Καζάν
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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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- wc Gender: Male
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1909-09-07
- event Death Date 2003-09-28
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 0.9
- info Birth Place Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Elia Kazan
7.1
Arthur Miller: Writer
2017-12-08
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An Actor Named Brando
2006-05-02
6.9
City for Conquest
1940-09-21
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Backstory: 'Gentleman's Agreement'
2001-10-21
6.3
Blues in the Night
1941-11-15
6.4
A Letter to Elia
2010-09-04
5.8
Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey
1995-08-14
5.7
Elia Kazan: An Outsider
1982-09-15
6
Hello Actors Studio
1988-11-09
0
Sanford Meisner: The American Theatre's Best Kept Secret
1990-08-27
5.5
Strangers All
1935-04-01
0
Inside Rupert Pupkin
2014-05-14
6.5
Faye
2024-05-15
0
A Man Named Brando
2006-05-02
4.7
Mist
1988-03-18
7.3
Marlon Brando: An Actor Named Desire
2014-09-20
0
A New Lifestyle
1969-04-04
6.4
Pie in the Sky
1935-04-09
6
The Screen Director
1951-03-12
0
Tennessee Williams: Orpheus of the American Stage
1994-12-19
6
I Am Wanda
1980-12-01
6
An American Named Kazan
2019-03-10
9
Empire City
1985-07-01
6.9
Panic in the Streets
1950-07-27
6.5
A Streetcar in Hollywood
2006-01-01
6.5
A Streetcar on Broadway
2006-01-01
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Arthur Miller, Elia Kazan and the Blacklist: None Without Sin
2003-09-03
6.5
Life at Any Cost
1998-08-20
6
East of Eden: Art in Search of Life
2005-05-31
5.8
The Merv Griffin Show
1962-10-01
7.1
The Oscars
1953-03-19
7.4
The Kennedy Center Honors
1978-12-28
0
Spécial cinéma
1974-09-25
8
Cinépanorama
1956-02-04
8.5
Apostrophes
1975-01-10
6.7
The Dick Cavett Show
1968-06-06
6
Die Drehscheibe
1964-04-01
5.4
The Mike Douglas Show
1961-12-11
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5.4
East of Eden
1955-04-10
5.4
East of Eden
1955-04-10
5.4
On the Waterfront
1954-06-22
5.4
A Streetcar Named Desire
1951-09-19
5.4
Viva Zapata!
1952-02-07
5.4
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945-02-28
5.4
A Face in the Crowd
1957-05-29
5.4
A Face in the Crowd
1957-05-29
5.4
Panic in the Streets
1950-07-27
5.4
Gentleman's Agreement
1947-11-11
5.4
Baby Doll
1956-12-29
5.4
Splendor in the Grass
1961-10-10
5.4
Splendor in the Grass
1961-10-10
5.4
America America
1963-12-15
5.4
Baby Doll
1956-12-29
5.4
Pinky
1949-09-28
5.4
The Last Tycoon
1976-11-18
5.4
America America
1963-12-15
5.4
America America
1963-12-15
5.4
The Arrangement
1969-11-18
5.4
The Arrangement
1969-11-18
5.4
Boomerang!
1947-02-28
5.4
Wild River
1960-05-26
5.4
The Sea of Grass
1947-04-25
5.4
Man on a Tightrope
1953-05-21
5.4
The Visitors
1972-02-02
5.4
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945-03-29
5.4
People of the Cumberland
1937-12-01
5.4
The Arrangement
1969-11-18
5.4
The Arrangement
1969-11-18
5.4
Pinky
1949-09-28
5.4
Wild River
1960-05-26
5.4
Diaspora
2001-01-01