Elliot Silverstein


Birthday: August 03, 2027

Yale drama school graduate Eliot Silverstein briefly taught theater courses before launching a prolific career as a TV director. Silverstein's first "theatrical feature," Belle Sommers (1962), was in fact a TV pilot film starring Anne Francis. His actual big-screen directorial debut was The Happening (1967), a muddled caper film that did little to advance the art of the cinema, ...more
  • 1985
  • Directors Guild of America
  • Robert Aldrich Award for Extraordinary Service to the Guild
  • win
  • 1965
  • Directors Guild of America
  • Best Director
  • Cat Ballou
  • nom


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