Frank Capra

Directing · Born 1897-05-18 in Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia

Biography

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), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".

Filmography

• Why We Fight as Self (archive footage)
• Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) as Himself
• Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique as Self (archive footage)
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat
• Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 as Frank Capra
• Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• Frank Capra: Mr. America as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood's Second World War as Self (archive footage)
• The Screen Director as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
• It Happened One Night as Bus Singer (uncredited)