Biography
László Benedek (also credited as Laslo Benedek) was a Hungarian-born film director and cinematographer. Born in Budapest on 5 March 1905, he worked as a writer and editor in Hungarian cinema before emigrating to the United States, where he began directing feature films in Hollywood in the mid-1940s.
He directed the screen adaptation of Death of a Salesman (1951), for which he received the Golden Globe Award for Best Director. Benedek is best known for The Wild One (1953), a motorcycle gang film that provoked controversy and was banned in the United Kingdom until 1968. He also directed episodes of television series including Perry Mason, The Outer Limits, The Fugitive (1963), Mannix and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.
Benedek directed films in Germany and France and continued working in both cinema and television until the 1970s. He died in the Bronx, New York, on 11 March 1992.
