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==Filmography (director)== === Films === {| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%" !Year||Title||Production Co.||Cast||Notes |- |1948 || ''[[They Live by Night]]''|| [[RKO Pictures]] || [[Cathy O'Donnell]] / [[Farley Granger]] / [[Howard da Silva]] || |- |1949 || ''[[Knock on Any Door]]'' || [[Humphrey Bogart#Santana Productions|Santana Productions]] || [[Humphrey Bogart]] / [[John Derek]] || |- |1949 || ''[[A Woman's Secret]]''|| [[RKO Pictures]] || [[Maureen O'Hara]] / [[Melvyn Douglas]] / [[Gloria Grahame]] || |- |1950 || ''[[In a Lonely Place]]''|| [[Humphrey Bogart#Santana Productions|Santana Productions]] || [[Humphrey Bogart]] / [[Gloria Grahame]] || |- |1950 || ''[[Born to Be Bad (1950 film)|Born to Be Bad]]'' || [[RKO Pictures]] || [[Joan Fontaine]] / [[Robert Ryan]] || |- |1951 || ''[[Flying Leathernecks]]''|| [[RKO Pictures]] || [[John Wayne]] / [[Robert Ryan]] || [[Technicolor]] |- |1951 || ''[[On Dangerous Ground]]''|| [[RKO Pictures]] || [[Robert Ryan]] / [[Ida Lupino]] || Ida Lupino has been said to have directed some scenes when Ray was ill.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Comolli|first=Jean-Louis|date=1963|title="Ray, Nicholas"|journal=Cahiers du cinéma|volume=150–151|pages=157–58}}</ref> Eisenschitz found no evidence in RKO production files, though at the time she did direct Ray in a screen test for her upcoming production, released in 1951 as ''[[Hard, Fast and Beautiful|Hard, Fast, and Beautiful]]''.<ref>Eisenschitz, p. 157.</ref> |- |1952 || ''[[The Lusty Men]]''|| [[Norman Krasna|Wald-Krasna Productions]] || [[Robert Mitchum]] / [[Susan Hayward]] || [[Robert Parrish]], who was originally assigned to the film, was called in to direct some scenes when Ray fell ill, after reacting to treatment for a foot wound.<ref>Eisenschitz, pp. 174–75, 210–11.</ref> |- |1954 || ''[[Johnny Guitar]]''|| [[Republic Pictures]] || [[Joan Crawford]] / [[Sterling Hayden]] || [[Trucolor]] |- |1955 || ''[[Run for Cover (film)|Run for Cover]]'' || [[William H. Pine|Pine-Thomas Productions]] || [[James Cagney]] / [[John Derek]] || Technicolor, [[VistaVision]] |- |1955 || ''[[Rebel Without a Cause]]''|| [[Warner Bros.]] || [[James Dean]] / [[Natalie Wood]] / [[Sal Mineo]] || Warnercolor, [[CinemaScope]] |- |1956 || ''[[Hot Blood]]'' || [[Columbia Pictures]] || [[Jane Russell]] / [[Cornel Wilde]] || Technicolor, CinemaScope |- |1956 || ''[[Bigger Than Life]]''|| [[20th Century Fox]] || [[James Mason]] / [[Barbara Rush]] || De Luxe Color, CinemaScope |- |1957 || ''[[The True Story of Jesse James]]'' || [[20th Century Fox]] || [[Robert Wagner]] / [[Hope Lange]] / [[Jeffrey Hunter]] || De Luxe Color, CinemaScope |- |1957 || ''Amère victoire''<br>''[[Bitter Victory]]''|| [[Robert Laffont|Laffont Productions]], Transcontinental Films || [[Richard Burton]] / [[Curd Jürgens]] || CinemaScope |- |1958 || ''[[Wind Across the Everglades]]'' || [[Budd Schulberg|Schulberg Productions]] || [[Burl Ives]] / [[Christopher Plummer]] || Fired during filming / Technicolor |- |1958 || ''[[Party Girl (1958 film)|Party Girl]]'' || [[Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer]], [[Euterpe]] || [[Robert Taylor (American actor)|Robert Taylor]] / [[Cyd Charisse]] || [[Metrocolor]], CinemaScope |- |1960 || ''[[The Savage Innocents]]'' || [[Pathé|Gray Film-Pathé]], Joseph Janni-Appia Films, [[Magic Film]] || [[Anthony Quinn]] / [[Peter O'Toole]] || Technicolor, Super-Technirama 70 |- |1961 || ''[[King of Kings (1961 film)|King of Kings]]''|| [[Samuel Bronston|Samuel Bronston Productions]] || [[Jeffrey Hunter]] / [[Rip Torn]] / [[Robert Ryan]] || Technicolor, Super-Technirama 70 |- |1963 || ''[[55 Days at Peking]]'' || [[Samuel Bronston|Samuel Bronston Productions]] || [[Charlton Heston]] / [[Ava Gardner]] / [[David Niven]] || Dismissed from production before completion / Technicolor, Super-Technirama 70 |- |1973 || ''[[We Can't Go Home Again]]'' || || || [[Experimental film]]; rough cut premiered in 1973, final version premiered in 2006 |- |1974 || ''Wet Dreams''|| || || Segment "The Janitor" |- 1977 HAIR as The General |1978 || ''Marco''|| || || [[Short film]] |- |1980 || ''[[Lightning Over Water]]'' || || || Part-[[documentary]] / [[Eastmancolor]] film; co-directed with Wim Wenders |} === Other work === {| class="wikitable sortable" width="100%" !Year||Title||Production Co.||Cast||Notes |- style="background:#efefef;" |1949 || ''[[Roseanna McCoy]]'' || [[The Samuel Goldwyn Company|Samuel Goldwyn Co.]] || [[Farley Granger]] / [[Joan Evans (actress)|Joan Evans]] || [[Irving Reis]] received credit even though he was replaced by Ray two months into filming |- style="background:#efefef;" |1951 || ''[[The Racket (1951 film)|The Racket]]'' || [[RKO Pictures]] || [[Robert Mitchum]] / [[Robert Ryan]] || Directed some scenes |- style="background:#efefef;" |1952 || ''[[Macao (film)|Macao]]'' || [[RKO Pictures]] || [[Robert Mitchum]] / [[Jane Russell]] / [[William Bendix]] || Took over from [[Josef von Sternberg]] after he was fired during filming |- style="background:#efefef;" |1952 || ''[[Androcles and the Lion (1952 film)|Androcles and the Lion]]'' || [[RKO Pictures]] || [[Jean Simmons]] / [[Victor Mature]] || Directed an extra scene after filming that was not used |} <ref>[https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/person/158505%7C117243/Nicholas-Ray/ TCM.com]</ref>
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