- Martin Scorsese
Martin Marcantonio Luciano Scorsese (born November 17, 1942) is an American film director, writer and producer and founder of the World Cinema Foundation. He is also a recipient of the AFI Life Achievement Award for his contributions to the cinema and has won an Academy Award as well as awards from the Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Directors Guild of America. Scorsese's body of work addresses such themes as Italian American identity, … - Michael Apted
Michael Apted (born 10 February 1941;) is an English director, producer, writer and actor. He was one of the most prolific British film directors of his generation but is best known for his work on the "Up!" series of documentaries. On June 29, 2003 he was elected President of the Directors Guild of America. He returned to television, directing the first three episodes of the TV series "Rome". His last feature film project was "Amazing Grace", … - Robert Redford
Robert Redford (born Charles Robert Redford, Jr. on August 18 1936), is a American motion picture actor, director, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, and philanthropist. One of Hollywood's biggest superstars, Redford's appeal has lasted several decades. - Rob Reiner
Robert "Rob" Reiner (born March 6, 1947) is an American actor, director, producer, and writer. As an actor, Reiner first came to national prominence as Carroll O'Connor's and Jean Stapleton's son-in-law, Michael "Meathead" Stivic, on "All in the Family" in a role which earned him two Emmy Awards during the 1970s. As director, the Directors Guild of America recognized him with nominations for his work on "Stand By Me", "When Harry Met Sally...", … - Martha Coolidge
Martha Coolidge (born August 19, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American film director and former President of the Directors Guild of America. - Paris Barclay
Paris KC Barclay (born June 30, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African-American television director and producer. Since the early 1990s, he has been a noted director of television drama programs. He won two Emmy Awards as well as a Directors Guild of America award for directing episodes of "NYPD Blue", among numerous nominations. - Delbert Mann
Delbert Martin Mann, Jr. (born January 30, 1920 Lawrence, Kansas) American television and film director. He graduated from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He was married to Ann Caroline Mann from 1941 until his wife's death in 2001. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. He won the Academy Award for Directing the film "Marty". - James Burrows
James Edward Burrows (b. December 30, 1940, Los Angeles) is a prolific American television director who has been working in television since the 1970s. He is a graduate of Oberlin College. Burrows has directed for many shows including: *1970s - "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Bob Newhart Show", "Rhoda", "Laverne & Shirley", "Taxi". *1980s - "Cheers" (which he also created), "Valerie". - Joseph Sargent
Joseph Sargent (born 22 July 1925, Jersey City, New Jersey) is an American film director. He has directed many television movies, but his best known feature film works are probably "MacArthur", "Nightmares" and "Jaws: The Revenge". He has won four Emmy Awards. Sargent began his career as an actor. He switched to directing in the mid 1950s, … - Vittorio Storaro
Vittorio Storaro (born 24 June, 1940 in Rome, Italy) is a three-time Academy Award winning Italian cinematographer. - Robert Mulligan
Robert Mulligan (born August 23, 1925 in The Bronx, New York) is an American film and television director. Mulligan studied at Fordham University before serving with the United States Marine Corps during World War II. At war's end, he obtained work in the editorial department of the New York Times newspaper but left to pursue a career in television. Employed by the CBS network, Mulligan began his television career at the bottom of the ladder, working as a messenger boy. - Phil Alden Robinson
Phil Alden Robinson (born March 1, 1950) in Long Beach, New York, is an American film director and screenwriter whose films include "Field of Dreams", "Sneakers", and "The Sum of All Fears". He graduated Union College in Schenectady, New York with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Union College in 1996. - Lloyd Kaufman
Lloyd Kaufman is an American film director and producer. With producer Michael Herz, he is the co-founder of Troma Entertainment. He is the director of many of Troma's feature films. His early Troma films are credited to Samuel Weil, a pseudonym (actually the name of Kaufman's maternal great-grandfather) which Kaufman used to skirt Directors Guild of America rules. - Mark Robson
Mark Robson was a Canadian-born film editor, film director and producer in Hollywood. Born in Montréal, Québec, he moved to the United States at a young age. He studied at the University of California, Los Angeles then found work in the prop department at 20th Century Fox studios. He eventually went to work at RKO Pictures where he began training as a film editor. - Howard W. Koch
Howard Winchel Koch (April 11, 1916 - February 16, 2001) was an American director and producer of motion pictures and television. Born in New York City, he attended Peddie School in Hightstown, New Jersey. He began his film career as an employee at Universal Studios office in New York then made his Hollywood filmmaking debut in 1947 as an assistant director. He worked as a producer for the first time in 1953 and a year later made his directing debut. - Ralph Winter
Ralph Winter is a Hollywood film producer who has produced blockbuster movies such as the "X-Men" and "Fantastic Four" series. He currently has an overall first look deal with 20th Century Fox. Winter also is active in producing Christian movies, such as the recently release "Thr3e", based on Ted Dekker's book. Besides "Thr3e", Winter has also produced the film "Hangman's Curse", … - Garrett Brown
Garrett Brown (native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) an American cinematographer, best known as the inventor of the Steadicam. Brown's invention allows cameramen to film while walking without the normal shaking and jostles of a handheld camera. The Steadicam was first used in the Hal Ashby film, "Bound for Glory" (1976), receiving an Academy Award (Best Cinematography) and since on such films as "Rocky", filming Rocky's running and training sequences, … - Ray Richmond
Ray Richmond (born October 19, 1957) is a globally syndicated critic and entertainment/media columnist. A longtime fixture on the Los Angeles journalism scene, he is best known for his years with The Hollywood Reporter. Richmond's long-running weekly column in The Hollywood Reporter is called "The Pulse" which is syndicated by Reuters. Richmond has also worked variously as a feature and entertainment writer, … - Charles Haid
Charles Maurice Haid III (born June 2, 1943 in San Francisco, California) is an American actor and director in both movies and television. He attended Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University). He was associate producer of the original Off-Off-Broadway production of "Godspell" in 1971, originally developed at CMU. His acting credits include the 1980s police drama series "Hill Street Blues", as Officer Andy Renko, and as Dr. - Larry Auerbach
Larry Auerbach (born 1923 in Mount Vernon, New York) is an American television director. Auerbach's career as a director coincided with the early years of television and the organization of the fledgling medium's directors during the first years after the Second World War. A director for half a century, he was a member of the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and one of its predecessors, the Radio and Television Directors Guild, … - Nunnally Johnson
Nunnally Hunter Johnson (December 5, 1897 - March 25, 1977) was an American filmmaker who wrote, produced, and directed films. Johnson was born in Columbus, Georgia. He began his career as a journalist, writing for the Columbus Enquirer Sun, the Savannah Press, the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, and the New York Herald Tribune. He also wrote short stories and a collection of these, "There Ought To Be a Law", was published in 1930. - Susan Flannery
Susan Flannery (born July 31, 1939 in New York, New York) is an acclaimed Golden Globe and four time Emmy Award-winning American soap opera actress. She is known for playing Dr. Laura Spencer Horton on "Days of Our Lives" from 1966 until 1975 where she met writer and daytime legend William J. Bell. She appeared in the 1974 film "The Towering Inferno". - Don Ohlmeyer
Don Ohlmeyer (born Donald Winfred Ohlemeyer, Jr., February 3, 1945, in New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American television producer and former president of the NBC network's West Coast division. He grew up in the Chicago-area and attended Glenbrook North High School. He graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1967, with a B.A. in communications. He received the Lifetime Achievement in Sports Broadcasting from the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in 2007. - Mark Lewis
Mark Lewis is a documentary film and television producer, director and writer. He is famous for his film Cane Toads: An Unnatural History and for his body of work on animals. Unlike many other producers of nature films, his films do not attempt to document the animals in question or their behaviors but rather the complex relationships between people and society and the animals they interact with. - Jehane Noujaim
Jehane Noujaim began her career as a photographer and filmmaker in Cairo, Egypt. She attended Harvard University and was awarded the Gardiner Fellowship. She then joined the MTV news and documentary division as a producer for the series Unfiltered. Noujaim left her producing job at MTV to produce and direct Startup.Com, which played as part of Sundance's documentary competition in 2001. - Ted Lange
Theodore William Lange (born January 5, 1948 in Oakland, California) is an African American actor best known for his role as the bartender, Isaac Washington, in the TV series "The Love Boat". Lange also played Junior on the series "That's My Mama". His first screen appearance was in the documentary film "Wattstax". In the late '80s a pilot for a revival series called That's My Mama Now! with Ted Lange as the star was produced, … - Ronald F. Maxwell
Ronald F. Maxwell (born January 3, 1947) is an independent film director and writer from Clifton, New Jersey. He is most famous for directing the American Civil War epics "Gettysburg" (1993) and "Gods and Generals" (2003). A New Jersey native, Maxwell graduated from New York University (NYU) Institute of Film in the late 1960s and is a member of the Writers Guild of America, Directors Guild of America and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. - Perry Miller Adato
Perry Miller Adato is an award-winning American documentary film producer and director and writer. She won an Emmy in 1968 for her first film, "Dylan Thomas: The World I Breathe" and won two Emmy nominations for "Gertrude Stein: When This You See, Remember Me" in 1970. In 1980 she won an Emmy for "Picasso-A Painter's Diary." She was the first woman ever to win the coveted Directors Guild of America Award for "Georgia O'Keeffe". - Michael Kennedy
Michael Kennedy (b. 1954) is a Canadian TV and film director. Michael has directed 14 feature-length films or TV movies and over 120 television episodes including the first season of "Little Mosque On The Prairie". He has received two Directors Guild of Canada Awards, a Directors Guild of America Award nomination, a Best Director Gemini nomination; three wins from seven nominations for Best Director at the Canadian Comedy Awards, … - Herbert F. Solow
Herbert F. Solow has worked in Hollywood as a producer, director, studio executive, talent agent, and writer. After graduating from Dartmouth College in 1953 Solow was hired by the William Morris Agency in New York City to work in the mailroom. In 1954 he was promoted to talent agent. Later he was hired by NBC and transferred to Los Angeles in 1960 and was subsequently hired by CBS as Director of Daytime Programs, West Coast. - H. Bruce Humberstone
H. Bruce 'Lucky' Humberstone (b. November 18, 1901 in Buffalo, New York - d. October 11, 1984 in Woodland, Los Angeles, California) was a movie actor (as a child), a script clerk, and later an assistant director, working with directors such as King Vidor, Edmound Golding and Allan Dwan. One of twenty-eight founders of the Directors Guild of America, Humberstone worked on several silent movie films for 20th Century Fox. Humberstone did not specialize; he worked on comedies, … - Tony Kaye
Tony Kaye (born 1952, UK) is an advertising and film director. In a controversy regarding his film "American History X", Kaye attempted to remove his name from the credits, preferring instead to invoke the pseudonym Alan Smithee. After New Line told Kaye he couldn't use the Alan Smithee pseudonym and to pick a different name, he chose Humpty Dumpty. - Morton Dacosta
Morton DaCosta (March 7 1914 - January 26 1989) was an American theatre and film director, film producer, writer, and actor. Born Morton Tecosky in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, DaCosta began his career as an actor in Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" in 1942. A decade later he made his directing debut with "The Grey-Eyed People". Additional Broadway directing credits include "Plain and Fancy", "No Time for Sergeants", "Auntie Mame", … - Dan Gordon
Dan Gordon is an American writer noted for his film and television work. He graduated from UCLA as a film and television major, and went on to write screenplays including "Passenger 57" (1992), "Wyatt Earp" (1994), "Murder in the First" (1995), "The Assignment" (1997) and "The Hurricane" (1999) (the story of boxer Rubin Carter), as well as several novels. Gordon is also a co-founder of the Zaki Gordon Institute (ZGI), … - Joe de Grasse
Joseph Louis De Grasse (May 4, 1873 - May 25, 1940) was a Canadian film director. Born in Bathurst, New Brunswick, he was the elder brother of actor Sam De Grasse. Joe De Grasse began his career as a journalist, but soon became enamored of the theater and took work as a stage actor. In 1910, he acted in his first motion picture and although he would appear as an actor in 13 films, and write 2 screenplays, his real interest was in directing. - Randall Robinson
Randall Robinson (born August 19, 1946 in Los Angeles, California) American cinematographer. He is a former president of the Society of Operating Cameramen and the founding publisher and editor of the Operating Cameraman Magazine. Robinson was the first field-test camera assistant for inventor Garrett Brown and the Cinema Products design team developing the Steadicam on the feature film "Bound for Glory" (1976). His input lead the team to develop many improvements, … - John Tiffin Patterson
John Tiffin Patterson was a television and film director. He is notable as the director of thirteen episodes of "The Sopranos" including the first five season finales. Patterson was born in Cooperstown, New York. John Patterson joined the United States Air Force after a few semesters at Williams College and flew for the Strategic Air Command. He resumed his college studies while a reservist, and graduated from the University at Buffalo. - Yannis Smaragdis
Yannis Smaragdis is a Greek film director. He was born in Crete. He studied Film in Greece and Paris, France. He appeared in 1972 with his short film «Two Three Things...» which received the first prize in the Athens Festival as well as a Special Mention in the Montreal Film Festival. Iannis Smaragdis has taught Mass Media courses at the Panteion University of Athens, as well as film direction and screenwriting at film schools in Greece. - Tim Stewart
Tim Stewart is a high technology executive and inventor of web-based community and media systems. Notable Projects: * GiveMeaning - The power of plenty: a network for the $5 philanthropist - givemeaning.com * Peerflix - a LEGAL Peer to Peer network and platform for Physical Media, starting with DVD Movies. Fortune magazine muses, "Does Netflix have a sequel?" * Clearplay - The only Legal DVD content filtering system, … - Arthur Hiller
Arthur Hiller (born November 22, 1923 in Edmonton, Alberta) is an Oscar-nominated Canadian film director. Arthur Hiller graduated from the University of Toronto with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1947, a Master of Arts degree in psychology in 1950 and received an honorary Doctor of Laws in 1995. Hiller began his show business career in television in the 1950's and was a successful television director before moving into films.
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