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ELIA KAZAN, 94 The most influential and intense theater director of midcentury America, Kazan also discovered and nourished a new breed of actors. His best films-- "A Streetcar Named Desire," "On the Waterfront," "East of Eden," "A Face in the Crowd," "Wild River," "Splendor in the Grass"--still burn with a particularly American mixture of rage, desire and hurt.