"2001: A Space Odyssey" Stanley Kubrick and cast 1968 MGM
				
				
						 Caption: "2001: A Space Odyssey" Stanley Kubrick and cast 1968 MGM
																																				
						Director, Writer, Producer
						Born: July 26, 1928
						Star sign: Leo
						Height: 5' 6½" (1.69 m)
						Known for: A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), Full Metal Jacket (1987), 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
						Source: IMDB
						Stanley Kubrick was born in New York, and was considered intelligent despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would produce better academic performance, Kubrick's father Jack (a physician) sent him in 1940 to Pasadena, California, to stay with his uncle Martin Perveler. Returning to the Bronx in 1941 for his last year of ...