Nicholas Ray
DirectingBorn
August 7, 1911
Died
June 16, 1979
Place of Birth
Galesville, Wisconsin, USA
Biography
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 …
Known For
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
Hair
1979
55 Days at Peking
1963
The American Friend
1977
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
James Dean: A Portrait
1995
Lightning Over Water
1980
Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year
1990
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975
Filmography
Films to Die For
2025
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