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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 Yo ...
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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- ...
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J. J. Abrams Jeffrey Jacob Abrams (born June 27, 1966) is an American filmmaker and composer. He is best known for his works in the genres of action, drama, and science fiction. Abrams wrote and produced such films as '' Regarding Henry'' (1991), '' F ...
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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 ...
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Lenny Abrahamson Leonard Ian Abrahamson (born 30 November 1966) is an Irish film and television director. He is known for directing such praised independent films as ''Adam & Paul'' (2004), ''Garage'' (2007), ''What Richard Did'' (2012), and ''Frank'' (2014), an ...
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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''. Early life ...
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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 ...
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Andy Ackerman Robert Andrew Ackerman (born September 19, 1956) is an American director, producer, and script editor who is best known for his work on '' Seinfeld'', ''The New Adventures of Old Christine'' and the HBO series '' Curb Your Enthusiasm''. He i ...
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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 prod ...
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Anita W. Addison Anita Laraine Wharton Addison (September 6, 1952 – January 24, 2004) was an American television and film director and producer. She was one of the first African American women to be a senior producer for a major television network. Biography ...
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Maren Ade Maren Ade (; born 12 December 1976) is a German film director, screenwriter and producer. Ade lives in Berlin, teaching screenwriting at the Film Academy Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Together with Janine Jackowski and Jonas Dornbach, she r ...
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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 f ...
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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 fi ...
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Franklin Adreon Franklin "Pete" Adreon (November 18, 1902 – September 10, 1979) was an American film and television director, producer, screenwriter, and actor. Early life and career Born in Gambrills, Maryland, Adreon was a Marine Reservist during the 30s ...
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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 educationa ...
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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 beg ...
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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' ...
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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 ...
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Joe Ahearne Joe Ahearne is an Irish television writer and director, best known for his work on several fantasy and science fiction based programmes including ''Ultraviolet'', ''Apparitions'' and ''Doctor Who''. He also wrote the screenplay for 2013 feature ...
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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 ''The Mrs Merton Show, Mrs Merton'', in various roles in ''The Fast Show'', and ...
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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 ...
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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 film, horror genre. He rose to international stardom for his 2003 horror film ''High Tension, Haute ...
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Chantal Akerman Chantal Anne Akerman (; 6 June 19505 October 2015) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter, artist, and Film studies, film professor at the City College of New York. She is best known for films such as ''Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 108 ...
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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 at the Berlin Film Festival for his film '' Head ...
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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 ' ...
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Barbara Albert Barbara Albert (born 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer, film-producer and film-director. She studied filmmaking at the Wiener Filmakademie. Her first film to become known to a larger audience was '' Nordrand'', which describes the reality ...
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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 L ...
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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 co ...
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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 L ...
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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 ...
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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 '' Se ...
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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. Followin ...
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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 brothe ...
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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 gen ...
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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)''. He ...
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Mairzee Almas Mairzee Almas is a Canadian filmmaker and television director from Vancouver. She has directed numerous TV shows, including ''Shadow and Bone'', '' Y The Last Man'', ''The Sandman'', ''Locke & Key'', '' Outlander'', ''Impulse'', ''Jessica Jones' ...
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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 narr ...
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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 H ...
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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 Mont ...
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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 kno ...
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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 (2005 film), ...
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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'', ...
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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 ...
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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 Goya Award for Best Director, Goyas—including a Goya Award for Best Director for his 2001 film ''The Othe ...
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Jon Amiel Jon Amiel (born 20 May 1948) is an English director who has worked in film and television in both the UK and the US. After receiving a BAFTA Award nomination for the BBC series ''The Singing Detective'' (1986), he went on to direct films, includ ...
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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 Directorial debut, feature film debut ''A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night'', self-descr ...
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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 Itse ...
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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 char ...
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Gordon Anderson Gordon Anderson may refer to: * Gordon Anderson (author) (born 1947), author and Secretary-General of the Professors World Peace Academy * Gordon Anderson (cricketer) (1922–2013), New Zealand cricketer * Gordon Anderson (politician) (1897–1958) ...
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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 h ...
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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 (film), Hard Eight'' (1996). He found critical and commercial success with ''Boogie Nights'' ( ...
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Paul W. S. Anderson Paul William Scott Anderson (born 4 March 1965) is an English filmmaker who regularly works in science fiction films and video game adaptations. Anderson made his feature film debut with the British independent film '' Shopping'' (1994), a ...
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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 so ...
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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, ...
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Raoul André Raoul André (24 May 1916 in Rabat (Morocco) - 4 November 1992) was a French director and screenwriter, He was married to actress Louise Carletti (December 1955), and he is the father of Ariane Carletti. Filmography * ''The Village of Wrath' ...
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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 *Exo oi klefte ...
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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, specialize ...
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Graham Annable Graham Annable (born June 1, 1970) is a Canadian cartoonist and animator. He is the creator of ''Grickle'', published by Alternative Comics, and one of the founders of the ''Hickee'' humor anthology (also published by Alternative Comics). Annable ...
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Ken Annakin Kenneth Cooper Annakin, Order of the British Empire, OBE (10 August 1914 – 22 April 2009) was an England, English film director. His career spanned half a century, beginning in the early 1940s and ending in 2002, and in the 1960s he was notice ...
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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 a ...
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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 film), The Palace'' (2013) *''Crazy New Year's Eve'' (2015) *''For a Few Bullets'' (2016) References External link ...
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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 '' ...
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Emmanuel Apea Emmanuel Apea, Jr. is a Ghanaian TV and film director, 2008 winner of the Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Director. Early life Emmanuel Apea is the son of Reverend Emmanuel Apea Snr, a former United Nations Ambassador and Co-ordinator to Wes ...
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Oscar Apfel Oscar C. Apfel (January 17, 1878 – March 21, 1938) was an American film actor, director, screenwriter and producer. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1913 and 1939, and also directed 94 films between 1911 and 1927. Biography Apf ...
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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 ...
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Gregg Araki Gregg Araki (born December 17, 1959) is an American filmmaker. He is noted for his heavy involvement with the New Queer Cinema movement. His film ''Kaboom (film), Kaboom'' (2010) was the first winner of the Cannes Film Festival Queer Palm. Ear ...
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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 ...
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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 s ...
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Wes Archer Wes Archer is an American television animation director and storyboard artist. Career Archer was one of the original three animators (along with David Silverman and Bill Kopp) on ''The Simpsons'', Tracey Ullman shorts, and subsequently direct ...
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Emile Ardolino Emile Ardolino (May 9, 1943 – November 20, 1993) was an American television and film director and producer, best known for his work on the films ''Dirty Dancing'' (1987) and ''Sister Act'' (1992). He has won an Academy Award for Best Documenta ...
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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 a ...
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Dario Argento Dario Argento (; born 7 September 1940) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and film critic, critic. His influential work in the horror film, horror genre during the 1970s and 1980s, particularly in the subgenre known as ...
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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. His ...
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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 The 88th Academy Awa ...
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Dionciel Armstrong Dionciel (Donny) Armstrong (born December 29, 1973) is an American writer, director, and producer in the film industry. He is currently the president and CEO of Mind Vision Productions. The youngest of five siblings, Armstrong was born and raise ...
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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. Ea ...
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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), ...
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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. Aronof ...
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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) ...
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Larysa Artiugina Larysa Mykhailivna Artyugina (born 23 May 1971) is a Ukrainian documentary film director and activist. She is a member of the Union of Cinematographers of Ukraine, the Union of Theater Actors of Ukraine, the creative association Babylon'13 and th ...
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Dorothy Arzner Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Feature films, Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. With the exception of longtime silent film director Lo ...
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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 Kyrgyzstani-Soviet film director and one of the most notable and acclaimed fem ...
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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 Russ ...
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John Mallory Asher John Mallory Asher (born John Mallory, January 13, 1971) is an American actor, film director and screenwriter. He is perhaps best known for his performance as Gary on the USA Network's series spinoff of the movie '' Weird Science''. Early life A ...
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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 the ...
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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 New ...
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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 and ...
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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 Televisio ...
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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, dur ...
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Jacques Audiard Jacques Audiard (; born 30 April 1952) is a French film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is the son of Michel Audiard, also a film director and screenwriter. He has won both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Fi ...
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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-war ...
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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 ...
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Aram Avakian Aram A. Avakian (April 23, 1926 – January 17, 1987) was an American film editor and director. His work in the latter role includes ''Jazz on a Summer's Day'' (1959) and the indie film '' End of the Road'' (1970). Life and work Aram "Al" Avak ...
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Roger Avary Roger Roberts Avary (born August 23, 1965) is a Canadian-American film and television director, screenwriter, and producer. He collaborated with Quentin Tarantino on ''Pulp Fiction'', for which they won Best Original Screenplay at the 67th Acad ...
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Pupi Avati Giuseppe Avati, better known as Pupi Avati (born 3 November 1938), is an Italian film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known to horror film fans for his two giallo masterpieces, ''The House with Laughing Windows'' (1976) and '' Zeder ...
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Hy Averback Hyman Jack Averback (October 21, 1920 – October 14, 1997) was an American radio, television, and film actor who eventually became a producer and director. Early years Born in Minneapolis, Averback moved to California with his family when he w ...
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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 Fes ...
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Tex Avery Frederick Bean "Tex" Avery (February 26, 1908 – August 26, 1980) was an American animator, cartoonist, animation director, director, and voice actor. He was known for directing and producing animated cartoons during the golden age of American a ...
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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 ...
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Jon Avnet Jonathan Michael Avnet (born November 17, 1949), is an American director, writer and producer. Early life and education Avnet was born in Brooklyn, the son of Joan Bertha (née Grossman) and Lester Francis Avnet, a corporate executive with Avnet ...
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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'' ...
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Richard Ayoade Richard Ellef Ayoade ( ; born 23 May 1977) is a British actor, comedian, broadcaster and filmmaker. He is best known for his role as socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom ''The IT Crowd'' (2006–2013), for which he ...
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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 ...
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Mary Ayubi Mary Ayubi is a filmmaker and journalist from Afghanistan.USC Libraries and Villa Aurora. Shadows: A Screening and Discussion with Filmmaker Mary Amin Ayubi (2007): n. pag. Web. 5 Oct. 2015.
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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 ...
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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 prog ...
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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 (1927 film), It'' and ''Red Hair (film), Red Hair'', more than a dozen features and shorts st ...
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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 ...
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Prince Bagdasarian Prince Bagdasarian is an American film director, screenwriter, and editor. His directorial debut feature film "Abstraction", garnered various awards at festivals and was released in the United States by Breaking Glass Pictures in 2015. Educatio ...
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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 America, B ...
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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 The London College of Communication is a constituent college of the Univ ...
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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 ...
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Roy Ward Baker Roy Ward Baker (born Roy Horace Baker; 19 December 1916 – 5 October 2010) was an English film director. His best known film is ''A Night to Remember (1958 film), A Night to Remember'' (1958) which won a Golden Globe for Golden Globe Award for ...
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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 c ...
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Kailasam Balachander Kailasam Balachander (9 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an Indian film maker and playwright who worked mainly in the Tamil cinema. He was well known for his distinct film-making style, and the Indian film industry knew him as a master of un ...
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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 (film), The Black Stallion'' (1979), ''Never Cry Wolf (film), Never Cry Wolf'' (1983), and ''Fly Away ...
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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, tw ...
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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 Ban ...
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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 Elizabeth Banks (born Elizabeth Irene Mitchell; February 10, 1974) is an American actress and filmmaker. She is known for playing Effie Trinket in ''The Hunger Games'' film series (2012–2015) and Gail Abernathy-McKadden in the ''Pitch Perfe ...
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Monty Banks Montague (Monty) Banks (18 July 1897 – 7 January 1950), born Mario Bianchi, was a 20th century Italian-born American comedian, film actor, director and producer who achieved success in the UK and the United States. Career Banks was born Mario ...
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Joseph Barbera Joseph Roland Barbera ( ; ; March 24, 1911 – December 18, 2006) was an American animator, director, producer, storyboard artist, and cartoon artist who co-founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera. Born to Italian im ...
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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 FIPRES ...
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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 Re ...
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Francesco Barilli Francesco Barilli (born 4 February 1943 in Parma Parma (; egl, Pärma, ) is a city in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna known for its architecture, music, art, prosciutto (ham), cheese and surrounding countryside. With a popula ...
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Clive Barker Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952) is an English novelist, playwright, author, film director, and visual artist who came to prominence in the mid-1980s with a series of short stories, the ''Books of Blood'', which established him as a leading h ...
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Reginald Barker Reginald C. Barker (April 2, 1886 – February 23, 1945) was a pioneer film director. Biography Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, Barker's family moved to Scotland when he was an infant and then to the United States. Living in California, ...
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Tom Barman Thomas Andrew Barman (born 1 January 1972), is a Belgian musician and film director. Barman studied at the film school of St.-Lucas in Brussels, but did not finish his studies because he wished to pursue a career in music. In 1989, he began by ...
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Boris Barnet Boris Vasilyevich Barnet (russian: Бори́с Васи́льевич Ба́рнет; 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British heritage. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963. Barne ...
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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 ...
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Daniel Barnz Daniel Barnz (born 1970) is an American screenwriter and director. Life and career Barnz was born Daniel Bernstein in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania,Champagne, Christine"10 Directors to Watch: Daniel Barnz" ''Variety (magazine), Variety'', 16 January 2 ...
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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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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 songwrite ...
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Robert V. Barron Robert V. Barron (December 26, 1932 – December 1, 2000) was an American TV and film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. He was best known for his role as the voice of Admiral Donald Hayes in 1980s animated TV series ''Robotech'', of ...
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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 directe ...
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Drew Barrymore Drew Blythe Barrymore (born February 22, 1975) is an American actress, director, producer, talk show host and author. A member of the Barrymore family of actors, she is the recipient of several accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a ...
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Morris Barry Morris Randolph Barry (9 February 1918 – 20 November 2000) was born in Northampton, England. He was a producer and director for the BBC in the 1960s and 1970s, and also worked as an actor. He made his name as a producer and director on ...
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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 Interna ...
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M. J. Bassett M. J. Bassett (born Michael J. Bassett) is a British film and television writer, director, and producer. She began her career directing the cult film, cult horror films ''Deathwatch (2002 film), Deathwatch'' (2002) and ''Wilderness (2006 film), ...
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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 Broadcasting Company, Fox/Netflix sitcom ''Arrested Development (TV series), Arrested Development'' and of Mart ...
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Otto Bathurst Otto Benjamin Charles Bathurst (born 18 January 1971) is a British television and film director. In 2014, he won a BAFTA for his work on BBC drama ''Peaky Blinders''. He was also previously BAFTA nominated for his work on BBC series ''Crimina ...
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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 Sc ...
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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 UFA GmbH, U. F. A. Following the Nazi takeover of powe ...
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Jay Bauman Red Letter Media, LLC is an American film and video production company operated by independent filmmakers Mike Stoklasa (formerly of GMP Pictures) and Jay Bauman (formerly of Blanc Screen Cinema). It was formed by Stoklasa in 2004 while he was li ...
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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 Sti ...
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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 Ma ...
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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 of ...
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Samuel Bayer Samuel David Bayer (born February 17, 1962) is an American Visual arts, 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 ...
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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 edit ...
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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 ...
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Harry Beaumont Harry Beaumont (10 February 1888 – 22 December 1966) was an American film director, actor, and screenwriter. He worked for a variety of production companies including 20th Century Fox, Fox, Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, Goldwyn, Metro Picture ...
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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 i ...
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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 ...
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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), A ...
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Guy Norman Bee Guy Norman Bee is an American television director, television producer and former Steadicam operator. Selected filmography Television director * '' ER'' * ''Third Watch'' * ''Harper's Island'' * ''Criminal Minds'' * ''Veronica Mars'' (Episode ...
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Ford Beebe Ford Beebe (November 26, 1888 – November 26, 1978) was a screenwriter and Film director, 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-movi ...
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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 ...
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Morgan Beggs Morgan Beggs is a Canadian television director. He is well known for his work on The WB/The CW's ''Smallville (TV series), Smallville'' and on the American Broadcasting Company, ABC fairytale series ''Once Upon a Time (TV series), Once Upon a Ti ...
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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 life ...
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Timur Bekmambetov Timur Nuruakhitovich Bekmambetov (, ; ; born June 25, 1961) is a Russian-Kazakhstan, Kazakh film Film director, director, Film producer, producer, screenwriter, and tech entrepreneur. He is best known for the fantasy epic ''Night Watch (2004 fi ...
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Susan Belbin Susan Jane Belbin (born 20 October 1948) is a retired Scottish television director and producer whose work includes '' Bread'', ''Are You Being Served?'', ''Hi-de-Hi'', ''One Foot in the Grave'', Allo 'Allo'', ''It Ain't Half Hot Mum'', ''Only ...
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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 Troian Avery Bellisario (born October 28, 1985) is an American actress. A graduate of the University of Southern California, in 2010, she received her breakthrough role as Spencer Hastings in the Freeform drama series ''Pretty Little Liars'' ( ...
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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 schooltea ...
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Jerry Belson Jerry Belson (July 8, 1938 – October 10, 2006) was a writer, director, and producer of Hollywood films for over 40 years. Career Belson's writing credits include the Steven Spielberg films ''Always'' and ''Close Encounters of the Third Kind'', ...
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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 Hungary, Hungarian-born film director and cinematographer, most notable for directing ''The Wild One'' (1953). He gained recognition for his direction of the ...
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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 ...
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Lubomír Beneš Lubomír Beneš (7 November 1935, Prague – 12 September 1995, Roztoky) was a Czech animator, director, and author, best known as the co-creator of ''Pat & Mat'', an animated series about two highly inventive, yet incredibly clumsy handymen neigh ...
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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'' (20 ...
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Richard Benjamin Richard Samuel Benjamin (born May 22, 1938) is an American actor and film director. He has starred in a number of well-known film productions, including ''Goodbye, Columbus'' (1969), based on the novella by Philip Roth; ''Catch-22'' (1970), fr ...
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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, Benne ...
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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 ''Br ...
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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 Barry may refer to: People and fictional characters * Barry (name), including ...
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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, Film producer, producer and playwright. Widely considered one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time, his films are known ...
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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 Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...
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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 ...
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Marc Berlin Marc Berlin is an American filmmaker, author, and satirist. Berlin began his film production company Black Sheep Films in 1999.Black Sheep Films Website He made the 1999 comedy feature ''People from Space'', ''Bedford Springs'' (2002) and the 200 ...
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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 grad ...
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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 film, disaster Drama (film and television), drama film ''World Trade Center (film), World Trade Center'' ...
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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 ...
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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 Award-winning American film director, music video director and television director. For his work on the television show '' Fargo'' in 2014, he received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for O ...
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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 Mis ...
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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 a ...
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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 ' ...
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Frank Beyer Frank Paul Beyer (; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era ...
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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. ...
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Dominic Bianchi Dominic E. Bianchi (born February 22, 1979) is an American animation director and storyboard artist. Bianchi is known for directing multiple episodes of the animated series '' Family Guy'', most notably the show's celebrated 150th episode, " Bria ...
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Ed Bianchi Edward Bianchi (born April 24, 1942) is an American television director and television producer, producer. He is better known for his work on ''Deadwood (TV series), Deadwood'', ''Boardwalk Empire'', ''Yellowstone (American TV series), Yellowstone ...
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Fabián Bielinsky Fabián Bielinsky (3 February 1959 – 29 June 2006) was an Argentine film director. Career Fabián Bielinsky was born in Buenos Aires on February 3, 1959. Bielinsky started to make films early in life, while still a high school student in the ...
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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 Locke ...
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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, Bi ...
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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 ...
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Peter Billingsley Peter Billingsley (born April 16, 1971), also known as Peter Michaelsen and Peter Billingsley-Michaelsen, is an American actor and filmmaker. His acting roles include Ralphie Parker in the 1983 movie ''A Christmas Story'' and its 2022 sequel ' ...
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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 in ...
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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 ...
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Herbert Blaché Herbert Blaché (5 October 1882 – 23 October 1953), born Herbert Reginald Gaston Blaché-Bolton was a British-born American film director, producer and screenwriter, born of a French father. He directed more than 50 films between 1912 and ...
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Nicola Black Nicola Jane Black (born in Glasgow) is a Scottish film and television producer and director. Her work includes the documentaries ''Designer Vaginas'', ''Bone Breakers'', ''When Freddie Mercury Met Kenny Everett'', ''Tribal Cop'', ''White Jazz'', ...
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Shane Black Shane Black (born December 16, 1961) is an American filmmaker and actor who has written such films as ''Lethal Weapon'', ''The Monster Squad'', ''The Last Boy Scout'', ''Last Action Hero'', and ''The Long Kiss Goodnight''. As an actor, Black is ...
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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' ...
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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 Bernard ...
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Jeffrey Blitz Jeffrey Blitz is an American film director, screenwriter and producer best known for the documentary '' Spellbound'' (2003), ''The Office'' (2007 - 2010), the fiction film '' Rocket Science'' (2007) and ''Comedy Central’s'' ''Review'' (2014 ...
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Neill Blomkamp Neill Blomkamp (; born 17 September 1979) is a South African filmmaker. He employs a documentary-style, Hand-held camera, hand-held, cinéma vérité technique, blending naturalistic and photo-realistic computer-generated imagery, computer-gene ...
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Matt Bloom Matthew Jason Bloom (born November 14, 1972) is an American retired professional wrestler and professional football player. He is currently signed to WWE, where he is the head trainer at the WWE Performance Center in Orlando, Florida. Bloom ...
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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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Keith Boak Keith Boak is a British film and television director, best known for his work on several popular continuing drama series. He currently resides and works in the United States. Early life Born in Edinburgh, he attended the John Hampden High Scho ...
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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 direc ...
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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 (film), Half Nelson'', ''Sugar (2008 film), Sugar'', '' It's Kind of a Funny Story (film), It's Kind of a Funny ...
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Richard Boden Richard Boden (born 4 January 1953, Birmingham) is a British television director and producer best known for his work on situation comedies including Allo 'Allo'', ''Blackadder Goes Forth'', ''2point4 Children ''2point4 Children'' is a BBC ...
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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 film producer, producer. He directed 158 films between 1917 and 1957. Selected filmography * ''Farmer Borchardt'' (1917) * ''Donna Lucia ...
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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 ...
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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 R ...
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José Bohr José Bohr (3 September 1901 – 29 May 1994) was a German-born Chilean film director, producer, actor and screenwriter. He directed 35 films between 1919 and 1969. Selected filmography Actor * '' Así es la vida'' (1930) * ''Rogue of the ...
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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 ...
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Patrick Bokanowski Patrick Bokanowski (born 23 June 1943 in Algiers, French Algeria) is a French filmmaker who makes experimental and animated films. Career The film '' The Angel'' (1982) is his most prominent work. It is accompanied by a soundtrack made by his wi ...
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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, E ...
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Mauro Bolognini Mauro Bolognini (28 June 1922 – 14 May 2001) was an Italian film and stage director of literate sensibility, known for his masterly handling of period subject matter. Early years Bolognini was born in Pistoia, in the Tuscany region of Italy. ...
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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 ''Malcol ...
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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), ...
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Walerian Borowczyk Walerian Borowczyk (21 October 1923 – 3 February 2006) was an internationally known Polish film director described by film critics as a 'genius who also happened to be a pornographer'. He directed 40 films between 1946 and 1988. Borowczyk sett ...
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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 ...
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John and Roy Boulting John Edward Boulting (21 December 1913 – 17 June 1985) and Roy Alfred Clarence Boulting (21 December 1913 – 5 November 2001), known collectively as the Boulting brothers, were English filmmakers and identical twins who became known for thei ...
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Lucien Bourjeily Lucien Bourjeily is an Emmy nominated writer and director of both theater and film. His work has traveled the worldwide festival circuits and won him many awards of which the 2017 Dubai International Film Festival Jury Prize. He brought his prog ...
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Pearl Bowser Pearl Bowser (born 1931) is an author, collector, television director, film scholar, film director, producer, filmmaker, independent distributor and film archivist. Along with her peers Mel Roman and Charles Hobson, Bowser researched and curated “ ...
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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 ...
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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'', '' Su ...
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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 ...
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Richard Bracewell Richard Bracewell (born 28 November 1969) is an English film director best known for directing 2015 British comedy feature film ''Bill'', which he also developed with writers Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond . ''Bill'' was Bracewell's third fe ...
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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 u ...
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John Brahm John Brahm (August 17, 1893 – October 12, 1982) was a German film and television director. His films include ''The Undying Monster'' (1942), '' The Lodger'' (1944), ''Hangover Square'' (1945), ''The Locket'' (1946), ''The Brasher Doubloon'' (19 ...
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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 large ...
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Matt Braly Matthew Benjakarn Braly ( ; born November 8, 1988) is an American animator, storyboard artist, director, writer, and producer. He is best known as the creator and executive producer of the Disney Channel animated series ''Amphibia (TV series)''. ...
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A.V. Bramble Albert Victor Bramble (1884–1963) was an English actor and film director. He began his acting career on the stage. He started acting in films in 1913 and subsequently turned to directing and producing films. He died on 17 May 1963. Filmogr ...
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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 t ...
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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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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 ...
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Charles Braverman Charles "Chuck" Dell Braverman (born March 3, 1944, in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director, collage animator, documentary filmmaker and producer. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject for his 2 ...
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Neil Breen Neil Breen (born November 23, 1958) is an American filmmaker and actor. Since 2005, he has written, directed, independently produced, and starred in five films. Breen's films have garnered a cult following for their low-budget production value ...
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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 in ...
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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 ...
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Will Brenton Will Brenton is a writer/ producer- director who has worked in many areas of television and theatre, primarily through his companies Tell-Tale productions and Wish Films, both of which he founded with Iain Lauchlan. Together they gained six BA ...
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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, Ellipsis (narrative device), ellipses, and s ...
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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 ...
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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 t ...
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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 in film, 2001 Jer ...
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Craig Brewer Craig Brewer (born December 6, 1971) is an American filmmaker. His 2005 movie ''Hustle & Flow'' won the Audience Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival and achieved commercial success, along with an Academy Award for Best Original Song, " It's ...
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Frank Braxton Frank Cavalier Braxton Jr. (March 31, 1929 – June 1, 1969) was an African-American animator and director active in the early 1950s to the late 1960s. He was one of the first black animators hired by both Disney and Warner Bros. Life Career F ...
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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 artic ...
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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 ma ...
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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 for ...
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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 Dale ...
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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 ...
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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, That Man from Rio (''L'Homme de Rio'')'', ''Le Magnifique, The M ...
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Tricia Brock Patricia Elaine "Tricia" Baumhardt (née Brock; born July 7, 1979) is an American contemporary Christian singer-songwriter raised in Dillsboro, Indiana. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the American Christian rock band Superchick. In 2 ...
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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 Art ...
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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 Shak ...
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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 h ...
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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 Academy Awards, Oscars in his career, he was best known for ''Blackboard Jungle'' (1955), ''Cat on a ...
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Nick Broomfield Nicholas Broomfield (born 1948) is an English documentary film director. His self-reflective style has been regarded as influential to many later filmmakers. In the early 21st century, he began to use non-actors in scripted works, which he cal ...
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James Broughton James Broughton (November 10, 1913 – May 17, 1999) was an American poet and poetic filmmaker. He was part of the San Francisco Renaissance, a precursor to the Beat poets. He was an early bard of the Radical Faeries, as well as a member of ...
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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 myocardial infarction, ...
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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 with ...
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Rowland Brown Rowland Brown (November 6, 1900 – May 6, 1963), born Chauncey Rowland Brown in Canton, Ohio, was an American screenwriter and film director, whose career as a director ended in the early 1930s after he started many more films than he finished. ...
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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 ...
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Martin Bruestle Martin Bruestle is an American television producer best known for his work on ''Northern Exposure'' and ''The Sopranos''. After graduating from the University of Minnesota in 1987, Martin Bruestle was selected to participate in the Academy of Tel ...
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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 Nick Joseph Bruno (born June 4, 1951) has been the president of the University of Louisiana at Monroe, also known as ULM, since November 8, 2010. He was appointed by the Baton Rouge-based University of Louisiana System Board of Supervisors. Brun ...
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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), '' Fr ...
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Detlev Buck Detlev Buck (; born 1 December 1962 in Bad Segeberg) is a German film director, actor, 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 filmmakers working ...
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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 Mille ...
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Norman Buckley Norman L. Buckley (born November 25, 1955) is an American television director best known for his work on ''The O.C.'', ''Chuck'', ''Gossip Girl'', ''Pretty Little Liars'' and '' The Fosters''. Early life Buckley was born on Loring Air Force Ba ...
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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'' and ...
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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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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 caus ...
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Danny Buday Danny Buday (born February 8, 1977) is filmmaker who wrote, directed, and produced the feature fil''Five Star Day'' starring Cam Gigandet and Jena Malone. ''Five Star Day'' won the Jury Award fo'Best Feature'at the 2010 Stony Brook Film Festival an ...
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John Carl Buechler __NOTOC__ 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 ...
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Bradley Buecker Bradley Buecker is an American television and film director, producer, and editor. He is well known for his work with Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for their series ''Glee'' and ''American Horror Story''. Career Buecker's first credited job in th ...
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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 m ...
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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'', ...
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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 earliest ...
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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 direct ...
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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 ea ...
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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 degree i ...
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John Butler John Butler may refer to: Arts and entertainment *John "Picayune" Butler (died 1864), American performer *John Butler (artist) (1890–1976), American artist * John Butler (author) (born 1937), British author and YouTuber *John Butler (born 1954), ...
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Ray Butt Raymond William Butt (25 June 1935 – 12 July 2013) was a British television producer and Television director, director. He worked on several British sitcom, sitcoms for BBC television and became best known for ''Only Fools and Horses''. Early l ...
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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), ''Der To ...
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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 (film), Child of Manhattan'' (1933); ''Honolulu (1939 film), Honolulu'' (1939); the Marx Brothers fil ...
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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, science-fiction British sitcom, sitcom ''Red Dwarf'' from List of Red Dwarf episodes, Series I-IV and V ...
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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 (film), ''Coherence'' and co-writing the script for ''Rango (2011 f ...
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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 Cypriots, Greek Cypriot theatre and film director, writer, produce ...
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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 «Andres ...
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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 ...
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David Caffrey David Caffrey is an Irish film director. His most recent film is ''Grand Theft Parsons'' starring Johnny Knoxville and Christina Applegate. The film is an account of an urban myth about the death of country rock legend, Gram Parsons. Filmography ...
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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 Gu ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 w ...
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Douglas Camfield Douglas Gaston Sydney Camfield (8 May 1931 – 27 January 1984) was a British television director, active from the 1960s to the 1980s. Early life Camfield studied at the York School of Art and aimed to work for The Walt Disney Company. He was ...
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Augusto Caminito Augusto Caminito (1 July 1939 – 23 August 2020) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and producer. Filmography Screenwriter *''Halleluja for Django'' (1967) *''The Ruthless Four'' (1968) *''The Vatican Affair'' (1968) *''Trop jolies pour ...
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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 wit ...
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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 ...
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Colin Campbell Colin may refer to: * Colin (given name) * Colin (surname) * ''Colin'' (film), a 2008 Cannes film festival zombie movie * Colin (horse) (1905–1932), thoroughbred racehorse * Colin (humpback whale), a humpback whale calf abandoned north of Sydney, ...
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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) ...
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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 in film, James Bond films ''GoldenEye'' and ''Cas ...
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Mont Campbell Hugo Martin Montgomery "Dirk" Campbell (born 30 December 1950, previously known as Mont Campbell) is a British multi-instrumentalist, composer and energy company executive. Campbell was born in the British military hospital in Ismailia, Egypt, ...
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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 ...
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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 includ ...
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Dyan Cannon Dyan Cannon (born Samille Diane Friesen; January 4, 1937) is an American actress, director, screenwriter, producer, and editor. Her accolades include a Saturn Award, a Golden Globe Award, three Academy Award nominations, and a star on the Ho ...
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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 '' ...
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Colin Cant Colin Cant is a British television director, producer and scenic designer, best known for his work for the children's department of BBC Television from the 1970s to the 1990s. After beginning his career as a designer, he moved to directing and w ...
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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 in ...
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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 Doctor, twelfth incarnation of The Doctor (Doctor Who), the Doctor in ''Doctor Who'' (2013–2017) and Malcolm Tucker in ' ...
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Albert Capellani Albert Capellani (23 August 1874 – 26 September 1931) was a French film director and screenwriter of the silent film, silent era. He directed films between 1905 and 1922. One of his brothers was the actor-sculptor Paul Capellani, and anoth ...
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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 (film), Flyin ...
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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 (1984 f ...
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Christian Carion Christian Carion (born 4 January 1963) is a French film director, dialogue writer and screenwriter, gaining international attention for ''Joyeux Noël (Merry Christmas)'', which was nominated for several awards, including the 2005 Academy Awa ...
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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 a ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Marc Caro Marc Caro (born 2 April 1956) is a French filmmaker and cartoonist best known for his projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. Biography Marc Caro was born in Nantes, the native town of Jules Verne, who made a great impact on him, influenced his love ...
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Niki Caro Nikola Jean Caro (born 20 September 1966) is a New Zealand film director and screenwriter. Her 2002 film ''Whale Rider'' was critically praised and won a number of awards at international film festivals. She directed the 2020 live action versi ...
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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 ...
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Enrique Carreras Enrique Carreras (6 January 1925 – 29 August 1995) was a Peruvian-born 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, Peru, Carr ...
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John Paddy Carstairs John Paddy Carstairs (born John Keys; 11 May 1910, in London – 12 December 1970, in London) was a British film director (1933–62) and television director (1962–64), usually of light-hearted subject matter. He was also a comic novelist and ...
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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 ...
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Enrico Casarosa Enrico Casarosa (born November 20, 1971) is an Italian-American storyboard artist, film director, and writer who works at Pixar. In 2012, he was nominated for an Academy Award for the animated short film '' La Luna''. In 2022, he was nominated fo ...
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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 dire ...
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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 Kee ...
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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 Film director, director and Film producer, producer of film and television. His credits include the World War II film ''Memphis Belle (film), Memphis Belle'' (1990), the r ...
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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 T ...
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Alberto Cavalcanti Alberto de Almeida Cavalcanti (February 6, 1897 – August 23, 1982) was a Brazilian-born film director and film producer, producer. He was often credited under the single name "Cavalcanti". Early life Cavalcanti was born in Rio de Janeiro, ...
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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 Pa ...
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Paolo Cavara Paolo Cavara (4 July 1926 – 7 August 1982) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He is best known for collaborating with Gualtiero Jacopetti and Franco E. Prosperi on the 1962 mondo film ''Mondo Cane'', and for directing the ficti ...
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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'', '' American Ninja 2: The Confrontation'', ''Puppet Master II'', and ''Demonic Toys'' ...
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Simon Cellan Jones Simon Cellan Jones (born January 1963) is a British television director and film director. Career Simon Cellan Jones began his career as a production assistant in the mid-1980s, working on series such as ''Edge of Darkness''. By the late 1980s he ...
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Mark Cendrowski Mark Cendrowski is an American film and television director. He is best known as the director of most episodes of ''The Big Bang Theory''. Cendrowski is a 1981 graduate of the University of Michigan and a 1977 graduate of Notre Dame High Scho ...
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Tony Cervone Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone are an American television writing, animation and production team at Warner Bros. Animation and formerly at Nickelodeon Animation Studios. Brandt was born on December 24, 1961, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and Cervone on ...
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Pablo César Pablo César (; born 26 February 1962) is an Argentine film director, film producer, screenwriter and film professor. He began his filmmaking career in the Buenos Aires independent short film scene shot in the Super 8 film, Super 8 format, making ...
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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 (film), Winter Sleep'' (2014). Early life Ceylan was born in Istanbul on 26 January 1959. His interes ...
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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 an ...
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Gurinder Chadha Gurinder Chadha, (born 10 January 1960) is a British film director of Indian origin. Most of her films explore the lives of Indians living in England. The common theme among her work showcases the trials of Indian women living in the UK and ho ...
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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 ind ...
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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 Egyptians, Egyptian film director. He was active in the Cinema of Egypt, Egyptian film industry from 1950 until his death. He directed twel ...
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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 Ho ...
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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 Chines ...
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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 consider ...
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Larry Charles Larry Charles (born ) is an American comedian, screenwriter, director, actor, and producer. He was a staff writer for the sitcom ''Seinfeld'' for its first five seasons. He has also directed the documentary film ''Religulous'' and the mockument ...
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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 ...
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David Chase David Henry Chase (born August 22, 1945) is an American filmmaker. He wrote and produced the HBO drama ''The Sopranos'' which aired for six seasons between 1999 and 2007. Chase has also produced and written for such shows as ''The Rockford Files ...
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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 Michael Chaves (born November 3, 1984) is an American filmmaker and visual effects artist, best known for his work on the miniseries '' Chase Champion'' and the theatrical films ''The Curse of La Llorona'', '' The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me ...
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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 the ...
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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 film director, director of such films as ''National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation'', ''Benny & Joon'', ''Diabolique (1996 film), Diabolique'' and ''The Avengers (1998 film), The Av ...
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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) Children's Drama award 2000 for ''Pig Heart Boy ''P ...
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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 (film), ''Hector and the Search for Happiness'', Serendipity (film), ''Serendipity'', and ''Shal ...
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Kaige Chen Chen Kaige (; born 12 August 1952) is a Chinese film director and a leading figure of the fifth generation of Chinese cinema.Berry, Michael (2002). "Chen Kaige: Historical Revolution and Cinematic Rebellion" in Speaking in Images: Interviews wi ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 photographe ...
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Tadeusz Chmielewski Tadeusz Chmielewski (; 7 June 1927 – 4 December 2016) was a Polish film director, screenwriter and film producer, most notable for being one of the pioneers of popular Polish comedy. During World War II and until 1948, he was a soldier for the N ...
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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 (film), Laurel Canyon'' (2002), and ''The Kids Are All Right (film), The Kids Are All Right ...
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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 Abraha ...
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Yash Chopra Yash Raj Chopra (27 September 1932 21 October 2012) was an Indian people, Indian film director and film producer who worked in Bollywood, Hindi cinema. The founding chairman of the film production and distribution company Yash Raj Films, Chop ...
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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. Early ...
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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 British ...
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Benjamin Christensen Benjamin Christensen (28 September 1879 – 2 April 1959) was a Danish people, 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 Thr ...
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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), '' ...
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Rich Christiano Rich Christiano (born October 2, 1956) is an Cinema of the United States, American filmmaker, who has directed, produced and Screenwriter, written many Christian films. He owns Christiano Film Group, co-founded Five & Two Pictures and founded Ch ...
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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'', ''Joe ...
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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 Peter Chung ...
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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'' ('' Dais ...
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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 Best D ...
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Louis C.K. Louis Alfred Székely (; born September 12, 1967), known professionally as Louis C.K. (), is an American stand-up comedian, screenwriter, actor, and filmmaker. C.K. won three Peabody Awards, three Grammy Awards, six Primetime Emmy Awards, and a ...
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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 condu ...
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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 ...
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S. J. Clarkson S. J. Clarkson is a British television and film director. Career Clarkson's credits include the series '' Doctors'', ''Casualty'', '' EastEnders'', ''Footballers' Wives'', and ''Life on Mars'', as well as the American series ''Heroes'', '' House' ...
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Jack Clayton Jack Isaac Clayton (1 March 1921 – 26 February 1995) was a British film director and producer who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen. Overview Starting out as a teenage studio "tea boy" in 1935, Clayton worked his way up ...
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Jemaine Clement Jemaine Atea Mahana Clement (born 10 January 1974) is a New Zealand actor, comedian, musician and filmmaker. He has released several albums with Bret McKenzie as the musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords, and created a comedy series of the ...
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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 giving ...
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George Clooney George Timothy Clooney (born May 6, 1961) is an American actor and filmmaker. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by George Clooney, numerous accolades, including a British Academy Film Awards, British Academy Film A ...
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Chris Clough Chris Clough (born 9 March 1951 in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England) is an English television producer and director. Clough studied English literature at Leeds University. He went there because they had a television studio available for the studen ...
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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 di ...
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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'', ...
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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 su ...
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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 ...
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Jaume Collet-Serra Jaume Collet-Serra (; born 23 March 1974) is a Spanish-American film director and producer. He directed the horror films '' House of Wax'' (2005), ''Orphan'' (2009), and '' The Shallows'' (2016), as well as the Liam Neeson-led thriller films ''U ...
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Lewis D. Collins Lewis D. Collins (January 12, 1899 – August 24, 1954) was an American film director and occasional screenwriter. In his career spanning over 30 years, he churned out dozens of Westerns. Career Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Collins' film caree ...
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Luigi Comencini Luigi Comencini (; 8 June 1916 – 6 April 2007)
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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'', ' ...
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Bruce Conner Bruce Conner (November 18, 1933 – July 7, 2008) was an American artist who worked with assemblage, film, drawing, sculpture, painting, collage, and photography. Biography Bruce Conner was born November 18, 1933 in McPherson, Kansas.His well- ...
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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. Cook ...
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Fielder Cook Fielder Cook (March 9, 1923 – June 20, 2003) was an American television and film director, producer, and writer whose 1971 television film ''The Homecoming: A Christmas Story'' spawned the series ''The Waltons''. Biography and career Born in ...
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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 ...
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Merian C. Cooper Merian Caldwell Cooper (October 24, 1893 – April 21, 1973) was an American filmmaker and Academy Award winner, as well as a former aviator who served as an officer in the United States Air Force and Polish Air Force. In film, he is credited a ...
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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 A ...
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Roman Coppola Roman François Coppola (born April 22, 1965) is an American director, screenwriter, producer and the son of Francis Ford Coppola and Eleanor Coppola. For the 2012 film ''Moonrise Kingdom'', he and co-writer Wes Anderson were nominated for the A ...
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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 ...
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Frank Coraci Frank Coraci (born February 3, 1966) is an American film director and screenwriter best known for his work with actor Adam Sandler. Biography Coraci was born in Shirley, New York. In 1984 he graduated from William Floyd High School, where he ...
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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 ...
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Alain Corneau Alain Corneau (7 August 1943 – 30 August 2010) was a French film director and writer. Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work ...
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Joe Cornish Joseph Murray Cornish (born 20 December 1968) is an English comedian and filmmaker. With his long-time comedy partner, Adam Buxton, he forms the comedy duo Adam and Joe. In 2011, Cornish released his directorial debut ''Attack the Block''. He ...
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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 ...
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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 ' ...
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Brian Cosgrove Brian Joseph Cosgrove OBE (born 6 April 1934) is an English animator, designer, director, producer and sculptor, best known as the creator of the animated children shows '' Danger Mouse'' and ''Count Duckula''. In 2012 he won the BAFTA Speci ...
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George Pan Cosmatos George Pan Cosmatos (4 January 1941 – 19 April 2005) was a Greek-Italian film director and screenwriter. Following early success in his home country with drama films such as ''Massacre in Rome'' with Richard Burton (based on the real-life Arde ...
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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 produc ...
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T. Arthur Cottam T. Arthur Cottam is a screenwriter, actor, Film producer, producer and film director. A graduate of the Film and Television Production program at the Tisch School of the Arts of New York University, Cottam resides in Los Angeles, California. He ...
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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 (film), Repo Man'' and ''Sid and Nancy'', but since th ...
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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 Exposure ...
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Kelly Fremon Craig Kelly Fremon Craig (born January 1, 1981) is an American screenwriter, producer, and film director. She is known for directing, writing, and co-producing the 2016 coming-of-age dramedy ''The Edge of Seventeen.'' Early life Fremon Craig was bo ...
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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'' (2000–2 ...
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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 ...
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Peter Cregeen Peter Cregeen (born 28 January 1940 in London, England) is a British television director, producer and executive. He was the original director of ITV's successful police drama, ''The Bill'', and made a substantial contribution to the series the ...
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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 has ...
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Charles Crichton Charles Ainslie Crichton (6 August 1910 – 14 September 1999) was an English film director and editor. Born in Wallasey, Cheshire, he became best known for directing many comedies produced at Ealing Studios and had a 40-year career ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. Cro ...
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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 ...
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Mackenzie Crook Paul James "Mackenzie" Crook (born 29 September 1971) is an English actor, comedian, director and writer. He played Gareth Keenan in ''The Office'', Ragetti in the ''Pirates of the Caribbean'' films, Orell in the HBO series ''Game of Thrones'', ...
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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 Ci ...
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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), ...
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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 wh ...
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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 Hungary, Hungarian screenwriter, film producer and film director, director who was based in Germany. He ran his own production company Cserépy-Film until it was merged into the larger UFA GmbH, UFA empire. ...
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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 film), A Little Princess'' (1995), the romantic drama ''Gre ...
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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'' (197 ...
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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 of ...
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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 R ...
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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 ...
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Dan Curtis Dan Curtis (born Daniel Mayer Cherkoss; August 12, 1927 – March 27, 2006) was an American director, writer, and producer of television and film, known among fans of horror films for his afternoon TV series ''Dark Shadows'' (1966–1971) and ...
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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 ...
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Nia DaCosta Nia DaCosta (born November 8, 1989) is an American film director and screenwriter. She wrote and directed the crime thriller film ''Little Woods'' (2018), winning the Nora Ephron Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival. She also directed the horror ...
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Diminas Dagogo Diminas Dagogo is a film director from Rivers State, Nigeria best known for his makeup and special effects work on Nollywood films. He has received two AMVCA nominations for his work on '' Stigma'' (2013), which starred Hilda Dokubo. Dagogo is an ...
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John Dahl John Dahl (born December 11, 1956) is an American film director, film and television director and screenwriter, 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 c ...
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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 subsequentl ...
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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 three ...
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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 ...
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Rebecca Daly Rebecca Daly (born 1980) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, and actress. Early life Daly was born in West Sussex and grew up in an Irish family in Haywards Heath. They later moved to Naas, Ireland. She studied theatre studies and Engli ...
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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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Rod Daniel Rollin Augustus "Rod" Daniel III (August 4, 1942 – April 16, 2016) was an American television and film director, active from the late 1970s to the early 2000s. His films include the 1985 Michael J. Fox comedy film ''Teen Wolf'', which was a con ...
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Frank Daniel František "Frank" Daniel (April 14, 1926 – March 29, 1996) was a Czech-American screenwriter, film director and teacher. He is known for developing the sequence paradigm of screenwriting, in which a classically constructed movie can be br ...
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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'' f ...
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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 wit ...
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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 sc ...
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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 ''Madagas ...
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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 i ...
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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 anime, Japanese animation director most known for the anime adaptations of ''Saiyuki (manga), Saiyuki'' and ''Naruto''. Filmography Films *''Saiyuki: Requiem (movie), Saiyuki: Requiem'' (2001) *劇場版 NARUTO-ナルト-　木ノ葉の里 ...
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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 Feere ...
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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 Ula ...
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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 '' Br ...
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Alki David Alkiviades David (born May 1968; pronounced ) is a Greek-British businessman and actor. In 2008 he was the majority shareholder of Leventis-David Group, which owns Coca-Cola Hellenic bottling plants in 28 countries. His companies include the I ...
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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'', for which h ...
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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 Untoucha ...
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Terence Davies Terence Davies (born 10 November 1945) is an English screenwriter, film director, and novelist, seen by many critics as one of the greatest British filmmakers of his times. He is best known as the writer and director of autobiographical films ...
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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 ''To ...
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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 ...
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Tamra Davis Tamra Davis (born January 22, 1962) is an American film, television and music video director. Early life Davis was born the second out of four children in Studio City, California. She was exposed to the media industry at an early age by her gran ...
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J. Searle Dawley James Searle Dawley (October 4, 1877 – March 30, 1949) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter, stage actor, and playwright. Between 1907 and the mid-1920s, while working for Edison, Rex Motion Picture Company, Famous Player ...
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Roxann Dawson Roxann Dawson (née Caballero, born September 11, 1958), also credited as Roxann Biggs and Roxann Biggs-Dawson, is an American actress and director. She is best known for her role as B'Elanna Torres on the television series '' Star Trek: Voyager' ...
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Shane Dawson Shane Lee Yaw (born July 19, 1988), better known as Shane Dawson, is an American YouTuber, actor, fimmaker, writer, and musician. One of the first people to rise to fame on YouTube, he began making videos in 2008 at the age of 19 and garnered ...
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Robert Day (director) Robert Frederick Day (11 September 1922 – 17 March 2017) was an English film director. He directed more than 40 films between 1956 and 1991. Biography Day was born in Richmond, London, Sheen, England. He worked his way up from Clapperboard ...
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Jonathan Dayton Jonathan Dayton (October 16, 1760October 9, 1824) was an American Founding Fathers of the United States, Founding Father and politician from the U.S. state of New Jersey. He was the youngest person to sign the Constitution of the United States ...
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Drew Daywalt Drew Daywalt (born January 5, 1970), is an American author and filmmaker. He is best known for writing the best-selling children's picture book ''The Day the Crayons Quit'', and its sequel ''The Day the Crayons Came Home'', both illustrated by Ol ...
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Basil Dean Basil Herbert Dean CBE (27 September 1888 – 22 April 1978) was an English actor, writer, producer and director in the theatre and in cinema. He founded the Liverpool Repertory Company in 1911 and in the First World War, after organising unoff ...
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Basil Dearden Basil Dearden (born Basil Clive Dear; 1 January 1911 – 23 March 1971) was an English film director. Early life and career Dearden was born at 5, Woodfield Road, Leigh-on-Sea, Essex to Charles James Dear, a steel manufacturer, and his wife, Fl ...
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Tiffanie DeBartolo Tiffanie DeBartolo (born November 27, 1970) is an American novelist, filmmaker, co-founder of the independent record label Bright Antenna, and co-founder of The ShineMaker Foundation. Tiffanie has written three novels: ''God-Shaped Hole,'' ''Ho ...
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Jan de Bont Jan de Bont (; born 22 October 1943) is a Dutch cinematographer, director and film producer. He is best known for directing the films ''Speed'' (1994) and ''Twister'' (1996). As a director of photography, de Bont also worked on numerous blockbus ...
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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, That Man from Rio (''L'Homme de Rio'')'', ''Le Magnifique, The M ...
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Fred de Cordova Frederick Timmins de Cordova (October 27, 1910 – September 15, 2001) was an American stage, motion picture and television director and producer. He is best known for his work on ''The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson''. Early life De Cordova ...
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Allen Coulter Allen Coulter is an American television and film director, credited with a number of successful television programs. He has directed two feature films, ''Hollywoodland'', a film regarding the questionable death of George Reeves starring Adrien ...
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Albert de Courville Albert Pierre de Courville (26 March 1887 – 15 March 1960) (born in Croydon, England) was a writer and director of theatrical revues, many of which featured the actress and singer Shirley Kellogg, whom he married in June 1913. Career In abo ...
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Rolf de Heer Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951) is a Dutch Australian film director. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old.
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Fred Dekker Fred Dekker (born April 9, 1959) is an American screenwriter and film director best known for his cult classic horror comedy films ''Night of the Creeps'' and ''The Monster Squad'' (written with Shane Black). He contributed the story ideas for ...
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Alex de la Iglesia Alex is a given name. It can refer to a shortened version of Alexander, Alexandra, Alexis. People Multiple *Alex Brown (disambiguation), multiple people * Alex Gordon (disambiguation), multiple people *Alex Harris (disambiguation), multiple peo ...
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Jean Delannoy Jean Delannoy (12 January 1908 – 18 June 2008) was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director. Biography Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family was from Haute-Normandie in the north of France. He was a P ...
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Bruce Dellis Bruce Dellis is an American film director and screenwriter based in Tempe, AZ. He has written and directed several award-winning short films and features. Career In 2006, Dellis won two Rocky Mountain Emmy Awards for ''The Intervention of B ...
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Greg DeLiso Greg DeLiso (born October 25, 1986) is an American filmmaker, film editor, and director of photography. He was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up in the suburbs of Shelby Township. Throughout his career, DeLiso has demonstrated his passion fo ...
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Hampton Del Ruth Hampton Del Ruth (September 7, 1879 – May 15, 1958) was an American film actor, director, screenwriter, and film producer. Among other work, he wrote the intertitles In films, an intertitle, also known as a title card, is a piece of filme ...
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Roy Del Ruth Roy Del Ruth (October 18, 1893, Delaware – April 27, 1961) was an American filmmaker. Early career Beginning his Hollywood career as a writer for Mack Sennett in 1915, Del Ruth later directed his first short film ''Hungry Lions'' (1919) ...
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Guillermo del Toro Guillermo del Toro Gómez (; born October 9, 1964) is a Mexican filmmaker, author, and actor. He directed the Academy Award–winning fantasy films ''Pan's Labyrinth'' (2006) and ''The Shape of Water'' (2017), winning the Academy Awards for Be ...
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Alberto De Martino Alberto De Martino (12 June 1929 – 2 June 2015) was an Italian film director and screenwriter. Born in Rome, De Martino started as a child actor and later returned to the cinema where worked as a screenwriter, director and dubbing supervis ...
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Kirk DeMicco Kirk DeMicco (born May 15, 1969) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for writing and directing ''Space Chimps'', ''The Croods'' and '' Vivo''. Raised in Wyckoff, New Jersey and a former resident of Franklin Lakes, DeMicco attended Ramap ...
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Cecil B. DeMille Cecil Blount DeMille (; August 12, 1881January 21, 1959) was an American film director, producer and actor. Between 1914 and 1958, he made 70 features, both silent and sound films. He is acknowledged as a founding father of the American cine ...
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William C. deMille William Churchill deMille (July 25, 1878 – March 5, 1955), also spelled de Mille or De Mille, was an American screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s. He was also a noted playwright prior to moving into ...
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Jonathan Demme Robert Jonathan Demme ( ; February 22, 1944 – April 26, 2017) was an American filmmaker. Beginning his career under B-movie producer Roger Corman, Demme made his directorial debut with the 1974 women-in-prison film ''Caged Heat'', before ...
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Ted Demme Edward Kern Demme ( ; October 26, 1963 – January 13, 2002) was an American director, producer, and actor. Early life Demme was born in New York City, the son of Gail (née Kern) and Frederick Rogers Demme. He grew up in Rockville Centre, New ...
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James DeMonaco James DeMonaco (born October 12, 1969) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer. He is best known for creating the ''Purge'' franchise, writing all five films in the series and directing the first three, ''The Purge'' (2013), ''Anarc ...
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Jacques Demy Jacques Demy (; 5 June 1931 – 27 October 1990) was a French director, lyricist, and screenwriter. He appeared at the height of the French New Wave alongside contemporaries like Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut. Demy's films are celebrat ...
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Reginald Denham Reginald Denham (10 January 1894 – 4 February 1983) was an English writer, theatre and film director, actor and film producer. Biography Reginald H. F. Denham was born in London, England, in 1894. He spent a good part of his career dire ...
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Robert De Niro Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. ( , ; born August 17, 1943) is an American actor. Known for his collaborations with Martin Scorsese, he is considered to be one of the best actors of his generation. De Niro is the recipient of various accolades ...
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Claire Denis Claire Denis (; born 21 April 1946) is a French film director and screenwriter. Her feature film ''Beau Travail'' (1999) has been called one of the greatest films of the 1990s, as well as of all time. Other acclaimed works include '' Trouble Ev ...
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Martin Dennis Martin Dennis is a Canadian-born British television director. He won the BAFTA for situation comedy in 2005, having been nominated in 1989, 1996, and 1998. Early life and education Dennis was born in Toronto and lived there briefly until his ...
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Pen Densham Pen Densham (born 14 October 1947) is a British-Canadian film and television producer, writer, and director, known for writing and producing films such as '' Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves''Kasindorf, Jeanie. "Million Dollar Babies: How a Bunch of ...
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Ruggero Deodato Ruggero Deodato (born 7 May 1939) is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and sometime actor. His career has spanned a wide-range of genres including peplum, comedy, drama, poliziottesco and science fiction, yet he is perhaps best known fo ...
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Manoel de Oliveira Manoel Cândido Pinto de Oliveira (; 11 December 1908 – 2 April 2015) was a Portuguese film director and screenwriter born in Cedofeita, Porto. He first began making films in 1927, when he and some friends attempted to make a film about Wo ...
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Brian De Palma Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for his work in the suspense, crime and psychological thriller genres. De Palma was a leading ...
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Ben Palmer Ben Palmer (born 1976) is a British film and television director. His television credits include the Channel 4 sketch show '' Bo' Selecta!'' (2002–2006), the second and third series of the E4 sitcom ''The Inbetweeners'' (2009–2010) and the Sk ...
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Charles Palmer Charles Palmer may refer to: * Charles Palmer (1777–1851), Member of Parliament for Bath * Sir Charles Palmer, 1st Baronet (1822–1907), English shipbuilder, businessman and Liberal Member of Parliament, 1874–1907 * Sir Charles Palmer, 2nd Ba ...
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Jake Paltrow Jake Paltrow is an American film director, screenwriter and actor. Coming from a family of actors, he is the younger brother of Gwyneth Paltrow and the son of Bruce Paltrow and Blythe Danner. Personal life Paltrow is the son of producer-dire ...
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Serge de Poligny Serge de Poligny (1903–1983) was a French screenwriter and film director. Career Serge de Poligny was born in Paris in 1903. He studied art at the École des Beaux-Arts in the class of the painter Maurice Denis. In 1925 he joined the French ...
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Johnny Depp John Christopher Depp II (born June 9, 1963) is an American actor and musician. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for three Academy Award ...
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John Derek John Derek (born Derek Delevan Harris; August 12, 1926 – May 22, 1998) was an American actor, director, screenwriter, producer and photographer.Maya Deren Maya Deren (born Eleonora Derenkowska, uk, Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська, links=no;
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Scott Derrickson Scott Derrickson (born July 16, 1966) is an American filmmaker. He is best known for directing the films '' The Exorcism of Emily Rose'' (2005), ''The Day the Earth Stood Still'' (2008), ''Sinister'' (2012), '' Deliver Us from Evil'' (2014), '' ...
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Bernard Derriman Bernard Derriman is an Australian animator, director, and producer. He is known for working on the animated sitcom ''Bob's Burgers'' and co-directing its animated feature film. He began his career in animation at Walt Disney Studios in Sydn ...
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Giuseppe de Santis Giuseppe De Santis (11 February 1917 – 16 May 1997) was an Italian film director. One of the most idealistic neorealist filmmakers of the 1940s and 1950s, he wrote and directed films punctuated by ardent cries for social reform. He was ...
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Vittorio De Sica Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement. Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards: ''Sciuscià'' and ''Bicycle Thieves'' (honorary) ...
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Tom DeSimone Tom DeSimone (born 1939) is an American director, writer, producer and editor, perhaps best known for directing the cult films ''Chatterbox (1977 film), Chatterbox'' (1977), ''Hell Night'' (1981), and ''The Concrete Jungle (film), The Concrete J ...
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Howard Deutch Howard Deutch (born September 14, 1950) is an American film and television director who worked in collaboration with filmmaker John Hughes, directing two of Hughes's best-known screenplays, ''Pretty in Pink'' and '' Some Kind of Wonderful''. Sinc ...
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Michel Deville Michel Deville (born 13 April 1931) is a French film director and screenwriter. Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and in ...
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Danny DeVito Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. (born November 17, 1944) is an American actor, comedian, and filmmaker. He gained prominence for his portrayal of the taxi dispatcher Louie De Palma in the television series ''Taxi'' (1978–1983), which won him a Gold ...
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Dean Devlin Dean Devlin (born August 27, 1962) is an American screenwriter, producer, director, and actor of film and television. He is best known for his collaborations with director Roland Emmerich, and for his work on the The Librarian (franchise), ''Li ...
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Matthew Diamond Matthew Diamond (born November 26, 1951) is an American film and television director, producer and choreographer best known for directing '' Dancemaker''. Life and career Matthew Diamond was born in New York City, the son of Irwin and Pearl (n ...
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Tom DiCillo Thomas A. DiCillo (born August 14, 1953) is an American film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Early life He was born in Camp Le Jeune, North Carolina. His father was Italian and his mother was from New England. He studied creative wri ...
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Nigel Dick Nigel Dick (born 21 March 1953) is a British music video and film director, writer and musician from Catterick, England, now based in Los Angeles, California. He directed the Britney Spears videos " ...Baby One More Time" and " Oops!... I Did I ...
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Vivienne Dick Vivienne Dick (born 1950) is an Irish feminist experimental and documentary filmmaker. Her early films helped define the No Wave scene. According to ''The Irish Times'', Dick is "one of the most important film-makers Ireland has produced". ...
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Ernest Dickerson Ernest Roscoe Dickerson (born June 25, 1951) is an American director, cinematographer, and screenwriter of film, television, and music videos. As a cinematographer, he is known for his frequent collaborations with Spike Lee ever since they were c ...
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Thorold Dickinson Thorold Barron Dickinson (16 November 1903 – 14 April 1984) was a British film director, screenwriter, film editor, film producer, and Britain's first university professor of film. Dickinson's work received much praise, with fellow directo ...
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William Kennedy Dickson William Kennedy Laurie Dickson (3 August 1860 – 28 September 1935) was a British people, British inventor who devised an early motion picture camera under the employment of Thomas Edison. Early life William Kennedy Dickson was born on 3 ...
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Carlos Diegues Carlos Diegues, also known as Cacá Diegues (born May 19, 1940), is a Brazilian film director. He was born in Maceió, Alagoas, and is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement. He is popularly known for his unconventional, yet intriguing ...
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Vin Diesel Mark Sinclair (born July 18, 1967), known professionally as Vin Diesel, is an American actor. One of the world's highest-grossing actors, he is best known for playing Dominic Toretto in the ''Fast & Furious'' franchise. Diesel began audition ...
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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 Top of page


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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 Top of page


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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 Top of page


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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 Top of page


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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 Top of page


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 Top of page


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*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 Top of page


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 Top of page


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 Top of page


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 Top of page


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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 Top of page


Rf–Rz

*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 Top of page


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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 Top of page


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 Top of page


T

*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 Top of page


U

*Gustav Ucicky *Edgar G. Ulmer *Ron Underwood *Lee Unkrich *Upendra (actor), Upendra *Michael Uppendahl *Urszula Urbaniak *Carl Urbano *Chano Urueta *Carly Usdin *Kinka Usher *Peter Ustinov *Roar Uthaug Top of page


V

*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 Top of page


W

*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 Top of page


X

*Xie Jin *Xie Fei (director), Xie Fei Top of page


Y

*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. Top of page


Z

*Romas Zabarauskas *Jeremiah Zagar *Eduard Zahariev *Alex Zakrzewski *Jerry Zaks *Alex Zamm *Moisés Zamora *Rudy Zamora *Krzysztof Zanussi *Alan Zaslove *Kristi Zea *Dan Zeff *Franco Zeffirelli *Primo Zeglio *Sande Zeig *Alfred Zeisler *Benh Zeitlin *Florian Zeller *David Zellner *Frederic Zelnik *Robert Zemeckis *David Zennie *Hans H. Zerlett *Zhang Yang (director), Zhang Yang *Zhang Yimou *Zhang Yuan (director), Zhang Yuan *Zheng Junli *Thierry Zéno *Chloé Zhao *Tian Zhuangzhuang *Maheen Zia *Howard Zieff *Želimir Žilnik *Lydia Zimmermann *Michael Zinberg *Fred Zinnemann *Thishiwe Ziqubu *Craig Zisk *Randy Zisk *Rob Zombie *Erick Zonca *Hisham Zreiq *Zucker, Abrahams, and Zucker, Zucker Brothers *Steve Zuckerman *Ezz El-Dine Zulficar *Mahmoud Zulfikar *Edward Zwick *Joel Zwick *Terry Zwigoff *Andrzej Żuławski *Xawery Żuławski *Harald Zwart Top of page


See also

* 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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