Elia Kazan (September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was an American film and theatre director and producer.

He was innate Elia Kazanjoglou inside Istanbul in 1909 to Greco-Armenian parents. He became one of a virtually all seeable members of the Hollywood elite. Kazan's theater credits involved directing The Glass Menagerie (1944) and A Streetcar Named Desire, (1951) the two plays that mass produced Tennessee Williams a theatrical & literary inflict, and All My Sons (1947) and Death of a Salesman (1949) a plays which did tremendously the equivalent for Arthur Miller.

His history as a director is scarcely less noteworthy. He won both Academy Awards for Best Director, for ''Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and On the Waterfront'' (1954). He elicited remarkable performances from either actors like Marlon Brando and Oscar winners Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden and, ironically, Kim Hunter (who would sense a results of the shitlist herself shortly fallowing) in the film version of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire, James Dean and Oscar winner Jo Van Fleet in East of Eden, and Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd.

His later on career was clouded, but, per fact that he was one of a pack Hollywood leading light world health organization "named names" prior to a House Un-American Activities Committee during the postwar "Red Scare", but a few others world health organization known as list involved Jerome Robbins, Sterling Hayden, Burl Ives and Lela Rogers, Ginger's mother, a correct-wing Republican & previous Marine.

Kazan got briefly been the member of the Communist Party in his youth, when working when the portion of a radical theatre company in the 1930s. The committed liberal, Kazan felt betrayed per atrocities of Stalin and the ideologic rigidity of the Stalinists. He was personally offended once Person official tried to intervene in the artistic decisions of his theater class action.

When Kazan late explained, he felt that it was in the better interest of the united states & his have liberal beliefs to cooperate using McCarthy's anti-communist efforts sequentially to counter Communists within Hollywood world health organization were co-opting a liberal agenda. U.s. dramatist Lillian Hellman and Arthur Miller publicly and bitterly disagreed by owning Kazan's abstract thought.

One of people he known as, noted actor John Garfield, with whom he experienced worked in the Class action Theatre company, was investigated by HUAC, which failed to uncover any corroborating evidence of Communist Person membership. Garfield was still blacklisted by Hollywood, ending a promising career, & died the next month, aged 39 suddenly heart attack.

Around 1999, Kazan received an honorary Oscar for lifetime accomplishment. He was accompanied by Martin Scorcese and Robert DeNiro who warned the audience sotto voce does'nt to misbehave. When numbers of inside Hollywood felt that enough instance got passed that it was appropriate to bury a hatchet & recognize Kazan's neat artistic accomplishments, a guide was withal controversial. the select few footage from either a 1999 Oscars suggests that fully 3-quarters of people present in the audience gave him a standing ovation (including Lynn Redgrave, Karl Malden, Meryl Streep and the super liberal Warren Beatty), while a camera showed human actors like Nick Nolte, Amy Madigan and Holly Hunter sitting on their paws & refusing to applaud. Others like Steven Spielberg and Sherry Lansing applauded politely however did non rise.

Elia Kazan died of natural is the causal agent of at his range in Future York City. He was 94 years old.