Biography
Sidney Lumet (1924, Philadelphia – 2011, New York) started out as an actor in a Jewish theatre alongside his father. He began directing theatre in the 1950s, when he worked on the first of his more than 100 television shows. He first gained fame with the claustrophobic drama 12 Angry Men (1957), which clearly reflects the typical characteristics of his directing style. Although he was fond of suspense and detective genres, he was drawn more towards ordinary protagonists and unremarkable stories and aimed for realistic portrayals, with a focus on the smallest detail and on the characters' psychological depth. In terms of style, his thematically diverse range of films share an attempt to show that seemingly simple things are in reality extremely complicated and worthy of thought. Many of his films received numerous awards and nominations; a few examples include The Hill (1965), Serpico (1973), Network (1976), and The Verdict (1982).
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Director
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2001 |
100 Centre Street |
1959 |
Play of the Week |
Sunday Showcase |
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1957 |
The DuPont Show of the Month |
The Seven Lively Arts |
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1956 |
Playhouse 90 |
1955 |
Frontier |
The Alcoa Hour |
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1954 |
Producers' Showcase |
The Best of Broadway |
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The Elgin Hour |
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1953 |
The United States Steel Hour |
You Are There |
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1952 |
CBS Television Workshop |
Omnibus |
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1951 |
Crime Photographer |
Goodyear Television Playhouse |
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1950 |
Danger |
1948 |
Studio One |
1947 |
Kraft Television Theatre |
Documentaries | |
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1970 |
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis |
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2004 |
Rachel, quand du seigneur |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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2006 |
Find Me Guilty |
1990 |
Q & A |
1981 |
Prince of the City |
Actor
Movies | |
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2004 |
The Manchurian Candidate |
1939 |
...One Third of a Nation... |
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1950 |
Danger |
Documentaries | |
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2022 |
The Last Movie Stars (series) |
2019 |
The Directors (series) - a.f. |
Sidney Lumet - a.f. (S03E02) |
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2017 |
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs - a.f. |
2016 |
Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to Off the Wall - a.f. |
2015 |
By Sidney Lumet |
2014 |
And the Oscar Goes To... (TV movie) - a.f. |
2013 |
What Is Cinema? - a.f. |
2009 |
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale |
2004 |
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust |
Making 'Murder on the Orient Express' |
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2003 |
A Decade Under the Influence |
Spike Lee's '25th Hour': The Evolution of an American Filmmaker |
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2002 |
New York at the Movies (TV movie) |
Sean Connery, an Intimate Portrait |
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The Tramp and the Dictator |
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2000 |
Inside the Making of Dr. Strangelove |
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe' |
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1998 |
NY TV: By the People Who Made It - Part I & II |
1997 |
Sean Connery Close Up |
1990 |
Listen Up: The Lives of Quincy Jones |
1989 |
William Holden: The Golden Boy |
1988 |
Funny |
1985 |
American Masters (series) |
1975 |
Lumet: Film Maker |
1939 |
The 400 Million |
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1978 |
Wiz on Down the Road |
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