Birthday

1897-05-18

Place of Birth

Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia

Biography

Frank Russell Capra (May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), Lost Horizon (1937), You Can't Take It With You (1938), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), Meet John Doe (1941), Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Description above from the Wikipedia article Frank Capra, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia