Directors 50s/60s
by humphreyking | created - 12 Aug 2017 | updated - 12 Aug 2017 | Public
1. Stanley Kramer
Producer | Judgment at Nuremberg
Stanley Kramer was born on September 29, 1913 in Hell's Kitchen [now Clinton], Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) and Inherit the Wind (1960). He was married to Karen Sharpe, Anne P. ...
2. John Ford
Director | The Quiet Man
John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...
3. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
4. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
5. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
6. Henry Koster
Director | Harvey
Henry Koster was born Herman Kosterlitz in Berlin, Germany, on May 1, 1905. His maternal grandfather was a famous operatic tenor Julius Salomon (who died of tuberculosis in the 1880s). His father was a salesman of ladies unmentionables who left the family while Henry was at a young age, leaving him...
1966 The Singing Nun 1965 Dear Brigitte 1963 Take Her, She's Mine 1963 Marilyn (Documentary) 1962 Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation 1961 Flower Drum Song 1960 The Story of Ruth 1958 The Naked Maja 1958 Fräulein 1957 My Man Godfrey 1956 The Power and the Prize 1956 D-Day the Sixth of June 1955 Good Morning, Miss Dove 1955 The Virgin Queen 1955 A Man Called Peter 1954 Désirée 1953 The Robe 1952 My Cousin Rachel 1952 Stars and Stripes Forever 1952 O. Henry's Full House (segment "The Cop and the Anthem") 1951 Elopement 1951 Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell 1951 No Highway in the Sky 1950 Harvey 1950 My Blue Heaven 1950 Wabash Avenue
7. Joshua Logan
Writer | Fanny
Joshua Logan started directing plays while he was still at Princeton and among the first actors he directed were Henry Fonda and James Stewart. His graduation from Princeton was delayed to accompany a classmate to Russia to study with Konstantin Stanislavski, inventor of "method acting". ...
1969 Paint Your Wagon 1967 Camelot 1964 Ensign Pulver 1961 Fanny 1960 Tall Story 1958 South Pacific 1957 Sayonara 1956 Bus Stop 1955 Picnic 1955 Mister Roberts (uncredited)
8. Henry Levin
Director | April Love
A former stage actor and director, Henry Levin had a long and prolific career in films. Entering the business in 1943 as a dialogue director, he graduated to directing features the next year, and turned out films in just about every genre over the next 36 years. His heyday was in the 1960s, when he...
9. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Writer | All About Eve
Born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, on February 11, 1909, Joseph Leo Mankiewicz first worked for the movies as a translator of intertitles, employed by Paramount in Berlin, the UFA's American distributor at the time (1928). He became a dialoguist, then a screenwriter on numerous Paramount ...
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