James Agee Filmography

Born:: November 27, 1909 in Knoxville, TN
Occupation:: Actor, Screenwriter, Book Author
Birth name:: James Rufus Agee
Biography:: James Agee is best known for his distinguished writing. Much of his work was published posthumously as Agee died at age 45. For one such novel, A Death in the Family (1957), the late Agee was awarded the Pulitzer Prize. In addition to writing fiction, Agee also wrote non-fiction and was a film...Read More

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A Death in the Family

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Adapted from James Agee's posthumously published, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, Death in the Family is set in Knoxville, TN, in 1915. The death of husband and father Jay Follett (John Slattery) in a car accident has profound and long-reaching effects upon his wife, Mary (Annabeth Gish), and his Read More

2002
All the Way Home

Crew: Book Author

Synopsis: Tad Mosel's Broadway play All the Way Home was based on James Agee's A Death in the Family. A film version of the Mosel piece, starring Robert Preston and Jean Simmons, was released in 1963. 18 years later, All the Way Home was given an all-star staging by the NBC television network. Set in 1915 Read More

1981
All the Way Home

Crew: Book Author

Actors: Jean Simmons, Robert Preston, Pat Hingle, Aline MacMahon, Thomas Chalmers

Synopsis: A seven year old and his mother cope with his father's death in an auto accident. His grieving mother is in denial, and the rush of well-meaning relatives fails to help the situation. The boy observes the reaction of adults to the death of his father, taking refuge in the world and games of Read More

1963
The Night of the Hunter

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish, Billy Chapin, Evelyn Varden, Peter Graves

Synopsis: Adapted by James Agee from a novel by Davis Grubb, The Night of the Hunter represented legendary actor Charles Laughton's only film directing effort. Combining stark realism with Germanic expressionism, the movie is a brilliant good-and-evil parable, with "good" represented by a couple of farm Read More

1955
Genghis Khan

Actors: Manuel Conde, Elvira Reyes, Lou Salvador

Synopsis: This colorful if somewhat truncated biopic of the legendary Mongol leader was filmed in the Philippines. Manuel Conde (the film's producer) stars as Temujin, the peasant later to be known as Genghis Khan. In rapid-fire order, Temujin fights a rival tribe over the rights to water hole, avenges the Read More

1952
Face to Face

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: James Mason, Gene Lockhart, Michael Pate, Robert Preston, Albert Sharpe, Marjorie Steele, Sean McClory

Synopsis: RKO's Face to Face joined the "multistoried film" bandwagon set in motion by the Somerset Maugham omnibus films of the late 1940s. Produced by Huntington Hartford, Face to Face consists of two classic American short stories, each running approximately 45 minutes. Directed by John Brahm, "The Read More

1952
The African Queen

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Katharine Hepburn, Robert Morley, Peter Bull, Theodore Bikel

Synopsis: After years of wooing director John Huston via good reviews, film critic James Agee was given a chance to write the screenplay for a Huston picture. Adapted from a novel by C.S. Forester, The African Queen stars Humphrey Bogart in his Oscar-winning portrayal of Charlie Allnut, the slovenly Read More

1951
The Quiet One

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Donald Thompson, Sadie Stockton, Estelle Evans

Synopsis: The Quiet One relates, in semidocumentary fashion, the inner workings of the Wiltwyck School for Boys at Esopus, New York. The nonprofessional cast is headed by Donald Thompson as emotionally disturbed youth Donald Peters. Under the compassionate ministrations of a psychiatric counselor (Clarence Cooper Read More

1948