James Ivory
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James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928) is an award-winning American film director, best known for the results of his long collaboration with Merchant Ivory Productions, which included both Indian-born producer Ismail Merchant and screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Their films won six Academy Awards.
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As Director
- Four in the Morning (1953) (Short)
- Venice: Theme and Variations (1957) (Short)
- The Sword and the Flute (1959) (Short)
- The Householder (1963) starring Shashi Kapoor
- The Delhi Way (Documentary) narrated by Leo Genn(1964)
- Shakespeare Wallah (1965) starring Felicity Kendal, Shashi Kapoor * also co-writer
- The Guru (1969) starring Michael York, Rita Tushingham *also co-writer
- Bombay Talkie (1970) starring Jennifer Kendal, Shashi Kapoor * also co-writer
- Adventures of a Brown Man in Search of Civilization (1972) (BBC-TV Documentary)
- Savages (1973) starring Sam Waterston, Asha Puthli
- Autobiography of a Princess (1975) starring Madhur Jaffrey, James Mason
- The Wild Party (1975) starring James Coco, Raquel Welch
- Hullabaloo Over Georgie and Bonnie's Pictures (1976) starring Peggy Ashcroft, Larry Pine
- Roseland (1977) starring Christopher Walken, Geraldine Chaplin, Lilia Skala
- The Europeans (1979) starring Lee Remick, Lisa Eichhorn
- The Five Forty-Eight (1979/TV) starring Laurence Luckinbill, Mary Beth Hurt
- Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980) starring Anne Baxter, Robert Powell, Sean Young
- Quartet (1981) starring Isabelle Adjani, Alan Bates, Maggie Smith
- Heat and Dust (1983) starring Julie Christie, Greta Scacchi, Shashi Kapoor, Zakir Hussein
- The Bostonians (1984) starring Vanessa Redgrave, Christopher Reeve, Madeleine Potter, Jessica Tandy
- A Room with a View (1985) starring Helena Bonham Carter, Maggie Smith, Daniel Day Lewis, Judi Dench
- Maurice (1987) starring James Wilby, Hugh Grant, Rupert Graves, Billie Whitelaw * also co-writer
- Slaves of New York (1989) starring Bernadette Peters, Mary Beth Hurt, Mercedes Ruehl, Steve Buscemi, Stanley Tucci
- Mr. and Mrs. Bridge (1990) starring Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Robert Sean Leonard
- Howards End (1991) starring Emma Thompson, Helena Bonham Carter, Anthony Hopkins, Vanessa Redgrave
- The Remains of the Day (1993) starring Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, Christopher Reeve, Hugh Grant
- Jefferson in Paris (1995) starring Nick Nolte, Greta Scacchi, Thandie Newton, Gwyneth Paltrow
- Lumière and Company (1995, segment)
- Surviving Picasso (1996) starring Anthony Hopkins, Natascha McElhone, Joan Plowright
- A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (1998) starring Leelee Sobieski, Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey, Jane Birkin *also co-writer
- The Golden Bowl (2001) staring Jeremy Northam, Uma Thurman, Kate Beckinsale, Nick Nolte, Anjelica Huston
- Le Divorce (2003) starring Kate Hudson, Naomi Watts, Glenn Close, Leslie Caron, Stockard Channing, Melvil Poupaud *also co-writer
- The White Countess (2005) starring Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynne Redgrave, Hiroyuki Sanada
- The City of Your Final Destination (2008, based on Peter Cameron novel) starring Anthony Hopkins, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Laura Linney, Omar Metwally and Hiroyuki Sanada
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