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Joan Micklin Silver

Film Director / Screenwriter | * 05/24/1935 († 85, 12/31/2020) | Omaha, Nebraska (United States of America (USA))
Joan Micklin Silver (May 24, 1935 – December 31, 2020) was an American director of films and plays. Born in Omaha, Silver moved to New York City in 1967 where she began writing and directing films. She is best known for Hester Street (1975), her first feature, and Crossing Delancey (1988). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Comedies | TV Movies

Known for these Movies & Shows

A Russian emigre prides himself on the way he's molded himself into a real Yankee in the USA, though the world he lives in, New York's Lower East Side in the late 19th century, is almost exclusively p ...

Hester Street

Certification unknown

1975 | 3.1/5 | 1h 30min
Drama, Romance / Love
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A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman. ...

Finnegan Begin Again

Certification unknown

1985 | 3.4/5 | 1h 55min
Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love, TV Movie
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Charles is a bored civil servant struggling through a harsh Utah winter. He spends most of his time reflecting on his romance with Laura, a coworker who left him to return to her husband, an A-Frame s ...

Chilly Scenes of Winter

PG

1979 | 3.7/5 | 1h 32min
Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
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The staff of the Back Bay Mainline, a Boston underground newspaper that rose to prominence in the 1960s, struggles with the shifting social climate of the '70s amid rumors that the paper is about to b ...

Between the Lines

Certification unknown

1977 | 2.5/5 | 1h 41min
Comedy, Drama
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Movies with Joan Micklin Silver as Actress(1)

as herself1988 Calling the Shots

Movies with Joan Micklin Silver as Crew(30)

Directing/Director2003 Hunger Point
Directing/Director2002 Charms for the Easy Life
Directing/Director1999 A Fish in the Bathtub
Directing/Director1999 Invisible Child
Directing/Director1997 In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Directing/Director1992 Big Girls Don't Cry... They Get Even
Directing/Director1992 A Private Matter
Directing/Director1991 Prison Stories: Women on the Inside
Directing/Director1989 Loverboy
Directing/Director1988 Crossing Delancey
Directing/Director1985 Finnegan Begin Again
Writing/Writer1983 The Nightingale
Directing/Director1983 How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days
Directing/Director1979 Chilly Scenes of Winter
Writing/Screenplay1979 Chilly Scenes of Winter
Production/Producer1978 On the Yard
Directing/Director1977 Between the Lines
Directing/Director1976 Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Writing/Screenplay1976 Bernice Bobs Her Hair
Writing/Writer1975 The Frontier Experience
Directing/Director1975 Hester Street
Writing/Screenplay1975 Hester Street
Directing/Director1974 The Case of the Elevator Duck
Writing/Writer1974 The Case of the Elevator Duck
Directing/Director1973 The Fur Coat Club
Writing/Writer1973 The Fur Coat Club
Directing/Director1972 The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey
Writing/Writer1972 The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey
Writing/Story1972 Limbo
Writing/Screenplay1972 Limbo

Full Name: Joan Micklin
Born: Friday, 05/24 1935 (May) in Omaha, Nebraska (United States of America (USA))
Died: Thursday, 12/31 2020 (December) in Manhattan (aged: 85)
Zodiac sign: Gemini (Chinese zodiac sign: Pig)
Languages: English (EN), Yiddish (YI), American English
Educated at: Sarah Lawrence College
Joan Micklin Silver frequently works together with these people:
Kenneth Van Sickle (6x, Crew)
Raphael D. Silver (6x, Crew)
Shelley Duvall (4x, Actress)
Janis Cole (4x, Crew)
Griffin Dunne (3x, Actor)
John Heard (3x, Actor)
Linda Gottlieb (3x, Crew)
Malcolm Braly (3x, Crew)
Barbara Loden (3x, Actress)
Steve Atha (3x, Crew)
Susan Sandler (3x, Crew)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:26364, Added: 05/08/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024