Actor
Frank Capra
Biography

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 consid ...

Known For
Acting
2023 -- Frank Capra: Mr. America | Self (archive footage)
2020 -- Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique | Self (archive footage)
2019 -- Hollywood's Second World War | Self (archive footage)
2017 -- Five Came Back | Self (archive footage)
2014 -- And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage)
2009 -- 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year | Self (archive footage)
2005 -- Why We Fight | Self (archive footage)
1997 -- Frank Capra's American Dream | Self (archive footage)
1991 -- Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life': A Personal Remembrance | Self
1990 -- The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life' | Self (archive footage)
1988 -- James Stewart: A Wonderful Life | Self (archive footage)
1985 -- George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey | Self
1983 -- Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage | Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1973 -- The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra | Self
1968 -- Dear Mr. Gable | Self
1951 -- The Screen Director | Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
1940 -- Cavalcade of the Academy Awards | Self
1938 -- Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12 | Frank Capra
1938 -- Another Romance of Celluloid | Self (uncredited)
1934 -- It Happened One Night | Bus Singer (uncredited)
1932 -- Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2) | Himself
1919 -- The Outcasts of Poker Flat |
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