Arthur Penn

Birthday: 27 September 1922, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Arthur Penn was born on September 27, 1922 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Bonnie and Clyde (1967), Little Big Man (1970) and The Miracle Worker (1962). He was married to Peggy Maurer. He died on September 28, 2010 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

[on Hurd Hatfield] America's least known great actor.

A society would be wise to pay attention to the people who do not belong if it wants to find out ......Show more »

A society would be wise to pay attention to the people who do not belong if it wants to find out ... where it's failing. Show less «

There hasn't been much of a market for what I can do. I'm not into outer space epics or youth pictur...Show more »

There hasn't been much of a market for what I can do. I'm not into outer space epics or youth pictures. Show less «

[on Bonnie and Clyde (1967)] I thought that if were going to show this (violence), we should SHOW it...Show more »

[on Bonnie and Clyde (1967)] I thought that if were going to show this (violence), we should SHOW it. We should show what it looks like when somebody gets shot. TV coverage of Vietnam was every bit, perhaps even more, bloody than what we were showing on film. Show less «

[1982 comment on Steven Spielberg] The movies have changed: there's now this wonderful storyteller S...Show more »

[1982 comment on Steven Spielberg] The movies have changed: there's now this wonderful storyteller Spielberg making benign movies that are enormously successful, while I'm known mainly for making movies about people shooting and cutting each other up. I love his work, but I could never make stuff like that. Show less «

[on acting] A look, a simple look, will do it.

[on Jean-Luc Godard, 1970] That kind of passion I can't deny, and, as I say, it is brilliantly and a...Show more »

[on Jean-Luc Godard, 1970] That kind of passion I can't deny, and, as I say, it is brilliantly and artfully done, but I want far more, somehow, in a film, although I can view a film like "Weekend" with awe at the skills, the downright boldness of the man, the outrageous boldness which is a quality I would give a good deal to have more of. But, oh, I do long for a moment when that man comes out from behind his dark glasses! Show less «

Lee Strasberg ruined an entire generation of actors with that sense memory crap.

Arthur Penn's FILMOGRAPHY

All as Actor (8) as Director (6)

109 min

Country: United States

Genre: Thriller, Horror, Mystery

Twelve years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into ...

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Arthur Penn

The Train

Dead of Winter

The Missouri Breaks

Little Big Man

Bonnie And Clyde

The Miracle Worker

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