Writer
by aymanabdallhh | created - 21 Aug 2022 | updated - 2 days ago | Public
1. George R.R. Martin
Writer | Game of Thrones
George R.R. Martin is an American novelist and short-story writer in the fantasy, horror, and science fiction genres, a screenwriter, and television producer. He is known for his international bestselling series of epic fantasy novels, A Song of Ice and Fire, which was later adapted into the HBO ...
2. Carlton Cuse
Producer | Lost
Born in Mexico City, Cuse grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and in Orange County, California. He attended Harvard University, graduating with a degree in American History.
Cuse, along with Damon Lindelof, served as writer and showrunner for all six seasons of Lost (2004) for ABC. He wrote, directed,...
3. J.J. Abrams
Producer | Lost
Jeffrey Jacob Abrams was born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, the son of TV producer parents. At 15, he wrote the music for Don Dohler's Nightbeast (1982). In his senior year of college, he and Jill Mazursky teamed up to write a feature film, which became Taking Care of Business (1990)....
4. Sheri Fink
Producer | Five Days at Memorial
Sheri Fink is known for Five Days at Memorial (2022), Pandemic: How to Prevent an Outbreak (2020) and Frontline (1983).
5. John Ridley
Producer | 12 Years a Slave
John Ridley is the author of seven published novels, the most recent, What Fire Cannot Burn from Warner Books and The Drift from Knopf. His first novel, Stray Dogs, was made into the feature film U Turn (1997) directed by Oliver Stone and starring Sean Penn, Jennifer Lopez, and Nick Nolte. ...
6. John Patton Ford
Director | Emily the Criminal
John Patton Ford was born on December 30, 1981 in Sumter, South Carolina, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Emily the Criminal (2022), Huntington and Untitled John Patton Ford Netflix Film.
7. Damien Chazelle
Writer | La La Land
Damien Sayre Chazelle is an American director and screenwriter. He was born in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother, Celia Sayre (Martin) Chazelle, is an American-Canadian writer and professor of history at The College of New Jersey. His father, Bernard Chazelle, is a French-American Eugene Higgins...
8. David Helling
Director | His Only Son
David Helling was born and raised in southern Louisiana. Upon graduating from high school in Texas, David served five years in the United States Marine Corps and eventually was deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. In Iraq, David began to spend hours reading the Bible-- sparking a sincere...
9. Keenen Ivory Wayans
Writer | White Chicks
The trail-blazing linchpin of a sprawling family dynasty of comic entertainers, it was multi-talented writer/director/producer Keenen Ivory Wayans (born June 8, 1958, in New York City) who led the familial pack and was the first to achieve national prominence when he successfully created, launched,...
10. Guy Ritchie
Director | Sherlock Holmes
Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...
11. Claude Chabrol
Director | Le beau Serge
Claude Chabrol was born on June 24, 1930 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le Beau Serge (1958), La Cérémonie (1995) and Story of Women (1988). He was married to Aurore Chabrol, Stéphane Audran and Agnès Goute. He died on September 12, 2010 in Paris, France.
12. Tyler Perry
Writer | Diary of a Mad Black Woman
Perry was born and raised in New Orleans, to Willie Maxine (Campbell) and Emmitt Perry, Sr. His mother was a church-goer and took Perry along with her once a week. His father was a carpenter and they had a very strained and abusive relationship, which led Perry to suffer from depression as a ...
13. Ricky Gervais
Writer | The Office
Ricky Dene Gervais was born in a suburb of Reading, Berkshire, to Eva Sophia (House) and Lawrence Raymond Gervais, who was a hod carrier and labourer. His father was born in Ontario, Canada, of French-Canadian descent, and his mother was English. He was educated at Ashmead Comprehensive School and ...
14. Seth MacFarlane
Writer | Family Guy
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane was born in the small New England town of Kent, Connecticut, where he lived with his mother, Ann Perry (Sager), an admissions office worker, his father, Ronald Milton MacFarlane, a prep school teacher, and his sister, Rachael MacFarlane, now a voice actress and singer. He ...
15. Celine Song
Writer | Past Lives
Celine Song was born in 1988 in South Korea. She is a writer and director, known for Past Lives (2023), The Wheel of Time (2021) and Working in the Theatre (1976). She has been married to Justin Kuritzkes since June 11, 2016.
16. Zack Snyder
Director | 300
Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter, best known for action and science fiction films. Snyder made his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead and has gone on to be known for his comic book movies and ...
17. Jean-Jacques Annaud
Director | Der Name der Rose
Jean-Jacques Annaud is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for directing Quest for Fire (1981), The Name of the Rose (1986), The Lover (1992), Seven Years in Tibet (1997) and Wolf Totem (2015). Annaud has received numerous awards for his work, including four César Awards, ...
18. Alain Godard
Writer | Der Name der Rose
Alain Godard is known for The Name of the Rose (1986), Enemy at the Gates (2001) and Wolf Totem (2015).
19. Ales Adamovich
Writer | Idi i smotri
Ales Adamovich was born on September 3, 1927 in the USSR. He was a writer, known for Come and See (1985), Franz + Polina (2006) and Voyna pod kryshami (1971). He died on January 1, 1994 in Moscow, Russia.
20. Roger Avary
Writer | Pulp Fiction
Award-winning filmmaker Roger Avary first began experimenting in Beta I video and 8mm film formats during the late 1970s. In 1983, his Super-8mm supernatural thriller The Worm Turns won Best Film from the Los Angeles Film Teachers Association Film Expo. He went on to attend the Pasadena Art Center ...
21. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
22. Rajkumar Hirani
Writer | PK
Rajkumar Hirani is an Indian film director and editor. Hirani has directed five Hindi films, including Munna Bhai M.B.B.S., Lage Raho Munnabhai, 3 Idiots, PK and Sanju, and all of which have been commercial and critical successes. Most of which have won several awards, including the national awards...
23. Deborah Feldman
Writer | Unorthodox
Deborah Feldman was born on August 17, 1986 in Williamsburg, New York City, New York, USA. She is a writer and actress, known for Unorthodox (2020), #Female Pleasure (2018) and Kölner Treff (1976).
24. Ildikó Enyedi
Director | Teströl és lélekröl
Ildikó Enyedi was born on November 15, 1955 in Budapest, Hungary. She is a director and writer, known for On Body and Soul (2017), Simon, the Magician (1999) and My Twentieth Century (1989).
25. Matt Walsh
Actor | Lady Ballers
Matt Walsh is an American right-wing political commentator, writer, and speaker. Matt is best known for The Matt Walsh Show (2018) podcast and is a columnist for The Daily Wire. He has written four books, and has starred in the What Is a Woman? (2022) documentary. Matt Walsh (born June 18, 1986) ...
26. Maegan Houang
Writer | Shôgun
Maegan Houang is a writer/director based in Los Angeles. She has written on TV shows such as Counterpart (Starz), Shogun (FX) and The Sympathizer (HBO). In 2018, she received a VSCO Voices Creator Grant to direct a short film In Full Bloom starring Kieu Chinh (The Joy Luck Club). The film premiered...
27. Justin Marks
Writer | Top Gun: Maverick
Justin Marks was born on April 27, 1980 in Harris, Texas, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Top Gun: Maverick (2022), The Jungle Book (2016) and Counterpart (2017). He is married to Rachel Kondo.
28. Tony McNamara
Writer | The Great
Tony McNamara was born in Kilmore, Victoria, Australia. He is known for The Great (2020), Poor Things (2023) and The Favourite (2018). He is married to Belinda Bromilow.
29. Jason Fuchs
Writer | Wonder Woman
Actor, writer. New York City native Jason Fuchs has been acting since the age of 7 when he appeared at Lincoln Center in the play "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" with Sam Waterston. In 1996, Jason made his feature film debut as Marvin in "Flipper" opposite Elijah Wood and Paul Hogan. Back on stage, Jason...
30. George Miller
Producer | Mad Max: Fury Road
George Miller is an Australian film director, screenwriter, producer, and former medical doctor. He is best known for his Mad Max franchise, with Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981) and Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) being hailed as amongst the greatest action films of all time. Aside from the Mad Max ...
31. Brendan McCarthy
Writer | Mad Max: Fury Road
Brendan McCarthy is known for Mad Max: Fury Road (2015), Lost in Space (1998) and Highlander II: The Quickening (1991).
32. William Monahan
Writer | The Departed
William Monahan was born on November 3, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Departed (2006), London Boulevard (2010) and Edge of Darkness (2010).
33. Steven Zaillian
Writer | Searching for Bobby Fischer
Steven Zaillian was born on January 30, 1953 in Fresno, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Searching for Bobby Fischer (1993), The Irishman (2019) and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011). He is married to Elizabeth Zaillian. They have two children.
34. Mark Bomback
Producer | Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
Mark Bomback was born on August 29, 1971 in New Rochelle, New York, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014), War for the Planet of the Apes (2017) and Godsend (2004).
36. Donald L. Miller
Writer | Masters of the Air
Donald L. Miller is known for Masters of the Air (2024), The Bloody Hundredth (2024) and A Biography of America (2000).
37. John Orloff
Writer | Masters of the Air
John Orloff was born on February 14, 1966 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Masters of the Air (2024), Band of Brothers (2001) and Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010).
38. Morwenna Banks
Actress | Damned
Morwenna Banks was born on September 20, 1961 in Flushing, Cornwall, England, UK. She is an actress and writer, known for Damned (2016), Saxondale (2006) and Miss You Already (2015).
39. Frank Darabont
Writer | The Shawshank Redemption
Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbeliard, France, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. Brought to America as an infant, he settled with his family in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High ...
40. Stephen King
Writer | Maximum Overdrive
Stephen Edwin King was born on September 21, 1947, at the Maine General Hospital in Portland. His parents were Nellie Ruth (Pillsbury), who worked as a caregiver at a mental institute, and Donald Edwin King, a merchant seaman. His father was born under the surname "Pollock," but used the last name ...
41. Abdel Rahim Kamal
Writer | The Treasure 2
Abdel Rahim Kamal was born on October 30, 1971 in Sohag , Egypt. He is a writer, known for The Treasure 2 (2019), The Treasure (2017) and Scarecrow (2019).
42. Randall Wallace
Writer | We Were Soldiers
Randall Wallace was born on July 28, 1949 in Jackson, Tennessee, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for We Were Soldiers (2002), Pearl Harbor (2001) and Braveheart (1995).
43. Mark Protosevich
Writer | The Cell
Mark Protosevich was born on August 24, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Cell (2000), Oldboy (2013) and I Am Legend (2007).
44. Bill Burr
Actor | Old Dads
Bill Burr is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor, and podcaster. He is best known for playing Patrick Kuby in the crime drama series Breaking Bad (2008), and creating and starring in the Netflix animated sitcom F Is for Family (2015).
In 2008, Burr's voice was featured in the game Grand ...
45. Bobby Cannavale
Actor | The Station Agent
In both career and in real life, Bobby Cannavale tends to choose the unconventional way of doing things. In the beginning, his decisions may have cost the dark, swarthily good-looking actor some acting roles and/or good-paying parts but, in the end, his strong work ethic and sense of self, despite ...
46. Hugo Blick
Producer | The Honourable Woman
Hugo Blick was born in 1965 in Henley on Thames, Oxfordshire, England, UK. He is a producer and writer, known for The Honorable Woman (2014), The Shadow Line (2011) and Sensitive Skin (2005). He is married to Elinor Morriston.
47. Chaz Hawkins
Writer | Fallout
Chaz Hawkins is known for Fallout (2024), The Sauce and Fangirled (2018).
48. Geneva Robertson-Dworet
Writer | Fallout
Geneva Robertson-Dworet was born on May 8, 1985 in Los Angeles, California, USA. Geneva is a writer and producer, known for Fallout (2024), Captain Marvel (2019) and Tomb Raider (2018). Geneva is married to Hayes Davenport. Geneva was previously married to Hayes Davenport.
49. Graham Wagner
Producer | Portlandia
Graham Wagner is known for Portlandia (2011), Fallout (2024) and Silicon Valley (2014).
50. Karey Dornetto
Producer | Portlandia
Karey Dornetto is known for Portlandia (2011), Awkwafina Is Nora from Queens (2020) and Arrested Development (2003).
51. Richard Gadd
Actor | Baby Reindeer
Richard Gadd was born on May 11, 1989 in Wormit, Fife, Scotland, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Baby Reindeer (2024), Wedding Season (2022) and Against the Law (2017).
52. Weronika Tofilska
Writer | Love Lies Bleeding
Weronika Tofilska is known for Love Lies Bleeding (2024), Love Life (2016) and The Patient (2014).
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