* 1948 – Avi Arad, Israeli-American businessman and film producer, founded Marvel Studios

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

* Johnny Belinda ( 1948 film ) by Elmer Blaney Harris.

In the film serials Superman ( 1948 ) and Atom Man vs. Superman ( 1950 ), Kirk Alyn portrays Clark as a mild-mannered reporter who comes to Metropolis and secures a job at the Daily Planet, following the death of his foster parents.

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

* 1894 – Warren William, American Broadway and film actor ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director

* 1948 – Jed Johnson, American interior designer and film director ( d. 1996 )

Errol Mark Morris ( born February 5, 1948 ) is an American film director.

Early films, including those from the silent era, which feature the station include Traffic in Souls ( 1913 ), which starred Matt Moore ; The Yellow Passport ( 1916 ), starring Clara Kimball Young ; My Boy ( 1921 ), starring Jackie Coogan ; Frank Capra's The Strong Man ( 1926 ), starring Harry Langdon ; We Americans ( 1928 ), starring John Boles ; The Mating Call ( film ), 1928, co-starring Thomas Meighan and Renée Adorée ; Ellis Island ( 1936 ), starring Donald Cook ; Paddy O ' Day ( 1936 ), starring Jane Withers ; Gateway ( 1938 ), starring Don Ameche ; Exile Express ( 1939 ), which starred Anna Sten ; I, Jane Doe ( 1948 ), starring Ruth Hussey and Vera Ralston, and Gambling House ( 1951 ), starring Victor Mature

Arden portrayed the character on radio from 1948 to 1957, in a television version of the program from 1952 to 1956, and in a 1956 feature film.

* 1948 – Christopher Guest, American film actor and director

* 1948 – Errol Morris, American film director

Fellini also worked with Rossellini on the anthology film L ' Amore ( 1948 ), co-writing the screenplay and in one segment titled, " The Miracle ", acting opposite Anna Magnani.

In 1948, Hawks made Red River, an epic western reminiscent of Mutiny on the Bounty starring John Wayne and Montgomery Clift in his first film.

Olivier later used some of these same ideas in his 1948 film version of the play.

Laurence Olivier's 1948 moody black-and-white Hamlet won best picture and best actor Oscars, and is still, as of 2011, the only Shakespeare film to have done so.

from the trailer of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( film ) | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 )

( Santana was also the name of the cabin cruiser featured in the 1948 film Key Largo ).

It is also true that none of Cocteau's works has inspired as much imitation: Francis Poulenc's opera La Voix humaine, Gian Carlo Menotti's " opera bouffa " The Telephone and Roberto Rosselini's film version in Italian with Anna Magnani L ' Amore ( 1948 ).

* 1875 – D. W. Griffith, American film director ( d. 1948 )

* 1874 – Fred Niblo, American film actor, director, producer ( d. 1948 )

* 1879 – Charles Bryant, British actor and film director ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director

* 1948 – John Carpenter, American film director

Debuting as a director with The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), John Huston followed with the major noirs Key Largo ( 1948 ) and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

Other successes followed, including To Have and Have Not ( 1944 ); The Big Sleep ( 1946 ); Dark Passage ( 1947 ) and Key Largo ( 1948 ), with his wife Lauren Bacall ; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ); In a Lonely Place ( 1950 ); The African Queen ( 1951 ), for which he won his only Academy Award ; Sabrina ( 1954 ); and The Caine Mutiny ( 1954 ).

Key events that began the Cold War included Soviet, Yugoslav, Bulgarian, and Albanian intervention in the Greek civil war on the side of the communists, and the creation of the Berlin blockade by the Soviet Union in 1948.

He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered classics: The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), The Treasure of the Sierra Madre ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ), The African Queen ( 1951 ), Moulin Rouge ( 1952 ), The Misfits ( 1961 ), and The Man Who Would Be King ( 1975 ).

Until 1948, streetcar line # 7 of the Key System ran to Kensington from Berkeley along Arlington Avenue, terminating in the small commercial area at Amherst Avenue.

In 1948 the federal government sold Mullet Key to Pinellas County for park and recreation facilities, now Fort De Soto Park.

He appeared for director John Huston as gangster Johnny Rocco in Key Largo ( 1948 ), the last of five films he made with Humphrey Bogart and the only one in which Bogart did not play a supporting role.

* Key Largo ( 1948 )

From the late 1940s he played in more prestigious pictures, including Captain from Castile starring Tyrone Power, Key Largo with Humphrey Bogart, ( 1948 ), Lust for Gold with Glenn Ford ( 1949 ), Broken Arrow ( 1950 ) with James Stewart, War Arrow ( 1953 ) with Maureen O ' Hara, Jeff Chandler and Noah Beery, Jr., Drums Across the River ( 1954 ), Walk the Proud Land ( 1956 ) with Audie Murphy and Anne Bancroft, Alias Jesse James ( 1959 ) with Bob Hope, and Indian Paint ( 1964 ) with Johnny Crawford.

After disputes between the Army and the Air Force ( see the Key West Agreement ), all longer-range systems were assigned to the Air Force during 1948.

* " Key Largo " ( 1948 ) with Karl Suesdorf, Leah Worth

* In " Urban's Crusade -- Success or Failure "( Key, 1948 ) it is argued, indeed to the contrary, that the emperor was disturbed by Hugh's report and the disquieting rumors emitting from Antioch ( on Bohemond's intent and conduct ) and promptly set out to prepare another expedition: "... Alexius immediately began preparations for another expedition, and he furthermore sent envoys to the crusaders to announce its coming.

* Key Largo – 1948 – play ( almost completely rewritten for the screen by John Huston and Richard Brooks )

* Key Largo ( 1948 )

** Key Largo ( film ), a 1948 film adaptation starring Humphrey Bogart

In the 1948 Warner Brothers film, Key Largo, Lionel Barrymore recalled the effects of the 1935 hurricane, as another hurricane bore down on the Florida Keys.

The island gained fame as the setting for the 1948 film Key Largo, but apart from background filming used for establishing shots, the film was shot on a Warner Brothers sound stage in Hollywood.

In 1948 Robinson portrayed a character very similar to Duke — a famous gangster holding a disparate group of people hostage in a Florida hotel — in Key Largo.

Lauren Bacall's character in the 1948 movie " Key Largo " wore ankle-laced espadrilles.

Wald produced and wrote many films between the 1930s and 1960s including Stars Over Broadway ( 1935 ), The Roaring Twenties ( 1939 ), On Your Toes ( 1939, in collaboration with playwright Lawrence Riley ), They Drive by Night ( 1940 ), Navy Blues ( 1941 ), Across the Pacific ( 1942 ), The Man Who Came to Dinner ( 1942 ), Destination Tokyo ( 1943 ), Mildred Pierce ( 1945 ), Johnny Belinda ( 1948 ), Key Largo ( 1948 ), Always Leave Them Laughing ( 1949 ), The Glass Menagerie ( 1950 ), Perfect Strangers ( 1950 ), Two Tickets to Broadway ( 1951 ), The Blue Veil ( 1951 ), Peyton Place ( 1957 ), An Affair to Remember ( 1957 ), In Love and War ( 1958 ), The Sound and the Fury ( 1959 ), Sons and Lovers ( 1960 ), Return to Peyton Place ( 1961 ) and Wild in the Country ( 1961 ).