Frank Capra

Biography

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".

Known For

The Dick Cavett Show

The American Film Institute Salute to ...

It Happened One Night

The Men Who Made the Movies

The Century of Icons

Five Came Back

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

Why We Fight

All Movies (21)

• Frank Capra: Mr. America2023 · as Self (archive footage)
• Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique2020 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood's Second World War2019 · as Self (archive footage)
• Five Came Back2017 · as Self (archive footage)
• Hollywood sul Tevere2009
• 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year2009 · as Self (archive footage)
• Why We Fight2005 · as Self (archive footage)
• Frank Capra's American Dream1997 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'1990 · as Self (archive footage)
• James Stewart: A Wonderful Life1987 · as Self (archive footage)
• George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey1985 · as Self
• Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage1983 · as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra1973 · as Self
• Dear Mr. Gable1968 · as Self
• The Screen Director1951 · as Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
• Cavalcade of the Academy Awards1940 · as Self
• Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 121938 · as Frank Capra
• Another Romance of Celluloid1938 · as Self (uncredited)
• It Happened One Night1934 · as Bus Singer (uncredited)
• Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)1932 · as Himself
• The Outcasts of Poker Flat1919

All TV Shows (4)

• The Century of Icons2022 · as Self (archive footage)
• The Men Who Made the Movies1973
• The American Film Institute Salute to ...1973 · as Self
• The Dick Cavett Show1968 · as Self - Guest