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Lewis Milestone (1895–1980) was an American filmmaker whose career began in 1918. He is recognized as an Academy Award Best Director and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His body of work includes titles such as *Front page*, *Edge of darkness*, and *Primetime TV time capsule*.
Milestone’s professional output is documented across various sources, with some records listing three primary works while others cite five. He has been referenced by 398 other encyclopedia articles. His musical catalog has accumulated 113 listeners and 201 plays on Last.fm.
Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Open Library, Vinony collections, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1895
- Died
- 1980
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Front page
- Edge of darkness
- Primetime TV time capsule
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 113
- Total plays
- 201
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- PROTEIN MEASUREMENT WITH THE FOLIN PHENOL REAGENT
· 1951 · cited 249,241x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,901x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,510x
- Methods for Dietary Fiber, Neutral Detergent Fiber, and Nonstarch Polysaccharides in Relation to Animal Nutrition
· 1991 · cited 22,159x
- Grey Wolf Optimizer
· 2014 · cited 18,330x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Leib Mendelevich Milstein , ( 1895-09-30 ) September 30, 1895, Kishinev , Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire
- Died
- September 25, 1980 (1980-09-25) (aged 84), Los Angeles, California , U.S.
- Citizenship
- Russia (until 1919) United States (from 1919)
- Occupations
- Film director producer screenwriter
- Years active
- 1915–1964
- Spouse
- Kendall Lee ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1935 ; died 1978 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Lewis
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Russia
- Place of birth
- Chișinău
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Native language
- English language
- Image
- Milestone1.jpg
- Work location
- Hollywood
Show 10 more facts
- place of burial
- Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery
- birth name
- Lev Milstein
- Commons category
- Lewis Milestone
- date of birth
- 1895-09-30
- date of death
- 1980-09-25
- name in native language
- Lewis Milestone
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Lewis Milestone
- has works in the collection
- Museum of Modern Art
- start of work period
- 1918-00-00
- writing language
- English language
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Lewis Milestone (born Leib Mendelevich Milstein; Russian: Лейб Менделевич Мильштейн; September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was a Russian-American film director, screenwriter, and producer active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He twice won the Academy Award for Best Director, for Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), with a third nomination for The Front Page (1931).
Milestone's other notable directing credits included The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1939), The North Star (1943), A Walk in the Sun (1945), The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946), Pork Chop Hill (1959), Ocean's 11 (1960), and his final film Mutiny on the Bounty (1962).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Lewis Milestone” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.