Nicholas Ray

Director of Rebel Without A Cause: Wikipedia

Nicholas Ray (August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause.

Ray is also appreciated by a smaller audience of cinephiles for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and In a Lonely Place, 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 from lung cancer. Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well-regarded. Ray was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "cinema is Nicholas Ray."

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Motion picture director. He directed a lot of classic films like "Knock On Any Door" (1949), "In a Lonely Place" (1949), "Johnny Guitar" (1954), "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955), "Bigger Than Life" (1956), "The True Story of Jesse James" (1957), "55 Days at Peking" (1963), and his last film "Lightning Over Water" (1980). He was married with actres Gloria Grahame from 1948 to 1952. Inscription: birth name was Raymond Nicholas Kienzle

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