- Wong Kar-Wai
Wong Kar-wai is a Hong Kong film director known for his visually unique, highly stylized art films. An internationally renowned auteur, he often wears dark sunglasses in public. - Frank Miller
Frank Miller (1891-1950) was a prolific scriptwriter, film director, and actor from London, England, UK. - Mark Fisher
Mark Fisher (born October 29, 1944) is a British politician. He is the Labour Member of Parliament for Stoke-on-Trent Central Mark Fisher is the son of Sir Nigel Fisher, the former Conservative MP for Surbiton. Since the retirement of Tam Dalyell in 2005, he remains the only Labour MP to have been educated at Eton College. He continued his education with a master's degree from Trinity College, Cambridge. - Wes Anderson
Wesley Wales Anderson (born May 1, 1969) is an American writer, producer, and director of films and commercials. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. - John Rogers
John Rogers is a scriptwriter, comedian, film producer, and comic book writer. Although born in Worcester, Massachusetts, he attended McGill University in Montreal and is better known publicly as a Canadian writer. As a comedian, Rogers was nominated three times for Gemini Awards. Rogers wrote the first draft of the script for the live-action movie "Transformers", scheduled for 2007. He is also working on the "Fatal Frame" film adaptation. - Anthony Horowitz
Born in north London, Anthony Horowitz says, "I think I knew with certainty that I wanted to be a writer around eight." For birthdays, he asked for books, pens and a typewriter. His schooldays were not especially happy, more like something "out of Dickens or Dahl", and one reason he began writing books for young people was "to make up for the shortcomings of my childhood". - Frank Lloyd
Frank Lloyd (born 2 February 1886 in Glasgow, UK, died 10 August 1960 in Santa Monica, California, United States) was a film director, scriptwriter and producer. Lloyd was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and its president between 1934 and 1935. - Aditya Chopra
Aditya Yash Chopra or commonly known as Aditya Chopra (* 21 May 1971) is an Indian film director, scriptwriter and producer of the Bollywood genre. He is the son of Yash Chopra and brother of film actor Uday Chopra. - Paul Abbott
Paul Abbott (born February 22, 1960 in Burnley, Lancashire) is an English television scriptwriter, who has worked on many popular series, including "Coronation Street", "Cracker" and "Shameless", the latter of which he created. - Sudhir Mishra
Sudhir Mishra (Pronounced Su-dheer Mishraa (i- is short -ee-)) is an Indian film director and scriptwriter most renowned for directing critically acclaimed films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Dharavi and Chameli (Movie). He was also the assistant director and scriptwriter for the cult Hindi movie, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaron. Mishra is a graduate of Delhi University and has also studied at FTII (Film and Television Institute of India). He has been living in Mumbai since 1980. - Robert Holmes
Robert Colin Holmes (born 1928 in Hertfordshire; died 24 May 1986) was an English television scriptwriter, who for over twenty-five years contributed to some of the most popular programmes screened in the UK. He is particularly remembered for his work on science fiction programmes, most notably his extensive contributions to "Doctor Who". - Fred Schepisi
Frederick Alan Schepisi AO (born 26 December, 1939) is an Australian film director and scriptwriter who was born in Melbourne, Victoria. His credits include Last Orders, Roxanne, Plenty, Six Degrees of Separation, Fierce Creatures, The Russia House, and most recently Empire Falls, which won a Golden Globe for Best Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television, and for which he gained an Emmy nomination for best director. - Mark Williams
Mark Williams (born 1959) is an English actor, comedian, scriptwriter and presenter. He is known as one of the stars of the popular BBC sketch show, "The Fast Show" as well as for the role of Arthur Weasley in the "Harry Potter" films. - Michael Piller
Michael Piller (May 30 1948 - November 1 2005) was a television scriptwriter and producer, who was most famous for his contributions to the Star Trek franchise. Piller was born in New York. With parents who were both involved in writing, his father as a Hollywood screenwriter and his mother as a songwriter, he planned to be a scriptwriter from an early age. - Ian Smith
Ian Smith (born June 19 1938) is an Australian soap opera character actor and television scriptwriter, best known today for his long-running role as the caring, kindly coffee shop owner Harold Bishop in Network Ten's long running serial "Neighbours". Smith had previously acted in guest roles in drama series such as the Crawford Productions police dramas "Homicide", "Division 4" and "Matlock Police", … - Denis Norden
Denis Mostyn Norden (born February 6, 1922 in Hackney, London) is an English comedy writer and television presenter. Norden is nowadays best known to television audiences for his two occasional ITV shows. * It'll be Alright on the Night, which consists of out-takes from film and television linked by witty comments and has run since 1977. - Delia Ephron
Delia Ephron is a scriptwriter and producer. She is the sister of Nora Ephron; their parents were screenwriters Henry and Phoebe Ephron. - Herman Wouk
Herman Wouk (born May 27, 1915) is a bestselling American author with a number of notable novels to his credit, including "The Caine Mutiny", "The Winds of War", and "War and Remembrance". Herman Wouk was born in New York City into a Jewish family that had emigrated from Russia. After a childhood and adolescence in the Bronx and a high school diploma from Townsend Harris High School, he earned an B.A. from Columbia University in 1934, … - Roger Smith
Roger LaVerne Smith (born December 18, 1932) is an American television and film actor and scriptwriter. - Jerzy Skolimowski
What follows divides discussion of Skolimowski's films chronologically into the two separate streams as indicated above beginning with his most 'personal' filmsthe Polish sextet plus Le Depart , Dialog and Deep End . Skolimowski has attributed tendencies in his work to a childhood indelibly marked by the War. As a small child he was pulled from the rubble of a bombed out house in Warsaw. His father, a member of the Polish Resistance, was executed by the Nazis. - Ian Hislop
Ian Hislop (born 13 July 1960) is the editor of British satirical magazine "Private Eye", a team captain on the popular satirical current affairs quiz "Have I Got News for You" and a comedy scriptwriter. - Alberto Lattuada
Alberto Lattuada (November 13, 1914 - July 3, 2005) was an Italian film director. Lattuada was born in Milan, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a member of the editorial staff of antifascist fortnightly "Camminare..." (1932). In 1940 he started his cinema career as scriptwriter and assistant director of Mario Soldati's "Piccolo Mondo Antico". - Felix Chong
Felix Chong Man Keung (born January 1, 1968 in Hong Kong, China) is a Chinese scriptwriter. He is one of the most celebrated scriptwriters in Hong Kong and has won several prestigious awards at the Hong Kong Film Awards. Chong's best known film is Infernal Affairs, which he co-wrote alongside Alan Mak. The 2006 American movie The Departed is adapted from his story and later won four Oscars including Best Picture and Best Director. - Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954 in Chicago) is a physicist and writer. While a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, and on the faculty at Caltech, he developed (with N. Papanicolaou) a new type of perturbation theory for eigenvalue problems in quantum mechanics. Later, as an Alexander von Humboldt fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysik in Munich, Germany, … - Andy Riley
Andy Riley is a British author, cartoonist and scriptwriter. Writing alongside Kevin Cecil (with whom he has been friends since attending Aylesbury Grammar School) he is most notable for writing the Comic Relief one-off special "Robbie the Reindeer", for which he and Cecil won a BAFTA in 2000. He has also written for "Black Books", "Little Britain", "Trigger Happy TV", "So Graham Norton", … - Carlo Lizzani
Carlo Lizzani (born 1922 April 3) is an Italian film director, scriptwriter and critic. Born in Rome, after World War II Lizzani worked on such notable films of the late 1940s as Roberto Rossellini's "Germany Year Zero", Alberto Lattuada's "The Mill on the Po" (both 1948) and Giuseppe De Santis' "Bitter Rice" (1950, for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Story). - Alla Nazimova
Alla Nazimova, born Mariam Edez Adelaida Leventon was a Russian/American theater and film actress, scriptwriter, and producer. She is often known as just Nazimova, and was also known as Alia Nasimoff. - Jon Canter
Jon Canter is an English television comedy scriptwriter writing for Lenny Henry and other leading comedians. Canter was born and brought up in the Jewish community of Golders Green, North London and studied law at the University of Cambridge where he became President of Footlights. After a spell in advertising copywriting (and as a housemate of Douglas Adams) he became a freelance scriptwriter, setting up home in Aldeburgh with his wife, painter Helen Napper. - Tony Gatlif
Tony Gatlif is a French film director who also works as a scriptwriter, actor, and producer. After a childhood in Algiers, Gatlif arrived in France in 1960 following the Algerian War of Independence. Gatlif struggled for years to break into the film industry, playing in several theatrical productions until directing his first film, "La Tête en ruine", in 1975. He followed it with the 1979 "La Terre au ventre", a story of the Algerian War of Independence. - Fruit Chan
Fruit Chan (born April 15, 1959 in Guangdong, China) is an independent Hong Kong film director, best known for his style of film reflecting the everyday life of Hong Kong Chinese. He is well known for using amateur actors (such as Sam Lee in "Made in Hong Kong", Wong Yau-nam in "Hollywood-Hong Kong") in his films. His name became familiar to many Hong Kongers only after the success of the 1997 film "Made in Hong Kong", … - Steven E. de Souza
Steven E. de Souza (b. 17 November 1947) is an American producer, director and scriptwriter of Portuguese and Jamaican ancestry. He is among a handful of screenwriters whose films have earned over two billion dollars at the box office. He is a graduate of Penn State. De Souza is credited with being the writer for seven TV series, including "The Six Million Dollar Man", "The Bionic Woman", "Knight Rider" and "Tales from the Crypt". - Donald Crisp
Donald Crisp (July 27, 1882 - May 25, 1974) was an Academy Award winning English film actor. He was also an early motion picture scriptwriter, producer and director. - Albert Uderzo
Albert Uderzo is a French comic book artist, and scriptwriter. He is best known for his work on the "Astérix" series, but also drew other comics such as "Oumpah-pah", also in collaboration with René Goscinny. - Phil Redmond
Phil Redmond CBE (born 1949 in Liverpool, brought up in Huyton, Merseyside) is an English television producer and scriptwriter. He is well-known for having created several popular television series such as "Grange Hill" (BBC One, 1978-present), "Brookside" (Channel 4, 1982-2003) and "Hollyoaks" (Channel 4, 1995-). For over twenty years he also ran his own independent production company, Mersey Television, before selling the company off in 2005. - Steven Brill
Steven Brill (b. 27 May 1962 in Utica, New York) is an American actor, film producer, director, and screenwriter. He is probably best-known for "The Mighty Ducks" film trilogy. He directed and co-wrote "Little Nicky" and directed "Mr. Deeds" and "Without A Paddle". He has had cameo roles in all three Mighty Ducks movies, and also appeared in "Mr. Deeds" as a violinist, and in "Knocked Up", … - Keri Davies
Keri Davies is a radio producer and scriptwriter, most famous for working for the radio soap opera "The Archers". Davies was born in Treherbert, Rhondda Valley, Wales, but grew up in Trowbridge, Wiltshire, England. He received A-Levels whilst at John of Gaunt School, Trowbridge. Before he went into radio, he previously worked in a bank, was a commissioned officer in the Royal Air Force for six years, worked in Public Relations in London, … - Paul Erickson
Paul Erickson (November 22, 1920 - October 27, 1991) was a Welsh scriptwriter, most active in the 1950s and 1960s. He contributed generally single episodes to a wide variety of British television shows, most typically of the crime drama genre, although he did occasionally generate science-fiction scripts. In the 1950s, he would have generally been considered a B-film or telemovie writer, offering theatrical audiences such work as "Track the Man Down", … - Jeri Taylor
Jeri Taylor (born June 30, 1946) is a television scriptwriter and producer who is known for her contributions to the "Star Trek" series. She is an alumna of Indiana University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta. Having previously written scripts for television series like "Little House on the Prairie" and "The Incredible Hulk", and served as a producer and director on "Quincy, M.E." and "Jake and the Fatman", … - Larry Stephens
Larry Stephens (born Lawrence Geoffrey Stephens on July 16, 1923; died January 26 1959) was a BBC radio scriptwriter, most popularly known for co-writing "The Goon Show" with Spike Milligan. Stephens was a regular writer of the show for the first two years, and then returned to "The Goon Show" to assist Milligan, during the latter's tougher moments. - Allan Heinberg
Allan Heinberg is an American film scriptwriter, who currently writes "Young Avengers" for Marvel Comics, and has been a writer and producer on "The Naked Truth", "Party of Five", "Sex and the City", "Gilmore Girls", "The O.C.", and currently "Grey's Anatomy". He left "The O.C." because his contract was up and he wanted to commit to several others of his projects.
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