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Nicholas Ray
Directing
07 Aug 1911
† 16 Jun 1979
Galesville, Wisconsin, USA
Biography
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 generatio...
Also Known As
니콜라스 레이, Raymond Nicholas Kienzle
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Nicholas Ray's Movies
75%
Rebel Without a Cause
27 Oct 1955
73%
Hair
15 Mar 1979
71%
The American Friend
24 Jun 1977
69%
55 Days at Peking
06 May 1963
75%
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
28 Feb 1945
66%
Lightning Over Water
01 Oct 1980
60%
We Can't Go Home Again
10 May 1973
85%
Horizons
01 Jul 1973
60%
Don't Expect Too Much
03 Oct 2011
64%
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
17 Jan 1975
20%
Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year
26 Nov 1990
60%
James Dean: The First American Teenager
30 Sept 1975
0%
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
01 Jan 2005
0%
Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre
01 May 1979
0%
Profile of Nicholas Ray
16 Apr 1977
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James Dean: A Portrait
30 Sept 1995
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Films to Die For
23 Oct 2025