Lewis Milestone
Gender: Male
Born: 30th September 1895
Died: 25th September 1980
Nationality: United States of America, Russia
Movies: A Walk in the Sun, All Quiet on the Western Front, Anything Goes, Arch of Triumph, Betrayal, Betrayal, Edge of Darkness, Fine Manners, Hallelujah, I'm a Bum, Halls of Montezuma, Kangaroo, Les Misérables, Lucky Partners, Lucky Partners, Melba, Melba, Mutiny on the Bounty, My Life with Caroline, My Life with Caroline, New York Nights, No Minor Vices, No Minor Vices, Ocean's Eleven, Of Mice and Men, Our Russian Front, Paris in Spring, Paris in Spring, Pork Chop Hill, Rain, Seven Sinners, Tempest, The Captain Hates the Sea, The Caveman, The Front Page, The Garden of Eden, The General Died at Dawn, The Kid Brother, The New Klondike, The Night of Nights, The Night of Nights, The North Star, The Purple Heart, The Racket, The Red Pony, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, The Widow, They Who Dare, Two Arabian Knights
Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein) (September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-born American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page (1931 - nomination), The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1940), Ocean's 11 (1960), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
Milestone was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia, Imperial Russia (now Chişinău), Moldova to a family of Jewish heritage. He came to the United States in 1912 just prior to World War I. Milestone held a number of odd jobs before enlisting in the U.S. Signal Corps, where he worked as an assistant director on Army training films during the war. In 1919 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
After the war he went to Hollywood, where he first worked as a film cutter, and later as an assistant director. Howard Hughes promoted Milestone to director, and one of his early efforts, the 1928 film Two Arabian Knights, won him an Oscar in the first Academy Award ceremony. He also directed The Racket, an early gangster film, and later helped
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