Nicholas Ray
Birthday
1911/08/07
Day of death
1979/06/16 (67 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Galesville, Wisconsin, USA
Also know as
니콜라스 레이, Raymond Nicholas Kienzle
Biography
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 generatio...Read more
Acting
(1979) Hair
as The General
(1977) The American Friend
as Derwatt
(1980) Lightning Over Water
as Self
(2005) Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
as Himself (uncredited)
(1979) Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre
as ---
(1963) 55 Days at Peking
as US Minister (uncredited)
(2011) Don't Expect Too Much
as Himself
(1975) I'm a Stranger Here Myself
as Self
(1955) Rebel Without a Cause
as Man in Last Shot (uncredited)
(1945) A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
as Bakery Clerk (uncredited)
(1975) James Dean: The First American Teenager
as Self
(1977) Profile of Nicholas Ray
as Self
(1990) Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year
as ---
(1973) We Can't Go Home Again
as Nick Ray
(1973) Horizons
as ---
(1995) James Dean: A Portrait
as Self (archive footage)
(2025) Films to Die For
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)