Penn, Arthur

Penn, Arthur

▪ American film director
in full  Arthur Hiller Penn  
born Sept. 27, 1922, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.

      American motion-picture and theatre director whose films are noted for their critical examination of the darker undercurrents of American society.

      Penn, brother of the photographer Irving Penn (Penn, Irving), served in the U.S. Army (1943–46), and after World War II he attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina and studied at the Actors Studio in Los Angeles. Penn received his early training as a director in television; from 1953 he wrote dramas and directed plays for such noted television series as Philco Playhouse and Playhouse 90. He also gained a solid reputation as a theatrical director. His Broadway plays included Two for the Seesaw (1958); The Miracle Worker (1959), a successful adaptation of a play that he had originally directed for television; Toys in the Attic (1960); All the Way Home (1960); and An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May (1960–61).

  Penn's first movie was The Left-Handed Gun (1958), a psychological view of Billy the Kid that is vastly different from his image in popular mythology. In 1962 Penn directed the screen version of The Miracle Worker, a commercial and artistic success that brought him the first of three Academy Award nominations for best director. His next two films, Mickey One (1965) and The Chase (1966), dealt with the ambiguous heroism of the outsider in society. Bonnie and Clyde (1967), which used graphic violence as a mode of social criticism, brought him international acclaim. It was followed by Alice's Restaurant (1969) and then by the revisionist western Little Big Man (1970), a directorial tour de force that parodied the conventional Hollywood western and depicted American frontier policy as brutal and genocidal. His other films from the 1970s and '80s included Night Moves (1975), The Missouri Breaks (1976), Four Friends (1981), and Target (1985).

      In the 1990s Penn directed only sporadically; his titles from that decade included Lumière et compagnie (1995; Lumière and Company) as well as the television movie Inside (1996). At the beginning of the 21st century, Penn returned to the theatre, directing the Broadway plays Fortune's Fool and Sly Fox in 2002 and 2004, respectively.

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