- 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, … - 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, … - 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. - 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. - 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. - 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, … - 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, … - 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. - 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", … - 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. - Melissa Gilbert
Melissa Ellen Gilbert (born May 8, 1964) is an American actress, writer and producer, primarily in movies and television. The naturally red-headed Gilbert is best known as a child actor who starred as Charles Ingalls' (played by Michael Landon) middle daughter, Laura Ingalls, on the 1970s dramatic television series "Little House on the Prairie" (1974-1983). Not long after that she played Gerda in the "Faerie Tale Theatre" adaptation of "The Snow Queen". - Telly Savalas
Telly Savalas (January 21, 1922 - January 22, 1994) was a prominent Emmy Award-winning American film and television actor whose career spanned four decades. He was nominated for an Oscar in 1963 for his supporting role in "Birdman of Alcatraz". He also starred with Burt Lancaster in "The Young Savages" and "The Scalphunters". For the course of his long career, he was best known for his work playing the title role in the popular 1970s crime drama, … - John Lee
John Lee (born circa 1972) is an American television writer, producer, director, voice actor, supertaster, and musician. He is best known for his work on the MTV2 comedy series Wonder Showzen and as a member of the rock band/art collective PFFR. Lee is long time friends with fellow PFFR member and television writer Vernon Chatman. They met as undergraduates at San Francisco State University. Along with Chatman, Lee is the co-creator, writer, … - Ken Kwapis
Ken Kwapis (born August 17, 1957) is an American film and television director and scriptwriter. He was born in Belleville, Illinois, attended St. Louis University High School, studied film first at Northwestern University, then on the graduate level at USC School of Cinema-Television. Kwapis helped define the single-camera sitcom in the 1990s and 2000s. - Greg Mottola
Greg Mottola (born 1964) is a film and television director. He wrote and directed the 1996 independent film "The Daytrippers" before being introduced to television directing. Since, he has directed several episodes of "Undeclared" and "Arrested Development". He directed the 2007 film "Superbad", written by Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen. - Emilio Estevez
Emilio Estévez is a Spanish American actor, director and writer. - Anthony Russo
Anthony Russo is an American television and film producer, writer, and director, who usually works with his brother, Joe Russo. - Gene Levitt
Eugene Levitt (May 28 1920, New York City - November 15 1999, Los Angeles) was an American television writer, producer and director. Levitt's parents were Charles and Teresa Levitt. He had an older sister, Betty Ruth. His mother died when Gene was about 12 years old. His father subsequently married Ida. Gene's first great adventure was traveling to the West to attend the University of Wyoming. - Bonnie Hunt
Bonnie Lynn Hunt (born September 22, 1961) is an Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award-nominated American actress, comedian, writer, director and television producer. - Paul Verhoeven
Paul Verhoeven was a German film director, actor, and writer. His son, Michael Verhoeven, is also a film director. - Seth MacFarlane
Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (born October 26, 1973) is a two-time Emmy-winning American animator, screenwriter, producer, director, and voice actor. He is best known as the creator of the animated series "Family Guy" and "American Dad!". He was also the executive producer of the short-lived series, "The Winner". - Walter Koenig
Walter Marvin Koenig (born September 14, 1936) is an American actor, writer, teacher and director, known for his roles as Chekov in "Star Trek", and as Bester on the series "Babylon 5". - Wolfgang Petersen
Wolfgang Petersen (born March 14, 1941 in Emden, Lower Saxony, Germany) is a German film director. Petersen is best known for the classic World War II submarine warfare film "Das Boot". Wolfgang Petersen was born during World War II on 14 March 1941 in the small north German community of Emden near the Dutch border, where the Ems River flows into the North Sea. From 1953 to 1960 Petersen attended the Johanneum school in Hamburg. - Randal Kleiser
Randal Kleiser (born July 20, 1946 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American film director and producer. Randal Kleiser has directed several feature films, including "Grease" (1978), Other features include "The Blue Lagoon" (1980) with Brooke Shields, "Summer Lovers" (1982) with Daryl Hannah, "Grandview, U.S.A." (1984) with Jamie Lee Curtis, "Flight of the Navigator" (1986), featuring the first use of digital morphing in a film, … - Charles Martin Smith
Charles Martin Smith (born October 30, 1953) is an American film actor, writer and director. He was born in Van Nuys, California. His father, Frank Smith, was a film cartoonist and animator. Smith spent three years of his youth in Paris, France where his father managed the English-language branch of a French animation studio. - Joe Ahearne
Joe Ahearne (born 23 November 1963) is a British television director, best known for his work on several fantasy-based 'cult' programmes. His career began when the short film "Latin for a Dark Room" won an award at the Edinburgh Festival in 1994, and shortly afterwards he began working for the World Productions independent television production company. - John Lloyd
John Hardress Wilfred Lloyd (born September 30 1951) is a British comedy writer and television producer. - Ted Kotcheff
Ted Kotcheff (sometimes credited as William Kotcheff or William T. Kotcheff; born April 7, 1931 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada) is a Bulgarian-Canadian film and television director, who is well known for his work on several high-profile British television productions and as a director of films such as "First Blood". The son of immigrants from Bulgaria,<sup></sup> after graduating in English Literature from the University of Toronto, … - Graeme Garden
Graeme Garden also co-wrote the following books with the other members of "The Goodies *"The Goodies File" *"The Goodies Book of Criminal Records" *"The Making of The Goodies Disaster Movie - Mary Kay Place
Mary Kay Place (b. September 23 1947, Port Arthur, Texas) is an American actress and singer. After graduating from the University of Tulsa with a Speech Degree, Placee moved to Hollywood with aspirations of becoming an actress and writer. She was hired for "The Tim Conway Comedy Hour" in the 1970s as a production assistant to both Conway and producer Norman Lear. It was Conway who gave her her first on-camera break, … - Steve Shill
Steven Shill is an British actor and television director who is probably best known for his work on several programs produced by HBO, including "The Sopranos", "The Wire", "Rome", "Carnivàle", "Deadwood" and "Big Love". Most recently, he directed episodes of Showtime's "The Tudors". Shill has also directed episodes of many network programs, including all three programs of the "Law & Order" series, … - Ben Elton
Benjamin Charles Elton (born 3 May1959) is an English comedian, writer and director. Born in Catford, London, he is the son of the physicist and educational researcher Lewis Elton and the nephew of the historian Sir G R Elton. He studied at Stillness Junior School and Godalming Grammar School and the University of Manchester. He became a stand-up comedian and comedy writer shortly after leaving university in 1980, … - Jeremy Podeswa
Jeremy Podeswa (born 1962) is a Canadian/American film and television director. He has also written for several films. - Alan Ball
Alan Ball (born May 13, 1957 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an Academy Award-winning screenwriter, director, producer and occasional actor, who is best known for writing the screenplay for the Oscar-winning film "American Beauty", and for creating the HBO original drama series "Six Feet Under". - Bob Giraldi
Bob Giraldi (born January 17, 1939) is a film and television director who is probably best known for directing the video for Michael Jackson's song "Beat It." Giraldi was born in Paterson, New Jersey, to a working-class Italian-American family. He attended Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York on a basketball and baseball scholarship, graduating in 1960 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. - Buck Henry
Buck Henry Zuckerman (born December 9 1930), best known as Buck Henry, is an American actor, writer and director, known for his work in television, film, comedy, and satire. - Stephen Merchant
Stephen Merchant (born 24 November 1974 in Bristol) is an English Emmy, Golden Globe, British Comedy Award and BAFTA-award winning writer, director, and comedic actor. He is best known for his work with his friend Ricky Gervais in the popular British sitcoms "The Office" and "Extras", as well as "The Ricky Gervais Show" in its radio and podcast forms. Merchant is 6 feet 7 inches (2.00m) tall. He lives with his girlfriend in Hampstead, London.
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