Arthur Penn
Known for DirectingBorn 1922-09-27 — died 2010-09-28Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
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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.
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Known for
Naked in New York
1993 · as Self
Filmmakers in Action
2006 · as Self
Hello Actors Studio
1988 · as Self
Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film
2002 · as Self (uncredited)
Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick
2002 · as Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
2003 · as Self
Filmmakers vs. Tycoons
2005 · as Self
Visions of Eight
1973 · as Narrator
Marlon Brando: The Wild One
1994 · as Self
Edge of Outside
2006 · as Self
Godard Made in USA
2010 · as Self
Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave
1992 · as Self
Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'
2008 · as Self
Nichols and May: Take Two
1996 · as Self
Arthur Penn: The Director
1970 · as Self
In the Shadow of Hollywood
2000 · as Self
Mise en scène with Arthur Penn (a conversation)
2016 · as Self
Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film
1995