Biographies: Notable Filmmakers and Directors

Updated August 5, 2020 | Infoplease Staff

Notable Filmmakers and Directors

Abrahamson, Lenny, filmmaker
Allen, Debbie, actress, director, and acting teacher
Allen, Woody, filmmaker
AlmodÃ³var, Pedro, film director
Altman, Robert, film director
Anderson, Wes, screenwriter
Annaud, Jean-Jacques, director, screenwriter
Antonioni, Michelangelo, film director and scriptwriter
Apted, Michael, director, producer
Araki, Gregg, director, screenwriter
Attenborough, Sir Richard, director, actor
Aykroyd, Dan, actor, director
Beatty, Warren, actor, filmmaker
Beineix, Jean-Jacques, director, producer, screenwriter
Benigni, Roberto, actor, filmmaker
Benton, Robert, director, screenwriter
Beresford, Bruce, film director
Berg, Peter, actor, filmmaker
Bergman, Ingmar, filmmaker
Berkeley, Busby, film director and choreographer
Bertolucci, Bernardo, film director and screenwriter
Boetticher, Budd, film director
Bogdanovich, Peter, filmmaker, actor, writer
Braff, Zach, actor, filmmaker
Branagh, Kenneth, actor, director, producer
Bresson, Robert, film director and scriptwriter
Brooks, Albert, actor, director, screenwriter
Brooks, James L., director, producer, writer
Brooks, Mel, film director, writer, actor, and producer
Bruckheimer, Jerry, producer, filmmaker
BuÃ±uel, Luis, film director
Burns, Ken, documentary filmmaker
Burton, Tim, filmmaker
Buscemi, Steve, actor, director
Cameron, James, filmmaker
Campion, Jane, film director
Capra, Frank, film director
Carpenter, John, director, producer
Cassavetes, John, film actor and director
Cattaneo, Peter, director
Chan, Jackie, actor, filmmaker
Chaplin, Sir Charles, filmmaker, actor
Chen, Joan, actress, director
Cimino, Michael, director, screenwriter, producer
Clair, RenÃ©, film director
Clurman, Harold, director
Coen Brothers, filmmakers
Cohn, Arthur, producer
Columbus, Chris, screenwriter, director
Coppola, Francis Ford, film director
Coppola, Sofia, filmmaker
Corman, Roger, filmmaker
Costa-Gavras, director
Costner, Kevin, actor, filmmaker
Coward, Sir NoÃÂ«l, playwright, actor, composer, and director
Craven, Wes, director, producer, screenwriter
Cronyn, Hume, actor, filmmaker, theater director
Crowe, Cameron, director, screenwriter
Cukor, George, director
Davis, Ossie, actor, filmmaker, activist
De Mille, Cecil B., movie director and producer
De Palma, Brian, film director
De Sica, Vittorio, film director and actor
Demme, Jonathan, director, producer, screenwriter
DeVito, Danny, actor, director, producer
Disney, Walt, movie producer, pioneer in animated cartoons
Donat, Robert, actor, director
Donner, Richard, director, producer
Douglas, Michael, actor, movie producer
Dovzhenko, Aleksandr, film director
Dreyer, Carl Theodor, motion picture director
Duvall, Robert, actor, filmmaker
Eastwood, Clint, actor, filmmaker
Eisenstein, Sergei Mikhailovich, film director
Emmerich, Roland, filmmaker
Ephron, Nora, screenwriter, director, actress
Evans, Robert, movie producer
Eyre, Chris, filmmaker
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner, filmmaker
Fellini, Federico, film director
Figgis, Mike, director, screenwriter, composer, actor
Fonda, Peter, actor, filmmaker
Ford, John, filmmaker
Forman, Milos, director, actor
Foster, Jodie, actor, filmmaker
Frakes, Jonathan, actor, filmmaker
Frankenheimer, John, director, producer
Frears, Stephen, director
Fujimoto, Tak, cinematographer
Gibson, Mel, actor, filmmaker
Glover, Danny, actor, director
Godard, Jean-Luc, film director and scriptwriter
Goldwyn, Samuel, film producer
Gorris, Marleen, director, screenwriter
Griffith, D.W., filmmaker
Greengrass, Paul, filmmaker
Grodin, Charles, actor, producer
Guest, Christopher, actor, writer, director
Guitry, Sacha, actor, director, playwright, screenwriter
Haggis, Paul, filmmaker
HallstrÃ¶m, Lasse, director, screenwriter, producer
Hanson, Curtis, filmmaker
Harryhausen, Ray, filmmaker
Hawks, Howard, film director
Hays, Will H., motion-picture executive
Helgeland, Brian, screenwriter
Henkin, Hilary, screenwriter
Herzog, Werner, director, screenwriter, and producer
Hitchcock, Sir Alfred, film director
Hopper, Dennis, actor, filmmaker
Howard, Ron, actor, filmmaker
Huston, John, filmmaker, actor
Ince, Thomas H., filmmaker
Itami, Juzo, director, screenwriter
Jackson, Peter, director
Jarrico, Paul, screenwriter, producer
Jordan, Neil, writer, director, screenwriter, producer
Jutra, Claude, filmmaker
Kasdan, Lawrence, director, screenwriter, producer
Kazan, Elia, director
Keaton, Diane, actor, filmmaker
Kennedy, Kathleen, producer
Kingsley, Dorothy, screenwriter
Kramer, Stanley, film director
Kubrick, Stanley, film director
Kurosawa, Akira, film director
Landon, Michael, actor, producer-director, writer
Lang, Fritz, film director
Laurentiis, Dino De, film producer
Lean, Sir David, film director
Lee, Ang, filmmaker
Lee, Spike, filmmaker, actor
Leigh, Mike, director, screenwriter
Leone, Sergio, filmmaker
Levinson, Barry, filmmaker
Lewis, Jerry, actor, comedian, filmmaker
Linklater, Richard, filmmaker
Lloyd, Harold, actor, filmmaker
Locke, Sondra, actress, director
Losey, Joseph, film director
Lubitsch, Ernst, film director
Lucas, George W., Jr., film director, producer, and writer
Luhrmann, Baz, director, producer, actor
Lumet, Sidney, director
Lynch, David, filmmaker
Malle, Louis, film director
Mankiewicz, Joseph L., director, screenwriter, producer
Mann, Michael, director, producer, writer
Marshall, Garry, director, screenwriter, producer, actor
Marshall, Penny, director, actress
Mayer, Louis Burt, movie producer
Mazursky, Paul, producer, director, screenwriter, actor
McCarthy, Tom, filmmaker, actor
McKay, Adam, filmmaker
Mendes, Sam, director
Merchant, Ismail, producer, director
Miller, George, filmmaker
Moore, Michael, filmmaker, writer
Murch, Walter, filmmaker
Murnau, Friedrich W., film director
Nair, Mira, director, screenwriter
Newman, Paul, actor, director
Nichols, Mike, actor and director
Nicholson, Jack, actor, director, producer
Nimoy, Leonard, actor, filmmaker
Olmos, Edward James, actor, producer
OphÃÂ¼ls, Max, film director
Pakula, Alan J., filmmaker
Palma, Brian De, director, screenwriter
Parker, Nate, actor
Peckinpah, Sam, filmmaker
Peebles, Melvin Van, director, actor, writer
Penn, Arthur Hiller, director
Penn, Sean, actor, filmmaker
Polanski, Roman, film director
Pollack, Sydney, producer, director, actor
Ponti, Carlo, producer
Preminger, Otto, director, producer, actor
Pudovkin, Vsevolod Ilarionovich, film director
Quaid, Dennis, actor, director
Raimi, Sam, filmmaker
Ramis, Harold, screenwriter, actor, director, producer
Ray, Satyajit, film director
Redford, Robert, actor and director
Reed, Sir Carol, film director
Reeve, Christopher, actor, director
Reichard, Kelly, Sam, filmmaker
Reiner, Carl, actor, writer, director
Reiner, Rob, actor, writer, director, producer
Reitman, Ivan, director, producer
Renoir, Jean, film director and writer
Reynolds, William, film editor
Richardson, Tony, director
Riefenstahl, Leni, filmmaker
Ritchie, Guy, filmmaker
Robbins, Tim, actor, filmmaker
Rohmer, Eric, film director and writer
Romero, George, filmmaker
Romero, Pilar MirÃ³, director
Rossellini, Roberto, film director and producer
Roth, Eli, director
Saltzman, Harry, producer
Sayles, John, director, writer, actor
Schaefer, George, director, producer
Schell, Maximilian, actor, director, producer, screenwriter
Schlesinger, John, director
Schrader, Paul, filmmaker
Schumacher, Joel, director
Scorsese, Martin, filmmaker
Scott, Ridley, filmmaker
Selznick, David O., film producer
Sennett, Mack, movie director and producer
Sheridan, Jim, film director
Shyamalan, M. Night, filmmaker
Sinbad, actor, comedian, producer
Sirk, Douglas, film director
Smith, Kevin, filmmaker, actor
Soderbergh, Steven, filmmaker
Sonnenfeld, Barry, director
Spielberg, Steven, film director
Stevens, George, director
Stiller, Ben, filmmaker, actor
Stone, Oliver, filmmaker
Streisand, Barbra, actress, singer, director
Sturges, Preston, film director
Tanaka, Tomoyuki, producer
Tarantino, Quentin, filmmaker, actor
Thompson, Emma, actress, screenwriter
Thornton, Billy Bob, actor, filmmaker
Troisi, Massimo, actor; director; writer
Truffaut, FranÃÂ§ois, film director and critic
Van Peebles, Melvin, director, actor, writer
Van Sant, Gus, filmmaker, writer
Varda, AgnÃÂ¨s, filmmaker
Verhoeven, Paul, director
Vigo, Jean, movie director
Vinton, Will, animator, filmmaker
Visconti, Luchino, film director and writer
Von Sternberg, Joseph, film director and screenwriter
Von Stroheim, Erich, film director
Wajda, Andrzej, film director
Wanamaker, Sam, actor, director
Wang, Wayne, film director
Waters, John, filmmaker
Wayans, Damon, actor, comedian, writer, producer
Wayans, Keenan Ivory, actor, comedian, writer, director
Weinstein, Harvey, producer
Weir, Peter, film director
Welles, Orson, actor, director, and producer
Wenders, Wim, filmmaker
Wertmuller, Lina, film director
Whitaker, Forest, actor, director
Wilder, Billy, film director
Wilder, Gene, actor, filmmaker
Wilson, Owen, actor, screenwriter
Wiseman, Frederick, documentary filmmaker
Woo, John, filmmaker
Wyler, William, director
Zanuck, Darryl Francis, movie producer
Zucker, David, producer, writer, director, actor
Zucker, Jerry, producer, writer, director, actor

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