Frank Capra

Birthday: 1897-05-18
Deathday: 1991-09-03
Birthplace: Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
Gender: Male

Frank Russell 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".

Credits

Year Title
2000-01-01 Why We Fight: World War II: The Battle of China / War Comes to America
1964-09-10 Rendezvous in Space
1961-12-18 Pocketful of Miracles
1959-09-15 A Hole in the Head
1957-10-25 The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
1957-03-20 Hemo the Magnificent
1956-11-19 Our Mr. Sun
1952-01-01 The Fallbrook Story
1951-09-20 Here Comes the Groom
1950-04-12 Riding High
1948-04-30 State of the Union
1946-12-20 It's a Wonderful Life
1945-12-31 Here Is Germany
1945-08-09 Know Your Enemy: Japan
1945-06-14 War Comes to America
1945-05-10 Two Down and One to Go
1945-04-15 Your Job in Germany
1945-02-08 Our Job in Japan
1944-11-01 Why We Fight: The Battle of China
1944-09-01 Arsenic and Old Lace
1944-03-23 Tunisian Victory
1944-01-01 Attack in the Pacific
1943-11-13 Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
1943-10-10 Why We Fight: The Battle of Britain
1943-01-02 Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
1943-01-01 Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
1942-05-27 Prelude to War
1941-03-14 Meet John Doe
1939-10-19 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
1938-09-01 You Can't Take It with You
1937-03-03 Lost Horizon
1936-04-09 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1934-11-30 Broadway Bill
1934-02-22 It Happened One Night
1933-09-13 Lady for a Day
1932-12-25 The Bitter Tea of General Yen
1932-08-15 American Madness
1932-01-08 Forbidden
1931-10-31 Platinum Blonde
1931-07-17 The Miracle Woman
1931-02-01 Dirigible
1930-08-15 Rain or Shine
1930-04-05 Ladies of Leisure
1929-09-14 Flight
1929-04-11 The Donovan Affair
1929-03-04 The Younger Generation
1928-10-30 The Power of the Press
1928-09-12 The Burglar
1928-08-28 Submarine
1928-07-13 Say It with Sables
1928-06-18 The Way of the Strong
1928-03-14 The Matinee Idol
1928-02-06 So This Is Love
1928-01-01 That Certain Thing
1927-07-31 For the Love of Mike
1927-03-26 Long Pants
1926-11-19 The Strong Man
1922-04-01 Fulta Fisher's Boarding House
1921-12-03 The Italian Warship Libia