Arthur Penn

Biography

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…

Directed

1. Bonnie and Clyde (1967) — Director
2. Little Big Man (1970) — Director
3. Night Moves (1975) — Director
4. The Miracle Worker (1962) — Director
5. The Chase (1966) — Director
6. The Missouri Breaks (1976) — Director
7. Dead of Winter (1987) — Director
8. The Left Handed Gun (1958) — Director
9. Target (1985) — Director
10. Alice's Restaurant (1969) — Director
11. Lumière & Company (1995) — Director
12. Mickey One (1965) — Director
13. Four Friends (1981) — Director
14. Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989) — Director
15. Visions of Eight (1973) — Director
16. Inside (1996) — Director
17. The Philco Television Playhouse (1948) — Director
18. Goodyear Television Playhouse (1951) — Director
19. Producers' Showcase (1954) — Director
20. The Portrait (1993) — Director
21. 100 Centre Street (2001) — Director
22. Playwrights '56 (1955) — Director
23. Portrait of a Murderer (1958) — Director
24. The Battler (1955) — Director
25. Gulf Playhouse (1952) — Director
26. The Dark Side of the Earth (1957) — Director
27. The Miracle Worker (1957) — Director
28. Invitation to a Gunfighter (1957) — Director
29. Where's Charley? (1957) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood (2003) — Self
2. Inside the Actors Studio (1994) — Self
3. BeastMaster (1999)
4. American Masters (1986) — Self
5. Naked in New York (1993) — Self
6. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
7. Visions of Eight (1973) — Narrator
8. Filmmakers vs. Tycoons (2005) — Self
9. Tonight Starring Jack Paar (1957) — Self
10. Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' (2008) — Self
11. Filmmakers in Action (2006) — Self
12. Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick (2002) — Self
13. Edge of Outside (2006) — Self
14. Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave (1992) — Self
15. Hello Actors Studio (1988) — Self
16. Marlon Brando: The Wild One (1994) — Self
17. Nichols and May: Take Two (1996) — Self
18. Spécial cinéma (1974) — Self
19. Arthur Penn: The Director (1970) — Self
20. In the Shadow of Hollywood (2000) — Self
21. Searching for Arthur (1998) — Self
22. Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film (2002) — Self (uncredited)
23. Mise en scène with Arthur Penn (a conversation) (2016) — Self
24. Godard Made in USA (2010) — Self
25. Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film (1995)