James Ivory (director)

James Francis Ivory (born June 7, 1928 in Berkeley, California) is an award-winning American film director. He was educated at the University of Oregon, majoring in Architecture and Fine Arts and then at the University of Southern California Film School. His first film, which he wrote, photographed and produced, was Venice: Theme and Variations, a half-hour documentary submitted as a thesis film for his degree in cinema at USC. The film was named by The New York Times in 1957 as one of the ten best non-theatrical films of the year.

External links

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• James Ivory at screenonline.org.uk
• Merchant Ivory Productions