Nicholas Ray

Režisér, Herec, Scénárista, Producent

7. srpna 1911 — 16. června 1979 (67 let)
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle; 7 August 1911 – 16 June 1979) was an American film director best known for the films Rebel Without a Cause and Johnny Guitar. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers.

His best-known work is the 1955 film Rebel Without a Cause, starring James Dean. He is appreciated for many narrative features produced between 1947 and 1963, including They Live By Night (1948), In A Lonely Place (1950), Johnny Guitar (1954), Bigger Than Life (1956), and King of Kings (1961), 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.

During his lifetime, Ray was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for Rebel Without a Cause, twice for the Golden Lion, for Bigger Than Life (1956) and Bitter Victory (1957), and a Palme d'Or for The Savage Innocents (1960). Three of his films were ranked by Cahiers du Cinéma in their Annual Top 10 Lists.

Ray's compositions within the CinemaScope frame and use of color are particularly well regarded and he was an important influence on the French New Wave, with Jean-Luc Godard famously writing in a review of Bitter Victory, "... there is cinema. And the cinema is Nicholas Ray."

Filmy a seriály na Plexu

  • Pravdivý příběh Jesseho Jamese
    Pravdivý příběh Jesseho Jamese1957
  • We Can't Go Home Again
    We Can't Go Home Again1973

Známý pro

  • Rebel bez příčiny
    Rebel bez příčiny1955
  • Na opuštěném místě
    Na opuštěném místě1950
  • Johnny Guitar
    Johnny Guitar1954
  • Žijí v noci
    Žijí v noci1948
  • Silnější než život
    Silnější než život1956
  • Král králů
    Král králů1961
  • On Dangerous Ground
    On Dangerous Ground1951
  • 55 dní v Pekingu
    55 dní v Pekingu1963
  • Létající mariňáci
    Létající mariňáci1951
  • Vlasy
    Vlasy1979
  • Knock on Any Door
    Knock on Any Door1949
  • A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn1945
  • Americký přítel
    Americký přítel1977
  • Macao
    Macao1952
  • Party Girl
    Party Girl1958
  • The Lusty Men
    The Lusty Men1952
  • Born to Be Bad
    Born to Be Bad1950
  • Bitter Victory
    Bitter Victory1957
  • The Savage Innocents
    The Savage Innocents1960
  • A Woman's Secret
    A Woman's Secret1949

Filmografie

1979
1979
Hair · as The General
1977
The American Friend · as Derwatt
1974
Wet Dreams · as The Janitor (segment: The Janitor)
1973
1973
We Can't Go Home Again · as Nick RayNa Plexu
1966
That Woman · as Besucher Beim Sechs-Tage-Rennen
1963
55 Days at Peking · as Us Minister (uncredited)
1955
Rebel Without a Cause · as Man In Last Shot (uncredited)
1945
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn · as Bakery Clerk (uncredited)

2025
Films to Die For · as Self (archive Footage) (uncredited)
2025
2020
Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind · as Self - Filmmaker
2018
2015
A Paixão de JL · as Self
2011
Don't Expect Too Much · as Himself
2010
Two in the Wave · as Self
2006
Edge of Outside · as Self
2004
1995
James Dean: A Portrait · as Self - Director
1980
1980
1975
1974
1954
Camera Three · as Self

1964
Circus World · as Story
1955
1952
Androcles and the Lion · as Co-Director
1952
Macao · as Co-Director
1951
On Dangerous Ground · as Adaptation
1951
The Racket · as Additional Director
1949
Roseanna McCoy · as Co-Director
1948
They Live by Night · as Adaptation
1945
The Caribbean Mystery · as Dialogue
1945