George Cukor

Won 1 Oscar. Another 13 wins & 24 nominations. See more awards »

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Known For

My Fair Lady Director

(1964)

The Philadelphia Story Director

(1940)

Les Girls Director

(1957)

A Star Is Born Director

(1954)

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Director (65 credits)

2003 Barbra Streisand: The Movie Album (Video short) (segment "Wild Is The Wind")

1981 Rich and Famous

1979 The Corn Is Green (TV Movie)

1976 The Blue Bird

1975 Love Among the Ruins (TV Movie)

1972 Travels with My Aunt

1969 Justine

1964 My Fair Lady

1962 Something's Got to Give (Short)

1962 The Chapman Report

1960 Let's Make Love

1960 Song Without End (finished after Vidor's death, uncredited)

1960 Heller in Pink Tights

1958 Hot Spell (uncredited)

1957 Wild Is the Wind

1957 Les Girls

1956 Lust for Life (co-director - uncredited)

1956 Bhowani Junction

1954 A Star Is Born

1954 It Should Happen to You

1953 The Actress

1952 Pat and Mike

1952 The Marrying Kind

1951 The Model and the Marriage Broker

1950 Born Yesterday

1950 A Life of Her Own

1949 Adam's Rib

1949 Edward, My Son

1947 A Double Life

1947 Desire Me (uncredited)

1944 I'll Be Seeing You (uncredited)

1944 Winged Victory

1944 Gaslight

1943 Resistance and Ohm's Law (Documentary short)

1942 Keeper of the Flame

1942 Her Cardboard Lover

1941 Two-Faced Woman

1941 A Woman's Face

1940 The Philadelphia Story

1940 Susan and God

1939 Gone with the Wind (uncredited)

1939 The Women

1939 The Wizard of Oz (uncredited)

1938 Zaza

1938 Holiday

1938 I Met My Love Again (uncredited)

1936 Camille

1936 Romeo and Juliet

1935 Sylvia Scarlett

1935 No More Ladies (uncredited)

1935 David Copperfield

1934 Manhattan Melodrama (uncredited)

1933 Little Women

1933 Dinner at Eight

1933 Our Betters

1932 The Animal Kingdom (uncredited)

1932 Rockabye

1932 A Bill of Divorcement

1932 What Price Hollywood?

1932 One Hour with You (uncredited)

1931 Girls About Town

1931 Tarnished Lady

1930 The Royal Family of Broadway

1930 The Virtuous Sin

1930 Grumpy

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Additional Crew (6 credits)

1945 The Valley of Decision (fill-in director - uncredited)

1940 Escape (director: additional scenes - uncredited)

1932 Sinners in the Sun (pre-production director - uncredited)

1932 One Hour with You (dialogue director: after Lubitsch took over as the director)

1930 All Quiet on the Western Front (dialogue director - uncredited)

1929 The River of Romance (dialogue director - uncredited)

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Second Unit Director or Assistant Director (2 credits)

1938 The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (director: retakes - uncredited)

1937 The Prisoner of Zenda (director: reshoots - uncredited)

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Actor (1 credit)

1956 Bhowani Junction
Man on Train (uncredited)

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Thanks (3 credits)

1997 I Think I Do (inspiration)

1976 That's Entertainment, Part II (Documentary) (acknowledgment: the non-musical sequences represent outstanding contributions by)

1962 Something's Got to Give (Short) (dedicatee)

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Self (38 credits)

1982 Cinéma cinémas (TV Series documentary)
Self (segment 'Portrait du commandeur')

- Episode dated 16 February 1982 (1982) ... Self (segment 'Portrait du commandeur')

1981 On Location with Rich and Famous (Documentary short)
Self (uncredited)

1973-1981 Film 2017 (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 26 October 1981 (1981) ... Self

- Episode #5.7 (1975) ... Self

- Episode #2.20 (1973) ... Self

1981 Hour Magazine (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 5 October 1981 (1981) ... Self

1981 AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Fred Astaire (TV Special documentary)
Self - Audience Member (uncredit)

1981 The 53rd Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1981 Starring Katharine Hepburn (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1981 The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series)
Self - Director

- Episode dated 23 February 1981 (1981) ... Self - Director

1980 The British Greats (TV Series)
Self - Interviewee

- Leslie Howard (1980) ... Self - Interviewee

1980 Hollywood (TV Mini-Series documentary)
Self - Interviewee / Self

- End of an Era (1980) ... Self - Interviewee

- Pioneers (1980) ... Self

1979 The RKO Years (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1977-1978 Hollywood Greats (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Judy Garland (1978) ... Self

- Jean Harlow (1978) ... Self

- Ronald Colman (1978) ... Self

- Joan Crawford (1978) ... Self

- Spencer Tracy (1977) ... Self

1978 Talking Film (TV Series)
Self

- The Making of a Motion Picture (1978) ... Self

- The Director (1978) ... Self

1978 The Film Society of Lincoln Center Tribute to George Cukor (TV Special)
Self - Honoree

1977 The Stars Salute America's Greatest Movies (TV Special)
Self - Presenter

1972-1976 The Mike Douglas Show (TV Series)
Self - Director

- Episode #15.177 (1976) ... Self - Director

- Episode #12.77 (1972) ... Self - Director

1973 The Men Who Made the Movies: George Cukor (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1973 The 45th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Accepting Best Costume Design Award for Anthony Powell

1972 The Dick Cavett Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode dated 14 December 1972 (1972) ... Self

1969-1971 The David Frost Show (TV Series)
Self - Guest

- Episode #3.90 (1971) ... Self - Guest

- Episode #1.37 (1969) ... Self - Guest

1970 NET Festival (TV Series documentary)
Self

- George Cukor (1970) ... Self

1970 Film Night (TV Series)
Self

- Film Night Special: Forty Years in Hollywood (1970) ... Self

1969 Hollywood: The Selznick Years (TV Movie documentary)
Self (uncredited)

1969 Garbo (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1969 Cinéastes de notre temps (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Conversation avec George Cukor (1969) ... Self

1968 Cinema (TV Series documentary)
Self

- George Cukor (1968) ... Self

1968 The 40th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Accepting Best Actress Award

1965 The 37th Annual Academy Awards (TV Special)
Self - Winner

1965 The 22th Annual Golden Globes Awards (TV Special)
Self - Winner

1964 The Fairest Fair Lady (Documentary short)
Self

1963 Delta Kappa Alpha Silver Anniversary Banquet (TV Short documentary)
Self - Speaker

1962 This Is Your Life (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Dame Edith Sitwell (1962) ... Self (voice)

1962 The Tonight Show (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #1.10 (1962) ... Self

- Episode #1.5 (1962) ... Self

1962 The Tonight Show Starring Jack Parr (TV Series)
Self

- Episode #5.121 (1962) ... Self

- Episode #5.116 (1962) ... Self

1960 The David Susskind Show (TV Series)
Self

- Movie Makers (1960) ... Self

1958 Social Security in Action (TV Series)
Self

1956 MGM Parade (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Episode #1.31 (1956) ... Self

1955 Den gudomliga: Greta Garbo 50 år (TV Special documentary)
Self

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Archive footage (24 credits)

Charmed Lives: A Family Romance (Documentary) (filming)
Self

2019 Sid & Judy (Documentary)
Self

2017 Audrey Hepburn, le choix de l'élégance (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2017 Anna Karina, souviens-toi (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2017 Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood (Documentary)
Self

2017 Love, Cecil (Documentary)
Self

2012-2016 Arena (TV Series documentary)
Self

- All the World's a Screen - Shakespeare on Film (2016) ... Self

- Screen Goddesses (2012) ... Self

2012 Love, Marilyn (Documentary)
Self (uncredited)

2010 A Star Is Born: Special Features (Video)

2009 1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year (TV Movie documentary)
Self

2005 Garbo (Documentary)
Self - 1978 Interview

2000-2004 American Masters (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Judy Garland: By Myself (2004) ... Self

- Cary Grant: A Class Apart (2004) ... Self

- On Cukor (2000) ... Self

2003 A Woman of Substance: Katharine Hepburn Remembered (Video documentary short)
Self

1996-2003 Biography (TV Series documentary)
Self

- Clark Gable: The King of Hollywood (2003) ... Self

- Judy Garland: Beyond the Rainbow (1997) ... Self

- Marilyn Monroe: The Mortal Goddess (1996) ... Self

2003 Ça c'est l'amour (Video short)
Self

2001 Marilyn Monroe: The Final Days (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1995 The Making of 'My Fair Lady' (Video documentary)
Self

1993 Katharine Hepburn: All About Me (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1990 Marilyn: Something's Got to Give (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1988 The Making of a Legend: Gone with the Wind (TV Movie documentary)
Self

1987 Hollywood the Golden Years: The RKO Story (TV Series documentary)
Self - director of Sylvia Scarlett

- A Woman's Lot (1987) ... Self - director of Sylvia Scarlett (uncredited)

1987 James Stewart: A Wonderful Life - Hosted by Johnny Carson (TV Movie)
Self - Director of The Philadelphia Story (1940)

1986 W.C. Fields: Straight Up (TV Movie documentary)
Self - 1972

1955 Film Time (TV Series)
Self - Host

- Garbo/Disneyland: Monsters of the Deep (1955) ... Self - Host

Personal Details

Other Works:

Stage Play: The Great Gatsby. Drama. Written by Owen Davis. Based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald. Directed by George Cukor. Ambassador Theatre: 2 Feb 1926- May 1926 (closing date unknown/112 performances). Cast: Edward Butler (as "Ryan"), Elliot Cabot (as "Tom Buchanan"), William Clifford (as "Doc Civit"), Robert W. Craig (as "Wilson"... See more »

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Height:

5' 8" (1.73 m)

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Did You Know?

Personal Quote:

[favorite piece of advice he would give to hyperactive actresses] Don't just do something, stand there! See more »

Trivia:

He was famous for the parties he threw later in life for large groups of directors, many being attended by such legends such as Alfred Hitchcock, John Ford, Luis Buñuel and George Stevens. See more »