James Ivory

James Ivory was born in Berkeley in 1928 and was adopted shortly after his birth by a sawmill operator and his wife, who raised him in Klamath Falls, Oregon. A fine arts graduate of the University of Oregon in 1951, he served in the army in Germany, then in 1957 took a master's degree in film in Southern California with a documentary shot in Venice. India held him for several years. In 1961 he founded a company with the producer Ismail Merchant, his partner and associate until Merchant's death in 2005. He won an Oscar for screenplay at the age of eighty-nine.

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• CinemaA Room with a ViewJames Ivory · 1985Cinema