
Born
August 7, 1911
Died
June 16, 1979
Place of Birth
Galesville, Wisconsin, USA
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 …

Films to Die For
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Don't Expect Too Much
2011

Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
2005

James Dean: A Portrait
1995

Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year
1990

Lightning Over Water
1980
Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre
1979

Hair
1979

The American Friend
1977

Profile of Nicholas Ray
1977

James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975

I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975

Horizons
1973

We Can't Go Home Again
1973

55 Days at Peking
1963

Rebel Without a Cause
1955

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945