Nicholas Ray
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 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.
During his lifetime, Ray was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Rebel Without a Cause, twice for the Golden Lion, for Bigger Than Life (1956) and Bitter Victory (1957), and a Palme d'Or for The Savage Innocents (1960). Three of his films were ranked by Cahiers du Cinéma in their Annual Top 10 Lists.
Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well regarded and he was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "... there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray."
Fotos
Películas (47)
Films to Die For
2025 · Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wilder Demons #2
2024 · Writer
Don't Expect Too Much
2011 · Himself
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
2005 · Self (uncredited)
James Dean: A Portrait
1995 · Self (archive footage)
Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year
1990
Lightning Over Water
1980 · Self, Director, Writer
Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre
1979
Hair
1979 · The General
Marco
1978 · Director
The American Friend
1977 · Andrew Pogash Derwatt
Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast
1977 · Self
Profile of Nicholas Ray
1977 · Self
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975 · Self
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975 · Self
Wet Dreams
1974 · Director
The Janitor
1974 · Director
Horizons
1973
We Can't Go Home Again
1973 · Nick Ray, Writer, Director
Made in U.S.A
1967 · Thanks
Circus World
1964 · Story
55 Days at Peking
1963 · US Minister (uncredited), Director
King of Kings
1961 · Director
The Savage Innocents
1960 · Director, Screenplay
Party Girl
1958 · Director
Wind Across the Everglades
1958 · Director
Bitter Victory
1957 · Director, Screenplay
The True Story of Jesse James
1957 · Director
Bigger Than Life
1956 · Director, Additional Writing
Hot Blood
1956 · Director
Rebel Without a Cause
1955 · Man in Last Shot (uncredited), Director, Story
Run for Cover
1955 · Director
Johnny Guitar
1954 · Director, Producer, Writer
Androcles and the Lion
1952 · Co-Director
The Lusty Men
1952 · Director
Macao
1952 · Co-Director
On Dangerous Ground
1951 · Adaptation, Director
Flying Leathernecks
1951 · Director
Born to Be Bad
1950 · Director
In a Lonely Place
1950 · Director
They Live by Night
1949 · Director, Adaptation
Roseanna McCoy
1949 · Co-Director
Knock on Any Door
1949 · Director
A Woman's Secret
1949 · Director
Swing Parade of 1946
1946 · Writer
Tuesday in November
1945 · Assistant Director
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945 · Bakery Clerk (uncredited), Dialogue
