Charles Eames

Biography

Charles Eames was an American designer, architect and film maker. In creative partnership with his spouse, Ray Kaiser Eames, he was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the field of architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing and the photographic arts.

Directed

1. Powers of Ten (1977) — Director
2. Bread (1953) — Director
3. The Information Machine (1957) — Director
4. A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe (1968) — Director
5. House: After Five Years of Living (1955) — Director
6. Day of the Dead (1957) — Director
7. Toccata for Toy Trains (1957) — Director
8. Symmetry (1961) — Director
9. The Fabulous Fifties (1960) — Director
10. Parade, or Here They Come Down Our Street (1952) — Director
11. The Expanding Airport (1958) — Director
12. Tops (1969) — Director
13. 2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers (1961) — Director
14. Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem (1961) — Director
15. Blacktop (1952) — Director
16. Something About Functions (1961) — Director
17. Eratosthenes (1961) — Director
18. The Black Ships (1970) — Director
19. IBM at the Fair (1965) — Director
20. A Communications Primer (1953) — Director
21. Nicholas Copernicus (1973) — Director
22. Exponents: A Study in Generalization (1973) — Director
23. Alpha (1972) — Director
24. A Computer Glossary (1968) — Director
25. The Fiberglass Chairs: Something of How They Get the Way They Are (1970) — Director
26. IBM Mathematics Peep Show (1961) — Director
27. Computer Perspective (1972) — Director
28. Cezanne (1978) — Director
29. An Introduction to Feedback (1960) — Director
30. The Smithsonian Institution (1965) — Director
31. Design Q & A (1972) — Director
32. Banana Leaf (1972) — Director
33. Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India (1955) — Director
34. The Singular Case of the Plural Green Mustache (1965) — Director
35. Cable: The Immediate Future (1972) — Director
36. Atlas: A Sketch of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire (1976) — Director
37. The World of Franklin and Jefferson (1973) — Director
38. The World of Franklin & Jefferson: Authors of Independence and Architects of the American Experiment (1973) — Director
39. The World of Franklin and Jefferson: The Opening Of An Exhibition (1976) — Director
40. The Image of the City (1969) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Eames: The Architect and the Painter (2011) — Self (archive footage)
2. Toccata for Toy Trains (1957) — Narrator
3. Design Q & A (1972) — Self