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Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor.
Nicholas Ray. Director: Rebel Without a Cause. Nicholas Ray was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in 1911, in small-town Galesville, Wisconsin, to Lena (Toppen) and Raymond Joseph Kienzle, a contractor and builder. He was of German and Norwegian descent. Ray's early experience with film came with some radio broadcasting in high school.
Nicholas Ray (born August 7, 1911, Galesville, Wisconsin, U.S.—died June 16, 1979, New York, New York) was an American motion-picture writer and director whose reputation as one of the most expressive and distinctive filmmakers of the late 1940s and the ’50s is grounded on a clutch of stylish heartfelt films that frequently focused on alienated ...
Mar 1, 2024 · Nicholas Ray was an influential American director active between the late 1940s and early '70s. His most famous movies are the brooding dramas Bigger than Life and Rebel Without a Cause, the ...
Aug 9, 2010 · Canonized as one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers, Nicholas Ray (1911-1979) was an artist whose candle burned from both ends with furious energy and inspiration.
Jun 30, 2017 · James Dean, Johnny Guitar and Film Noir: The 7 Essential Films of Nicholas Ray. The Hollywood rebel wasn't just ahead of his own time, he was ahead ours. In just eight years, he made seven of...
Sep 30, 2011 · Nicholas Ray had been out of Hollywood for a decade when he started teaching at SUNY Binghamton in 1971; he was in immense sympathy with his students—their political idealism, their sexual...
Mar 16, 2003 · It seems clear, though, nearly 24 years after his death, that a full life of Nicholas Ray might make a remarkable American portrait -- the moments of glory, the years of chaos; the aching...
Jun 17, 2010 · That’s why, for many critics and filmmakers, Nicholas Ray is the auteur par excellence. In the nineteen-fifties, Ray, unheralded at home, was a hero of the young critics at Cahiers du...
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.
