I don’t think I could have made ‘On the Waterfront’ if I hadn’t done ‘Panic in the Streets.’ -- Director Elia Kazan ...

The "On the Waterfront" director received an Honorary Oscar for his career, decades after he testified at the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952.

About Elia Kazan Known for his creative stage direction, Elia Kazan was born Elias Kazantzoglou on September 7, 1909 in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (now Istanbul, Turkey). He influenced the films ...

In letters to the likes of Marlon Brando and Tennessee Williams, the director of On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire was shrewd about just about everything but himself. Ah, artists ...

Vivid, pungent and forceful, Elia Kazan’s letters immerse us in the life of a working director — and not just any director. Kazan was an important, influential figure in 20th-century American ...

Elia Kazan has been called the movies’ greatest director of American actors, but the 15 films in Fox’s Elia Kazan Collection make a compelling case that the description actually underestimates ...

Edited by Albert J. Devlin with Marlene J. Devlin. Knopf, $40 (672p) ISBN 978-0-307-26716-0 This collection of letters written by acclaimed director Elia Kazan chronicles his life from his start ...

Director Elia Kazan, whose triumphs included the original Broadway productions of "Death of a Salesman" and "A Streetcar Named Desire," and the Academy Award-winning film "On the Waterfront," died ...

The Kazan whom Foucheux conjures in the engrossing, fact-based "The Director: The Third Act of Elia Kazan" is a man convulsed and embittered by the convergence of his legacies.

They are worth rediscovering. Tom Moran is a freelance writer who lives in New York. “The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan” Edited by Albert J. Devlin with Marlene J. Devlin, Knopf, 650 pages, $40 ...

The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan edited by Albert J Devlin with Marlene J Devlin 650pp, Knopf, Telegraph offer price: £27 (PLUS £1.35 p&p) 0844 871 1515 (RRP £30, ebook £11.39).

Elia was thunderously effective. Everyone was sure we had picked him off a taxi to play the part. Kazan also acted in Odets's plays Paradise Lost (1935), Golden Boy (1937) and Night Music (1940 ...