| Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
|---|
| Olivier Assayas |
Film Director |
25-Jan-1955 |
|
Clean |
| Roger Avary |
Screenwriter |
23-Aug-1965 |
|
Cowrote Pulp Fiction |
| Alan Ball |
Screenwriter |
13-May-1957 |
|
American Beauty |
| Jacques Becker |
Film Director |
15-Sep-1906 |
21-Feb-1960 |
Le Trou |
| Robert Benchley |
Author |
15-Sep-1889 |
21-Nov-1945 |
Humorist and screenwriter |
| Robert Benton |
Film Director |
29-Sep-1932 |
|
Kramer vs. Kramer |
| Bertrand Blier |
Film Director |
14-Mar-1939 |
|
Going Places |
| Robert Bolt |
Playwright |
15-Aug-1924 |
20-Feb-1995 |
A Man for All Seasons |
| Charles Brackett |
Screenwriter |
26-Nov-1892 |
9-Mar-1969 |
Billy Wilder's collaborator |
| Richard Brooks |
Film Director |
18-May-1912 |
11-Mar-1992 |
In Cold Blood |
| James Cameron |
Film Director |
16-Aug-1954 |
|
Titanic |
| John Paddy Carstairs |
Film Director |
1910 |
12-Dec-1970 |
The Saint in London |
| Paddy Chayefsky |
Playwright |
29-Jan-1923 |
1-Aug-1981 |
Network |
| Jay Cocks |
Screenwriter |
12-Jan-1944 |
|
Screenwriter, Gangs of New York |
| Larry Cohen |
Film Director |
15-Jul-1938 |
|
The Stuff |
| Frank Darabont |
Film Director |
28-Jan-1959 |
|
The Shawshank Redemption |
| Delmer Daves |
Film Director |
24-Jul-1904 |
17-Aug-1977 |
Destination Tokyo |
| Joan Didion |
Author |
5-Dec-1934 |
|
Slouching Toward Bethlehem |
| John Gregory Dunne |
Author |
25-May-1932 |
30-Dec-2003 |
True Confessions |
| Marguerite Duras |
Novelist |
4-Apr-1914 |
3-Mar-1996 |
Hiroshima mon Amour |
| Blake Edwards |
Film Director |
26-Jul-1922 |
|
Directed Pink Panther films |
| Joe Eszterhas |
Screenwriter |
23-Nov-1944 |
|
Showgirls, Basic Instinct |
| David M. Evans |
Film Director |
20-Oct-1962 |
|
The Sandlot |
| John Fante |
Author |
8-Apr-1909 |
8-May-1983 |
Bukowski's idol |
| John Farrow |
Screenwriter |
10-Feb-1904 |
28-Jan-1963 |
Around the World in Eighty Days |
| Melvin Frank |
Screenwriter |
13-Aug-1913 |
13-Oct-1988 |
A Touch of Class |
| Samuel Fuller |
Film Director |
12-Aug-1912 |
30-Oct-1997 |
Pickup on South Street |
| Terry George |
Film Director |
20-Dec-1952 |
|
Hotel Rwanda |
| Ricky Gervais |
Actor |
25-Feb-1961 |
|
Obnoxious boss on The Office |
| Charles B. Griffith |
Screenwriter |
23-Sep-1930 |
28-Sep-2007 |
Little Shop of Horrors |
| John Guare |
Playwright |
5-Feb-1938 |
|
Six Degrees of Separation |
| Paul Haggis |
Screenwriter |
10-Mar-1953 |
|
Crash |
| Sam Hamm |
Screenwriter |
? |
|
Never Cry Wolf, Batman |
| Oscar Hammerstein |
Musician |
12-Jul-1895 |
23-Aug-1960 |
Rodgers and Hammerstein |
| Ben Hecht |
Screenwriter |
28-Feb-1894 |
18-Apr-1964 |
The Front Page |
| Lillian Hellman |
Playwright |
20-Jun-1905 |
30-Jun-1984 |
Little Foxes |
| Agnieszka Holland |
Film Director |
28-Nov-1948 |
|
Europa, Europa |
| Sidney Coe Howard |
Playwright |
26-Jun-1891 |
23-Aug-1939 |
They Knew What They Wanted |
| Evan Hunter |
Novelist |
15-Oct-1926 |
7-Jul-2005 |
The Blackboard Jungle |
| Ruth Prawer Jhabvala |
Novelist |
7-May-1927 |
|
Heat and Dust |
| Nunnally Johnson |
Screenwriter |
5-Dec-1897 |
25-Mar-1977 |
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit |
| Jerry Juhl |
Screenwriter |
27-Jul-1938 |
27-Sep-2005 |
Head writer, The Muppet Show |
| Garson Kanin |
Screenwriter |
24-Nov-1912 |
13-Mar-1999 |
It Should Happen to You |
| Charlie Kaufman |
Screenwriter |
20-Sep-1958 |
|
Being John Malkovich, Adaptation |
| Philip Kaufman |
Film Director |
23-Oct-1936 |
|
The Right Stuff |
| 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 |
| William Kennedy |
Novelist |
16-Jan-1928 |
|
Ironweed and The Cotton Club |
| Norman Krasna |
Playwright |
7-Nov-1909 |
1-Nov-1984 |
The Devil and Miss Jones |
| Frank Launder |
Film Director |
28-Jan-1906 |
23-Feb-1997 |
The Belles of St. Trinian's |
| John Howard Lawson |
Playwright |
25-Sep-1894 |
11-Aug-1977 |
One of the Hollywood Ten |
| Charles Lederer |
Screenwriter |
31-Dec-1911 |
5-Mar-1976 |
His Girl Friday |
| Sergio Leone |
Film Director |
3-Jan-1929 |
30-Apr-1989 |
Writer/director of spaghetti westerns |
| Jeremy Leven |
Film Director |
1941 |
|
Don Juan DeMarco |
| Anita Loos |
Novelist |
26-Apr-1893 |
18-Aug-1981 |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
| Ranald MacDougall |
Screenwriter |
10-Mar-1915 |
12-Dec-1973 |
We're No Angels |
| Albert Maltz |
Playwright |
28-Oct-1908 |
26-Apr-1985 |
One of the Hollywood Ten |
| Abby Mann |
Screenwriter |
1-Dec-1927 |
25-Mar-2008 |
Judgment at Nuremberg |
| Michael Mann |
Film Director |
5-Feb-1943 |
|
Manhunter, Heat, and Collateral |
| Elaine May |
Comic |
21-Apr-1932 |
|
Wrote and directed Ishtar |
| Thomas McGuane |
Novelist |
11-Dec-1939 |
|
The Sporting Club |
| Mario Monicelli |
Film Director |
15-May-1915 |
|
Big Deal on Madonna Street |
| Ryan Murphy |
Screenwriter |
c. 1968 |
|
Creator, Nip/Tuck |
| Clifford Odets |
Playwright |
18-Jul-1906 |
14-Aug-1963 |
Sweet Smell of Success |
| Norman Panama |
Screenwriter |
21-Apr-1914 |
13-Jan-2003 |
The Court Jester |
| Alexander Payne |
Film Director |
10-Feb-1961 |
|
Director, Election, About Schmidt |
| S. J. Perelman |
Author |
1-Feb-1904 |
17-Oct-1979 |
New Yorker humorist |
| Manuel Puig |
Novelist |
28-Dec-1932 |
22-Jul-1990 |
Kiss of the Spider Woman |
| Bob Rafelson |
Film Director |
21-Feb-1933 |
|
Five Easy Pieces |
| Terence Rattigan |
Playwright |
10-Jun-1911 |
30-Nov-1977 |
Separate Tables |
| Gene Roddenberry |
Screenwriter |
19-Aug-1921 |
24-Oct-1991 |
Creator of Star Trek |
| Don Roos |
Screenwriter |
14-Apr-1955 |
|
The Opposite of Sex |
| Robert Rossen |
Screenwriter |
16-Mar-1908 |
18-Feb-1966 |
The Hustler |
| Herbert Sargent |
Screenwriter |
15-Jul-1923 |
6-May-2005 |
SNL writer |
| Budd Schulberg |
Novelist |
27-Mar-1914 |
|
What Makes Sammy Run? |
| Josh Schwartz |
Screenwriter |
6-Aug-1976 |
|
Creator, The O.C. |
| Ettore Scola |
Screenwriter |
10-May-1931 |
|
A Special Day |
| George Seaton |
Screenwriter |
17-Apr-1911 |
28-Jul-1979 |
Miracle on 34th Street |
| Anthony Shaffer |
Screenwriter |
15-May-1926 |
6-Nov-2001 |
The Wicker Man, Sleuth |
| Sidney Sheldon |
Author |
11-Feb-1917 |
30-Jan-2007 |
Annie Get Your Gun |
| M. Night Shyamalan |
Film Director |
6-Aug-1970 |
|
The Sixth Sense |
| Stephen Sommers |
Screenwriter |
20-Mar-1962 |
|
The Mummy |
| Aaron Spelling |
Film/TV Producer |
22-Apr-1923 |
23-Jun-2006 |
Beverly Hills 90210 |
| Jerry Stahl |
Author |
1953 |
|
Permanent Midnight |
| Sylvester Stallone |
Actor |
6-Jul-1946 |
|
Rocky, Rambo |
| Donald Ogden Stewart |
Author |
30-Nov-1894 |
2-Aug-1980 |
The Philadelphia Story |
| Preston Sturges |
Screenwriter |
29-Aug-1898 |
6-Aug-1959 |
Sullivan's Travels |
| Quentin Tarantino |
Film Director |
27-Mar-1963 |
|
Pulp Fiction |
| Bertrand Tavernier |
Film Director |
25-Apr-1941 |
|
'Round Midnight |
| Billy Bob Thornton |
Actor |
4-Aug-1955 |
|
Sling Blade |
| Robert Towne |
Screenwriter |
23-Nov-1934 |
|
Personal Best |
| Lamar Trotti |
Screenwriter |
18-Oct-1900 |
28-Aug-1952 |
Young Mr. Lincoln |
| Dalton Trumbo |
Author |
9-Dec-1905 |
10-Sep-1976 |
Johnny Got His Gun |
| Francis Veber |
Screenwriter |
28-Jul-1937 |
|
The Dinner Game |
| Irving Wallace |
Author |
19-Mar-1916 |
29-Jun-1990 |
The Book of Lists |
| David S. Ward |
Film Director |
25-Oct-1945 |
|
The Sting |
| Nathanael West |
Author |
17-Oct-1903 |
22-Dec-1940 |
The Day of the Locust |
| Billy Wilder |
Film Director |
22-Jun-1906 |
27-Mar-2002 |
Film Noir director and writer |
| Kevin Williamson |
Screenwriter |
14-Mar-1965 |
|
Scream |
