Stanley Kubrick
American film director, whose Dr. Strangelove supplies the CivBench essay with its recurring imagery.
PersonSources & confidence: Qualified confidence
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Filmmaker identity and lifespan 1928–1999.
- University of the Arts London — Stanley Kubrick Archive
Filmmaker identity and lifespan 1928–1999.
- Wikidata entity identity and cross-references
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Recorded as the director of Dr. Strangelove.
profession is other because the controlled vocabulary, which exists to serve
the engineer-versus-lawyer question in the case records, has no value for a
filmmaker. That is a limitation of the enum rather than a judgement about him.
In the essays
- I Gave an AI a Civilization to Run. It Built a Nuke.
Read the essay
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