- Stan Lathan
Stan Lathan is an African-American television director, notably of "The Steve Harvey Show" for the WB and HBO's "Def Comedy Jam". He first came to prominence working behind the scenes of the landmark local public tv series "Say Brother", a Black public affairs show in Boston. The series featured art, history, literature, healthcare, drama, culture, and specials on subjects such as the Nation of Islam, and Negro League baseball. - Dick Martin
Dick Martin (born January 30 1922 in Detroit, Michigan) is an American comedian. Very early in his career, Martin was a staff writer for "Duffy's Tavern", an extremely popular radio situation comedy. However, Abe Burrows, who was much more actively involved in that series, later claimed that Martin's tenure was very brief and that he made no significant contributions. In the 1950s Dick Martin and Dan Rowan formed the comedy team Rowan and Martin. - David Yates
David Yates is an English film and television director. He has worked extensively in British television, mainly for the BBC, helming high-profile drama projects such as "When I Was a Girl" (1991), "The Sins" (2000), "The Way We Live Now" (2001), Paul Abbott's "State of Play" (2003), "The Young Visiters" (2003), "Sex Traffic" (2004) and Richard Curtis's "The Girl in the Café" (2005). - Joseph Pevney
Joseph Pevney (born September 15, 1911, New York City) made his debut in Vaudeville as a boy soprano in 1924. Although he hated Vaudeville, he loved the theatre and developed a career as a stage actor, appearing in such plays as "The World We Make", "Key Largo", "Golden Boy" and "Nature Son". A short career as a film actor followed, … - Andy Griffith
Andy Samuel Griffith (born June 1, 1926) is a Tony Award-nominated and Emmy Award-nominated American actor, producer, writer, director and Grammy Award-winning southern gospel singer. He gained prominence in the starring role of "A Face in the Crowd," before he was better known for his starring roles, playing the title characters in the long-running 1960s sitcom, "The Andy Griffith Show", for CBS and in the long-running 1980s and 1990s legal drama, … - Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an Academy Award-winning American theatrical, film, and television actress, and a stage and television director. - Leonard Nimoy
Born in Boston, Massachusetts to Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants, Leonard Nimoy spent much of his early career in the 1950s doing small parts in B-movies, TV shows such as 'Dragnet', and serials such as Republic Pictures 'Zombies of the Stratosphere' in 1952. - 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". - Barry Levinson
Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. After growing up in Baltimore and graduating from Forest Park Senior High School, Levinson attended American University in Washington, D.C. before moving to Los Angeles to work as an actor and writer. His first writing work was for variety shows such as "The Marty Feldman Comedy Machine", … - John Walker
John Walker is an animator and director. His first credit was "The Dick Tracy Show." - William Friedkin
William Friedkin (born August 29 1935 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American movie and television director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing "The Exorcist" and "The French Connection" in the early 1970s. - Mike Newell
Michael Cormac Newell (born 28 March, 1942) is an English director and producer of motion pictures for the screen and for television. Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, Newell was educated at St Albans School and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He then attended a three year training course at Granada Television, with the intention of entering the theatre. Newell directed various British TV shows from the 1960s onwards (Such as "Spindoe" (1968), … - Ken Loach
Kenneth Loach (born June 17, 1936), known as Ken Loach, is an English television and film director. He is known for his naturalistic, social realism directing style and for his socialist beliefs, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues as homelessness (e.g., "Cathy Come Home") and poverty (e.g., "Riff-Raff"). - Richard Martin
Richard Martin (born Vancouver, April 12, 1956), is an award-winning television director, film director and film editor. He is the son of comedian Dick Martin ("Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In"). He and his wife, Kim Steer, have one child named Cole. - Stephen Gyllenhaal
Stephen Roark Gyllenhaal (pronounced as, born October 4, 1949 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American film and television director and member of the Gyllenhaal family. He is the second husband of screenwriter Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal, father of actors Maggie Gyllenhaal and Jake Gyllenhaal, and brother of Anders Gyllenhaal, managing editor of the Minneapolis "Star Tribune" since 2002. On October 3, 2006, just a day before his own birthday, … - Kelsey Grammer
Allen Kelsey Grammer (born February 21, 1955) is a four-time Emmy and a two-time Golden Globe-winning American actor who is best known for his two decade portrayal of psychiatrist Dr. Frasier Crane in the NBC sitcoms "Cheers" and "Frasier". He has also worked as a producer, director, and writer. - Carl Reiner
Carl Reiner (March 20, 1922) is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He is the father of actor-turned-director Rob Reiner (1947-), and husband of Estelle Lebost Reiner (1914-). Reiner won nine Emmys during his career. On December 24, 1943 he married Estelle Lebost. Estelle is 8 years his senior and the two have been married 63 years now. At the time of the marriage he was 21 and she was 29. Born of Jewish descent in the Bronx, New York, … - 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. - Ricky Gervais
Ricky Dene Gervais (born June 25, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and BAFTA award-winning English comic writer and performer from Reading, Berkshire. Gervais found mainstream fame with his BBC Two television programme "The Office" and the series Extras which he co-wrote and co-directed with friend and collaborator, Stephen Merchant. Besides writing and directing the shows, Gervais also played the lead roles of David Brent in The Office and Andy Millman in Extras. - Eugene Levy
Eugene Levy (born 17 December 1946) is a Canadian Emmy and Grammy Award-winning actor, television director, producer and writer. He is known for his work in Canadian television series, American movies and television movies. - 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", … - Joss Whedon
Joss Hill Whedon (born Joseph Hill Whedon on June 23, 1964 in New York) is an American writer, director, executive producer, and creator of the well-known television series "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Angel", and "Firefly". He has also written several film scripts and several comic book series. After finishing at Winchester College in England, he went on to receive a film degree from Wesleyan University in 1987. - Stephen Frears
Stephen Arthur Frears (born June 20, 1941) is an Academy Award-nominated English film director. - Allen Coulter
Allen Coulter is the director of a number of successful television programs. Thus far, he has directed one feature film entitled "Hollywoodland", a film regarding the questionable death of George Reeves starring Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, and Ben Affleck. It was released September 2006. - Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is a Golden Globe Award-winning, Academy Award-nominated American actress and television director. - Brad Silberling
Bradley Mitchell Silberling (born September 8 1963 in California, United States) is an American television and film director. He is married to the actress Amy Brenneman, with whom he has two children, Charlotte Tucker (b. March 2001) and Bodhi Russell (b. June 2005). Silberling studied film directing at the UCLA Film School. He managed to start his career within the entertainment industry before completing his studies. - Richard Donner
Richard Donner (born Richard Donald Schwartzberg on April 24, 1930) is a Jewish-American film director, and also a film producer through the production company, The Donners' Company, which he and his wife, producer Lauren Shuler Donner, own. Although known for "The Omen" and the "Lethal Weapon" films, he is most famous for the hailed creation of the first modern superhero film, "Superman", starring Christopher Reeve. - David Hasselhoff
David Michael Hasselhoff (born July 17, 1952 in Baltimore, Maryland), nicknamed "The Hoff", is an American actor who is best known for his lead roles on "Knight Rider" and "Baywatch". He also crossed over to a successful music career, primarily in Austria, Switzerland, and most notably Germany. - Daniel Stern
Daniel Stern (born August 28, 1957) is an American television and film actor. He is known for his roles in the 1990s Hollywood films "City Slickers" and "Home Alone". - Stacy Keach
Stacy Keach (born Walter Stacy Keach, Jr. on June 2, 1941 in Savannah, Georgia) is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical roles. Early in his career, he was credited as Stacy Keach, Jr. to distinguish himself from his father Stacy Keach, Sr. His brother, … - Danny Boyle
Danny Boyle (born 20 October, 1956) is an English director and film producer, best known for his work on films such as "Trainspotting", "28 Days Later" and "Sunshine". - Joe Wright
Joe Wright (born 1972) is an BAFTA-winning English film director best known for 2005's "Pride and Prejudice". - Alan Clarke
Alan Clarke (28 October 1935 - 24 July 1990) was a television and film director, producer and writer, born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, England. Most of Clarke's output was for television rather than cinema, including work for the famous play strands "The Wednesday Play" and "Play for Today". His subject matter tended towards social realism, especially with respect to deprived or oppressed communities. - John Rich
John Rich is a film and television director. He directed such television shows as "The Dick Van Dyke Show", "All in the Family", "The Jeffersons", "Maude", "Good Times", "Barney Miller", "Newhart", "Benson", "The Brady Bunch", and "Gilligan's Island". His feature film credits include "Wives and Lovers", "Boeing, Boeing", and "Roustabout" (starring Elvis Presley). - Andy Tennant
Andy Tennant (born in 1955) is an American dancer, screenwriter, and film and television director. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. He was raised in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. His father was Don Tennant, a legendary creative advertising talent with Leo Burnett Agency in Chicago. As a boy, Andy spent his summers on Old MIssion Peninsula in northern Michigan and at Camp Minocqua in northern Wisconsin. - Edgar Wright
Edgar Wright (born 18 April 1974 in Poole, Dorset) is an English film and television director. He is most famous as the director and co-writer of the "romantic comedy with zombies", "Shaun of the Dead", the "Buddy Cop" comedy "Hot Fuzz" and the surreal TV series "Spaced". - Ward Kimball
Ward Walrath Kimball (March 4, 1914 - July 8, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning animator for the Walt Disney Studios. He was one of Walt Disney's team of animators known as Disney's Nine Old Men. While Kimball was a brilliant draftsman, he preferred to work on comical characters rather than complicated human designs. Animating came easily to him and he was constantly looking to do things differently. Because of this, Walt Disney called Ward a genius in the book, … - Martin Durkin
Martin Durkin is a television producer and director, most notably of television documentaries for Channel 4 in Britain. The perceived bias in many of his documentaries has caused consistent controversies. He is understood to have once been closely involved with the Revolutionary Communist Party and its later offshoots "Living Marxism" (or "LM magazine") and "Spiked", a magazine and associated political network which promotes libertarian views, … - Michael Landon
Michael Landon (October 31, 1936 - July 1, 1991) was an American actor, writer, director, and producer, who starred in three popular NBC TV series that spanned three decades. He is widely known for his roles as Little Joe Cartwright in "Bonanza" (1959-1973), Charles Ingalls in "Little House on the Prairie" (1974-1982), and Jonathan Smith in "Highway to Heaven" (1984-1989). - Richard Kline
Richard Kline (born Richard Klein on April 29 1944 in New York City, New York) is an American actor and television director. He is best known for playing the sleazy neighbor and used car salesman, Larry Dallas, on the hit '70s-'80s sitcom, "Three's Company".
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