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
- Hollywood sul Tevere
- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year as Self (archive footage)
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)
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)
- The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
- Here Comes the Groom ... (Director)
1950
- Riding High ... (Director)
1948
- State of the Union ... (Director)
1946
- It's a Wonderful Life ... (Director)
1945
- Know Your Enemy: Japan ... (Director)
- War Comes to America ... (Director)
- Your Job in Germany ... (Producer)
- Our Job in Japan ... (Director)
- Here Is Germany ... (Director)
- Two Down and One to Go ... (Director)
1944
- Arsenic and Old Lace ... (Director)
- The Negro Soldier ... (Producer)
- Attack! The Battle for New Britain ... (Director)
- Why We Fight: The Battle of China ... (Director)
- Tunisian Victory ... (Director)
- G.I. Journal ... (Producer)
- Attack in the Pacific ... (Director)
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)
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 as Frank Capra
- Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)
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)
1932
- Forbidden ... (Director)
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen ... (Director)
- American Madness ... (Director)
- Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) as Himself
1931
- The Miracle Woman ... (Director)
- Dirigible ... (Director)
- Platinum Blonde ... (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 Matinee Idol ... (Director)
- The Way of the Strong ... (Director)
- Submarine ... (Director)
- The Power of the Press ... (Director)
- The Swim Princess ... (Writer)
- That Certain Thing ... (Director)
- Say It with Sables ... (Director)
- The Burglar ... (Writer)
1927
- Long Pants ... (Director)
- His First Flame ... (Story)
- Fiddlesticks ... (Story)
- For the Love of Mike ... (Director)
1926
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp ... (Writer)
- The Strong Man ... (Director)
- Saturday Afternoon ... (Story)
1925
- Good Morning, Nurse ... (Story)
- Cold Turkey ... (Scenario Writer)
- Boobs in the Wood ... (Writer)
- Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies ... (Writer)
- Lucky Stars ... (Story)
- The Marriage Circus ... (Writer)
- Sneezing Beezers ... (Writer)
- The Wild Goose Chaser ... (Writer)
- The Iron Nag ... (Writer)
1924
- All Night Long ... (Writer)
- Riders of the Purple Cows ... (Writer)
- Little Robinson Corkscrew ... (Writer)
- Jubilo, Jr. ... (Scenario Writer)
- 3 Days to Live ... (Writer)
1922
- Fulta Fisher's Boarding House ... (Director)
1921
- The Italian Warship Libia ... (Director)