- James McTeigue
James McTeigue is an Australian film director. He attended Cromer High School, in Cromer, a northern beach suburb of Sydney. He has worked on a number of Australian films, but is most famous for his role in "The Matrix" films as well as "Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones" and his directorial debut in 2006, "V for Vendetta".
- Tom Braidwood
Tom Braidwood (born September 27, 1948) is a Canadian actor best known for the role of Melvin Frohike, one of the conspiracy theorists known as the Lone Gunmen on the American television series "The X-Files". Braidwood also served as an assistant director on the show from seasons one through five; was a second unit director on "Millennium", another show from Chris Carter, …
- Matt Earl Beesley
Matt Earl Beesley is an American television director. He has directed episodes of television series such as CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Prison Break, Lost, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Criminal Minds, The Closer and CSI: Miami.
- Cliff Bole
Cliff Bole is a director of a number of American and Canadian television programs. He has directed episodes of "The Six Million Dollar Man", "Charlie's Angels", "V: The Series", "Baywatch", "The X-Files", "Star Trek: The Next Generation", "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" and "Star Trek: Voyager" among others. The Star Trek alien race called the "Bolians" are named after him.
- Alfonso Cuarón
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco is an Academy Award-nominated Mexican film director, screenwriter and producer. He is the son of Alfredo Cuarón, a cardiologist who worked for the United Nations' IAEA sector for many years. He has three siblings, Alfredo, Carlos and Cristina; and two half sisters, Christina and Elisa.
- Asia Argento
Asia Aria Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento (born 20 September, 1975, Rome) is an Italian television and film actress and director. In Rome, the city's register office refused to acknowledge "Asia" as an appropriate name, and instead officially inscribed her as Aria Argento. Despite this, she uses the name Asia Argento professionally. Asia is pronounced ['a:sia] in Italian.
- Andy Mikita
Andy Mikita is currently a director for Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis. He has worked in TV and Film for over 20 years.
- Michael Katleman
Michael Katleman is an American director and producer. He has worked on "Smallville", "Tru Calling", and "Gilmore Girls" as well as many other programs.
- Lee Tamahori
Lee Tamahori, born 17 June 1950 in Wellington, New Zealand, is best known as a film director, although he got his start as a commercial artist and photographer in the late 1970s. Tamahori is of Māori ancestry on his father's side and of British ancestry on his mother's. His break as a filmmaker came with "Once Were Warriors" (1994), a gritty depiction of urban Māori life that was phenomenally successful in New Zealand.
- Branko Lustig
Branko Lustig (born June 10, 1932) is a prominent film producer. He is the only Croatian person to have won two Academy Awards. Lustig was born in Osijek, Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Croatia) to a Jewish family. During World War II, as a child he was imprisoned for two years in Auschwitz and Bergen-Belsen. He received his first Oscar in 1993 for the production of "Schindler's List", a film based on the novel of Thomas Keneally (which is, in turn, …
- Marek Posival
- Hawk Koch
Howard Winchel Koch, Jr. (born December 14, 1945 in Los Angeles, California) is an American motion picture producer, a member of the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and a former road manager for the musical groups The Supremes and The Dave Clark Five. Almost always known by the nickname "Hawk," he was raised in the film business, the son of producer Howard Winchel Koch, Sr. After his time in the music business, …
- John Kassir
Johnny Kassir (born October 24th 1957 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American actor, voice actor, and comedian who is perhaps best known for voicing the Crypt Keeper on the hit HBO show Tales from the Crypt. Kassir played the Bulgarian kicker, Zagreb Shkenusky, for six years in the HBO comedy series "1st & Ten (TV Series)", about a fictional football team.
- Pamela Westmore
Pamela Westmore is a Hollywood make-up artist and part of the third generation of the Westmore family. The granddaughter of Wally Westmore, she has worked on over 50 productions since 1982, including as acting as Sandra Bullock's chief makeup artist.
- Howard Kazanjian
Howard G. Kazanjian (born 1942) is an American filmmaker of Armenian descent. He is a respected producer and author with a reputation for efficiency. His early credits include being an assistant director on Alfred Hitchcock's Family Plot.
- Michele Soavi
Michele Soavi, sometimes known as Michael Soavi (born July 3, 1957) is an Italian filmmaker.
- Apoorva Lakhia
Apoorva Lakhia is an Indian film director. Before becoming a film director, Apoorva was an assistant director for Ashutosh Gowariker's period epic film "Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India". He had also been an assistant for Hollywood films such as "The Ice Storm" and "Addicted to Love". He made his debut as a director with the 2002 film "Mumbai Se Aaya Mera Dost" which like "Lagaan" was set in a village.
- Alan Crosland
Alan Crosland (born August 10, 1894; died July 16, 1936) was an American actor and film director. Born in New York City, New York to a well-to-do family, Alan Crosland attended from Dartmouth College. After graduation he took a job as a writer with the "New York Globe" magazine. Interested in the theatre, he began acting on stage, appearing in several ptroductions with Shakespearian actress Annie Russell (1864-1936).
- Tristram Shapeero
Tristram or Tristam Shapeero is a British director of television comedies, including "Brass Eye", "Smack the Pony", "Green Wing" and "Absolutely Fabulous".
- Lionel Barrymore
Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blythe on April 28, 1878 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – November 15, 1954 in Van Nuys, California) was an American Academy Award Winning actor of stage, radio and film.
- Claire Denis
Claire Denis (born April 21, 1948) is a French filmmaker internationally known for her investigation of the human condition with its cross-cultural tensions and family troubles. Denis was born in Paris, France, and raised in colonial Africa, where her father was a French official. She moved houses every two years because her father wanted them to know about geography.
- Jonathan Tzachor
Jonathan Tzachor was a producer and director for "Power Rangers". He became the executive producer midway though Power Rangers Turbo. His first full series was "Power Rangers: In Space" in 1998. He worked on the show until 2002's "Power Rangers: Wild Force".
- Henry J. Bronchtein
Henry J. Bronchtein is a director, producer and production manager on the HBO television series "The Sopranos".
- Gregory Dark
Gregory Dark (born Gregory Hippolyte Brown on July 12 1957 in Los Angeles, California) is an American film director. He has also been credited as Alexander Hippolyte, Gregory Brown and as The Dark Brothers. Dark is most well known for directing hardcore and softcore pornographic films between the mid-1980s and 1990s. However, currently Dark is a sought after music video director, helming videos for popular recording artists such as Linkin Park, Snoop Dogg, …
- Takashi Miike
(born August 24, 1960) is a highly prolific and controversial Japanese filmmaker. He has directed over sixty theatrical, video, and television productions since his debut in 1991. In the years 2001 and 2002 alone, Miike is credited with directing no fewer than fourteen productions.
- Jean-Christophe Bouvet
Jean-Christophe Bouvet (born 1947) is a French actor, film director and writer.
- David Decio
David Decio is a London born English actor. He made his acting debut in the film "Shiner" with Sir Michael Caine, before obtaining the role of Mr. Kil’s Personal Assistant & Jinx’s Personal Driver in the 20th James Bond 007 movie Die Another Day. David was even given the privilege of driving the 007 Ford Thunderbird! David was then a stand-in on the following Bond film Casino Royale (2006 film) for the villain Kratt.
- Lamberto Bava
Lamberto Bava (born April 3 1944, Rome) is an Italian film director, specializing in horror films. He is the son of cinematographer/director Mario Bava, and grandson of cameraman Eugenio Bava. He is also a protege of director Dario Argento. After working as a personal assistant, assistant director and screenwriter with his father, …
- Susie Liggat
Susie Liggat is a British television producer. Her career had predominantly been as a first assistant director, in which capacity she worked on series such as "Teachers" and "Casanova", until she became a producer in 2006. She produced "Invasion of the Bane", the pilot episode of "The Sarah Jane Adventures", a spin-off from the popular science-fiction series "Doctor Who". During the production of the 2007 series of "Doctor Who", …
- Alberto Grimaldi
Alberto Grimaldi (b. 1925 Naples) is a major Italian film producer. He is credited with producing some of the most famous films in film history including "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" in 1965 and "Gangs of New York" in 2002. He shares his name with an antagonist in the "Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery" section of David Mitchell's "Cloud Atlas"
- Robert H. Justman
Robert H. Justman (born 1926) has worked in Hollywood as a producer, director, production manager, assistant director, and production assistant since the early 1950s. He has worked on many television series including "Lassie", "The Life of Riley", "Adventures of Superman", "The Outer Limits", "Then Came Bronson", "Mission: Impossible" and many others. He was one of the pioneers behind "Star Trek", …
- James Rait
James Rait (born July 4, 1967) is a Canadian television director. Rait was born in Nairobi, Kenya to British parents. His family emigrated to Canada in 1970 and became Canadian citizens nine years later. After attending high school in Perth, Ontario, he spent three years in film school in Thunder Bay at Confederation College. A work placement after college led to his first full time job in the industry on CBC Television's "Street Legal".
- Jacques Becker
Jacques Becker was a French screenwriter and film director. Becker was born in Paris. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir. Part of the Comité de libération du cinéma français, during the German occupation of France in World War II, the Nazis held him in prison for a year. He married actress Françoise Fabian. Their son Jean Becker also became a film director.
- Jimmy Sangster
Jimmy Sangster (born 2 December 1927) is an English screenwriter and director. He is best known for his work for Hammer Film Productions, for whom he scripted many of their most successful and still-famous horror films, including "The Curse of Frankenstein" (1957) and "Dracula" (1958) (US: "Horror of Dracula"). He originally worked as a production assistant at the studio, as well as assistant director, second unit director and production manager.
- Gerd Oswald
Gerd Oswald (June 9, 1919-May 22,1989), was a director of American films and television. He was born in Berlin, Germany and died in Los Angeles, California. He was the son of German film director Richard Oswald.
- Ettore Scola
Ettore Scola is an Italian screenwriter and film director. Scola was born in Trevico, province of Avellino (Campania). He entered the film industry as a screenwriter in 1953, and directed his first movie, "Let's Talk About Women", in 1964. In 1974 Scola enjoyed international success with "We All Loved Each Other So Much" ("C'eravamo tanto amati"), a wide fresco of post-World War II Italy life and politics, dedicated to fellow director Vittorio De Sica.
- Jean-Jacques Beineix
Jean-Jacques Beineix (born October 8, 1946) is a French film director.
- Siluck Saysanasy
Siluck Saysanasy (born January 30, 1974 in Vientiane, Laos) is a Laotian-Canadian television actor best known for playing "Yick Yu", a character from the Degrassi series. He went to high school at Vaughan Road Academy in Toronto, Ontario, in the Interact program.
- Gerry O'Hara
Gerry O'Hara (b. 1925) is an English film and television director. He directed the "Press Gang" episode "Picking Up The Pieces".
- Tinto Brass
Giovanni Brass, better known as Tinto Brass, is one of the most well-known and controversial Italian filmmakers. He is noted especially for his work in the Porn genre, with films such as "Così fan tutte" (released with the English language title:"All Ladies Do It"), "Paprika" and "Monella".