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person_profile-Jean Negulesco

Jean Negulesco Died at age: 93

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Jean Negulesco

Date of Birth:

Feb 26, 1900

Country of birth:

Romania

Died:

Jul 18, 1993

Biography of

Jean Negulesco

    From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

    Jean Negulesco (26 February 1900 – 18 July 1993) was a Romanian-born American film director and screenwriter.

    Born in Craiova, he attended Carol I High School. In 1915 he moved to Vienna, in 1919 to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris. In 1927 he went to New York City for an exhibition of his paintings, and settled there.

    In 1934 he entered the film industry, first as a sketch artist, then as an assistant producer, second unit director and in the late 1930s he became a director and screenwriter. He made a reputation at Warner Brothers by directing short subjects, particularly a series of band shorts featuring unusual camera angles and dramatic use of shadows and silhouettes.

    Negulesco's first feature film as director was Singapore Woman (1941). In 1948 he was nominated for an Academy Award for Directing for Johnny Belinda. In 1955, he won the BAFTA Award for Best Film for How to Marry a Millionaire. His 1959 movie The Best of Everything was on Entertainment Weekly's "Top 50 Cult Films of All-Time" list.

    From the late 1960s, he lived in Marbella, Spain. He died there at age 93, of heart failure.

    During his Hollywood career and in his 1984 autobiography, Negulesco claimed to have been born on 29 February 1900; he was apparently motivated to make this statement because birthdays on Leap Year Day are comparatively rare. In fact, 1900 was not a leap year, so there was no 29 February in 1900. Negulesco's autobiography (in which this claim appears) is appropriately titled Things I Did and Things I Think I Did.

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Filmography of

Jean Negulesco

Found 38 Movies in total

... 1970

... 1970

The Greatest Story Ever Told

Second Unit Director

... 1965

... 1964

Jessica

Director

... 1962

... 1959

... 1959

... 1958

... 1958

... 1957

... 1955

... 1955

... 1954

... 1954

... 1953

... 1953

Titanic

Director

... 1953

... 1952

... 1952

... 1952

... 1952

... 1951

The Mudlark

Director

... 1950

... 1950

... 1950

... 1949

Road House

Director

... 1948

... 1948

Deep Valley

Director

... 1947

Humoresque

Director

... 1947

... 1946

... 1946

... 1944

... 1944

... 1941

... 1940

The Sea Hawk

Second Unit Director

... 1940

Crash Donovan

Co-director

... 1936