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Frank Capra and Barbara Stanwyck on set of Golden Boy. (1939)

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First Name

Frank

Last Name

Capra

Height

Build

Slim

Eye Color

Brown - Dark

Hair Color

Black

Place of Birth

Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy

Star Sign

Taurus

Date of Death

03 September 1991

Place of Death

La Qunita, CA

Cause of Death

heart attack

Ethnicity

White

Religion

Christian Science

Claim to Fame

It Happened One Night

Gender

Male

Nationality

Italian

Wikipedia Text

Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 � September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946).

Role ID

Director, Producer, Writer

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Couple Profile

Frank Capra (18 May 1897 – 3 September 1991) was an Academy Award winning Italian-American film director and a major creative force behind a number of highly popular films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It`s a Wonderful Life and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, among others. Born Francesco Rosario Capra in Bisacquino, Sicily, Capra moved to the United States in 1903 with his father Salvatore, his mother Rosaria Nicolosi and his siblings Giuseppa, Giuseppe, and Antonia. In California they met up with Benedetto Capra, (the oldest sibling) and settled in Los Angeles, California, where, in 1918, Frank Capra graduated from Throop Institute (later renamed the California Institute of Technology) with a B.S. degree in chemical engineering. On October 18, 1918, he joined the United States Army. While at the Presidio, he got Spanish influenza and was discharged on December 13. In 1920, he became a naturalized citizen of the United States, registering his name as Frank Russell Capra.

Full Name at Birth

Francesco Rosario Capra

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Friend

James Stewart, Gary Cooper, Robert Riskin, John Ford, Frank Sinatra, James Edward Grant, J. Edgar Hoover, William Wyler, George Stevens, Leo McCarey, Ben Hecht, Al Roscoe, Tim Whelan, Stan Imerman, Ralph Graves, Jo Swerling, Sidney Buchman

Date of Birth

1897-05-18

Age