Columbia Pictures (Q186941) · Public domain

Made thirteen features in forty-six years and reshaped what a film could attempt in most of the genres he touched — science fiction with 2001, horror with The Shining, war with Paths of Glory and Full Metal Jacket, satire with Dr. Strangelove. A Bronx-born photographer for Look magazine at seventeen, he moved to England and worked with a control over every frame that became legendary and occasionally unbearable. Dr. Strangelove remains the most useful thing anyone has made about nuclear command and control.