AKA: Laszlo Benedek
Nationality: Hungarian
Birthdate: 03/05/1907
Birthplace: Budapest, Hungary
Death Date: 03/11/1992
Began his career at UFA and, after brief stints in France and England, arrived in the US in 1937. Benedek made his directorial debut a decade later with the Frank Sinatra vehicle "The Kissing Bandit" (1948) and teamed up with producer Stanley Kramer twice, for a faithful, if pedestrian adaptation of Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" (1951) and "The Wild One" (1954), which remains a signature film of the 1950s, largely thanks to the charismatic presence of Marlon Brando as the silent, rebel biker. From the mid-1950s Benedek worked primarily in TV.
Paid for medical studies working as an assistant cameraman
Worked chiefly as editor in Germany before moving first to Vienna as an assistant to producer Joe Pasternak in 1933 then to Paris where he worked as a film editor and to England where he worked as a screenwriter
1937
Moved to Hollywood; worked as montage editor; renewed association with Joe Paternak and served as associate producer on some of his musical films
1948
Film directing debut, "The Kissing Bandit"
Was "graylisted" in the 1950s for his connections to Spanish Civil War fund-raising activities and members of the Hollywood Ten; turned to TV directing
