Vittorio De Sica (July 7 1901 - November 13 1974) was an Italian neorealist director and actor.

Roberto Rossellini was an Italian film director. Rossellini was one of the most important directors of Italian neorealist cinema, contributing films such as "Roma città aperta" to the movement.

Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (September 28, 1924 - December 19, 1996) was an Academy Award nominated Italian film actor. Born in Fontana Liri, a small village in the Apennines, Mastroianni grew up in Turin and Rome. During World War II he was interned in a Nazi prison, but he escaped and hid in Venice. In 1945 he started working for a film company and began taking acting lessons. His film debut was in "I Miserabili" (1947).

Satyajit Ray was an Indian filmmaker regarded as one of the greatest film directors of the twentieth century. Born in the city of Kolkata (then Calcutta) into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and letters, Ray studied at Presidency College and at the Visva-Bharati University, at the poet Rabindranath Tagore's Santiniketan.

Stan Brakhage was an American non-narrative filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the most important experimental filmmakers of the 20th century. Brakhage was born as Robert Sanders in an orphanage in Kansas City, Missouri. Three weeks after his birth, he was adopted by Ludwig and Clara Brakhage, and he was given the name James Stanley Brakhage. As a child, he appeared on radio as a boy soprano before going to high school in Denver, …

Alessandro Blasetti (3 July 1900, Rome, Latium, Italy, 1 February 1987, Rome, Lazio, Italy was an Italian film director who influenced Italian neorealism. He was president of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1967.

Franco Interlenghi is an Italian actor. At 15 years old, He starts acting in Vittorio De Sica's Italian Neorealism film Sciuscià. He has worked with great directors such Federico Fellini in "I Vitelloni", Michealgelo Antonioni in "I Vinti" or Luchino Visconti on stage with his adaptation of "Death of a salesman". Married to Antonella Lualdi; their daughter, Antonellina Interlenghi, is an actress too.

Raffaele Vallone, known as Raf, was an Italian actor and an international film star. Born in Tropea, Calabria, Italy, the son of a lawyer, Vallone studied Law and Philosophy at the University of Turin and entered his father's law firm. He also played semi-professional soccer but never realized his dream of becoming a professional athlete. Subsequently, he became a sports reporter for "L'Unità", a communist newspaper, …

Tonino Guerra (born March 16, 1920) is an Italian poet, writer and screenwriter who has collaborated with some of the most prominent writers of the world. Guerra was born in Santarcangelo di Romagna. Descendant of Cesare Zavattini, the screenwriter who essentially defined the style and morals of Italian neorealism, Guerra deviates from his great mentor: while Zavattini brought the directors with whom he collaborated over to his own social and moral speculation, …

Luigi Bartolini (February 8 1892 - May 16 1963) was an Italian painter, writer, and poet. He is most well known for his novel, "Bicycle Thieves", upon which the Italian neorealist film directed by Vittorio De Sica and of the same title was based. He published more than 70 books during his lifetime.

Uli Edel (born April 11, 1947 in Neuenburg, Germany), German film director. After studying theatre science in Munich, he was accepted into Munich Film School alongside Bernd Eichinger. Uli befriended him and they started working together on their exercise movies, sharing a love for the nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism as well as popular US mainstream cinema. While still enrolled in film school, Edel started taking acting lessons.

John Kitzmiller was an African-American actor. Born in Battle Creek, Michigan, Kitzmiller participated in the liberation of Italy during World War II. He began acting while stationed in this country, and appeared in Italian neorealist films. He made Italy his permanent residence and starred in more than fifty European films, often portraying an angry black man fighting racism. He played the leading role of "Jerry" in the film "Senza pietà" ("Without Pity"), …

Margaret Salmon is a British based film maker-artist. The work of this New York-born filmmaker is fuelled by references to the great realist tradition in film, be it the propaganda documentary of the Farm Security Administration in the United States, Italian neorealism, or French cinéma vérité. Like the pioneers of the artist's film, Salmon works on her own, shooting in 35mm 16mm or in Super 8. Her subjects are taken from everyday life: people with modest incomes, …

Alfred Hayes was an English screenwriter, television writer, novelist, and poet, who worked in Italy and the United States. He is perhaps best known for his poem "Joe Hill" ("I dreamed I saw Joe Hill last night…"), later set to music by Earl Robinson. Born in London, Hayes graduated from New York's City College (now part of City University of New York), worked briefly as a newspaper reporter, and began writing fiction and poetry in the 1930s.

Allen Fong Yuk-ping is a film director and one of the leaders of the Hong Kong New Wave of the late 1970s and early 1980s. His cinematic style is highly influenced by Italian neorealism. He also usually uses personal or real-life stories as the basis for his films. Despite his limited number of productions, he is still the only filmmaker to have won "Best Director" three times at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Currently he is the guest lecturer at Hong Kong Baptist University.

Elvira Notari (1875-1946), Italy's earliest and most prolific female filmmaker, made over sixty feature films and about a hundred documentaries. Her documentary-style films of street life in Naples are often seen as a forerunner of Italian neorealism. Born Elvira Coda, she was of modest social origins. She married Nicola Notari. Together they founded Dora Film. She directed the films, while he worked as a cameraman.

Isotta Ingrid Frieda Giuliana Rossellini is the daughter of the late actress Ingrid Bergman and the director Roberto Rossellini. In addition, she is the twin sister of the actress Isabella Rossellini. She also has a brother, Roberto Ingmar Rossellini, and a half-sister, Pia Lindström. Rossellini received a BS, MA and Ph.D in Italian Literature from Columbia University in New York City, New York.

Yu Hyun-mok (born July 2, 1925) is a South Korean film director. Born in Sariwon, North Hwanghae, Korea (North Korea today), he made his film debut in 1956 with "Gyocharo" ("Crossroads").

Umberto Sclanizza (1893 - 1951) was an Italian theatre and cinema actor, born in Venice, of noble stock. His film work straddles a period in Italian cinema, 1939 - 1943, when the industry was significantly turned over to the production of wartime propaganda pieces, such as 'Il Re d'Inghilterra non paga' ('The King of England Won't Pay') (1941). This spate of old-fashioned classical dramas, infused with gentle Axis sympathies, …