Nicholas Ray
Nicholas Ray was an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. Described by the Harvard Film Archive as "Hollywood's last romantic" and "one of postwar American cinema’s supremely gifted and ultimately tragic filmmakers," Ray was considered an iconoclastic auteur director who often clashed with the Hollywood studio system of the time, but would prove highly influential to future generations of filmmakers.
7 August 1911
Born on the same birth date (7 August 1911): István Bibó
Born on the same birth day (7 August): Anne Fadiman • Caroline Aaron • Don Wilson (cricketer) • E. J. Tackett • Edward Hardwicke • Eric Johnson (actor) • Gordon Zahn • Karol Zalewski • Louis Leakey • Miguel Llera • Sidney Crosby • Wayne Knight
Born in the same month (August 1911): Amelia Boynton Robinson • Arsenio Rodríguez • Betty Robinson • E. F. Schumacher • J. V. Cunningham • Jackie Ormes • Robert Taylor (American actor) • Võ Nguyên Giáp • William Alfred Fowler • William Bernbach