Frank Capra
Directing · Director · Producer · Screenplay
Born May 18, 1897 · Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
Active 1919–1991 · Awards: National Medal of Arts, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Director, Academy Award for Best Director, AFI Life Achievement Award, Golden Plate Award, Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit
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),…
Filmography
It's a Wonderful Life (1946) - Director · Screenplay · ProducerIt Happened One Night (1934) - Bus Singer (uncredited) · Producer · DirectorMr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) - DirectorArsenic and Old Lace (1944) - Director · ProducerYou Can't Take It with You (1938) - Director · ProducerMr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) - Director · ProducerMeet John Doe (1941) - Director · ProducerPocketful of Miracles (1961) - Producer · DirectorLost Horizon (1937) - Director · ProducerLady for a Day (1933) - Director · ProducerWestward the Women (1951) - StoryState of the Union (1948) - Director · ProducerThe Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932) - Director · ProducerWhy We Fight: Prelude to War (1942) - DirectorAmerican Madness (1932) - Director · ProducerPlatinum Blonde (1931) - Producer · DirectorThe Miracle Woman (1931) - Director · ProducerWhy We Fight: The Battle of Russia (1943) - Director · ProducerA Hole in the Head (1959) - Producer · DirectorForbidden (1932) - Director · Producer · WriterLittle Robinson Corkscrew (1924) - WriterRiders of the Purple Cows (1924) - WriterWar Comes to America (1945) - DirectorWhy We Fight: The Nazis Strike (1943) - Director