Frank Capra

Known for DirectingBorn 1897-05-18Died 1991-09-03Bisacquino, 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".Read more

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Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique

Dear Mr. Gable

Little Robinson Corkscrew

Riders of the Purple Cows

Attack in the Pacific

The Marriage Circus

Sneezing Beezers

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies

Hollywood's Second World War

Five Came Back

It's a Wonderful Life

Hemo the Magnificent

The Way of the Strong

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year

Why We Fight

The Iron Nag

Cold Turkey

Good Morning, Nurse

3 Days to Live

All Night Long

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

The Century of Icons

Our Mr. Sun

It Happened One Night

Arsenic and Old Lace

Pocketful of Miracles

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

You Can't Take It with You

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage

The Donovan Affair

Meet John Doe

The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra

Fiddlesticks

War Comes to America

The Unchained Goddess

Westward the Women

The Screen Director

Boobs in the Wood

The Dick Cavett Show

Frank Capra's American Dream

Here Is Germany

Attack! The Battle for New Britain

Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer

Lady for a Day

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life

Lost Horizon

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia

Two Down and One to Go