Stanley Kubrick (/ˈkuːbrɪk/ July 26, 1928 - March 7, 1999) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer. His parents married in a Jewish ceremony, but Kubrick did not have a spiritual upbringing and later professed an atheistic view of the universe. New York Homeopathic Medical College in 1927, the same calendar year he married Kubrick's mom, the baby of Austrian-Jewish immigrants.