Lewis Milestone
Lewis Milestone was a Moldovanborn American motion picture director. He is known for directing Two Arabian Knights and All Quiet on the Western Front , both of which received Academy Awards for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page , The General Died at Dawn , Of Mice and Men , Oceans, and received the directing credit for Mutiny on the Bounty , though Marlon Brando largely appropriated his responsibilities during its production.
Milestone was born in Kishinev, in the Bessarabia Governorate of the Russian Empire , to a family of Jewish heritage. He came to the United States in 1912, just prior to World War I. Milestone held a number of odd jobs before enlisting in the U.S. Signal Corps, where he worked as an assistant director on Army training films during the war. In 1919 he became a naturalized citizen of the United States.
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