Cinéastes
by tilopa2-423-559007 | created - 09 Apr 2023 | updated - 3 months ago | Public
1. André Breton
Writer | Essai de simulation de délire cinématographique
André Breton, one of the founders of Surrealism who studied to be a medical doctor and survived the First World War, became a writer and applied his knowledge of medicine and psychiatry to create innovative literature and art.
He was born on February 18, 1896, in Tichebray, Normandy, France. He was ...
2. Krzysztof Kieslowski
Writer | Trois couleurs: Bleu
Krzysztof Kieslowski graduated from Lódz Film School in 1969, and became a documentary, TV and feature film director and scriptwriter. Before making his first film for TV, Przejscie podziemne (1974) (The Underground Passage), he made a number of short documentaries. His next TV title, Personnel (...
3. Alain Boudet
Director | Cinéma 16
Alain Boudet was born on March 14, 1928 in Sourdeval, Manche, France. He was a director and assistant director, known for Cinéma 16 (1975), Le théâtre de la jeunesse (1960) and La plage de Saint-Clair (1962). He died on August 7, 2019 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
4. Orson Welles
Actor | Citizen Kane
His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...
5. Eric Tsang
Actor | Mou gaan dou
Eric Tsang was born on April 14, 1953 in Hong Kong. He is an actor and producer, known for Infernal Affairs (2002), Hold You Tight (1998) and The Eye (2002). He was previously married to Mei-Hua Wang.
6. Gérard Blain
Actor | Hatari!
Gérard Blain was born on October 23, 1930 in Paris, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Hatari! (1962), Les amis (1971) and Un enfant dans la foule (1976). He was married to Marie-Hélène Bauret, Monique Blain, Bernadette Lafont and Estella Blain. He died on December 17, 2000 in Paris, ...
7. Richard Attenborough
Actor | Jurassic Park
Richard Attenborough, Baron Attenborough of Richmond-upon-Thames, was born in Cambridge, England, the son of Mary (née Clegg), a founding member of the Marriage Guidance Council, and Frederick Levi Attenborough, a scholar and academic administrator who was a don at Emmanuel College and wrote a ...
8. Alberto Sordi
Actor | Io e Caterina
One of Italy's most captivating and talented cinematic comedy stars, Italian veteran Alberto Sordi was known for satirizing his country's social mores in pungent black comedies, farcical tales and grim drama. He, along with peers Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi and Nino Manfredi, arguably represent ...
9. Christopher Walken
Actor | The Deer Hunter
Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...
10. Arthur Edmund Carewe
Actor | Doctor X
Arthur Edmund Carewe was born on December 30, 1884 in Trapzon (Trebizond), Turkey. He was an actor, known for Doctor X (1932), The Cat and the Canary (1927) and The Phantom of the Opera (1925). He was married to Irene Pavlowska. He died on April 22, 1937 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
11. Douglas Fairbanks
Actor | The Thief of Bagdad
Douglas Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado, to Ella Adelaide (nee Marsh) and Hezekiah Charles Ullman, an attorney and native of Pennsylvania, who was a captain for the Union forces during the Civil War. Fairbanks' paternal grandparents were German Jewish immigrants, ...
12. Juliette Binoche
Actress | The English Patient
Juliette Binoche was born in Paris, France, to Monique Yvette Stalens, a director, teacher, and actress, and Jean-Marie Binoche, a sculptor, director, and actor. Her mother was born in Czestochowa, Poland, of French, Walloon Belgian, and Polish descent, while her father is French. Juliette was only...
13. Mario Cipriani
Actor | Accattone
Mario Cipriani is known for Accattone (1961), Sud Side Stori (2000) and Sweet Dreams (1981).
14. Nadine Nortier
Actress | Mouchette
Nadine Nortier is a French actress born in 1948 and best remembered for her only film performance as the title character in Robert Bresson's classic Mouchette (1967). As the innocent country house girl who tries to survive in a harsh world of abuse from her family, Nadine (a non professional ...
15. Zygmunt Malanowicz
Actor | Nóz w wodzie
Zygmunt Malanowicz was born on February 4, 1938 in Wilno, Wilenskie, Poland [now Vilnius, Lithuania]. He was an actor and writer, known for Knife in the Water (1962), Jaroslaw Dabrowski (1976) and Bez ulik (1992). He died on April 4, 2021 in Poland.
16. Eddie Axberg
Sound_department | Utvandrarna
Eddie Axberg was born on July 9, 1947 in Stockholm, Sweden. He is an actor, known for The Emigrants (1971), The New Land (1972) and The Queen of Sheba's Pearls (2004).
17. John Garfield
Actor | Four Daughters
John Garfield was born Jacob Julius Garfinkle on the Lower East Side of New York City, to Hannah Basia (Margolis) and David Garfinkle, who were Jewish immigrants from Zhytomyr (now in Ukraine). Jules was raised by his father, a clothes presser and part-time cantor, after his mother's death in 1920,...
18. Tony Leung Chiu-wai
Actor | Fa yeung nin wah
Tony Leung Chiu Wai was born in Hong Kong on 27 June 1962. He and his younger sister were raised by their mother after his father left them. In 1982, after passing the training courses of TVB, Tony became a TV actor and became famous for his comedy style in such TV shows as Tales of a Eunuch (1983)...
19. Thomas Doret
Actor | Le gamin au vélo
Thomas Doret was born on December 10, 1996 in Seraing, Belgium. He is an actor, known for The Kid with a Bike (2011), Les témoins (2014) and Renoir (2012).
20. Ivor Novello
Writer | Downhill
While his special gifts seemed to lie in music and composing, the dapper, multi-talented Welsh actor Ivor Novello (ne David Ivor Davies), with his leading-man good looks, had a strong affinity for the camera.
Born in Cardiff, Wales, in 1893, he was the son of a tax-collector father and a well-known ...
21. Gabriel de Gravone
Actor | Rouletabille chez les bohémiens
Gabriel de Gravone was born on November 21, 1887 in Ajaccio, Corsica, France. He was an actor and director, known for Rouletabille chez les bohémiens (1922), L'Arlésienne (1922) and Le berceau de dieu (1926). He died on December 5, 1972 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France.
22. Pierre Magnier
Actor | La règle du jeu
Pierre Magnier was born on February 22, 1869 in Paris, France. He was an actor and director, known for The Rules of the Game (1939), Cyrano de Bergerac (1923) and L'ibis bleu (1919). He died on October 15, 1959 in Clichy-la-Garenne, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France.
23. Mark Gregory
Actor | Fuga dal Bronx
Mark Gregory was born on May 2, 1964 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor, known for Escape from the Bronx (1983), 1990: The Bronx Warriors (1982) and Thunder (1983). He died on January 31, 2013 in Castel Madama, Lazio, Italy.
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