Arthur Penn

Born: September 27 1922
Where: Philadelphia, USA

Penn has a reputation for working with Hollywood stars on projects you wouldn't normally associate them.

He has also displayed an uncanny ability to to work with rising stars before they have made their mark.

Starting off in TV, his first feature The Left-Handed Gun starred a young Paul Newman and attracted attention.

He was soon in demand and directing numerous features such as The Miracle Worker in 1962 and The Chase, with Marlon Brando and Robert Redford, in 1966.

Bonny & Clyde saw him memorably bringing together Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway and she went on to star opposite Dustin Hoffman in Little Big Man in 1970.

Night Moves starred Gene Hackman while the underrated Missouri Breaks reunited him with Brando and rising star Jack Nicholson.

Four Friends was an American Graffiti-style tale about the relationship between four people which he followed with the Hitchcockian Dead of Winter in 1987.

Penn and Teller Get Killed was his last feature before he got back into television, including the underrated apartheid TV movie Inside in 1996.