The acclaimed actor directed just one film—Night of the Hunter (1955)—which critics destroyed so savagely that he fell into deep depression and abandoned filmmaking entirely. He died of cancer in 1962 still believing his movie was an embarrassing failure, unaware that it would eventually be revered as a masterpiece and cited as a key influence by Guillermo del Toro and Martin Scorsese.
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