Still of Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Caption: Still of Stanley Kubrick, Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman in Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Director, Writer, Producer
Born: July 26, 1928
Star sign: Leo
Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
Known for: A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Full Metal Jacket (1987)
Source: IMDB
Stanley Kubrick was born in New York, and was considered intelligent despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father Jack (a physician) sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941 for his last year of ...