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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Woody Allen
Film Director
1-Dec-1935   Annie Hall
Roger Avary
Screenwriter
23-Aug-1965   Co-Author, Pulp Fiction
Alan Ball
Screenwriter
13-May-1957   American Beauty
Robert Benton
Film Director
29-Sep-1932   Kramer vs. Kramer
Charles Brackett
Screenwriter
26-Nov-1892 9-Mar-1969 Billy Wilder's collaborator
Jane Campion
Film Director
30-Apr-1954   The Piano
Paddy Chayefsky
Playwright
29-Jan-1923 1-Aug-1981 Network
Ethan Coen
Film Director
21-Sep-1957   Half of the Coen brothers
Joel Coen
Film Director
29-Nov-1954   Half of the Coen brothers
Bill Condon
Film Director
22-Oct-1955   Gods and Monsters
Francis Ford Coppola
Film Director
7-Apr-1939   The Godfather
Cameron Crowe
Film Director
13-Jul-1957   Almost Famous
Matt Damon
Actor
8-Oct-1970   Good Will Hunting
Julian Fellowes
Actor
17-Aug-1949   Shadowlands
Horton Foote
Playwright
14-Mar-1916 4-Mar-2009 To Kill a Mockingbird
William Goldman
Novelist
12-Aug-1931   Marathon Man
James Hilton
Novelist
9-Sep-1900 20-Dec-1954 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Sidney Coe Howard
Playwright
26-Jun-1891 23-Aug-1939 They Knew What They Wanted
William Inge
Playwright
3-May-1913 10-Jun-1973 Come Back, Little Sheba
Neil Jordan
Film Director
25-Feb-1950   The Crying Game
Norman Krasna
Playwright
7-Nov-1909 1-Nov-1984 The Devil and Miss Jones
Alan Jay Lerner
Playwright
31-Aug-1918 14-Jun-1986 An American in Paris
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Film Director
11-Feb-1909 5-Feb-1993 The Barefoot Contessa
S. J. Perelman
Author
1-Feb-1904 17-Oct-1979 New Yorker humorist
Budd Schulberg
Novelist
27-Mar-1914 5-Aug-2009 What Makes Sammy Run?
George Seaton
Screenwriter
17-Apr-1911 28-Jul-1979 Miracle on 34th Street
George Bernard Shaw
Playwright
26-Jul-1856 2-Nov-1950 Irish dramatist and pamphleteer
Sidney Sheldon
Author
11-Feb-1917 30-Jan-2007 Annie Get Your Gun
Robert E. Sherwood
Playwright
4-Apr-1896 14-Nov-1955 Abe Lincoln in Illinois
Donald Ogden Stewart
Author
30-Nov-1894 2-Aug-1980 The Philadelphia Story
Tom Stoppard
Playwright
3-Jul-1937   Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
Quentin Tarantino
Film Director
27-Mar-1963   Pulp Fiction
Lamar Trotti
Screenwriter
18-Oct-1900 28-Aug-1952 Young Mr. Lincoln
David S. Ward
Film Director
25-Oct-1945   The Sting
Orson Welles
Actor
6-May-1915 10-Oct-1985 Citizen Kane




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