Frank Capra
Born: 1897-05-18 in Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
Died: 1991-09-03
Known For: Directing
Biography
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario 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".
Filmography
2023
- Frank Capra: Mr. America as Self (archive footage)
2022
- The Century of Icons 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)
- Five Came Back as Self (archive footage)
2009
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
- Hollywood sul Tevere
2005
- Why We Fight as Self (archive footage)
2000
1997
- Frank Capra's American Dream as Self (archive footage)
1990
- The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life' as Self (archive footage)
1987
- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life as Self (archive footage)
1985
1983
- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1980
- Hollywood as Self
1973
1968
- The Dick Cavett Show as Self - Guest
- Dear Mr. Gable as Self
1964
- Rendezvous in Space ... (Director)
1961
- Pocketful of Miracles ... (Director)
1959
- A Hole in the Head ... (Director)
1958
- The Unchained Goddess ... (Writer)
1957
- Hemo the Magnificent ... (Director)
- The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays ... (Director)
1956
- The Bell System Science Series ... (Director)
- Our Mr. Sun ... (Director)
1952
- The Fallbrook Story ... (Producer)
1951
- Westward the Women ... (Story)
- Here Comes the Groom ... (Director)
- The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
1950
- Riding High ... (Director)
1948
- State of the Union ... (Director)
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life ... (Director)
1945
- Know Your Enemy: Japan ... (Director)
- Our Job in Japan ... (Director)
- War Comes to America ... (Director)
- Your Job in Germany ... (Producer)
- Two Down and One to Go ... (Director)
- Here Is Germany ... (Director)
1944
- Arsenic and Old Lace ... (Director)
- Why We Fight: The Battle of China ... (Director)
- The Negro Soldier ... (Producer)
- Attack! The Battle for New Britain ... (Director)
- Tunisian Victory ... (Director)
- Attack in the Pacific ... (Director)
- G.I. Journal ... (Producer)
1943
- Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia ... (Director)
- Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer ... (Director)
- Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike ... (Director)
- Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain ... (Director)
1942
- Why We Fight: Prelude to War ... (Director)
1941
- Meet John Doe ... (Director)
1940
- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards as Self
1939
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington ... (Director)
1938
- You Can't Take It with You ... (Director)
- Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 as Frank Capra
1937
- Lost Horizon ... (Director)
1936
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ... (Director)
1934
- It Happened One Night as Bus Singer (uncredited)
- Broadway Bill ... (Director)
1933
- Lady for a Day ... (Director)
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen ... (Director)
1932
- Forbidden ... (Director)
- American Madness ... (Director)
- Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) as Himself
1931
- Dirigible ... (Director)
- Platinum Blonde ... (Director)
- The Miracle Woman ... (Director)
1930
- Ladies of Leisure ... (Director)
- Rain or Shine ... (Director)
1929
- The Younger Generation ... (Director)
- Flight ... (Director)
- The Donovan Affair ... (Director)
1928
- So This Is Love ... (Director)
- The Power of the Press ... (Director)
- The Way of the Strong ... (Director)
- The Matinee Idol ... (Director)
- The Swim Princess ... (Writer)
- Say It with Sables ... (Director)
- Submarine ... (Director)
- That Certain Thing ... (Director)
- The Burglar ... (Writer)
1927
- For the Love of Mike ... (Director)
- His First Flame ... (Story)
- Long Pants ... (Director)
- Fiddlesticks ... (Story)
1926
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp ... (Writer)
- The Strong Man ... (Director)
- Saturday Afternoon ... (Story)
1925
- Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies ... (Writer)
- Boobs in the Wood ... (Writer)
- Good Morning, Nurse ... (Story)
- The Wild Goose Chaser ... (Writer)
- Cold Turkey ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Iron Nag ... (Writer)
- Sneezing Beezers ... (Writer)
- The Marriage Circus ... (Writer)
- Lucky Stars ... (Story)
1924
- Riders of the Purple Cows ... (Writer)
- Little Robinson Corkscrew ... (Writer)
- All Night Long ... (Writer)
- 3 Days to Live ... (Writer)
- Jubilo, Jr. ... (Scenario Writer)
1922
- Fulta Fisher's Boarding House ... (Director)
1921
- The Italian Warship Libia ... (Director)