Frank Capra
May 18, 1897 (127 years old) in Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
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), 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). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
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- 2023 · Frank Capra: Mr. America as Self (archive footage)
- 2022 · Le Siècle des icônes as Self (archive footage)
- 2020 · Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique as Self (archive footage)
- 2019 · Hollywood's Second World War as Self (archive footage)
- 2017 · Five Came Back as Self (archive footage)
- 2014 · And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
- 2009 · 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
- 2005 · Why We Fight as Self (archive footage)
- 1997 · Frank Capra's American Dream as Self (archive footage)
- 1991 · Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life': A Personal Remembrance as Self
- 1990 · The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life' as Self (archive footage)
- 1988 · James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
- 1985 · George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey as Self
- 1983 · Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1973 · The Men Who Made the Movies as
- 1973 · The American Film Institute Salute to ... as Self
- 1973 · The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra as Self
- 1968 · The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- 1968 · Dear Mr. Gable as Self
- 1951 · The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
- 1940 · Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self
- 1938 · Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 as Frank Capra
- 1938 · Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)
- 1934 · It Happened One Night as Bus Singer (uncredited)
- Future · Iconic Couples of Hollywood : Barbara Stanwyck & Robert Taylor as Himself
- 1932 · Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) as Himself
- 1919 · The Outcasts of Poker Flat as