Acclaimed director that died of Sidney Lumet

Sidney Lumet, Director Award-winning film hailed as network, Serpico, twelve angry men and Dog Day Afternoon, died.He was 86.

Death of Lumet was confirmed Saturday by Marc Kusnetz, who is the husband of the daughter-in-law of Lumet, Leslie Gimbel. He said Lumet died during the night and had suffered from lymphoma.

A native of Philadelphia, Lumet moved to New York with his family as a child, and it became the place of choice for more than 30 of his films.

Sidney Lumet, right, receives an honorary Oscar in 2005 of actor Al Pacino, who has played in Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon. Mark j. Terrill/Associated Press

These dramas as Prince of the city, Q & A, Night Falls on Manhattan and Serpico watched life lasts and will move to New York City police officers. Dog Day Afternoon tells the true story of two social misfits who sets in motion a string of disastrous events when they tried to steal a Bank of New York City on a summer afternoon oppressive hot.

"It is not something anti - L.," Lumet says his patronage in New York in a 1997 interview. "I like simply to live in a company town."

Although it has not worked in Los Angeles, the Director has good relations with Hollywood studios, in part because he completed his photos under the schedule and budget. His television debut he had educated to work quickly, and he shot rarely more than four takes of a scene.

He was appointed to lead four times for an Oscar, and although he never won, Lumet received an honorary in 2005 for its achievement Oscar. He also received the prestigious award of D.W. Griffith the Directors Guild of America for its achievement in 1993.

Al Pacino, which produced memorable shows for Lumet in the afternoon of dog and Serpico, introduced the Director at the 2005 Academy Awards.

"If you prayed to inhabit a character, Sidney was the priest who heard your prayers, [and] has helped to make come true", said the actor.

In accepting the award, Lumet thanked the many administrators who had inspired him, and then added, "I guess that I would like to thank the films".

Lumet immediately establishes as a Director of a list with his first theatrical film, twelve men of 1957 in anger, which took a fast and powerful look at racial prejudice as it depicts 12 jurors trying to reach a verdict in a trial involving a young Hispanic man accused wrongly of the murder. The film, now classic, it earned his first appointment at the Oscars.

Actor Peter Finch in a scene from the 1976 network, the role he won a posthumous best acting Oscar. MGM Studios/Getty.

Other Oscar nominations were for an afternoon of dog (1975), network (1976) and the Verdict (1982).

Network, a scathing view of the television programming undertaking, has proven more memorable Lumet film created a slogan sustainable when news anchor crazed Peter Finch has urged his audience to raise their Windows and shout, "I'm mad as hell and I will not take anymore!

For Academy Awards for Paddy Chayefsky won for best screenplay, Finch, best actor (presented posthumously) and Faye Dunaway as best actress.

Well known for his portraits of urban living speech, curriculum vitae of Lumet also included films based on recorded parts: travel long day of Eugene O'Neill in the night and saw Arthur Miller from the bridge. It also issues such as the Holocaust (the pawnbroker), deals with nuclear war (Fail-Safe) and convicted Soviet spies Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (Daniel).

He led a very successful Agatha Christie mystery, the All-Star Game murder on the Orient Express, running on empty, Equus, family business and The Wiz.

The Director was born June 25, 1924, in Philadelphia for a couple of Yiddish artists, and he began his career in show business as a young actor, appearing on radio at the age of 4 years.

He made his debut on Broadway in 1934 with a small role in acclaimed cul-de-sac in Sidney Kingsley.

Lumet and his second wife, Gloria Vanderbilt, August 27, 1956. Lumet married four times. Anthony Camerano/Associated Press

After serving as a repairer of radar India and Burma during the second world war, Lumet returns to New York and founded a company acting. In 1950, Yul Brynner, a friend and a Director of CBS - TV, invited him to join the network as an assistant director. Soon he became Director, working on 150 episodes of the thriller of Danger and other series.

The reputation of Lumet was stimulated by the advent of live TV dramas, and he continues to lead the functionality in its 80 years. In 2001, he returned to his roots in television, the creation, written, directed and executive-producing a series of cable, 100 Centre Street. It was filmed in his beloved New York.

His last film was before the devil knows you 2007 are dead, starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ethan Hawke and Marisa Tomei.

Personal life of Lumet was equally dramatic. His first three marriages - actress Rita Gam, heiress Gloria Vanderbilt and daughter of Lena Horne, Gail Jones - ended in divorce. In 1980, he married journalist Mary Gimbel.

He has two daughters with Jones, Amy and Jenny. In addition to his wife and his daughters, he left his daughter-in-law Leslie Gimbel. a stepson, Gimbel Bailey. nine grandchildren. and a granddaughter.

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