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Nicholas Ray

Directing · Born August 7, 1911 · Galesville, Wisconsin, USA

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 generations of filmmakers.

Movies with Nicholas Ray

• Rebel Without a Cause (1955) — Man in Last Shot (uncredited)
• 55 Days at Peking (1963) — US Minister (uncredited)
• Hair (1979) — The General
• The American Friend (1977) — Andrew Pogash Derwatt
• James Dean: The First American Teenager (1975) — Self
• A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) — Bakery Clerk (uncredited)
• Films to Die For (2025) — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• James Dean: A Portrait (1995) — Self (archive footage)
• Johnny, weil Du Geburtstag hast (1977) — Self
• I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1975) — Self
• Lightning Over Water (1980) — Self
• We Can't Go Home Again (1973) — Nick Ray