Arthur Penn
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- September 27, 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Died
- September 28, 2010
- Movies
- 42
Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) was an American filmmaker, theatre director, and producer. He was a three-time Academy Award nominee for Best Director, and a Tony Award winner. Among other accolades, he was also nominated for a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe and two Primetime Emmy Awards.
Penn first achieved prominence as a theatre director, winning a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play for The Miracle Worker. He received similar acclaim and his first Oscar nomination for directing the 1962 film adaptation. His 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde is credited with initiating the New Hollywood movement, by infusing the biographical crime drama with a counterculture sensibility. He achieved similar critical and commercial success directing the comedy Alice's Restaurant (1969) and the revisionist Western Little Big Man (1970), which further reflected that ethos.
Penn’s other notable films included the neo-noir Night Moves (1975) and the revisionist Western The Missouri Breaks (1976). In the 1990s, he returned to stage and television direction and production, including an executive producer role for the police procedural series Law & Order.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2016 | Mise en scène with Arthur Penn (a conversation) | Self |
| 2010 | Godard Made in USA | Self |
| 2008 | Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde' | Self |
| 2006 | Filmmakers in Action | Self |
| 2006 | Edge of Outside | Self |
| 2005 | Filmmakers vs. Tycoons | Self |
| 2003 | Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood | Self |
| 2002 | Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick | Self |
| 2002 | Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film | Self (uncredited) |
| 2000 | In the Shadow of Hollywood | Self |
| 1998 | Searching for Arthur | Self |
| 1996 | Nichols and May: Take Two | Self |
| 1995 | Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film | |
| 1994 | Marlon Brando: The Wild One | Self |
| 1993 | Naked in New York | Self |
| 1992 | Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave | Self |
| 1988 | Hello Actors Studio | Self |
| 1973 | Visions of Eight | Narrator |
| 1970 | Arthur Penn: The Director | Self |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1996 | Inside | Director |
| 1995 | Lumière & Company | Director |
| 1993 | The Portrait | Director |
| 1989 | Penn & Teller Get Killed | Director, Producer |
| 1987 | Dead of Winter | Director |
| 1985 | Target | Director |
| 1981 | Four Friends | Director, Producer |
| 1976 | The Missouri Breaks | Director |
| 1975 | Night Moves | Director |
| 1973 | Visions of Eight | Director |
| 1970 | Little Big Man | Director |
| 1969 | Alice's Restaurant | Screenplay, Director |
| 1967 | Bonnie and Clyde | Director |
| 1966 | The Chase | Director |
| 1965 | Mickey One | Producer, Director |
| 1962 | The Miracle Worker | Director |
| 1958 | The Left Handed Gun | Director |
| 1958 | Portrait of a Murderer | Director |
| 1957 | The Dark Side of the Earth | Director |
| 1957 | Where's Charley? | Director |
| 1957 | Invitation to a Gunfighter | Director |
| 1957 | The Miracle Worker | Director |
| 1955 | The Battler | Director |
Data from TMDB. This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB.