Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray
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 with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers. His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. He is appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963, including They Live By Night (1948), In A Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956), and King of Kings (1961), as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death. During his lifetime, Ray was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Rebel Without a Cause, twice for the Golden Lion, for Bigger Than Life (1956) and Bitter Victory (1957), and a Palme d'Or for The Savage Innocents (1960). Three of his films were ranked by Cahiers du Cinéma in their Annual Top 10 Lists. Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well regarded and he was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "... there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray."
Directed Movies
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Philip Yordan,
Cast: Brigid Bazlen, Carmen Sevilla, Harry Guardino, Hurd Hatfield, Jeffrey Hunter, Rip Torn, Rita Gam, Ron Randell, Siobhán McKenna, Viveca Lindfors,
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Cyril Hume,
Cast: Barbara Rush, Betty Caulfield, Christopher Olsen, James Mason, Kipp Hamilton, Rachel Stephens, Robert F. Simon, Roland Winters, Rusty Lane, Walter Matthau,
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Stewart Stern,
Cast: Ann Doran, Corey Allen, Dennis Hopper, Edward Platt, James Dean, Jim Backus, Natalie Wood, Rochelle Hudson, Sal Mineo, William Hopper,
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Nicholas Ray,
Cast: Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Ferguson, Joan Crawford, John Carradine, Mercedes McCambridge, Royal Dano, Scott Brady, Sterling Hayden, Ward Bond,
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Jerry Wald,
Cast: Arthur Hunnicutt, Arthur Kennedy, Burt Mustin, Carol Nugent, Frank Faylen, Lorna Thayer, Maria Hart, Robert Mitchum, Susan Hayward, Walter Coy,
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: A.I. Bezzerides,
Cast: Anthony Ross, Charles Kemper, Ed Begley, Frank Ferguson, Gus Schilling, Ian Wolfe, Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Sumner Williams, Ward Bond,
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Edmund Grainger,
Cast: Adam Williams, Barry Kelley, Don Taylor, James Bell, Janis Carter, Jay C. Flippen, John Wayne, Maurice Jara, Robert Ryan, William Harrigan,
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Andrew Solt,
Cast: Art Smith, Carl Benton Reid, Frank Lovejoy, Gloria Grahame, Humphrey Bogart, Jeff Donnell, Martha Stewart, Morris Ankrum, Robert Warwick, William Ching,
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Charles Schnee,
Cast: Cathy O'Donnell, Farley Granger, Harry Harvey, Helen Craig, Howard Da Silva, Ian Wolfe, Jay C. Flippen, Marie Bryant, Will Wright, William Phipps,
Acted Movies
Director: Miloš Forman
Writers: James Rado,
Cast: Annie Golden, Beverly D'Angelo, Charlotte Rae, Cheryl Barnes, Don Dacus, Dorsey Wright, John Savage, Nicholas Ray, Richard Bright, Treat Williams,
Director: Wim Wenders
Writers: Wim Wenders,
Cast: Bruno Ganz, Daniel Schmid, Dennis Hopper, Gérard Blain, Jean Eustache, Lisa Kreuzer, Nicholas Ray, Peter Lilienthal, Samuel Fuller, Sandy Whitelaw,
Written Movies
Director: Nicholas Ray
Writers: Nicholas Ray,
Cast: Ben Cooper, Ernest Borgnine, Frank Ferguson, Joan Crawford, John Carradine, Mercedes McCambridge, Royal Dano, Scott Brady, Sterling Hayden, Ward Bond,