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Stanley Kubrick was born in New York City on 26 July 1928 and grew up in the Bronx. A precociously intellectual child, he inherited from his father, a doctor, an interest in still photography and became a staff photographer on Look magazine at the age of 17.
Turning to motion pictures, in the space of five years Kubrick directed three short documentaries and three low-budget independent features - Fear and Desire (US, 1953), Killer's Kiss (US, 1955) and The Killing (US, 1956) - which he also wrote and/or photographed.
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These gained sufficient notice for him to attract Kirk Douglas to star in his first major Hollywood picture, Paths of Glory (1957). The actor later returned the favour by hiring Kubrick at a weekend's notice to take over his massive production of Spartacus (US, 1960) after Douglas had dismissed its original director, Anthony Mann.
Spartacus was the only film over which Kubrick did not have full control.
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