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Sidney Lumet was an American director, producer, and screenwriter with a career spanning over 50 years. He was best known for his work in films such as 12 Angry Men (1957), Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Network (1976), and The Verdict (1982). He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for his direction of Network. Lumet was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to parents of Russian Jewish descent. He began his career as a stage actor in the 1940s, and later transitioned to directing television programs in the 1950s. He made his feature film debut in 1957 with 12 Angry Men, which was nominated for three Academy Awards. Throughout his career, Lumet directed over 40 films, including Serpico (1973), Murder on the Orient Express (1974), Prince of the City (1981), and The Wiz (1978). He was nominated for four Academy Awards, winning one for his direction of Network. Lumet died on April 9, 2011, at the age of 86. He was survived by his wife, Gail Jones, and their two children.

Popular As Sidney Arthur Lumet
Occupation director,producer,writer
Age 87 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 25 June 1924
Birthday 25 June
Birthplace Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Date of death 9 April, 2011
Died Place Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
Nationality United States

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Sidney Lumet Height, Weight & Measurements

At 87 years old, Sidney Lumet height is 5' 5" (1.65 m) .

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Height 5' 5" (1.65 m)
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Who Is Sidney Lumet's Wife?

His wife is Mary Gimbel (1980 - 9 April 2011) ( his death), Gail Lumet Buckley (23 November 1963 - 1978) ( divorced) ( 2 children), Gloria Vanderbilt (27 August 1956 - 24 August 1963) ( divorced), Rita Gam (1949 - 15 August 1955) ( divorced)

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Wife Mary Gimbel (1980 - 9 April 2011) ( his death), Gail Lumet Buckley (23 November 1963 - 1978) ( divorced) ( 2 children), Gloria Vanderbilt (27 August 1956 - 24 August 1963) ( divorced), Rita Gam (1949 - 15 August 1955) ( divorced)
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Sidney Lumet Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Sidney Lumet worth at the age of 87 years old? Sidney Lumet’s income source is mostly from being a successful Director. He is from United States. We have estimated Sidney Lumet's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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2005

In 2005, Sidney Lumet received a well-deserved honorary Academy Award for his outstanding contribution to filmmaking.

2001

After the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001 he caused some controversy by continuing to shoot his New York based series 100 Centre Street (2001) for the remainder of the day. Lumet said he told the crew that they could leave if they wanted but that no one did.

1999

Lumet's Gloria (1999) remake seemed unnecessary, but he returned impressively with the underestimated courtroom comedy Find Me Guilty (2006) and the justly acclaimed crime thriller Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007).

1997

The intelligent hospital satire Critical Care (1997) was unfairly neglected as well.

1996

Sadly, with the exception of Night Falls on Manhattan (1996), an imperfect but fascinating crime drama in the tradition of his own previous genre works, almost none of Lumet's works of the 1990s did quite get the attention they deserved.

1995

In his highly informative book "Making Movies" (1995), Lumet describes the film in the following way: "When we try to control everything, everything winds up controlling us. Nothing is what it seems. " It's also a movie about values, friendship and drug addiction and, like "Serpico", is based on a true story.

1993

The courtroom thriller Guilty as Sin (1993) was cold but intriguing.

1992

The crime drama A Stranger Among Us (1992) blended genres in a way that did not seem to match most viewers' expectations, but its contemplations about life arouse interest.

1990

With Q & A (1990) Lumet returned to the genre of the New York cop thriller. Nick Nolte shines in the role of a corrupt and racist detective in this multi-layered, strangely underrated film.

1988

His later masterpiece Running on Empty (1988) has a similar theme, portraying a family which has been on the run from the FBI since the parents (played by Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsch) committed a bomb attack on a napalm laboratory in 1971 to protest the war in Vietnam. The son (played by River Phoenix in an extraordinarily moving, Oscar-nominated performance) falls in love with a girl and wishes to stay with her and study music. Naomi Foner's screenplay won the Golden Globe.

1983

Lumet's controversial drama Daniel (1983) with Timothy Hutton, an adaptation of E. L.

1982

In Deathtrap (1982), Lumet successfully blended suspense and black humor.

The Verdict (1982) was voted the fourth greatest courtroom drama of all time by the American Film Institute in 2008. A few minor inaccuracies in legal details do not mar this study of an alcoholic lawyer (superbly embodied by Paul Newman) aiming to regain his self-respect through a malpractice case. The expertly directed movie received five Academy Award nominations.

1981

Sidney Lumet adapted two novels written by Robert Daley, "Prince of the City" and "Tainted Evidence", into the films Prince of the City (1981) and Night Falls on Manhattan (1996), respectively.

1980

Other Lumet movies of the 1980s are the melancholic comedy drama Garbo Talks (1984); the occasionally clichéd Power (1986) about election campaigns; the all too slow thriller The Morning After (1986) and the amusing gangster comedy Family Business (1989).

1978

After the enjoyable musical The Wiz (1978) and the interesting but not easily accessible comedy Just Tell Me What You Want (1980), Sidney Lumet won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for his outstanding direction of Prince of the City (1981), one of his best and most typical films.

1977

The film version of Peter Shaffer's stage play Equus (1977) about a doctor and his mentally confused patient was also powerful, not least because of the energetic acting by Richard Burton and Peter Firth.

1976

Lumet's next masterpiece, Network (1976), was a prophetic satire on media and society.

1975

Lumet's complex crime thriller Dog Day Afternoon (1975), which Pauline Kael called "one of the best "New York" movies ever made", gave Al Pacino the opportunity for a breathtaking, three-dimensional portrayal of a bisexual man who tries to rob a bank to finance his lover's sex-change operation.

1974

The love triangle Lovin' Molly (1974) was not always convincing in its atmospheric details, but Lumet's fine sense of emotional truth and a good Blythe Danner keep it interesting.

The adaptation of Agatha Christie's Murder on the Orient Express (1974), an exquisitely photographed murder mystery with an all-star cast, was a big success again.

1973

The Offence (1973) was commercially less successful, but artistically brilliant - with Connery in one of his most impressive performances.

The terrific cop thriller Serpico (1973), the first of his films about police corruption in New York City, became one of his biggest critical and financial successes.

It's about police corruption, but hardly a remake of Serpico (1973). Starring a powerful Treat Williams, it's an extraordinarily multi-layered film.

1971

He had a strong comeback with the box-office hit The Anderson Tapes (1971).

1970

Al Pacino's fascinating portrayal of the real-life cop Frank Serpico earned a Golden Globe and the movie earned two Academy Award nominations (it is worth noting that Lumet's feature films of the 1970s alone earned 30 Oscar nominations, winning six times).

1968

Was the original 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.

1966

After the overly talky but rewarding drama The Group (1966) about young upper-class women in the 1930s, and the stylish spy thriller The Deadly Affair (1967), the late 1960s turned out to be a lesser phase in Lumet's career.

1965

Lumet's intense character study The Hill (1965) about inhumanity in a military prison camp was the first of five films he did with Sean Connery.

1964

The alarming Cold War thriller Fail Safe (1964) unfairly suffered from comparison to Stanley Kubrick's equally great satire Dr.

Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1964), which was released shortly before.

The Pawnbroker (1964), arguably the most outstanding of the great movies Lumet made in this phase, tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who lives in New York and can't overcome his experiences in the Nazi concentration camps. Rod Steiger's unforgettable performance in the title role earned an Academy Award nomination.

1962

Long Day's Journey Into Night (1962), a masterful, brilliantly photographed adaptation of the Eugene O'Neill play, is one of several Lumet films about families. It earned Katharine Hepburn, Ralph Richardson, Dean Stockwell and Jason Robards deserved acting awards in Cannes and Hepburn an Oscar nomination.

1960

Lumet got the chance to direct Marlon Brando in The Fugitive Kind (1960), an imperfect, but powerful adaptation of Tennessee Williams' "Orpheus Descending".

The first half of the 1960s was one of Lumet's most artistically successful periods.

1957

Lumet made his feature film directing debut with 12 Angry Men (1957), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival and earned three Academy Award nominations. The courtroom drama, which takes place almost entirely in a jury room, is justly regarded as one of the most auspicious directorial debuts in film history.

1950

Doctorow's "The Book of Daniel" about two young people whose parents were executed during the McCarthy Red Scare hysteria in the 1950s for alleged espionage, is one of his underrated achievements.

1945

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume Two, 1945-1985." Pages 610-617. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1988.

1942

Was voted the 42nd Greatest Director of all time by Entertainment Weekly.

1940

After starting an off-Broadway acting troupe in the late 1940s, he became the director of many television shows in the 1950s.

1939

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1937

One of the original Sidney Kingsley's "Dead End" kids, on Broadway. The play was later adapted as Dead End (1937) by William Wyler.

1930

He played many roles on Broadway in the 1930s and also in the film. . . One Third of a Nation. . .

1924

Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although his politics were somewhat left-leaning and he often treated socially relevant themes in his films, Lumet didn't want to make political movies in the first place. Born on June 25, 1924, in Philadelphia, the son of actor Baruch Lumet and dancer Eugenia Wermus Lumet, he made his stage debut at age four at the Yiddish Art Theater in New York.