Herman Melville

Herman Melville was born on Aug 01, 1819 in USA. Herman Melville's big-screen debut came with The Sea Beast directed by Millard Webb in 1926. Herman Melville is known for Moby-Dick directed by Frank Zamacona, Patrick Summers stars as Self - Condutor and Jay Hunter Morris as Captain Ahab, Commander of the Pequod. The upcoming new movie Herman Melville plays is L'homme silencieux which will be released on Oct 13, 2021.

Herman Melville was an American novelist, short story writer, and poet of the American Renaissance period. Among his best-known works are Moby-Dick (1851); Typee (1846), a romanticized account of his experiences in Polynesia; and Billy Budd, Sailor, a posthumously published novella. Although his reputation was not high at the time of his death, the 1919 centennial of his birth was the starting point of a Melville revival, and Moby-Dick grew to be considered one of the great American novels.