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Lewis Milestone

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Lewis Milestone

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Also known as Leib Milstein

Russian-American film director (1895-1980)

Person · Open Library

Born
1895
Died
1980
Works
3

Top works

  • Front page
  • Edge of darkness
  • Primetime TV time capsule

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Music · MusicBrainz

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
113
Total plays
201

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT

    · 1951 · cited 249,241x

  2. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,901x

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    · 2020 · cited 36,510x

  4. Methods for Dietary Fiber, Neutral Detergent Fiber, and Nonstarch Polysaccharides in Relation to Animal Nutrition

    · 1991 · cited 22,159x

  5. Grey Wolf Optimizer

    · 2014 · cited 18,330x

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Key facts

Born
Leib Mendelevich Milstein , ( 1895-09-30 ) September 30, 1895, Kishinev , Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
September 25, 1980 (1980-09-25) (aged 84), Los Angeles, California , U.S.
Citizenship
Russia (until 1919) United States (from 1919)
Occupations
Film director producer screenwriter
Years active
1915–1964
Spouse
Kendall Lee ​ ​ ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1935 ; died 1978 ) ​

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Encyclopedic overview

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Mendelevich Milstein; Russian: Лейб Менделевич Мильштейн; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), with a third nomination for The Front Page (1931).

Milestone's other notable directing credits included The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1939), The North Star (1943), A Walk in the Sun (1945), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Pork Chop Hill (1959), Ocean's 11 (1960), and his final film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).

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