Director
Arthur Penn
September 27, 1922 · Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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.
Notable work
Often works with
Gene Hackman
3 titles together
Bonnie and Clyde, Night Moves, Target
Warren Beatty
2 titles together
Bonnie and Clyde, Mickey One
Faye Dunaway
2 titles together
Bonnie and Clyde, Little Big Man
Denver Pyle
2 titles together
Bonnie and Clyde, The Left Handed Gun
Jeff Corey
2 titles together
Little Big Man, Mickey One
Marlon Brando
2 titles together
The Chase, The Missouri Breaks
Full filmography · 30
Inside
Director
1996
Lumière & Company
Director
19956.3
The Portrait
Director
1993
Penn & Teller Get Killed
Director
19895.6
Dead of Winter
Director
19876
Target
Director
19855.9
Four Friends
Director
19816.8
The Missouri Breaks
Director
19766.5
Night Moves
Director
19756.7
Visions of Eight
as Narrator and Director
1973
Little Big Man
Director
19707.4
Alice's Restaurant
Director
19696.2