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Birth Name:Francesco Rosario Capra

Birth Place:Bisacquino, Sicily, Italy

Profession Director, producer, writer

6 Weird Facts You Didn't Know About It's a Wonderful Life

It was once considered Communist propaganda!

Mon, Dec 12, 2016

Ratings: Football, Wonderful Life Most Popular over Christmas Weekend

On Christmas Eve and Christmas, people who squeezed in some television amidst all the opening of presents, eating and visiting the folks went with an old holiday standby and — what else? — football.

Tue, Dec 27, 2011

The Guide to Weekend TV: Syfy's Neverland, Michael J. Fox on The Good Wife and More!

First, a few words about fairy tales, one of the more unexpectedly hot trends of this TV season ...

Fri, Dec 2, 2011

Columbo Star Peter Falk Dies at 83

Columbo star Peter Falk, who won four Emmys for playing the absent-minded detective, has died. He was 83.Falk died at his Beverly Hills home Thursday evening, his family said in a statement. Falk had suffered from dementia, a result of a series of dental operations in 2007.See other celebs we lost this yearA New York City native, Falk was 3 when he underwent an operation to remove a malignant tumor in his right eye that left him with a glass eye. Rejected from the armed forces because of his glass eye, he joined the United States Merchant Marines before becoming ...

Fri, Jun 24, 2011

Roush Review: Ms. Griffin Goes to Washington

One of the most unlikely—on paper, anyway—regulars at the Emmy party the last few years has been the infamously outspoken Kathy Griffin and her cheeky Bravo docu-reality series My Life on the D-List. Including this year, it has been nominated five times for Outstanding Reality Program and won twice. This year, her hefty and relatively high-minded competition includes...

Tue, Jul 13, 2010

Stephen Colbert, Rainn Wilson and More News Briefs

Stephen Colbert has been named the Associated Press' Celebrity of the Year, for "exceed[ing] the influence of most real pundits, orchestrating an ill-fated run for president and topping best-seller lists with I Am America (And So Can You!)".... The Office's Rainn Wilson has the blessing of the WGA to host the 2008 Spirit Awards on Feb. 23, 2008.... Gossip Girl's Chuck, aka Ed Westwick, and his band The Filthy Youth lend two songs, "Orange" and "Come Flash All You Ladies," to the Jan. 2 episode.... Frank Capra Jr., president of EUE/Screen Gems Studios (where over the years he shepherded such fare as Dawson's Creek and 28 Days) and the son of It's a Wonderful Life's director, died Wednesday at the age of 73.

Fri, Dec 21, 2007