Nicholas Ray

Nicholas Ray

Directing
🎂 1911-08-07 (67 years old at death)
✝️ 1979-06-16
📍 Galesville, Wisconsin, USA
👤 Male
🎬 16 Movies
🔗 IMDb
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 gener ...
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Filmography (16 movies)

Films to Die For
Films to Die For
2025
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Don't Expect Too Much
Don't Expect Too Much
2011
as Himself
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
2005
as Himself (uncredited)
James Dean: A Portrait
James Dean: A Portrait
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year
Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year
1990
 Lightning Over Water
Lightning Over Water
1980
as Self
Hair
Hair
1979
as The General
The American Friend
The American Friend
1977
as Derwatt
Profile of Nicholas Ray
Profile of Nicholas Ray
1977
as Self
James Dean: The First American Teenager
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
as Self
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975
as Self
Horizons
Horizons
1973
 We Can't Go Home Again
We Can't Go Home Again
1973
as Nick Ray
55 Days at Peking
55 Days at Peking
1963
as US Minister (uncredited)
Rebel Without a Cause
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
as Man in Last Shot (uncredited)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
as Bakery Clerk (uncredited)