Nicholas Ray
Film director
1911 – 1979
Who was Nicholas Ray?
Nicholas Ray was an American film director best known for the movie Rebel Without a Cause.
Ray is also appreciated by a smaller audience of cinephiles for a large number of narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963 including Bigger Than Life, Johnny Guitar, They Live by Night, and In a Lonely Place, as well as an experimental work produced throughout the 1970s titled We Can't Go Home Again, which was unfinished at the time of Ray's death from lung cancer. Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well-regarded. Ray was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "cinema is Nicholas Ray."
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- Born
- Aug 7, 1911
Galesville - Also known as
- Raymond Nicholas Kienzle
- Nick Ray
- Nick
- Spouses
- Gloria Grahame
(1948/06/01 - 1952/08/14) - Jean Evans
(1936 - 1940) - Betty Utley
(1958 - 1964) - Susan Ray
(1969 - 1979/06/16)
- Gloria Grahame
- Children
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of Chicago
- Lived in
- Wisconsin
- Died
- Jun 16, 1979
New York City
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on July 23, 2013
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