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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Ahmad Abbas
Novelist
7-Jun-1914 1-Jun-1987 The Last Page
George Abbott
Playwright
25-Jun-1887 31-Jan-1995 Damn Yankees
Robert Aldrich
Film Director
9-Aug-1918 5-Dec-1983 The Dirty Dozen
Marc Allégret
Film Director
22-Dec-1900 4-Nov-1973 Entrée des Artistes
Woody Allen
Film Director
1-Dec-1935   Annie Hall
Pedro Almodóvar
Film Director
25-Sep-1951   Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!
Robert Altman
Film Director
20-Feb-1925 20-Nov-2006 M*A*S*H
Jon Amiel
Film Director
20-May-1948   Entrapment
Lindsay Anderson
Film Director
17-Apr-1923 30-Aug-1994 If...
Michael Anderson
Film Director
30-Jan-1920   Logan's Run
Paul Thomas Anderson
Film Director
26-Jun-1970   Boogie Nights
Paul W.S. Anderson
Film Director
04-Mar-1965   Director of video game adaptations
Wes Anderson
Film Director
1-May-1969   Rushmore
Kenneth Anger
Film Director
3-Feb-1930   Pioneer avant-garde filmmaker
Ken Annakin
Film Director
10-Aug-1914   Battle of the Bulge
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Film Director
1-Oct-1943   The Name of the Rose
Michelangelo Antonioni
Film Director
29-Sep-1912 30-Jul-2007 Professione: reporter
Judd Apatow
Film Director
6-Dec-1967   Anchorman, The 40 Year Old Virgin
Michael Apted
Film Director
10-Feb-1941   Gorillas in the Mist
Gregg Araki
Film Director
17-Dec-1959   Mysterious Skin
Dario Argento
Film Director
7-Sep-1940   Deep Red
Alan Arkin
Actor
26-Mar-1934   Catch 22
Gillian Armstrong
Film Director
18-Dec-1950   Oscar and Lucinda
Jack Arnold
Film Director
14-Oct-1916 17-Mar-1992 Creature from the Black Lagoon
Darren Aronofsky
Film Director
12-Feb-1969   Pi, Requiem for a Dream
Dorothy Arzner
Film Director
3-Jan-1897 1-Oct-1979 Craig's Wife
Hal Ashby
Film Director
2-Sep-1929 27-Dec-1988 Harold and Maude
Anthony Asquith
Film Director
9-Nov-1902 20-Feb-1968 Pygmalion
Olivier Assayas
Film Director
25-Jan-1955   Clean
Richard Attenborough
Film Director
29-Aug-1923   Gandhi
Bille August
Film Director
9-Nov-1948   Pelle the Conqueror
Hy Averback
Film Director
21-Oct-1920 14-Oct-1997 I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
John G. Avildsen
Film Director
21-Dec-1935   Rocky
Jon Avnet
Film/TV Producer
17-Nov-1949   Fried Green Tomatoes
Lloyd Bacon
Film Director
4-Dec-1889 15-Nov-1955 Knute Rockne All American
John Badham
Film Director
25-Aug-1939   Saturday Night Fever
Roy Ward Baker
Film Director
19-Dec-1916   A Night to Remember
Bob Balaban
Film Director
16-Aug-1945   Parents
Clive Barker
Novelist
5-Oct-1952   Hellraiser
Matthew Barney
Film Director
25-Mar-1967   The Cremaster Cycle
Paul Bartel
Actor
6-Aug-1938 13-May-2000 Eating Raoul
Charles Barton
Film Director
25-May-1902 5-Dec-1981 Africa Screams
Mario Bava
Film Director
31-Jul-1914 27-Apr-1980 Black Sunday
Michael Bay
Film Director
17-Feb-1964   Director, The Rock, Armageddon
William Beaudine
Film Director
15-Jan-1892 18-Mar-1970 Billy the Kid versus Dracula
Harry Beaumont
Film Director
10-Feb-1888 22-Dec-1966 The Broadway Melody
Harold Becker
Film Director
1950   City Hall and Sea of Love
Jacques Becker
Film Director
15-Sep-1906 21-Feb-1960 Le Trou
Jean Becker
Film Director
10-May-1938   Children of the Marshlands
Walt Becker
Film Director
16-Sep-1968   Van Wilder
Lucas Belvaux
Actor
14-Nov-1961   Cavale
Rémy Belvaux
Film Director
10-Nov-1967 4-Sep-2006 Man Bites Dog
Robert Benton
Film Director
29-Sep-1932   Kramer vs. Kramer
Bruce Beresford
Film Director
16-Aug-1940   Driving Miss Daisy
Peter Berg
Actor
11-Mar-1964   Dr. Billy Kronk on Chicago Hope
Ingmar Bergman
Film Director
14-Jul-1918 30-Jul-2007 Scenes from a Marriage
Busby Berkeley
Film Director
29-Nov-1895 14-Mar-1976 Strike Up the Band
Curtis Bernhardt
Film Director
15-Apr-1899 22-Feb-1981 A Stolen Life
Bernardo Bertolucci
Film Director
16-Mar-1941   The Last Emperor, Last Tango in Paris
Luc Besson
Film Director
18-Mar-1959   The Fifth Element
Kathryn Bigelow
Film Director
27-Nov-1951   Strange Days
Tony Bill
Film Director
23-Aug-1940   Six Weeks
Mike Binder
Actor
1958   The Upside of Anger
Steve Bing
Film Director
31-Mar-1965   Film producer and massive political donor
Brad Bird
Film Director
24-Sep-1956   The Incredibles
Andrew Blake
Film Director
c. 1947   House of Dreams
Jeff Bleckner
Film Director
12-Aug-1943   White Water Summer
Bertrand Blier
Film Director
14-Mar-1939   Going Places
Budd Boetticher
Film Director
29-Jul-1916 29-Nov-2001 Seven Men From Now
Peter Bogdanovich
Film Director
30-Jul-1939   The Last Picture Show
Uwe Boll
Film Director
22-Jun-1965   Responsible for Alone in the Dark
Peter Bonerz
Film Director
6-Aug-1938   Sitcom and film director
John Boorman
Film Director
18-Jan-1933   Hope and Glory
Frank Borzage
Film Director
23-Apr-1894 19-Jun-1962 A Farewell to Arms
Danny Boyle
Film Director
20-Oct-1956   Trainspotting
Kenneth Branagh
Actor
10-Dec-1960   British thespian
Robert Bresson
Film Director
25-Sep-1901 18-Dec-1999 Une Femme Douce
Martin Brest
Film Director
8-Aug-1951   Beverly Hills Cop
James Bridges
Film Director
3-Feb-1936 6-Jun-1993 Urban Cowboy and The Paper Chase
Matthew Bright
Film Director
8-Jun-1952   Squeezit & Renee Henderson
Peter Brook
Theater Director
21-Mar-1925   Lord of the Flies
Mel Brooks
Film Director
28-Jun-1926   Blazing Saddles
Richard Brooks
Film Director
18-May-1912 11-Mar-1992 In Cold Blood
Clarence Brown
Film Director
10-May-1890 17-Aug-1987 National Velvet
Tod Browning
Film Director
12-Jul-1882 6-Oct-1962 Director, Dracula, Freaks
Larry Buchanan
Film Director
31-Jan-1923 2-Dec-2004 Mars Needs Women
Luis Buñuel
Film Director
22-Feb-1900 29-Jul-1983 That Obscure Object of Desire
Ken Burns
Film Director
29-Jul-1953   Documentary filmmaker
Tim Burton
Film Director
25-Aug-1958   The Nightmare Before Christmas
David Butler
Film Director
17-Dec-1894 14-Jun-1979 Calamity Jane
Edward Buzzell
Film Director
13-Nov-1900 11-Jan-1985 At the Circus
James Cameron
Film Director
16-Aug-1954   Titanic
Joe Camp
Film Director
20-Apr-1939   Benji
Martin Campbell
Film Director
24-Oct-1940   Casino Royale
Norman Campbell
Film Director
4-Feb-1924 12-Apr-2004 TV director, producer
Jane Campion
Film Director
30-Apr-1954   The Piano
Marcel Camus
Film Director
21-Apr-1912 13-Jan-1982 Black Orpheus
Frank Capra
Film Director
18-May-1897 3-Sep-1991 It's A Wonderful Life
Marcel Carné
Film Director
18-Aug-1909 31-Oct-1996 Les Enfants du Paradis
John Carpenter
Film Director
16-Jan-1948   Escape from New York
John Paddy Carstairs
Film Director
1910 12-Dec-1970 The Saint in London
D. J. Caruso
Film Director
17-Jan-1965   Disturbia
Steve Carver
Film Director
5-Apr-1945   Lone Wolf McQuade
John Cassavetes
Actor
9-Dec-1929 3-Feb-1989 Rosemary's Baby
William Castle
Film Director
24-Apr-1914 31-May-1977 House on Haunted Hill
Claude Chabrol
Film Director
24-Jun-1930   La Cérémonie
Charlie Chaplin
Actor
16-Apr-1889 25-Dec-1977 Silent film comedian
Patrice Chéreau
Film Director
2-Nov-1944   La Reine Margot
Marvin J. Chomsky
Film Director
23-May-1929   Holocaust
Stephen Chow
Actor
22-Jun-1962   Shaolin Soccer
Christian-Jaque
Film Director
4-Aug-1904 8-Jul-1994 Fan-Fan the Tulip
Michael Cimino
Film Director
3-Feb-1939   The Deer Hunter
René Clair
Film Director
11-Nov-1898 15-Mar-1981 Silent film director, Paris qui dort
Bob Clark
Film Director
5-Aug-1941 4-Apr-2007 A Christmas Story
Larry Clark
Film Director
1-Jan-1943   Kids
Ethan Coen
Film Director
21-Sep-1957   Half of the Coen brothers
Joel Coen
Film Director
29-Nov-1954   Half of the Coen brothers
Larry Cohen
Film Director
15-Jul-1938   The Stuff
Chris Columbus
Film Director
10-Sep-1958   Director of Harry Potter
Bill Condon
Film Director
22-Oct-1955   Gods and Monsters, Kinsey
Kevin Connor
Film Director
1937   Motel Hell
Jack Conway
Film Director
17-Jul-1887 11-Oct-1952 Too Hot to Handle
Martha Coolidge
Film Director
17-Aug-1946   Valley Girl
Francis Ford Coppola
Film Director
7-Apr-1939   Directed The Godfather
Sofia Coppola
Film Director
14-May-1971   Lost in Translation
Frederick De Cordova
Film/TV Producer
27-Oct-1910 15-Sep-2001 Producer of The Tonight Show
Roger Corman
Film/TV Producer
5-Apr-1926   Frankenstein Unbound
Alain Corneau
Film Director
7-Aug-1943   Tous les matins du monde
Costa-Gavras
Film Director
12-Feb-1933   Z
Kevin Costner
Actor
18-Jan-1955   Dances with Wolves
Wes Craven
Film Director
2-Aug-1939   Freddy Krueger's father
Michael Crichton
Novelist
23-Oct-1942   Jurassic Park
John Cromwell
Film Director
23-Dec-1887 26-Sep-1979 The Prisoner of Zenda
David Cronenberg
Film Director
15-Mar-1943   Scanners, The Fly, Dead Ringers
Cameron Crowe
Film Director
13-Jul-1957   Almost Famous
Alfonso Cuarón
Film Director
28-Nov-1961   Children of Men
George Cukor
Film Director
7-Jul-1899 23-Jan-1983 Gone With the Wind
Irving Cummings
Film Director
9-Oct-1888 18-Apr-1959 In Old Arizona
Rusty Cundieff
Actor
1965   Fear of a Black Hat, TV Nation
David L. Cunningham
Film Director
24-Feb-1971   The Path to 9/11
Dan Curtis
Film Director
12-Aug-1927 27-Mar-2006 Burnt Offerings
Michael Curtiz
Film Director
24-Dec-1886 10-Apr-1962 Casablanca
Joe D'Amato
Film Director
15-Dec-1936 23-Jan-1999 Ator the Invincible
Joe Dante
Film Director
28-Nov-1946   The 'burbs
Frank Darabont
Film Director
28-Jan-1959   The Shawshank Redemption
Jules Dassin
Film Director
18-Dec-1911 31-Mar-2008 Topkapi
Delmer Daves
Film Director
24-Jul-1904 17-Aug-1977 Destination Tokyo
Tamra Davis
Film Director
22-Jan-1962   Billy Madison
Jan de Bont
Film Director
22-Oct-1943   Minority Report
Manoel de Oliveira
Film Director
11-Dec-1908   I'm Going Home
Brian De Palma
Film Director
11-Sep-1940   Carrie
William Dear
Film Director
30-Nov-1943   Angels in the Outfield
Basil Dearden
Film Director
1-Jan-1911 23-Mar-1971 Khartoum
David DeCoteau
Film Director
5-Jan-1962   Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Roy Del Ruth
Film Director
18-Oct-1893 27-Apr-1961 The Phantom of the Rue Morgue
Guillermo del Toro
Film Director
9-Oct-1964   Hellboy
Cecil B. DeMille
Film Director
12-Aug-1881 21-Jan-1959 Pioneering film director
Jonathan Demme
Film Director
22-Feb-1944   The Silence of the Lambs
Ted Demme
Film Director
26-Oct-1963 13-Jan-2002 Blow
Jacques Demy
Film Director
5-Jun-1931 27-Oct-1990 The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
John Derek
Film Director
12-Aug-1926 22-May-1998 Tarzan, the Ape Man
Howard Deutch
Film Director
14-Sep-1950   Pretty in Pink
Danny DeVito
Actor
17-Nov-1944   Short loudmouth from Taxi
Ernest R. Dickerson
Film Director
25-Jun-1951   Bulletproof
William Dieterle
Film Director
15-Jul-1893 8-Dec-1972 The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Ivan Dixon
Actor
6-Apr-1931 16-Mar-2008 Sgt. Kinchloe on Hogan's Heroes
Assia Djebar
Author
4-Aug-1936   So Vast the Prison
Edward Dmytryk
Film Director
4-Sep-1908 1-Jul-1999 The Caine Mutiny
Roger Donaldson
Film Director
15-Nov-1945   Dante's Peak
Stanley Donen
Film Director
13-Apr-1924   Singin' in the Rain
Clive Donner
Film Director
21-Jan-1926   What's New, Pussycat
Richard Donner
Film Director
24-Apr-1930   Superman
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Film Director
2-May-1973   The Lives of Others
Gordon Douglas
Film Director
15-Dec-1907 29-Sep-1993 Them!
Robert Downey, Sr.
Film Director
1937   Greaser's Palace
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Film Director
3-Feb-1889 20-Mar-1968 Greatest Danish film director
Dennis Dugan
Actor
5-Sep-1946   Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy
Christian Duguay
Film Director
1957   Screamers
John Duigan
Film Director
19-Jun-1949   Sirens
Bill Duke
Actor
26-Feb-1943   Sister Act 2
Albert Dupontel
Actor
11-Jan-1964   Bernie
Julien Duvivier
Film Director
3-Oct-1896 30-Oct-1967 Pépé le Moko
Allan Dwan
Film Director
3-Apr-1885 28-Dec-1981 Sands of Iwo Jima
W. S. Van Dyke
Film Director
21-Mar-1889 5-Feb-1943 The Thin Man
Clint Eastwood
Actor
31-May-1930   The Man With No Name
Uli Edel
Film Director
11-Apr-1947   Last Exit to Brooklyn
Blake Edwards
Film Director
26-Jul-1922   Directed Pink Panther films
Atom Egoyan
Film Director
19-Jul-1960   Director of Exotica
Sergei Eisenstein
Film Director
23-Jan-1898 11-Feb-1948 Alexander Nevsky
Richard Elfman
Musician
6-Mar-1949   Responsible for Forbidden Zone
Larry Elikann
Film Director
4-Jul-1920 4-Feb-2004 One Against the Wind
Roland Emmerich
Film Director
10-Nov-1955   Independence Day
Ray Enright
Film Director
25-Mar-1896 3-Apr-1965 The Spoilers
Nora Ephron
Author
19-May-1941   When Harry Met Sally
David M. Evans
Film Director
20-Oct-1962   The Sandlot
Bobby Farrelly
Film Director
c. 1958   A Farrelly Brother
Peter Farrelly
Film Director
17-Dec-1956   A Farrelly Brother
John Farrow
Screenwriter
10-Feb-1904 28-Jan-1963 Around the World in Eighty Days
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Film Director
31-May-1945 10-Jun-1982 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
Jon Favreau
Actor
19-Oct-1966   Swingers
Federico Fellini
Film Director
20-Jan-1920 30-Oct-1993 La Dolce Vita
Fernando Fernán-Gómez
Actor
28-Aug-1921 21-Nov-2007 Voyage to Nowhere
Abel Ferrara
Film Director
19-Jul-1951   Bad Lieutenant
Jacques Feyder
Film Director
21-Jul-1885 24-May-1948 Carnival in Flanders
Mike Figgis
Film Director
28-Feb-1948   Liebestraum
David Fincher
Film Director
28-Aug-1962   Fight Club
Terence Fisher
Film Director
23-Feb-1904 18-Jun-1980 Dracula, Prince of Darkness
Richard Fleischer
Film Director
8-Dec-1916 24-Mar-2006 Soylent Green
Victor Fleming
Film Director
23-Feb-1883 6-Jan-1949 Gone With the Wind
Robert Florey
Film Director
14-Sep-1900 16-May-1979 Tarzan and the Mermaids
John Flynn
Film Director
14-Mar-1932 4-Apr-2007 Brainscan
James Foley
Film Director
28-Dec-1953   Glengarry Glen Ross
Bryan Forbes
Actor
22-Jul-1926   King Rat
John Ford
Film Director
1-Feb-1894 31-Aug-1973 How Green Was My Valley
Milos Forman
Film Director
18-Feb-1932   One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Bob Fosse
Dancer
23-Jun-1927 23-Sep-1987 Choreographer
Norman Foster
Film Director
13-Dec-1900 7-Jul-1976 Journey Into Fear
Jonathan Frakes
Actor
19-Aug-1952   Commander Riker on Star Trek: TNG
Freddie Francis
Film Director
22-Dec-1917 17-Mar-2007 Dracula Has Risen from the Grave
Jesus Franco
Film Director
12-May-1930   Vampyros Lesbos
Melvin Frank
Screenwriter
13-Aug-1913 13-Oct-1988 A Touch of Class
John Frankenheimer
Film Director
19-Feb-1930 6-Jul-2002 Seven Days in May
Stephen Frears
Film Director
20-Jun-1941   My Beautiful Laundrette
Riccardo Freda
Film Director
24-Feb-1909 20-Dec-1999 I Vampiri
Bart Freundlich
Film Director
17-Jan-1970   The Myth of Fingerprints
William Friedkin
Film Director
29-Aug-1935   The Exorcist, Cruising
Samuel Fuller
Film Director
12-Aug-1912 30-Oct-1997 Pickup on South Street
Antoine Fuqua
Film Director
19-Jan-1966   The Replacement Killers
Sidney J. Furie
Film Director
28-Feb-1933   The Ipcress File
Vincent Gallo
Actor
11-Apr-1961   Buffalo '66, Brown Bunny
Abel Gance
Film Director
25-Oct-1889 10-Nov-1981 Napoléon
Tay Garnett
Film Director
13-Jun-1894 3-Oct-1977 The Postman Always Rings Twice
Terry George
Film Director
20-Dec-1952   Hotel Rwanda
Mel Gibson
Actor
3-Jan-1956   Mad Max
Lewis Gilbert
Film Director
6-Mar-1920   The Spy Who Loved Me
Terry Gilliam
Film Director
22-Nov-1940   Monty Python alumnus, Brazil
Jean-Luc Godard
Film Director
3-Dec-1930   Vivre sa Vie
Theo Van Gogh
Film Director
23-Jul-1957 2-Nov-2004 Controversial Director of Submission
Adam Goldberg
Actor
25-Oct-1970   Saving Private Ryan
Bobcat Goldthwait
Comic
26-May-1962   Shakes the Clown
Michel Gondry
Film Director
1964   Innovative music video director
Bert I. Gordon
Film Director
24-Sep-1922   Popular object of derision on MST3K
Keith Gordon
Actor
3-Feb-1961   Christine
Stuart Gordon
Film Director
11-Aug-1947   Re-Animator
Edmund Goulding
Film Director
20-Mar-1891 24-Dec-1959 Grand Hotel
Alfred E. Green
Film Director
11-Jul-1889 4-Sep-1960 Dangerous
Peter Greenaway
Film Director
5-Apr-1942   Prospero's Books
David Greene
Film Director
22-Feb-1921 7-Apr-2003 Gray Lady Down
Paul Greengrass
Film Director
13-Aug-1955   The Bourne Supremacy
Robert Greenwald
Film/TV Producer
28-Aug-1945   Outfoxed, Xanadu
Charles B. Griffith
Screenwriter
23-Sep-1930 28-Sep-2007 Little Shop of Horrors
D. W. Griffith
Film Director
22-Jan-1875 21-Jul-1948 The Birth of a Nation
Ulu Grosbard
Film Director
9-Jan-1929   The Subject Was Roses
Christopher Guest
Actor
5-Feb-1948   This Is Spinal Tap
Val Guest
Film Director
11-Dec-1911 10-May-2006 The Day the Earth Caught Fire
Davis Guggenheim
Film Director
c. 1964   An Inconvenient Truth
John Guillermin
Film Director
11-Nov-1925   The Bridge at Remagen
Alice Guy
Film Director
1-Jul-1873 24-Mar-1968 First female film director
Taylor Hackford
Film Director
31-Dec-1944   An Officer and a Gentleman
Paul Haggis
Screenwriter
10-Mar-1953   Crash
Alexander Hall
Film Director
11-Jan-1894 30-Jul-1968 Here Comes Mr. Jordan
Peter Hall
Theater Director
22-Nov-1930   Work Is a 4-Letter Word
Lasse Hallstrom
Film Director
2-Jun-1946   My Life as a Dog
Victor Halperin
Film Director
24-Aug-1895 17-May-1983 White Zombie
Robert Hamer
Film Director
31-Mar-1911 4-Dec-1963 Kind Hearts and Coronets
Guy Hamilton
Film Director
16-Sep-1922   Goldfinger
John D. Hancock
Film Director
12-Feb-1939   Bang the Drum Slowly
Curtis Hanson
Film Director
24-Mar-1945   Director of LA Confidential
Renny Harlin
Film Director
15-Mar-1959   The Adventures of Ford Fairlane
Curtis Harrington
Film Director
17-Dec-1922 6-May-2007 Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet
Ray Harryhausen
Artist
29-Jun-1920   Stop-motion genius
Hal Hartley
Film Director
3-Nov-1959   Henry Fool
Byron Haskin
Film Director
22-Apr-1899 16-Apr-1984 The War of the Worlds
Henry Hathaway
Film Director
13-Mar-1898 11-Feb-1985 The Sons of Katie Elder
Howard Hawks
Film Director
30-May-1896 26-Dec-1977 Rio Bravo
Todd Haynes
Film Director
2-Jan-1961   Far From Heaven
Amy Heckerling
Film Director
7-May-1954   Fast Times At Ridgemont High
Stuart Heisler
Film Director
5-Dec-1896 21-Aug-1979 The Glass Key
Stephen Herek
Film Director
10-Nov-1958   Mr. Holland's Opus
Werner Herzog
Film Director
5-Sep-1942   Fitzcarraldo
Peter Hewitt
Film Director
1965   Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey
Jesse Hibbs
Film Director
11-Jan-1906 4-Feb-1985 To Hell and Back
George Hickenlooper
Film Director
25-May-1965   Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Anthony Hickox
Film Director
1964   Waxwork
Douglas Hickox
Film Director
10-Jan-1929 25-Jul-1988 The Hound of the Baskervilles
George Roy Hill
Film Director
20-Dec-1921 27-Dec-2002 Slaughterhouse Five
James Hill
Film Director
1-Aug-1919 7-Oct-1994 Born Free
Walter Hill
Film Director
10-Jan-1942   48 Hrs.
Arthur Hiller
Film Director
22-Nov-1923   An Alan Smithee Film
Lambert Hillyer
Film Director
8-Jul-1889 5-Jul-1969 Dracula's Daughter
Alfred Hitchcock
Film Director
13-Aug-1899 29-Apr-1980 Master of Suspense
Mike Hodges
Film Director
29-Jul-1932   Get Carter
Jerzy Hoffman
Film Director
15-Mar-1932   With Fire and Sword
James P. Hogan
Film Director
21-Sep-1890 4-Nov-1943 Bulldog Drummond films
Agnieszka Holland
Film Director
28-Nov-1948   Europa, Europa
Nicole Holofcener
Film Director
22-Mar-1960   Brainy chick flick director
Seth Holt
Film Director
1923 14-Feb-1971 The Nanny
Kevin Hooks
Film Director
19-Sep-1958   Passenger 57
Tobe Hooper
Film Director
25-Jan-1943   Directed Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Jerry Hopper
Film Director
29-Jul-1907 17-Dec-1988 The Private War of Major Benson
John Hough
Film Director
21-Nov-1941   The Legend of Hell House
Ron Howard
Actor
1-Mar-1954   Richie Cunningham on Happy Days
Albert Hughes
Film Director
01-Apr-1972   A Hughes Brother
Allen Hughes
Film Director
01-Apr-1972   A Hughes Brother
John Hughes
Film Director
18-Feb-1950   Director, Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Ken Hughes
Film Director
19-Jan-1922 28-Apr-2001 Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
H. Bruce Humberstone
Film Director
18-Nov-1901 11-Oct-1984 Directed several Charlie Chan films
John Huston
Film Director
5-Aug-1906 28-Aug-1987 The Maltese Falcon
Peter Hyams
Film Director
26-Jul-1943   Capricorn One
John Irvin
Film Director
7-May-1940   Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Mick Jackson
Film Director
4-Oct-1943   The Bodyguard
Peter Jackson
Film Director
31-Oct-1961   The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Benoît Jacquot
Film Director
5-Feb-1947   The School of Flesh
Michael Patrick Jann
Film Director
15-May-1970   Reno 911!, The State
Derek Jarman
Film Director
31-Jan-1942 19-Feb-1994 Director of The Last of England
Jim Jarmusch
Film Director
22-Jan-1953   Permanent Vacation
Charles Jarrott
Film Director
16-Jun-1927   Anne of the Thousand Days
Leigh Jason
Film Director
26-Jul-1904 19-Feb-1979 The Mad Miss Manton
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Film Director
3-Sep-1953   Alien: Resurrection
Norman Jewison
Film Director
21-Jul-1926   Moonstruck
Jaromil Jires
Film Director
10-Dec-1935 24-Oct-2001 Valerie and Her Week of Wonders
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Film Director
7-Feb-1929   El Topo, The Holy Mountain
Roland Joffé
Film Director
17-Nov-1945   The Killing Fields
Lamont Johnson
Film Director
30-Sep-1922   Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Nunnally Johnson
Screenwriter
5-Dec-1897 25-Mar-1977 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Joe Johnston
Film Director
1950   October Sky
Spike Jonze
Film Director
22-Oct-1969   Being John Malkovich
Neil Jordan
Film Director
25-Feb-1950   The Crying Game
Jon Jost
Film Director
16-May-1943   All the Vermeers in New York
Mike Judge
Cartoonist
17-Oct-1962   Beavis and Butthead
Nathan Juran
Film Director
1-Sep-1907 23-Oct-2002 The 7th Voyage of Sinbad
Claude Jutra
Film Director
11-Mar-1930 5-Nov-1986 Mon Oncle Antoine
Jeremy Paul Kagan
Film Director
14-Dec-1945   The Journey of Natty Gann
Mauricio Kagel
Composer
24-Dec-1931   Absurdist composer
Joseph Kane
Film Director
19-Mar-1894 25-Aug-1975 Flame of Barbary Coast
Garson Kanin
Screenwriter
24-Nov-1912 13-Mar-1999 It Should Happen to You
Jonathan Kaplan
Film Director
25-Nov-1947   Over the Edge
Phil Karlson
Film Director
2-Jul-1908 12-Dec-1985 Walking Tall
Jake Kasdan
Film Director
28-Oct-1974   Orange County
Lawrence Kasdan
Film/TV Producer
14-Jan-1949   The Big Chill
Mathieu Kassovitz
Film Director
3-Aug-1967   La Haine
Lloyd Kaufman
Film Director
30-Dec-1945   The Toxic Avenger
Philip Kaufman
Film Director
23-Oct-1936   The Right Stuff
Elia Kazan
Film Director
7-Sep-1909 28-Sep-2003 A Streetcar Named Desire
William Keighley
Film Director
4-Aug-1889 24-Jun-1984 The Man Who Came to Dinner
Richard Kelly
Screenwriter
28-Mar-1975   Wrote and directed Donnie Darko
Burt Kennedy
Film Director
3-Sep-1922 15-Feb-2001 Support Your Local Sheriff
Richard Kern
Film Director
1954   Underground filmmaker, fetish photographer
Irvin Kershner
Film Director
29-Apr-1923   The Empire Strikes Back
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Film Director
27-Jun-1941 13-Mar-1996 Trois Couleurs, The Decalogue
Mark Tapio Kines
Film Director
26-Apr-1970   Foreign Correspondents
Henry King
Film Director
24-Jan-1886 29-Jun-1982 Twelve O'Clock High
Takeshi Kitano
Film Director
18-Jan-1947   Zatoichi
Cédric Klapisch
Film Director
4-Sep-1961   L'auberge Espagnole
Randal Kleiser
Film Director
20-Jul-1946   Grease
Alexander Kluge
Film Director
14-Feb-1932   Yesterday Girl
Howard W. Koch
Film/TV Producer
11-Apr-1916 16-Feb-2001 The Manchurian Candidate
Alexander Korda
Film Director
16-Sep-1893 23-Jan-1956 The Private Life of Henry VIII
Zoltán Korda
Film Director
3-Jun-1895 13-Oct-1961 Sahara
Harmony Korine
Film Director
Sep-1974   Director of Gummo
John Korty
Film Director
22-Jul-1936   The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Henry Koster
Film Director
1-May-1905 21-Sep-1988 The Bishop's Wife
Ted Kotcheff
Film Director
7-Apr-1931   The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Jeroen Krabbé
Actor
5-Dec-1944   The Discovery of Heaven
Stanley Kramer
Film Director
29-Sep-1913 19-Feb-2001 It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Stanley Kubrick
Film Director
26-Jul-1928 7-Mar-1999 2001: A Space Odyssey
Peter Kuran
Film Director
c. 1959   Trinity and Beyond
Akira Kurosawa
Film Director
23-Mar-1910 6-Sep-1998 Yojimbo
Emir Kusturica
Film Director
24-Nov-1954   Underground
Gregory La Cava
Film Director
10-Mar-1892 1-Mar-1952 My Man Godfrey
Neil LaBute
Film Director
19-Mar-1963   Director, In the Company of Men
Charles Lamont
Film Director
5-May-1895 12-Sep-1993 Director, Abbott & Costello
John Landis
Film Director
3-Aug-1950   An American Werewolf in London
Paul Landres
Film Director
21-Aug-1912 26-Dec-2001 B-Movie and television director
Sidney Lanfield
Film Director
30-Apr-1898 20-Jun-1972 The Hound of the Baskervilles
Fritz Lang
Film Director
5-Dec-1890 2-Aug-1976 Metropolis
Walter Lang
Film Director
10-Aug-1896 7-Feb-1972 There's No Business Like Show Business
Chi Chi La Rue
Film Director
8-Nov-1959   Transvestite hardcore director
Alberto Lattuada
Film Director
13-Nov-1913 3-Jul-2005 Stay As You Are
Tom Laughlin
Actor
10-Aug-1931   Billy Jack
Frank Launder
Film Director
28-Jan-1906 23-Feb-1997 The Belles of St. Trinian's
Reginald Le Borg
Film Director
11-Dec-1902 25-Mar-1989 The Mummy's Ghost
Philip Leacock
Film Director
8-Oct-1917 14-Jul-1990 The Spanish Gardener
David Lean
Film Director
25-Mar-1908 16-Apr-1991 Lawrence of Arabia
Patrice Leconte
Film Director
12-Nov-1947   The Girl on the Bridge
Charles Lederer
Screenwriter
31-Dec-1911 5-Mar-1976 His Girl Friday
D. Ross Lederman
Film Director
12-Dec-1894 24-Aug-1972 Tarzan's Revenge
Ang Lee
Film Director
23-Oct-1954   Brokeback Mountain
Bud Lee
Film Director
Sep-1955   Prodigious porn director
Jack Lee
Film Director
27-Jan-1913 15-Oct-2002 The Wooden Horse
Rowland V. Lee
Film Director
6-Sep-1891 21-Dec-1975 Son of Frankenstein
Spike Lee
Film Director
20-Mar-1957   Do The Right Thing
Herbert I. Leeds
Film Director
1900 1984 Charlie Chan in City in Darkness
Mike Leigh
Film Director
20-Feb-1943   Naked, Topsy-Turvy
Mitchell Leisen
Film Director
6-Oct-1898 28-Oct-1972 Death Takes a Holiday
Claude Lelouch
Film Director
30-Oct-1937   A Man and a Woman
Robert Z. Leonard
Film Director
7-Oct-1889 27-Aug-1968 The Divorcee
Sergio Leone
Film Director
3-Jan-1929 30-Apr-1989 Writer/director of spaghetti westerns
Robert Lepage
Film Director
12-Dec-1957   Seven Streams of the River Ota
Mervyn LeRoy
Film Director
15-Oct-1900 13-Sep-1987 Quo Vadis?
Mark L. Lester
Film Director
26-Nov-1946   Roller Boogie, Commando
Richard Lester
Film Director
19-Jan-1932   A Hard Day's Night
Jeremy Leven
Film Director
1941   Don Juan DeMarco
Henry Levin
Film Director
5-Jun-1909 1-May-1980 The Lonely Man
Barry Levinson
Film Director
6-Apr-1942   Rain Man
Justin Lin
Film Director
1973   Better Luck Tomorrow
Max Linder
Actor
16-Dec-1883 31-Oct-1925 Seven Years Bad Luck
Richard Linklater
Film Director
30-Jul-1960   Slacker
Anatole Litvak
Film Director
10-May-1902 15-Dec-1974 Anastasia
Frank Lloyd
Film Director
2-Feb-1886 10-Aug-1960 Mutiny on the Bounty
Ken Loach
Film Director
17-Jun-1936   My Name is Joe
Joshua Logan
Film Director
5-Oct-1908 12-Jul-1988 South Pacific
Richard Loncraine
Film Director
20-Oct-1946   Brimstone & Treacle
Joseph Losey
Film Director
14-Jan-1909 22-Jun-1984 The Go-Between
Dick Lowry
Film Director
15-Sep-1944   Attila
Arthur Lubin
Film Director
25-Jul-1898 12-May-1995 Phantom of the Opera
Ernst Lubitsch
Film Director
28-Jan-1892