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Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) (September 30 1895 - September 25 1980) was an Academy Award-winning motion picture
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights
Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor....
 (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The General Died at Dawn
The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 in film film that tells the story of a mercenary who meets a beautiful girl while trying to keep arms from getting to a vicious warlord in war-torn China....
 (1936), Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937 in literature, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant worker ranch workers during the Great Depression in California....
 (1940), Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven (1960 film)

Ocean's Eleven is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford....
 (1960), and Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 in film film starring Marlon Brando, based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall....
 (1962).

Milestone was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia
Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
, Imperial Russia (now Chisinau
Chisinau

Chisinau , is the capital city and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial center and is located in the center of the country, on the river B?c River....
), Moldova
Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
). He came to the United States
United States

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 just prior to World War I
World War I

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Lewis Milestone (born Lev Milstein) (September 30 1895 - September 25 1980) was an Academy Award-winning motion picture
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
 director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights
Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor....
 (1927), All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), The General Died at Dawn
The General Died at Dawn

The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 in film film that tells the story of a mercenary who meets a beautiful girl while trying to keep arms from getting to a vicious warlord in war-torn China....
 (1936), Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men

Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937 in literature, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant worker ranch workers during the Great Depression in California....
 (1940), Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven (1960 film)

Ocean's Eleven is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford....
 (1960), and Mutiny on the Bounty
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)

Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 in film film starring Marlon Brando, based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall....
 (1962).

Milestone was born in Kishinev, Bessarabia
Bessarabia

Bessarabia is a historical term for the geographic entity in Eastern Europe bounded by the Dniester River on the east and the Prut River on the west....
, Imperial Russia (now Chisinau
Chisinau

Chisinau , is the capital city and largest municipality of Moldova. It is also its main industrial and commercial center and is located in the center of the country, on the river B?c River....
), Moldova
Moldova

Moldova , officially the Republic of Moldova is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe, located between Romania to the west and Ukraine to the north, east and south....
). He came to the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 just prior to World War I
World War I

World War I, or the First World War , was a global military conflict which involved the Great powers, organized into two opposing military alliances: the Allies of World War I and the Central Powers....
. 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
Howard Hughes

Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. was an American aviator, industrialist, film producer and director, philanthropist, and one of the wealthiest people in the world....
 promoted Milestone to director, and one of his early efforts, the 1928 film Two Arabian Knights
Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor....
, won him an Oscar
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 in the first Academy Award ceremony. He also directed The Racket
The Racket

The Racket is an Academy Award-nominated 1928 in film Cinema of the United States crime film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E....
, an early gangster film, and later helped Hughes direct scenes for his aviation saga Hell's Angels
Hell's Angels (film)

Hell's Angels is a Cinema of the United States epic film war film, directed by Howard Hughes and starring Jean Harlow, Ben Lyon, and James Hall ....
 (for which he never received credit).

Milestone won his second Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 for All Quiet on the Western Front, a harrowing screen adaptation of the antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque
Erich Maria Remarque

Erich Maria Remarque was a German literature....
. His next, The Front Page
The Front Page

The Front Page was a hit Broadway theatre comedy, written by one-time Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and first produced in 1928....
, brought the Ben Hecht
Ben Hecht

Ben Hecht , , was an United States screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, and novelist. Called "the Shakespeare of Hollywood", he received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some 70 films and as a prolific storyteller, authored 35 books and created some of the most entertaining screenplays or p...
/Charles MacArthur
Charles MacArthur

Charles Gordon MacArthur was an American playwright and screenwriter. The son of a Baptist minister, he is best known for his plays with Ben Hecht, Ladies and Gentlemen , Twentieth Century and the frequently filmed The Front Page, which was based in part on MacArthur's experiences at the City News Bureau of Chicago....
 play to the screen. It earned him another Oscar nomination. His work during the 1930s and 1940s was always easily identifiable by its lighting and imaginative use of fluid camera. He worked extensively in television
Television

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 from the mid 1950s.

Lewis Milestone's final request before he died in 1980 was for Universal Studios to restore All Quiet on the Western Front to its original length. That request would eventually be granted nearly two decades later by Universal and other film preservation companies, and this restored version is what is widely seen today on television and home video. Milestone is interred in the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery

The Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery is located at 1218 Glendon Avenue in the Westwood, Los Angeles, California area of Los Angeles, California....
 in Los Angeles
Los Αngeles

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.

Academy Award nominations

  • 1940 Nominated Of Mice and Men
    Of Mice and Men

    Of Mice and Men is a novella written by Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author John Steinbeck. Published in 1937 in literature, it tells the tragic story of George Milton and Lennie Small, two displaced migrant worker ranch workers during the Great Depression in California....
  • 1931 Nominated The Front Page
    The Front Page

    The Front Page was a hit Broadway theatre comedy, written by one-time Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and first produced in 1928....
  • 1930 Won All Quiet on the Western Front
  • 1929 Won Two Arabian Knights
    Two Arabian Knights

    Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor....


Filmography as a director

  • 1963 – "Arrest and Trial
    Arrest and Trial

    Arrest and Trial is a 90-minute United States Police procedural that aired one season on American Broadcasting Company. The show was set in Los Angeles, California and aired Sundays from 8:30-10 p.m....
    " (television
    Television

    Television is a widely used telecommunication mass-media for transmitting and receiving moving , either monochrome or color, usually accompanied by sound....
    ) series
  • 1962 – Mutiny on the Bounty
    Mutiny on the Bounty (1962 film)

    Mutiny on the Bounty is a 1962 in film film starring Marlon Brando, based on the novel Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall....
  • 1960 – Ocean's Eleven
    Ocean's Eleven (1960 film)

    Ocean's Eleven is a 1960 heist film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring five Rat Packers: Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., Joey Bishop and Peter Lawford....
  • 1959 – Pork Chop Hill
    Pork Chop Hill

    Pork Chop Hill , directed by Lewis Milestone, is a Korean War war film based upon the eponymous book by military historian S. L. A. Marshall, depicting the bitterly fierce first Battle of Pork Chop Hill between the U.S....
  • 1957 – "Have Gun — Will Travel
    Have Gun — Will Travel

    Have Gun — Will Travel is an American Western television series that aired on CBS from 1957 through 1963. It was rated either number three or number four in the Nielsen ratings during each year of its first four seasons....
    " (television series)
  • 1954 – La Vedova X
  • 1954 – They Who Dare
  • 1953 – Melba
  • 1952 – Kangaroo
  • 1952 – Les Misιrables
    Les Misιrables (1952 film)

    Les Mis?rables is a 1952 film adaptation of the novel Les Mis?rables by Victor Hugo. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and featured Michael Rennie as Jean Valjean, Robert Newton as Javert, Sylvia Sidney as Fantine, Debra Paget as Cosette, Edmund Gwenn as the bishop, Cameron Mitchell as Marius, Elsa Lanchester as Madame Magloire an...
  • 1950 – Halls of Montezuma
    Halls of Montezuma (film)

    Halls of Montezuma is a 1951 in film World War II action/drama that follows a group of United States Marines from the beach to a Japanese rocket site through enemy infested jungles as their ex-school teacher leader is transformed into a battle veteran and his squad becomes a tight fighting unit....
  • 1949 – The Red Pony
    The Red Pony

    "The Red Pony" is a novella written by United States author John Steinbeck in 1933 in literature. The stories in the book are tales of Steinbeck's childhood recounted by a ten-year-old boy named Jody Tiflin....
  • 1948 – No Minor Vices
  • 1948 – Arch of Triumph
    Arch of Triumph (1948 film)

    Arch of Triumph is a 1948 in film United States war romance film made by Enterprise Productions for MGM release. The film was directed by Lewis Milestone and adapted from the 1945 Erich Maria Remarque novel Arch of Triumph ....
  • 1946 – The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers is a black-and-white film noir released in the United States in , starring Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott and Kirk Douglas in his film debut....
  • 1945 – A Walk in the Sun
    A Walk in the Sun

    A Walk in the Sun is a war film released in 1945 in film , based on the novel by Harry Brown who was a writer for Yank magazine based in England....
  • 1944 – The Purple Heart
    The Purple Heart

    The Purple Heart is a 1944 in film United States war film directed by Lewis Milestone.It is a dramatization of the trial of a number of US airmen by the Japanese during the World War II....
  • 1944 – Guest in the House
  • 1943 – The North Star
    The North Star (1943 film)

    The North Star is a 1943 war film produced and distributed by RKO Radio Pictures. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and written by Lillian Hellman....
  • 1943 – Edge of Darkness
    Edge of Darkness (film)

    Edge of Darkness is a World War II film released in 1943. It was directed by Lewis Milestone and stars Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, and Walter Huston....
  • 1941 – My Life with Caroline
  • 1940 – Lucky Partners
  • 1939 – The Night of Nights
  • 1939 – Of Mice and Men
    Of Mice and Men (1939 film)

    Of Mice and Men is a 1939 in film film based on the Of Mice and Men of the same title by American author John Steinbeck. It stars Burgess Meredith, Betty Field, Lon Chaney Jr., Charles Bickford, Roman Bohnen, Bob Steele and Noah Beery, Jr....
  • 1936 – The General Died at Dawn
    The General Died at Dawn

    The General Died at Dawn is a 1936 in film film that tells the story of a mercenary who meets a beautiful girl while trying to keep arms from getting to a vicious warlord in war-torn China....
  • 1936 – Anything Goes (film)
    Anything Goes (film)

    Anything Goes is a 1936 in film musical film released by Paramount Pictures adapted from the Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, P.G. Wodehouse Anything Goes....
  • 1935 – Paris in Spring
  • 1934 – The Captain Hates the Sea
    The Captain Hates the Sea

    The Captain Hates the Sea is a 1934 in film comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and released by Columbia Pictures. The film, which involves a Grand Hotel-style series of intertwining stories involving the passengers on a cruise ship, is notable as the last film starring one-time silent film icon John Gilbert and the first Columbi...
  • 1933 – Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
    Hallelujah, I'm a Bum (film)

    Hallelujah, I'm a Bum is a 1933 in film United States Musical film comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone in the The Great Depression.The film stars Al Jolson as Bumper, a popular New York tramp, and both romanticizes and satirizes the hobo lifsetyle that many people were forced into by the economic conditions of the time....
  • 1932 – Rain
    Rain (1932 film)

    Rain is a 1932 in film motion picture directed by Lewis Milestone. The film stars Joan Crawford as prostitute Sadie Thompson and Walter Huston as a conflicted missionary who wants to reform Sadie, but whose own morals start decaying....
  • 1931 – The Front Page
    The Front Page (1931 film)

    The Front Page is an Academy Award-nominated 1931 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien ....
  • 1930 – All Quiet on the Western Front
  • 1929 – Betrayal
  • 1929 – New York Nights
    New York Nights

    New York Nights is a 1928 in film crime film directed by Lewis Milestone. It is based on the 1928 play Tin Pan Alley by Hugh Stanislaus Stange....
  • 1928 – The Racket
    The Racket

    The Racket is an Academy Award-nominated 1928 in film Cinema of the United States crime film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, and George E....
  • 1928 – Tempest
    Tempest (film)

    Tempest is a film produced in 1928 in film and directed by Sam Taylor .V.I. Nemirovich-Dantchenko wrote the screenplay and William Cameron Menzies won an Academy Award for his work in the film in 1929 ....
     (uncredited)
  • 1928 – The Garden of Eden
  • 1927 – Two Arabian Knights
    Two Arabian Knights

    Two Arabian Knights is a 1927 in film Cinema of the United States comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring William Boyd and Mary Astor....
  • 1927 – The Kid Brother
    The Kid Brother

    The Kid Brother is a 1927 in film comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It was successful and popular upon release and today is considered by critics and fans to be one of Lloyd's best films, integrating elements of comedy, romance, drama, and character development....
     (uncredited)
  • 1926 – Fine Manners (uncredited)
  • 1926 – The New Klondike
  • 1926 – The Caveman
    The Caveman

    The Caveman is the humor magazine published by undergraduate students at Wabash College, one of two four-year all-male colleges in the United States....
  • 1925 – Seven Sinners
  • 1919 – Fit to Win
  • 1918 – Positive
  • 1918 – Posture
  • 1918 – The Toothbrush


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