I don’t think I could have made ‘On the Waterfront’ if I hadn’t done ‘Panic in the Streets.’ -- Director Elia Kazan ...

The "On the Waterfront" director received an Honorary Oscar for his career, decades after he testified at the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1952.

Ah, artists! They’re not all self-absorbed, self-justifying, passionate geniuses, but if you’re curious about that model you can’t do better than Elia Kazan, the theater and film director ...

Elia Kazan, who was born in Constantinople, Turkey, came into his own in the 1940s, staging plays by the pre-eminent writers of the day, from Tennessee Williams to Thornton Wilder to Miller, and ...

Director Elia Kazan ‘s “The Visitors” was barely noticed when it was released in 1972, and it hasn’t had many opportunities for reappraisal since. While several of Kazan’s other movies that were ...

To hear his filmmaker son tell it, the late, great Elia Kazan had uncommon lifelong appreciation for three of his own special projects: the iconic labor-union hymn On the Waterfront (1954), the acute ...

Elia Kazanjoglous (Elia Kazan), film and theatre director, producer, actor and writer: born Constantinople 7 September 1909; married 1932 Molly Day Thacher (died 1963; one son, two daughters, and ...

Vivid, pungent and forceful, Elia Kazan’s letters immerse us in the life of a working director — and not just any director. Kazan was an important, influential figure in 20th-century American ...

The Selected Letters of Elia Kazan edited by Albert J Devlin with Marlene J Devlin 650pp, Knopf, Telegraph offer price: £27 (PLUS £1.35 p&p) 0844 871 1515 (RRP £30, ebook £11.39).