Notable Filmmakers and Directors
Updated February 21, 2017 | Factmonster Staff 
Notable Filmmakers and Directors
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Biographies by Category
- Abrahamson, Lenny, filmmaker
- Allen, Debbie, actress, director, and acting teacher
- Allen, Woody, filmmaker
- Almodóvar, 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
- Buñuel, 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, René, 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 Noël, 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
- Hallström, 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
- Ophüls, 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 Miró, 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, François, film director and critic
- Van Peebles, Melvin, director, actor, writer
- Van Sant, Gus, filmmaker, writer
- Varda, Agnès, 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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