OBS DIRECTOR PROFILES: STANLEY KUBRICK

Director Name: Stanley Kubrick

Director:
– Day of the Fight (1951)
– Flying Padre (1951)
– The Seafarers (1952)
– Fear and Desire (1953)
– Killer’s Kiss (1955)
– The Killing (1956)
– Paths of Glory (1957)
– Spartacus (1960)
– Lolita (1962)
– Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
– 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
– A Clockwork Orange (1971)
– Barry Lyndon (1975)
– The Shining (1980)
– Full Metal Jacket (1987)
– Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Producer:
– Fear and Desire (1953)
– Killer’s Kiss (1955)
– Paths of Glory (1957)
– Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
– 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
– A Clockwork Orange (1971)
– Barry Lyndon (1975)
– The Shining (1980)
– Full Metal Jacket (1987)
– Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Writer:
– Flying Padre (1951)
– Fear and Desire (1953)
– Killer’s Kiss (1955)
– The Killing (1956)
– Paths of Glory (1957)
– Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)
– 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
– A Clockwork Orange (1971)
– Barry Lyndon (1975)
– The Shining (1980)
– Full Metal Jacket (1987)
– Eyes Wide Shut (1999)

Short Bio and Review:
Stanley Kubrick born in New York on July 26, 1928, was an American director, writer, producer, and photographer of films, and lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career. Stanley’s father gave him a camera for his thirteenth birthday and Stanley became an avid photographer and by the age of seventeen he was offered a job as an apprentice photographer.

He had four films under his belt when he made his first UK film called Lolita in 1962, followed by 2001 Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange. He turned down the offer to direct the sequel to The Exorcist and instead made another horror film called The Shining. It is well known that Stephen King disliked the way Stanley adapted his story for the big screen.

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