Highest rated as cast or director
Frank Capra's 8 titles from the 1930s have a median Balasaur Score of 80, led by It Happened One Night (85) and You Can't Take It with You (82), against 75 for those from the 1940s.
Biography
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario 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 consider him the "American Dream personified".
Directed 59
1960s
- 1964
Rendezvous in Space
Director
- 1961
1950s
- 1959
- 1957
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Director
Hemo the Magnificent
Director
- 1956
The Bell System Science Series
Director
- 1952
The Fallbrook Story
Director
- 1951
Here Comes the Groom
Director
- 1950
Riding High
Director
1940s
- 1948
- 1946
- 1945
Here Is Germany
Director
Know Your Enemy: Japan
Director
War Comes to America
Director
Two Down and One to Go
Director
Your Job in Germany
Director
Our Job in Japan
Director
- 1944
Why We Fight: The Battle of China
Director
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Director
Tunisian Victory
Director
Attack in the Pacific
Director
- 1943
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Director
Why We Fight: The Nazis Strike
Director
- 1942
- 1941
1930s
- 1939
- 1938
- 1937
- 1936
- 1934
- 1933
Lady for a Day
Director
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Director
- 1932
American Madness
Director
- 1931
The Miracle Woman
Director
- 1930
1920s
- 1929
Flight
Director
The Donovan Affair
Director
- 1928
Submarine
Director
Say It with Sables
Director
The Way of the Strong
Director
The Matinee Idol
Director
So This Is Love
Director
That Certain Thing
Director
- 1927
For the Love of Mike
Director
Long Pants
Director
- 1926
The Strong Man
Director
- 1922
Fulta Fisher's Boarding House
Director
- 1921
The Italian Warship Libia
Director
Produced 32
1960s
- 1961
1950s
- 1959
- 1957
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Producer
Hemo the Magnificent
Producer
- 1956
- 1952
The Fallbrook Story
Producer
- 1951
Here Comes the Groom
Producer
- 1950
Riding High
Producer
1940s
- 1948
- 1946
- 1945
Know Your Enemy: Japan
Producer
Your Job in Germany
Producer
- 1944
Attack! The Battle for New Britain
Producer
The Negro Soldier
Producer
- 1943
Why We Fight: Divide and Conquer
Producer
- 1941
1930s
- 1938
- 1937
- 1936
- 1934
- 1933
Lady for a Day
Producer
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Producer
- 1932
American Madness
Producer
- 1931
The Miracle Woman
Producer
- 1930
1920s
- 1928
The Matinee Idol
Producer
That Certain Thing
Producer
Wrote 29
1950s
- 1957
The Strange Case of the Cosmic Rays
Writer
Hemo the Magnificent
Writer
- 1956
- 1951
1940s
- 1946
- 1945
Know Your Enemy: Japan
Writer
1930s
- 1932
1920s
- 1929
Flight
Dialogue
- 1928
The Burglar
Writer
Say It with Sables
Story
The Swim Princess
Writer
That Certain Thing
Screenplay
- 1927
Fiddlesticks
Story
His First Flame
Story
- 1926
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
Writer
Saturday Afternoon
Story
- 1925
Cold Turkey
Scenario Writer
Lucky Stars
Story
The Iron Nag
Writer
Sneezing Beezers
Writer
Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Writer
Good Morning, Nurse
Story
Boobs in the Wood
Writer
The Wild Goose Chaser
Writer
- 1924
All Night Long
Writer
Riders of the Purple Cows
Writer
Little Robinson Corkscrew
Writer
Jubilo, Jr.
Scenario Writer
- 1921
The Italian Warship Libia
Writer
Acted in 5
1970s
- 1973
The Men Who Made the Movies
TV
1930s
- 1938
Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
Frank Capra
- 1934
1910s
- 1919
The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Movie
Other crew 1
1940s
- 1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Supervisor of Production Resources
Appearances21
2020s
- 2023
Frank Capra: Mr. America
Self (archive footage)
- 2022
The Century of Icons
Self (archive footage) · 1 episode
- 2020
Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
Self (archive footage)
2010s
- 2019
Hollywood's Second World War
Self (archive footage)
- 2017
Five Came Back
Self (archive footage)
2000s
- 2009
1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage)
- 2005
Why We Fight
Self (archive footage)
1990s
- 1997
Frank Capra's American Dream
Self (archive footage)
- 1990
The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
Self (archive footage)
1980s
- 1987
James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage)
- 1985
- 1983
Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
- 1980
Hollywood
Self · 2 episodes
1960s
- 1968
Dear Mr. Gable
Self
1950s
- 1951
The Screen Director
Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited)
1940s
- 1940
Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self
1930s
- 1938
Another Romance of Celluloid
Self (uncredited)
- 1932
Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
Himself