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His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean.
Nicholas Ray. Director: Rebel Without a Cause. Nicholas Ray was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in 1911, in small-town Galesville, Wisconsin, to Lena (Toppen) and Raymond Joseph Kienzle, a contractor and builder. He was of German and Norwegian descent. Ray's early experience with film came with some radio broadcasting in high school.
Jun 12, 2024 · Nicholas Ray (born August 7, 1911, Galesville, Wisconsin, U.S.—died June 16, 1979, New York, New York) was an American motion-picture writer and director whose reputation as one of the most expressive and distinctive filmmakers of the late 1940s and the ’50s is grounded on a clutch of stylish heartfelt films that frequently focused on alienated ...
Jun 30, 2017 · James Dean, Johnny Guitar and Film Noir: The 7 Essential Films of Nicholas Ray. The Hollywood rebel wasn't just ahead of his own time, he was ahead ours. In just eight years, he made seven of...
Mar 16, 2003 · It seems clear, though, nearly 24 years after his death, that a full life of Nicholas Ray might make a remarkable American portrait -- the moments of glory, the years of chaos; the aching...
Jun 16, 2010 · When Nicholas Ray, the pathbreaking filmmaker and director of “Rebel Without a Cause,” died from lung cancer in 1979, he left behind a substantial collection of artifacts that had...
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle Jr., August 7, 1911 – June 16, 1979) was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. 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 ...
