Nicholas Ray

Raymond Nicholas Kienzle was born in Wisconsin in 1911 and lost his father at sixteen. He spent a few months in the apprentice community of the architect Frank Lloyd Wright, worked for the New Deal theatre, collected rural music with Alan Lomax and entered cinema as an assistant to Elia Kazan. He directed some twenty films in sixteen years, fell out with the studios, and became for French critics a figure of the auteur filmmaker, Jean-Luc Godard writing in 1958 that cinema was Nicholas Ray. He died in New York in 1979.

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• CinemaRebel Without a CauseNicholas Ray · 1955Cinema