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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
Jim Abrahams
Film Director
10-May-1944   Airplane!
Robert Allan Ackerman
Film Director
1945   Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
Percy Adlon
Film Director
1-Jun-1935   Bagdad Café
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
Yves Allégret
Film Director
13-Oct-1907 31-Jan-1987 The Proud and the Beautiful
Irwin Allen
Film/TV Producer
12-Jun-1916 2-Nov-1991 The Master of Disaster
Lewis Allen
Film Director
25-Dec-1905 3-May-2000 The Uninvited
Woody Allen
Film Director
1-Dec-1935   Annie Hall
Néstor Almendros
Cinematographer
30-Oct-1930 4-Mar-1992 Mauvaise Conduite
Michael Almereyda
Film Director
7-Apr-1959   Hamlet
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
Allison Anders
Film Director
16-Nov-1954   Grace of My Heart
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
4-Mar-1965   Alien vs. Predator
Wes Anderson
Film Director
1-May-1969   Rushmore
Theo Angelopoulos
Film Director
17-Apr-1935 24-Jan-2012 Ulysses' Gaze
Kenneth Anger
Film Director
3-Feb-1930   Pioneer avant-garde filmmaker
Ken Annakin
Film Director
10-Aug-1914 22-Apr-2009 Battle of the Bulge
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Film Director
1-Oct-1943   The Name of the Rose
David Anspaugh
Film Director
24-Sep-1946   Rudy
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
Denys Arcand
Film Director
25-Jun-1941   The Barbarian Invasions
George Archainbaud
Film Director
7-May-1890 20-Feb-1959 Thirteen Women
Emile Ardolino
Film Director
9-May-1943 20-Nov-1993 Dirty Dancing
Dario Argento
Film Director
7-Sep-1940   Deep Red
Alan Arkin
Actor
26-Mar-1934   Catch 22
Allan Arkush
Film Director
30-Apr-1948   Rock 'n' Roll High School
George Armitage
Film Director
1942   Grosse Pointe Blank
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   Requiem for a Dream
Miguel Arteta
Film Director
1965   Chuck & Buck
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
William Asher
Film Director
8-Aug-1921 16-Jul-2012 Beach Blanket Bingo
Anthony Asquith
Film Director
9-Nov-1902 20-Feb-1968 Pygmalion
Olivier Assayas
Film Director
25-Jan-1955   Clean
Alexandre Astruc
Film Director
13-Jul-1923   Les mauvaises rencontres
Richard Attenborough
Film Director
29-Aug-1923   Gandhi
Jacques Audiard
Film Director
30-Apr-1952   A Prophet
Bille August
Film Director
9-Nov-1948   Pelle the Conqueror
Claude Autant-Lara
Film Director
5-Aug-1901 5-Feb-2000 La traversée de Paris
Aram Avakian
Film Director
23-Apr-1926 17-Jan-1987 End of the Road
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
Gabriel Axel
Film Director
18-Apr-1918   Babette's Feast
Richard Ayoade
Actor
12-Jun-1977   Dean Learner on Garth Marenghi's Darkplace
Hector Babenco
Film Director
7-Feb-1946   Kiss of the Spider Woman
Lloyd Bacon
Film Director
4-Dec-1889 15-Nov-1955 Knute Rockne All American
Clarence G. Badger
Film Director
9-Jun-1880 17-Jun-1964 It
John Badham
Film Director
25-Aug-1939   Saturday Night Fever
John Bailey
Cinematographer
10-Aug-1942   China Moon
Roy Ward Baker
Film Director
19-Dec-1916 5-Oct-2010 A Night to Remember
Bob Balaban
Film Director
16-Aug-1945   Parents
Carroll Ballard
Film Director
14-Oct-1937   The Black Stallion
Albert Band
Film Director
7-May-1924 14-Jun-2002 I Bury the Living
Charles Band
Film/TV Producer
27-Dec-1951   Trancers
Juan Antonio Bardem
Film Director
2-Jun-1922 30-Oct-2002 Death of a Cyclist
Clive Barker
Novelist
5-Oct-1952   Hellraiser
Matthew Barney
Film Director
25-Mar-1967   The Cremaster Cycle
Bruno Barreto
Film Director
16-Mar-1955   View from the Top
Paul Bartel
Actor
6-Aug-1938 13-May-2000 Eating Raoul
Richard Bartlett
Film Director
8-Nov-1922 11-Jun-1994 Joe Dakota
Charles Barton
Film Director
25-May-1902 5-Dec-1981 Africa Screams
Noah Baumbach
Film Director
3-Sep-1969   Greenberg
Mario Bava
Film Director
31-Jul-1914 27-Apr-1980 Black Sunday
Craig R. Baxley
Film Director
20-Oct-1949   Action Jackson
Michael Bay
Film Director
17-Feb-1964   Armageddon
David Beaird
Film Director
1952   My Chauffeur
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
Marco Bellocchio
Film Director
9-Nov-1939   Good Morning, Night
Lucas Belvaux
Actor
14-Nov-1961   Cavale
Rémy Belvaux
Film Director
10-Nov-1967 4-Sep-2006 Man Bites Dog
Laslo Benedek
Film Director
5-Mar-1905 11-Mar-1992 The Wild One
Richard Benjamin
Actor
22-May-1938   Westworld
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
Andrew Bergman
Screenwriter
20-Feb-1945   Striptease
Ingmar Bergman
Film Director
14-Jul-1918 30-Jul-2007 Scenes from a Marriage
William Berke
Film Director
3-Oct-1903 15-Feb-1958 Dick Tracy
Busby Berkeley
Film Director
29-Nov-1895 14-Mar-1976 Strike Up the Band
Edward Bernds
Film Director
12-Jul-1905 20-May-2000 Return of the Fly
Curtis Bernhardt
Film Director
15-Apr-1899 22-Feb-1981 A Stolen Life
Claude Berri
Film Director
1-Jul-1934 12-Jan-2009 Jean de Florette
John Berry
Film Director
6-Sep-1917 29-Nov-1999 The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
Bernardo Bertolucci
Film Director
16-Mar-1941   The Last Emperor
Luc Besson
Film Director
18-Mar-1959   The Fifth Element
Abner Biberman
Actor
1-Apr-1909 20-Jun-1977 Knock on Wood
Susanne Bier
Film Director
15-Apr-1960   Things We Lost in the Fire
Kathryn Bigelow
Film Director
27-Nov-1951   The Hurt Locker
Tony Bill
Film Director
23-Aug-1940   Six Weeks
Charles Binamé
Film Director
1949   Séraphin: Heart of Stone
Mike Binder
Actor
2-Jun-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 Iron Giant
Andrew Blake
Film Director
c. 1947   House of Dreams
William Peter Blatty
Author
7-Jan-1928   The Exorcist
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
Paul Bogart
Film Director
13-Nov-1919 15-Apr-2012 Prolific TV and film director
Peter Bogdanovich
Film Director
30-Jul-1939   The Last Picture Show
Richard Boleslawsky
Film Director
4-Feb-1889 17-Jan-1937 Les misérables
Uwe Boll
Film Director
22-Jun-1965   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
Lizzie Borden
Film Director
3-Feb-1958   Born in Flames
Walerian Borowczyk
Film Director
2-Sep-1923 3-Feb-2006 The Beast
Frank Borzage
Film Director
23-Apr-1894 19-Jun-1962 A Farewell to Arms
Roy Boulting
Film Director
21-Nov-1913 5-Nov-2001 There's a Girl in My Soup
Darren Lynn Bousman
Film Director
11-Jan-1979   Saw II, III and IV
Rob Bowman
Film/TV Producer
15-May-1960   The X Files
Danny Boyle
Film Director
20-Oct-1956   Trainspotting
John Brahm
Film Director
17-Aug-1893 12-Oct-1982 The Lodger
Stan Brakhage
Film Director
14-Jan-1933 9-Mar-2003 Experimental filmmaker
Kenneth Branagh
Actor
10-Dec-1960   British thespian
Tinto Brass
Film Director
26-Mar-1933   Caligula
Michel Brault
Cinematographer
25-Jun-1928   Les Ordres
Irving Brecher
Screenwriter
17-Jan-1914 17-Nov-2008 Meet Me in St. Louis
Catherine Breillat
Film Director
13-Jul-1948   Anatomy of Hell
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
Philippe de Broca
Film Director
15-Mar-1933 26-Nov-2004 King of Hearts
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 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
Michael Cacoyannis
Film Director
11-Jun-1922 25-Jul-2011 Zorba the Greek
Edward L. Cahn
Film Director
12-Feb-1899 25-Aug-1963 It! The Terror from Beyond Space
James Cameron
Film Director
16-Aug-1954   Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar
Donald Cammell
Film Director
17-Jan-1934 24-Apr-1996 Performance
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
Danny Cannon
Film/TV Producer
1968   CSI producer
Frank Capra
Film Director
18-May-1897 3-Sep-1991 It's A Wonderful Life
Leos Carax
Film Director
22-Nov-1960   The Lovers on the Bridge
Jack Cardiff
Cinematographer
18-Sep-1914 22-Apr-2009 The Long Ships
Joe Carnahan
Film Director
9-May-1969   Smokin' Aces
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
Shane Carruth
Film Director
1972   Primer
John Paddy Carstairs
Film Director
11-May-1910 12-Dec-1970 The Saint in London
Thomas Carter
Film Director
17-Jul-1953   Coach Carter
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
Nick Castle
Film Director
21-Sep-1947   The Last Starfighter
William Castle
Film Director
24-Apr-1914 31-May-1977 House on Haunted Hill
Gilbert Cates
Film Director
6-Jun-1934 1-Nov-2011 I Never Sang for My Father
Alberto Cavalcanti
Film Director
6-Feb-1897 23-Aug-1982 Went the Day Well?
André Cayatte
Film Director
3-Feb-1909 6-Feb-1989 Verdict
Alain Chabat
Actor
24-Nov-1958   Night at the Museum
Claude Chabrol
Film Director
24-Jun-1930 12-Sep-2010 La Cérémonie
Don Chaffey
Film Director
5-Aug-1917 13-Nov-1990 Jason and the Argonauts
Charlie Chaplin
Actor
16-Apr-1889 25-Dec-1977 Silent film comedian
Larry Charles
Screenwriter
1-Dec-1956   Seinfeld writer, also directed Borat
Jeremiah S. Chechik
Film Director
1955   National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Patrice Chéreau
Film Director
2-Nov-1944   La Reine Margot
Lisa Cholodenko
Film Director
5-Jun-1964   Laurel Canyon
Marvin J. Chomsky
Film Director
23-May-1929   Holocaust
Stephen Chow
Actor
22-Jun-1962   Shaolin Soccer
Roger Christian
Film Director
25-Feb-1944   Battlefield Earth
Christian-Jaque
Film Director
4-Aug-1904 8-Jul-1994 Fan-Fan the Tulip
Jerry Ciccoritti
Film Director
5-Aug-1956   The Life Before This
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
James B. Clark
Film Director
14-May-1908 19-Jul-2000 Flipper
Larry Clark
Film Director
1-Jan-1943   Kids
Alan Clarke
Film Director
28-Oct-1935 24-Jul-1990 Scum
Jack Clayton
Film Director
1-Mar-1921 26-Feb-1995 The Great Gatsby
René Clément
Film Director
18-Mar-1913 17-Mar-1996 Is Paris Burning?
Ron Clements
Film Director
25-Apr-1953   Aladdin
Graeme Clifford
Film Director
1942   Gleaming the Cube
Edward F. Cline
Film Director
4-Nov-1891 22-May-1961 The Bank Dick
Robert Clouse
Film Director
6-Mar-1928 4-Feb-1997 Enter the Dragon
Henri-Georges Clouzot
Film Director
20-Nov-1907 12-Jan-1977 The Wages of Fear
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
Rob Cohen
Film Director
12-Mar-1949   The Fast and the Furious
Chris Columbus
Film Director
10-Sep-1958   Director of Harry Potter
Bill Condon
Film Director
22-Oct-1955   Gods and Monsters
Kevin Connor
Film Director
1937   Motel Hell
Jack Conway
Film Director
17-Jul-1887 11-Oct-1952 Too Hot to Handle
Fielder Cook
Film Director
9-Mar-1923 20-Jun-2003 A Big Hand for the Little Lady
Martha Coolidge
Film Director
17-Aug-1946   Valley Girl
Jackie Cooper
Actor
15-Sep-1922 3-May-2011 Jackie in Our Gang
Francis Ford Coppola
Film Director
7-Apr-1939   The Godfather
Sofia Coppola
Film Director
14-May-1971   Lost in Translation
Frank Coraci
Film Director
3-Feb-1966   The Waterboy
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 29-Aug-2010 Tous les matins du monde
Michael Corrente
Film Director
6-Apr-1959   Outside Providence
Axel Corti
Film Director
7-May-1933 29-Dec-1993 Where To and Back trilogy
Don Coscarelli
Film Director
17-Feb-1954   Bubba Ho-tep
George P. Cosmatos
Film Director
4-Jan-1941 19-Apr-2005 Tombstone
Costa-Gavras
Film Director
12-Feb-1933   Z
Kevin Costner
Actor
18-Jan-1955   Dances with Wolves
Alex Cox
Film Director
15-Dec-1954   Repo Man
Paul Cox
Film Director
16-Apr-1940   Innocence
Wes Craven
Film Director
2-Aug-1939   Freddy Krueger's father
Charles Crichton
Film Director
6-Aug-1910 15-Sep-1999 A Fish Called Wanda
Michael Crichton
Novelist
23-Oct-1942 4-Nov-2008 Jurassic Park
Michael Cristofer
Playwright
22-Jan-1945   The Shadow Box
John Cromwell
Film Director
23-Dec-1887 26-Sep-1979 The Prisoner of Zenda
David Cronenberg
Film Director
15-Mar-1943   Videodrome
Cameron Crowe
Film Director
13-Jul-1957   Almost Famous
James Cruze
Film Director
27-Mar-1884 3-Aug-1942 If I Had a Million
Alfonso Cuarón
Film Director
28-Nov-1961   Children of Men
George Cukor
Film Director
7-Jul-1899 23-Jan-1983 My Fair Lady
Irving Cummings
Film Director
9-Oct-1888 18-Apr-1959 In Old Arizona
Rusty Cundieff
Actor
13-Dec-1960   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
Vondie Curtis-Hall
Film Director
30-Sep-1956   Glitter
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
Morton DaCosta
Theater Director
7-Mar-1914 29-Jan-1989 The Music Man
John Dahl
Film Director
1956   Rounders
Stephen Daldry
Film Director
2-May-1961   The Hours
Joe Dante
Film Director
28-Nov-1946   The 'burbs
Frank Darabont
Film Director
28-Jan-1959   The Shawshank Redemption
Julie Dash
Film Director
22-Oct-1952   Daughters of the Dust
Jules Dassin
Film Director
18-Dec-1911 31-Mar-2008 Topkapi
Delmer Daves
Film Director
24-Jul-1904 17-Aug-1977 Destination Tokyo
Terence Davies
Film Director
10-Nov-1945   The House of Mirth
Andrew Davis
Film Director
21-Nov-1946   The Fugitive
Tamra Davis
Film Director
22-Jan-1962   Billy Madison
Jan de Bont
Film Director
22-Oct-1943   Minority Report
Rolf de Heer
Film Director
4-May-1951   Bad Boy Bubby
Manoel de Oliveira
Film Director
11-Dec-1908   I'm Going Home
Brian De Palma
Film Director
11-Sep-1940   Carrie
André de Toth
Film Director
15-May-1912 27-Oct-2002 House of Wax
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
Claire Denis
Film Director
21-Apr-1948   Beau travail
Ruggero Deodato
Film Director
7-May-1939   Cannibal Holocaust
John Derek
Film Director
12-Aug-1926 22-May-1998 Tarzan, the Ape Man
Howard Deutch
Film Director
14-Sep-1950   Pretty in Pink
Michel Deville
Film Director
13-Apr-1931   La Lectrice
Danny DeVito
Actor
17-Nov-1944   Short loudmouth from Taxi
Tom DiCillo
Film Director
14-Aug-1953   Living in Oblivion
Kirby Dick
Film Director
23-Aug-1952   This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Ernest R. Dickerson
Film Director
25-Jun-1951   Bulletproof
Thorold Dickinson
Film Director
16-Nov-1903 14-Apr-1984 Gaslight
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 7-Sep-2010 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
Robert Dornhelm
Film Director
17-Dec-1947   Anne Frank: The Whole Story
Gordon Douglas
Film Director
15-Dec-1907 29-Sep-1993 Them!
Robert Downey, Sr.
Film Director
24-Jun-1936   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
Christian Duguay
Film Director
1957   Screamers
John Duigan
Film Director
19-Jun-1949   Sirens
Bill Duke
Actor
26-Feb-1943   Sister Act 2
Lena Dunham
Actor
13-May-1986   Tiny Furniture
E. A. Dupont
Film Director
25-Dec-1891 12-Dec-1956 Piccadilly
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 15-Dec-2010 The Pink Panther
Atom Egoyan
Film Director
19-Jul-1960   Exotica
Sergei Eisenstein
Film Director
23-Jan-1898 11-Feb-1948 Alexander Nevsky
Richard Elfman
Musician
6-Mar-1949   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
Cy Endfield
Film Director
10-Nov-1914 16-Apr-1995 Zulu
Ray Enright
Film Director
25-Mar-1896 3-Apr-1965 The Spoilers
Nora Ephron
Author
19-May-1941 26-Jun-2012 When Harry Met Sally
Rob Epstein
Film Director
6-Apr-1955   The Times of Harvey Milk
John Erman
Film Director
3-Aug-1935   Scarlett
David M. Evans
Film Director
20-Oct-1962   The Sandlot
James Fargo
Film Director
14-Aug-1938   The Enforcer
Asghar Farhadi
Film Director
1972   A Separation
Bobby Farrelly
Film Director
17-Jun-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
Paul Feig
Film Director
17-Sep-1962   Unaccompanied Minors
Federico Fellini
Film Director
20-Jan-1920 30-Oct-1993 La Dolce Vita
Guy Ferland
Film Director
18-Feb-1966   Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights
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
Sam Firstenberg
Film Director
13-Mar-1950   American Ninja
Terence Fisher
Film Director
23-Feb-1904 18-Jun-1980 Dracula, Prince of Darkness
Thom Fitzgerald
Film Director
8-Jul-1968   The Hanging Garden
George Fitzmaurice
Film Director
13-Feb-1885 13-Jun-1940 The Son of the Sheik
Robert J. Flaherty
Film Director
16-Feb-1884 23-Jul-1951 Nanook of the North
Gary Fleder
Film Director
19-Dec-1965   Runaway Jury
Richard Fleischer
Film Director
8-Dec-1916 24-Mar-2006 Soylent Green
Andrew Fleming
Film Director
14-Mar-1963   The Craft
Victor Fleming
Film Director
23-Feb-1883 6-Jan-1949 Gone With the Wind
Rodman Flender
Film Director
9-Jun-1962   Idle Hands
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
Marc Forster
Film Director
27-Jan-1969   Quantum of Solace
Bill Forsyth
Film Director
29-Jul-1946   Local Hero
Bob Fosse
Choreographer
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
David Frankel
Film Director
2-Apr-1959   The Devil Wears Prada
John Frankenheimer
Film Director
19-Feb-1930 6-Jul-2002 Seven Days in May
Carl Franklin
Film Director
11-Apr-1949   Out of Time
Sidney Franklin
Film Director
21-Mar-1893 18-May-1972 The Good Earth
Stephen Frears
Film Director
20-Jun-1941   My Beautiful Laundrette
Riccardo Freda
Film Director
24-Feb-1909 20-Dec-1999 I Vampiri
Hugo Fregonese
Film Director
8-Apr-1908 17-Jan-1987 Old Shatterhand
Bart Freundlich
Film Director
17-Jan-1970   The Myth of Fingerprints
William Friedkin
Film Director
29-Aug-1935   The Exorcist
Lucio Fulci
Film Director
17-Jun-1927 13-Mar-1996 The Beyond
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
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
Mick Garris
Film Director
4-Dec-1951   Sleepwalkers
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
Sidney Gilliat
Film Director
15-Feb-1908 31-May-1994 Green for Danger
John Gilling
Film Director
29-May-1912 22-Nov-1984 The Plague of the Zombies
Tony Gilroy
Screenwriter
11-Sep-1956   The Bourne Legacy
François Girard
Film Director
12-Jan-1963   The Red Violin
Peter Glenville
Film Director
28-Oct-1913 3-Jun-1996 Becket
Arne Glimcher
Film Director
2-Mar-1938   The Mambo Kings
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
8-May-1963   Innovative music video director
Bert I. Gordon
Film Director
24-Sep-1922   Empire of the Ants
Keith Gordon
Actor
3-Feb-1961   Christine
Michael Gordon
Film Director
6-Sep-1909 29-Apr-1993 Pillow Talk
Stuart Gordon
Film Director
11-Aug-1947   Re-Animator
Raja Gosnell
Film Director
9-Dec-1958   Never Been Kissed
Edmund Goulding
Film Director
20-Mar-1891 24-Dec-1959 Grand Hotel
F. Gary Gray
Film Director
17-Jul-1969   The Italian Job
John Gray
Film Director
?   The Glimmer Man
Alfred E. Green
Film Director
11-Jul-1889 4-Sep-1960 Dangerous
Guy Green
Film Director
5-Nov-1913 15-Sep-2005 A Patch of Blue
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
Maggie Greenwald
Film Director
23-Jun-1955   Songcatcher
Robert Greenwald
Film/TV Producer
28-Aug-1945   Outfoxed, Xanadu
Edmond T. Gréville
Film Director
20-Jun-1906 26-May-1966 Beat Girl
Tom Gries
Film Director
20-Dec-1922 3-Jan-1977 Breakheart Pass
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 19-Mar-2012 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
1964   An Inconvenient Truth
John Guillermin
Film Director
11-Nov-1925   The Bridge at Remagen
Sturla Gunnarsson
Film Director
1952   Beowulf & Grendel
Alice Guy
Film Director
1-Jul-1873 24-Mar-1968 First female film director
Stephen Gyllenhaal
Film Director
4-Oct-1949   Homegrown
Hugo Haas
Actor
18-Feb-1901 1-Dec-1968 King Solomon's Mines
Philip Haas
Film Director
6-Aug-1954   Angels and Insects
Taylor Hackford
Film Director
31-Dec-1944   An Officer and a Gentleman
Paul Haggis
Screenwriter
10-Mar-1953   Crash
Randa Haines
Film Director
20-Feb-1945   Children of a Lesser God
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
Michael Haneke
Film Director
23-Mar-1942   Funny Games
Curtis Hanson
Film Director
24-Mar-1945   LA Confidential
David Hare
Playwright
5-Jun-1947   Racing Demon
Veit Harlan
Film Director
22-Sep-1899 13-Apr-1964 Jud Süss
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
James B. Harris
Film Director
3-Aug-1928   The Bedford Incident
Mary Harron
Film Director
12-Jan-1953   American Psycho
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
Michel Hazanavicius
Film Director
29-Mar-1967   The Artist
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
Brian Helgeland
Screenwriter
17-Jan-1961   A Knight's Tale
Monte Hellman
Film Director
12-Jul-1932   Two-Lane Blacktop
Stephen Herek
Film Director
10-Nov-1958   Mr. Holland's Opus
Marshall Herskovitz
Film/TV Producer
23-Feb-1952   Executive Producer, thirtysomething
John Herzfeld
Film Director
?   15 Minutes
Werner Herzog
Film Director
5-Sep-1942   Fitzcarraldo
Gordon Hessler
Film Director
12-Dec-1930   The Golden Voyage of Sinbad
Peter Hewitt
Film Director
1962   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-1963 29-Oct-2010 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
George W. Hill
Film Director
25-Apr-1895 10-Aug-1934 The Big House
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
Gregory Hoblit
Film Director
27-Nov-1944   Untraceable
Mike Hodges
Film Director
29-Jul-1932   Get Carter
Jerzy Hoffman
Film Director
15-Mar-1932   With Fire and Sword
Michael Hoffman
Film Director
30-Nov-1956   One Fine Day
James P. Hogan
Film Director
21-Sep-1890 4-Nov-1943 Bulldog Drummond films
P. J. Hogan
Film Director
30-Nov-1962   Muriel's Wedding
Agnieszka Holland
Film Director
28-Nov-1948   Europa, Europa
Nicole Holofcener
Film Director
22-Mar-1960   Friends with Money
Seth Holt
Film Director
1923 14-Feb-1971 The Nanny
Ishirô Honda
Film Director
7-May-1911 28-Feb-1993 Godzilla
Kevin Hooks
Film Director
19-Sep-1958   Passenger 57
Tobe Hooper
Film Director
25-Jan-1943   Texas Chainsaw Massacre
Tom Hooper
Film Director
1972   The King's Speech
Stephen Hopkins
Film Director
1958   Lost in Space
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
William K. Howard
Film Director
16-Jun-1899 21-Feb-1954 Fire Over England
Reginald Hudlin
Film Director
15-Dec-1961   Boomerang
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 6-Aug-2009 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
Waris Hussein
Film Director
9-Dec-1938   Melody
John Huston
Film Director
5-Aug-1906 28-Aug-1987 The Maltese Falcon
Peter Hyams
Film Director
26-Jul-1943   Capricorn One
Álex de la Iglesia
Film Director
4-Dec-1965   The Oxford Murders
Rex Ingram
Film Director
15-Jan-1892 21-Jul-1950 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
John Irvin
Film Director
7-May-1940   Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
Robert Iscove
Film Director
4-Jul-1947   She's All That
Douglas Jackson
Film Director
1938   The Paper Boy
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
Henry Jaglom
Film Director
26-Jan-1941   Déjà Vu
Michael Patrick Jann
Film Director
15-May-1970   Reno 911!, The State
Derek Jarman
Film Director
31-Jan-1942 19-Feb-1994 The Last of England
Jim Jarmusch
Film Director
22-Jan-1953   Permanent Vacation
Charles Jarrott
Film Director
16-Jun-1927 4-Mar-2011 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
Phil Joanou
Film Director
20-Nov-1961   Gridiron Gang
Alejandro Jodorowsky
Film Director
7-Feb-1929   El Topo
Roland Joffé
Film Director
17-Nov-1945   The Killing Fields
Lamont Johnson
Film Director
30-Sep-1922 24-Oct-2010 Adventures in the Forbidden Zone
Nunnally Johnson
Screenwriter
5-Dec-1897 25-Mar-1977 The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Patrick Read Johnson
Film Director
7-May-1962   Angus
Joe Johnston
Film Director
13-May-1950   October Sky
Duncan Jones
Film Director
30-May-1971   Moon
Spike Jonze
Film Director
22-Oct-1969   Being John Malkovich
Glenn Jordan
Film Director
5-Apr-1936   Barbarians at the Gate
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
Gil Junger
Film Director
7-Nov-1954   10 Things I Hate About You
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
George Kaczender
Film Director
19-Apr-1933   In Praise of Older Women
Jeremy Paul Kagan
Film Director
14-Dec-1945   The Journey of Natty Gann
Mauricio Kagel
Composer
24-Dec-1931 18-Sep-2008 Absurdist composer
Chen Kaige
Film Director
12-Aug-1952   Farewell My Concubine
Joseph Kane
Film Director
19-Mar-1894 25-Aug-1975 Flame of Barbary Coast
Marek Kanievska
Film Director
30-Nov-1951   Less Than Zero
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
Lee H. Katzin
Film Director
12-Apr-1935 30-Oct-2002 Le Mans
Lloyd Kaufman
Film Director
30-Dec-1945   The Toxic Avenger
Philip Kaufman
Film Director
23-Oct-1936   The Right Stuff
Aki Kaurismäki
Film Director
4-Apr-1957   The Man Without a Past
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   Donnie Darko
Burt Kennedy
Film Director
3-Sep-1922 15-Feb-2001 Support Your Local Sheriff
Erle C. Kenton
Film Director
1-Aug-1896 28-Jan-1980 House of Frankenstein
Richard Kern
Film Director
1954   Underground filmmaker, fetish photographer
Irvin Kershner
Film Director
29-Apr-1923 27-Nov-2010 The Empire Strikes Back
Kim Ki-Duk
Film Director
20-Dec-1960   Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring
Abbas Kiarostami
Film Director
22-Jun-1940   Taste of Cherry
Krzysztof Kieslowski
Film Director
27-Jun-1941 13-Mar-1996 Trois Couleurs
Mark Tapio Kines
Film Director
26-Apr-1970   Foreign Correspondents
Henry King
Film Director
24-Jan-1886 29-Jun-1982 Twelve O'Clock High
Zalman King
Film Director
23-May-1942 3-Feb-2012 9 1/2 Weeks
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
Steve Kloves
Screenwriter
18-Mar-1960   Screenwriter, Harry Potter films
Alexander Kluge
Film Director
14-Feb-1932   Yesterday Girl
Howard W. Koch
Film/TV Producer
11-Apr-1916 16-Feb-2001 The Manchurian Candidate
David Koepp
Screenwriter
9-Jun-1963   Screenwriter, Jurassic Park
Masaru Konuma
Film Director
30-Dec-1937   Wife to Be Sacrificed
Barbara Kopple
Film Director
30-Jul-1946   Harlan County U.S.A.
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   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
Buzz Kulik
Film Director
23-Jul-1922 13-Jan-1999 Brian's Song
Roger Kumble
Film Director
28-May-1966   Cruel Intentions
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
Eriq La Salle
Actor
23-Jul-1962   ER
Bruce LaBruce
Film Director
3-Jan-1964   The Raspberry Reich
Neil LaBute
Film Director
19-Mar-1963   In the Company of Men
Richard LaGravenese
Screenwriter
30-Oct-1959   Screenwriter, The Fisher King
Charles Lamont
Film Director
5-May-1895 12-Sep-1993 Director, Abbott & Costello
Lew Landers
Film Director
2-Jan-1901 16-Dec-1962 The Raven
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
John Lasseter
Film Director
12-Jan-1957   Toy Story
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
Georges Lautner
Film Director
24-Jan-1926   The Professional
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
Mimi Leder
Film Director
26-Jan-1952   Deep Impact
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
Malcolm D. Lee
Film Director
11-Jan-1970   Undercover Brother
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
Michael Lehmann
Film Director
30-Mar-1957   Heathers
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
Michael Lembeck
Actor
25-Jun-1948   Max Horvath on One Day at a Time
Kasi Lemmons
Actor
24-Feb-1961   Eve's Bayou
Brett Leonard
Film Director
14-May-1959   Lawnmower Man
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   Commando
Richard Lester
Film Director
19-Jan-1932   A Hard Day's Night
Brian Levant
Film Director
6-Aug-1952   Jingle All the Way
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
Shawn Levy
Film Director
23-Jul-1968   Night at the Museum
Joseph H. Lewis
Film Director
6-Apr-1907 30-Aug-2000 Gun Crazy
Kevin Lima
Film Director
1962   Enchanted
Doug Liman
Film Director
24-Jul-1965   The Bourne Identity
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
Art Linson
Film/TV Producer
16-Mar-1942   Where the Buffalo Roam
Anatole Litvak
Film Director
10-May-1902 15-Dec-1974 Anastasia
Luis Llosa
Film Director
1951   Anaconda
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 30-Nov-1947 To Be or Not To Be
George Lucas
Film Director
14-May-1944   Creator of Star Wars
Edward Ludwig
Film Director
7-Oct-1898 20-Aug-1982 The Fighting Seabees
Baz Luhrmann
Film Director
17-Sep-1962   Moulin Rouge
Sidney Lumet
Film Director
25-Jun-1924 9-Apr-2011 Dog Day Afternoon
Bigas Luna
Film Director
19-Mar-1946   Jamón, jamón
Ida Lupino
Actor
4-Feb-1918 3-Aug-1995 The Man I Love
Rod Lurie
Film Director
15-May-1962   The Contender
David Lynch
Film Director
20-Jan-1946   Blue Velvet
Adrian Lyne
Film Director
4-Mar-1941   Flashdance
Jonathan Lynn
Screenwriter
3-Apr-1943   Yes, Minister
Kevin Macdonald
Film Director
28-Oct-1967   The Last King of Scotland
Ranald MacDougall
Screenwriter
10-Mar-1915 12-Dec-1973 We're No Angels
Alexander Mackendrick
Film Director
8-Sep-1912 22-Dec-1993 The Sweet Smell of Success
John Mackenzie
Film Director
16-Aug-1932 8-Jun-2011 The Long Good Friday
John Madden
Film Director
8-Apr-1949   Shakespeare in Love
Guy Maddin
Film Director
28-Feb-1956   The Saddest Music in the World
Terrence Malick
Film Director
30-Nov-1943   Badlands
Louis Malle
Film Director
30-Oct-1932 23-Nov-1995 Atlantic City
Rouben Mamoulian
Film Director
8-Oct-1897 4-Dec-1987 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
James Mangold
Film Director
16-Dec-1963   Walk the Line
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Film Director
11-Feb-1909 5-Feb-1993 The Barefoot Contessa
Anthony Mann
Film Director
30-Jun-1906 29-Apr-1967 El Cid
Daniel Mann
Film Director
8-Aug-1912 21-Nov-1991 Come Back, Little Sheba
Delbert Mann
Film Director
30-Jan-1920 11-Nov-2007 That Touch of Mink
Michael Mann
Film Director
5-Feb-1943   Manhunter
Edwin L. Marin
Film Director
21-Feb-1899 2-May-1951 Tall in the Saddle
Chris Marker
Film Director
29-Jul-1921 29-Jul-2012 La jetée
Peter Markle
Film Director
24-Sep-1952   Flight 93
Richard Marquand
Film Director
17-Apr-1938 4-Sep-1987 Return of the Jedi
Frank Marshall
Film/TV Producer
13-Sep-1946   Co-Founder of Amblin Entertainment
Garry Marshall
Film Director
13-Nov-1934   Happy Days
George E. Marshall
Film Director
29-Dec-1891 17-Feb-1975 Destry Rides Again
Penny Marshall
Actor
15-Oct-1942   Laverne on Laverne and Shirley
Andrew Marton
Film Director
26-Jan-1904 7-Jan-1992 Directed chariot race in Ben-Hur
Armand Mastroianni
Film Director
1-Aug-1948   He Knows You're Alone
Yasuzo Masumura
Film Director
25-Aug-1924 23-Nov-1986 Blind Beast
Rudolph Maté
Cinematographer
21-Jan-1898 27-Oct-1964 When Worlds Collide
Elaine May
Comic
21-Apr-1932   Wrote and directed Ishtar
Joe May
Film Director
7-Nov-1880 29-Apr-1954 The Invisible Man Returns
Les Mayfield
Film Director
c. 1960   Encino Man
Archie Mayo
Film Director
29-Jan-1891 4-Dec-1968 The Adventures of Marco Polo
Albert Maysles
Film Director
26-Nov-1926   Documentary filmmaker
David Maysles
Film Director
10-Jan-1932 3-Jan-1987 Documentary filmmaker
Paul Mazursky
Film Director
25-Apr-1930   Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Jim McBride
Film Director
16-Sep-1941   The Big Easy
Leo McCarey
Film Director
3-Oct-1898 5-Jul-1969 The Awful Truth
Thomas McCarthy
Actor
30-Jan-1966   The Station Agent
Bruce McDonald
Film Director
28-May-1959   The Tracey Fragments
Ross McElwee
Film Director
21-Jul-1947   Idiosyncratic documentary filmmaker
Vincent McEveety
Film Director
10-Aug-1929   Herbie Goes Bananas
McG
Film Director
9-Aug-1968   Charlie's Angels
Andrew V. McLaglen
Film Director
28-Jul-1920   Gunsmoke
Norman Z. McLeod
Film Director
20-Sep-1898 27-Jan-1964 The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
John McNaughton
Film Director
13-Jan-1950   Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
John McTiernan
Film Director
8-Jan-1951   The Hunt for Red October
Peter Medak
Film Director
23-Dec-1937   Romeo Is Bleeding
Deepa Mehta
Film Director
1-Jan-1950   Elements Trilogy
Bill Melendez
Cartoonist
15-Nov-1916 2-Sep-2008 A Charlie Brown Christmas
Sam Mendes
Film Director
1-Aug-1965   American Beauty
James Merendino
Film Director
1967   SLC Punk!
Nicholas Meyer
Film Director
24-Dec-1945   Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan
Russ Meyer
Film Director
21-Mar-1922 18-Sep-2004 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls
Nancy Meyers
Film Director
8-Dec-1949   What Women Want
Oscar Micheaux
Film/TV Producer
2-Jan-1884 25-Mar-1951 Within Our Gates
Takashi Miike
Film Director
24-Aug-1960   Ichi the Killer
Nikita Mikhalkov
Film Director
21-Oct-1945   Burnt by the Sun
Lewis Milestone
Film Director
30-Sep-1895 25-Sep-1980 Mutiny on the Bounty
John Milius
Film Director
11-Apr-1944   Conan the Barbarian
George Miller
Film Director
3-Mar-1945   Mad Max
George Miller
Film Director
1943   The Man from Snowy River
Jonathan Miller
Film Director
21-Jul-1934   Beyond the Fringe
Robert Milton
Film Director
24-Jan-1885 13-Jan-1956 Outward Bound
Steve Miner
Film Director
18-Jun-1951   Soul Man
Anthony Minghella
Film Director
6-Jan-1954 18-Mar-2008 The English Patient
Vincente Minnelli
Film Director
28-Feb-1903 25-Jul-1986 The Courtship of Eddie's Father
Pilar Miró
Film Director
20-Apr-1940 19-Oct-1997 The Dog in the Manger
Artie Mitchell
Film Director
12-Dec-1945 27-Feb-1991 Pornographer; shot and killed by brother Jim
Jim Mitchell
Film Director
30-Nov-1943 12-Jul-2007 Pornographer; shot and killed brother Artie
Hayao Miyazaki
Film Director
5-Jan-1941   Princess Mononoke
Kenji Mizoguchi
Film Director
16-May-1898 24-Aug-1956 The Life of Oharu
Édouard Molinaro
Film Director
31-May-1928   La cage aux folles
Mario Monicelli
Film Director
15-May-1915 29-Nov-2010 Big Deal on Madonna Street
Michael Moore
Film Director
23-Apr-1954   Fahrenheit 9/11
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Film Director
4-Sep-1960   How to Make an American Quilt
Philippe Mora
Film Director
1949   Communion
Christopher Morahan
Film Director
9-Jul-1929   Clockwise
Nanni Moretti
Film Director
19-Aug-1953   Caro Diario
Errol Morris
Film Director
5-Feb-1948   Documentary filmmaker
Jonathan Mostow
Film Director
28-Nov-1961   Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Greg Mottola
Film Director
11-Jul-1964   Superbad
Allan Moyle
Film Director
1947   Pump Up the Volume
Russell Mulcahy
Film Director
23-Jun-1953   Highlander
Robert Mulligan
Film Director
23-Aug-1925 20-Dec-2008 To Kill a Mockingbird
Cristian Mungiu
Film Director
27-Apr-1968   4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
F. W. Murnau
Film Director
28-Dec-1888 11-Mar-1931 Nosferatu, Sunrise
John Musker
Film Director
8-Nov-1953   Aladdin
Harry Myers
Actor
5-Sep-1882 25-Dec-1938 City Lights
Daniel Myrick
Film Director
30-Nov-1962   The Blair Witch Project
Mira Nair
Film Director
15-Oct-1957   Salaam Bombay!
Vincenzo Natali
Film Director
6-Jan-1969   Cube
Ronald Neame
Film Director
23-Apr-1911 16-Jun-2010 The Poseidon Adventure
Hal Needham
Film Director
6-Mar-1931   The Cannonball Run
Jean Negulesco
Film Director
26-Feb-1900 18-Jul-1993 Three Coins in the Fountain
Roy William Neill
Film Director
4-Sep-1887 14-Dec-1946 Pursuit to Algiers
Gene Nelson
Actor
24-Mar-1920 16-Sep-1996 Oklahoma!
Ralph Nelson
Film Director
12-Aug-1916 21-Dec-1987 Father Goose
Tim Blake Nelson
Actor
11-May-1964   O Brother, Where Art Thou?
Mike Newell
Film Director
28-Mar-1942   Four Weddings and a Funeral
Sam Newfield
Film Director
6-Dec-1899 10-Nov-1964 I Accuse My Parents
Joseph M. Newman
Film Director
7-Aug-1909 23-Jan-2006 This Island Earth
Paul Newman
Actor
26-Jan-1925 26-Sep-2008 Salad dressing magnate
Fred C. Newmeyer
Film Director
9-Aug-1888 24-Apr-1967 Safety Last!
Fred Niblo
Film Director
6-Jan-1874 11-Nov-1948 Ben-Hur
Andrew Niccol
Screenwriter
10-Jun-1964   Gattaca
Mike Nichols
Film Director
6-Nov-1931   Primary Colors
Leonard Nimoy
Actor
26-Mar-1931   Commander Spock on Star Trek
Michael Ninn
Film Director
1951   Sex, Latex, Shock
Christopher Nolan
Film Director
30-Jul-1970   Memento
Stephen Norrington
Film Director
1964   The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Phillip Noyce
Film Director
29-Apr-1950   Patriot Games
Elliott Nugent
Film Director
20-Sep-1896 9-Aug-1980 My Favorite Brunette
Victor Nuñez
Film Director
1945   Ulee's Gold
Bruno Nuytten
Film Director
28-Aug-1945   Jean de Florette
Gavin O'Connor
Film Director
1964   Tumbleweeds
Steve Oedekerk
Film/TV Producer
27-Nov-1961   Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
Ermanno Olmi
Film Director
24-Jul-1931   L'albero degli zoccoli
Marcel Ophüls
Film Director
1-Nov-1927   The Sorrow and the Pity
Max Ophüls
Film Director
6-May-1902 25-Mar-1957 Letter from an Unknown Woman
Frank Oz
Actor
25-May-1944   Yoda, Miss Piggy, and The Stepford Wives
François Ozon
Film Director
15-Nov-1967   Swimming Pool
Marcel Pagnol
Screenwriter
28-Feb-1895 18-Apr-1974 Jean de Florette
Alan J. Pakula
Film Director
7-Apr-1928 19-Nov-1998 All the President's Men
George Pal
Film Director
1-Feb-1908 2-May-1980 The Time Machine
Norman Panama
Screenwriter
21-Apr-1914 13-Jan-2003 The Court Jester
Sergei Parajanov
Film Director
9-Jan-1924 21-Jul-1990 The Color of Pomegranate
Jerry Paris
Actor
25-Jul-1925 31-Mar-1986 Jerry Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dean Parisot
Film Director
?   Galaxy Quest
Chan-wook Park
Film Director
23-Aug-1963   Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
Nick Park
Film Director
6-Dec-1958   Wallace and Gromit
Alan Parker
Film Director
14-Feb-1944   Pink Floyd: The Wall
Gordon Parks
Film Director
30-Nov-1912 7-Mar-2006 Shaft
Robert Parrish
Film Director
4-Jan-1916 4-Dec-1995 Casino Royale
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Film Director
5-Mar-1922 2-Nov-1975 Salo: The 120 Days of Sodom
Ivan Passer
Film Director
10-Jul-1933   Creator
Alexander Payne
Film Director
10-Feb-1961   About Schmidt
Sam Peckinpah
Film Director
21-Feb-1925 28-Dec-1984 Breakthrough director of ultraviolent film
Larry Peerce
Film Director
19-Apr-1930   Goodbye, Columbus
Kimberly Peirce
Film Director
8-Sep-1967   Boys Don't Cry
Mark Pellington
Film Director
17-Mar-1962   Arlington Road
Arthur Penn
Film Director
27-Sep-1922 28-Sep-2010 Bonnie and Clyde
Leo Penn
Film Director
27-Aug-1921 5-Sep-1998 The Dark Secret of Harvest Home
Stacy Peralta
Skateboarder
15-Oct-1957   Powell-Peralta, Dogtown and Z-Boys
Frank Perry
Film Director
21-Aug-1930 29-Aug-1995 Mommie Dearest
Tyler Perry
Film Director
13-Sep-1969   Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Wolfgang Petersen
Film Director
14-Mar-1941   Das Boot and Troy
Daniel Petrie, Jr.
Screenwriter
1952   Toy Soldiers
Daniel Petrie
Film Director
26-Nov-1920 22-Aug-2004 A Raisin in the Sun
Donald Petrie
Film Director
2-Apr-1954   Grumpy Old Men
Joseph Pevney
Film Director
15-Sep-1911 18-May-2008 Man of a Thousand Faces
Lee Philips
Film Director
10-Jan-1927 3-Mar-1999 TV movie director
Todd Phillips
Film Director
20-Dec-1970   Old School
Maurice Pialat
Film Director
21-Aug-1925 11-Jan-2003 À nos amours
Irving Pichel
Film Director
24-Jun-1891 13-Jul-1954 Destination Moon
Bill Plympton
Film Director
30-Apr-1946   I Married a Strange Person!
Jean-Marie Poiré
Film Director
10-Jul-1945   The Visitors
Sidney Poitier
Actor
20-Feb-1927   In The Heat Of The Night
Roman Polanski
Film Director
18-Aug-1933   Chinatown
Michael Polish
Film Director
30-Oct-1970   The Astronaut Farmer
Sydney Pollack
Film Director
1-Jul-1934 26-May-2008 Tootsie
Sarah Polley
Actor
8-Jan-1979   Road to Avonlea
Léa Pool
Film Director
8-Sep-1950   Lost and Delirious
Edwin Stanton Porter
Film Director
21-Apr-1870 30-Apr-1941 The Great Train Robbery
Ted Post
Film Director
31-Mar-1918   Hang 'Em High
H. C. Potter
Film Director
13-Nov-1904 31-Aug-1977 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House
Michael Powell
Film Director
30-Sep-1905 19-Feb-1990 Stairway to Heaven
Otto Preminger
Film Director
5-Dec-1906 23-Apr-1986 Anatomy of a Murder
Emeric Pressburger
Film Director
5-Dec-1902 5-Feb-1988 Black Narcissus
Alex Proyas
Film Director
23-Sep-1963   Dark City
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Film Director
28-Feb-1893 30-Jun-1953 Mother
John Putch
Film Director
27-Jul-1961   American Pie Presents: The Book of Love
Albert Pyun
Film Director
1954   Cyborg
Richard Quine
Film Director
12-Nov-1920 10-Jun-1989 Bell Book and Candle
Bob Rafelson
Film Director
21-Feb-1933   Five Easy Pieces
Alan Rafkin
Film Director
23-Jul-1928 6-Aug-2001 The Ghost and Mr. Chicken
Sam Raimi
Film Director
23-Oct-1959   Spider-Man
Harold Ramis
Comic
21-Nov-1944   Egon Spengler in Ghostbusters
Lynne Ramsay
Film Director
5-Dec-1969   Morvern Cellar
Irving Rapper
Film Director
16-Jan-1898 20-Dec-1999 Now, Voyager
Brett Ratner
Film Director
28-Mar-1969   Red Dragon
Gregory Ratoff
Film Director
20-Apr-1897 14-Dec-1960 Intermezzo: A Love Story
Fred Olen Ray
Film Director
10-Sep-1954   Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers
Nicholas Ray
Film Director
7-Aug-1911 16-Jun-1979 Rebel Without a Cause
Satyajit Ray
Film Director
2-May-1921 23-Apr-1992 Pather Panchali
Carol Reed
Film Director
30-Dec-1906 25-Apr-1976 Oliver!
Peyton Reed
Film Director
3-Jul-1964   Yes Man
Matt Reeves
Film Director
27-Apr-1966   Felicity
Nicolas Winding Refn
Film Director
29-Sep-1970   Bronson
Godfrey Reggio
Film Director
29-Mar-1940   QATSI Trilogy
Wallace Reid
Actor
15-Apr-1891 18-Jan-1923 Silent film actor and director
Carl Reiner
Actor
20-Mar-1922   Your Show of Shows
Rob Reiner
Actor
6-Mar-1947   Meathead
Irving Reis
Film Director
7-May-1906 3-Jul-1953 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer
Wolfgang Reitherman
Film Director
26-Jun-1909 22-May-1985 Jungle Book
Ivan Reitman
Film Director
27-Oct-1946   Ghost Busters
Jason Reitman
Film Director
19-Oct-1977   Up in the Air
Jean Renoir
Film Director
15-Sep-1894 12-Feb-1979 La Grande Illusion
Alain Resnais
Film Director
3-Jun-1922   Hiroshima mon amour
Kevin Reynolds
Film Director
17-Jan-1952   Waterworld
David Lowell Rich
Film Director
31-Aug-1923   The Concorde: Airport '79
Pierre Richard
Actor
16-Aug-1934   La chèvre
Dick Richards
Film Director
1936   Farewell, My Lovely
Tony Richardson
Film Director
5-Jun-1928 14-Nov-1991 The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner
Leni Riefenstahl
Film Director
22-Aug-1902 8-Sep-2003 Triumph of the Will
Adam Rifkin
Film Director
31-Dec-1966   Detroit Rock City
Dino Risi
Film Director
23-Dec-1916 7-Jun-2008 The Easy Life
Guy Ritchie
Film Director
10-Sep-1968   Lock Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
Michael Ritchie
Film Director
28-Nov-1938 16-Apr-2001 The Candidate
Martin Ritt
Film Director
2-Mar-1914 8-Dec-1990 The Long Hot Summer
Panna Rittikrai
Film Director
17-Feb-1961   Ong Bak 2
Jacques Rivette
Film Director
1-Mar-1928   La Belle Noiseuse
Hal Roach
Film/TV Producer
14-Jan-1892 2-Nov-1992 Brilliant comedy producer
Jay Roach
Film Director
14-Jun-1957   Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
Alain Robbe-Grillet
Novelist
18-Aug-1922 18-Feb-2008 Proponent of the nouveau roman
Jerome Robbins
Choreographer
11-Oct-1918 29-Jul-1998 West Side Story
Yves Robert
Film Director
21-Jun-1920 10-May-2002 My Father's Glory
Stephen Roberts
Film Director
23-Nov-1895 17-Jul-1936 The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Phil Alden Robinson
Film Director
1-Mar-1950   Field of Dreams
Mark Robson
Film Director
4-Dec-1913 20-Jun-1978 Valley of the Dolls
Marc Rocco
Film Director
7-Jun-1965 1-May-2009 Murder in the First
Robert Rodriguez
Film Director
20-Jun-1968   El Mariachi
Nicolas Roeg
Film Director
15-Aug-1928   The Man Who Fell to Earth
Éric Rohmer
Film Director
4-Apr-1920 11-Jan-2010 Ma Nuit chez Maud
George Romero
Film Director
4-Feb-1940   Night of the Living Dead
Don Roos
Screenwriter
14-Apr-1955   The Opposite of Sex
Bernard Rose
Film Director
4-Aug-1960   Candyman
Phil Rosen
Film Director
8-May-1888 22-Oct-1951 Spooks Run Wild
Stuart Rosenberg
Film Director
11-Aug-1927 15-Mar-2007 Cool Hand Luke
Rick Rosenthal
Film Director
15-Jun-1949   Halloween II
Gary Ross
Film Director
3-Nov-1956   Seabiscuit
Herbert Ross
Film Director
13-May-1927 9-Oct-2001 Steel Magnolias
Roberto Rossellini
Film Director
8-May-1906 3-Jun-1977 Stromboli
Robert Rossen
Screenwriter
16-Mar-1908 18-Feb-1966 The Hustler
Eli Roth
Film Director
18-Apr-1972   Cabin Fever
Joe Roth
Business
13-Jun-1948   Revolution Studios, former Disney CEO
Phillip J. Roth
Film Director
10-Jun-1959   Velocity Trap
Russell Rouse
Screenwriter
20-Nov-1913 2-Oct-1987 Pillow Talk
Roy Rowland
Film Director
31-Dec-1910 29-Jun-1995 Our Vines Have Tender Grapes
Patricia Rozema
Film Director
20-Aug-1958   Mansfield Park
Joseph Ruben
Film Director
10-May-1950   The Forgotten
Sergio Rubini
Actor
21-Dec-1959   Nirvana
Alan Rudolph
Film Director
18-Dec-1943   Breakfast of Champions
Wesley Ruggles
Film Director
11-Jun-1889 8-Jan-1972 Cimarron
Richard Rush
Film Director
15-Apr-1929   The Stunt Man
David O. Russell
Film Director
20-Aug-1958   I Heart Huckabees
Ken Russell
Film Director
3-Jul-1927 27-Nov-2011 Altered States
Mark Rydell
Film Director
23-Mar-1934   On Golden Pond
Boris Sagal
Film Director
18-Oct-1917 22-May-1981 The Omega Man
Gene Saks
Theater Director
8-Nov-1921   The Odd Couple
Richard Sale
Screenwriter
17-Dec-1911 4-Mar-1993 A Ticket to Tomahawk
Sidney Salkow
Film Director
16-Jun-1909 18-Oct-2000 Twice-Told Tales
Walter Salles
Film Director
12-Apr-1956   The Motorcycle Diaries
Victor Salva
Film Director
29-Mar-1958   Jeepers Creepers
Gabriele Salvatores
Film Director
30-Jul-1950   I'm Not Scared
Eduardo Sánchez
Film Director
20-Dec-1968   The Blair Witch Project
Rupert Sanders
Film Director
16-Mar-1971   Snow White and the Huntsman
Mark Sandrich
Film Director
26-Aug-1900 4-Mar-1945 Top Hat
Joseph Sargent
Film Director
25-Jul-1925   The Taking of Pelham One Two Three
Carlos Saura
Film Director
4-Jan-1932   Cria Cuervos
Victor Saville
Film Director
25-Sep-1895 8-May-1979 Kim
Tom Savini
Film Director
3-Nov-1946   Special effects master
John Sayles
Film Director
28-Sep-1950   The Secret of Roan Inish
George Schaefer
Film Director
16-Dec-1920 10-Sep-1997 The Bunker
Eric Schaeffer
Film Director
22-Jan-1962   If Lucy Fell
Akiva Schaffer
Film Director
1-Dec-1977   The Lonely Island
Franklin J. Schaffner
Film Director
30-May-1920 2-Jul-1989 Patton and Planet of the Apes
Fred Schepisi
Film Director
26-Dec-1939   Six Degrees of Separation
Lone Scherfig
Film Director
2-May-1959   An Education
Victor Schertzinger
Film Director
8-Apr-1890 26-Oct-1941 Road to Singapore
John Schlesinger
Film Director
16-Feb-1926 25-Jul-2003 Marathon Man
Volker Schlöndorff
Film Director
31-Mar-1939   The Tin Drum
Rob Schmidt
Film Director
25-Sep-1965   Wrong Turn
Julian Schnabel
Film Director
26-Oct-1951   Basquiat
Pierre Schoendoerffer
Film Director
5-May-1928 14-Mar-2012 The Anderson Platoon
Paul Schrader
Film Director
22-Jul-1946   Writer, Taxi Driver
Barbet Schroeder
Film Director
26-Apr-1941   Murder by Numbers
Joel Schumacher
Film Director
29-Aug-1939   The Lost Boys
Harold Schuster
Film Director
1-Aug-1902 19-Jul-1986 My Friend Flicka
Ettore Scola
Screenwriter
10-May-1931   A Special Day
Martin Scorsese
Film Director
17-Nov-1942   Taxi Driver
Jason Scott
Historian
13-Sep-1970   GET LAMP, Sockington Cat
Ridley Scott
Film Director
30-Nov-1937   Alien
Tony Scott
Film Director
21-Jul-1944 19-Aug-2012 Top Gun
George Seaton
Screenwriter
17-Apr-1911 28-Jul-1979 Miracle on 34th Street
Edward Sedgwick
Film Director
7-Nov-1892 7-Mar-1953 The Cameraman
Peter Segal
Film Director
1962   Anger Management
Susan Seidelman
Film Director
11-Dec-1952   Desperately Seeking Susan
Lewis Seiler
Film Director
30-Sep-1890 8-Jan-1964 Guadalcanal Diary
William A. Seiter
Film Director
10-Jun-1890 26-Jul-1964 Allegheny Uprising
George B. Seitz
Film Director
3-Jan-1888 8-Jul-1944 Andy Hardy series
Lesley Selander
Film Director
26-May-1900 5-Dec-1979 The Texican
Henry Selick
Film Director
30-Nov-1952   The Nightmare Before Christmas
Dominic Sena
Film Director
26-Apr-1949   Gone in Sixty Seconds
Mack Sennett
Film/TV Producer
17-Jan-1880 5-Nov-1960 Founder of Keystone Studios
Yahoo Serious
Actor
27-Jul-1953   Young Einstein
Vernon Sewell
Film Director
4-Jul-1903 21-Jun-2001 Director of British B movies
Tom Shadyac
Film Director
11-Dec-1958   Bruce Almighty
Adam Shankman
Film Director
27-Nov-1964   Hairspray 2007
Jim Sharman
Film Director
12-Mar-1945   The Rocky Horror Picture Show
Melville Shavelson
Film Director
1-Apr-1917 8-Aug-2007 Yours, Mine and Ours
Ron Shelton
Film Director
15-Sep-1945   White Men Can't Jump
Jim Sheridan
Film Director
6-Feb-1949   My Left Foot
George Sherman
Film Director
14-Jul-1908 15-Mar-1991 Against All Flags
Vincent Sherman
Film Director
16-Jul-1906 18-Jun-2006 The Young Philadelphians
Jack Sholder
Film Director
8-Jun-1945   The Hidden
M. Night Shyamalan
Film Director
6-Aug-1970   The Sixth Sense
Vittorio De Sica
Film Director
7-Jul-1902 13-Nov-1974 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Andy Sidaris
Film Director
20-Feb-1931 7-Mar-2007 Hard Ticket to Hawaii
George Sidney
Film Director
4-Oct-1916 5-May-2002 Bye Bye Birdie
Don Siegel
Film Director
26-Oct-1912 20-Apr-1991 Dirty Harry
Brad Silberling
Film Director
8-Sep-1963   City of Angels
Yves Simoneau
Film Director
28-Oct-1955   Nuremberg
Bryan Singer
Film Director
17-Sep-1965   X-Men
John Singleton
Film Director
6-Jan-1968   Boyz N the Hood
Robert Siodmak
Film Director
8-Aug-1900 10-Mar-1973 The Killers
Douglas Sirk
Film Director
26-Apr-1897 14-Jan-1987 Written on the Wind
Kari Skogland
Film Director
?   Liberty Stands Still
Jack Smight
Film Director
9-Mar-1925 1-Sep-2003 Midway
Kevin Smith
Film Director
2-Aug-1970   Mallrats
Zack Snyder
Film Director
1-Mar-1966   300
Steven Soderbergh
Film Director
14-Jan-1963   Traffic
Todd Solondz
Film Director
15-Oct-1959   Welcome to the Dollhouse
Stephen Sommers
Screenwriter
20-Mar-1962   The Mummy
Barry Sonnenfeld
Film Director
1-Apr-1953   Men in Black
Penelope Spheeris
Film Director
2-Dec-1945   Wayne's World
Steven Spielberg
Film Director
18-Dec-1946   E.T.
Roger Spottiswoode
Film Director
5-Jan-1945   Tomorrow Never Dies
R. G. Springsteen
Film Director
8-Sep-1904 9-Dec-1989 Taggart
Morgan Spurlock
Film Director
7-Nov-1970   Filmmaker, took on McDonald's
Sylvester Stallone
Actor
6-Jul-1946   Rocky, Rambo
Jack Starrett
Film Director
2-Nov-1936 27-Mar-1989 Cleopatra Jones
Josef von Sternberg
Film Director
29-May-1894 22-Dec-1969 The Last Command
George Stevens
Film Director
18-Dec-1904 8-Mar-1975 A Place in the Sun
Robert Stevenson
Film Director
31-Mar-1905 4-Nov-1986 The Love Bug
Whit Stillman
Film Director
25-Jan-1952   The Last Days of Disco
John Stockwell
Actor
25-Mar-1961   Cougar in Top Gun
Nicholas Stoller
Screenwriter
19-Mar-1976   Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Oliver Stone
Film Director
15-Sep-1946   JFK
Joseph Strick
Film Director
6-Jul-1923 1-Jun-2010 Ulysses
Herbert L. Strock
Film Director
13-Jan-1918 30-Nov-2005 The Crawling Hand
Erich von Stroheim
Actor
22-Sep-1885 12-May-1957 Swanson's servant in Sunset Blvd.
Mel Stuart
Film Director
2-Sep-1928 9-Aug-2012 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
John Sturges
Film Director
3-Jan-1911 18-Aug-1992 The Great Escape
Charles Sturridge
Film Director
24-Jun-1951   FairyTale: A True Story
Kevin Rodney Sullivan
Film Director
3-Aug-1958   How Stella Got Her Groove Back
A. Edward Sutherland
Film Director
5-Jan-1895 31-Dec-1973 The Flying Deuces
István Szabó
Film Director
18-Feb-1938   Being Julia
Lee Tamahori
Film Director
17-Jun-1950   Once Were Warriors
Quentin Tarantino
Film Director
27-Mar-1963   Pulp Fiction
Andrei Tarkovsky
Film Director
4-Apr-1932 28-Dec-1986 Solaris
Frank Tashlin
Film Director
19-Feb-1913 5-May-1972 Artists and Models
Norman Taurog
Film Director
23-Feb-1899 7-Apr-1981 It Happened at the World's Fair
Bertrand Tavernier
Film Director
25-Apr-1941   'Round Midnight
Sam Taylor
Film Director
13-Aug-1895 6-Mar-1958 Safety Last!
Tate Taylor
Film Director
c. 1969   The Help
William Desmond Taylor
Film Director
26-Apr-1872 1-Feb-1922 Early Hollywood director, murdered
Julie Taymor
Film Director
15-Dec-1952   Across the Universe
Lewis Teague
Film Director
8-Mar-1938   The Jewel of the Nile
André Téchiné
Film Director
13-Mar-1943   Wild Reeds
Julien Temple
Film Director
26-Nov-1953   The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle
Andy Tennant
Film Director
1955   Hitch
Ted Tetzlaff
Cinematographer
3-Jun-1903 7-Jan-1995 The Window
Betty Thomas
Film Director
27-Jul-1948   Lucy Bates on Hill Street Blues
Gerald Thomas
Film Director
10-Dec-1920 9-Nov-1993 Carry On...
Ralph Thomas
Film Director
10-Aug-1915 17-Mar-2001 Deadlier Than the Male
J. Lee Thompson
Film Director
1-Aug-1914 30-Aug-2002 Cape Fear
Billy Bob Thornton
Actor
4-Aug-1955   Sling Blade
Richard Thorpe
Film Director
24-Feb-1896 1-May-1991 Jailhouse Rock
James Toback
Film Director
23-Nov-1944   The Pick-up Artist
Norman Tokar
Film Director
25-Nov-1919 6-Apr-1979 The Apple Dumpling Gang
Jacques Tourneur
Film Director
12-Nov-1904 19-Dec-1977 Original 1942 Cat People
Robert Towne
Screenwriter
23-Nov-1934   Personal Best
Robert Townsend
Actor
6-Feb-1957   A Soldier's Story
Jeff Tremaine
Film/TV Producer
8-Dec-1966   Co-creator of MTV's Jackass
François Truffaut
Film Director
6-Feb-1932 21-Oct-1984 Last Metro
Douglas Trumbull
Artist
8-Apr-1942   Movie special effects wizard
Jon Turteltaub
Film Director
8-Aug-1963   National Treasure
Frank Tuttle
Film Director
6-Aug-1892 6-Jan-1963 This Gun for Hire
David Twohy
Film Director
18-Oct-1955   The Chronicles of Riddick
Edgar G. Ulmer
Film Director
17-Sep-1904 30-Sep-1972 Detour
Ron Underwood
Film Director
6-Nov-1953   Tremors
Roger Vadim
Film Director
26-Jan-1928 11-Feb-2000 Barbarella
Melvin Van Peebles
Film Director
21-Aug-1932   Watermelon Man
Gus Van Sant
Film Director
24-Jul-1952   My Own Private Idaho
Agnès Varda
Film Director
30-May-1928   Cleo from 5 to 7
Matthew Vaughn
Film Director
7-Mar-1971   Layer Cake
Francis Veber
Screenwriter
28-Jul-1937   The Dinner Game
Gore Verbinski
Film Director
16-Mar-1964   Pirates of the Caribbean
Paul Verhoeven
Film Director
18-Jul-1938   Starship Troopers
Henri Verneuil
Playwright
15-Oct-1920 11-Jan-2002 I as in Icarus
Charles Vidor
Film Director
27-Jul-1900 4-Jun-1959 A Farewell to Arms
King Vidor
Film Director
8-Feb-1894 1-Nov-1982 Northwest Passage
Jean Vigo
Film Director
26-Apr-1905 5-Oct-1934 L'Atalante
Luchino Visconti
Film Director
2-Nov-1906 17-Mar-1976 La Terra Trema
Daisy von Scherler Mayer
Film Director
14-Sep-1966   The Guru
Lars von Trier
Film Director
30-Apr-1956   Breaking the Waves
Andy Wachowski
Film Director
29-Dec-1967   The Matrix
Larry Wachowski
Film Director
21-Jun-1965   The Matrix
Rupert Wainwright
Film Director
30-Nov-1961   Stigmata
Andrzej Wajda
Film Director
6-Mar-1926   The Promised Land
Hal Walker
Film Director
20-Mar-1896 3-Jul-1972 Road to Bali
Randall Wallace
Screenwriter
28-Jul-1949   The Man in the Iron Mask
Anthony Waller
Film Director
24-Oct-1959   An American Werewolf in Paris
Raoul Walsh
Film Director
11-Mar-1887 31-Dec-1980 The Naked and the Dead
Charles Walters
Film Director
17-Nov-1911 13-Aug-1982 Please Don't Eat the Daisies
Sam Wanamaker
Actor
14-Jun-1919 19-Dec-1993 Rebuilt Globe Theatre
Wayne Wang
Film Director
12-Jan-1949   The Joy Luck Club
David S. Ward
Film Director
25-Oct-1945   The Sting
Andy Warhol
Artist
6-Aug-1928 22-Feb-1987 Pop Art movement
Jennifer Warren
Actor
12-Aug-1941   Night Moves
John Waters
Film Director
22-Apr-1946   Hairspray
Mark Waters
Film Director
30-Jun-1964   Mean Girls
Peter Watkins
Film Director
29-Oct-1935   Punishment Park
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Comic
8-Jun-1958   A Wayans Brother
Jack Webb
Actor
2-Apr-1920 23-Dec-1982 Joe Friday in Dragnet
Peter Weir
Film Director
8-Aug-1944   The Truman Show
Don Weis
Film Director
13-May-1922 25-Jul-2000 The Ghost in the Invisible Bikini
Paul Weitz
Film Director
19-Nov-1965   American Pie
Orson Welles
Actor
6-May-1915 10-Oct-1985 Citizen Kane
David Wellington
Film Director
1963   I Love a Man in Uniform
William A. Wellman
Film Director
29-Feb-1896 9-Dec-1975 The High and the Mighty
Simon Wells
Film Director
1961   The Time Machine
Wim Wenders
Film Director
14-Aug-1945   Wings of Desire
Paul Wendkos
Film Director
20-Sep-1922 12-Nov-2009 Gidget
Alfred L. Werker
Film Director
2-Dec-1896 28-Jul-1975 The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Lina Wertmüller
Film Director
14-Aug-1928   The Seduction of Mimi
Roland West
Film Director
20-Feb-1885 31-Mar-1952 The Bat Whispers
Simon West
Film Director
1961   Con Air
James Whale
Film Director
22-Jul-1889 29-May-1957 Frankenstein
Anne Wheeler
Film Director
22-Nov-1946   Better Than Chocolate
Tim Whelan
Film Director
2-Nov-1892 12-Aug-1957 The Divorce of Lady X
Robert Wiene
Film Director
24-Apr-1873 17-Jul-1938 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Fred M. Wilcox
Film Director
22-Dec-1907 23-Sep-1964 Forbidden Planet
Herbert Wilcox
Film/TV Producer
19-Apr-1892 15-May-1977 Forever and a Day
Billy Wilder
Film Director
22-Jun-1906 27-Mar-2002 Sunset Blvd.
Gene Wilder
Actor
11-Jun-1933   Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Hugh Wilson
Film Director
21-Aug-1943   Police Academy
Mike Wilson
Film Director
18-Feb-1976   Michael Moore Hates America
Simon Wincer
Film Director
1943   Free Willy
Gary Winick
Film Director
31-Mar-1961 27-Feb-2011 13 Going on 30
Irwin Winkler
Film/TV Producer
25-May-1931   Rocky
Michael Winner
Film Director
30-Oct-1935   Death Wish
Michael Winterbottom
Film Director
29-Mar-1961   24 Hour Party People
Robert Wise
Film Director
10-Sep-1914 14-Sep-2005 The Sound of Music
Frederick Wiseman
Film Director
1-Jan-1930   Titicut Follies
Len Wiseman
Film Director
4-Mar-1973   Underworld
William Witney
Film Director
15-May-1915 17-Mar-2002 Master of the World
John Woo
Film Director
22-Sep-1948   Director of Hong Kong action films
Ed Wood
Film Director
10-Oct-1924 10-Dec-1978 Plan 9 From Outer Space
Sam Wood
Film Director
10-Jul-1883 22-Sep-1949 Goodbye, Mr. Chips
Edgar Wright
Film Director
18-Apr-1974   Shaun of the Dead
William Wyler
Film Director
1-Jul-1902 27-Jul-1981 Ben-Hur
Jim Wynorski
Film Director
14-Aug-1950   Prolific B movie director
Boaz Yakin
Screenwriter
20-Jun-1966   Remember the Titans
David Yates
Film Director
1963   Director, 5th and 6th Harry Potter films
Peter Yates
Film Director
24-Jul-1929 9-Jan-2011 Breaking Away
Bud Yorkin
Film Director
22-Feb-1926   Start the Revolution Without Me
Robert M. Young
Film Director
22-Nov-1924   Dominick and Eugene
Roger Young
Film Director
13-May-1942   The Bourne Identity
Terence Young
Film Director
20-Jun-1915 7-Sep-1994 Dr. No
Steven Zaillian
Screenwriter
30-Jan-1953   Schindler's List
Krzysztof Zanussi
Film Director
17-Jun-1939   A Year of the Quiet Sun
Franco Zeffirelli
Film Director
12-Feb-1923   Romeo and Juliet
Robert Zemeckis
Film Director
14-May-1952   Back To The Future
Mai Zetterling
Actor
24-May-1925 17-Mar-1994 The Witches
Zhang Yimou
Film Director
14-Nov-1951   Hero
Claude Zidi
Film Director
25-Jul-1934   The Wing and the Thigh
Howard Zieff
Film Director
21-Oct-1927 22-Feb-2009 Private Benjamin
Rafal Zielinski
Film Director
1957   Screwballs
Fred Zinnemann
Film Director
29-Apr-1907 14-Mar-1997 From Here to Eternity
Joseph Zito
Film Director
14-May-1946   Missing In Action
Rob Zombie
Singer
12-Jan-1965   Gravel-voiced White Zombie singer
David Zucker
Film Director
16-Oct-1947   Airplane!
Jerry Zucker
Film Director
11-Mar-1950   Ghost
Edward Zwick
Film Director
8-Oct-1952   The Last Samurai
Joel Zwick
Film Director
11-Jan-1942   My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Terry Zwigoff
Film Director
18-May-1949   Ghost World



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