Elia Kazan, Movie Director, Oscar winner, HUAC witness, dies at 94

The Hollwywood Reporter ^ | 9/28/03

[lowbridge]

ELIA KAZAN DIES AT 94

Director Elia Kazan, who was honored with best director Academy Awards for "Gentleman's Agreement" and "On the Waterfront," but also vilified in some quarters for "naming names" of alleged Communists in the 1950s during the House Un-American Activities Committee probe, has died at his home in New York. He was 94. In 1999, the Motion Picture Academy presented him with an honorary Oscar for his body of work, which revived the controversy among living actors, writers, directors and producers who were blacklisted in Hollywood as a result of the HUAC investigation.

[lowbridge]

[netmilsmom]

God Bless his soul and may he Rest in Peace.

[pubmom]

Another famous name in the obit column.

[krb]

R.I.P.

[Guenevere]

I remember the Oscar telecast in '99.....
..and the controversy of Kazan presented with the special award.

....and Ed Harris remaining seated----his disrepect of Kazan showing in his smirky face----while almost everyone else stood and applauded.

I've not wanted to watch another Ed Harris movie since, even though he's a passable actor.

Harris has no class.

[LA Conservative]

This is a guy who had real courage to do the right thing at a most difficult moment.

Hollywood lacks people of such courage and has become overpopulated with people who make subversive comments, but, I believe, aren't intelligent enough to be truly subversive.

[LA Conservative]

Isn't Ed Harris the actor that plays a man?

[thegreatbeast]

They hated Kazan because he was right AND talented.

[TommyUdo]

"(T)here was a police state among the Left element in Hollywood and Broadway. . . . I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did and betray my own soul. I didn't betray it. I made a difficult decision."

R.I.P. To a Man who stood up to Hollywood, are you listening Mr. Medved?

[Guenevere]

:)

[Verginius Rufus]

According to The World Almanac, he was born 9/7/1909 in Istanbul.

[lainie]

Nick Nolte wouldn't stand, either. And others..

[CaptainK]

He was in the Oscar audience this year. I wonder if he clapped for Polanski?

[litehaus]

Lately, almost every week, if not every other day.....I am getting TOO old.................

[Truth666]

Splendor in the Grass - I will remember

[Chuck N]

Yes, as my grandpappy from southern Georgia used to say..."Just another man dead." But Elia Kazan was truly a great director. My favorite film was "America, America". It starts with his voice, "My name is Elia Kazan" and tells of the story of a Greek immigrant from Asia Minor (Macedonia) going to America...They don't make movies like that anymore. God bless him for turning the left wing propagandists over to the authorities. They had it coming trying to brainwash us into thinking communism was ok. Tough on them. Horray for Elia Kazan. A patriot.

[netmilsmom]

Is that an actual quote from him??

After reading Treason, does anyone have a list of who he named when he was before the committee?

[DoctorMichael]

You can bet that at the Streisand and Saradon residences there is the clinking of champagne glasses as we speak.

[Chi-townChief]

The link doesn't work and I can't find this news anywhere else!