| Elia Kazan  AKA Elia Kazanjoglous
Born: 7-Sep-1909
Birthplace: Istanbul, Turkey
Died: 28-Sep-2003
Location of death: Manhattan, NY
Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Film Director Nationality: United States
Executive summary: A Streetcar Named Desire Co-founder of the Actor's Studio. Named names during the McCarthy era.
Father: George Kazanjoglous
Mother: Athena Sismanoglou
Wife: Molly Day Thacher (m. 1932, d. 1963, four children)
Wife: Barbara Loden (actress, b. 1932, m. 1967, d. 1980)
Wife: Frances Rudge (m. 1982)
Slept with: Marilyn Monroe
High School: New Rochelle High School, New Rochelle, NY (1926)
Administrator: Board of Directors, The Actors Studio
Greek Ancestry
Oscar for Best Director 1948 for Gentleman's Agreement
Oscar for Best Director 1955 for On the Waterfront
Kennedy Center Honor 1983
FILMOGRAPHY AS DIRECTOR
The Last Tycoon (15-Nov-1976)
The Visitors (2-Feb-1972)
The Arrangement (18-Nov-1969)
America, America (15-Dec-1963)
Splendor in the Grass (10-Oct-1961)
Wild River (26-Mar-1960)
A Face in the Crowd (28-May-1957)
Baby Doll (18-Dec-1956)
East of Eden (9-Mar-1955)
On the Waterfront (28-Jul-1954)
Man on a Tightrope (4-Jun-1953)
Viva Zapata! (7-Feb-1952)
A Streetcar Named Desire (18-Sep-1951)
Panic in the Streets (12-Jun-1950)
Pinky (29-Sep-1949)
Gentleman's Agreement (11-Nov-1947)
Boomerang! (28-Apr-1947)
The Sea of Grass (27-Feb-1947)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (28-Feb-1945)
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Blues in the Night (15-Nov-1941)
City for Conquest (21-Sep-1940)
Author of books:
Elia Kazan: A Life (1988, memoir)
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