Frank Capra
Directing
Born May 18, 1897 · Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
Directed (61)
Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
2000
Rendezvous in Space
1964
Pocketful of Miracles
1961
A Hole in the Head
1959
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
1957
Hemo the Magnificent
1957
Our Mr. Sun
1956
The Fallbrook Story
1952
Here Comes the Groom
1951
Riding High
1950
State of the Union
1948
It's a Wonderful Life
1946
Here Is Germany
1945
Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945
War Comes to America
1945
Two Down and One to Go
1945
Your Job in Germany
1945
Our Job in Japan
1945
G.I. Journal
1944
Why We Fight: The Battle of China
1944
Arsenic and Old Lace
1944
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
1944
Tunisian Victory
1944
Attack in the Pacific
1944
Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
1943
Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
1943
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1943
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
1943
Why We Fight: Prelude to War
1942
Why We Fight Series
1942
Meet John Doe
1941
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1939
You Can't Take It with You
1938
Lost Horizon
1937
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1936
Broadway Bill
1934
It Happened One Night
1934
Lady for a Day
1933
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932
American Madness
1932
Forbidden
1932
Platinum Blonde
1931
The Miracle Woman
1931
Dirigible
1931
Rain or Shine
1930
Ladies of Leisure
1930
Flight
1929
The Donovan Affair
1929
The Younger Generation
1929
Submarine
1928
The Power of the Press
1928
Say It with Sables
1928
The Way of the Strong
1928
The Matinee Idol
1928
So This Is Love
1928
That Certain Thing
1928
For the Love of Mike
1927
Long Pants
1927
The Strong Man
1926
Fulta Fisher's Boarding House
1922
The Italian Warship Libia
1921
Acting (21)
Frank Capra: Mr. America
2023
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
2020
Hollywood's Second World War
2019
Five Came Back
2017
Hollywood sul Tevere
2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
2009
Why We Fight
2005
Frank Capra's American Dream
1997
The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
1990
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
1987
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
1985
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
1983
The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra
1973
Dear Mr. Gable
1968
The Screen Director
1951
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
1940
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
1938
Another Romance of Celluloid
1938
It Happened One Night
1934
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
1932
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
1919