Lewis Milestone

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Lewis Milestone
Milestone during the filming of All Quiet on the Western Front, 1930
Born	Leib Milstein (1895-09-30)September 30, 1895 Kishinev, Bessarabia Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	September 25, 1980(1980-09-25) (aged 84) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Citizenship	Russia (until 1919) United States (from 1919)
Occupations	Film director producer screenwriter
Years active	1915–1964
Spouse	Kendall Lee ​ ​ (m. 1935; died 1978)​

Lewis Milestone (born Leib Milstein (Russian: Лейб Мильштейн);^[1] September 30, 1895 – September 25, 1980) was an American film director. Milestone directed Two Arabian Knights (1927) and All Quiet on the Western Front (1930), both of which received the Academy Award for Best Director. He also directed The Front Page (1931), The General Died at Dawn (1936), Of Mice and Men (1939), Ocean's 11 (1960), and received the directing credit for Mutiny on the Bounty (1962), though Marlon Brando largely appropriated his responsibilities during its production.^[2]