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James Agee

Screenwriter / Poet / Novelist / Journalist / Writer / Critic / Film Director | * 11/27/1909 († 45, 05/16/1955) | Knoxville (United States of America (USA))
James Rufus Agee ( AY-jee; November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955) was an American novelist, journalist, poet, screenwriter and film critic. In the 1940s, writing for Time, he was one of the most influential film critics in the United States. His autobiographical novel, A Death in the Family (1957), won the author a posthumous 1958 Pulitzer Prize. Agee is also known as a co-writer of the book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men and as the screenwriter of the film classics The African Queen and The Night of the Hunter. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | Science Fiction

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Awards & Nominations for James Agee

Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay
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Movies with James Agee as Actor(1)

as Frank1952 Face to Face

Movies with James Agee as Crew(9)

Writing/Writer2021 The Tramp's New World
Writing/Writer2002 A Death in the Family
Writing/Novel1981 All the Way Home
Writing/Novel1963 All the Way Home
Writing/Screenplay1955 The Night of the Hunter
Writing/Adaptation1952 Face to Face
Writing/Screenplay1952 The African Queen
Camera/Director of Photography1948 In the Street
Directing/Director1948 In the Street

Full Name: James Rufus Agee
Born: Saturday, 11/27 1909 (November) in Knoxville (United States of America (USA))
Died: Monday, 05/16 1955 (May) in New York City (aged: 45)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Rooster)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Harvard University, Phillips Exeter Academy, St. Andrew's-Sewanee School, Knoxville High School, Eliot House
Represented by: Light Cone
Children: Joel Agee
Other names for James Agee (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"James Rufus Agee"
James Agee frequently works together with these people:
Zoe Beloff (5x, Crew)
Eric Muzzy (5x, Crew)
Charles Laughton (2x, Actor)
John Huston (2x, Actor)
Stacey Maltin (2x, Crew)
Helen Levitt (2x, Crew)
Janice Loeb (2x, Crew)
Tad Mosel (2x, Crew)
Robert Preston (2x, Actor)
George Frost (1x, Crew)
Sam Spiegel (1x, Crew)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1014771, Added: 11/28/2018, Last updated: 03/13/2024