Children: sound editor Amy Lumet and actress Jenny Lumet.
Studied acting with Sanford Meisner.
One of the original Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" kids, on Broadway. The play was later adapted as Dead End (1937) by William Wyler.
Former son-in-law of Lena Horne; was married to her daughter, the journalist and author Gail Lumet Buckley (nee Gail Jones).
Lumet is often a favorite director for actors, encouraging the creative collaboration of his stars.
Was voted the 42nd Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.
Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985". Pages 610-617. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.
Directed 17 different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Katharine Hepburn, Rod Steiger, Al Pacino, Ingrid Bergman, Albert Finney, Chris Sarandon, Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch, Beatrice Straight, William Holden, Ned Beatty, Peter Firth, Richard Burton, Paul Newman, James Mason, Jane Fonda and River Phoenix. Bergman, Dunaway, Finch and Straight won oscars for their performances in one of Lumets movies.
It was Lumet's idea to make the characters Cuban and to include the 1980 Mariel harbor boat lift in the story in Scarface (1983).
Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1982
Was the originally director of Funny Girl (1968), but left the picture over differences with producer Ray Stark and star Barbra Streisand. He was replaced by William Wyler.
Sidney Lumet Detailed Biography
Sidney Lumet (born June 25, 1924) is an American film director, with over 50 films to his name, including the critically acclaimed 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975) and Network (1976). He won Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2005, for his "brilliant services to screenwriters, performers and the art of the motion picture".
Lumet was an actor before he was a director. His parents were Yiddish theater actor Baruch Lumet and dancer Eugenia Wermus. Lumet made his stage debut at New York's Yiddish Art Theater at the age of four and acted in Yiddish theater and on Broadway into the 1950s. Graduate of the Professional Children's School.
12 Angry Men (1957)
Stagestruck (1958)
The Fugitive Kind (1959)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
The Pawnbroker (1964)
Fail-Safe (1964)
The Hill (1965)
The Group (1966)
The Deadly Affair (1967)
Serpico (1973)
Lovin' Molly (1974)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
Network (1976)
Equus (1977)
The Wiz (1978)
Prince of the City (1981)
The Verdict (1982)
Daniel (1983)
The Morning After (1986)
Running on Empty (1988)
Guilty as Sin (1993)
Night Falls on Manhattan (1997)
Gloria (1999)
The Beautiful Mrs. Seidenmann (2000)
Strip Search (2004)
Find Me Guilty (2005)
Sidney Lumet at the Internet Movie Database
Sidney Lumet at the Internet Broadway Database
