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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.
Jun 12, 2024 · 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 ...
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 ...
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...
Mar 16, 2003 · But Nick Ray (his birth name was Raymond Nicholas Kienzle) was a wanderer and drifter and a slow developer. He had worked in theater, after studying architecture with Frank Lloyd Wright.
Aug 9, 2010 · Hollywood's Last Romantic. 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.
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor.
From Robert Mitchum’s aging rodeo rider in The Lusty Men, to James Mason’s drug-addicted patriarch in Bigger Than Life, to James Dean’s instantly iconic turn in Rebel Without a Cause, Nicholas Ray directed some of the finest performances ever put to film.
Jun 16, 2010 · When Nicholas Ray, the pathbreaking filmmaker and director of “Rebel Without a Cause,” died from lung cancer in 1979, he left behind a substantial collection of artifacts...
