Stanley Kubrick Biography
Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer frequently cited as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in cinematic history. He is known for directing such acclaimed features as Dr. Strangelove, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, ‘The Shining’ and ‘Full Metal Jacket.
His films are mostly adaptations of novels or short stories and they cover a wide range of genres and are noted for their realism, dark humor, unique cinematography, extensive set designs, and evocative use of music.
Stanley Kubrick Age|Nationality
He was born on 26 July 1928 and died on 7 March 1999 when he was 70 years old. Being born in New York City, he holds the American nationality and is of white ethnicity.
Stanley Kubrick Spouse|Divorced|Is He Married or Divorced?
Stanley married three times. His first union was to Toba Etta Metz, his high-school sweetheart, a keen caricaturist on 29 May 1948 when he was only 19 years old. The two had attended Taft High School together and had lived in the same apartment block on Shakespeare Avenue. They lived together in Greenwich Village and divorced three years later in 1951.
In 1952, he met his second wife, Ruth Sobotka, the Austrian-born dancer and theatrical designer and they wed in 1954. They lived together in New York City’s East Village beginning in 1952 and moved to Hollywood in July 1955, where she played a brief part as a ballet dancer in Kubrick’s film, Killer’s Kiss (1955). The following year she was an art director for his film, The Killing (1956). The two, however, divorced in 1957.
In early 1957, during the production of Paths of Glory in Munich, he met and romanced his third wife, Christine Harlan, the German actress who played a small though memorable role in the film. Kubrick married Harlan in 1958, and the couple remained together for 40 years, until his death in 1999.
Stanley Kubrick Children
Their union with Christine Harlan produced two of Kubrick’s three daughters: Anya Renata and Vivian Vanessa. Kubrick also had a stepdaughter, Katharina, Harlan’s daughter from a prior relationship.
In 1959 they settled into a home at 316 South Camden Drive in Beverly Hills with Harlan’s daughter, Katherina, aged six. They also lived in New York City, during which time Christiane studied art at the Art Students League of New York, later becoming an independent artist.
The couple moved to the United Kingdom in 1961 to make Lolita, and Kubrick hired Peter Sellers to star in his next film, Dr. Strangelove. Sellers was unable to leave the UK, so Kubrick made Britain his permanent home thereafter. The move was quite convenient to Kubrick, since he shunned the Hollywood system and its publicity machine, and he and Christiane had become alarmed with the increase in violence in New York City.
Stanley Kubrick Family
Stanley was born to Jacques Kubrick(father), and Sadie (Perveler) Kubrick(mother). His father was a doctor graduating from the New York Homeopathic Medical College in 1927 while his mother, the child of Austrian-Jewish immigrants was a housewife. He grew up in the Bronx, New York with her younger sister, Barbara Mary Kubrick.
He was born in the Lying-In Hospital at 307 Second Avenue in Manhattan, New York City, to a Jewish family. During Stanley’s birth, the Kubricks lived in an apartment at 2160 Clinton Avenue in the Bronx.
His parents had been married in a Jewish ceremony, but Kubrick did not have a religious upbringing, and would later profess an atheistic view of the universe. By the district standards of the West Bronx, the family was fairly wealthy, his father earning a good income as a physician.
Stanley Kubrick Movies
– A Clockwork Orange
– 2001: A Space Odyssey
– Eyes Wide Shut
– Dr. Strangelove
– Full Metal Jacket
– Barry Lyndon
– Paths of Glory
– Fear and Desire
– Lolita 1962
– Spartacus 1960
– The Killing 1956
– Killer’s Kiss
– Day of the Fight
– The Seafarers
– Flying Padre
– The Last of Robin Hood
Stanley Kubrick Education
He attended William Howard Taft High School from 1941 till 1945. One of his classmates was Edith Gormezano, later known as the singer Eydie Gormé. Although he joined the school’s photographic club, which permitted him to photograph the school’s events in their magazine, Stanley was a mediocre student, with a meager 67-grade average.
In school, he was introverted and shy, Kubrick had a low attendance record and often skipped school to watch double-feature films. In 1945, he graduated but his poor grades, combined with the demand for college admissions from soldiers returning from the Second World War, eliminated hope of higher education.
Later in life, Kubrick spoke disdainfully of his education and of contemporary American schooling as a whole, maintaining that schools were ineffective in stimulating critical thinking and student interest.
His father was disappointed in his son’s failure to achieve excellence in school, of which he felt Stanley was fully capable. Jack also encouraged Stanley to read from the former’s library at home, while at the same time permitting Stanley to take up photography as a serious hobby.
Stanley Kubrick Career
In the 1950s, Stanley began to explore the art of filmmaking. His first films were documentary shorts financed by friends and relatives. His first feature, the 1953 military drama Fear and Desire, was made independently of a studio an uncommon practice for the time.
In addition to directing, he acted as cinematographer, editor, and soundman, early into his filmmaking career. He would also write and produce later on. From 1957 till 1999, Kubrick made 10 feature films, his early releases from that period including the acclaimed Spartacus in 1960; Lolita in 1962, and Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb in 1964.
Kubrick went on to win further acclaim with the dystopian A Clockwork Orange in 1971; the costumer drama Barry Lyndon in 1975, The Shining in 1980, and the war drama Full Metal Jacket in 1987 starring R. Lee Ermey, Adam Baldwin, and Vincent D’Onofrio.
Stanley Kubrick Final Years
Stanley slowly gained a reputation as a recluse after moving to England in the early 1960s. He gradually reduced the time he spent anywhere other than on a studio set or in his home office, refused most interview requests and was rarely photographed, never formally.
Kubrick even kept to a schedule of working at night and sleeping during the day, which allowed him to keep North American time. During this time, he had his sister, Mary, tape Yankees and NFL games, particularly those of the New York Giants, which were airmailed to him.
Stanley Kubrick Net worth
Some sources say that he has an estimated net worth of approximately $ 20 Million dollars as of 2019. It is not yet proven yet but will be updated. Detailed information about his property, cars, houses, luxuries, the monthly/yearly salary are also not known and will be updated as soon as it is confirmed and reviewed.
Stanley Kubrick Quotes
– If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.
– The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
– The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to.
– A filmmaker has almost the same freedom as a novelist has when he buys himself some paper.
– Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
– When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.
– If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.
– You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
– I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
– It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
Stanley Kubrick Death
Stanley died on 7 March 1999 in his sleep after suffering from a heart attack. This was six days after screening a final cut of Eyes Wide Shut for his family and the stars.
His funeral was held five days later at his home estate at Childwickbury Manor, with only close friends and family in attendance, totaling approximately 100 people. The media were kept a mile away outside the entrance gate.
Alexander-Walker, who attended the funeral, describes it as a family farewell, … almost like an English picnic, with cellists, clarinetists, and singers providing song and music from many of his favorite classical compositions. The Jewish prayer of mourning, Kaddish was recited. A few of his obituaries mentioned his Jewish background.
Of those who gave eulogies were Terry Semel, Jan Harlan, Steven Spielberg, Nicole Kidman, and Tom Cruise. He was buried next to his favorite tree on the estate. In her book dedicated to Kubrick, his wife Christiane included one of his favorite quotations of Oscar Wilde: “The tragedy of old age is not that one is old, but that one is young.”
Stanley Kubrick Ambitions
Stanley’s early ambitions were to become a writer or play baseball. “I started out thinking if I couldn’t play for the Yankees, I’d be a novelist,” he later remembered. Seeking creative endeavors rather than to focus on his academic status, Kubrick played the drums in his high school’s jazz band; its vocalist later became known as Eydie Gorme.
He also displayed early promise as a photographer for the school paper, and when he was 16 years old, began selling his photos to Look magazine. He was hired for the staff of the magazine one year later.
When not traveling for Look, he spent most of his evenings at the Museum of Modern Art. Kubrick applied to several colleges towards the end of his high school career but was turned down for admission by all of them.
Stanley Kubrick Trivia
After his death, Spielberg revealed that the two of them were friends that frequently communicated discretely about the art of filmmaking; both had a large degree of mutual respect for each other’s work. “AI” was frequently discussed; Kubrick even suggested that Spielberg should direct it as it was more his type of project. Based on this relationship, Spielberg took over as the film’s director and completed the last Kubrick project.
While Kubrick is generally known as one of the great American filmmakers of the 20th century, the Museum of the City of New York sought to remind fans of his early work as a photographer with an exhibit, Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs. The exhibit was set to run from May through September 2018, in order to display more than 120 works from his time at Look, including a section that showed clear connections between his early photographs and later films.
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