biography
pronunciation:
[koobrik]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1928–99)
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| biography:
| Screen writer, film producer, and director, born in New York City, USA. He started as a staff photographer with Look magazine, before making his directorial debut in documentaries in 1950. He moved to features, and after directing Spartacus (1960), went to the UK, where he made a series of unusual features in several film genres: Lolita (1962), black comedy in Dr Strangelove (1964), psychedelic science fiction in 2001: a Space Odyssey (1965), urban violence in A Clockwork Orange, scripted by Anthony Burgess (1971, withdrawn from circulation in Britain at the director's request, but released there in 2000), a period piece in Barry Lyndon (1975), and a horror film, The Shining (1980). Later productions were infrequent, but included the Vietnam saga, Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999). His screenplay for an epic film, Napoleon, was published on the Internet in 2000, and later withdrawn by the executors of the Kubrick estate. |
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