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)
2009
- 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 ... (Producer)
1959
- A Hole in the Head ... (Director)
1958
- The Unchained Goddess ... (Writer)
1957
- The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays ... (Writer)
- Hemo the Magnificent ... (Director)
1956
- Our Mr. Sun ... (Director)
- The Bell System Science Series ... (Director)
1952
- The Fallbrook Story ... (Producer)
1951
- Here Comes the Groom ... (Director)
- Westward the Women ... (Story)
- 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 ... (Producer)
1945
- Know Your Enemy: Japan ... (Director)
- War Comes to America ... (Director)
- Here Is Germany ... (Director)
- Our Job in Japan ... (Director)
- Your Job in Germany ... (Director)
- Two Down and One to Go ... (Director)
1944
- Arsenic and Old Lace ... (Director)
- The Negro Soldier ... (Producer)
- Tunisian Victory ... (Director)
- G.I. Journal ... (Producer)
- Attack! The Battle for New Britain ... (Director)
- Why We Fight: The Battle of China ... (Director)
- Attack in the Pacific ... (Director)
1943
- Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike ... (Director)
- Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer ... (Director)
- Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia ... (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
- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 as Frank Capra
- You Can't Take It with You ... (Director)
- Another Romance of Celluloid as Self (uncredited)
1937
- Lost Horizon ... (Director)
1936
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ... (Director)
1934
- Broadway Bill ... (Director)
- It Happened One Night as Bus Singer (uncredited)
1933
- Lady for a Day ... (Director)
1932
- American Madness ... (Producer)
- The Bitter Tea of General Yen ... (Director)
- Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) as Himself
- Forbidden ... (Writer)
1931
- Dirigible ... (Director)
- Platinum Blonde ... (Producer)
- The Miracle Woman ... (Director)
1930
- Rain or Shine ... (Director)
- Ladies of Leisure ... (Director)
1929
- Flight ... (Director)
- The Younger Generation ... (Director)
- The Donovan Affair ... (Director)
1928
- That Certain Thing ... (Director)
- The Power of the Press ... (Director)
- The Swim Princess ... (Writer)
- Submarine ... (Director)
- So This Is Love ... (Director)
- The Way of the Strong ... (Director)
- The Matinee Idol ... (Director)
- Say It with Sables ... (Director)
- The Burglar ... (Writer)
1927
- Fiddlesticks ... (Story)
- His First Flame ... (Story)
- For the Love of Mike ... (Director)
- Long Pants ... (Director)
1926
- Saturday Afternoon ... (Story)
- The Strong Man ... (Director)
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp ... (Writer)
1925
- Lucky Stars ... (Story)
- Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies ... (Writer)
- The Iron Nag ... (Writer)
- The Marriage Circus ... (Writer)
- Cold Turkey ... (Scenario Writer)
- The Wild Goose Chaser ... (Writer)
- Good Morning, Nurse ... (Story)
- Boobs in the Wood ... (Writer)
- Sneezing Beezers ... (Writer)
1924
- Jubilo, Jr. ... (Scenario Writer)
- Little Robinson Corkscrew ... (Writer)
- Riders of the Purple Cows ... (Writer)
- All Night Long ... (Writer)
- 3 Days to Live ... (Editor)
1922
- Fulta Fisher's Boarding House ... (Director)
1921
- The Italian Warship Libia ... (Director)