Biography

Billy Wilder, William Wyler, and Joseph L. Mankiewicz signed for Hubert on his Director's Guild of America (DGA) application.

Turkish-born Hollywood director of sparse output, the son of Albert Cornfield, a Twentieth Century Fox executive and movie exhibitor. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and acquired an interest in films growing up in Paris and befriending New Wave directors Jean Luc-Godard, Francois Traffaut and Jean-Pierre Melville. Cornfield's American films in the 50's and 60's have been received with mixed critical reviews.

Best known as the director who went head-to-head with Marlon Brando on the set of his Neo Noir thriller The Night of the Following Day, for which Brando refused to do the final parts of the movie and Richard Boone had to direct (after which Brando fought with Boone).

Provides the DVD Commentary for The Night of the Following Day, using a voice box to speak. There he describes his own side on the troubled production.

After the Film Noir Plunder Road, a heist film, he continued to make Noir style movies even after Noir ended, into the early sixties like The 3rd Voice, and then his most famous, The Night of the Following Day, a Neo Noir kidnapping thriller starring Marlon Brando.