Lumet, Sidney

Lumet, Sidney

(born June 25, 1924, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) U.S. television and film director. He worked as a child actor in the Yiddish theatre and on Broadway. After serving in World War II, he directed plays and taught acting. He directed more than 200 television dramas for CBS (1951–57), including Playhouse 90 and Studio One productions, before making his debut as a movie director with the acclaimed Twelve Angry Men (1957). He went on to establish himself as a master of psychological dramas with such films as The Fugitive Kind (1960), Fail Safe (1964), Serpico (1973), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976), The Verdict (1982), Night Falls on Manhattan (1997), and Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007).

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Lumet, Sidney (1924–  ) movie director; born in Philadelphia. Originally a child actor, then a television director, he made his first feature film in 1957—Twelve Angry Men. Known for making movies that combine popular elements with serious themes, his greatest commercial triumph was Network (1976).

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Lumet, Sidney 

Born June 25, 1924, in Philadelphia. American motion-picture director.

Lumet performed as a child in radio and on the stage in New York. He studied at Columbia University. He was one of the most famous American television directors in the mid-1950’s. In 1957 he wrote a screenplay based on the teleplay of R. Rose’s Twelve Angry Men, a major achievement of the progressive movement in American cinema. His other well-known films include The Pawnbroker (1964), The Hill (1965, produced in Great Britain), Fail-Safe (1965), The Group (1967), Bye-bye, Braverman (1968), and A. P. Chekhov’s The Seagull (1969).