Martin Ritt, American actor and film director (died 1990)

Martin Ritt

American film and theatre director (1914–1990)

Martin Ritt was an American director, producer, and actor, active in film, theatre and television. He was known mainly as an auteur of socially-conscious dramas and literary adaptations, described by Stanley Kauffmann as "one of the most underrated American directors, superbly…