Directors I've Seen the Most of
by bkrauser-81-311064 | created - 21 Apr 2014 | updated - 22 Feb 2016 | Public
1. 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, ...
Movies I've Seen: Raiders of the Lost Ark, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Saving Private Ryan, The Color Purple, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Jaws, Lincoln, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Munich, Catch Me If You Can, Minority Report, War Horse, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Amistad, Sugarland Express, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Empire of the Sun, Bridge of Spies, 1941, Hook, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, The Adventures of Tintin, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
2. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: Love and Death, Midnight in Paris, The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, Broadway Danny Rose, Sleeper, Manhattan, Everyone Says I Love You, Husbands and Wives, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, Radio Days, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Blue Jasmine, Zelig, Stardust Memories, Match Point, Annie Hall, Bananas, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex..., Take the Money and Run, To Rome with Love, Manhattan Murder Mystery, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, Curse of the Jade Scorpion
3. Alfred Hitchcock
Director | Psycho
Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...
Movies I've Seen: Dial M for Murder, I Confess, Psycho, Rear Window, Strangers on a Train, Notorious, The Wrong Man, Lifeboat, North by Northwest, Rope, Vertigo, Spellbound, Rebecca, Foreign Correspondent, The Lady Vanishes, Suspicion, The Birds, Saboteur, The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934), Murder!
4. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
Movies I've Seen: Taxi Driver, The Last Temptation of Christ, Goodfellas, The Departed, Raging Bull, Hugo, Casino, Shutter Island, Cape Fear, The Gangs of New York, The Wolf of Wall Street, The Aviator, Mean Streets, Kundun
5. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
Movies I've Seen: Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Encounters at the End of the World, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans, Cobra Verde, Happy People: A Year in the Taiga, Woyzeck, My Best Fiend, Nosferatu: The Vampyre, Into the Abyss
6. Billy Wilder
Writer | The Apartment
Originally planning to become a lawyer, Billy Wilder abandoned that career in favor of working as a reporter for a Viennese newspaper, using this experience to move to Berlin, where he worked for the city's largest tabloid. He broke into films as a screenwriter in 1929 and wrote scripts for many ...
Movies I've Seen: Ace in the Hole, The Apartment, One Two Three, Sabrina, Sunset Boulevard, Stalag 17, Witness for the Prosecution, Double Indemnity, The Lost Weekend, The Front Page, Some Like It Hot
7. Terry Gilliam
Writer | Brazil
Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...
Movies I've Seen: Brazil, Twelve Monkeys, Monty Python and the Holy Grail (with Terry Jones), Time Bandits, The Fisher King, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Monty Python's the Meaning of Life (with Terry Jones), The Brothers Grimm, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
8. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: Mystic River, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, Unforgiven, Letters from Iwo Jima, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Invictus, Heartbreak Ridge, The Changeling, Bird, Blood Work, High Plains Drifter
9. Rob Reiner
Actor | All in the Family
Robert Reiner was born in New York City, to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) and Emmy-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner.
As a child, his father was his role model, as Carl Reiner created and starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Estelle was also an inspiration for him to become a ...
Movies I've Seen: When Harry Met Sally..., A Few Good Men, This is Spinal Tap, Stand By Me, Misery, The Princess Bride, The American President, Flipped, The Bucket List, North
10. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
(with Ethan Coen) Movies I've Seen: Raising Arizona, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, No Country for Old Men, Miller's Crossing, Hail Caesar!, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Hudsucker Proxy, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, Paris je t'aime
11. Stanley Kubrick
Director | 2001: A Space Odyssey
Stanley Kubrick was born in Manhattan, New York City, to Sadie Gertrude (Perveler) and Jacob Leonard Kubrick, a physician. His family were Jewish immigrants (from Austria, Romania, and Russia). Stanley was considered intelligent, despite poor grades at school. Hoping that a change of scenery would ...
Movies I've Seen: Paths of Glory, Spartacus, A Clockwork Orange, Dr. Strangelove, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Lolita, Full Metal Jacket, Barry Lyndon, The Killing, Eyes Wide Shut
12. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: Back to the Future, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Back to the Future Part III, Contact, Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future Part II, Death Becomes Her, The Polar Express, A Christmas Carol
13. Oliver Stone
Director | JFK
Oliver Stone has become known as a master of controversial subjects and a legendary film maker. His films are filled with a variety of film angles and styles, he pushes his actors to give Oscar-worthy performances, and despite his failures, has always returned to success.
William Oliver Stone was ...
Movies I've Seen: Wall Street, Talk Radio, Salvador, Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK, World Trade Center, W., Any Given Sunday, Alexander
14. Ridley Scott
Producer | The Martian
Described by film producer Michael Deeley as "the very best eye in the business", director Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the United Kingdom ...
Movies I've Seen: Alien, Gladiator, Black Hawk Down, Blade Runner, Thelma & Louise, Kingdom of Heaven, Matchstick Men, Prometheus, G.I. Jane, White Squall
15. Richard Donner
Director | Superman
Richard Donner was born on April 24, 1930 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Superman (1978), Ladyhawke (1985) and Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (1980). He was married to Lauren Shuler Donner. He died on July 5, 2021 in Los Angeles, ...
Movies I've Seen: Superman, Lethal Weapon, Lethal Weapon 2, Superman II (with Richard Lester), The Goonies, Scrooged, Maverick, Lethal Weapon 3, Timeline, Lethal Weapon 4, Ladyhawke, 16 Blocks
16. Roger Corman
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Roger William Corman was born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Initially following in his father's footsteps, Corman studied engineering at Stanford University but while in school, he began to lose interest in the profession and developed a growing passion for film. Upon graduation, he worked a...
Movies I've Seen: The Little Shop of Horrors, The Masque of the Red Death, Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder, The Tomb of Ligeia, The Wasp Woman, The Terror, Last Woman on Earth, Creature From the Haunted Sea, Swamp Women
17. Clyde Geronimi
Director | Cinderella
Clyde Geronimi was born on June 12, 1901 in Chiavenna, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). He died on April 24, 1989 in Newport Beach, California, USA.
(with Wilfred Jackson, Wolfgang Reitherman, James Algar, Norman Ferguson, Hamilton Luske, Jack Kinney and the rest of Disney's Golden Era)
Movies I've Seen:
Dumbo, 101 Dalamatians, Pinocchio, The Jungle Book, Peter Pan, Cinderella, Robin Hood, Fantasia, Fantasia 2000, Bambi, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Alice in Wonderland, Melody Time, Lady and the Tramp, The Sword in the Stone, The Three Caballeros, The Aristocats, Sleeping Beauty, Fun and Fancy Free, The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad
18. 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 ...
Movies I've Seen: The Conversation, The Godfather Part II, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, The Rainmaker, Tucker: The Man and His Dream, The Godfather Part II, Jack, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Dementia 13
19. Jerry Zucker
Producer | Airplane!
Jerry Zucker was born on March 11, 1950 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Airplane! (1980), Ghost (1990) and Top Secret! (1984). He has been married to Janet Zucker since May 1987. They have two children.
(with David Zucker and Jim Abrahams)
Movies I've Seen:
BASEketball (David Zucker only), Airplane!, Ghost (Jerry Zucker only), Top Secret!, Hot Shots!, The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!, Rat Race (Jerry Zucker only), Kentucky Fried Movie, Scary Movie 3 (David Zucker only), The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear (David Zucker only), Hot Shots! Part Deux (Jim Abrahams only), Scary Movie 4 (David Zucker only), First Knight (Jim Abrahams only), Jane Austen's Mafia! (Jim Abrahams only)
20. John Carpenter
Writer | The Fog
John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky ...
Movies I've Seen: The Thing, Assault on Precinct 13, Escape from New York, Starman, Halloween, Big Trouble in Little China, They Live, Memoirs of an Invisible Man, The Fog, Escape From L.A., Vampires, John Carpenter's Ghosts of Mars
21. Tim Burton
Producer | Edward Scissorhands
Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was ...
Movies I've Seen: Ed Wood, Beetlejuice, Batman Returns, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Alice in Wonderland, Sleepy Hollow, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd: he Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Mars Attacks!, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Planet of the Apes
22. Tony Scott
Producer | Domino
Tony Scott was a British-born film director and producer. He was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom is fellow film director Ridley Scott. He was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England to parents Jean and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. As a result of his father's career in the British...
Movies I've Seen: Top Gun, Enemy of the State, The Last Boy Scout, Unstoppable, Beverly Hills Cop 2, Crimson Tide, Spy Game, Deja Vu, The Taking of Pelham 123, Man on Fire, The Hunger, The Fan
23. 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 "...
Movies I've Seen: Trading Places, National Lampoon's Animal House, Three Amigos!, The Blues Brothers, Oscar, Coming to America, Spies Like Us, An American Werewolf in London, Beverly Hills Cop 3, Blues Brothers 2000
24. Chris Columbus
Producer | Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Born in Pennsylvania and raised in Ohio, Chris Columbus was first inspired to make movies after seeing "The Godfather" at age 15. After enrolling at NYU film school, he sold his first screenplay (never produced) while a sophomore there. After graduation Columbus tried to sell his fourth script, "...
Movies I've Seen: Mrs. Doubtfire, Home Alone, Bicentennial Man, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Stepmom, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, Nine Months, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York City, Rent
25. Barry Levinson
Director | Rain Man
Barry Lee Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, to Violet (Krichinsky) and Irvin Levinson, who worked in furniture and appliance. He is of Russian Jewish descent. Levinson graduated from high school in 1960, attended college at American University in Washington, DC. He did well, but decided he ...
Movies I've Seen: Good Morning Vietnam, Rain Man, Sleepers, Wag the Dog, The Natural, Disclosure, Sphere, Diner, Bandits, Toys, Envy, Man of the Year
26. Ron Howard
Producer | Arrested Development
Academy Award-winning filmmaker Ron Howard is one of this generation's most popular directors. From the critically acclaimed dramas A Beautiful Mind (2001) and Apollo 13 (1995) to the hit comedies Parenthood (1989) and Splash (1983), he has created some of Hollywood's most memorable films.
Howard ...
Movies I've Seen: Apollo 13, Parenthood, A Beautiful Mind, Frost/Nixon, Splash, Backdraft, EdTV, Willow, Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Cocoon, The Da Vinci Code
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