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Director, Producer Born: March 2, 1914 in New York, NY Death: December 8, 1990 in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA Biography:American film director "Martin Ritt" started out as a Broadway actor. Ritt's stage role as "Gleason" in Winged Victory brought him to Hollywood for the film version, for which the studio publicity billed him, along with the rest of the male cast, by the rank he held in the Army (Private First Class Martin Ritt). A victim of the Hollywood blacklist, Ritt's career came to a standstill in the early 1950s. He reemerged, not as an actor, but as a director for the 1956 film "Edge of the City". A favorite of actor "Paul Newman", Ritt directed Newman in The Long Hot Summer (1958), "Paris Blues" (1961), "Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man" (1962), "Hud" (1963), "The Outrage" (1964) and "Hombre" (1967). Other Ritt-directed films of note were "Pete 'n' Tillie" (1972), "Cross Creek" (1984), "Murphy's Romance" (1985), and, his last film, "Stanley and Iris" (1990). If there doesn't seem to be a central... Full Biography
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