Arthur Penn

Career Overview

Arthur Penn has 48 screen credits in a career dating back to 1955. Signature works include Bonnie and Clyde, The Miracle Worker, The Chase. Explore the interactive character relationship maps on each title page to trace how their roles connect across franchises.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

48

Birth Date

1922-09-27

Birth Place

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Known For

• 

  Bonnie and Clyde
• 

  The Miracle Worker
• 

  The Chase
• 

  Four Friends
• 

  The Missouri Breaks
• 

  Night Moves

Frequent Collaborators

• Gene Hackman (2 collaborations)
• Clyde Howdy (2 collaborations)
• Marlon Brando (2 collaborations)
• Richard Bradford (2 collaborations)
• Warren Beatty (1 collaborations)
• Faye Dunaway (1 collaborations)
• Michael J. Pollard (1 collaborations)
• Estelle Parsons (1 collaborations)
• Denver Pyle (1 collaborations)
• Dub Taylor (1 collaborations)

Credits

• actors (22 credits)

  • Mise en scène with Arthur Penn (a conversation)

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2016
  • Godard Made in USA

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2010
  • Revolution! The Making of 'Bonnie and Clyde'

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2008
  • Filmmakers in Action

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Edge of Outside

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2006
  • Filmmakers vs. Tycoons

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2005
  • Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2003
  • Rosy-Fingered Dawn: A Film on Terrence Malick

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • Reel Radicals: The Sixties Revolution in Film

    Self (uncredited)

    actor

    actors
    2002
  • In the Shadow of Hollywood

    Self

    actor

    actors
    2000
  • Searching for Arthur

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1998
  • Nichols and May: Take Two

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1996
  • Arthur Penn: A Love Affair with Film

    actor

    actors
    1995
  • Marlon Brando: The Wild One

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1994
  • Inside the Actors Studio

    - Arthur Penn ... Self actor actors
    1994
  • Naked in New York

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1993
  • Cinéma! Cinéma! The French New Wave

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1992
  • Hello Actors Studio

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1988
  • American Masters

    - Nichols and May: Take Two (1996) ... Self actor actors
    1986
  • Spécial cinéma

    - Episode 10 (1982) ... Self actor actors
    1974
  • Arthur Penn: The Director

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1970
  • The Dick Cavett Show

    - Billy Graham, Arthur Penn, Chief Dan George, R.V. Cassill, Mandy Rice-Davies (1970) ... Self - Guest actor actors
    1968

• directing (21 credits)

  • Inside

    director

    directing
    1996
  • Lumière & Company

    director

    directing
    1995
  • The Portrait

    director

    directing
    1993
  • Penn & Teller Get Killed

    director

    directing
    1989
  • Dead of Winter

    director

    directing
    1987
  • Target

    director

    directing
    1985
  • Four Friends

    director

    directing
    1981
  • The Missouri Breaks

    director

    directing
    1976
  • Night Moves

    director

    directing
    1975
  • Little Big Man

    director

    directing
    1970
  • Alice's Restaurant

    director

    directing
    1969
  • Bonnie and Clyde

    director

    directing
    1967
  • The Chase

    director

    directing
    1966
  • The Miracle Worker

    director

    directing
    1962
  • The Left Handed Gun

    director

    directing
    1958
  • Portrait of a Murderer

    director

    directing
    1958
  • The Dark Side of the Earth

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Where's Charley?

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Invitation to a Gunfighter

    director

    directing
    1957
  • The Miracle Worker

    director

    directing
    1957
  • The Battler

    director

    directing
    1955

• production (3 credits)

  • Law & Order

    - Look the Other Way (2025) ... executive producer production

    - Tough Love (2025) ... executive producer production

    - Sins of the Father (2025) ... executive producer production

    - Play with Fire (I) (2025) ... executive producer production

    - Inherent Bias (2025) ... executive producer production
    1990
  • Penn & Teller Get Killed

    producer

    production
    1989
  • Four Friends

    producer

    production
    1981

• crew (1 credits)

  • Badlands

    thanks

    crew
    1973

• writing (1 credits)

  • Alice's Restaurant

    screenplay

    writing
    1969