Born November 10, 1914· Scranton, Pennsylvania, USA
† Died April 16, 1995
30Filmography★ 6.5Average rating
Emerging from a Scranton upbringing, he earned a Yale scholarship and immersed himself in left-leaning theatre circles before abandoning academia for New York’s experimental stage, later directing an amateur troupe in Montreal and marrying actress Fanny Shurack. Relocating to Hollywood in 1940, he briefly joined Orson Welles’s Mercury Theatre, observed the original cut of The Magnificent Ambersons…
