“Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.”
1. Giant
2. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
3. A Place in the Sun
4. Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
5. National Velvet
6. Father of the Bride
7. Life With Father
8. Lassie Come Home
9. The Taming of the Shrew
10. Jane Eyre
11. Father’s Little Dividend
12. Suddenly, Last Summer
Famous Collaborations: Richard Burton, George Stevens, Montgomery Clift
1. Scarlet Street
2. Key Largo
3. Little Caesar
4. The Woman in the Window
5. Double Indemnity
6. The Stranger
7. The Sea Wolf
8. The Ten Commandments
9. The Whole Town’s Talking
10. The Cincinnati Kid
11. Our Vines have Tender Grapes
12. All My Sons
13. Five Star Final
14. Soylent Green
15. Barbary Coast
1. Some Like it Hot
2. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
3. The Seven Year Itch
4. All About Eve
5. The Asphalt Jungle
6. The Misfits
7. Bus Stop
8. How to Marry a Millionaire
9. Clash by Night
10. Don’t Bother to Knock
11. Niagara
12. Something’s Got to Give
Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
1. Judgment at Nuremberg
2. It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
3. Captains Courageous
4. Adam’s Rib
5. Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
6. Fury
7. Libeled Lady
8. Bad Day at Black Rock
9. Inherit the Wind
10. Northwest Passage
11. Father of the Bride
12. Woman of the Year
13. Pat and Mike
14. The Seventh Cross
15. Boys Town
16. San Francisco
17. Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
18, Edison, The Man
19. Desk Jet
20. How the West was Won
1. All About Eve
2. The Little Foxes
3. What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
4. Now, Voyager
5. Jezebel
6. The Letter
7. Petrified Forest
8. The Man Who Came to Dinner
9. It’s Love I’m After
10. Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte
11. Dark Victory
12. The Old Maid
13. All This, And Heaven Too
14. Old Acquaintance
15. The Whales of August
16. The Corn is Green
17. Mr. Skeffington
18. The Catered Affair
19. It This Our Life
20. Of Human Bondage
My passions were all gathered together like fingers that made a fist. Drive is considered aggression today; I knew it then as purpose.
1. Citizen Kane
2. Touch of Evil
3. The Third Man
4. The Magnificent Ambersons
5. Chimes at Midnight
6. The Lady from Shanghai
7. The Trial
8. The Stranger
9. Macbeth
10. Othello
11. Jane Eyre
12. The Long, Hot Summer
13. Compulsion
14. Catch-22
15. A Man For All Seaons
*Films as a director and actor
“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art”
1. The General
2. Steamboat Bill Jr.
3. Sherlock Jr.
4. Seven Chances
5. Our Hospitality
6. The Cameraman
7. The Navigator
8. Go West
9. Three Ages
10. College
11. Sunset Boulevard
12. Limelight
13. It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Not including his shorts
1. The Graduate
2. All The President’s Men
3. Kramer vs. Kramer
4. Tootsie
5. Midnight Cowboy
6. Papillon
7. Lenny
8. Rain Man
9. Straight Time
10. Marathon man
11. Straw Dogs
12. Kung Fu Panda
13. Stranger Than Fiction
14. Little Big Man
15. Finding Neverland
16. Wag the Dog
I grew up thinking a movie star had to be like Rock Hudson or Tab Hunter, certainly nobody in any way like me
1. From Here to Eternity
2. Sweet Smell of Success
3. The Leopard
4. Judgment at Nuremberg
5. The Killers
6. Elmer Gantry
7. Local Hero
8. Atlantic City
9. Criss Cross
10. Seven Days in May
11. The Train
12. The Crimson Pirate
13. Brute Force
14. The Professionals
15. Field of Dreams
16. The Flame and The Arrow
17, The Swimmer
18. Separate Tables
19. Birman of Alcatraz
20. Run Silent, Run Deep
21. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
I always try to improve, to find new ways of expressing myself, to keep looking for truth and originality.
1. Spartacus
2. Paths of Glory
3. Ace in the Hole
4. The Bad and The Beautiful
5. Champion
6. Out of the Past
7. Seven Days in May
8. Lonely are the Brave
9. A Letter to Three Wives
10. Detective Story
11. Lust for Life
12. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
13. The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
14. Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
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