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Arthur Penn

Arthur Penn

Birthday: 1922-09-27 | Place of Birth: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer. He was a three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director, and a Tony Award winner. Among other accolades, he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards. Penn first achieved prominence as a theatre director, winning a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for The Miracle Worker. He received similar acclaim and his first Oscar nomination for directing the 1962 film adaptation. His 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde is credited with initiating the New Hollywood movement, by infusing the biographical crime drama with a counterculture sensibility. He achieved similar critical and commercial success directing the comedy Alice's Restaurant (1969) and the revisionist Western Little Big Man (1970), which further reflected that ethos. Penn’s other notable films included the neo-noir Night Moves (1975) and the revisionist Western The Missouri Breaks (1976). In the 1990s, he returned to stage and television direction and production, including an executive producer role for the police procedural series Law & Order. Description above from the Wikipedia article Arthur Penn, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2010
Godard Made in USA

as    Self

2006
Edge of Outside

as    Self

2005
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

as    Self

2002
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

as    Self (uncredited)

2000
1998
Searching for Arthur

as    Self

1996
Nichols and May: Take Two

as    Self

1994
1988
Hello Actors Studio

as    Self

1973
Visions of Eight

as    Narrator

1970
Arthur Penn: The Director

as    Self