Stanley Kubrick directing "Dr. Strangelove," Columbia 1963.
Caption: Stanley Kubrick directing "Dr. Strangelove," Columbia 1963.
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), Full Metal Jacket (1987), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
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 ...