Sidney Lumet
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Image:Sydneylumet.jpg Sidney Lumet (born June 25 1924) is an American film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and Network (1976). He won an Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, for his "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture".
Lumet was an actor before he was a director. His parents were Yiddish theater actor Baruch Lumet and dancer Eugenia Wermus. Lumet made his stage debut at New York's Yiddish Art Theater at the age of four and acted in Yiddish theater and on Broadway into the 1950s. Graduate of the Professional Children's School.
Selected films
- 12 Angry Men (1957)
- Stagestruck (1958)
- The Fugitive Kind (1959)
- Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
- The Pawnbroker (1964)
- Fail-Safe (1964)
- The Hill (1965)
- The Group (1966)
- The Deadly Affair (1967)
- Serpico (1973)
- Lovin' Molly (1974)
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
- Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
- Network (1976)
- Equus (1977)
- The Wiz (1978)
- Prince of the City (1981)
- The Verdict (1982)
- Daniel (1983)
- Garbo Talks (1984)
- The Morning After (1986)
- Running on Empty (1988)
- Guilty as Sin (1993)
- Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
- Gloria (1999)
- The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenmann (2000)
- Strip Search (2004)
- Find Me Guilty (2005)
External links
References
- Sidney Lumet on GreatPosters.com, accessed August 8, 2005.
- Fresh Air interview from 2006 (audio)Template:Theat-stub
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