Selected Filmography Directors
by solvielisabetarson | created - 19 Jan 2018 | updated - 09 Feb 2023 | Public
1. Walter Hill
Writer | 48 Hrs.
Hill was born in Long Beach, California and educated at Mexico City College and Michigan State University. He worked in oil drilling and construction in the 60s before becoming a 2nd assistant director in 1967. He has written and co-written screenplays, including several uncredited works. He has ...
The Streetfighter (1975) The Driver (1978) The Warriors (1979) The Long Riders (1980) Southern Comfort (1981) 48 Hrs. (1982) Streets of Fire (1984) Brewster's Millions (1985) Crossroads (1986) Extreme Prejudice (1987) Red Heat (1988) Johnny Handsome (1989) Another 48 Hrs. (1990) Trespass (1992) Geronimo: An American Legend (1993) Wild Bill (1995) Last Man Standing (1996) Supernova (2000) Undisputed (2002) Broken Trail (2006) Bullet to the Head (2012) The Assignment (2016)
2. M. Night Shyamalan
Producer | Lady in the Water
Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.
He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...
(Selected filmography)
The Sixth Sense (1999)
Unbreakable (2000)
Signs (2002)
The Village (2004)
After Earth (2013)
The Visit (2015)
Split (2017)
Glass (2019)
3. Gus Van Sant
Director | Elephant
Gus Green Van Sant Jr. is an American filmmaker, painter, screenwriter, photographer and musician from Louisville, Kentucky who is known for directing films such as Good Will Hunting, the 1998 remake of Psycho, Gerry, Elephant, My Own Private Idaho, To Die For, Milk, Last Days, Finding Forrester, ...
(Selected filmography)
Mala Noche
Drugstore Cowboy
My Own Private Idaho
To Die For
Psycho
Gerry
Elephant
Last Days
Paranoid Park
4. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
(Selected filmography)
Play Misty for Me
High Plains Drifter
Breezy
The Eiger Sanction
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Gauntlet
Bronco Billy
Firefox
Honkytonk Man
Sudden Impact
Pale Rider
Heartbreak Ridge
Bird
Unforgiven
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Mystic River
Million Dollar Baby
Letters from Iwo Jima
Changeling
Hereafter
J. Edgar
Jersey Boys
5. Steven Soderbergh
Director | Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Steven Andrew Soderbergh was born on January 14, 1963 in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, the second of six children of Mary Ann (Bernard) and Peter Soderbergh. His father was of Swedish and Irish descent, and his mother was of Italian ancestry. While he was still at a very young age, his family moved to ...
Kimi No Sudden Move Behind the Candelabra side effect Magic Mike haywire contagion the girlfriend experience Che The Good German Bubble Full Frontal The Limey Out of Sight Schizopolis The Underneath King of the Hill Kafka
6. William Friedkin
Director | To Live and Die in L.A.
Friedkin's mother was an operating room nurse. His father was a merchant seaman, semi-pro softball player and ultimately sold clothes in a men's discount chain. Ultimately, his father never earned more than $50/week in his whole life and died indigent. Eventually young Will became infatuated with ...
(Selected Filmography)
Good Times (1967)
The Birthday Party (1968)
The Boys in the Band (1970)
The French Connection (1971)
The Exorcist (1973)
Sorcerer (1977)
Cruising (1980)
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Rampage (1987)
The Guardian (1990)
Jailbreakers (1994)
Jade (1995)
Rules of Engagement (2000)
The Hunted (2003)
Bug (2006)
Killer Joe (2011)
7. Paul Schrader
Writer | First Reformed
Although his name is often linked to that of the "movie brat" generation (Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, etc.) Paul Schrader's background couldn't have been more different than theirs. His strict Calvinist parents refused to allow him to see a...
(Selected Filmography)
Hardcore (1979)
American Gigolo (1980)
Cat People (1982)
Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985)
Light of the Day (1987)
Patty Hearst (1988)
The Comfort of Strangers (1990)
Light Sleeper (1992)
Witch Hunt (1994)
Touch (1997)
Affliction (1997)
Auto Focus (2002)
The Walker (2007)
The Canyons (2013)
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
8. Robert Zemeckis
Writer | Back to the Future
A whiz-kid with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making (Steven Spielberg produced many of his films). Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale, Robert's earlier films show he has a talent for zany comedy (Romancing the Stone (1984), 1941 (1979)) and special effect ...
(Selected filmography)
1978 I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1980 Used Cars
1984 Romancing the Stone
1985 Back to the Future
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 Back to the Future Part II
1990 Back to the Future Part III
1992 Death Becomes Her
2000 What Lies Beneath
2009 A Christmas Carol
9. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
(Selected filmography)
Duel (1971)
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Jaws (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
1941 (1979)
Raiders of the Last Ark (1981)
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)
Empire of the Sun (1987)
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
A. I. Artificial Intelligence (2001)
Catch Me If You Can (2002)
War of the Worlds (2005)
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
Lincoln (2012)
Bridge of Spies (2015)
10. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
(Selected filmography)
Tonight for Sure
The Bellboy and the Playgirls
Dementia 13
The Rain People
The Godfather
The Conversation
The Godfather Part II
Apocalypse Now
One from the Heart
The Outsiders
Rumble Fish
The Cotton Club
The Godfather Part III
Bram Stoker's Dracula
The Rainmaker
Youth Without Youth
Tetro
Twixt
11. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
(Selected filmography)
Bananas (1971)
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Sleeper (1973)
Love and Death (1975)
Annie Hall (1977)
Interiors (1978)
Manhattan (1979)
A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Zelig (1983)
Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989)
Shadows and Fog (1991)
Husbands and Wives (1992)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Match Point (2005)
Scoop (2006)
Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008)
Whatever Works (2009)
Blue Jasmine (2013)
Irrational Man (2015)
Crisis in Six Scenes (2016)
12. Mel Gibson
Actor | Braveheart
Mel Columcille Gerard Gibson was born January 3, 1956 in Peekskill, New York, USA, as the sixth of eleven children of Hutton Gibson, a railroad brakeman, and Anne Patricia (Reilly) Gibson (who died in December of 1990). His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is ...
13. Mel Brooks
Actor | Spaceballs
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...
14. Milos Forman
Director | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Milos Forman was born Jan Tomas Forman in Caslav, Czechoslovakia, to Anna (Svabova), who ran a summer hotel, and Rudolf Forman, a professor. During World War II, his parents were taken away by the Nazis, after being accused of participating in the underground resistance. His father died in ...
15. John Landis
Director | The Blues Brothers
John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of the Spanish/Italian "...
Schlock The Kentucky Fried Movie National Lampoon's Animal House The Blues Brothers An American Werewolf in London Trading Places The Twilight Zone Movie Into the Night Spies Like Us ¡Three Amigos! Coming to America Oscar Innocent Blood Beverly Hills Cop III The Stupids Blues Brothers 2000 Susan's Plan Burke and Hare
16. Alfonso Cuarón
Producer | Gravity
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco was born on November 28th 1961 in Mexico City, Mexico. From an early age, he yearned to be either a film director or an astronaut. However, he did not want to enter the army, so he settled for directing. He didn't receive his first camera until his twelfth birthday, and then ...
17. Tomas Alfredson
Director | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tomas Alfredson was born on April 1, 1965 in Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is a director, known for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Let the Right One In (2008) and The Snowman (2017). He is married to Charlotte Alfredson. They have one child. He was previously married to Cissi Elwin.
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