Directors Guild of America

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Directors Guild of America

ORGANIZATION

Founded 1938 as the Screen Directors Guild.

Official Website:
http://www.dga.org/

Founding Date:
1938

Name Occupation Birth Death Known for

Michael Apted Film Director 10-Feb-1941 Gorillas in the Mist

Jon Avnet Film/TV Producer 17-Nov-1949 Fried Green Tomatoes

Herbert J. Biberman Screenwriter 4-Mar-1900 30-Jun-1971 Blacklisted screenwriter

Gilbert Cates Film Director 6-Jun-1934 1-Nov-2011 I Never Sang for My Father

Martha Coolidge Film Director 17-Aug-1946 Valley Girl

Cecil B. DeMille Film Director 12-Aug-1881 21-Jan-1959 Pioneering film director

Rob Epstein Film Director 6-Apr-1955 The Times of Harvey Milk

Arthur Hiller Film Director 22-Nov-1923 An Alan Smithee Film

Jeffrey Katzenberg Business 21-Dec-1950 Produced Shrek

Joan W. Konner Journalist c. 1929 Dean, Columbia School of Journalism, 1988-97

Ted Lange Actor 5-Jan-1947 Isaac the bartender on Love Boat

Sheldon Leonard Actor 22-Feb-1907 10-Jan-1997 Nick the Bartender

Gene Reynolds Actor 4-Apr-1923 Child actor, later TV director/producer

George Schaefer Film Director 16-Dec-1920 10-Sep-1997 The Bunker

Steven Soderbergh Film Director 14-Jan-1963 Traffic

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