motion picture
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ...
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television
Television, sometimes shortened to TV, is a telecommunication medium for transmitting moving images and sound. The term can refer to a television set, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, ...
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Dodo Abashidze
David "Dodo" Abashidze ( ka, დავით ოდოაბაშიძე; russian: Дави́д Ива́нович Абаши́дзе; 1 May 1924 – 26 January 1990) was a Soviet Georgian film actor and director. Abashidze, who joined ...
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George Abbott
George Francis Abbott (June 25, 1887 – January 31, 1995) was an American theatre producer, director, playwright, screenwriter, film director and producer whose career spanned eight decades.
Early years
Abbott was born in Forestville, New Y ...
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Norman Abbott
Norman Abbott (July 11, 1922 – July 9, 2016) was an American vaudevillian, actor, producer and television director.
Abbott was born in New York City, where his uncle, comedian Bud Abbott, and his mother raised him. His early experience in ...
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Phil Abraham
Phil Abraham is an American cinematographer and television director. He worked on all six seasons of ''The Sopranos'', initially as a camera operator, then as a cinematographer and eventually as an episodic director. He won the 2008 Primetime Emm ...
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Jim Abrahams
James S. Abrahams (born May 10, 1944) is an American movie director and writer, best known as a member of Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker.
Life and career
Abrahams was born to a Jewish family in Shorewood, Wisconsin, the son of Louise M. (née Oge ...
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Abiola Abrams
Abiola Abrams is an American author, podcaster, motivational speaker and spiritual life coach. Abrams has penned three books, including ''African Goddess Initiation: Sacred Rituals for Self-Love, Prosperity, and Joy'', her first book from self- ...
Ivan Abramson
Ivan Abramson (1869 – September 15, 1934) was a director of American silent films in the 1910s and 1920s.Klein, Uru (10 December 2009)Cinema in the time of war, ''Haaretz''
Abramson emigrated to the United States from Russia in the 1880s and s ...
Hany Abu-Assad
Hany Abu-Assad ( ar, هاني أبو أسعد; born 11 October 1961) is a Palestinian-Dutch film director. He has received two Academy Award nominations: in 2006 for his film ''Paradise Now'', and again in 2013 for his film ''Omar''.
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Tengiz Abuladze
Tengiz Abuladze ( ka, თენგიზ აბულაძე; 31 January 1924 – 6 March 1994) was a Georgian film director, screenwriter, theatre teacher and People's Artist of the USSR. He is regarded as one of the best Soviet directors.
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Herbert Achternbusch
Herbert Achternbusch ( Schild; 23 November 1938 – 10 January 2022) was a German film director, writer and painter. He began as a writer of avant-garde prose, such as the novel ''Die Alexanderschlacht'', before turning to low-budget films. He h ...
Andrew Adamson
Andrew Ralph Adamson (born 1 December 1966) is a New Zealand film director, producer, and screenwriter based in Los Angeles, where he directed the Academy Award-winning animated films '' Shrek'' and '' Shrek 2''. He was director, executive p ...
Carine Adler
Carine Adler, Baroness Reid of Cardowan (born 1948) is a Brazilian screenwriter and film director.
Career
Adler's break came when the British Film Institute asked her to develop her short film ''Touch and Go'' into a full-length feature. Th ...
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Percy Adlon
Paul Rudolf Parsifal "Percy" Adlon (; born 1 June 1935) is a German director, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known for his film '' Bagdad Cafe''. He is associated with the New German Cinema movement (ca. 1965–1985), and has been noted ...
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John G. Adolfi
John Gustav Adolfi (February 19, 1888 – May 11, 1933) was an American silent film director, actor, and screenwriter who was involved in more than 100 productions throughout his career. An early acting credit was in the recently restored 1912 f ...
Ben Affleck
Benjamin Géza Affleck (born August 15, 1972) is an American actor and filmmaker. His accolades include two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards and a Volpi Cup.
Affleck began his career as a child when he starred in the PBS education ...
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Casey Affleck
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt (born August 12, 1975) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award and a Satellite Award. He ...
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Neil Affleck
Neil Affleck is a Canadian animator, director, and actor. He has worked as an animator on ''The Simpsons'' and ''Family Guy''. As an actor, he appeared in the 1981 film '' Scanners'' and had a leading role in the 1981 film '' My Bloody Valentine ...
Alejandro Agresti
Alejandro Agresti (born June 2, 1961, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine film director, writer and producer. A prominent filmmaker in his country, he also directed ''The Lake House (film), The Lake House'' with Hollywood, Los Angeles, Hollywood acto ...
Caroline Aherne
Caroline Mary Aherne (24 December 1963 – 2 July 2016) was an English actress, comedian and writer. She was best known for performing as the acerbic chat show host '' Mrs Merton'', in various roles in '' The Fast Show'', and as Denise in '' The ...
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Abdel Rahim Ahmed
Abdel Rahim Ahmed ( ar, عبدالرحـيم أحمد) is an Egyptian director and author, born in Egypt, graduated from the 6 October University, Faculty of Applied Arts, Department of Photography, Film and Television, and then studied film dir ...
Alexandre Aja
Alexandre Jouan-Arcady, known professionally as Alexandre Aja, (; born 7 August 1978) is a French filmmaker best known for his work in the horror genre. He rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film '' Haute Tension'' (known as ''Hi ...
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Chantal Akerman
Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles' ...
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Desiree Akhavan
Desiree Akhavan (born December 27, 1984) is an American filmmaker, writer and actress. She is best known for her 2014 feature film debut ''Appropriate Behavior'',Fatih Akın
Fatih Akin (Turkish: Fatih Akın, born 25 August 1973) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer of Turkish descent. He has won numerous awards for his films, including the Golden Bear (award), Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival ...
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Moustapha Akkad
Moustapha Al Akkad ( ar, مصطفى العقاد; July 1, 1930 – November 11, 2005) was a Syrian-American film producer and director, best known for producing the original series of ''Halloween'' films and directing '' The Message'' and ' ...
Félix Enríquez Alcalá
Félix Enríquez Alcalá (sometimes credited as Felix Alcala) (born March 7, 1951 in Bakersfield, California) is an Argentinean-American film and television director.
Career
Alcalá's first major breakthrough came in 1991 when he was hired by ...
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Alan Alda
Alan Alda (; born Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo; January 28, 1936) is an American actor, screenwriter, and director. A six-time Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner, he is best known for playing Captain Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the war come ...
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Robert Aldrich
Robert Burgess Aldrich (August 9, 1918 – December 5, 1983) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His notable credits include '' Vera Cruz'' (1954), '' Kiss Me Deadly'' (1955), '' The Big Knife'' (1955), '' Autumn ...
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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (; December 11, 1928 – April 16, 1996) was a Cuban film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed more than twenty features, documentaries, and short films, which are known for his sharp insight into post-Revolu ...
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Grigori Aleksandrov
Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov or Alexandrov (russian: Григо́рий Васи́льевич Алекса́ндров; original family name was Мормоненко or Mormonenko; 23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983) was a prominent Soviet ...
Jason Alexander
Jay Scott Greenspan (born September 23, 1959), known professionally as Jason Alexander, is an American actor, comedian, host and director. An Emmy and Tony winner, he is best known for his role as George Costanza in the television series '' ...
Sherman Alexie
Sherman Joseph Alexie Jr. (born October 7, 1966) is a Spokane- Coeur d'Alene-Native American novelist, short story writer, poet, screenwriter, and filmmaker. His writings draw on his experiences as an Indigenous American with ancestry from se ...
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Ozzie Alfonso
Ozzie Alfonso (born August 14, 1945) was the director and one of three Senior Producers of ''3-2-1 Contact'' from season 2 to 8 when the series stopped production. He was also one of the writers for the series from season 3 through 8. Following ...
Marc Allégret
Marc Allégret (22 December 1900 – 3 November 1973) was a French screenwriter, photographer and film director.
Biography
Born in Basel, Basel-Stadt, Switzerland, he was the elder brother of Yves Allégret. Marc was educated to be a lawyer in ...
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Yves Allégret
Yves Allégret (13 October 1905 – 31 January 1987) was a French film director, often working in the film noir genre. He was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine and died in Paris.
He was an assistant to film directors such as his broth ...
Irwin Allen
Irwin Allen (born Irwin O. Cohen, June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991) was an American film and television producer and director, known for his work in science fiction, then later as the "Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genr ...
Woody Allen
Heywood "Woody" Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg; November 30, 1935) is an American film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films. He began his career writing ...
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Syed Ali Raza Usama
Syed Ali Raza Usama ( ur, ) is a Pakistani TV, drama (serial) director at Geo Tv and former creative director at AAJ TV. As a film director, he directed acclaimed drama serials such as '' Bashar Momin'' and '' Khuda Aur Muhabbat (season 1)''. ...
Pedro Almodóvar
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (; (often known simply as Almodóvar) born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish filmmaker. His films are marked by melodrama, irreverent humour, bold colour, glossy décor, quotations from popular culture, and complex narra ...
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Paul Almond
Paul Almond (April 26, 1931 – April 9, 2015) was a Canadian television and motion picture screenwriter, director, producer, and novelist. He is most known for being the director of the first film in the '' Up'' series.
Life and career
Paul A ...
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Robert Altman
Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and is considered an enduring figure from the New ...
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Fede Álvarez
Federico Álvarez (born February 9, 1978) is a Uruguayan filmmaker. He is known for directing ''Evil Dead'' (2013) and '' Don't Breathe'' (2016), as well as his short film '' Ataque de Pánico!'' (2009).
Life and career
Álvarez was born in Mo ...
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Silvio Amadio
Silvio Amadio (8 August 1926 – 19 August 1995) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He directed 24 films between 1957 and 1981. His film '' Wolves of the Deep'' was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He is kn ...
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Mathieu Amalric
Mathieu Amalric (; born 25 October 1965) is a French actor and filmmaker. He is best known internationally for his roles in the James Bond film ''Quantum of Solace'', in which he played the lead villain, Steven Spielberg's ''Munich'', Wes Ander ...
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Rod Amateau
Rodney Amateau (December 20, 1923 – June 29, 2003) was an American film and television screenwriter, director, and producer.
Career
Among the programs that he directed were '' The Dennis Day Show'', ''The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show'', ...
Gianni Amelio
Gianni Amelio (born 20 January 1945) is an Italian film director.
Early life
Amelio was born in San Pietro di Magisano, province of Catanzaro, Calabria. His father moved to Argentina soon after his birth. He spent his youth and adolescence with h ...
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Alejandro Amenábar
Alejandro Fernando Amenábar Cantos (born March 31, 1972) is a Spanish-Chilean film director, screenwriter and composer. He has won nine Goyas—including a Goya Award for Best Director for his 2001 film '' The Others''— two European Film A ...
Ana Lily Amirpour
Ana Lily Amirpour ( fa, آنا لیلی امیرپور) is a British-born American film director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She is best known for her feature film debut ''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'', self-described as "the first ...
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Dev Anand
Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand (26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011), better known as Dev Anand, was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema, through a career that spanned over six decades. He was ...
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Sean Anders
Sean Anders (born June 19, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter.
Career
He co-wrote and directed the 2005 film '' Never Been Thawed'', the 2008 film ''Sex Drive'', the 2014 film ''Horrible Bosses 2'', the 2015 film '' Daddy's Ho ...
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Thom Andersen
Thom Andersen (born 1943 in Chicago) is an American filmmaker, film critic, and teacher best known for his works of experimental film, including his 1975 film '' Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer'' and the 2003 essay film '' Los Angeles Plays It ...
Broncho Billy Anderson
Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson (born Maxwell Henry Aronson; March 21, 1880 – January 20, 1971) was an American actor, writer, film director, and film producer, who was the first star of the Western film genre. He was a founder and star ...
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Deborah Anderson
Deborah Leigh Anderson (born 16 December 1970) is an English musician, photographer, and film director. Her early music work was as a vocalist on her father Jon Anderson's albums. Her 1995 single " Feel the Sunshine" was her first song that cha ...
Lindsay Anderson
Lindsay Gordon Anderson (17 April 1923 – 30 August 1994) was a British feature-film, theatre and documentary director, film critic, and leading-light of the Free Cinema movement and of the British New Wave. He is most widely remembered for ...
Paul Thomas Anderson
Paul Thomas Anderson (born June 26, 1970), also known by his initials PTA, is an American filmmaker. He made his feature-film debut with '' Hard Eight'' (1996). He found critical and commercial success with ''Boogie Nights'' (1997) and received ...
Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American filmmaker. His films are known for their eccentricity and unique visual and narrative styles. They often contain themes of grief, loss of innocence, and dysfunctional families. Cited by ...
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Roy Andersson
Roy Arne Lennart Andersson (born 31 March 1943) is a Swedish film director, best known for ''A Swedish Love Story'' (1970), '' About Endlessness'' (2019) and his "Living trilogy," which includes ''Songs from the Second Floor'' (2000), ''You, th ...
Kostas Andritsos
Kostas Andritsos, also known as George Andrews ( el, Κώστας Ανδρίτσος; 1 May 1916, Athens – 10 October 1993) was a Greek film director and writer.
Selected filmography
*Oneira koritsion 1953
*Bouboulina 1959
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Theo Angelopoulos
Theodoros "Theo" Angelopoulos (; ; 27 April 1935 – 24 January 2012) was a Greek filmmaker, screenwriter and film producer. He dominated the Greek art film industry from 1975 on, and Angelopoulos was one of the most influential and widely re ...
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Kenneth Anger
Kenneth Anger (born Kenneth Wilbur Anglemyer, February 3, 1927) is an American underground experimental filmmaker, actor, and author. Working exclusively in short films, he has produced almost 40 works since 1937, nine of which have been grouped ...
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Threes Anna
Threes Anna (pseudonym of Threes Schreurs, born in Vlaardingen, The Netherlands, 1959) is a novelist, theatre and film maker.
Biography
Threes Anna is trained as a visual artist. In 1985, Anna was engaged in theatre company Dogtroep, special ...
Ken Annakin
Kenneth Cooper Annakin, OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was an English film director.
His career spanned half a century, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in 2002, and in the 1960s he was noticed by critics with large-scale adventu ...
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Jean-Jacques Annaud
Jean-Jacques Annaud (; born 1 October 1943) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing ''Quest for Fire'' (1981), ''The Name of the Rose'' (1986), '' The Bear'' (1988), '' The Lover'' (1992), '' Seven Years in ...
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Hideaki Anno
is a Japanese animator, filmmaker and actor. He is best known for creating the anime series ''Neon Genesis Evangelion'' (1995)''.'' His style is defined by his postmodernist approach and the extensive portrayal of characters' thoughts and emotio ...
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Arnold Antonin
Arnold Antonin (born 1942 in Port-au-Prince, Haiti) is a Haitian film director.
A man of diverse careers, Arnold Antonin is known both inside and outside Haiti for his social, political and cultural commitment. He was honored for lifetime achie ...
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Michelangelo Antonioni
Michelangelo Antonioni (, ; 29 September 1912 – 30 July 2007) was an Italian filmmaker. He is best known for directing his "trilogy on modernity and its discontents"—''L'Avventura'' (1960), ''La Notte'' (1961), and ''L'Eclisse'' (1962 ...
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Pan Anzi
Pan Anzi (born 1977 in Nanjing, Jiangsu) is a Chinese film director.
Filmography
*''Scheme with Me'' (2012)
*''The Palace'' (2013)
*''Crazy New Year's Eve'' (2015)
*''For a Few Bullets
''For a Few Bullets'' is a 2016 Chinese comedy western film ...
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Judd Apatow
Judd Apatow (; born December 6, 1967) is an American comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter, best known for his work in comedy and drama films. He is the founder of Apatow Productions, through which he produced and directed the films ' ...
Michael Apted
Michael David Apted, (10 February 1941 – 7 January 2021) was a British television and film director and producer.
Apted began working in television and directed the '' Up'' documentary series (1964–2019). He later directed '' Coal Miner's ...
Roscoe Arbuckle
Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked w ...
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Denys Arcand
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand (; born June 25, 1941) is a French Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer. His film ''The Barbarian Invasions'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 2004. His films have also been nominated three f ...
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George Archainbaud
George Archainbaud (May 7, 1890 – February 20, 1959) was a French-American film and television director.
Biography
In the beginning of his career he worked on stage as an actor and manager. He came to the United States in January 1914, and st ...
Asia Argento
Asia Argento (; born Aria Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento; 20 September 1975) is an Italian actress and filmmaker. The daughter of filmmaker Dario Argento, she has had roles in several of her father's features and achieved mainstream success with ...
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Dario Argento
Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and critic. His influential work in the horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as ''giallo'', has led him ...
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Adam Arkin
Adam Arkin (born August 19, 1956) is an American actor and director. He is known for playing the role of Aaron Shutt on ''Chicago Hope''. He has been nominated for numerous awards, including a Tony (Best Actor, 1991, '' I Hate Hamlet'') as well ...
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Allan Arkush
Allan Arkush (born April 30, 1948) is an American director and producer of films, television and videos. He is a collaborator of Joe Dante.
Early life
Arkush grew up in Fort Lee, New Jersey. He graduated in 1966 from Fort Lee High School. Hi ...
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Serena Armitage
Serena Armitage is a director and producer from North Yorkshire, UK. She is best known for producing the short film ''Stutterer'' that earned her an Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film at the 88th Academy Awards with director Benjamin C ...
Gillian Armstrong
Gillian May Armstrong (born 18 December 1950) is an Australian feature film and documentary director, who specializes in period drama. Her films often feature female perspectives and protagonists. Many of her movies are historical dramas.
E ...
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Andrea Arnold
Andrea Arnold, OBE (born 5 April 1961) is an English filmmaker and former actor. She won an Academy Award for her short film ''Wasp'' in 2005. Her feature films include '' Red Road'' (2006), ''Fish Tank'' (2009), and '' American Honey'' (2016), ...
Darren Aronofsky
Darren Aronofsky (born February 12, 1969) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His films are noted for their surrealistic, melodramatic, and sometimes disturbing elements, often in the form of psychological fiction.
Arono ...
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Fernando Arrabal
Fernando Arrabal Terán (born August 11, 1932) is a Spanish playwright, screenwriter, film director, novelist, and poet. He was born in Melilla and settled in France in 1955. Regarding his nationality, Arrabal describes himself as "desterrado" ...
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Miguel Arteta
Miguel Arteta (born 1965) is a Puerto Rican director of film and television, known for his independent film ''Chuck & Buck'' (2000), for which he received the Independent Spirit John Cassavetes Award, and for the films '' The Good Girl'' (2002 ...
Dorothy Arzner
Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. With the exception of longtime silent film director Lois Weber (who d ...
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Dinara Asanova
Dinara Kuldashevna Asanova (russian: Динара Кулдашевна Асанова) was born in Bishkek (formally Frunze) Kyrgyzstan on 24 October 1942. She was a Kyrgyz people, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and one of the most notable and ...
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Hal Ashby
William Hal Ashby (September 2, 1929 – December 27, 1988) was an American film director and editor associated with the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking.
Before his career as a director Ashby edited films for Norman Jewison, notably ''The R ...
Anthony Asquith
Anthony William Landon Asquith (; 9 November 1902 – 20 February 1968) was an English film director. He collaborated successfully with playwright Terence Rattigan on ''The Winslow Boy'' (1948) and '' The Browning Version'' (1951), among oth ...
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Olivier Assayas
Olivier Assayas (born 25 January 1955) is a French film director, screenwriter and film critic. Assayas is known for his slow-burning period pieces, psychological thrillers, neo-noirs and French comedies. His work has become synonymous with th ...
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Ari Aster
Ari Aster (born July 15, 1986) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for writing and directing the horror films ''Hereditary'' (2018) and '' Midsommar'' (2019).
Early life
Aster was born into a Jewish family in Ne ...
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Carlos Atanes
Carlos Atanes (born November 8, 1971) is a Spanish film director, writer and playwright. He was born in Barcelona, and is a member of The Film-Makers' Cooperative, founded by Jonas Mekas, Shirley Clarke, Ken Jacobs, Andy Warhol, Jack Smith (fil ...
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Richard Attenborough
Richard Samuel Attenborough, Baron Attenborough, (; 29 August 192324 August 2014) was an English actor, filmmaker, and entrepreneur. He was the president of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) and the British Academy of Film and Televisi ...
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Dan Attias
Daniel Attias (born December 4, 1951) is an American television director and producer. He is also director of his only feature film ''Silver Bullet'' from 1985, based on the novella by Stephen King. Attias' career has spanned four decades, duri ...
Jacqueline Audry
Jacqueline Audry (25 September 1908 – 22 June 1977) was a French film director who began making films in post- World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations. She was the first commercially successful female director of post-w ...
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John H. Auer
John H. Auer (August 3, 1906 in Budapest, Hungary – March 15, 1975 in North Hollywood, Los Angeles) was a Hungarian-born child actor who, on coming to the Americas in 1928, became a movie director and producer, initially in Mexico but, from th ...
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Bille August
Bille August (born 9 November 1948) is a Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer of film and television. In a career spanning over four decades, he has been the recipient of numerous accolades, making him one of the most acclaimed co ...
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Claude Autant-Lara
Claude Autant-Lara (; 5 August 1901 – 5 February 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP).
Biography
Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill Sc ...
Ilya Averbakh
Ilya Aleksandrovich Averbakh (russian: Илья Александрович Авербах) (July 28, 1934, Leningrad – January 11, 1986, Moscow) was a Soviet film director. His 1972 film, '' Monologue'', was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film F ...
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Tex Avery
Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, director, and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American animation. His mo ...
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John G. Avildsen
John Guilbert Avildsen (December 21, 1935 – June 16, 2017) was an American film director. He is perhaps best known for directing ''Rocky'' (1976), which earned him the Academy Award for Best Director, and the first three ''The Karate Kid'' fil ...
David Ayer
David Ayer (born January 18 , 1968) is an American filmmaker known for making crime films that are set in Los Angeles and deal with gangs and police corruption. His screenplays include ''Training Day'' (2001), ''The Fast and the Furious'' (2001 ...
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Dan Aykroyd
Daniel Edward Aykroyd ( ; born July 1, 1952) is a Canadian actor, comedian, producer, musician and writer. He was an original member of the "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" on ''Saturday Night Live'' (1975–1979). During his tenure on ''SNL'' ...
Nabil Ayouch
Nabil Ayouch (born 1 April 1969) is a Franco-Moroccan television and film director, producer, and writer. His films have screened at international film festivals including the Cannes Film Festival and Montreal World Film Festival.
Early life
H ...
Aclan Bates
Aclan Bates is an American film and theatre director who divides his time between Los Angeles and Ankara. He is a working actor/director in the Turkish State Theatres.
Stage and Film work
Director/Actor
*2019 Directed Sarah Ruhl's ''The Clean H ...
Jamie Babbit
Jamie Merill Babbit (born November 16, 1970) is an American director, producer and screenwriter. She directed the films '' But I'm a Cheerleader'', '' The Quiet'' and ''Itty Bitty Titty Committee''. She has also directed episodes of television pr ...
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Héctor Babenco
Héctor Eduardo Babenco (February 7, 1946July 13, 2016) was an Argentine-Brazilian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who worked in several countries including Brazil, Argentina, and the United States. He was one of the first Braz ...
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Lloyd Bacon
Lloyd Francis Bacon (December 4, 1889 – November 15, 1955) was an American screen, stage and vaudeville actor and film director. As a director he made films in virtually all genres, including westerns, musicals, comedies, gangster films, an ...
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Clarence G. Badger
Clarence G. Badger (June 9, 1880 – June 17, 1964) was an American film director of feature films in the 1910s, 1920s and 1930s. His films include '' It'' and ''Red Hair'', more than a dozen features and shorts starring Will Rogers, and two feat ...
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John Badham
John MacDonald Badham (born August 25, 1939) is an English television and film director, best known for his films ''Saturday Night Fever'' (1977), ''Dracula'' (1979), ''Blue Thunder'' (1983), ''WarGames'' (1983), ''Short Circuit'' (1986), and ...
Cindy Baer
Cindy Baer is an American actress, director, producer, and entrepreneur. She helms the production company Free Dream Pictures, located in Burbank, California.
She directed and produced the independent feature films ''Purgatory House'' and ''O ...
King Baggot
William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in Americ ...
Prano Bailey-Bond
Prano Bailey-Bond is a Welsh film director and writer. Her debut feature film, '' Censor'', premiered in 2021.
Career
Bailey-Bond studied at London College of Printing. She began directing with music videos and short films.
Her writing and dir ...
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Stuart Baird
Stuart Baird (born 14 January 1947) is an English film editor, producer, and director who is mainly associated with action films. He has edited over thirty major motion pictures.
Life and career
Baird has had an extended collaboration with di ...
Mohammad Bakri
Mohammad Bakri (born 1953; ar, محمد بكري, he, מוחמד בכרי) is a Palestinian actor and film director.Ralph Bakshi
Ralph Bakshi (born October 29, 1938) is an American animator and filmmaker. In the 1970s, he established an alternative to mainstream animation through independent and adult-oriented productions. Between 1972 and 1992, he directed nine theatric ...
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Bob Balaban
Robert Elmer Balaban (born August 16, 1945) is an American actor, author, comedian, director and producer. He was one of the producers nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture for ''Gosford Park'' (2001), in which he also appeared.
Balab ...
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Aleksei Balabanov
Aleksei Oktyabrinovich Balabanov (russian: Алeксeй Oктябpинoвич Балабанoв; 25 February 1959 – 18 May 2013) was a Russian film director, screenwriter, and producer, a member of European Film Academy. He started from cre ...
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Kailasam Balachander
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Carroll Ballard
Carroll Ballard (born October 14, 1937) is a retired American film director. He has directed six feature films, including '' The Black Stallion'' (1979), '' Never Cry Wolf'' (1983), and ''Fly Away Home'' (1996).
Biography
After serving in th ...
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Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft (born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano; September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress. Respected for her acting prowess and versatility, Bancroft received an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, two ...
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Albert Band
Albert Band (May 7, 1924 – June 14, 2002) was a French-American film director and film producer. He was the son of artist Max Band, father of filmmaker Charles Band and of film composer Richard Band and the grandfather of Alex Band, Taryn Ba ...
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Charles Band
Charles Robert Band (born December 27, 1951) is an American film producer and director, known for his work on horror comedy movies.
Career
Band entered film production in the 1970s with Charles Band Productions. Dissatisfied with distributo ...
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Elizabeth Banks
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Monty Banks
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Career
Banks was born Mario ...
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Joseph Barbera
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Born to Italian ...
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Juan Antonio Bardem
Juan Antonio Bardem Muñoz (2 June 1922 – 30 October 2002) was a Spanish film director and screen writer, born in Madrid. He was a member of the Communist Party. Bardem was best known for '' Muerte de un ciclista'' (1955) which won the FIPRE ...
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Richard L. Bare
Richard Leland Bare (August 12, 1913 – March 28, 2015) was an American director, producer, and screenwriter of Hollywood movies, television shows and short films.
Career
Born in Turlock, California, he attended USC School of Cinematic Arts ...
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Chris Barfoot
Chris Barfoot (born Christopher John Barfoot, 7 September 1966) is a British actor, writer/ director and producer of film productions.
Biography
Barfoot and Clother received an ‘Honorable mention’ at the Dragon Con film festival for ''The R ...
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Francesco Barilli
Francesco Barilli (born 4 February 1943 in Parma) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and painter.
Filmography
References Footnotes
Sources
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Living people
20th-century Italian male act ...
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Sooraj R. Barjatya
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Clive Barker
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Boris Barnet
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Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney (born March 25, 1967) is an American contemporary artist and film director who works in the fields of sculpture, film, photography and drawing. His works explore connections among geography, biology, geology and mythology as well ...
Allen Baron
Allen Baron (born 1927) is an American television and film director, actor, and comic book artist.
In his early 20s, he drew romance and science fiction comic stories. Upon visiting a Paramount sound stage in the mid-1950s, he decided he wanted ...
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David Barrett David Barrett may refer to:
* Dave Barrett (1930−2018), former Premier of British Columbia, Canada
* Dave Barrett (journalist) (1955−2018), American radio journalist at CBS Radio News
* David Barrett (American football) (born 1977), American ...
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Chuck Barris
Charles Hirsch Barris (June 3, 1929 – March 21, 2017) was an American game show creator, producer, and host. Barris was known for hosting '' The Gong Show'' and creating '' The Dating Game'' and '' The Newlywed Game''. He was also a songwr ...
Christopher Barry
Christopher Chisholm Barry (20 September 1925 – 7 February 2014) was a British television director. He worked extensively in BBC television drama and became best known for his work on the science fiction series ''Doctor Who''. He also direct ...
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Drew Barrymore
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Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in ''A Free Soul'' (1931 ...
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Andrzej Bartkowiak
Andrzej Bartkowiak, A.S.C. (born 6 March 1950) is a Polish cinematographer and film director.
Career
In the early 1980s, Bartkowiak was cinematographer on three films that received Academy Award nominations for Best Picture: ''The Verdict'', ' ...
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Jules Bass
Julius Bass (September 16, 1935 – October 25, 2022) was an American director, producer, lyricist, composer, and author. Until 1960, he worked at a New York advertising agency, and then co-founded the film production company Videocraft Internat ...
Joy Batchelor
Joy Ethel Batchelor (12 May 1914 – 14 May 1991) was an English animator, director, screenwriter, and producer. She married John Halas in 1940 and subsequently co-established Halas and Batchelor cartoons, whose best known production is the anim ...
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Jason Bateman
Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor, director and producer known for his roles of Michael Bluth in the Fox/Netflix sitcom '' Arrested Development'' and of Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama series '' Ozark'' (20 ...
Paul Bartel
Paul Bartel (August 6, 1938 – May 13, 2000) was an American actor, writer and director. He was perhaps most known for his 1982 hit black comedy '' Eating Raoul'', which he wrote, starred in and directed.
Bartel appeared in over 90 movies and ...
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Hall Bartlett
Hall Bartlett (November 27, 1922 – September 7, 1993) was an American film producer, director, and screenwriter.
Early life
Hall Bartlett was born in Kansas City, Missouri, he graduated from Yale University Phi Beta Kappa, and was a Rhodes ...
Felix Basch
Felix Basch (1885–1944) was an American-Austrian actor, screenwriter and film director.
He first acted in Vienna, and he was a producer and director for the German film production company U. F. A. Following the Nazi takeover of power in Germ ...
Barry Letts
Barry Leopold Letts (26 March 1925 – 9 October 2009) was an English actor, television director, writer and producer, best known for being the producer of ''Doctor Who'' from 1969 to 1974.
Born in Leicester, he worked as an actor in theatre, ...
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Noah Baumbach
Noah Baumbach () (born September 3, 1969) is an American film director and screenwriter. He is known for making witty and intellectual comedies set in New York City and has often been compared to writer-directors such as Woody Allen and Whit St ...
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Lamberto Bava
Lamberto Bava (born 3 April 1944) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Bava began working as an assistant director for his director father Mario Bava. Lamberto co-directed the 1979 television film ''La Venere d'Ille'' with his father and in ...
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Mario Bava
Mario Bava (31 July 1914 – 27 April 1980) was an Italian filmmaker who worked variously as a director, cinematographer, special effects artist and screenwriter, frequently referred to as the "Master of Italian Horror" and the "Master of the M ...
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Michael Bay
Michael Benjamin Bay (born February 17, 1965) is an American film director and producer. He is best known for making big-budget, high-concept action films characterized by fast cutting, stylistic cinematography and visuals, and extensive use ...
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Samuel Bayer
Samuel David Bayer (born February 17, 1962) is an American visual artist, cinematographer, and commercial, music video and film director. Bayer was born in Syracuse, New York. He graduated from New York City's School of Visual Arts in 1987 with ...
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Juan Antonio Bayona
Juan Antonio García Bayona (born 9 May 1975) is a Spanish film director.
He directed the 2007 horror film '' The Orphanage'', the 2012 drama film '' The Impossible'', and the 2016 fantasy drama film ''A Monster Calls''. Bayona's latest film i ...
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Edward Bazalgette
Edward Bazalgette is a British television director and former musician.
Biography
Bazalgette was the lead guitarist in the 1980s rock group The Vapors, whose hit " Turning Japanese" remains a popular one-hit wonder. He later became a film edi ...
Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beatty (né Beaty; born March 30, 1937) is an American actor and filmmaker, whose career spans over six decades. He was nominated for 15 Academy Awards, including four for Best Actor, four for Best Picture, two for Best Director, ...
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William Beaudine
William Washington Beaudine (January 15, 1892 – March 18, 1970) was an American film actor and director. He was one of Hollywood's most prolific directors, turning out films in remarkable numbers and in a wide variety of genres.
Life and car ...
Harold Becker
Harold Becker (born September 25, 1928) is an American film and television director, producer, and photographer from New York City, associated with the New Hollywood movement and best known for his work in the thriller genre. His body of work ...
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Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker (; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films, made during the 1940s and 1950s, encompassed a wide variety of genres, and they were admired by some of the filmmakers who led th ...
Terry Becker
Terry is a unisex given name, derived from French Thierry and Theodoric. It can also be used as a diminutive nickname for the names Teresa or Theresa (feminine) or Terence or Terrier (masculine).
People
Male
* Terry Albritton (1955–2005), Am ...
Ford Beebe
Ford Beebe (November 26, 1888 – November 26, 1978) was a screenwriter and director. He entered the film business as a writer around 1916 and over the next 60 years wrote and/or directed almost 200 films.
He specialized in B-movies – mostly ...
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Greg Beeman
Greg Beeman (born 1962 in Honolulu, Hawaii) is an American film and television director and producer and winner of the Directors Guild of America award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement.
He is well known for his work on the television ser ...
Hans Behrendt
Hans Behrendt (28 September 1889 – 1942) was a German-Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director. He was murdered by the Nazis in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1942.
Selected filmography Screenwriter
* ''Catherine the Great'' (1920)
* '' ...
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Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jean-Jacques Beineix (; 8 October 1946 – 13 January 2022) was a French film director best known for the films ''Diva'' and '' Betty Blue''. His work is regarded as a prime example of the '' cinéma du look'' film movement in France.
Early lif ...
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Timur Bekmambetov
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Monta Bell
Louis Monta Bell (February 5, 1891 – February 4, 1958) was an American film director, producer, and screenwriter.
Biography
Monta Bell first appeared in theatrical venues with Washington D.C. stock companies and then took up journalism an ...
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Earl Bellamy
Earl Arthur Bellamy (March 11, 1917 – November 30, 2003) was an American television and film director.
Biography
Bellamy was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He was also known as Earl J. Bellamy, or Earl J. Bellamy, Jr.
"Earl Bellamy." Contem ...
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Troian Bellisario
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Marco Bellocchio
Marco Bellocchio (; born 9 November 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor.
Life and career
Born in Bobbio, near Piacenza, Marco Bellocchio had a strict Catholic upbringing – his father was a lawyer, his mother a schoolt ...
Steve Bendelack
Steve Bendelack is an English filmmaker and television director who has worked primarily on comedy programmes.
Originally an assistant to Peter Fluck and Roger Law on satirical TV puppet show ''Spitting Image'', Bendelack went on to direct the s ...
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Jack Bender
Jack Bender (born September 25, 1949) is an American television and film director, television producer and former actor best known for his work as a director on ''Lost'', ''The Sopranos'' and '' Game of Thrones''.
Biography
Bender grew up in ...
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László Benedek
László Benedek (; March 5, 1905 – March 11, 1992; sometimes ''Laslo Benedek'') was a Hungarian-born film director and cinematographer, most notable for directing '' The Wild One'' (1953).
He gained recognition for his direction of the film v ...
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Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s. He has received ...
Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni (; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter and director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing and starring in the Holocaust comedy-drama film ''Life Is Beautiful'' (1997), f ...
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David Benioff
David Friedman (; born September 25, 1970), known professionally as David Benioff (), is an American writer, director and producer. Along with his collaborator D. B. Weiss, he is best known as co-creator and showrunner of '' Game of Thrones'' (2 ...
Rodney Bennett
Rodney Bennett (24 March 1935 – 3 January 2017) was a British television director. He worked for BBC Radio and directed television programmes for the BBC and ITV.
Early life and education
Bennett was born in Chagford, Devon, and raised in T ...
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Spencer Gordon Bennet
Spencer Gordon Bennet (January 5, 1893 – October 8, 1987) was an American film producer and director. Known as the "King of Serial Directors", he directed more film serials than any other director.
Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Benn ...
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Robert Benton
Robert Douglas Benton (born September 29, 1932) is an American screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the writer and director of the film ''Kramer vs. Kramer'', for which he won the Academy Award for Best Director and Best Adapted S ...
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Luca Bercovici
Luca Bercovici (born February 22, 1957) is an American filmmaker, writer, producer and actor.
In 1979, as part Bercovici's earliest involvements in filmmaking he spent six months in Japan as a dialogue director for the miniseries, ''Shogun'' (198 ...
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Bruce Beresford
Bruce Beresford (; born 16 August 1940) is an Australian film director who has made more than 30 feature films over a 50-year career, both locally and internationally in the United States.
Beresford's notable films he has directed include '' B ...
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Alec Berg
Alec Berg is an American television writer, director and executive producer. He wrote for the sitcom '' Seinfeld'' and is co-creator and executive producer of ''Barry'' with Bill Hader. He also co-wrote the screenplays for the films '' The Cat ...
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Peter Berg
Peter Berg (born March 11, 1964) is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy ''Very Bad Things'' (1998), the action comedy ''The Rundown'' (2003), the sports drama '' Friday Night Lig ...
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Andrew Bergman
Andrew Bergman (born February 20, 1945) is an American screenwriter, film director, and novelist. His best-known films include ''Blazing Saddles'', '' The In-Laws'', '' The Freshman'' and '' Striptease''.
Early life
Born to a Jewish family, Ber ...
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Ingmar Bergman
Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a Swedish film director, screenwriter, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known as "profoun ...
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Busby Berkeley
Busby Berkeley (born Berkeley William Enos; November 29, 1895 – March 14, 1976) was an American film director and musical choreographer. Berkeley devised elaborate musical production numbers that often involved complex geometric patterns. Berke ...
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Luis Garcia Berlanga
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Greg Berlanti
Gregory Berlanti (born May 24, 1972) is an American screenwriter, producer and director of film and television. He is known for his work on the television series ''Dawson's Creek'', '' Brothers & Sisters'', '' Everwood'', '' Political Animals'', ...
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Abby Berlin
Abby Berlin (August 7, 1907 — August 16, 1965) was best known as a director of feature films and television productions. He began on Broadway and Vaudeville as part of a comedy team with Ken Brown in the 1920s. By 1939, he had moved to Hollywoo ...
Robert Berlinger
Robert Berlinger (sometimes credited as Bob Berlinger) (born May 31, 1958) is an American television director and producer.
Career
Berlinger was born in New York City. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree at Dartmouth College. He also g ...
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Andrea Berloff
Andrea Berloff (born 1974) is an American screenwriter, actress, director, and producer. Berloff is best known for writing the 2006 disaster drama film ''World Trade Center'', and co-writing the 2015 biographical drama ''Straight Outta Compton'' ...
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Paul Bern
Paul Bern (born Paul Levy; December 3, 1889September 5, 1932) was a German-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became the assistant to Irving Thalberg. He helped launch the career of Jean Harlo ...
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Ishmael Bernal
Ishmael Bernal (30 September 1938 – 2 June 1996) was a Filipino filmmaker, stage and television director, actor and screenwriter. Noted for his melodramas, particularly with feminist and moral issues, he directed many landmark Filipino films s ...
Curtis Bernhardt
Curtis Bernhardt (15 April 1899 – 22 February 1981) was a Jewish film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt.
He trained as an actor in Germany, and performed on the stage, before starting as a film director in 1924, wi ...
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Adam Bernstein
Adam Bernstein (born May 7, 1960) is an Emmy Awards, Emmy Award-winning American film director, music video director and television director. For his work on the television show ''Fargo (TV series), Fargo'' in 2014, he received a nomination for ...
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Claude Berri
Claude Berri (; 1 July 1934 – 12 January 2009) was a French film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor.
Early life
Born Claude Beri Langmann in Paris, Berri was the son of Jewish immigrant parents. His mother, Beila (née Bercu), w ...
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Halle Berry
Halle Maria Berry (; born Maria Halle Berry; August 14, 1966) is an American actress. She began her career as a model and entered several beauty contests, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Mi ...
Arthur Berthelet
Arthur Rolette Berthelet (October 12,1879September 16, 1949; credited as Rolette Bertheletto, Arthur Berthelet, and Arthur R. Berthelet) was an American actor, stage and film director, dialogue director, and scriptwriter."California Death Index, ...
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André Berthomieu
André Berthomieu (16 February 1903 – 10 April 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director. He was married to the actress Line Noro.
Selected filmography
Director
* '' Not So Stupid'' (1928)
* '' The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard'' (1929)
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Bryan Bertino
Bryan Michael Bertino (born October 17, 1977) is an American filmmaker. He is best known as the writer/director of '' The Strangers'' (2008), as well as writing its sequel, '' The Strangers: Prey at Night'' (2018), with Ben Ketai.
Early life an ...
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Bernardo Bertolucci (; 16 March 1941 – 26 November 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter with a career that spanned 50 years. Considered one of the greatest directors in Italian cinema, Bertolucci's work achieved international ...
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Luc Besson
Luc Paul Maurice Besson (; born 18 March 1959) is a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He directed or produced the films ''Subway'' (1985), '' The Big Blue'' (1988), and '' La Femme Nikita'' (1990). Besson is associated with the ' ...
Bharathiraja
Bharathiraja (born 17 July 1941) is an Indian film director and actor who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. Making his debut in 1977 with '' 16 Vayathinile'', he is known for realistic and sensitive portrayals of rural life in his films. ...
Dominic Bianchi
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Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Ann Bigelow (; born November 27, 1951) is an American filmmaker. Covering a wide range of genres, her films include '' Near Dark'' (1987), '' Point Break'' (1991), '' Strange Days'' (1995), '' K-19: The Widowmaker'' (2002), ''The Hurt Loc ...
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Tony Bill
Gerard Anthony Bill (born August 23, 1940) is an American actor, producer, and director. He produced the 1973 movie '' The Sting'', for which he shared the Academy Award for Best Picture with Michael Phillips and Julia Phillips. As an actor, ...
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Anna Biller
Anna Biller is an independent American filmmaker who has directed two feature films. Biller considers herself a feminist filmmaker and consciously explores feminist themes throughout her work, including exploring the female gaze in cinema. She i ...
Bruce Bilson
Bruce Bilson (born May 19, 1928) is an American film director and television director. He is most notable for his work as a regular director on the spy spoof ''Get Smart''. He won the 1967–1968 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Directing f ...
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Brad Bird
Phillip Bradley Bird (born September 24, 1957) is an American film director, animator, screenwriter, producer, and voice actor. He has had a career spanning forty years in both animation and live-action.
Bird was born in Montana and grew up ...
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Bill Bixby
Wilfred Bailey Everett Bixby III (January 22, 1934 – November 21, 1993) professionally known as Bill Bixby, was an American actor, director, producer, and frequent game-show panellist.
Bixby's career spanned more than three decades, includi ...
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Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (née Guy; ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer filmmaker. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, s ...
Farren Blackburn
Farren Blackburn is a British film and television director and screenwriter. His work includes Netflix's young adult love story, ''The Innocents'', the French English-language psychological thriller ''Shut In'' starring Naomi Watts, Netflix/Marvel' ...
Alessandro Blasetti
Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900 – 1 February 1987) was an Italian film director and screenwriter who influenced Italian neorealism with the film ''Quattro passi fra le nuvole''. Blasetti was one of the leading figures in Italian cinema during ...
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Bertrand Blier
Bertrand Blier (; born 14 March 1939) is a French film director and writer. His 1978 film '' Get Out Your Handkerchiefs'' won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 51st Academy Awards.
He is the son of famous French actor Bernar ...
Neill Blomkamp
Neill Blomkamp (; born 17 September 1979) is a South African filmmaker. He employs a documentary-style, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated effects, and his films often deal wit ...
Don Bluth
Donald Virgil Bluth (; born September 13, 1937) is an American film director, animator, production designer, and animation instructor, best known for his animated films, including '' The Secret of NIMH'' (1982), '' An American Tail'' (1986), ''Th ...
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John G. Blystone
John G. Blystone (December 2, 1892 – August 6, 1938) was an American film director. He directed 100 films between 1915 and 1938. He was born in Rice Lake, Wisconsin and died in Los Angeles, California from a heart attack. His grave is lo ...
James Bobin
James Bobin is a British filmmaker. He worked as a director and writer on ''Da Ali G Show'' and helped create the characters of Ali G, Borat, and Brüno. With Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement, he co-created '' Flight of the Conchords''. He di ...
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Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck
Anna Boden and Ryan K. Fleck are an American filmmaking duo. They are best known for their collaborations on the films '' Half Nelson'', ''Sugar'', '' It's Kind of a Funny Story'', '' Mississippi Grind'' and '' Captain Marvel''.
Early life
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Eugeniusz Bodo
Eugeniusz Bodo (born Bohdan Eugène Junod; 28 December 1899 7 October 1943) was a film director, producer, and one of the most popular Polish actors and comedians of the interwar period. He starred in some of the most popular Polish film produc ...
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Carl Boese
Carl Eduard Hermann Boese (; 26 August 1887 – 6 July 1958) was a German film director, screenwriter, and producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957.
Selected filmography
* ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917)
* ''Donna Lucia'' (1918)
* ...
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Budd Boetticher
Oscar "Budd" Boetticher Jr. ( ; July 29, 1916 – November 29, 2001) was an American film director. He is best remembered for a series of low-budget Westerns he made in the late 1950s starring Randolph Scott.
Early life
Boetticher was born in C ...
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Paul Bogart
Paul Bogart (né Bogoff; November 13, 1919 – April 15, 2012) was an American television director and producer. Bogart directed episodes of the television series Way Out'' in 1961, '' Coronet Blue'' in 1967, '' Get Smart'', '' The Dumplings' ...
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Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Bogdanovich (July 30, 1939 – January 6, 2022) was an American director, writer, actor, producer, critic, and film historian.
One of the " New Hollywood" directors, Bogdanovich started as a film journalist until he was hired to work on ...
Michel Boisrond
Michel Jacques Boisrond (9 October 1921, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais – 10 November 2002, La Celle-Saint-Cloud) was a French film director and screenwriter. His work spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Career
A former apprentice ...
Richard Boleslawski
Richard Boleslawski (born Bolesław Ryszard Srzednicki; February 4, 1889 – January 17, 1937) was a Polish theatre and film director, actor and teacher of acting.
Biography
Richard Boleslawski was born Bolesław Ryszard Srzednicki on February ...
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Uwe Boll
Uwe Boll (; born June 22, 1965) is a German filmmaker. He came to prominence during the 2000s for his adaptations of video game franchises which often starred international stars like Jason Statham, Burt Reynolds, Ray Liotta, Christian Slater, ...
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk (russian: link=no, Фёдор Сергеевич Бондарчук ; born 9 May 1967) is a Russian film director, actor, TV and film producer, clipmaker, TV host, founder of production company Art Pictures Studio.
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Sergei Bondarchuk
Sergei Fyodorovich Bondarchuk (russian: Сергей Фёдорович Бондарчук, ; uk, Сергі́й Федорович Бондарчук, Serhíj Fédorovych Bondarchúk; 25 September 192020 October 1994) was a Soviet and Russian ...
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Bong Joon-ho
Bong Joon-ho (, ; Hanja: 奉俊昊; born September 14, 1969) is a South Korean film director, producer and screenwriter. The recipient of four Academy Awards, his filmography is characterised by emphasis on social themes, genre-mixing, black h ...
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Linwood Boomer
Linwood Boomer (born October 9, 1955) is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and former actor. He is known for playing the role of Adam Kendall on the drama '' Little House on the Prairie'', and for creating the Fox sitcom ''Malc ...
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John Boorman
Sir John Boorman (; born 18 January 1933) is a British film director, best known for feature films such as '' Point Blank'' (1967), ''Hell in the Pacific'' (1968), ''Deliverance'' (1972), '' Zardoz'' (1974), '' Exorcist II: The Heretic'' (1977 ...
Frank Borzage
Frank Borzage (; April 23, 1894 – June 19, 1962) was an Academy Award-winning American film director and actor, known for directing '' 7th Heaven'' (1927), '' Street Angel'' (1928), '' Bad Girl'' (1931), ''A Farewell to Arms'' (1932), '' Man's ...
Muriel Box
Violette Muriel Box, Baroness Gardiner, (22 September 1905 – 18 May 1991) was an English screenwriter and director, Britain's most prolific female director, having directed 12 feature films and one featurette. Her screenplay for ''The Seventh ...
Dermot Boyd
Dermot Boyd is a Northern Irish-born television director. Programmes he has directed include: ''The Return'', ''Four Fathers'', ''Feather Boy'', ''Johnny and the Bomb'', '' Drop Dead Gorgeous'', ''Rough Diamond'', ''Whistleblower'', ''Casualty'', ...
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Danny Boyle
Daniel Francis Boyle (born 20 October 1956) is an English director and producer. He is known for his work on films including '' Shallow Grave'', '' Trainspotting'' and its sequel '' T2 Trainspotting'', '' The Beach'', ''28 Days Later'', '' S ...
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Charles Brabin
Charles Brabin (April 17, 1882 – November 3, 1957) was a British-American film director.
Biography
Born in Liverpool, England, he was educated at St. Francis Xavier College. Brabin sailed to New York City in the early 1900s and, while hold ...
Harry Bradbeer
Harry Bradbeer is a British director, producer, and writer. He is known for his work on the television series ''Fleabag'' and ''Killing Eve'', and the films '' Enola Holmes'' and '' Enola Holmes 2''.
Early life and education
Bradbeer was brought ...
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Robert N. Bradbury
Robert North Bradbury (March 23, 1886 – November 24, 1949) (born Ronald E. Bradbury) was an American film actor, director, and screenwriter. He directed 125 movies between 1918 and 1941, and is best known for directing early "Poverty Row"-produc ...
Stan Brakhage
James Stanley Brakhage ( ; January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003) was an American filmmaker. He is considered to be one of the most important figures in 20th-century experimental film.
Over the course of five decades, Brakhage created a larg ...
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Matt Braly
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Kenneth Branagh
Sir Kenneth Charles Branagh (; born 10 December 1960) is a British actor and filmmaker. Branagh trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and has served as its president since 2015. He has won an Academy Award, four BAFTAs (plus ...
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Spike Brandt
Spike, spikes, or spiking may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
Books
* ''The Spike'' (novel), a novel by Arnaud de Borchgrave
* ''The Spike'' (book), a nonfiction book by Damien Broderick
* ''The Spike'', a starship in Peter F. Hamilto ...
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Fred C. Brannon
Fred C. Brannon (April 26, 1901 – April 6, 1953) was an American film director of the 1940s and 1950s.
He directed over 40 films between 1945 and his death.
His first film ''The Purple Monster Strikes'' in 1945 was co-directed with Spencer ...
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Tinto Brass
Giovanni "Tinto" Brass (born 26 March 1933) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. In the 1960s and 1970s, he directed many critically acclaimed avant-garde films of various genres. Today, he is mainly known for his later work in the er ...
Catherine Breillat
Catherine Breillat (; born 13 July 1948) is a French filmmaker, novelist and professor of auteur cinema at the European Graduate School. In the film business for over 40 years, Catherine Breillat chooses to normalize previously taboo subjects ...
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Herbert Brenon
Herbert Brenon (born Alexander Herbert Reginald St. John Brenon; 13 January 1880 – 21 June 1958) was an Irish-born U.S. film director, actor and screenwriter during the era of silent films through the 1930s.
Brenon was among the early film ...
Robert Bresson
Robert Bresson (; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director.
Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have l ...
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Martin Brest
Martin Brest (born August 8, 1951) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Education
Brest was born in the Bronx, New York, and graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1969, from New York University's School of the Arts in 1 ...
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Vinko Brešan
Vinko Brešan (; born 3 February 1964) is a Croatian film director who emerged into international renown with three critically acclaimed and award-winning films that, each in its own way, broke some of the perceived taboos of Croatian cinema in ...
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Howard Bretherton
Howard Bretherton (13 February 1890, in Tacoma, Washington – 12 April 1969, in San Diego, California) was an American film director, film editor, and the father of film editor David Bretherton.
Career
He began his career as a propman and then ...
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Eric Brevig
Eric Brevig (born 1957) is an American film director and visual effects supervisor known for his work in several major theatrical films and television shows. He was Visual Effects Supervisor and Second Unit Director on the 2001 Jerry Bruckheim ...
Michael E. Briant
Michael Edwin Briant (born 14 February 1942) is a retired English television director and author, best known for his work as a director for BBC television drama in the 1970s and 1980s.
Career
At the age of 21 Briant joined the BBC as an assistan ...
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Monte Brice
Monte Brice (July 12, 1891 – November 8, 1962) was a writer, producer, and director of films in the United States.
In 1926, he was promoted from scenario writer to director and given a five-year contract with Famous Players-Lasky. A 1928 art ...
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Patrick Brice
Donat Patrick Kack-Brice (born April 23, 1983), known professionally as Patrick Brice, is an American film director, actor, screenwriter and cinematographer. He is known for directing ''Creep'' (2014), ''The Overnight'' (2015), '' Creep 2'' (201 ...
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Sean Bridgers
Sean MacKenzie Bridgers (born March 15, 1968) is an American actor, screenwriter, and producer, known for his role as Johnny Burns on the HBO series '' Deadwood'' and on the SundanceTV original series ''Rectify'' as Trey Willis. Additional to m ...
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James Bridges
James Bridges (February 3, 1936June 6, 1993) was an American screenwriter, film director, producer, and actor. He is a two-time Oscar nominee: once for Best Original Screenplay for '' The China Syndrome'' and once for Best Adapted Screenplay fo ...
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Nicholas Briggs
Nicholas Briggs (born 29 September 1961) is an English actor, writer, director, sound designer and composer. He is associated with the BBC science fiction television series ''Doctor Who'' and its spin-offs, particularly as the voice of the Dal ...
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Guido Brignone
Guido Brignone (6 December 1886 – 6 March 1959) was an Italian film director and actor. He was the father of actress Lilla Brignone and younger brother of actress Mercedes Brignone.
Brignone was born in Milan, Italy. He was the first Italian ...
Philippe de Broca
Philippe de Broca (; 15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director.
He directed 30 full-length feature films, including the highly successful '' That Man from Rio (''L'Homme de Rio'')'', '' The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) ...
Lino Brocka
Catalino Ortiz Brocka (April 3, 1939 – May 22, 1991) was a Filipino film director. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential and significant filmmakers in the history of Philippine cinema. He co-founded the organization Concerned Ar ...
Peter Brook
Peter Stephen Paul Brook (21 March 1925 – 2 July 2022) was an English theatre and film director. He worked first in England, from 1945 at the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from 1947 at the Royal Opera House, and from 1962 for the Royal Sha ...
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Albert Brooks
Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker.
He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's '' Broadcast News'' and was widely praised for his performance as a ...
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James L. Brooks
James Lawrence Brooks (born May 9, 1940) is an American director, producer, screenwriter and co-founder of Gracie Films. His television and film work includes ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'', ''Taxi'', ''The Simpsons'', '' Broadcast News'', ''As G ...
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Mel Brooks
Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. With a career spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. He began ...
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Richard Brooks
Richard Brooks (May 18, 1912 – March 11, 1992) was an American screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer. Nominated for eight Oscars in his career, he was best known for ''Blackboard Jungle'' (1955), ''Cat on a Hot Tin Roof'' ...
Otto Brower
Otto Brower (December 2, 1890 – January 25, 1946) was an American film director. He directed more than 40 films between 1928 and 1946. He was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and died in Hollywood, California, from a heart attack.
Filmogra ...
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Clarence Brown
Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director.
Early life
Born in Clinton, Massachusetts, to Larkin Harry Brown, a cotton manufacturer, and Katherine Ann Brown (née Gaw), Brown moved to Tennessee when he ...
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Harry Joe Brown
Harry Joe Brown (September 22, 1890 – April 28, 1972) was an American film producer, and earlier a theatre and film director.
Biography
Harry Joe Brown was born in 1890 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. As a producer, he had a partnership wit ...
Tod Browning
Tod Browning (born Charles Albert Browning Jr.; July 12, 1880 – October 6, 1962) was an American film director, film actor, screenwriter, vaudeville performer, and carnival sideshow and circus entertainer. He directed a number of films of vari ...
Adrian Brunel
Adrian Brunel (4 September 1892 – 18 February 1958) was an English film director and screenwriter. Brunel's directorial career started in the silent era, and reached its peak in the latter half of the 1920s. His surviving work from the 1920s, ...
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Nick Bruno
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Chris Buck
Christopher James Buck (born February 24, 1958) is an American film director, animator, and screenwriter known for co-directing '' Tarzan'' (1999), '' Surf's Up'' (2007) (which was nominated for the 2007 Oscar for Best Animated Feature), '' F ...
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Detlev Buck
Detlev Buck (; born 1 December 1962 in Bad Segeberg) is a German film director, actor, film producer, producer and screenwriter.
Life and work
From his first short film at the age of 21 in 1982, ', he has remained one of the most important film ...
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Tom Buckingham
Tom Buckingham (February 25, 1895 – September 7, 1934) was an American film director and screenwriter. He directed 48 films between 1920 and 1932. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, and died from surgical complications. His film ''Cock ...
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Marc Buckland
Marc Buckland is an American television director and producer.
Filmography
*'' Stumptown'' (2019–20) - Director
*''Santa Clarita Diet'' (2017–19) - Director
*'' Powerless'' (2017) - Director
*''Dream Team'' (2016) - Director
*''The M ...
Colin Bucksey
Colin Bucksey is a British-born American film and television director.
Career
Since the 1970s, Bucksey has accumulated a number of credits in British TV, directing episodes of ''Crown Court'', ''Armchair Thriller'', '' Educating Marmalade'' an ...
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Steve Buscemi
Steven Vincent Buscemi ( ,As stated in interviews by Buscemi himself, some may insist that his pronunciation of his own name is "wrong" because it does not match the original Italian pronunciation as well. It is not uncommon for people to pronou ...
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Harold S. Bucquet
Harold S. Bucquet (10 April 1891 – 13 February 1946) was an English film director. He directed 26 films between 1936 and 1945. His 1937 film ''Torture Money'' won an Academy Award for the Best Short Subject (Two-Reel). His 1943 short ''Th ...
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Jan Bucquoy
Jan Bucquoy (; Harelbeke, 16 November 1945) is a Belgian anarchist who has worked in various media (film, comics writing, painting, sculptures, museums). He gained fame for his controversial anti-establishment works and media stunts, which cause ...
John Carl Buechler
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John Carl Buechler (pronounced ''Beekler''; June 18, 1952 – March 18, 2019) was an American special make-up effects artist, film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. He was best known for his work on horror and science-fictio ...
Luis Buñuel
Luis Buñuel Portolés (; 22 February 1900 – 29 July 1983) was a Spanish-Mexican filmmaker who worked in France, Mexico, and Spain. He has been widely considered by many film critics, historians, and directors to be one of the greatest and ...
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Pete Burness
Wilson D. "Pete" Burness (June 16, 1904 – July 21, 1969) was an American animator and animation director. He was perhaps best known for his work on the Mr. Magoo series. He also contributed to the ''Tom and Jerry'' series, ''Looney Tunes'', ...
Bo Burnham
Robert Pickering "Bo" Burnham (born 1990) is an American comedian, musician, songwriter, actor, and filmmaker. His comedy work often combines musical, sketch, and stand-up elements with filmmaking.
Following his success as one of the earlie ...
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Edward Burns
Edward Fitzgerald Burns (born January 29, 1968) is an American actor, producer, writer, and director best known for appearing in several films including ''Saving Private Ryan'' (1998), '' 15 Minutes'' (2001), ''Life or Something Like It'' (200 ...
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James Burrows
James Edward Burrows (born December 30, 1940), sometimes known as Jim "Jimmy" Burrows, is an American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s.Stated in interview on '' Inside the Actors Studio'' Burrows has dire ...
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Tim Burstall
Timothy Burstall AM (20 April 1927 – 19 April 2004) was an English Australian film director, writer and producer, best known for hit Australian movie '' Alvin Purple'' (1973) and its sequel '' Alvin Rides Again''.
Burstall's films featured ...
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Tim Burton
Timothy Walter Burton (born August 25, 1958) is an American filmmaker and animator. He is known for his gothic fantasy and horror films such as '' Beetlejuice'' (1988), '' Edward Scissorhands'' (1990), '' The Nightmare Before Christmas'' (1993 ...
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Alexander Butler
Alexander Butler was a British film director who made over sixty features and short films during the 1910s and 1920s including many for G. B. Samuelson's production company. Butler directed several British films in Hollywood in 1920, where Samuel ...
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Brian Patrick Butler
Brian Patrick Butler is an American actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He is known for creating ''Friend of the World'' and his performances in '' We All Die Alone'' and ''South of 8''.
Life and career
While pursuing a degr ...
Ray Butt
Raymond William Butt (25 June 1935 – 12 July 2013) was a British television producer and director. He worked on several sitcoms for BBC television and became best known for '' Only Fools and Horses''.
Early life
Butt grew up in London as an on ...
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Jörg Buttgereit
Jörg Buttgereit (born 20 December 1963) is a German writer/ director known for his controversial films. He was born in Berlin, Germany, and has lived there his entire life. He is best known for his horror films ''Nekromantik'' (1987), '' De ...
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Zane Buzby
Zane Buzby is an American director, actress, and philanthropist.
Life and career
Zane Buzby grew up in East Meadow, New York, and graduated with honors from Hofstra University with degrees in performance and dramatic literature. She began her ...
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Edward Buzzell
Edward Buzzell (November 13, 1895 – January 11, 1985) was an American film actor and director whose credits include '' Child of Manhattan'' (1933); ''Honolulu'' (1939); the Marx Brothers films '' At the Circus'' (1939) and '' Go West'' (1 ...
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Ed Bye
Edward Richard Morrison Bye (born 12 June 1955) is a British film and TV producer and director. He directed the episodes of the science-fiction sitcom '' Red Dwarf'' from Series I-IV and VII-VIII.
Early life
Ed Bye is the son of Royal Marine Co ...
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James Ward Byrkit
James Ward Byrkit (also known as James Byrkit or Jim Byrkit) is an American film director, writer, and actor. He is best known for directing the science fiction thriller ''Coherence'' and co-writing the script for '' Rango'', one of his many coll ...
Christy Cabanne
William Christy Cabanne (April 16, 1888 – October 15, 1950) was an American film director, screenwriter, and silent film actor.
Biography
Born in 1888, Cabanne (pronounced CAB-a-nay) started his career on stage as an actor and director. He a ...
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Michael Cacoyannis
Michael Cacoyannis ( el, Μιχάλης Κακογιάννης, ''Michalis Kakogiannis''; 11 June 1922 – 25 July 2011), sometimes credited as Michael Yannis, was a Greek Cypriot theatre and film director, writer, producer, and actor.
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Margarita Cadenas
Margarita Cadenas (Caracas, Venezuela), is a Venezuelan-French director, producer and screenwriter.
Biography
Margarita Cadenas was born in Caracas, Venezuela. After earning her diploma in social communication in the Catholic University «Andre ...
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Israel Adrián Caetano
Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...
Nicolas Cage
Nicolas Kim Coppola (born January 7, 1964), known professionally as Nicolas Cage, is an American actor and film producer. Born into the Coppola family, he is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Screen Actors Gui ...
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James Cagney
James Francis Cagney Jr. (; July 17, 1899March 30, 1986) was an American actor, dancer and film director. On stage and in film, Cagney was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He ...
Edward L. Cahn
Edward L. Cahn (February 12, 1899 – August 25, 1963) was an American film director.
Early life and education
Cahn was born in Brooklyn, New York. He went to work at Universal Pictures in 1917 while still a student at UCLA.
Career
H ...
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James Cameron
James Francis Cameron (born August 16, 1954) is a Canadian filmmaker. A major figure in the post- New Hollywood era, he is considered one of the industry's most innovative filmmakers, regularly pushing the boundaries of cinematic capability ...
Donald Cammell
Donald Seton Cammell (17 January 1934 – 24 April 1996) was a Scottish painter, screenwriter, and film director. He has a cult reputation largely due to his debut film '' Performance'', which he wrote the screenplay for and co-directed wi ...
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Joe Camp
Joseph S. Camp Jr. (born April 20, 1939) is a motion picture director and writer who is best known as the creator and director of the ''Benji'' films, as well as '' Hawmps!'' and '' The Double McGuffin''.
Camp resides in Bell Buckle, Tennessee ...
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Juan José Campanella
Juan José Campanella (born 19 July 1959) is an Argentine television and film director, writer and producer. He achieved worldwide attention with the release of ''The Secret in Their Eyes'' (2009), for which he was awarded the Academy Award for B ...
Jonny Campbell
Jonny Campbell is a British director.
Biography
Campbell studied French and German at Durham University and began his career at Granada TV working on documentaries. He soon moved into drama.
Selected filmography Film
* '' Alien Autopsy'' (2006) ...
Martin Campbell
Martin Campbell (born 24 October 1943) is a New Zealand film and television director based in the United Kingdom. He is known for having directed '' The Mask of Zorro'' as well as the James Bond films '' GoldenEye'' and '' Casino Royale''. He ...
Jane Campion
Dame Elizabeth Jane Campion (born 30 April 1954) is a New Zealand filmmaker. She is best known for writing and directing the critically acclaimed films ''The Piano'' (1993) and '' The Power of the Dog'' (2021), for which she has received a tot ...
Danny Cannon
Daniel John Cannon (born 5 October 1968) is a British film and television producer, director and writer, known for executive producing the 15-season show ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' series franchise (and directed multiple episodes inclu ...
Kay Cannon
Kay Cannon (born August 22, 1974) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actress. She is best known for writing and producing the ''Pitch Perfect'' film series (2012–2017). She made her directorial debut with the comedy film '' ...
Graham Cantwell
Graham Cantwell (born 25 March 1974) is an Irish film and television director. He is best known for directing feature film Anton which achieved a three-week domestic cinema release and was nominated for three Irish Film and Television Awards ...
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Peter Capaldi
Peter Dougan Capaldi (; born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, director, writer and musician. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in '' The Thick of It'' (2005–2012), for ...
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Albert Capellani
Albert Capellani (23 August 1874 – 26 September 1931) was a French film director and screenwriter of the silent era. He directed films between 1905 and 1922. One of his brothers was the actor-sculptor Paul Capellani, and another, film dir ...
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Frank Capra
Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was an Italian-born American film director, producer and writer who became the creative force behind some of the major award-winning films of the 1930s ...
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Luigi Capuano
Luigi Capuano (13 July 1904 – 20 October 1979) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Naples, he directed 43 films between 1947 and 1971.
Selected filmography
* '' Vertigine d'amore'' (1949)
* '' Flying Squadron'' (1949)
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Leos Carax
Alex Christophe Dupont (born 22 November 1960), best known as Leos Carax (), is a French film director, critic and writer. Carax is noted for his poetic style and his tortured depictions of love. His first major work was '' Boy Meets Girl'' (198 ...
Joe Carnahan
Joseph Aaron Carnahan (born May 9, 1969) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor whose films include '' Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane''; '' Narc''; ''Smokin' Aces''; ''The A-Team''; '' The Grey''; and '' Boss Level''. He ...
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Marcel Carné
Marcel Albert Carné (; 18 August 1906 – 31 October 1996) was a French film director. A key figure in the poetic realism movement, Carné's best known films include ''Port of Shadows'' (1938), ''Le Jour Se Lève'' (1939), '' The Devil's Envoys ...
Giuliano Carnimeo
Giuliano Carnimeo (born Carmineo; 4 July 1932 – 10 September 2016) was an Italian director and screenwriter, sometimes credited as Anthony Ascott or Antony Ascot.
Life and career
Born in Bari, Carmineo started his career as assistant direct ...
Benjamin Caron
Benjamin Caron (born 2 July 1976) is a Golden Globe, Emmy and BAFTA-winning British film and television director.
Life and career
Born in the West Midlands, Caron was educated at Homerton College, Cambridge. Caron began his television career maki ...
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John Carpenter
John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American filmmaker, actor, and composer. Although he worked in various film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror, action, and science fiction films of the 1970s and 1980s. He ...
Enrique Carreras
Enrique Carreras (6 January 1925 – 29 August 1995) was a Peruvian-born Argentina, Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer, and was one of the most prolific film directors in the history of the Cinema of Argentina.
Born in Lima, ...
D. J. Caruso
Daniel John Caruso Jr. (; born January 17, 1965) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. His work encompasses a variety of genres, including thriller ('' Disturbia, Taking Lives''), drama ('' Standing Up''), horror (''The Disap ...
John Cassavetes
John Nicholas Cassavetes ( ; December 9, 1929 – February 3, 1989) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. First known as a television and film actor, Cassavetes also helped pioneer American independent cinema, writing and direc ...
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Nick Cassavetes
Nicholas David Rowland Cassavetes (born May 21, 1959) is an American actor, director, and writer. He has directed such films as '' She's So Lovely'' (1997), '' John Q.'' (2002), '' The Notebook'' (2004), '' Alpha Dog'' (2006), and '' My Sister's ...
William Castle
William Castle (born William Schloss Jr.; April 24, 1914 – May 31, 1977) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
Orphaned at 11, Castle dropped out of high school at 15 to work in the theater. He came to the attenti ...
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Torre Catalano
Torre Catalano is an American film producer, director and writer better known for his Documentary film, documentary film ''Mayor of Strawberry Fields'' and the music video Yes We Can (will.i.am song), Yes We Can. He also produced and directed ...
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Michael Caton-Jones
Michael Caton-Jones (born Michael Jones; 15 October 1957) is a Scottish director and producer of film and television. His credits include the World War II film '' Memphis Belle'' (1990), the romantic comedy ''Doc Hollywood'' (1991), the bio ...
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Peter Cattaneo
Peter Joseph Cattaneo MBE (born 1 July 1964) is a British filmmaker. He is most known for directing the comedy film ''The Full Monty'', for which he won the MTV Movie Award for Best New Filmmaker.
Life and career
Cattaneo was brought up in ...
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Alberto Cavalcanti
Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and producer. He was often credited under the single name "Cavalcanti".
Early life
Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, the son of ...
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Liliana Cavani
Liliana Cavani (born 12 January 1933, Carpi, Italy) is an Italian film director and screenwriter. She belongs to a generation of Italian filmmakers from Emilia-Romagna that came into prominence in the 1970s, including Bernardo Bertolucci, Pier P ...
André Cayatte
André Cayatte (3 February 1909, in Carcassonne – 6 February 1989, in Paris) was a French filmmaker, writer and lawyer, who became known for his films centering on themes of crime, justice, and moral responsibility.
Cayatte began his directoral ...
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Ralph Ceder
Ralph Carl Ceder (February 2, 1897 – November 29, 1951)"California, Death Index, 1940-1997," index, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VPZK-W5H : accessed 24 Nov 2014), Ralph Carl Ceder, 29 Nov 1951; Department of Public H ...
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Jeff Celentano
Jeff Celentano (born May 24, 1960) is an American actor, screenwriter, producer and film director. Celentano starred as an actor in such films as ''The Player (1992 film), The Player'', ''American Ninja 2: The Confrontation'', ''Puppet Master II'' ...
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan (, born 26 January 1959) is a Turkish photographer, filmmaker and actor best known for the Palme d'Or winning ''Winter Sleep'' (2014).
Early life
Ceylan was born in Istanbul on 26 January 1959. His interest in photography star ...
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Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (''nouvelle vague'') group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues a ...
Don Chaffey
Donald Chaffey (5 August 1917 – 13 November 1990) was a British film director, writer, producer, and art director.
Chaffey's film career began as an art director in 1947, and his directorial debut was in 1953. He remained active in the indu ...
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Aneesh Chaganty
Aneesh Chaganty (; born January 30, 1991) is an American film director and screenwriter. He made his feature film directorial debut with the 2018 thriller ''Searching'', for which he won the Alfred P. Sloan Feature Film Prize at the 2018 Sundance ...
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Youssef Chahine
Youssef Chahine ( ar, يوسف شاهين, Yūsuf Shāhīn ; 25 January 1926 – 27 July 2008) was an Egyptian film director. He was active in the Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death. He directed twelve films that were listed ...
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Fruit Chan
Fruit Chan Gor (; born 15 April 1959) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker who is best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong people. He is well known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee in '' Made in H ...
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Jackie Chan
Fang Shilong (born 7 April 1954), known professionally in English as Jackie Chan and in Chinese as Cheng Long ( zh, c=成龍, j=Sing4 Lung4; "becoming the dragon"), is a Hong Kong actor, filmmaker, martial artist, and stuntman known for ...
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Peter Chan
Peter Ho-sun Chan (born 28 November 1962) is a film director and producer.
Early life
Chan was born in British Hong Kong to parents China. He and his family moved to Thailand when he was 12, where he grew up amongst the international Chine ...
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Charlie Chaplin
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr. (16 April 188925 December 1977) was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose to fame in the era of silent film. He became a worldwide icon through his screen persona, the Tramp, and is conside ...
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Larry Charles
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Charley Chase
Charles Joseph Parrott (October 20, 1893 – June 20, 1940), known professionally as Charley Chase, was an American comedian, actor, screenwriter and film director. He worked for many pioneering comedy studios but is chiefly associated with pro ...
Émile Chautard
Émile Chautard (7 September 1864 – 24 April 1934) was a French-American film director, actor, and screenwriter, most active in the silent era. He directed more than 100 films between 1910 and 1924. He also appeared in more than 60 films ...
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Michael Chaves
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Damien Chazelle
Damien Sayre Chazelle (; born January 19, 1985) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his films '' Whiplash'' (2014), '' La La Land'' (2016), and '' First Man'' (2018).
For ''Whiplash'', he was nominated for t ...
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Stephen Chbosky
Stephen Chbosky (; born January 25, 1970) is an American screenwriter, film producer, film director, novelist, television writer, and television producer. He is best-known for writing the bestselling coming-of-age novel ''The Perks of Being a Wal ...
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Jeremiah S. Chechik
Jeremiah S. Chechik (born 1955 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada) is the director of such films as ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'', '' Benny & Joon'', '' Diabolique'' and '' The Avengers''.
Chechik was nominated for Worst Director at the 19 ...
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Kate Cheeseman
Kate Cheeseman, is a BAFTA award-winning film director, known primarily for TV shows such as '' Pig Heart Boy'', ''Casualty''
She won the BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts
British may refer to:
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Peter Chelsom
Peter Chelsom (born 20 April 1956) is a British film director, writer, and actor. He has directed such films as ''Hector and the Search for Happiness'', ''Serendipity'', and '' Shall We Dance?'' Peter Chelsom is a member of the British Academ ...
Pierre Chenal
Pierre Chenal (; 5 December 1904 – 23 December 1990) was a French director and screenwriter who flourished in the 1930s. He was married to Czech-born French film actress Florence Marly from 1937 to 1955.
Work
Chenal was best known for film no ...
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Yarrow Cheney
Yarrow Cheney (born 1973) is an American artist, film director, designer, author, illustrator, and animator. He is best known for his works as a production designer in ''Despicable Me 2'' (2013), ''The Lorax'' (2012), and ''Despicable Me'' (2010 ...
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David Cherkassky David Yanovich Cherkassky ( uk, Давид Янович Черкаський, translit=Davyd Yanovych Cherkas'kyi; 23 August 1932 – 30 October 2018) was a Soviet and Ukrainian animated film director and screenwriter. He made several animation pict ...
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Tom Cherones
Tom or TOM may refer to:
* Tom (given name), a diminutive of Thomas or Tomás or an independent Aramaic given name (and a list of people with the name)
Characters
* Tom Anderson, a character in ''Beavis and Butt-Head''
* Tom Beck, a character ...
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Marc Cherry
Marc Cherry (born March 23, 1962) is an American television writer and producer. He is best known for creating the ABC dramedy series ''Desperate Housewives''.
Personal life Early life
Marc Cherry was born in Long Beach and lived briefly in ...
Milan Cheylov
Milan Cheylov is a Canadian television director/producer. A professional stage actor at 15, Cheylov ran Bootleg Theatre in Toronto for ten years. He acted in theatre, television and film for almost twenty years. He started producing and directin ...
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Abigail Child Abigail Child is a filmmaker, poet, and writer who has been active in experimental writing and media since the 1970s. She has completed more than thirty film and video works and installations, and six books. Child's early film work addressed the in ...
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Ching Siu-Tung
Ching Siu-tung (Chinese: 程小東, born October 31st, 1953), also known as Tony Ching, is a Hong Kong action choreographer, actor, film director and producer, who has directed over 20 films, including the critically acclaimed supernatural fantas ...
Samson Chiu
Samson Chiu Leung-chun () is a Hong Kong-based film director, film writer and newspaper columnist. He is a member of the Hong Kong Directors' Guild.
Filmography
* ''News Attack'' (1989) - director/writer, starring Andy Lau as a news photographer
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Lisa Cholodenko
Lisa Cholodenko (born June 5, 1964) is an American screenwriter and director. Cholodenko wrote and directed the films '' High Art'' (1998), ''Laurel Canyon'' (2002), and '' The Kids Are All Right'' (2010). She has also directed television, includ ...
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Joyce Chopra
Joyce Chopra (; born October 27, 1936) is an American director.
She was married to American stage and screenwriter Tom Cole until his death on February 23, 2009.
Life and career
Chopra was one of three siblings born in New York City to Abraham ...
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Yash Chopra
Yash Raj Chopra (27 September 1932 21 October 2012) was an Indian film director and film producer who worked in Hindi cinema. The founding chairman of the film production and distribution company Yash Raj Films, Chopra was the recipient of ...
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Chor Yuen
Chor Yuen (), born Cheung Po-kin (; 8 October 1934 – 21 February 2022), was a Hong Kong film director, screenwriter, and actor. Chor is credited with over 120 films as director, over 70 films as a writer and over 40 films as an actor.
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Deborah Chow
Deborah Chow (born June 16, 1972) is a Canadian filmmaker, television director and screenwriter known for her independent films and her work on ''Star Wars'' television. Two of her first short films, ''Daypass'' (2002) and ''The Hill'' (2004) have ...
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Stephen Chow
Stephen Chow Sing-chi (, born 22 June 1962), known professionally as Stephen Chow, is a Hong Kong filmmaker, former actor and comedian, known for '' Shaolin Soccer'' and '' Kung Fu Hustle''.
Early life and education
Stephen Chow was born in Hong K ...
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Benjamin Christensen
Benjamin Christensen (28 September 1879 – 2 April 1959) was a Danish film director, screenwriter and an actor, both in film and on the stage. As a director, he is best known for the 1922 film ''Häxan'' (aka ''Witchcraft Through the Ages' ...
Christian-Jaque
Christian-Jaque (byname of Christian Maudet; 4 September 1904 – 8 July 1994) was a French filmmaker. From 1954 to 1959, he was married to actress Martine Carol, who starred in several of his films, including ''Lucrèce Borgia'' (1953), ''M ...
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Rich Christiano
Rich Christiano (born October 2, 1956) is an American filmmaker, who has directed, produced and written many Christian films. He owns Christiano Film Group, co-founded Five & Two Pictures
Five & Two Pictures is an independent Christian film ...
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Roger Christiansen
Roger S. Christiansen (born October 2, 1952) is an American television director.
Christiansen has worked as a director, associate director and technical coordinator for number of notable television series. His credits include ''Friends'', ''Joey ...
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Jon M. Chu
Jonathan Murray Chu (born November 2, 1979) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is best known as the director of 2018's ''Crazy Rich Asians'', the first film by a major Hollywood studio to feature a majority cast of Asi ...
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Grigori Chukhrai
Grigory Naumovich Chukhray (russian: Григо́рий Нау́мович Чухра́й; uk, Григорiй Наумович Чухрай; 23 May 1921 – 28 October 2001) was a Ukrainian Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. ...
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Lee Isaac Chung
Lee Isaac Chung (born October 19, 1978) is an American film director and screenwriter. His debut feature ''Munyurangabo'' (2007) was an Official Selection at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival and the first narrative feature film in the Kinyarwanda ...
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Peter Chung
Peter Chung (born April 19, 1961) is a Korean American animator. He is best known for his unique style of animation, as the creator and director of ''Æon Flux'' and '' Reign: The Conqueror (Alexander Senki)''.
Early life and career
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Věra Chytilová
Věra Chytilová (2 February 1929 – 12 March 2014) was an avant-garde Czech film director and pioneer of Czech cinema. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her Czech New Wave film, ''Sedmikrásky'' ('' ...
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Michael Cimino
Michael Antonio Cimino ( ; February 3, 1939 – July 2, 2016) was an American filmmaker. One of the " New Hollywood" directors, Cimino achieved fame with ''The Deer Hunter'' (1978), which won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Bes ...
René Clair
René Clair (11 November 1898 – 15 March 1981), born René-Lucien Chomette, was a French filmmaker and writer. He first established his reputation in the 1920s as a director of silent films in which comedy was often mingled with fantasy. He wen ...
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Bob Clampett
Robert Emerson Clampett Sr. (May 8, 1913 – May 2, 1984) was an American animator, director, producer and puppeteer. He was best known for his work on the '' Looney Tunes'' animated series from Warner Bros. as well as the television shows '' ...
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Bob Clark
Benjamin Robert Clark (August 5, 1939 – April 4, 2007) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his work in the Canadian film industry throughout the 1970s and 1980s, where he was responsible ...
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Larry Clark
Lawrence Donald Clark (born January 19, 1943) is an American film director, photographer, writer and film producer who is best known for his controversial teen film ''Kids'' (1995) and his photography book ''Tulsa'' (1971). His work focuses prim ...
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Richard Clark Richard Clark may refer to:
* Richard Clark (dermatologist), American dermatologist
* Richard Clark (business executive) (born 1946), president of Merck
* Richard Clark (director), British television director
* Richard Auldon Clark, American conduc ...
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Alan Clarke
Alan John Clarke (28 October 1935 – 24 July 1990) was an English television and film director, producer and writer.
Life and career
Clarke was born in Wallasey, Wirral, England.
Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, ...
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Shirley Clarke
Shirley Clarke (née Brimberg; October 2, 1919 – September 23, 1997) was an American filmmaker.
Life
Born Shirley Brimberg in New York City, she was the daughter of a Polish-immigrant father who made his fortune in manufacturing. Her mother w ...
René Clément
René Clément (; 18 March 1913 – 17 March 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Clément studied architecture at the École des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed hi ...
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Ron Clements
Ronald Francis Clements (born April 25, 1953) is an American animator, film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He often collaborates with fellow director John Musker and is best known for writing and directing the Disney films ''The Grea ...
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Elmer Clifton
Elmer Clifton (March 14, 1890 – October 15, 1949) was an American writer, director and actor from the early silent days. A collaborator of D.W. Griffith, he appeared in ''The Birth of a Nation'' (1915) and '' Intolerance'' (1916) before givi ...
George Clooney
George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Award, four Golden Globe Awards, and two Academy Awards, one for his acting and the ot ...
Robert Clouse
Robert Clouse (March 6, 1928 – February 4, 1997) was an American film director and producer, known primarily for his work in the action/adventure and martial arts genres. He died on February 4, 1997, in Oregon of kidney failure.
Clouse ...
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Henri-Georges Clouzot
Henri-Georges Clouzot (; 20 November 1907 – 12 January 1977) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer. He is best remembered for his work in the thriller film genre, having directed ''The Wages of Fear'' and '' Les Diaboliques'', ...
Jean Cocteau
Jean Maurice Eugène Clément Cocteau (, , ; 5 July 1889 – 11 October 1963) was a French poet, playwright, novelist, designer, filmmaker, visual artist and critic. He was one of the foremost creatives of the s ...
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Coen Brothers
Joel Daniel Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957),State of Minnesota. ''Minnesota Birth Index, 1935–2002''. Minnesota Department of Health. collectively known as the Coen brothers (), are American film ...
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Larry Cohen
Lawrence George Cohen (July 15, 1936 – March 23, 2019) was an American screenwriter, producer, and director of film and television, best known as an author of horror and science fiction films — often containing police procedural and ...
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Rob Cohen
Rob Cohen (born March 12, 1949) is an American director and producer of film and television. Beginning his career as an executive producer at 20th Century Fox, Cohen produced and developed numerous high-profile film and television programs, inc ...
Keri Collins
Keri Collins (born 1978) is a BAFTA winning director and writer for film and television. He has written and directed for the BBC, Sky TV, Netflix, ''The Sunday Times'' and PBS.
Collins was born in Pontypool, Wales. He was selected for the presti ...
Chris Columbus Christopher Columbus was an explorer born in Genoa, Italy.
Christopher Columbus or Chris Columbus may also refer to:
People
* Chris Columbus (musician) (1902–2002), American jazz drummer
* Chris Columbus (filmmaker) (born 1958), American direc ...
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Timothy Combe Timothy Combe (born 17 October 1936) is a retired British television director and actor's agent. As a director of BBC television drama from the late 1960s to the late 1970s, he worked on series such as ''Doctor Who'', ''Z-Cars'' and '' The Brothers' ...
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Luigi Comencini
Luigi Comencini (; 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007) ''The Guardian'' was an Italian
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Bill Condon
William Condon (born October 22, 1955) is an American director and screenwriter. Condon is known for writing and/or directing numerous successful and acclaimed films including '' Gods and Monsters'', '' Chicago'', '' Kinsey'', ''Dreamgirls'', ...
Ryan Coogler
Ryan Kyle Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is a recipient of four NAACP Image Awards, four Black Reel Awards, a Golden Globe Award nomination and an Academy Award nomination for Best Pictu ...
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Barry Cook
Barry Cook (born August 12, 1958) is an American film director who has worked in the animated film industry since the 1980s. Cook and Tony Bancroft directed '' Mulan'' (1998), for which they won the 1998 Annie Award for Best Animated Feature. Coo ...
Victor Cook
Victor A. Cook (born c. 1960/1961) is an American television producer and director best known for his work on the animated series ''The Spectacular Spider-Man'' (2008–2009), ''Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated'' (2010–2013) and ''Stretch Arms ...
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Josh Cooley
Joshua Cooley (born May 23, 1979) is an American animator, screenwriter, director and voice actor. He is best known for directing the 2019 film '' Toy Story 4'', the fourth film of the ''Toy Story'' franchise, for which he won the Academy Awar ...
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford Coppola (; ; born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the major figures of the New Hollywood filmmaking movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Coppola is the recipient of five ...
Sofia Coppola
Sofia Carmina Coppola (; born May 14, 1971) is an American filmmaker and actress. The youngest child and only daughter of filmmakers Eleanor Coppola, Eleanor and Francis Ford Coppola, she made her film debut as an infant in her father's acclaimed ...
Roger Corman
Roger William Corman (born April 5, 1926) is an American film director, producer, and actor. He has been called "The Pope of Pop Cinema" and is known as a trailblazer in the world of independent film. Many of Corman's films are based on works t ...
Orlando Corradi
Orlando Corradi (1940, Busto Arsizio – 7 November 2018, Switzerland) was an Italian film director, animator, and film distributor. He was the co-founder, president, CEO and CFO of Mondo TV.
Career
Born in Busto Arsizio in 1940, Corradi (along w ...
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Rich Correll
Richard Thomas Correll (born May 14, 1948) is an American television actor, director, producer and writer.
Life and career
Born in Los Angeles County, California, Correll is the son of Charles Correll, who starred as Andy Brown on the radio ...
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Lloyd Corrigan
Lloyd Corrigan (October 16, 1900 – November 5, 1969) was an American film and television actor, producer, screenwriter, and director who began working in films in the 1920s. The son of actress Lillian Elliott, Corrigan directed films, usually ...
Don Coscarelli
Don Coscarelli Jr. (born February 17, 1954) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. Born to Italian settlers in Libya, he is best known for his work in horror films. His directing credits include the first four films in the ' ...
Pedro Costa
Pedro Costa (born 30 December 1958) is a Portuguese film director. He is best known for his sequence of films set in Lisbon, which focuses on the lives of the impoverished residents of a slum in the Fontainhas neighbourhood.
Biography
After com ...
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Costa-Gavras
Costa-Gavras (short for Konstantinos Gavras; el, Κωνσταντίνος Γαβράς; born 12 February 1933) is a Greek-French film director, screenwriter, and producer who lives and works in France. He is known for films with political and s ...
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Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, producer, film director and musician. He has received various accolades, including two Academy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Screen Actor ...
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Manny Coto
Manuel Hector "Manny" Coto (born June 10, 1961) is an American writer, director and producer of films and television programs.
Coto was the executive producer and showrunner of '' Star Trek: Enterprise'' in its final season, and executive produ ...
Alex Cox
Alexander B. H. Cox (born 15 December 1954) is an English film director, screenwriter, actor, non-fiction author and broadcaster. Cox experienced success early in his career with '' Repo Man'' and '' Sid and Nancy'', but since the release and c ...
William James Craft
William James Craft (1886 – 30 June 1931) was a Canadian film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 60 films between 1910 and 1931. He is also credited with writing for 12 films between 1920 and 1928. Craft was born in Toronto ...
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Stephen Cragg
Stephen Cragg is an American television producer and director. Cragg has directed several network television series. Cragg also directed episodes of '' ER'', ''Boston Legal'', ''Detroit 1-8-7'', '' Southland'', ''Harry's Law'', ''Northern Exposur ...
Bryan Cranston
Bryan Lee Cranston (born March 7, 1956) is an American actor and director who is best known for portraying Walter White in the AMC crime drama series ''Breaking Bad'' (2008–2013) and Hal in the Fox sitcom ''Malcolm in the Middle'' (2000–20 ...
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Wes Craven
Wesley Earl Craven (August 2, 1939 – August 30, 2015) was an American film director, screenwriter, producer, actor, and editor. Craven has commonly been recognized as one of the greatest masters of the horror genre due to the cultural imp ...
Destin Daniel Cretton
Destin Daniel Cretton is an American filmmaker. He is best known for his films ''Short Term 12'' (2013), '' The Glass Castle'' (2017), ''Just Mercy'' (2019) and the Marvel Studios film '' Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings'' (2021). He h ...
Michael Crichton
John Michael Crichton (; October 23, 1942 – November 4, 2008) was an American author and filmmaker. His books have sold over 200 million copies worldwide, and over a dozen have been adapted into films. His literary works heavily feature tech ...
Donald Crisp
Donald William Crisp (27 July 188225 May 1974) was an English film actor as well as an early producer, director and screenwriter. His career lasted from the early silent film era into the 1960s. He won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ...
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Armando Crispino
Armando Crispino (18 October 1924 – 6 October 2003) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. He was born in Biella, Piedmont. He directed nine films between 1966 and 1975. He also wrote for nine films between 1965 and 1975. He also d ...
Donald Crombie
Donald Charles Crombie (born 5 July 1942) is an Australian film and television director and screenwriter.
Born in Brisbane, Crombie was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School and studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art.
Cr ...
David Cronenberg
David Paul Cronenberg (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror genre, with his films exploring visceral bodily transformation ...
Alan Crosland
Alan Crosland (August 10, 1894 – July 16, 1936) was an American stage actor and film director. He is noted for having directed the first feature film using spoken dialogue, '' The Jazz Singer'' (1927).
Early life and career
Born in New York C ...
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Matthew Crouch
Matthew W. "Matt" Crouch /kraʊtʃ/ (born October 26, 1961) is an American broadcaster, on-air personality, and filmmaker. A second-generation television producer and executive, he is currently president of Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN), a ...
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Cameron Crowe
Cameron Bruce Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American journalist, author, writer, producer, director, actor, lyricist, and playwright. Before moving into the film industry, Crowe was a contributing editor at '' Rolling Stone'' magazine, for w ...
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James Cruze
James Cruze (born James Cruze Bosen; March 27, 1884 – August 3, 1942) was a silent film actor and film director.
Early years
Cruze's middle name came from the battle of Vera Cruz. He was raised in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day ...
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Billy Crystal
William Edward Crystal (born March 14, 1948)On page 17 of his book ''700 Sundays'', Crystal displays his birth announcement, which gives his first two names as "William Edward", not "William Jacob" is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. ...
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Arzén von Cserépy
Arzén von Cserépy (1881–1958) was a Hungarian screenwriter, film producer and director who was based in Germany. He ran his own production company Cserépy-Film until it was merged into the larger UFA empire. von Cserépy became associate ...
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Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco ( , ; born 28 November 1961) is a Mexican filmmaker. He is known for directing films in a variety of genres including the family drama ''A Little Princess'' (1995), the romantic drama ''Great Expectations'' (1998), the c ...
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Chris Cuddington
Chris Cuddington is an Australian animation director who worked at Hanna-Barbera Australia studios in Sydney during the 1970s and 1980s.
At Hanna-Barbera (Australia), he was Animation Director for the following TV series:
*''Clue Club'' (1976)
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Michael Cudlitz
Michael Cudlitz (born December 29, 1964) is an American actor known for portraying John Cooper in the NBC/ TNT drama series '' Southland'' for which he won the Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2013 ...
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George Cukor
George Dewey Cukor (; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and film producer. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Selznick, the studio's Head ...
Fiona Cumming
Fiona Cumming (9 October 1937 – 1 January 2015) was a Scottish television director, noted for her work on the BBC television series, ''Doctor Who'', during the show's Fifth Doctor era.
Her credits included the 1982 episode, '' Castrovalva'', ...
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Irving Cummings
Irving Caminsky (October 9, 1888 – April 18, 1959) was an American movie actor and director.
Career
Born in New York City, Cummings started his acting career at age 16 in ''Diplomacy''. His Broadway, performances included ''In the Long ...
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Michael Cumming
Michael Cumming is a British director and filmmaker. He is best known for directing comedy shows such as: ''Brass Eye'', ''Toast Of London'', '' Toast Of Tinseltown'', ''The Mark Thomas Product'', ''Snuff Box,'' ''The Mark Steel Lectures'' and '' ...
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis (born November 22, 1958) is an American actress, producer, children's author, and activist. She came to prominence with her portrayal of Lt. Barbara Duran on the ABC sitcom '' Operation Petticoat'' (1977–78). In 1978, she m ...
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Richard Curtis
Richard Whalley Anthony Curtis (born 8 November 1956) is a New Zealand-born British screenwriter, producer and film director. One of Britain's most successful comedy screenwriters, he is known primarily for romantic comedy films, among them '' ...
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Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz ( ; born Manó Kaminer; since 1905 Mihály Kertész; hu, Kertész Mihály; December 24, 1886 April 10, 1962) was a Hungarian-American film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history. He directed cla ...
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Paul Czinner
Paul Czinner (30 May 1890 – 22 June 1972) was a Hungarian-born British writer, film director, and producer.
Biography
Czinner was born to a Jewish family in Budapest, Austria-Hungary.
After studying literature and philosophy at the Universi ...
John Dahl
John Dahl (born December 11, 1956) is an American film and television director and writer, best known for his work in the neo-noir genre.
Life and career
John Dahl was born in Billings, Montana, the second of four children (his brother is ...
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Alan Dale
Alan Hugh Dale (born 6 May 1947) is a New Zealand actor. As a child, Dale enjoyed theatre and rugby. After retiring from the sport, he took on a number of occupations, before deciding to become a professional actor at age 27. Dale subsequent ...
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Stephen Daldry
Stephen David Daldry CBE (born 2 May 1960) is an English director and producer of film, theatre, and television. He has won three Olivier Awards for his work in the West End and three Tony Awards for his work on Broadway. He has received thr ...
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Massimo Dallamano
Massimo Dallamano (17 April 1917 – 4 November 1976), sometimes credited as Max Dillman, Max Dillmann or Jack Dalmas, was an Italian director and director of photography.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Dallamano began in the 1940s as camera ...
Joe D'Amato
Aristide Massaccesi (15 December 1936 – 23 January 1999), known professionally as Joe D'Amato, was an Italian film director, producer, cinematographer, and screenwriter who worked in many genres ( westerns, decamerotici, peplum, war films, ...
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Georgi Daneliya
Georgiy Nikolayevich Daneliya ( ka, გიორგი ნიკოლოზის ძე დანელია; russian: Георгий Николаевич Данелия; 25 August 1930 – 4 April 2019), also known as Giya Daneliya ( ka, გ ...
Greg Daniels
Gregory Martin Daniels (born June 13, 1963) is an American screenwriter, television producer, and director. He has worked on several television series, including writing for ''Saturday Night Live'' and ''The Simpsons'', adapting ''The Office (Am ...
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Lee Daniels
Lee Daniels (born December 24, 1959) is an American film and television producer, director and screenwriter. His first producer credit was ''Monster's Ball'' (2001), for which Halle Berry won the Academy Award for Best Actress, making Daniels ...
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Stan Daniels
Stanley Edwin Daniels (July 31, 1934 – April 6, 2007) was a Canadian-American screenwriter, producer and director, who won eight Emmy Awards for his work on ''The Mary Tyler Moore Show'' and ''Taxi''.
Early life
Born in Toronto to Jewish pa ...
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Vladimir Danilevich
Vladimir Petrovich Danilevich (russian: Владимир Петрович Данилевич; 4 September 1924 – 9 October 2001) was a well-known Soviet and Russian animator who successfully worked as a film director, screenwriter and art directo ...
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Joe Dante
Joseph James Dante Jr. (; born November 28, 1946) is an American film director, producer, editor and actor. His films—notably '' Gremlins'' (1984) alongside its sequel, '' Gremlins 2: The New Batch'' (1990)—often mix 1950s-style B movies with ...
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Frank Darabont
Frank Árpád Darabont (born Ferenc Árpád Darabont, January 28, 1959) is an American film director, screenwriter and producer. He has been nominated for three Academy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. In his early career, he was primarily a ...
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Joan Darling
Joan Darling (née Kugell; born April 14, 1935, Boston, Massachusetts, United States) is an American actress, film and television director and a dramatic arts instructor.
Biography
Born Joan Kugell in Boston, Darling began her career with the ...
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Eric Darnell
Eric Darnell (born August 21, 1961) is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, screenwriter, songwriter and occasional voice actor best known for co-directing '' Antz'' with Tim Johnson, as well as co-directing and co-writing ''Mada ...
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Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast (6 May 1897 – 17 March 1968) was an Argentinean born, French screenwriter and director.
Life
d'Abbadie d'Arrast was born in Argentina in 1893 to a family of French aristocratic origins. He moved to the United States ...
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Jules Dassin
Julius "Jules" Dassin (December 18, 1911 – March 31, 2008) was an American film and theatre director, producer, writer and actor. A subject of the Hollywood blacklist in the McCarthy era, he subsequently moved to France, and later Greece, whe ...
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Hayato Date
is a Japanese animation director most known for the anime adaptations of '' Saiyuki'' and '' Naruto''.
Filmography Films
*'' Saiyuki: Requiem'' (2001)
*劇場版 NARUTO-ナルト- 木ノ葉の里の大うん動会 (short, 2004)
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Gary Dauberman
Gary Dauberman is an American screenwriter and director. He is known for writing The Conjuring Universe horror films '' Annabelle'' (2014), '' Annabelle: Creation'' (2017), '' The Nun'' (2018), and ''Annabelle Comes Home'' (2019). He made his dir ...
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Herschel Daugherty
Herschel Eldon Daugherty (October 27, 1910 – March 5, 1993) was an American television and film director and occasional actor.
Early life and career
Born in Clarks Hill, Indiana, to Charles Emerson and Blanche Eracene Daugherty (né Feerer ...
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Byambasuren Davaa
Byambasuren Davaa, also known as Davaagiin Byambasüren ( mn, Даваагийн Бямбасүрэн; born 1971 in Ulaanbaatar), is a Mongolian filmmaker currently residing in Germany.
Between 1995 and 1998 she studied at the Movie Academy in Ul ...
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Delmer Daves
Delmer Lawrence Daves (July 24, 1904 – August 17, 1977) was an American screenwriter, film director and film producer. He worked in many genres, including film noir and warfare, but he is best known for his Western movies, especially '' Broke ...
Hugh David
Hugh David (17 July 1925 – 11 September 1987) was a British actor turned television director. David was born in Aberystwyth, Wales. His directorial credits include ''Compact'', ''Z-Cars'', '' The Pallisers'' and ''Doctor Who
''Doct ...
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John Howard Davies
John Howard Davies (9 March 193922 August 2011) ' ...
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John Rhys-Davies
John Rhys-Davies (born 5 May 1944) is a Welsh actor best known for portraying Sallah in the ''Indiana Jones'' franchise and Gimli in ''The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy. His other roles include Michael Malone in the 1993 series ''The Untouch ...
Garth Davis
Garth Davis (born 1974) is an Australian television, advertising and film director, best known for directing the film ''Lion'' (2016), and the film ''Mary Magdalene'', written by Helen Edmundson. He earlier directed episodes of the series '' T ...
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Ossie Davis
Raiford Chatman "Ossie" Davis (December 18, 1917 – February 4, 2005) was an American actor, director, writer, and activist. He was married to Ruby Dee, with whom he frequently performed, until his death. He and his wife were named to the NAACP ...
*Tamra Davis
*J. Searle Dawley
*Roxann Dawson
*Shane Dawson
*Robert Day (director)
*Jonathan Dayton (director), Jonathan Dayton
*Drew Daywalt
*Basil Dean
*Basil Dearden
*Tiffanie DeBartolo
*Jan de Bont
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Philippe de Broca
Philippe de Broca (; 15 March 1933 – 26 November 2004) was a French movie director.
He directed 30 full-length feature films, including the highly successful '' That Man from Rio (''L'Homme de Rio'')'', '' The Man from Acapulco (Le Magnifique) ...
*Fred de Cordova
*Allen Coulter
*Albert de Courville
*Russell DeGrazier
*Rolf de Heer
*Fred Dekker
*Alex de la Iglesia
*Jean Delannoy
*Bruce Dellis
*Greg DeLiso
*Hampton Del Ruth
*Roy Del Ruth
*Guillermo del Toro filmography, Guillermo del Toro
*Alberto De Martino
*Kirk DeMicco
*Cecil B. DeMille
*William C. deMille
*Jonathan Demme filmography, Jonathan Demme
*Ted Demme
*James DeMonaco
*Jacques Demy
*Reginald Denham
*Robert De Niro filmography, Robert De Niro
*Claire Denis
*Martin Dennis
*Pen Densham
*Ruggero Deodato
*Manoel de Oliveira
*Brian De Palma
*Ben Palmer
*Charles Palmer (director), Charles Palmer
*Jake Paltrow
*Serge de Poligny
*Johnny Depp filmography, Johnny Depp
*John Derek
*Maya Deren
*Scott Derrickson
*Bernard Derriman
*Giuseppe de Santis
*Vittorio De Sica
*Tom DeSimone
*Howard Deutch
*Michel Deville
*Danny DeVito filmography, Danny DeVito
*Dean Devlin
*David Dhavan
*Matthew Diamond
*Emma-Rosa Dias
*Tom DiCillo
*Nigel Dick
*Vivienne Dick
*Ernest Dickerson
*Thorold Dickinson
*William Kennedy Dickson
*Carlos Diegues
*Vin Diesel
*William Dieterle
*Helmut Dietl
*J. D. Dillard
*John Francis Dillon (director), John Francis Dillon
*Michael Dante DiMartino
*Mark Dindal
*Mark A.Z. Dippé
*Mike Disa
*Lino DiSalvo
*Walt Disney
*Adriaan Ditvoorst
*Ivan Dixon
*Edward Dmytryk
*Darren Doane
*David Dobkin (director), David Dobkin
*Lawrence Dobkin
*Pete Docter
*Jacques Doillon
*Michael Dolan
*Xavier Dolan
*Miles Doleac
*Andrew Dominik
*Roger Donaldson
*Stanley Donen filmography, Stanley Donen
*Hwang Dong-hyuk
*Ciaran Donnelly (director), Ciaran Donnelly
*Clive Donner
*Richard Donner
*Mark Donskoi
*Robert Dornhelm
*Doris Dörrie
*Nelson Pereira dos Santos
*Maïmouna Doucouré
*Michael Dougherty
*Gordon Douglas (director), Gordon Douglas
*Robert Douglas (actor), Robert Douglas
*Aleksandr Dovzhenko
*Tony Dow (director), Tony Dow
*John Erick Dowdle
*Kevin Dowling (director), Kevin Dowling
*B. E. Doxat-Pratt
*Jim Drake (director), Jim Drake
*Oliver Drake (filmmaker), Oliver Drake
*Polly Draper
*Jean Dréville
*Plan B (musician), Ben Drew
*Carl Theodor Dreyer
*Marcel Duchamp
*Frederik Du Chau
*Terence Dudley
*Peter Duffell
*Duffer brothers
*Troy Duffy
*Dennis Dugan
*Joshua Dugdale
*Bill Duke
*Bruno Dumont
*Duwayne Dunham
*George Dunning
*Cheryl Dunye
*Quentin Dupieux
*Jay Duplass
*Mark Duplass
*Ewald André Dupont
*Momina Duraid
*Marguerite Duras
*Fred Durst
*Richard Dutcher
*Guru Dutt
*Robert Duvall filmography, Robert Duvall
*Ava DuVernay
*Julien Duvivier filmography, Julien Duvivier
*Allan Dwan
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*B. Reeves Eason
*Clint Eastwood filmography, Clint Eastwood
*Uli Edel
*Blake Edwards
*Gareth Edwards (director), Gareth Edwards
*Harry Edwards (director), Harry Edwards
*Shawn Efran
*Robert Eggers
*Eagle Egilsson
*Atom Egoyan
*Mohammed Ehteshamuddin
*Lena Einhorn
*Sergei Eisenstein
*Gösta Ekman
*Richard Elfman
*Stephan Elliott
*David R. Ellis
*Robert Ellis (actor, born 1892), Robert Ellis
*Scott Ellis
*Maurice Elvey
*Obi Emelonye
*John Emerson (filmmaker), John Emerson
*Roland Emmerich
*Andy De Emmony
*Cy Endfield
*John English (director), John English
*Robert Englund
*Robert Enrico
*Ray Enright
*Jason Ensler
*Ildikó Enyedi
*Nora Ephron
*Sheldon Epps
*Jean Epstein
*Luciano Ercoli
*Víctor Erice
*Chester Erskine
*Juan Escobedo
*Giancarlo Esposito
*Danishka Esterhazy
*Lukas Ettlin
*Jean Eustache
*David Mickey Evans, David M. Evans
*Gareth Evans (director), Gareth Evans
*Marc Evans
*Valie Export
*Chris Eyre
*Richard Eyre
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*Peter Faiman
*Ben Falcone
*Rick Famuyiwa
*James Fargo
*Harun Farocki
*Asghar Farhadi
*Julian Farino
*Valerie Faris
*Bobby Farrelly
*Peter Farrelly
*John Farrow
*Rainer Werner Fassbinder
*Jon Favreau filmography, Jon Favreau
*Sam Feder
*Fei Mu
*Paul Feig
*Henry Feinberg
*Paul Fejos
*Sam Fell
*Andrea Fellers
*Federico Fellini
*Emerald Fennell
*Michael Ferguson (director), Michael Ferguson
*Guy Ferland
*Emilio Fernández
*Abel Ferrara
*Marco Ferreri
*Giorgio Ferroni
*Louis Feuillade
*Jacques Feyder
*Severin Fiala
*Sally Field
*Todd Field
*Chip Fields
*Ralph Fiennes
*Mike Figgis
*Dave Filoni
*David Fincher filmography, David Fincher
*Will Finn
*Elvira Fischer
*Terence Fisher
*Dallas M. Fitzgerald
*George Fitzmaurice
*Robert J. Flaherty
*Mike Flanagan (filmmaker), Mike Flanagan
*Gary Fleder
*Dave Fleischer
*Max Fleischer
*Richard Fleischer
*Ruben Fleischer
*Andrew Fleming
*Victor Fleming
*Anne Fletcher
*Dexter Fletcher
*Mandie Fletcher
*Benedek Fliegauf
*James Flood
*Robert Florey
*Emmett J. Flynn
*Shannon Flynn (director), Shannon Flynn
*James Foley (director), James Foley
*Sheree Folkson
*Jorge Fons
*Aleksander Ford
*Jeremy J. Ford
*John Ford filmography, John Ford
*Philip Ford (film director), Philip Ford
*Eugene Forde
*Miloš Forman
*Tom Forman (actor), Tom Forman
*Willi Forst
*Marc Forster
*Bill Forsyth
*John Fortenberry
*Bob Fosse
*Jodie Foster filmography, Jodie Foster
*Lilibet Foster
*Lewis R. Foster
*Norman Foster (director), Norman Foster
*Jeff Fowler
*Wallace Fox
*Bryan Foy
*Jonathan Frakes
*Rhys Frake-Waterfield
*Coleman Francis
*James Franco filmography, James Franco
*Jesús Franco
*Georges Franju
*Melvin Frank
*Scott Frank
*David Frankel
*John Frankenheimer
*Carl Franklin
*Howard Franklin
*Sidney Franklin (director), Sidney Franklin
*Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz
*Harry L. Fraser
*Toa Fraser
*James Frawley
*David Frazee
*Stephen Frears
*Riccardo Freda
*Sydney Freeland
*Thornton Freeland
*Morgan Freeman
*Morgan J. Freeman
*Mark Freiburger
*Lloyd French
*Karl Freund
*Ron Fricke
*Fridrik Thor Fridriksson
*Jason Friedberg
*Lionel Friedberg
*David Friedkin
*William Friedkin
*Seymour Friedman
*Su Friedrich
*Gunther von Fritsch
*Carl Froelich
*Sarah Frost
*Soleil Moon Frye
*Kinji Fukasaku
*Shozin Fukui
*Lucio Fulci
*Sam Fuller
*Antoine Fuqua
*Sidney J. Furie
*Tim Fywell
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*Béla Gaál
*Leonid Gaidai
*Ray Gallardo
*Florian Gallenberger
*Alex Galvin
*Harry Gamboa Jr.
*Abel Gance
*Christophe Gans
*Dennis Gansel
*Arline Burks Gant, Arline Gant
*Carla Garapedian
*Rodrigo García (director), Rodrigo García
*Jeremy Garelick
*Jeff Garlin
*Tay Garnett
*Philippe Garrel
*Mick Garris
*Matteo Garrone
*Harry Garson
*William Garwood
*Louis J. Gasnier
*Tucker Gates
*Mark Gatiss
*Tony Gatlif
*Nils Gaup
*Roberto Gavaldón
*Barrie Gavin
*Galder Gaztelu-Urrutia
*Paul Geday
*Jean Genet
*Xavier Gens
*Giacomo Gentilomo
*Fred Gerber
* Aleksei Yuryevich German
* Aleksei Alekseivich German
*Pietro Germi
*Clyde Geronimi
*Kurt Gerron
*Douchan Gersi
*Viktor Gertler
*Ricky Gervais
*Jennifer Getzinger
*Subhash Ghai
*Ritwik Ghatak
*Bahman Ghobadi
*Charles Giblyn
*Angela Murray Gibson, Angela Gibson
*Mel Gibson filmography, Mel Gibson
*Billy Gierhart
*Joaquin "Kino" Gil
*John Gilbert (actor), John Gilbert
*Lewis Gilbert
*David Giler
*Stuart Gillard
*Craig Gillespie
*Terry Gilliam
*Tyler Gillett
*Vince Gilligan
*John Gilling
*Dan Gilroy
*Tony Gilroy
*Arvid E. Gillstrom
*Bernard Girard
*Marino Girolami
*Ken Girotti
*Pavel Giroud
*Amos Gitai
*Ellen Gittelsohn
*Stanka Gjurić
*Rose Glass
*Lesli Linka Glatter
*Jonathan Glazer
*John Glen (director), John Glen
*Peter Glenville
*James Glickenhaus
*Will Gluck
*Jean-Luc Godard
*Andy Goddard
*Theo van Gogh (film director), Theo van Gogh
*Michael Goi
*Menahem Golan
*Evan Goldberg
*Bobcat Goldthwait
*Nick Gomez
*Michel Gondry
*Alejandro González Iñárritu
*Martin Gooch
*Derrick Goodwin
*Leslie Goodwins
*Rupert Goold
*Adoor Gopalakrishnan
*Bryan Gordon
*George Gordon (animator), George Gordon
*Michael Gordon (film director), Michael Gordon
*Stuart Gordon
*John Gorrie (director), John Gorrie
*Yana Gorskaya
*Hideo Gosha
*Ryan Gosling
*Raja Gosnell
*Lisa Gottlieb
*Peter Gould
*Alfred Goulding
*Edmund Goulding
*Ashutosh Gowariker
* Jake Graf
*Todd Graff
*William A. Graham (director), William A. Graham
*Michael Grandage
*Brian Grant (director), Brian Grant
*Lee Grant
*Alex Graves
*F. Gary Gray
*Adam Green (filmmaker), Adam Green
*Alfred E. Green
*Dave Green (director), Dave Green
*David Green (director), David Green
*David Gordon Green
*Guy Green (filmmaker), Guy Green
*Hilton A. Green
*Norm Green
*Pamela B. Green, Pamela Green
*Steph Green
*Tom Green
*Peter Greenaway
*Josh Greenbaum
*C. H. Greenblatt
*Paul Greengrass
*Jeff Greenstein
*Robert Greenwald
*Edwin Greenwood
*Robert Gregson (filmmaker), Robert Gregson
*Jean Grémillon
*Johannes Grenzfurthner
*John Greyson
*John Grierson
*Ken Grieve
*D. W. Griffith
*Edward H. Griffith
*Murray Grigor
*Peter Grimwade
*Nick Grinde
*David Grossman (director), David Grossman
*Luca Guadagnino
*Matthew Gray Gubler
*Romolo Guerrieri
*Christopher Guest
*Val Guest
*John Guillermin
*Fred Guiol
*Sacha Guitry
*Yilmaz Güney
*Andrew Gunn (director), Andrew Gunn
*James Gunn (filmmaker), James Gunn
*Hrafn Gunnlaugsson
*Manish Gupta (director), Manish Gupta
*Stephen Gurewitz
*Jorge Gutierrez (animator), Jorge Gutierrez
*Sebastian Gutierrez
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Alice Guy-Blaché
Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché (née Guy; ; 1 July 1873 – 24 March 1968) was a French pioneer filmmaker. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, s ...
*Charles F. Haas
*Kamal Haasan
*Taylor Hackford
*Zach Hadel
*Tala Hadid
*Lucile Hadžihalilović
*Piers Haggard
*Paul Haggis
*Larry Hagman
*Don Hahn
*Antonio Margheriti
*Jody Margolin Hahn
*Charles Haid
*Andrew Haigh
*John Halas
*Alexander Hall
*Don Hall (filmmaker), Don Hall
*Lasse Hallström
*Victor Hugo Halperin
*Gary Halvorson
*Ryusuke Hamaguchi
*Bent Hamer
*Robert Hamer
*Guy Hamilton
*Hamish Hamilton (director), Hamish Hamilton
*Jonathan Hammond (filmmaker), Jonathan Hammond
*Sanaa Hamri
*Victor Hanbury
*John D. Hancock
*Michael Haneke
*Tom Hanks
*William Hanna
*Ken Hannam
*Curtis Hanson
*Geir Hansteen Jörgensen
*Alex Hardcastle
*Neasa Hardiman
*Catherine Hardwicke
*Graeme Harper
*Tom Harper (director), Tom Harper
*Veit Harlan
*Renny Harlin
*Harry Harris (director), Harry Harris
*Peter Harris (director), Peter Harris
*Mary Harron
*Harvey Hart
*William S. Hart
*Hal Hartley
*Anthony Harvey
*Herk Harvey
*Jack Harvey (actor and director), Jack Harvey
*Wojciech Has
*Henry Hathaway
*James Hawes
*Howard Hawks
*Will Hay
*Salma Hayek
*Michael Hayes (director), Michael Hayes.
*David Hayman
*James Hayman
*Toby Haynes
*Todd Haynes
*Jimmy Hayward
*Michel Hazanavicius
*Amy Heckerling
*Ralph Hemecker
*Anthony Hemingway
*Siân Heder
*Victor Heerman
*Zachary Heinzerling
*Stuart Heisler
*Brian Helgeland
*Marielle Heller
*Monte Hellman
*Michael "Ffish" Hemschoot
*Joseph Henabery
*Chris Henchy
*Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
*Dell Henderson
*John Henderson (director), John Henderson
*Frank Henenlotter
*Hobart Henley
*Paul Henreid
*Brian Henson
*Jim Henson
*Perry Henzell
*Paula Heredia
*Stephen Herek
*Albert Herman
*Kate Herron
*William Blake Herron
*Michael Herz (producer), Michael Herz
*John Herzfeld
*Werner Herzog filmography, Werner Herzog
*Zako Heskiya
*Jared Hess
*Jerusha Hess
*Gordon Hessler
*Marianne Hettinger
*Jennifer Love Hewitt
*David Hewlett
*John Edward Heys, John Heys
*Douglas Hickox
*Scott Hicks (director), Scott Hicks
*Howard Higgin
*George Roy Hill
*George Hill (director), George Hill
*Jack Hill
*Jody Hill
*Robert F. Hill
*Sinclair Hill
*Walter Hill
*Stephen Hillenburg
*Arthur Hiller
*William Byron Hillman
*Lambert Hillyer
*Anthony Himbs
*Art Hindle
*Cheryl Hines
*Ryūichi Hiroki
*Oliver Hirschbiegel
*Leon Hirszman
*Leslie S. Hiscott
*Alfred Hitchcock
*Godfrey Ho
*Mervyn Pinfield
*Ho Ping
*Steve Pink
*Jessica Hobbs
*Gregory Hoblit
*Brent Hodge
*Mike Hodges
*Jack Hofsiss
*James P. Hogan (director), James P. Hogan
*P.J. Hogan
*Clive Holden
*Agnieszka Holland
*Todd Holland
*Tom Holland (filmmaker), Tom Holland
*Savage Steve Holland
*Tonya Suzanne Holly, Tonya Holly
*Ben Holmes
*John Holmquist
*Seth Holt
*Ishirō Honda
*Mitsuru Hongo
*Tobe Hooper
*Tom Hooper
*Stephen Hopkins (director), Stephen Hopkins
*Dennis Hopper filmography, Dennis Hopper
*Jerry Hopper
*Gwyneth Horder-Payton
*Leonard Horn
*James W. Horne
*Oliver Horsbrugh
*Hou Hsiao-hsien
*Li Hsing
*John Hough (director), John Hough
*Bryce Dallas Howard
*Byron Howard
*David Howard (director), David Howard
*Michael Howard (filmmaker), Michael Howard
*Ron Howard
*William K. Howard, William Howard
*Peter Howitt
*King Hu
*L. Ron Hubbard
*Reginald Hudlin
*Hugh Hudson
*Bronwen Hughes
*Howard Hughes
*John Hughes (filmmaker), John Hughes
*Ken Hughes
*Robert F. Hughes
*Terry Hughes (director), Terry Hughes
*Ann Hui
*Straub-Huillet, Danièle Huillet
*Arthur Humberstone
*H. Bruce Humberstone
*André Hunebelle
*Helen Hunt
*Tim Hunter (director), Tim Hunter
*Lawrence Huntington
*Nick Hurran
*Michael Hurst
*Sam Hurwitz
*Metin Hüseyin
*Waris Hussein
*John Huston
*Charles Hutchison
*Brian G. Hutton
*Willard Huyck
*Peter Hyams
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*Armando Iannucci
*Juan Ibáñez
*Kon Ichikawa
*Steve Ihnat
*Brian Iles
*Im Kwon-Taek
*Shōhei Imamura
*Michael Imison
*Hiroshi Inagaki
*John Ince (actor), John Ince
*Ralph Ince
*Thomas H. Ince
*Rex Ingram (director), Rex Ingram
*Ciro Ippolito
*Dickson Iroegbu
*John Irvin
*George Irving (American actor), George Irving
*Kyōhei Ishiguro
*Debbie Isitt
*Marc Israel
*Jūzō Itami
*Aleksandr Ivanovsky
*Ivan Ivanov-Vano
*Joris Ivens
*James Ivory
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*Jacques Jaccard
*David Jackson (director), David Jackson
*Dianne Jackson
*Michael Jackson
*Mick Jackson (director), Mick Jackson
*Paul Jackson (producer), Paul Jackson
*Peter Jackson
*Wilfred Jackson
*Gregory Jacobs
*Rick Jacobson
*Sarah Jacobson
*Henry Jaglom
*Wanda Jakubowska
*Alan James
*Steve James (producer), Steve James
*Miklós Jancsó
*Leigh Janiak
*Jang Joon-hwan
*Bob Jaques
*Derek Jarman
*Jim Jarmusch
*Julian Jarrold
*Charles Jarrott
*Risto Jarva
*Leigh Jason
*Kang Je-gyu
*Barry Jenkins
*What If... (2010 film), Dallas Jenkins
*Patty Jenkins
*Garth Jennings
*Humphrey Jennings
*Shelley Jensen
*Jean-Pierre Jeunet
*Norman Jewison
*Jia Zhangke
*Jiang Wen
*Jaromil Jireš
*Phil Joanou
*Alejandro Jodorowsky
*Mark Joffe
*Roland Joffé
*Clark Johnson
*Craig Johnson (director), Craig Johnson
*Duke Johnson (director), Duke Johnson
*Lamont Johnson
*Liza Johnson
*Mark Steven Johnson
*Nunnally Johnson
*Rian Johnson
*Tim Johnson (film director), Tim Johnson
*Joe Johnston
*Angelina Jolie
*Chuck Jones
*Duncan Jones
*F. Richard Jones
*Grover Jones
*Michael Jones (writer), Michael Jones
*Ron Jones (television director), Ron Jones
*Terry Jones
*Tommy Lee Jones
*Spike Jonze
*Neil Jordan
*Edward José
*Max Joseph
*Jon Jost
*Louis Jouvet
*Paul Joyce
*Jonathan Judge
*Mike Judge
*Rupert Julian
*Miranda July
*Nathan Juran
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*Karel Kachyňa
*George Kaczender
*Jeremy Kagan
*Mauricio Kagel
*Joseph Kahn videography, Joseph Kahn
*Sathish Kalathil
*Mikhail Kalatozov
*Alex Kalymnios
*Kamal (director), Kamal
*Arunraja Kamaraj
*Sekhar Kammula
*Deborah Kampmeier
*Puttanna Kanagal
*Adam Kane
*Joseph Kane
*Shusuke Kaneko
*Jeff Kanew
*Garson Kanin
*Jonathan Kaplan
*Raj Kapoor
*Shekhar Kapur
*Pekka Karjalainen
*Phil Karlson
*Roman Karmen
*Jason Kartalian
*Jake Kasdan
*Lawrence Kasdan
*Mathieu Kassovitz
*Aaron Katz (filmmaker), Aaron Katz
*Lloyd Kaufman
*Philip Kaufman
*Aki Kaurismäki
*Mika Kaurismäki
*Helmut Käutner
*Jerzy Kawalerowicz
*Minoru Kawasaki (film director), Minoru Kawasaki
*Tony Kaye (director), Tony Kaye
*Elia Kazan
*Helmut Käutner
*Buster Keaton filmography, Buster Keaton
*Abdellatif Kechiche
*William Keighley
*Asaad Kelada
*Frederick King Keller
*Harry Keller
*Michael Keller (filmmaker), Michael Keller
*Barnet Kellman
*Brian Kelly (director), Brian Kelly
*Gene Kelly filmography, Gene Kelly
*Richard Kelly (director), Richard Kelly
*Gil Kenan
*David Kendall (director), David Kendall
*Alex Kendrick
*Erle C. Kenton, Erle Kenton
*James V. Kern
*David Kerr (director), David Kerr
*Robert P. Kerr, Robert Kerr
*Michael Kerrigan
*Irvin Kershner
*James Kerwin
*Abbas Kiarostami
*Krzysztof Kieślowski
*Maggie Kiley
*Edward Killy
*Kim Jee-woon
*Kim Ki-duk
*Max W. Kimmich, Max Kimmich
*Anthony Kimmins
*Simon Kinberg
*Burton L. King, Burton King
*Gary King (director), Gary King
*George King (film director), George King
*Henry King (director), Henry King
*Louis King
*Paul King (director), Paul King
*Shaka King
*Stephen King
*Keisuke Kinoshita
*Klaus Kinski
*Teinosuke Kinugasa
*Brian Kirk
*Randal Kirk II, Randal Kirk
*Mark Kirkland
*Lyudmil Kirkov
*Karey Kirkpatrick
*Alan Kirschenbaum
*Ryuhei Kitamura
*Takeshi Kitano
*Alf Kjellin
*William Klein (photographer), William Klein
*Randal Kleiser
*Elem Klimov
*León Klimovsky
*Alexander Kluge
*Jennifer Kluska
*Harley Knoles
*Kevin Ko
*Masaki Kobayashi
*Chris Koch
*Kogonada
*Bob Koherr
*Vincent Kok
*Henry Kolker
*Alexander Kolowrat
*Satoshi Kon
*Andrei Konchalovsky
*Larysa Kondracki
*Tadeusz Konwicki
*Alexander Korda
*Zoltan Korda
*Koreeda Hirokazu, Hirokazu Koreeda
*Harmony Korine
*Caryl Deyn Korma, Caryl Korma
*Baltasar Kormákur
*Brigitte Kornetzky
*John Korty
*Joseph Kosinski
*Henry Koster
*Ted Kotcheff
*Mariusz Kotowski
*Serguei Kouchnerov
*Nikos Koundouros
*Jan Kounen
*Paul Kowalski
*Aaron Kozak
*Ivan Kraljevic
*Stanley Kramer
*John Krasinski
*Kurt Kren
*Mitchell Kriegman
*Krishnan–Panju
*William Kronick
*Stanley Kubrick filmography, Stanley Kubrick
*George Kuchar
*Lev Kuleshov
*Roger Kumble
*Zacharias Kunuk
*List of works by Akira Kurosawa, Akira Kurosawa
*Kiyoshi Kurosawa
*Karyn Kusama
*Emir Kusturica
*Geir Ove Kvalheim
*Daniels (directors), Daniel Kwan
*Stanley Kwan
*Ken Kwapis
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*John La Bouchardière
*Nadine Labaki
*Neil LaBute
*Gregory La Cava
*Harry Lachman
*Aldo Lado
*Edward Laemmle
*James Lafferty
*John Lafia
*René Laloux
*Ringo Lam
*Fernando Lamas
*Mary Lambert (director), Mary Lambert
*Charles Lamont
*Lew Landers
*Alejandro Landes
*John Landis
*Max Landis
*Christopher Landon (filmmaker), Christopher Landon
*Sidney Lanfield
*Fritz Lang filmography, Fritz Lang
*Walter Lang
*Michael Lange
*Rémi Lange
*Jerry Langford
*Doug Langway
*Yorgos Lanthimos
*Claude Lanzmann
*Janez Lapajne
*Victoria Larimore
*Pablo Larraín
*John Lasseter
*Andrew Lau
*Jeffrey Lau
*Peter Lauer
*Charles Laughton
*Mélanie Laurent
*Carl Lauten
*Arnold Laven
*Diarmuid Lawrence
*Francis Lawrence videography, Francis Lawrence
*Marc Lawrence (filmmaker), Marc Lawrence
*J. F. Lawton
*Tracie Laymon
*Paul Lazarus
*Philip Leacock
*David Lean filmography, David Lean
*Patrice Leconte
*Bruce Leddy
*Mimi Leder
*D. Ross Lederman
*Ang Lee
*David Lee (screenwriter), David Lee
*Jennifer Lee (filmmaker), Jennifer Lee
*Lee Chang-dong
*Lee Cheol-ha
*Lee Lik-Chi
*Rowland V. Lee
*Spike Lee filmography, Spike Lee
*Michael Leeston-Smith
*Michael Lehmann
*Henry Lehrman
*Larry Leichliter
*Julia Leigh
*Mike Leigh
*Danny Leiner
*Mitchell Leisen
*Logan Leistikow
*David Leitch
*Józef Lejtes
*Claude Lelouch
*Michael Lembeck
*Kasi Lemmons
*John Lemont
*Jay Lender
*Umberto Lenzi
*Robert Z. Leonard
*Damien Leone
*Sergio Leone filmography, Sergio Leone
*John R. Leonetti
*Tony Leondis
*Robert Lepage
*Peter Lepeniotis
*Louis Le Prince
*Mervyn LeRoy
*Michael Lessac
*George Lessey
*Mark L. Lester
*Richard Lester
*Louis Leterrier
*Jørgen Leth
*Jared Leto filmography, Jared Leto
*Rob Letterman
*Brian Levant
*Henry Levin (film director), Henry Levin
*Ken Levine (screenwriter), Ken Levine
*Barry Levinson
*Shawn Levy
*Shuki Levy
*Herschell Gordon Lewis
*Jerry Lewis
*Joseph H. Lewis
*Leonard Lewis
*Phill Lewis
*Paul Lieberstein
*Jonathan Liebesman
*Li Han-Hsiang
*Lee Tit
*Li Yang (director), Li Yang
*Desiree Lim
*Doug Liman
*Brian Limond
*Fred J. Lincoln
*Max Linder
*Tobias Lindholm
*Willy Lindwer
*Graham Linehan
*Richard Linklater
*Matt Lipsey
*Oldřich Lipský
*Steven Lisberger
*Miguel Littín
*Dwight H. Little
*Lynne Littman
*Anatole Litvak
*Luis Llosa
*Frank Lloyd
*Norman Lloyd
*Phyllida Lloyd
*Lo Wei
*Ken Loach
*Sondra Locke
*Barbara Loden
*Ulli Lommel
*Richard Loncraine
*Jerry London
*Kenneth Lonergan
*Stanley Long
*Robert Longo
*Del Lord
*Peter Lord
* Ian Lorimer
*Chuck Lorre
*Joseph Losey
*Todd Louiso
*Lou Ye
*David Lowery (director), David Lowery
*Declan Lowney
*Philippa Lowthorpe
*Arthur Lubin
*Ernst Lubitsch filmography, Ernst Lubitsch
*George Lucas filmography, George Lucas
*John Meredyth Lucas
*Wilfred Lucas
*Edward Ludwig
*Baz Luhrmann
*Sidney Lumet
*Leopold Lummerstorfer
*Kátia Lund
*Ida Lupino
*Rod Lurie
*Don Lusk
*Hamilton Luske
*Dorothy Lyman
*Euros Lyn
*David Lynch filmography, David Lynch
*Jeffrey Lynch
*Jennifer Lynch
*Liam Lynch (musician), Liam Lynch
*Adrian Lyne
*Jonathan Lynn
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M
Ma–Mc
*David MacDonald (director), David MacDonald
*Hettie MacDonald
*Kevin Macdonald (director), Kevin Macdonald
*Carl Macek
*Seth MacFarlane
*Gustav Machatý
*Willard Mack
*Alexander Mackendrick
*David Mackenzie (director), David Mackenzie
*Philip Charles MacKenzie
*Will Mackenzie
*Douglas Mackinnon
*Gillies MacKinnon
*Angus MacLane
*Michelle MacLaren
*Murdock MacQuarrie
*Guy Maddin
*Madonna (entertainer), Madonna
*Holger-Madsen
*Ivan Magrin-Chagnolleau
*Brendan Maher (director), Brendan Maher
*Barry Mahon
*Charles Maigne
*Norman Mailer
*Alan Mak (director), Alan Mak
*Dušan Makavejev
*Mohsen Makhmalbaf
*Samira Makhmalbaf
*Károly Makk
*Sundeep Malani
*Terrence Malick filmography, Terrence Malick
*Louis Malle
*Nicholas Mallett
*William Malone (director), William Malone
*David Maloney
*Leo D. Maloney
*Henrik Malyan
*Djibril Diop Mambéty
*Manakis brothers
*Milcho Manchevski
*Don Mancini
*David Mandel
*Chris Mandia
*Luis Mandoki
*James Mangold
*Joseph L. Mankiewicz
*Anthony Mann
*Daniel Mann
*Delbert Mann
*Michael Mann
*Seith Mann
*Guy Manos
*Sophie Marceau
*Terry Marcel
*Max Marcin
*Nick Marck
*Bam Margera
*Edwin L. Marin
*José Mojica Marins
*Chris Marker
*Richard Marquand
*Laïla Marrakchi
*James Marsh (director), James Marsh
*Jeff "Swampy" Marsh
*Frank Marshall (film producer), Frank Marshall
*Garry Marshall
*George Marshall (director), George Marshall
*Neil Marshall
*Penny Marshall
*Rob Marshall
*Joshua Marston
*Lucrecia Martel
*Becky Martin
*Charles Martin (director), Charles Martin
*Darnell Martin
*D'Urville Martin
*Jim Martin (puppeteer), Jim Martin
*Murray Martin
*Philip Martin (director), Phillip Martin
*Richard Martin (British director), Richard Martin
*Sergio Martino
*Steve Martino
*Marco Martins
*Leslie H. Martinson
*Derek Martinus
*Andrew Marton
*Nico Mastorakis
*George Mastras
*Camillo Mastrocinque
*Yasuzo Masumura
*Arūnas Matelis
*Sean Mathias
*Melina Matsoukas
*Katsuya Matsumura
*Bruno Mattei
*Elaine May
*Juliet May
*Russ Mayberry
*Tony Maylam
*Archie Mayo
*Brad Mays
*Dan Mazer
*Paul Mazursky
*Glen Mazzara
*Kenny McBain
*Jim McBride
*Leo McCarey
*Ray McCarey
*Colm McCarthy (director), Colm McCarthy
*Tom McCarthy (director), Tom McCarthy
*Brendan McCaul
*Nelson McCormick (director), Nelson McCormick
*George McCowan
*Martin McDonagh
*Frank McDonald (director), Frank McDonald
*Terry McDonough
*Charles McDougall
*Bernard McEveety
*Vincent McEveety
*McG
*William C. McGann
*Scott McGehee
*J. P. McGowan
*Robert F. McGowan
*Craig McCracken
*Tom McGrath (animator), Tom McGrath
*Joseph McGrath (film director), Joseph McGrath
*William McGregor (director), William McGregor
*Paul McGuigan (filmmaker), Paul McGuigan
*Adam McKay
*David McKay (actor), David McKay
*Jim McKay (director), Jim McKay
*John McKay (director), John McKay
*Lucky McKee
*Kevin McKidd
*Norman McLaren
*Greg McLean (film director), Greg McLean
*Norman Z. McLeod
*Tom McLoughlin
*Sean McNamara (filmmaker), Sean McNamara
*John McNaughton
*Daniel McNicoll
*Robert Duncan McNeill
*Steve McQueen (director), Steve McQueen
*John McTiernan
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Md–Mz
*Shane Meadows
*Peter Medak
*Don Medford
*Dariush Mehrjui
*Deepa Mehta
*Gus Meins
*Fernando Meirelles
*Adolfas Mekas
*Jonas Mekas
*Bill Melendez
*George Melford
*Wilco Melissant
*James Melkonian
*Jeff Melman
*Craig Melville
*Jean-Pierre Melville
*Lothar Mendes
*Sam Mendes
*Jim Mendiola
*Linda Mendoza
*Chris Menges
*Meera Menon
*Stephen Merchant
*E. Elias Merhige
*Saul Metzstein
*Jeff Meyer (director), Jeff Meyer
*Russ Meyer
*Leah Meyerhoff
*Georges Méliès
*Richard Michaels
*Oscar Micheaux
*Roger Michell
*Pete Michels
*Jim Mickle
*Takashi Miike
*Nikita Mikhalkov
*Lewis Milestone
*John Milius
*Bennett Miller
*Frank Miller
*George Miller (producer), George Miller
*Kara Miller
*Randall Miller
*Robert Ellis Miller
*Sam Miller
*Sharron Miller
*Sidney Miller (actor), Sidney Miller
*Tim Miller (director), Tim Miller
*Crispian Mills
*Rusty Mills
*Daniel Minahan
*Steve Miner
*Anthony Minghella
*Joseph Minion
*Rob Minkoff
*Vincente Minnelli
*Eugenio Mira
*Emilio Miraglia
*Lin-Manuel Miranda
*Koki Mitani
*David Robert Mitchell
*Howard M. Mitchell
*John Cameron Mitchell
*Mike Mitchell (director), Mike Mitchell
*Noël Mitrani
*David Mitton
*Hayao Miyazaki
*Kenji Mizoguchi
*Peter Moffatt
*Alfred Molina
*Édouard Molinaro
*Christine Molloy
*Zac Moncrief
*Mario Monicelli
*Cesar Montano
*Eduardo Montes-Bradley
*Dave Moody (musician), Dave Moody
*Lukas Moodysson
*Irving J. Moore
*Michael Moore
*Escape from Tomorrow, Randy Moore
*Rich Moore
*Robert Moore (director), Robert Moore
*Stan Moore (director), Stan Moore
*Jocelyn Moorhouse
*Ken Mora
*Jacobo Morales
*Pierre Morel
*Nanni Moretti
*Harry Morgan
*Sidney Morgan
*Anders Morgenthaler
*Shuhei Morita
*Chris Morris (satirist), Chris Morris
*Errol Morris
*Jennifer Morrison
*Vic Morrow
*Hollingsworth Morse
*Terry O. Morse
*Catherine Morshead
*Cynthia Mort
*Edmund Mortimer (actor), Edmund Mortimer
*Scott Mosier
*Craig Moss
*Katsuyuki Motohiro
*Greg Mottola
*Wagner Moura
*Norbert Moutier
*Allan Moyle
*Otto Muehl
*Russell Mulcahy
*John Mulholland (director), John Mulholland
*Robert Mulligan
*Andrzej Munk
*Kira Muratova
*Walter Murch
*F. W. Murnau
*Dudley Murphy
*Geoff Murphy
*Ralph Murphy
*Ryan Murphy (writer), Ryan Murphy
*Bill Murray
*Noam Murro
*John Musker
*Floyd Mutrux
*Mark Mylod
*Daniel Myrick
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N
*Amir Naderi
*Kenji Nagasaki
*Mira Nair
*Ilya Naishuller
*Takashi Nakamura
*Hideo Nakata
*Bharat Nalluri
*Khodzha Kuli Narliyev
*Mikio Naruse
*Janusz Nasfeter
*Percy Nash
*Vincenzo Natali
*Matthew Nastuk
*Gregory Nava
*Doug Naylor
*Ray Nazarro
*Ronald Neame
*Jean Negulesco
*Marshall Neilan
*Roy William Neill
*James Neilson (director), James Neilson
*Victor Nelli Jr.
*Gary Nelson (director), Gary Nelson
*Gene Nelson
*Jessie Nelson
*Ozzie Nelson
*Ralph Nelson
*Laura Neri
*Max Neufeld
*Kurt Neumann (director), Kurt Neumann
*Kyle Newacheck
*Mike Newell (director), Mike Newell
*Sam Newfield
*Don O. Newland, Don Newland
*John Newland
*Joseph M. Newman, Joseph Newman
*Fred C. Newmeyer, Fred Newmeyer
*Lionel Ngakane
*Thuc Doan Nguyen, Thuc Nguyen
*Fred Niblo
*Andrew Niccol
*George Nicholls Jr.
*Charles August Nichols
*Jeff Nichols
*Mike Nichols
*Jack Nicholson
*Cedric Nicolas-Troyan
*Greg Nicotero
*William Nigh
*Nikos Nikolaidis
*Leopoldo Torre Nilsson
*Rob Nilsson
*Leonard Nimoy
*Marcus Nispel
*David Nixon (director), David Nixon
*Manfred Noa
*Gaspar Noé
*Christopher Nolan filmography, Christopher Nolan
*Tom Noonan
*Syed Noor
*Paul Norman (director), Paul Norman
*Mabel Normand
*Edward Norton
*Jehane Noujaim
*Wilfred Noy
*Phillip Noyce
*Elliott Nugent
*David Nutter
*Bruno Nuytten
*Andy Nwakalor
*Christian Nyby
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O
*Dave O'Brien (actor), Dave O'Brien
*Katharine O'Brien
*Andrew O'Connor (actor), Andrew O'Connor
*Renee O'Connor
*Bob Odenkirk
*Atsushi Ogata
*Perry Ogden
*George Ogilvie
*Kingsley Ogoro
*Izu Ojukwu
*Kihachi Okamoto
*Sidney Olcott
*Liddy Oldroyd
*Jorge Olguín (director), Jorge Olguín
*Ron Oliver
*Susan Oliver
*Laurence Olivier on stage and screen, Laurence Olivier
*Ermanno Olmi
*Gunnar Olsson (actor), Gunnar Olsson
*Max Ophüls
*Joshua Oppenheimer
*Benjamin T. Orifici, Benjamin Orifici
*Kenny Ortega
*Mamoru Oshii
*Nagisa Oshima
*Richard Oswald
*Dominique Othenin-Girard
*Katsuhiro Otomo
*Ulrike Ottinger
*Idrissa Ouedraogo
*Horace Ové
*Jennifer Oxley
*Frank Oz
*François Ozon
*Yasujirō Ozu
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P
*Sergio Pablos
*Georg Wilhelm Pabst
*Padmarajan, P. Padmarajan
*Alan J. Pakula
*Debarun Pal
*Jafar Panahi
*Norman Panama
*Gleb Panfilov
*Pang Ho-Cheung
*Domenico Paolella
*Sergei Parajanov
*K-Michel Parandi
*Dean Parisot
*Lana Parrilla
*Richard Parry (director), Richard Parry
*Park Chan-Wook
*Jerry Paris
*Nick Park
*Alan Parker
*Albert Parker (director), Albert Parker
*Ol Parker
*Trey Parker
*James Parrott
*Reza Parsa
*Gabriel Pascal
*Goran Paskaljević
*Pier Paolo Pasolini
*Ivan Passer
*Stuart Paton
*John Patterson (director), John Patterson
*Ray Patterson (animator), Ray Patterson
*Anand Patwardhan
*Paweł Pawlikowski
*Alexander Payne
*György Pálfi
*Leslie Pearce (director), Leslie Pearce
*Richard Pearce (director), Richard Pearce
*Steve Pearlman
*George Pearson (filmmaker), George Pearson
*Raoul Peck
*Sam Peckinpah
*Mario Van Peebles
*Scott Pembroke
*Arthur Penn
*Leo Penn
*Matthew Penn
*Sean Penn
*Joe Penna
*Mark Pellington
*Ivan Perestiani
*Lester James Peries
*Pierre Perifel
*Loni Peristere
*Anthony Perkins
*Oz Perkins
*Quincy Perkins
*Léonce Perret
*Nat Perrin
*Tyler Perry
*Christian Peschken
*Robert O. Peters
*Wolfgang Petersen
*David Petrarca
*Daniel Petrie
*Donald Petrie
*Elio Petri
*Christian Petzold (director), Christian Petzold
*Joseph Pevney
*Todd Phillips
*Maurice Pialat
*Irving Pichel
*Andy Picheta
*Frank Pierson
*Derek Pike
*Lucian Pintilie
*Robert Pirosh
*Noam Pitlik
*Pitof
*René Plaissetty
*Tony Plana
*Bill Plympton
*Jeremy Podeswa
*Ihor Podolchak
*Sidney Poitier
*Roman Polanski filmography, Roman Polanski
*Dominic Polcino
*Mark Polish
*Michael Polish
*Rudolph Polk
*Kay Pollak
*Sydney Pollack
*Harry A. Pollard
*Lindsey Pollard
*John Polson
*Joshua L. Pomer, Joshua Pomer
*Ellen Pompeo
*Gillo Pontecorvo
*Edwin S. Porter
*Geoff Posner
*Ted Post
*H. C. Potter
*Sally Potter
*Richard Pottier
*Alan Poul
*Dan Povenmire
*Jeff Povey
*Frank Powell
*Michael Powell
*Paul Powell (director), Paul Powell
*Kemp Powers
*Rosa von Praunheim
*Otto Preminger
*Emeric Pressburger
*Ellen S. Pressman
*Michael Pressman
*Lonny Price
*Sarah Price (filmmaker), Sarah Price
*Prince (musician), Prince
*Yakov Protazanov
*Alex Proyas
*Aleksandr Ptushko
*Vsevolod Pudovkin
*Jon Paul Puno, Jon Puno
*Derek Estlin Purvis, Derek Purvis
*Ivan Pyryev
*Parvez Sharma
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Q
*Farooq Qaiser
*Steven Quale
*Brothers Quay
*John Quigley (producer), John Quigley
*Richard Quine
*James Quinn (director), James Quinn
*Faisal Qureshi (television personality), Faisal Qureshi
*Nabeel Qureshi (director), Nabeel Qureshi
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Ra–Re
*Peer Raben
*Michael Radford
*Bob Rafelson
*Jeff Ragsdale
*Sam Raimi
*Yvonne Rainer
*Hossein Rajabian
*S. S. Rajamouli
*Sharat Raju
*Harold Ramis
*Julius Ramsay
*Lynne Ramsay
*Tony Randel
*Arthur Rankin Jr.
*Irving Rapper
*Mani Ratnam
*Brett Ratner
*Gregory Ratoff
*John Rawlins (director), John Rawlins
*Albert Ray
*Bernard B. Ray
*Fred Olen Ray
*Man Ray
*Nicholas Ray
*Rick Ray
*Satyajit Ray
*Herman C. Raymaker
*Bobby Razak
*Patrick Rea
*Jim Reardon
*Eric Red
*Robert Redford filmography, Robert Redford
*Carol Reed
*Peyton Reed
*Robert Reed
*Dee Rees
*Christopher Reeve
*Keanu Reeves
*Matt Reeves
*Michael Reeves
*Nicolas Winding Refn
*Godfrey Reggio
*Kelly Reichardt
*Willy Reiber
*Daina Reid
*Carl Reiner
*Rob Reiner
*Max Reinhardt
*Irving Reis
*Charles Reisner
*Karel Reisz
*Wolfgang Reitherman
*Ivan Reitman
*Jason Reitman
*Edgar Reitz
*Chris Renaud (animator), Chris Renaud
*Drew Renaud
*Johan Renck
*Jean Renoir
*Rob Renzetti
*Alain Resnais
*Adam Resnick
*Carlos Reygadas
*Gene Reynolds
*Kevin Reynolds (director), Kevin Reynolds
*Lynn Reynolds
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*Mike Rianda
*David Lowell Rich
*John Rich (director), John Rich
*Tony Richardson
*Hans Richter (artist), Hans Richter
*W. D. Richter
*Tom Ricketts
*Leni Riefenstahl
*Ransom Riggs
*Alrick Riley
*Wolf Rilla
*Arthur Ripley
*Arturo Ripstein
*Guy Ritchie
*Michael Ritchie (film director), Michael Ritchie
*Martin Ritt
*Karl Ritter (director), Karl Ritter
*Christian Rivers
*Fernand Rivers
*Joan Rivers
*Jacques Rivette
*Jamie Rix
*Sangeeta (Pakistani actress), Parveen Rizvi
*Saeed Rizvi
*Jay Roach
*Alain Robbe-Grillet
*Brian Robbins
*Jerome Robbins
*Tim Robbins
*Brian K. Roberts
*Johannes Roberts
*Pennant Roberts
*Stephen Roberts (director), Stephen Roberts
*Graham Robertson (filmmaker), Graham Robertson
*John S. Robertson
*Arthur Robison
*Bruce Robinson
*Lee Robinson (director), Lee Robinson
*Matthew Robinson (producer), Matthew Robinson
*Matthew Robinson (writer), Matthew Robinson
*Phil Alden Robinson
*Mark Robson (film director), Mark Robson
*Glauber Rocha
*Alexandre Rockwell
*João Pedro Rodrigues
*Robert Rodriguez filmography, Robert Rodriguez
*Rosemary Rodriguez
*John Roecker
*Nicolas Roeg
*Daniel Roemer
*Michael Roemer
*Albert S. Rogell
*Seth Rogen
*Brandon Rogers (YouTuber), Brandon Rogers
*David Rogers (film editor), David Rogers
*Éric Rohmer
*Alice Rohrwacher
*James Rolfe
*Mark Romanek
*George A. Romero
*Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent
*Mikhail Romm
*Am Rong
*Bethany Rooney
*Mickey Rooney
*Cliff Roquemore
*Bernard Rose (director), Bernard Rose
*Phil Rosen
*Stuart Rosenberg
*Rick Rosenthal
*Tatia Rosenthal
*Perry Rosemond
*Mark Rosman
*Gary Ross
*Herbert Ross
*Matthew Ross (filmmaker), Matthew Ross
*Roberto Rossellini
*Robert Rossen
*Franco Rossi (director), Franco Rossi
*Arthur Rosson
*Richard Rosson (filmmaker), Richard Rosson
*Eli Roth
*Joe Roth
*Tim Roth
*Richard Rothstein (screenwriter), Richard Rothstein
*Josie Rourke
*Roy Rowland (film director), Roy Rowland
*Patricia Rozema
*Joseph Ruben
*Alan Rudolph
*Oscar Rudolph
*Wesley Ruggles
*Raúl Ruiz (director), Raúl Ruiz
*Pavel Ruminov
*Richard Rush (director), Richard Rush
*Chuck Russell
*David O. Russell
*Ken Russell
*Paddy Russell
*Russo brothers
*Stefan Ruzowitzky
*Eldar Ryazanov
*Zbigniew Rybczyński
*Mark Rydell
*Gary Rydstrom
*Stellan Rye
*RZA
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Sa–Sh
*Maher Sabry
*Daniel Sackheim
*Christopher Sadler
*Numa Sadoul
*Safdie brothers
*Boris Sagal
*Bob Saget
*Abdulkadir Ahmed Said
*Richard Sakai
*Alik Sakharov
*Gene Saks
*Sidney Salkow
*Eriq La Salle
*Walter Salles
*Dan Sallitt
*Mikael Salomon
*Anja Salomonowitz
*Carlos Saldanha
*Victor Salva
*Shakti Samanta
*Gabriela Samper
*Keith Samples
*Ari Sandel
*Scott Sanders (director), Scott Sanders
*Helma Sanders-Brahms
*Arlene Sanford
*Shin Sang-ok
*Jay Sandrich
*Mark Sandrich
*David Sant
*Alfred Santell
*Joseph Santley
*Damon Santostefano
*Miguel Sapochnik
*Richard C. Sarafian
*Valeria Sarmiento
*Michael Sarnoski
*Peter Sasdy
*Shinsuke Sato
*Yūichi Satō
*Marjane Satrapi
*Charles Saunders (director)
*Hubert Sauper
*Claude Sautet
*Fred Savage
*Philip Saville
*Seth Savoy
*Donald Sawyer
*Geoffrey Sax
*John Sayles
*Rodo Sayagues
*John Scagliotti
*Armand Schaefer
*George Schaefer (director), George Schaefer
*Akiva Schaffer
*Jeff Schaffer
*Franklin Schaffner
*Peter Schamoni
*Frank Scheffer
*Daniels (directors), Daniel Scheinert
*Fred Schepisi
*Victor Schertzinger
*Paul Scheuring
*Kyle Schickner
*Thomas Schlamme
*Craig Schlattman
*John Schlesinger
*Christoph Schlingensief
*Volker Schlöndorff
*David Schmoeller
*Julian Schnabel
*Thomas Schnauz
*Dan Schneider (TV producer), Dan Schneider
*Ian Schneider
*Paul Schneider (director), Paul Schneider
*Rob Schneider
*Ernest B. Schoedsack
*Renen Schorr
*Paul Schrader
*Rick Schroder
*Barbet Schroeder
*Werner Schroeter
*John Schultz (director), John Schultz
*Michael Schultz
*Hugh Schulze
*Joel Schumacher
*Reinhold Schünzel
*Lloyd J. Schwartz
*Rudolf Schwarzkogler
*Stefan Schwartz
*Til Schweiger
*Robert Schwentke
*John Schwert
*David Schwimmer
*Christian Schwochow
*Ettore Scola
*Martin Scorsese filmography, Martin Scorsese
*Oz Scott
*Ridley Scott filmography, Ridley Scott
*Shaun Scott (filmmaker), Shaun Scott
*Swinton O. Scott III
*Tony Scott
*Aubrey Scotto
*Steven Seagal
*Francis Searle
*Fred F. Sears
*Eric Dean Seaton
*George Seaton
*Edward Sedgwick
*Alex Segal
*Peter Segal
*Susan Seidelman
*Ulrich Seidl
*Lewis Seiler
*William A. Seiter
*Franz Seitz, Sr.
*George B. Seitz, George Seitz
*Steve Sekely
*Lesley Selander
*Henry Selick
*Bill Sellars
*Herbert Selpin
*Aaron Seltzer
*David Seltzer
*Selvaraghavan
*Edgar Selwyn
*Ousmane Sembène
*Larry Semon
*Mrinal Sen
*Dominic Sena
*Lorraine Senna
*Mack Sennett
*Craig Serling
*Tom Shadyac
*Matt Shakman
*Lee Shallat Chemel
*S. Shankar
*Adam Shankman
*John Patrick Shanley
*Ted Sharks
*Tristram Shapeero
*Parvez Sharma
*Jim Sharman
*William Shatner filmography, William Shatner
*Melville Shavelson
*Jenn Shaw
*Larry Shaw (director), Larry Shaw
*Scott Shaw
*Jack Shea (director), Jack Shea
*Barry Shear
*Chuck Sheetz
*Lynn Shelton
*Millicent Shelton
*Ron Shelton
*Darren Benjamin Shepherd, Darren Shepherd
*Larisa Shepitko
*Adrian Shergold
*Jim Sheridan
*Kirsten Sheridan
*Rondell Sheridan
*Taylor Sheridan
*Gary Sherman (director), Gary Sherman
*George Sherman
*Lowell Sherman
*Vincent Sherman
*Domee Shi
*John Shiban
*Steve Shill
*Takashi Shimizu
*Peter Shin
*Naoyoshi Shiotani
*Alexandra Shiva
*Daryush Shokof
*Jack Sholder
*Cate Shortland
*Wil Shriner
*M. Night Shyamalan filmography, M. Night Shyamalan
*Charles Shyer
*Ginny Stikeman
*Joe Simon (film director), Joe Simon
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Si–Sz
*George Sidney
*Scott Sidney
*David Siegel (screenwriter), David Siegel
*Don Siegel
*Ted Sieger
*Pedro Sienna
*Floria Sigismondi
*Slobodan Šijan
*Brad Silberling
*David Silverman (animator), David Silverman
*Dean Silvers
*Lisa Simon
*S. Sylvan Simon
*Yves Simoneau
*Giorgio Simonelli
*Alexander Singer
*Bryan Singer
*Manmohan Singh (director), Manmohan Singh
*Tarsem Singh
*Tony Singletary
*John Singleton
*Roger Singleton-Turner
*Robert Siodmak
*Puneet Sira
*Douglas Sirk
*Cheick Oumar Sissoko
*Andrea Sisson
*Chris Sivertson
*Tom Six
*Vilgot Sjöman
*Victor Sjöström
*Kari Skogland
*Jerzy Skolimowski
*Gia Skova
*David Slade
*Paul Sloane (director), Paul Sloane
*Edward Sloman
*Michael Slovis
*Yannis Smaragdis
*Alan Smart
*Ralph Smart
*Jack Smight
*Adam Smith (director), Adam Smith
*Brian Trenchard-Smith
*Charles Martin Smith
*Christopher Smith (director), Christopher Smith
*David Smith (director), David Smith
*Gary T. Smith, Gary Smith
*George Albert Smith
*Harry Everett Smith
*Jim Field Smith
*John Smith (English filmmaker), John Smith
*John N. Smith
*Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith
*Kevin Smith filmography, Kevin Smith
*Michael V. Smith
*Noel M. Smith
*Roy Allen Smith
*Sarah Smith (producer), Sarah Smith
*Seth Grahame-Smith
*Simon J. Smith
*Adam Smoluk
*Michael Snow
*Zack Snyder
*Michele Soavi
*Steven Soderbergh filmography, Steven Soderbergh
*Gennady Sokolsky
*Aleksandr Sokurov
*David Solomon (TV producer), David Solomon
*Frances-Anne Solomon
*Todd Solondz
*Andrew Solt
*Stephen Sommers
*Barry Sonnenfeld
*Sion Sono
*Paolo Sorrentino
*Jen and Sylvia Soska
*Tressie Souders
*Simon Spencer (producer), Simon Spencer
*George Spenton-Foster
*Jaap Speyer
*Penelope Spheeris
*Bryan Spicer
*Steven Spielberg filmography, Steven Spielberg
*Götz Spielmann
*Spierig brothers
*Bob Spiers
*Roger Spottiswoode
*Jill Sprecher
*Alejandro Springall
*Aaron Springer
*R. G. Springsteen
*Anthony Stacchi
*John M. Stahl
*Sylvester Stallone filmography, Sylvester Stallone
*Andrew Stanton
*Wendey Stanzler
*Ladislas Starevich
*Jack Starrett
*Richard Starzak
*Ralph Staub
*Malcolm St. Clair (filmmaker), Malcolm St. Clair
*J.A. Steel
*Burr Steers
*Paul L. Stein
*David Steinberg
*Hans Steinhoff
*Steno (director)
*Boris Stepantsev
*Mike Stephens (director), Mike Stephens
*Jared Stern
*Sandor Stern
*Steven Hilliard Stern
*Andrew Stevens
*Dan Stevens
*George Stevens
*George Stevens Jr.
*Robert Stevens (director), Robert Stevens
*Robert Stevenson (director), Robert Stevenson
*Gordon Curran Stewart, Gordon Stewart
*Ben Stiller filmography, Ben Stiller
*Mauritz Stiller
*Whit Stillman
*Francis Stokes
*Marcus Stokes
*Mike Stoklasa
*Nicholas Stoller
*Benjamin Stoloff
*Andrew L. Stone
*Ezra Stone
*Jamie Magnus Stone
*Matt Stone filmography, Matt Stone
*Oliver Stone
*Howard Storm (director), Howard Storm
*Jerome Storm
*Straub-Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub
*Frank R. Strayer
*Suresh Joachim
*Amanda Lovejoy Street, Amanda Street
*Graham Streeter
*Barbra Streisand
*Brenda Strong
*James Strong (director), James Strong
*John Stroud (director), John Stroud
*Mel Stuart
*Gene Stupnitsky
*John Sturges
*Preston Sturges
*K. Subash
*Arne Sucksdorff
*Elia Suleiman
*Sun Yu (director), Sun Yu
*Mohit Suri
*Stephen Surjik
*A. Edward Sutherland
*Hal Sutherland
*Kiefer Sutherland
*Seijun Suzuki
*Jan Švankmajer
*Mary Sweeney
*Harry Sweet
*Justin David Swibel, Justin Swibel
*David Swift (director), David Swift
*Hans-Jürgen Syberberg
*Khady Sylla
*István Szabó
*Peter Szewczyk
*Damián Szifron
*Małgorzata Szumowska
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*Rachel Talalay
*Patrick Tam (film director), Patrick Tam
*Lee Tamahori
*Cyndi Tang
*Alain Tanner
*Danis Tanović
*Quentin Tarantino
*Andrei Tarkovsky
*Béla Tarr
*Genndy Tartakovsky
*Frank Tashlin
*Jacques Tati
*Norman Taurog
*Bertrand Tavernier
*Alan Taylor (director), Alan Taylor
*Don Taylor (actor), Don Taylor
*Don Taylor (American filmmaker), Don Taylor
*Ray Taylor (director), Ray Taylor
*Sam Taylor (director), Sam Taylor
*Stanner E.V. Taylor
*William Desmond Taylor
*Colin Teague
*Lewis Teague
*André Téchiné
*Julien Temple
*Suzie Templeton
*Larry Teng
*Andy Tennant
*George Terwilliger
*Hiroshi Teshigahara
*Duccio Tessari
*Ted Tetzlaff
*Kirk Thatcher
*Wilhelm Thiele
*Gerald Thomas
*John G. Thomas
*Ralph Thomas
*Bernard Thompson (director), Bernard Thompson
*Caroline Thompson
*J. Lee Thompson
*Thomas J. Thompson, Tommy Thompson
*Robert Thornby
*Billy Bob Thornton filmography, Billy Bob Thornton
*Richard Thorpe
*Rawson Marshall Thurber
*Paul Tibbitt
*Greg Tiernan
*George Tillman Jr.
*Constance Tillotson
*Tony Tilse
*Mihai Timofti
*Bruce Timm
*James Tinling
*Phil Tippett
*Justin Tipping
*Romeo Tirone
*Johnnie To filmography, Johnnie To
*James Toback
*Norman Tokar
*Jan Tománek
*Mattson Tomlin
*Liesl Tommy
*Mark Tonderai
*Aad van Toor
*Hisayuki Toriumi
*Giuseppe Tornatore
*Miguel Contreras Torres
*Ivan Tors
*André de Toth
*Laurent Touil-Tartour
*Viktor Tourjansky
*Jacques Tourneur
*Maurice Tourneur
*Robert Townsend (actor), Robert Townsend
*Frederick E.O. Toye
*Wendy Toye
*Josh Trank
*David Trainer
*David Owen Trainor
*Pablo Trapero
*Pete Travis
*Scott Treleaven
*Jeff Tremaine
*Jesús Salvador Treviño
*Joachim Trier
*Laurence Trimble
*Nadine Trintignant
*Jan Troell
*Alice Troughton
*Keith Truesdell
*François Truffaut
*Tsai Ming-liang, Ming-liang Tsai
*Peter Tscherkassky
*Hark Tsui, Tsui Hark
*Shinya Tsukamoto
*Stanley Tucci
*Anand Tucker
*Rex Tucker
*Gary J. Tunnicliffe
*Brad Turner (director), Brad Turner
*Jon Turteltaub
*Frank Tuttle
*David Twohy
*Chris Twomey
*Michael Tyburski
*Tom Tykwer
*Morten Tyldum
*George Tyne
*George Tzavellas
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*Roger Vadim
*Ladislao Vajda
*Luis Valdez
*Steve Valentine
*Tonino Valerii
*Mike Valerio
*Jean-Marc Vallée
*Jackie van Beek
*W. S. Van Dyke
*Thurop Van Orman
*Vanelle
*Andre van Heerden
*Buddy Van Horn
*Erik Van Looy
*Tim Van Patten
*Melvin Van Peebles
*Gus Van Sant
*Florestano Vancini
*Norman Thaddeus Vane
*Carlo Vanzina
*Agnès Varda
*Giuseppe Vari
*Ram Gopal Varma
*Marcel Varnel
*Petar B. Vasilev
*Tom Vaughan (director), Tom Vaughan
*Matthew Vaughn
*Joe Vaux
*Pam Veasey
*Perry N. Vekroff
*Milo Ventimiglia
*Gore Verbinski
*Tristan de Vere Cole
*John David Coles
*Paul Verhoeven
*Dziga Vertov
*Charles Vidor
*King Vidor
*Berthold Viertel
*Denis Villeneuve
*Robert G. Vignola
*Jean Vigo
*Vijayakrishnan
*Agusti Villaronga
*Robert Vince
*Thomas Vinterberg
*Luchino Visconti
*Biju Viswanath
*K. Viswanath
*Erik Voake
*Jordan Vogt-Roberts
*Géza von Bolváry
*Géza von Cziffra
*Daisy von Scherler Mayer
*Josef von Sternberg
*Erich von Stroheim
*Lars von Trier filmography, Lars von Trier
*Margarethe von Trotta
*Bernard Vorhaus
*Slavko Vorkapić
*Kurt Voss
*Jürgen Vsych
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*The Wachowskis
*Michael Wadleigh
*Wai Ka-Fai
*Rupert Wainwright
*Taika Waititi
*Andrzej Wajda
*Chris Walas
*John Walker (animator), John Walker
*Stuart Walker (filmmaker), Stuart Walker
*David Wall (actor), David Wall
*Randall Wallace
*Richard Wallace (director), Richard Wallace
*Tommy Lee Wallace
*Herb Wallerstein
*Tom Walls
*Aisling Walsh
*Dearbhla Walsh
*Raoul Walsh
*Charles Walters
*Christoph Waltz
*Wan brothers
*James Wan
*Sam Wanamaker
*Lulu Wang (filmmaker), Lulu Wang
*Wang Quan'an
*Wang Xiaoshuai
*Wayne Wang
*Albert Ward (film director), Albert Ward
*David S. Ward
*Vincent Ward (director), Vincent Ward
*Ernest C. Warde
*Andy Warhol
*Alan Wareing
*Alex van Warmerdam
*David Warren (director), David Warren
*Harold P. Warren
*Norman J. Warren
*Denzel Washington on screen and stage, Denzel Washington
*Darrell Wasyk
*John Waters
*Mark Waters
*Peter Watkins
*Jon Watts
*Ric Roman Waugh
*Michael Waxman
*Keenen Ivory Wayans
*Carl Weathers
*Sean Weathers
*Kenneth Webb (director), Kenneth Webb
*Marc Webb
*Millard Webb
*Lois Weber
*Chris Wedge
*Apichatpong Weerasethakul
*Peter Weibel
*Paul Weiland
*Ed. Weinberger
*Clay Weiner
*Hans Weingartner
*Bob Weinstein
*Harvey Weinstein
*Peter Weir
*Don Weis
*Sam Weisman
*D. B. Weiss
*Glenn Weiss
*Helmut Weiss
*Adam Weissman
*Chris Weitz
*Paul Weitz (filmmaker), Paul Weitz
*Bo Welch
*Orson Welles
*Arthur Wellin
*William Wellman
*Simon Wells
*Wim Wenders
*Alfred L. Werker
*Lina Wertmüller
*Roland West
*Simon West
*Tanya Wexler
*James Whale
*Frank Whaley
*Leopold Wharton
*Joyce Wieland
*Leigh Whannell
*Theodore Wharton
*Ken and Jim Wheat
*Joss Whedon
*Tim Whelan
*Dean White (director), Dean White
*Eddie White (director), Eddie White
*Mike White (filmmaker), Mike White
*Susanna White
*Ken Whittingham
*Richard Whorf
*Kanchi Wichmann
*Bernhard Wicki
*Robert B. Weide
*Hans Weidemann
*Bo Widerberg
*Virgil Widrich
*Ken Wiederhorn
*Erin Wiedner
*Robert Wiene
*Crane Wilbur
*Herbert Wilcox
*Cornel Wilde
*Olivia Wilde
*Ted Wilde
*Billy Wilder
*Gene Wilder
*W. Lee Wilder
*Gordon Wiles
*Diane Wilkins
*Irvin Willat
*Adim Williams
*Chris Williams (director), Chris Williams
*Paul Andrew Williams
*Richard Williams (animator), Richard Williams
*Stephen Williams (director), Stephen Williams
*Dennis Willis
*Gordon Willis
*Paul Wilmshurst
*Rex Wilson (director), Rex Wilson
*Scott Winant
*Simon Wincer
*Bretaigne Windust
*Adam Wingard
*Henry Winkler
*Irwin Winkler
*Michael Winner
*David Winning
*Michael Winterbottom
*Tommy Wirkola
*Frank Wisbar
*Robert Wise
*Tommy Wiseau
*Frederick Wiseman
*Len Wiseman
*Doris Wishman
*Chester Withey
*William Witney
*Alexander Witt
*George C. Wolfe
*Art Wolff
*Jason Woliner
*Andy Wolk
*James Wong (producer), James Wong
*Wong Jing
*Wong Kar-wai
*John Woo
*Andrés Wood
*Ed Wood
*Ivor Wood
*Sam Wood
*Jeremy Wooding
*Arthur B. Woods
*Kate Woods
*Stephen Woolfenden
*John Griffith Wray
*Edgar Wright
*Joe Wright
*Mack V. Wright
*Julius Wu
*Rupert Wyatt
*William Wyler
*Robert Wynne-Simmons
*Jim Wynorski
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*Boaz Yakin
*Edward Yang
*Ruby Yang
*Jean Yarbrough
*Tom Yasumi
*David Yates
*Hal Yates
*Peter Yates
*Irvin S. Yeaworth Jr.
*Derek Yee
*Ray Yeung
*Özgür Yıldırım
*Lev Yilmaz
*Wayne Yip
*Wilson Yip
*Eugen York
*Bud Yorkin
*Yaky Yosha
*Yamada Youji
*Harold Young (director), Harold Young
*James Young (director), James Young
*Terence Young (director), Terence Young
*Yuen Woo-ping
*Brian Yuzna
*Jake Yuzna
*Yugander V. V.
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* List of film director and cinematographer collaborations
* List of film director and composer collaborations
* List of Spaghetti Western filmmakers#Directors, List of Spaghetti Western directors
References
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