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Famous Film Directors: page 2 - Bio, Career, Filmography, Links, Photos
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 Edwin Stanton Porter (1869-1941) 1903 film The Great Train Robbery lasted 12 minutes, which for the period was extremely long, and contained an early use of the dose-up. Short Biography... | |
 Roman Polanski (born in 1933) suffered a traumatic childhood in Nazi-occupied Poland, and later his wife, actress Sharon Tate, was die victim of murder by the Charles Manson "family". Short... | |
 Alan J. Pakula (1928-1998) was an American film director, formerly a producer, whose best films are among the finest from Hollywood in the 1970s; they include Klute 1971 and All the... |  Marcel Pagnol (1895-1974) work includes the play Fanny in 1932 and the film Manon des Sources in 1953. Short Biography: He regarded the cinema as recorded theatre; thus his films... |
 Georg Wilhelm Pabst (1885-1967) was a German film director, whose films include Die Buchse der Pandora/Pandora's Box, Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen/The Diary of a Lost Girl both in... |  Ousmane Sembene (1923-2007) novels, written in French, include Le Docker Noir in 1956. Short Biography: About his experiences as a union leader in Marseille, Les bouts de bois/God's... |
 Nagisa Oshima (born in 1932) is a Japanese film director, whose violent and sexually explicit. Short Biography: In the Realm of the Senses/Ai No Corrida in 1977 has been one of... |  Adopted name of Max Oppenheimer (1902-1957) moved to cinema from the theatre, and his work used intricate camera movements. Short Biography: He worked in Europe and the USA,... |
 Assumed name of Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe (1889-1931) was a German silent-film director, whose "subjective" use of a moving camera to tell the story, through expressive images and without... |  William Cameron Menzies (1896-1957) was an American art director of films, later a film director, who was one of Hollywood's most imaginative and talented designers. Short Biography... |
 Marie-Georges-Jean Melies (1861-1938) was a French film pioneer, born in Paris. Short Biography: From 1896-1912 he made over 1,000 films, mostly fantasies, such as Le Voyage... |  Adopted name of Emil Anton Bundmann (1906-1967) was an American film director who made a series of violent but intelligent 1950s Westerns starring James Stewart, such as Winchester... |
 Rouben Mamoulian (1898-1987) was a Armenian film director who lived in the USA from 1923. Short Biography: After several years on Broadway he turned to films, making the first... |  Alexander Mackendrick (1912-1993) was an American-born Scottish director, responsible for some of Ealing Studios' finest comedies, including Whisky Galore in 1949 and The Man in the... |
 Auguste Marie Lumiere (1862-1954) and Louis Jean Lumiere (1864-1948) were French brothers who pioneered cinematography. Short Biography: In 1895 they patented their cinematograph... |  Ernst Lubitsch (1892-1947) was a German film director, who worked in the USA from 1921. Short Biography: Starting as an actor in silent films in Berlin, he turned to writing... |
 Sergio Leone (1928-1989) was an Italian film director, responsible for popularizing "spaghetti" westerns (westerns made in Italy and Spain, usually with a US leading actor and a European... |  Walter Elias Disney (1901-1966) was an American filmmaker and animator, a pioneer of family entertainment. Short Biography: He established his own studio in Hollywood in 1923... |
 Fritz Lang (1890-1976) was an Austrian film director, born in Vienna. Short Biography: His German films include Metropolis in 1927, M in 1931, and the series of Dr. Mabuse films... |  Elia Kazan (1909-2003) was an American stage and film director, a founder of the New York Actors Studio set up in 1947 to study Stavislavsky's "Method" acting. Short Biography: Plays... |
 John Huston (1906-1987) was an impulsive and individualistic filmmaker he often dealt with the themes of greed, treachery, human relationships, and the loner. Short Biography: His... |  Ben Hecht (1893-1964) was an American film screenwriter and occasional director, who was formerly a journalist. Short Biography: His play The Front Page was adapted several times... |
 D. W. Griffith (1875-1948) was an American film director. Short Biography: He made hundreds of "one reelers" (lasting 12 minutes) 1908-1913, in which he pioneered the techniques... |  John Grierson (1898-1972) was a Scottish film producer. Short Biography: He was a sociologist who pioneered the documentary film in Britain, viewing it as "the creative treatment... |
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