Born on this day – James Agee:

James Agee

Writer

Actor

Director

November 27, 1909 – May 16, 1955

Credits:

Books and screenplays:

A Death in the Family; Agee on Film; Agee on Film II; Cotton Tenants: Three Families, Melville House; Face to Face; Knoxville: Summer of 1915; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men; Let Us Now Praise Famous Men: Three Tenant Families; Letters of James Agee to Father Flye; Permit Me Voyage; The African Queen; The Collected Poems of James Agee; The Collected Short Prose of James Agee; The Morning Watch; The Night of the Hunter; The Tramp's New World.

Movies and television:

20 Feet from Stardom (2013); A Death in the Family (2002); Agee (1979); All the Way Home (1963 / 1971 / 1981); American Experience (1988); Experimenter (2015); Face to Face / Segment: The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky (1952); Festival (1961); Genghis Khan (1950); Green Magic (1953); In the Street (1948); Omnibus / Segment: Lincoln-Rutledge Debate (1953); Omnibus / Segments: Mr. Lincoln / Lincoln Part IV: New Salem (1953–1955); The African Queen (1951); The Night of the Hunter (1955); The Quiet One (1948); Toutes les histoires / Histoire(s) du cinema (1999); Welcome to the Basement (2015); White Mane (1953).