
Director
Frank Capra
Born 1897 · Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario 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), 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). His films often deal with rags-to-riches stories wich has led film historians such as Ian Freer to consider him the "American Dream personified".
Directed

It's a Wonderful Life
Director · 1946

It Happened One Night
Director · 1934

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Director · 1939

Arsenic and Old Lace
Director · 1944

You Can't Take It with You
Director · 1938

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Director · 1936

Meet John Doe
Director · 1941

Lost Horizon
Director · 1937

Pocketful of Miracles
Director · 1961

Lady for a Day
Director · 1933

State of the Union
Director · 1948

The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Director · 1932

Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Director · 1942

American Madness
Director · 1932

Platinum Blonde
Director · 1931

The Miracle Woman
Director · 1931

Why We Fight: The Battle of Russia
Director · 1943

A Hole in the Head
Director · 1959
Acting

It Happened One Night
Bus Singer (uncredited) · 1934

Why We Fight
Self (archive footage) · 2005

Five Came Back
Self (archive footage) · 2017

Frank Capra, il était une fois l'Amérique
Self (archive footage) · 2020

Dear Mr. Gable
Self · 1968

The Dick Cavett Show
Self - Guest · 1968

1939: Hollywood's Greatest Year
Self (archive footage) · 2009

Hollywood's Second World War
Self (archive footage) · 2019

Frank Capra's American Dream
Self (archive footage) · 1997

George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey
Self · 1985

The Century of Icons
Self (archive footage) · 2022

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
Self (archive footage) (uncredited) · 1983
The Screen Director
Self (staged 'archive' footage) (uncredited) · 1951
The Men who Made the Movies: Frank Capra
Self · 1973

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Self · 1940

Frank Capra: Mr. America
Self (archive footage) · 2023

The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
Self (archive footage) · 1990

The American Film Institute Salute to ...
Self · 1973

James Stewart: A Wonderful Life
Self (archive footage) · 1987

Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 12
Frank Capra · 1938

Screen Snapshots (Series 12, No. 2)
Himself · 1932

Another Romance of Celluloid
Self (uncredited) · 1938
Writing

It's a Wonderful Life
Screenplay · 1946

Westward the Women
Story · 1951

Forbidden
Writer · 1932

Riders of the Purple Cows
Writer · 1924

Little Robinson Corkscrew
Writer · 1924

Hemo the Magnificent
Writer · 1957

Our Mr. Sun
Writer · 1956

Sneezing Beezers
Writer · 1925

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Writer · 1925
The Marriage Circus
Writer · 1925

All Night Long
Writer · 1924

That Certain Thing
Screenplay · 1928