Stanley Kubrick has a career as a director.
A Clockwork Orange is a 1971 dystopian crime film adapted , produced , and directed by Stanley Kubrick , based on Anthony Burgess 's 1962 novel A Clockwork Orange . Spartacus is a 1960 American epic historical drama film directed by Stanley Kubrick . Stanley Kubrick . After working as a photographer for Look magazine in the late 1940s and early 1950s , he began making short films on a shoestring budget , and made his first major Hollywood film , The Killing , for United Artists in 1956 . The Killing is a 1956 film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick and produced by James B. Harris .