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Sidney Lumet
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter Born: June 25, 1924 in Philadelphia, PA Biography:American director "Sidney Lumet" originally planned to follow in the footsteps of his father, Yiddish Art Theatre actor Baruch Lumet. On-stage from the age of five, the younger Lumet studied at New York's Professional Children's School and acted in numerous Broadway productions, most notably Dead End. With several other New York-based actors, Lumet was featured in the agitprop film drama "One Third of a Nation" (1939); he played "Sylvia Sidney"'s crippled kid brother, sparking the film's climax by setting fire to a disease-ridden tenement house and perishing in the conflagration.
After wartime service, Lumet decided he'd had enough of acting and started to focus on the production end of the business. Working his way up the summer stock ladder, Lumet began directing for live television in 1950, working on such distinguished series as "Omnibus" and "Studio One", and filmed anthologies like... Full Biography
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