Robert Altman

Robert Altman

male, deceased (2006)
Nashville, film director, BAFTA winner, Academy Honorary Award recipient, Emmy Award winner, American military personnel of World War II…NationalFilmRegistry
Robert Bernard Altman was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006,...
Harrison Ford

Harrison Ford

male, 67 years old
indiana jones, Star Wars, Han Solo, actor, Star Wars actor, American…film actor, Action film actor, NationalFilmRegistry
Harrison Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an American actor. He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space pilot Han Solo in...
Chuck Jones

Chuck Jones

male, deceased (2002)
animated film director, death from cardiovascular disease, from Los Angeles, director, film producer, film director…NationalFilmRegistry
Charles Martin "Chuck" Jones was an American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, and director of animated films, most memorably of...

Ralph Steiner

male, deceased (1986)
from Vermont, photographer, American, Experimental filmmaker, NationalFilmRegistry
Ralph Steiner (8 February 1899 - 13 July 1986) was an American photographer and filmmaker. His 1929 film H2O was added to the National Film...
Julie Dash

Julie Dash

female, 57 years old
alpha kappa alpha, NationalFilmRegistry, Long Island City, Queen, University of California, Los Angeles alumni, From Queen, from New York City…film director
Dash began her study of film in 1969 at the Studio Museum of Harlem. As an undergraduate, she studied psychology until she was accepted into the...
Sessue Hayakawa

Sessue Hayakawa

male, deceased (1973)
Japanese American, Japanese American actor, Japanese, Samurai, film actor, chiba…Silent film actor, NationalFilmRegistry
Sessue Hayakawa was a Japanese actor in both Japanese and American films, including two in the U.S. National Film Registry. He starred in over 80...
Douglas Sirk

Douglas Sirk

male, deceased (1987)
German, Hitler's Madman, Written on the Wind, Universum Film AG, NationalFilmRegistry, Universal Studios…film director
Douglas Sirk (April 26, 1900 - January 14, 1987) was a film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas in the 1950s. Sirk was born...
Bert Stern

Bert Stern

male, 80 years old
photographer, celebrity, vogue, Documentary film, travel, NationalFilmRegistry…film director
Bertram Stern (born 3 October 1929) is an American fashion and celebrity portrait photographer. His best known work is arguably a collection of...
Oskar Fischinger

Oskar Fischinger

male, deceased (1967)
painter, German, abstract film, Motion Painting No. 1, Animator, NationalFilmRegistry…film director, film producer
Oskar Fischinger was an abstract animator, filmmaker, and painter. He made over 50 short films, and painted c. 900 canvases which are in museums,...
Dave Tatsuno

Dave Tatsuno

male, deceased (2006)
Asian American, Filmmaker, From San Francisco, library of congress, World War II, topaz…NationalFilmRegistry
Dave Tatsuno (born Masaharu Tatsuno August 18 1913; died January 26, 2006 in California) was a Japanese American businessman who documented life in...