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Elia Kazan Snapshot

First Name

Elia

Last Name

Kazan

Date of Birth

07 September 1909

Height

Build

Average

Eye Color

Brown - Light

Hair Color

Black

Place of Birth

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]

Star Sign

Virgo

Date of Death

28 September 2003

Place of Death

Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA

Cause of Death

(natural causes)

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Jewish

Claim to Fame

A Streetcar Named Desire

Gender

Male

Nationality

American

Wikipedia Text

Elia Kazan (IPA: September 7 , 1909, Kayseri � September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director and actor, described as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history". He also produced, and wrote screenplays and novels. Born in the Kayseri, Ottoman Empire to Greek parents, they emigrated to New York when he was four. After two years studying acting at Yale, he acted professionally for eight years before becoming a stage and film director. Kazan co-founded the influential Group Theater in 1932 and Actors Studio in 1947, and together with Lee Strasberg, introduced Method acting to the American stage and cinema as a new form of self-expression and psychological "realism". Having been an actor himself for eight years, he brought sensitivity and understanding of the acting process, and was later considered the ideal "actor's director". He himself acted in only a few films, including City for Conquest (1940), alongside James Cagney.

Role ID

Director, Producer, Actor/Actress

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Couple Profile

Elia Kazan, known for his creative stage direction, was born Elia Kazanjoglous in Istanbul in 1909 to Greek parents. He directed such Broadway plays as "A Streetcar Named Desire" and "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof". He directed the film version of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and many other films. He is a proponent of the method approach to acting, developed by Konstantin Stanislavski. Kazan received two best director Academy Awards, for the films Gentleman`s Agreement (1947) and On the Waterfront (1954). He has written many films about Greek immigrants, such as America, America (1963). These films are based on his novels. Kazan`s autobiography, published in 1988, is entitled "Elie Kazan: A Life".

Couple Profile Source

www.imdb.com/name/nm0001415/bio

Full Name at Birth

Elias Kazanjoglou

Page Display = 2 (Legacy)

Count - Awards

Friend

Marlon Brando, Joseph Mankiewicz, Clifford Odets, Arthur Miller, Karl Malden, Cheryl Crawford, Robert Lewis, Francis Lederer, Lee Strasberg, Sanford Meisner, Harold Clurman, Charles Feldman

Role ID

Writer

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