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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1910-02-12
- Died
- 1988-02-15
- Works
- 56
Top works
- Kino A History Of The Russian And Soviet Film
- the complete stories of herman melville
- The Musorgsky Reader
- The Musorgsky Reader A Life of Modeste Petrovich Musorgsky in Letters and Documents
- The Years and Hours of Emily Dickinson
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Film & TV
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Jay Leyda (February 12, 1910 – February 15, 1988)[1] was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film historian, noted for his work on U.S, Soviet, and Chinese cinema, as well as his collections of documentation on the day-to-day lives of Herman Melville and Emily Dickinson. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Known for
- Strong Medicine1981
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 1
- Total plays
- 1
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Jay
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Detroit
- Place of death
- New York City
- Educated at
- Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
- Employer
- New York University
- Languages spoken
- English language
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- date of birth
- 1910-02-12
- date of death
- 1988-02-15
- cause of death
- heart failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
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