Elliot Silverstein

Director

Born - 3 August 1927, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Died - 24 November 2023

Cheerful-looking, bushy-haired, bespectacled American director wth prominent cheekbones, a successful maker of mainstream movies, especially in the 1960s. A TV director from 1955, he moved to making cinema films a decade later: Cat Ballou (1965), The Happening (1966), A Man Called Horse (1969), Nightmare Honeymoon (1974), The Car (1977), Betrayed by Innocence (1986), Rich Men, Single Women (1990) and Flashfire (1994), his last, retiring to become a university lecturer on film. Three times married.