Czechoslovakian-born Jack Garfein survived imprisonment in the
Auschwitz concentration camp during WW2 and came to the US at age 15.
After a few years of college, he became a stage actor, then a director.
After his Broadway directorial debut in 1953, he joined the Actors
Studio, and married one of his fellow students,
Carroll Baker. Although Garfein directed a
number of TV shows and numerous Broadway plays, his film output has
been minimal, with only three films since 1957. One of them was
Something Wild (1961) starring his
wife, an offbeat little film about a rape victim's growing relationship
with a man who rescues her from a suicide attempt, then imprisons her
in his basement apartment, hoping that she will fall in love with him.
Something Wild(1961)
The Strange One(1957)
Windows(1955)
The Marriage(1954)
The Web(1950)
Something Wild in the City(2017)
Prime Real Estate(2026)
The Sexton's Wife(2009)
The Wild One(2022)as Self
Cinéma par Yvan Attal(2019)
A Master Class with Jack Garfein(2017)as Self
Criterion: Closet Picks(2010)as Self
TCM Remembers 2020(2020)as Self - Director