Nicholas Ray
Sign in to saveAmerican film director (1911-1979)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1911-08-07
- Died
- 1979-06-16
- Works
- 12
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Directing · 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…
Known for
- Films to Die For — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)2025
- Don't Expect Too Much — Himself2011
- Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents — Himself (uncredited)2005
- James Dean: A Portrait — Self (archive footage)1995
- Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year1990
- Lightning Over Water — Self1980
- Hair — The General1979
- Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre1979
- The American Friend — Derwatt1977
- Profile of Nicholas Ray — Self1977
via TMDB
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 170
- Total plays
- 400
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Equation of State Calculations by Fast Computing Machines
· 1953 · cited 29,665x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,828x
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,129x
- Sources of Conflict between Work and Family Roles
· 1985 · cited 18,578x
- A global reference for human genetic variation
· 2015 · cited 17,321x
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Key facts
- Born
- Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr. , ( 1911-08-07 ) August 7, 1911, Galesville, Wisconsin , U.S.
- Died
- June 16, 1979 (1979-06-16) (aged 67), New York City , U.S.
- Occupations
- Film director screenwriter actor
- Years active
- 1946–1979
- Children
- 4, including Anthony Ray
- Relatives
- Gloria Grahame (daughter-in-law, 1960–1974)
via Wikipedia infobox
Key dates
- Born
- 7 August 1911
- Died
- 16 June 1979
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Nicholas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- La Crosse
- Place of death
- New York City
- Spouse
- Gloria Grahame
- Child
- Anthony Ray
- Occupation
- director
- Employer
- Binghamton University
Article
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. 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.
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