For other people named Arthur Penn, see Arthur Penn (disambiguation).
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Arthur Hiller Penn (September 27, 1922 - September 28, 2010) was an American film director and producer with a career as a theater director as well. Penn amassed a critically acclaimed body of work throughout the 1960s, but by the mid 70s his films were received with much less enthusiasm, and by the 1980s "his film career began to falter".

Early years [edit]
Penn was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the son of Sonia (Greenberg), a nurse, and Harry Penn, a watchmaker. He was the younger brother of Irving Penn, the successful fashion photographer. During the 1920s, he moved in with his mother after she divorced Penn's father. Some time after, he came back to his sickly father, leading him to run his father's watch repair shop. At 19 he was drafted into the army. Stationed in Britain, he became interested in theater. He started to direct and take part in shows being put on for the soldiers around England at the time. As Penn grew up, he further became interested in film, especially after he saw the Orson Welles film Citizen Kane. He later attended Black Mountain College in North Carolina, and is a featured commentator in the documentary Fully Awake about the college.
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