Biography
Nicholas Ray
Directing
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…
Career works
18
Movies
18
Series
0
Career average
6.7/10
Birth date
08/07/1911
Place of birth
Galesville, Wisconsin, USA
Date of death
06/16/1979
Filmography highlights
Movies
Films to Die For
2025
Don't Expect Too Much
2011 · 6.0
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
2005
James Dean: A Portrait
1995 · 7.0
Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year
1990 · 2.0
Lightning Over Water
1980 · 6.7
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Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre
1979
Hair
1979 · 7.3
The American Friend
1977 · 7.1
Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast
1977
Profile of Nicholas Ray
1977
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975 · 7.5
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975 · 6.7
Horizons
1973 · 8.5
We Can't Go Home Again
1973 · 6.2