Nicholas Ray
Directing
18
Acting Credits
26
Directed
Biography
Nicholas Ray (born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle; 7 August 1911 – 16 June 1979) was an American film director best known for the films Rebel Without a Cause and Johnny Guitar. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generatio...
Known For
Filmography
Films to Die For
2025
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
Don't Expect Too Much
2011
as Himself
Rebel Without a Cause: Defiant Innocents
2005
as Self (uncredited)
James Dean: A Portrait
1995
as Self (archive footage)
Vanity Fair: Jeanette Starion the Pet of the Year
1990
Lightning Over Water
1980
as Self
Hair
1979
as The General
Nicholas Ray: Especially for Pierre
1979
The American Friend
1977
as Andrew Pogash Derwatt
Profile of Nicholas Ray
1977
as Self
Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast
1977
as Self
I'm a Stranger Here Myself
1975
as Self
James Dean: The First American Teenager
1975
as Self
We Can't Go Home Again
1973
as Nick Ray
Horizons
1973
55 Days at Peking
1963
as US Minister (uncredited)
Rebel Without a Cause
1955
as Man in Last Shot (uncredited)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
1945
as Bakery Clerk (uncredited)