Frank Capra
Frank Capra was a american/italian director, producer, actor, screenwriter and editor, known for Why We Fight (2005), Frank Capra's American Dream (1997) and A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995). He died September 3, 1991. He became 94 years old.
Best according to IMDb ratings
Here are the top-rated movies and series featuring Frank Capra, based on user ratings on IMDb.
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1 | Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life (1946) | 8.6 |
Frank Capra
Frank Capra's filmography
Director
Frank is listed as director for forty one titles.

Pocketful of Miracles
Movie, 1961
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell
- Music: Jimmy Van Heusen, Walter Scharf

A Hole in the Head
Movie, 1959
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Hodges, Carolyn Jones, Eleanor Parker
- Music: Nelson Riddle

Hemo the Magnificent
Movie, 1957
- Director: Frank Capra, William T. Hurtz
- Main cast: Mel Blanc, Richard Carlson

Our Mr. Sun
Movie, 1956
- Director: Frank Capra, William T. Hurtz
- Main cast: Eddie Albert, Lionel Barrymore, Marvin Miller

Design for Death
Movie, 1947
- Director: Frank Capra, Richard Fleischer
- Main cast: Kent Smith

Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life
Movie, 1946
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Here Is Germany
Movie, 1945
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Anthony Veiller

War Comes to America: The Front At Home
Movie, 1945
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Main cast: Walter Huston, Lloyd Nolan

Know Your Enemy - Japan
Movie, 1945
- Director: Frank Capra, Joris Ivens
- Main cast: Howard Duff, Walter Huston
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Two Down and One to Go
Movie, 1945
- Director: Frank Capra

Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie, 1944
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Cary Grant, Jack Carson, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
- Music: Max Steiner, Leo F. Forbstein

Tunisian Victory
Movie, 1944
- Director: Frank Capra, John Huston, John Boulting, Roy Boulting, Hugh Stewart
- Main cast: Burgess Meredith, Bernard Miles
- Music: William Alwyn

Armed Forces Information Film: A.F.I.F. Number 3
Movie, 1944
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Winston Churchill, James Doolittle

The Battle of Russia: The Nazi March Frozen
Movie, 1943
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Main cast: Nikolay Cherkasov, Anthony Veiller
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Divide and Conquer
Movie, 1943
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Main cast: Murray Alper, General Bergeret, Monte Blue, Knox Manning
- Music: William Lava

The Battle of Britain
Movie, 1943
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak, Anthony Veiller
- Main cast: Walter Huston, Frieda Inescort
- Music: Max Steiner

The Nazi Strike: Blitzkrieg!
Movie, 1943
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Main cast: Edvard Beneš, Neville Chamberlain, Clementine Churchill

Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Movie, 1942
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Main cast: Walter Huston, Max Schmeling
- Music: Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman, David Raksin, Hugo Friedhofer, Arthur Lange

Meet John Doe
Movie, 1941
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Barbara Stanwyck
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie, 1939
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

You Can't Take It With You
Movie, 1938
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore
- Music: Morris Stoloff, Dimitri Tiomkin

Lost Horizon
Movie, 1937
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Edward Everett Horton, Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Movie, 1936
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander
- Music: Howard Jackson, Louis Silvers

It Happened One Night
Movie, 1934
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
- Music: Howard Jackson

Lady for a Day
Movie, 1933
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Guy Kibbee, Warren William, Glenda Farrell, May Robson
- Music: Howard Jackson

The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Movie, 1933
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Toshia Mori
- Music: W. Franke Harling

Faith
Movie, 1932
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Pat O'Brien, Constance Cummings, Walter Huston
- Music: Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Karl Hajos

Dirigible
Movie, 1931
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Hobart Bosworth, Ralph Graves, Jack Holt, Fay Wray

The Miracle Woman
Movie, 1931
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy, Beryl Mercer

Platinum Blonde
Movie, 1931
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Halliwell Hobbes
- Music: Bernhard Kaun, David Broekman

Rain or Shine
Movie, 1930
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers

The Donovan Affair
Movie, 1929
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Agnes Ayres, William Collier Jr., Jack Holt, Dorothy Revier

The Younger Generation
Movie, 1929
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Ricardo Cortez, Lina Basquette, Jean Hersholt, Rex Lease

The Matinee Idol
Movie, 1928
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Lionel Belmore, Ernest Hilliard, Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker

Say It with Sables
Movie, 1928
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Francis X. Bushman, Helene Chadwick, Margaret Livingston

So This Is Love?
Movie, 1928
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: William Collier Jr., Shirley Mason, Johnnie Walker

That Certain Thing
Movie, 1928
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Viola Dana, Ralph Graves, Aggie Herring, Burr McIntosh

The Way of the Strong
Movie, 1928
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Alice Day, Mitchell Lewis, Margaret Livingston, Theodore von Eltz

For the Love of Mike
Movie, 1927
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Claudette Colbert, Ben Lyon

Long Pants
Movie, 1927
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gladys Brockwell, Alan Roscoe

The Ballad of Fisher's Boarding House
Movie, 1922
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Ethan Allen, Olaf Skavlan
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Producer
Frank is listed as producer for twenty five titles.

Pocketful of Miracles
Movie, 1961
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell
- Music: Jimmy Van Heusen, Walter Scharf

A Hole in the Head
Movie, 1959
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Frank Sinatra, Edward G. Robinson, Eddie Hodges, Carolyn Jones, Eleanor Parker
- Music: Nelson Riddle

The Unchained Goddess
Movie, 1958
- Director: Richard Carlson, William T. Hurtz
- Main cast: Mel Blanc, Richard Carlson

Hemo the Magnificent
Movie, 1957
- Director: Frank Capra, William T. Hurtz
- Main cast: Mel Blanc, Richard Carlson

Our Mr. Sun
Movie, 1956
- Director: Frank Capra, William T. Hurtz
- Main cast: Eddie Albert, Lionel Barrymore, Marvin Miller

Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life
Movie, 1946
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Know Your Enemy - Japan
Movie, 1945
- Director: Frank Capra, Joris Ivens
- Main cast: Howard Duff, Walter Huston
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Arsenic and Old Lace
Movie, 1944
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Cary Grant, Jack Carson, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
- Music: Max Steiner, Leo F. Forbstein

The Negro Soldier
Movie, 1944
- Director: Stuart Heisler
- Main cast: William Broadus, Clarence Brooks, Carlton Moss
- Music: Albert Glasser, Dimitri Tiomkin, Earl Robinson

The Battle of Russia: The Nazi March Frozen
Movie, 1943
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Main cast: Nikolay Cherkasov, Anthony Veiller
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Divide and Conquer
Movie, 1943
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Main cast: Murray Alper, General Bergeret, Monte Blue, Knox Manning
- Music: William Lava

Why We Fight: Prelude to War
Movie, 1942
- Director: Frank Capra, Anatole Litvak
- Main cast: Walter Huston, Max Schmeling
- Music: Cyril J. Mockridge, Alfred Newman, David Raksin, Hugo Friedhofer, Arthur Lange

Meet John Doe
Movie, 1941
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Barbara Stanwyck
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Movie, 1939
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

You Can't Take It With You
Movie, 1938
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore
- Music: Morris Stoloff, Dimitri Tiomkin

Lost Horizon
Movie, 1937
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Edward Everett Horton, Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Movie, 1936
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander
- Music: Howard Jackson, Louis Silvers

It Happened One Night
Movie, 1934
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
- Music: Howard Jackson

The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Movie, 1933
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Nils Asther, Walter Connolly, Toshia Mori
- Music: W. Franke Harling

Faith
Movie, 1932
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Pat O'Brien, Constance Cummings, Walter Huston
- Music: Mischa Bakaleinikoff, Karl Hajos

The Miracle Woman
Movie, 1931
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy, Beryl Mercer

Platinum Blonde
Movie, 1931
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Halliwell Hobbes
- Music: Bernhard Kaun, David Broekman

Rain or Shine
Movie, 1930
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Joe Cook, Louise Fazenda, Joan Peers

The Matinee Idol
Movie, 1928
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Lionel Belmore, Ernest Hilliard, Bessie Love, Johnnie Walker

That Certain Thing
Movie, 1928
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Viola Dana, Ralph Graves, Aggie Herring, Burr McIntosh
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Actor
Frank is listed as actor for fourteen titles.

Why We Fight
(archive footage)
Movie, 2005
- Director: Eugene Jarecki
- Main cast: Gore Vidal, John Ashcroft, Osama Bin Laden

Frank Capra's American Dream
Movie, 1997
- Director: Kenneth Bowser
- Main cast: Robert Altman, Ron Howard, Frank Capra, Jr.

A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies
Himself
Movie, 1995
- Director: Martin Scorsese, Michael Henry Wilson
- Main cast: Martin Scorsese, George Lucas, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma
- Music: Elmer Bernstein

Frank Capra's 'It's a Wonderful Life': A Personal Remembrance
Self
Movie, 1991
- Main cast: Frank Capra, James Stewart, Frank Capra, Jr.

The Making of 'It's a Wonderful Life'
Self (archive footage)
Movie, 1990
- Main cast: Frank Capra, Sheldon Leonard, Tom Bosley

George Stevens:A Filmmaker's Journey
Movie, 1984
- Director: George Stevens Jr.
- Main cast: Fred Astaire, Rock Hudson, Warren Beatty, Hermes Pan
- Music: Carl Davis

Hollywood Out-takes and Rare Footage
(archive footage)
Movie, 1983
- Director: Ron Blackman, Bruce Goldstein, Stanley Sheff
- Main cast: Bud Abbott, Walter Abel, Katharine Alexander, Gig Young

The Men Who Made the Movies: Frank Capra
Self
Movie, 1973
- Director: Richard Schickel
- Main cast: Frank Capra

Dear Mr. Gable
Self
Movie, 1968
- Main cast: Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, Burgess Meredith

Hollywood My Home Town
Movie, 1965
- Main cast: Ben Alexander, Ken Murray

The Screen Director
Movie, 1951
- Director: Richard L. Bare
- Main cast: Frank Capra, Richard L. Bare, Phyllis Coates

Cavalcade of the Academy Awards
Movie, 1940
- Main cast: Janet Gaynor, Emil Jannings, Carey Wilson

It Happened One Night
Bus Singer
Movie, 1934
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
- Music: Howard Jackson

The Outcasts of Poker Flat
Movie, 1919
- Director: John Ford
- Main cast: Harry Carey, Joe Harris, Gloria Hope, Cullen Landis
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Screenwriter
Frank is listed as screenwriter for sixteen titles.

The Unchained Goddess
Movie, 1958
- Director: Richard Carlson, William T. Hurtz
- Main cast: Mel Blanc, Richard Carlson

Hemo the Magnificent
Movie, 1957
- Director: Frank Capra, William T. Hurtz
- Main cast: Mel Blanc, Richard Carlson

Our Mr. Sun
Movie, 1956
- Director: Frank Capra, William T. Hurtz
- Main cast: Eddie Albert, Lionel Barrymore, Marvin Miller

Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life
Movie, 1946
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore, Donna Reed
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

Know Your Enemy - Japan
Movie, 1945
- Director: Frank Capra, Joris Ivens
- Main cast: Howard Duff, Walter Huston
- Music: Dimitri Tiomkin

The Swim Princess
Movie, 1928
- Director: Alfred J. Goulding
- Main cast: Carole Lombard, Andy Clyde, Daphne Pollard

That Certain Thing
Movie, 1928
- Director: Frank Capra
- Main cast: Viola Dana, Ralph Graves, Aggie Herring, Burr McIntosh

Boobs in the Wood
Movie, 1925
- Director: Harry Edwards
- Main cast: Harry Langdon, Marie Astaire, Vernon Dent, Leo Willis

The Iron Nag
Movie, 1925
- Main cast: Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Ruth Taylor

Sneezing Beezers
Movie, 1925
- Main cast: Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Madeline Hurlock

Super-Hooper-Dyne Lizzies
Movie, 1925
- Main cast: Billy Bevan, Andy Clyde, Lillian Knight

The Wild Goose Chaser
Movie, 1925
- Director: Lloyd Bacon
- Main cast: Trilby Clark, Jack Cooper, Eugenia Gilbert, Ben Turpin

The Marriage Circus
Movie, 1925
- Director: Felix Adler, Edgar Kennedy, Reggie Morris
- Main cast: Louise Carver, Madeline Hurlock, Ben Turpin

Three Days to Live
Movie, 1924
- Director: Tom Gibson

Little Robinson Corkscrew
Movie, 1924
- Director: Ralph Ceder, F. Richard Jones
- Main cast: Andy Clyde, Alice Day, Ralph Graves

Riders of the Purple Cows
Movie, 1924
- Director: Ralph Ceder
- Main cast: Andy Clyde, Alice Day, Ralph Graves
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Editor
Frank is listed as editor for one title.

Three Days to Live
Movie, 1924
- Director: Tom Gibson
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