James Ivory - biography

“Meeting Ismail [Merchant] and Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, it all came about so naturally and so swiftly.  In a way it happened before I was ready for it.  I didn’t know anything when I first started out.”

James Ivory directed the following films:
Venice: Themes and Variations (1957)
The Sword and the Flute (1959)
The Householder (1963)
The Delhi Way (1964)
Shakespeare-Wallah (1965)
The Guru (1969)
Bombay Talkie (1970)
Savages (1972)
The Wild Party (1975)
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
Roseland (1977)
The Europeans (1979)
Jane Austen in Manhattan (1980)
Quartet (1981)
Heat and Dust (1983)
The Bostonians (1984)
A Room with a View (1985)
Maurice (1987)
Slaves of New York (1989)
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1990)
Howards End (1992)
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
Lumière et compagnie (1995)
Surviving Picasso (1996)
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (1998)
The Golden Bowl (2000)
Le Divorce (2003)
The White Countess (2005)
The City of Your Final Destination (2007)

James Ivory contributed to the screenplay for the following films:
Venice: Themes and Variations (1957)
The Sword and the Flute (1959)
The Delhi Way (1964)
Shakespeare-Wallah (1965)
The Guru (1969)
Bombay Talkie (1970)
Savages (1972)
Autobiography of a Princess (1975)
Quartet (1981)
Maurice (1987)
Slaves of New York (1989)
Jefferson in Paris (1995)
A Soldier’s Daughter Never Cries (1998)
Le Divorce (2003)
The White Countess (2005)