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Filmmaker · United States, England

Sidney Lumet

Died in 2011

Sidney Lumet was born in 1924, was a child actor in the Yiddish theatre of New York, then directed more than two hundred live television dramas before moving to the cinema. He made some forty films in fifty years, most of them in New York. In 1995 he set out his way of working in a book in which he explains that each lens tells the story differently. He died at home, in Manhattan, in 2011.

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