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Sep 27, 1922 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States Died on 28 Sep 2010 (aged 88)
American producer and director
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About Arthur Penn
- Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 – September 28, 2010) was an American director and producer of film, television and theater.
- Closely associated with the American New Wave, Penn directed critically acclaimed films throughout the 1960s such as the drama The Chase (1966), the biographical crime film Bonnie and Clyde (1967) and the comedy Alice's Restaurant (1969).
- He also got attention for his revisionist Western Little Big Man (1970). By the mid-1970s his films were received with much less enthusiasm.
- In the 1990s he returned to stage and television direction and production, including an executive producer role for the crime series Law & Order.
- By his death in 2010, he had been nominated for three Academy Awards for Best Director, a BAFTA, a Golden Globe, two Emmys, and two Directors Guild of America Awards.
- He was the recipient of several honorary accolades, including a Honorary Golden Bear, a Tony Award, and an Akira Kurosawa Award from the San Francisco International Film Festival.
