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Allen Stewart Konigsberg

United States filmmaker and comic actor (1935-)

Bernardo Bertolucci

Italian filmmaker (born in 1940)

Frank Capra

United States film maker (1897-1991)

Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin

English comedian and film maker; portrayed a downtrodden little man in baggy pants and bowler hat (1889-1977)

Jean Cocteau

French writer and film maker who worked in many artistic media (1889-1963)

Francis Ford Coppola

United States filmmaker (born in 1939)

Cecil Blount DeMille

United States film maker remembered for his extravagant and spectacular epic productions (1881-1959)

Vittorio De Sica

Italian film maker (1901-1974)

Walter Elias Disney

United States film maker who pioneered animated cartoons and created such characters as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck; founded Disneyland (1901-1966)

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein

Russian film maker who pioneered the use of montage and is considered among the most influential film makers in the history of motion pictures (1898-1948)

Federico Fellini

Italian filmmaker (1920-1993)

John Ford

United States film maker (1896-1973)

Jean Luc Godard

French film maker influenced by surrealism; early work explored the documentary use of film; noted for innovative techniques (born in 1930)

Samuel Goldwyn

United States film maker (born in Poland) who founded his own film company and later merged with Louis B. Mayer (1882-1974)

David Lewelyn Wark Griffith

United States film maker who was the first to use flashbacks and fade-outs (1875-1948)

Howard Robard Hughes

United States industrialist who was an aviator and a film producer; during the last years of his life he was a total recluse (1905-1976)

John Huston

United States film maker born in the United States but an Irish citizen after 1964 (1906-1987)

Norman Jewison

Canadian filmmaker (born in 1926)

Krzysztof Kieslowski

Polish filmmaker who made ten films based on the Ten Commandments (1941-1996)

Sir Alexander Korda

British filmmaker (born in Hungary) (1893-1956)

Stanley Kubrick

United States filmmaker (born in 1928)

Akira Kurosawa

Japanese filmmaker noted for blending Japanese folklore with western styles of acting (1910-1998)

Shelton Jackson Lee

United States filmmaker whose works explore the richness of black culture in America (born in 1957)

Ernst Lubitsch

German filmmaker of sophisticated comedies (1892-1947)

George Lucas

United States screenwriter and filmmaker (born in 1944)

Louis Burt Mayer

United States filmmaker (born in Russia) who founded his own film company and later merged with Samuel Goldwyn (1885-1957)

Sydney Pollack

United States filmmaker (born in 1934)

Charles Robert Redford

United States actor and filmmaker who starred with Paul Newman in several films (born in 1936)

Henry Kenneth Alfred Russell

English film director (born in 1927)

Martin Scorsese

United States filmmaker (born in 1942)

David Oliver Selznick

United States filmmaker noted for his film adaptations of popular novels (1902-1965)

Mack Sennett

United States filmmaker (born in Canada) noted for slapstick movies (1880-1960)

Steven Spielberg

United States filmmaker (born in 1947)

George Stevens

United States filmmaker (1905-1975)

Oliver Stone

United States filmmaker (born in 1946)

Quentin Jerome Tarantino

United States filmmaker (born in 1963)

Andrei Arsenevich Tarkovsky

Russian filmmaker (1932-1986)

Jacques Tatischeff

French filmmaker (1908-1982)

Francois Truffaut

French filmmaker (1932-1984)

Don Luchino Visconti Conte di Modrone

Italian filmmaker (1906-1976)

Josef von Sternberg

United States film maker (born in Austria) whose films made Marlene Dietrich an international star (1894-1969)

Andrzej Wajda

Polish filmmaker (born in 1929)

Charles Dudley Warner

United States filmmaker who with his brothers founded the movie studio that produced the first talking picture (1881-1958)

George Orson Welles

United States actor and filmmaker (1915-1985)

Samuel Wilder

United States filmmaker (born in Austria) whose dark humor infused many of the films he made (1906-2002)

William Wyler

United States filmmaker (1902-1981)

Darryl Francis Zanuck

United States filmmaker whose works include the first full-length feature film with sound sequences (1902-1979)

Fred Zinnemann

United States filmmaker (born in Austria) (1907-1997)

Ingmar Bergman

Swedish film director who used heavy symbolism and explored the psychology of the characters (born 1918)

Luis Bunuel

Spanish film director (1900-1983)

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock

English film director noted for his skill in creating suspense (1899-1980)

Israel Strassberg

United States actor and film director (born in Austria) who was a leader in developing method acting in the United States (1901-1982)

types:

auteur

a filmmaker who has a personal style and keeps creative control over his or her works

director, film director

the person who directs the making of a film

New Waver

a film maker who follows New Wave ideas

type of:

producer

someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)