Sidney Lumet
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA — Jun 25 1924• Died Apr 09 2011
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Sidney Lumet (June 25, 1924 – April 9, 2011) was an American director, producer and screenwriter with over 50 films to his name. He was nominated for the Academy Award as Best Director for 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976) and The Verdict (1982). He did not win an individual Academy Award, although he did receive an Academy Honorary Award and 14 of his films were nominated for various Oscars, such as Network, which was nominated for 10, winning 4. The Encyclopedia of Hollywood states that Lumet was one of the most prolific di…
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Sidney Lumet's Credits
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Studio One
Directing
American Masters
Self
Kraft Television Theatre
Directing
12 Angry Men
Directing
Film '72
Self
The United States Steel Hour
Directing
Playhouse 90
Directing
100 Centre Street
Directing
Producers' Showcase
Directing
Goodyear Television Playhouse
Directing
Moguls & Movie Stars: A History of Hollywood
Self
DuPont Show of the Month
Directing
Danger
Directing
You Are There
Directing
Murder on the Orient Express
Directing
Frontier
Directing
Dog Day Afternoon
Directing
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Directing
Network
Directing
NBC Sunday Showcase
Directing
Serpico
Directing
Play of the Week
Directing
The Alcoa Hour
Directing
The Elgin Hour
Directing
The Verdict
Directing
The Wiz
Directing
Daniel
Directing
The Manchurian Candidate
Political Pundit
Equus
Directing
Find Me Guilty
Directing
Q & A
Writing
Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Directing
Breakdown: 1975
Self - Director of Dog day afternoon (archive footage)
Guilty as Sin
Directing
Casey, Crime Photographer
Directing
Running on Empty
Directing
The Hill
Directing
Critical Care
Directing
The Best of Broadway
Directing
Fail Safe
Directing
Prince of the City
Writing
Family Business
Directing
Power
Directing
Night Falls on Manhattan
Writing
Mama
Directing
Gloria
Directing
The Group
Directing
The Deadly Affair
Production
Night of 100 Stars III
Self
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis
Directing
Garbo Talks
Directing
A Decade Under the Influence
Self
I Knew It Was You: Rediscovering John Cazale
Self
Deathtrap
Directing
Star Stage
Directing
You Must Remember This: The Warner Bros. Story
Self
The Offence
Directing
The Pawnbroker
Directing
The Morning After
Directing
Intimate Portrait: Sean Connery
Self
The Anderson Tapes
Directing
Play of the Week: Rashomon
Directing
A Stranger Among Us
Directing
Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Self
The Evolution of an American Filmmaker
Self
Fonda on Fonda
Self
Eugene O’Neill: A Documentary Film
Self
In Her Skin
Production
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots
Directing
Just Tell Me What You Want
Directing
Inside 'Serpico'
Self
Long Day's Journey Into Night
Directing
The Sea Gull
Directing
Strip Search
Directing
John Brown's Raid
Directing
New York at the Movies
Self
The Appointment
Directing
Tragedy in a Temporary Town
Directing
Revisiting 'Fail-Safe'
Self
Stage Struck
Directing
That Kind of Woman
Directing
Child's Play
Directing
The Education of Gore Vidal
Self
All the King's Men
Directing
Lovin' Molly
Directing
The Tramp and the Dictator
Self (uncredited)
Beyond the Time Barrier
Production
Three Plays by Tennessee Williams
Directing
The Making of 'Network'
Self
Funny
Self
Making 'Murder on the Orient-Express'
Self
The Iceman Cometh
Directing
Wiz on Down the Road
Self - Director
The Challenge
Directing
A View from the Bridge
Directing
One Third of a Nation
Joey Rogers
Bye Bye Braverman
Directing
The Seven Lively Arts
Directing
Inside: 'Dr. Strangelove or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb'
Self - Director, 'Fail Safe'
The Hiding Place
Directing
The Dybbuk
Directing
The 400 Million
Additional Voice (voice)
The Making of 'Tootsie'
Self
The Making of 'Dog Day Afternoon'
Self
By Sidney Lumet
Self
Hans Brinker or the Silver Skates
Directing
Dziga and His Brothers
Self
Directed by Sidney Lumet: How the Devil Was Made
Self
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt: Making '12 Angry Men'
Self
William Holden: The Golden Boy
Self
Anthony Perkins: A Life in the Shadows
Self
Prince of the City: The Real Story
Self
Serpico: From Real to Reel
Self
Mr. Broadway
Directing
The Sun... the Sand... the Hill
Self
One Step Further: Becoming Lumet
Self
CBS Television Workshop
Directing
Rachel, When the Lord
Directing