Charles Eames

Biography

Charles Eames was an American designer, architect and film maker. In creative partnership with his spouse, Ray Kaiser Eames, he was responsible for groundbreaking contributions in the field of architecture, furniture design, industrial design, manufacturing and the photographic arts.

Personal Facts

Known For

Directing

Gender

male

Known Credits

74

Known For

• 

  The Fabulous Fifties
• 

  Solar Do-Nothing Machine
• 

  Cezanne
• 

  Powers of Ten
• 

  Atlas: A Sketch of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire
• 

  The World of Franklin and Jefferson: The Opening Of An Exhibition

Credits

• actors (3 credits)

  • Eames: The Architect and the Painter

    Self (archive footage)

    actor

    actors
    2011
  • Design Q & A

    Self

    actor

    actors
    1972
  • Toccata for Toy Trains

    Narrator

    actor

    actors
    1957

• directing (54 credits)

  • Solar Do-Nothing Machine

    director

    directing
    1990
  • Cezanne

    director

    directing
    1978
  • Powers of Ten

    director

    directing
    1977
  • Atlas: A Sketch of the Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire

    director

    directing
    1976
  • The World of Franklin and Jefferson: The Opening Of An Exhibition

    director

    directing
    1976
  • Metropolitan Overview

    director

    directing
    1975
  • Kepler's Laws

    director

    directing
    1974
  • The World of Franklin & Jefferson: Authors of Independence and Architects of the American Experiment

    director

    directing
    1973
  • The World of Franklin and Jefferson

    director

    directing
    1973
  • Nicholas Copernicus

    director

    directing
    1973
  • Exponents: A Study in Generalization

    director

    directing
    1973
  • Design Q & A

    director

    directing
    1972
  • Banana Leaf

    director

    directing
    1972
  • Alpha

    director

    directing
    1972
  • Computer Perspective

    director

    directing
    1972
  • Cable: The Immediate Future

    director

    directing
    1972
  • Clown Face!

    director

    directing
    1971
  • Goods: From a Three-Screen Slide Show Made for a Lecture on "The New Covetables" Given by Charles Eames

    director

    directing
    1970
  • The Black Ships

    director

    directing
    1970
  • The Fiberglass Chairs: Something of How They Get the Way They Are

    director

    directing
    1970
  • A Small Hydromedusan: Polyorchis Haplus

    director

    directing
    1970
  • The Image of the City

    director

    directing
    1969
  • Tops

    director

    directing
    1969
  • A Computer Glossary

    director

    directing
    1968
  • Babbage’s Calculating Machine or Difference Engine

    director

    directing
    1968
  • A Rough Sketch for a Proposed Film Dealing with the Powers of Ten and the Relative Size of Things in the Universe

    director

    directing
    1968
  • National Fisheries Center and Aquarium

    director

    directing
    1967
  • View from the People Wall

    director

    directing
    1966
  • The Smithsonian Institution

    director

    directing
    1965
  • IBM at the Fair

    director

    directing
    1965
  • The Singular Case of the Plural Green Mustache

    director

    directing
    1965
  • Eratosthenes

    director

    directing
    1961
  • Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

    director

    directing
    1961
  • 2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

    director

    directing
    1961
  • Symmetry

    director

    directing
    1961
  • Something About Functions

    director

    directing
    1961
  • ECS (Eames Contact Storage)

    director

    directing
    1961
  • IBM Mathematics Peep Show

    director

    directing
    1961
  • The Fabulous Fifties

    director

    directing
    1960
  • An Introduction to Feedback

    director

    directing
    1960
  • Kaleidoscope Jazz Chair

    director

    directing
    1960
  • The Expanding Airport

    director

    directing
    1958
  • Toccata for Toy Trains

    director

    directing
    1957
  • The Information Machine

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Tops (from Stars of Jazz)

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Day of the Dead

    director

    directing
    1957
  • Textiles and Ornamental Arts of India

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Two Baroque Churches in Germany

    director

    directing
    1955
  • House: After Five Years of Living

    director

    directing
    1955
  • Bread

    director

    directing
    1953
  • A Communications Primer

    director

    directing
    1953
  • Blacktop

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Parade, or Here They Come Down Our Street

    director

    directing
    1952
  • Traveling Boy

    director

    directing
    1950

• production (8 credits)

  • Banana Leaf

    producer

    production
    1972
  • Computer Perspective

    producer

    production
    1972
  • Eratosthenes

    producer

    production
    1961
  • Topology: Jordan's Curve Theorem

    producer

    production
    1961
  • Symmetry

    producer

    production
    1961
  • The Expanding Airport

    producer

    production
    1958
  • Toccata for Toy Trains

    producer

    production
    1957
  • Bread

    producer

    production
    1953

• writing (8 credits)

  • Banana Leaf

    writer

    writing
    1972
  • Computer Perspective

    writer

    writing
    1972
  • Eratosthenes

    writer

    writing
    1961
  • 2ⁿ: A Story of the Power of Numbers

    writer

    writing
    1961
  • Symmetry

    writer

    writing
    1961
  • The Fabulous Fifties

    writer

    writing
    1960
  • The Expanding Airport

    writer

    writing
    1958
  • Bread

    writer

    writing
    1953

• camera (1 credits)

  • House: After Five Years of Living

    director of photography

    camera
    1955