Elia Kazan

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Tell Them Who You Are (FILM) May. 13, 2005

A Personal Journey with Martin Scor... (FILM) Nov. 23, 1996

Hello Actors Studio (FILM) Nov. 9, 1988

He Stands in a Desert Counting the ... (FILM) Feb. 1, 1986

The Arrangement (FILM) Nov. 1, 1969

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1995 Subject of documentary "Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey" (AMC), produced by long-time friend Julian Schlossberg

1989 Turned up in a surprising role as Captain of Fishing Boat in foreign film "Sis", directed by Omer Zulfi Livanelli

1988 Published memoirs "Elia Kazan: A Life"

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1995 Subject of documentary "Elia Kazan: A Director's Journey" (AMC), produced by long-time friend Julian Schlossberg

1989 Turned up in a surprising role as Captain of Fishing Boat in foreign film "Sis", directed by Omer Zulfi Livanelli

1988 Published memoirs "Elia Kazan: A Life"

1982 Subject of French documentary "Elia Kazan, Outsider"

1976 Directed last feature film to date, "The Last Tycoon", adapted from the unfinished F. Scott Fitzgerald novel by Harold Pinter

1972 Accused of union-busting on "The Visitors", a family-affair (son Chris wrote and produced), low-budget picture shot in and around Kazan's home turf of Newton, CT; film reportedly cost $150,000, of whi

1969 Bombed with "The Arrangement", film version of his own best-selling novel

1964 Directed Miller's "After the Fall" for inaugural season of Lincoln Center Repertory Theater; production starred second wife Barbara Loden playing a thinly disguised Marilyn Monroe

1963 Nominated for three Oscars--Best Director, Best Picture (as producer) and Best Screenplay--for "America, America", based on his uncle's life

1961 Helmed "Splendor in the Grass" from an Oscar-winning original screenplay by William Inge

1960 After trying for some time to write a screenplay about the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority), turned ideas over to Osborn who scripted "Wild River", directed by Kazan

1959 Appointed to develop and run the new Lincoln Center Repertory Theater

1959 Received acclaim for producing and directing "J.B.", Archibald MacLeish's retelling of the biblical story of Job

1957 Reunited with Schulberg for "A Face in the Crowd"

1956 Collaborated with Tennessee Williams on "Baby Doll"

1955 Staged the premiere of Tennessee Williams' "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" on Broadway; exercised much influence over the final draft

1955 Produced first film "East of Eden"; also directed; adapted by Paul Osborn from the Steinbeck novel; picked up fourth Oscar nomination as Best Director

1954 Took home second Oscar as director of "On the Waterfront", written by fellow "name-dropper" Budd Schulberg

1953 Directed overtly anti-Communist film, "Man on a Tightrope", starring Fredric March

1952 Directed "Viva Zapata!", written by John Steinbeck and starring Marlon Brando

1952 Testified before the House Un-American Activities Committee and named eight former colleagues (including Odets and actress Paula Strasberg) as dangerous Communist infiltrators

1951 Received Oscar nomination as Best Director for "A Streetcar Named Desire"

1950 "Panic in the Streets" marked his passage to a more ambitiously cinematic phase

1949 Helmed the Broadway production of Miller's "Death of a Salesman"; received second Tony Award

1947 Co-founded (with Cheryl Crawford, Robert Lewis and Lee Strasberg) Actors Studio

1947 Directed seminal Broadway productions of Arthur Miller's "All My Sons" (for which he won his first Tony) and Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire"

1947 Won Best Director Oscar on first-ever nomination for "Gentleman's Agreement"; film also won Best Picture

1945 Feature film directing debut with "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn"

1942 Broadway directing debut, Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth"

1941 Group Theater folded

1940 Feature film acting debut in "City for Conquest", playing a neighborhood tough-turned-gangster opposite James Cagney

1938 Stage directing debut with "Casey Jones"

1937 Directed short documentary "People of the Cumberland"

1937 Played Eddie Fusseli in the Group Theatre production of Odets' "Golden Boy"

1935 Appeared on Broadway in Group Theatre production of Clifford Odets' "Waiting for Lefty"

1934 Film acting debut in the short "Cafe Universal"

1934 Co-directed and acted in the experimental short film, "Pie in the Sky"; wife Molly Day Thatcher also directed a segment

1933 Broadway acting debut, "Men in White"