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by jnppers | created - 14 Apr 2019 | updated - 3 months ago | Public
1. Peter Guber
Producer | Innerspace
Peter Guber, Chairman and CEO of Mandalay Entertainment Group, has been a force in the entertainment industry for over fifty years. He has leveraged his creativity and business acumen into record-breaking profits and critical acclaim, establishing him as an enormously successful executive and ...
2. Jordan Roth
Actor | I Think I Do
Jordan Roth is a four time Tony award-winning producer, president of Jujamcyn Theaters, and New York City fashion icon. As president of Jujamcyn Theaters, Roth oversees five Broadway theatres, presenting some of the most influential and successful musicals and plays on Broadway including: Frozen at...
3. Michael Ellenbogen
Producer | This Revolution
Michael Ellenbogen is known for This Revolution (2005), A Late Divorce and Margarita Happy Hour (2001).
4. Edward Albee
Soundtrack | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was a writer, known for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966), A Delicate Balance (1973) and Qui a peur de Virginia Woolf? d'Edward Albee (2011). He died on September 16, 2016 in Montauk, New York, USA.
5. Allen McCullough
Actor | Martha Marcy May Marlene
Allen McCullough is known for Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), Blindspot (2015) and Vampire's Kiss (1988).
6. Patrick Doyle
Composer | Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Patrick Doyle is a classically trained composer.
His first film score, the acclaimed adaptation of "Henry V" with Kenneth Branagh for Renaissance films was scored in 1989. He has subsequently worked with Kenneth Branagh, a long time collaborator on numerous pictures including "Dead Again", "Much Ado...
7. Paula Kerger
Self | Profile
Paula A. Kerger is president and chief executive officer of PBS, the nation's largest non-commercial media organization, with more than 330 member stations throughout the country. Having joined PBS in March 2006, Kerger is the longest-serving president and CEO in PBS history.
Under Kerger's ...
8. Daddy Yankee
Soundtrack | The Do-Over
Daddy Yankee was born Ramon Ayala on February 3, 1976, in Villa Kennedy, Santruce, Puerto Rico. One of the top reggaetón (Spanish-language dancehall reggae) artists, he started to rhyme and sing at the age of 13. One of his first major appearances on record was on DJ Tony Touch's album "The ...
9. Allen Shawn
Composer | My Dinner with Andre
Allen Shawn is known for My Dinner with Andre (1981) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982). He has been married to Jamaica Kincaid since 1979. They have two children.
10. Sam Hunt
Soundtrack | American Honey
Sam Hunt was born in rural Cedartown, Georgia, on Dec. 8th 1984 (30 years old). Hunt grew up listening to '90s country, and after years of being shown other music such as Usher in the locker room, Hunt writes songs that are like no other. He played quarterback for the University of Alabama at ...
11. Jayro Bustamante
Director | La llorona
Born in Guatemala. He studied Film Directing in Paris at the Conservatoire Libre du Cinema Francais, and continued his studies in screenwriting at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In 2009 he returned to Guatemala and founded La Casa de Produccion. He produced four short films and ...
12. Cecilia Mangini
Writer | All'armi siam fascisti!
Cecilia Mangini was born on July 31, 1927 in Mola di Bari, Apulia, Italy. She was a writer and director, known for All'armi siam fascisti! (1962), Klon (1992) and Antonio Gramsci: i giorni del carcere (1977). She was married to Lino Del Fra. She died on January 21, 2021 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
13. Patric Reeves
Production_designer | The Four Corners of Nowhere
Patric Reeves was born in 1944 in Hampshire, England, UK. She is a production designer, known for The Four Corners of Nowhere (1995), Couches, Tables and Darts (1999) and Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego? (1991). She was previously married to Robert Miller, Paul Aaron, Samuel Nowlin Reeves Jr....
14. Jan Michelini
Director | Devils
Jan Michelini was born on June 5, 1979 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a director and assistant director, known for Devils (2020), DOC - Nelle tue mani (2020) and Medici (2016). He has been married to Giusy Buscemi since May 14, 2017. They have three children.
15. Lauren Greenfield
Director | The Queen of Versailles
Lauren Greenfield was born on June 28, 1966 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. She is a director and producer, known for The Queen of Versailles (2012), The Kingmaker (2019) and Thin (2006).
16. Bruce Baillie
Director | Mr. Hayashi
Bruce Baillie was born on September 24, 1931 in Aberdeen, South Dakota, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Mr. Hayashi (1963), Quixote (1965) and Quick Billy (1971). He was married to Lorie Apit. He died on April 10, 2020 in Camano Island, Washington, USA.
17. Sturgill Simpson
Actor | The Hunt
Sturgill Simpson was born on June 8, 1978 in Jackson, Kentucky, USA. He is a music artist and actor, known for The Hunt (2020), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023) and The Dead Don't Die (2019).
18. Matthew Heineman
Director | A Private War
Matthew Heineman is an Academy Award-nominated, nine-time Emmy Award-winning, and two-time DGA Award-winning filmmaker. The Sundance Film Festival called Heineman "one of the most talented and exciting documentary filmmakers working today," while Anne Thompson of IndieWire wrote that Heineman is a ...
19. Richard Brooks
Writer | In Cold Blood
Richard Brooks was an Academy Award-winning film writer who also earned six Oscar nominations and achieved success as a film director and producer.
He was born Reuben Sax on May 18, 1912, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His parents were Russian-Jewish immigrants. He graduated from West Philadelphia ...
20. Kurt Thomas
Actor | Gymkata
Kurt Thomas was born on March 29, 1956 in Miami, Florida, USA. He was an actor, known for Gymkata (1985), Slam (2003) and Circus (1988). He was married to Rebecca Sue Jones, Leanne Kay Hartsgrove and Elizabeth Ann Osting. He died on June 5, 2020 in Texas, USA.
21. Antoine Fuqua
Producer | The Magnificent Seven
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director, known for his work in the film Training Day as well as The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn's Finest, Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer.
He has directed music videos for such artists as Arrested Development, Prince, ...
22. Nic Pizzolatto
Writer | True Detective
A producer, writer, director and award-winning novelist. He is the author of the collection 'Between Here and the Yellow Sea' and the novel 'Galveston.' He is originally from Southwest Louisiana, and taught literature at several universities, including the University of Chicago, before going into ...
23. Akira Kurosawa
Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...
24. Irene
Costume_department | Gaslight
Irene Maud Lentz was born on December 8, 1901 in Baker, Montana. When she was a teenager, she moved to Hollywood to become an actress. She found work as a Mack Sennett bathing beauty and appeared in the comedies Picking Peaches (1924) and A Tailor-Made Man (1922). Irene married director F. Richard ...
25. Ludwig Göransson
Composer | The Mandalorian
Ludwig Göransson is a Swedish composer known for composing Black Panther, the Creed films, Venom, Fruitvale Station, The Mandalorian, The Book of Boba Fett, Turning Red, New Girl, Community, Top Five, Central Intelligence, 30 Minutes or Less and Tenet. He had a son from Serena McKinney, who was ...
26. Risë Stevens
Actress | Going My Way
One of the great voices of the Metropolitan Opera, New York-born mezzo-soprano Rise (pronounced REE-za) Stevens made her debut with the company in 1939 as Octavian in Richard Strauss's "Der Rosenkavalier" in a tour performance in Philadelphia. Her other notable roles in 21 years with the company ...
27. Ben Cooper
Composer | There's No Hell Like Home
Ben Cooper is a UK-based composer and music producer who specialises in music for film, game music, and album releases.
After graduating in music composition form the University of Hertfordshire, he first worked in concert hall music, mainly focusing in minimalism and small ensemble work before ...
28. Satyajit Ray
Writer | Pather Panchali
Satyajit Ray was born in Calcutta on May 2, 1921. His father, Late Sukumar Ray was an eminent poet and writer in the history of Bengali literature. In 1940, after receiving his degree in science and economics from Calcutta University, he attended Tagore's Viswa-Bharati University. His first movie ...
29. Marni Nixon
Actress | The Sound of Music
"Loverly" soprano Marni Nixon ensured herself a proper place in film history although most moviegoers would not have recognize her had they passed her on the street. But if you had heard her, that might be a horse of a different color. She was one of those unsung (or "much sung") talents given ...
30. David Wasco
Production_designer | La La Land
David Wasco is known for La La Land (2016), Inglourious Basterds (2009) and Kill Bill: Vol. 1 (2003). He is married to Sandy Reynolds-Wasco.
31. Hayao Miyazaki
Writer | Sen to Chihiro no kamikakushi
Hayao Miyazaki is one of Japan's greatest animation directors. The entertaining plots, compelling characters, and breathtaking visuals in his films have earned him international renown from critics as well as public recognition within Japan.
Miyazaki started his career in 1963 as an animator at the ...
32. Paolo Sorrentino
Writer | È stata la mano di Dio
Director and screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino was born in Naples in 1970, and and became an orphan when he lost both of his parents at the age of 16. At the age of 25, after studying for a few years at the Faculty of Economics and Business in University of Naples Federico II, he decided to work in the...
33. Alex Quiñónez
Alex Quiñónez was born on August 11, 1989 in Esmeraldas, Esmeraldas, Ecuador. He died on October 22, 2021 in Guayaquil, Guayas, Ecuador.
34. Adrian
Costume_department | Rope
Adrian Adolph Greenburg, born in Naugatuck, Connecticut, March 3, 1903, to Gilbert and Helena (Pollack) Greenburg. He began his professional career while still attending the New York School for Fine and Applied Arts by contributing to the costumes for "George White's Scandals" in 1921. He is ...
35. Edgar Wright
Director | Shaun of the Dead
Edgar Howard Wright (born 18 April 1974) is an English director, screenwriter, producer, and actor. He is best known for his comedic Three Flavours Cornetto film trilogy consisting of Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), and The World's End (2013), made with recurrent collaborators Simon Pegg...
36. Carl Laemmle Jr.
Producer | All Quiet on the Western Front
Carl Laemmle Jr. was an American film producer and studio executive from Chicago, Illinois. He was the son and the intended heir of the film producer Carl Laemmle (1867-1939), co-founder and studio head of Universal Pictures (1912-). Carl Junior served as Universal's head of production from 1928 to...
37. Carl Laemmle
The roots of Universal Pictures can rightfully be traced back to 1906 when Carl Laemmle returned home to Chicago after a stint as a bookkeeper in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and opened up a chain of nickelodeons. This in turn led to the ambitious 39-year-old organizing a film exchange network he boldly ...
38. Andrew Sala
Producer | La barbarie
Born in 1981 in the US although he lived his whole life in Argentina. He graduated Magna Cum Laude with a degree in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and then studied Film at the Universidad del Cine where he now teaches. He is a TIFF Filmmaker Lab and Carolina Foundation Alumni.
39. David Pérez Sañudo
Producer | Au Pair
David P. Sañudo was born on April 12, 1987 in Bilbao, Bizkaia.
He is a director, screen-player and producer based in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Bilbao and Madrid. Since early 2010, his career focuses mainly on direction, production and script for film, theatre and advertising. In 2012, he founded Amania Films...
40. Gordon Parks
Director | The Learning Tree
The pre-eminent American photojournalist of sub-Saharan descent. An acclaimed photographer for Life magazine from the late 40s through late 60s, he turned to directing films, his second of which, the blaxploitation movie Shaft (1971), achieved success at the box office. In 1989 his first film ...
41. Sam Asghari
Actor | Black Monday
Sam Asghari is an American actor that is up-and-coming in the TV/Film industry. Sam was born in the country of Iran, he then migrated to the United States in the year of 2006 with his father. In high school Sam played American football at Westlake High School in Southern California. He was also ...
42. Bill Morrison
Director | Dawson City: Frozen Time
Bill Morrison was born in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a director and editor, known for Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016), The Great Flood (2013), The Miners' Hymns (2011), Spark of Being (2010), Light Is Calling (2004) and Decasia (2002). Dawson City: Frozen Time (2016) won a Critics' Choice Award ...
43. Hakim Belabbes
Director | Shi ghadi ou shi jay
Hakim Belabbes was born in the Moroccan town of Boujad, where his father owned the only movie theatre. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in American and African literature in 1983 from Mohamed V University in Rabat, Morocco, and a graduate degree in film and video from Columbia College in Chicago, where...
44. Bryn Mooser
Producer | Ascension
Bryn Mooser is a twice Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning filmmaker, humanitarian and the founder of the documentary studio XTR. Previous to XTR, Mooser co-founded RYOT a media company specializing in documentary film and virtual and augmented reality. Over his career he has produced more than 200 ...
45. Mantas Kvedaravicius
Cinematographer | Barzakh
Mantas Kvedaravicius (Lithuania) was a filmmaker and an academic who holds the long-standing interests in absence, materially and body in their performative and political manifestations. He held a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Cambridge, and was an Associate Professor at Vilnius...
46. Bernard-Henri Lévy
Director | Le jour et la nuit
Bernard-Henri Lévy is a French philosopher and one of the most esteemed and bestselling writers in Europe. He is the author of over 30 books, including works of philosophy, fiction, and biography. American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville was a New York Times bestseller (...
47. Yuri Ancarani
Director | Atlantide
Yuri Ancarani is an Italian video artist and film maker. His works come from a continuous mingling of documentary cinema and contemporary art, and are the result of a research aimed to explore regions which are not very visibile in the daily life, realities in which the artist delves in first ...
48. Peter Bogdanovich
Director | The Last Picture Show
Peter Bogdanovich was conceived in Europe but born in Kingston, New York. He is the son of immigrants fleeing the Nazis, Herma (Robinson) and Borislav Bogdanovich, a painter and pianist. His father was a Serbian Orthodox Christian, and his mother was from a wealthy Austrian Jewish family. Peter ...
49. Gabriele Mainetti
Director | Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot
Gabriele Mainetti (born November 7, 1976) is an Italian actor, director, composer and a film producer. He attended courses in directing, screenwriting and cinematography at the Tisch School of the Arts NY and improved his acting skills under the guide of important masters as Beatrice Bracco, ...
50. Paul Rabil
Producer | Fate of a Sport
Paul's a former professional lacrosse player, now co-founder and President of the Premier Lacrosse League, the 2020 Sports Business Journal's Pro Sports League Breakthrough of the Year. The PLL is an enterprise league featuring the world's best players, coupled with a major network partnership with...
51. Raoul Walsh
Editor | The Birth of a Nation
Raoul Walsh's 52-year directorial career made him a Hollywood legend. Walsh was also an actor: He appeared in the first version of W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain" renamed Sadie Thompson (1928) opposite Gloria Swanson in the title role. He would have played the Cisco Kid in his own film In Old Arizona ...
52. Michelangelo Frammartino
Writer | Il buco
Michelangelo Frammartino was born in 1968 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He is a writer and director, known for The Hole (2021), Il dono (2003) and Le Quattro Volte (2010).
53. Mitchell Leisen
Director | Death Takes a Holiday
Mitchell Leisen was born on October 6, 1898 in Menominee, Michigan, USA. He was a director and art director, known for Death Takes a Holiday (1934), The Mating Season (1951) and Hold Back the Dawn (1941). He was married to Stella Yeager. He died on October 28, 1972 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, ...
54. Patricia Bosworth
Writer | Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus
Patricia Bosworth was born on April 24, 1933 in Oakland, California, USA. She was an actress and writer, known for Fur: An Imaginary Portrait of Diane Arbus (2006), Kraft Theatre (1947) and The Nun's Story (1959). She was married to Tom Palumbo and Mel Arrighi. She died on April 2, 2020 in New York...
55. Tony Richardson
Director | Tom Jones
The son of a Shipley chemist he was initially connected with the stage first with the post war Shipley Young Theatre then with the Bradford Civic Theatre where he came into contact with the Bradford born author J B Priestley who recognising his potential commissioned him to write a TV documentary. ...
56. Wendi Murdoch
Actress | Ocean's Eight
In 2011 Chinese-born businesswoman, Wendi Murdoch, made her debut as a producer with Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (2011). Based on the 2005 best-selling novel of the same name, this historical drama was set in nineteenth century China and won the Golden Angel Award at the Chinese American Film ...
57. Jake Paltrow
Director | Young Ones
Jake Paltrow was born on September 26, 1975 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Young Ones (2014), The Good Night (2007) and June Zero (2022). He has been married to Taryn Simon since 2010. They have two children.
58. Marco Filiberti
Writer | Poco più di un anno fa
Born in Milan and living in his adoptive land of Tuscany, Marco Filiberti is a playwright, theatre and film director, actor, essayist and fiction writer. His films, Adored: Diary of a Porn Star (2003), David's Birthday (2009) and Cain (2014) were presented as part of the Official Selection in ...
59. H.R. Giger
Art_department | Alien
H.R. Giger was born on February 5, 1940 in Chur, Switzerland. He was a director, known for Alien (1979), Alien vs. Predator (2004) and Aliens (1986). He was married to Carmen Maria Scheifele and Mia Bonzanigo. He died on May 12, 2014 in Zurich, Switzerland.
60. Tony Walton
Art_department | All That Jazz
Tony Walton was born on October 24, 1934 in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey, England, UK. He was a production designer and costume designer, known for All That Jazz (1979), Murder on the Orient Express (1974) and Mary Poppins (1964). He was married to Gen LeRoy and Julie Andrews. He died on March 2, 2022 ...
61. Eduardo Casanova
Director | La Piedad
Eduardo Casanova was born on March 24, 1991 in Madrid, Spain. He is an actor and director, known for Piety (2022), Pieles (2017) and Eat My Shit (2015).
62. Milo Anderson
Costume_designer | The Adventures of Robin Hood
Milo Anderson was born on May 9, 1910 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a costume designer, known for The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), To Have and Have Not (1944) and Mildred Pierce (1945). He died on November 3, 1984 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
63. Barbara Kopple
Producer | Harlan County U.S.A.
Barbara Kopple was born on July 30, 1946 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a producer and director, known for Harlan County U.S.A. (1976), American Dream (1990) and Shut Up & Sing (2006).
64. Colin Kaepernick
Producer | Colin in Black and White
Colin Kaepernick was born on November 3, 1987 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Colin in Black & White (2021), Killing County (2023) and 2018 Nike Commercial Starring Colin Kaepernick (2018).
65. Ben Mankiewicz
Actor | White House Down
Ben Mankiewicz was born on March 25, 1967 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for White House Down (2013), Mank (2020) and The Practice (1997). He has been married to Michelle (Lee) Larkin Russo since December 12, 2013. They have one child. He was previously...
66. Joseph Losey
Director | The Servant
Belonging to an important family clan in Wisconsin, Joseph Losey studied philosophy but was always interested in theater and thus worked together with Bertolt Brecht. After directing some shorts for MGM, he made his first important film, The Boy with Green Hair (1948), for RKO. While he was filming ...
67. Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Director | Antidisturbios
Rodrigo Sorogoyen was born on September 16, 1981 in Madrid, Spain. He is a director and writer, known for Antidisturbios (2020), The Beasts (2022) and Stockholm (2013). He has been married to Marta Nieto since 2008.
68. G-Eazy
Soundtrack | The Fate of the Furious
Gerald Earl Gillum (born May 24, 1989), known professionally as G-Eazy, is an American rapper and philanthropist from Oakland, California. His first major-label album, These Things Happen, was released on June 23, 2014 and peaked at number 3 on the US Billboard 200. His second studio album, When ...
69. G-Eazy
Soundtrack | The Fate of the Furious
Gerald Earl Gillum (born May 24, 1989), known professionally as G-Eazy, is an American rapper and philanthropist from Oakland, California. His first major-label album, These Things Happen, was released on June 23, 2014 and peaked at number 3 on the US Billboard 200. His second studio album, When ...
70. Laura Mora Ortega
Director | Matar a Jesús
Laura Mora Ortega was born on April 20, 1981 in Medellín, Colombia. She is a director and actress, known for Killing Jesus (2017), The Kings of the World (2022) and Brotherhood (2006).
71. Walter Plunkett
Costume_department | An American in Paris
The brilliant and talented Walter Plunkett was born June 5, 1902, to James and Frances Plunkett of Oakland, California. He studied law at the University of California, but was hardly as interested in becoming an attorney as he was in his involvement with the campus' theatrical group. Making the ...
72. Joan Joseff
Costume_department | Under the Gun
Joan Joseff was born on August 12, 1912 in Cochrane, Alberta, Canada. Joan is known for Under the Gun (1951), Scarecrow and Mrs. King (1983) and Fantasy Island (1977). Joan was married to Eugene Joseff. Joan died on March 24, 2010 in Burbank, California, USA.
73. Sergio Arau
Director | A Day Without a Mexican
Cartoonist, painter, musician, and filmmaker, Sergio Arau considers himself a multi-undisciplined artist. Born and raised in Mexico he began his entertainment career as a political cartoonist and founded the still popular Mexico City newspapers, Uno Mas Uno and La Jornada. He made his musical debut...
74. Patrice Chéreau
Director | Intimacy
Patrice Chéreau was born on November 2, 1944 in Lézigné, Maine-et-Loire, France. He was a director and actor, known for Intimacy (2001), The Last of the Mohicans (1992) and Queen Margot (1994). He died on October 7, 2013 in Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France.
75. Ruggero Deodato
Director | Deathcember
Ruggero Deodato was born on May 7, 1939, in Potenza, Italy, and grew up outside Rome. One of his close friends at the time was Renzo Rossellini, the son of famed Italian director Roberto Rossellini. Knowing Ruggerio's love for the movies, Renzo persuaded him to work as a second unit director on ...
76. Alejandro Jodorowsky
Writer | El Topo
Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Tocopilla, Chile on February 17, 1929. In 1939 he moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus clown and a puppeteer. In 1953 he went to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. He worked with Maurice Chevalier there and made a short film, La ...
77. Paco Rabanne
Costume_designer | Barbarella
Paco Rabanne was born on February 18, 1934 in Pasaia, Gipuzkoa, Pais Vasco, Spain. He was a costume designer and actor, known for Barbarella (1968), Two for the Road (1967) and The Last Adventure (1967). He died on February 3, 2023 in Portsall, Ploudalmézeau, Brittany, France.
78. Iñaki Dubourg
Director | Tres Muertos
Iñaki Dubourg is known for Tres Muertos (2013), Las Partes Perdidas (2021) and Family Album (2023).
79. Rihanna
Actress | Battleship
Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988 in Bridgetown, St. Michael, Barbados to Monica Braithwaite, an accountant & Ronald Fenty, a warehouse supervisor. Her mother is Afro-Guyanese and her father is of Afro-Barbadian and British Isles ancestry. Rihanna lived the life of a normal ...
80. F.W. Murnau
Director | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
F.W. Murnau was a German film director. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served as a company commander at the eastern front and was in the German air ...
81. François Girard
Director | Le violon rouge
François Girard was born in Quebec in 1963. Best known for his movie writing and directing (Thirty-two Short Films About Glenn Gould, The red Violin, Silk...), Girard also directed a number of plays and operas including PARSIFAL at the Metropolitan Opera. He also wrote and directed two Cirque du ...
82. Paul Rogers
Editor | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Paul Rogers is known for Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022), The Death of Dick Long (2019) and The Eric Andre Show (2012).
83. Christer Wahlberg
Producer | Du är alltid 20
Christer Wahlberg is known for You are always 20 (2021), Gösta Petter-land (2023) and Min Dröm Är Bättre Än Din (2019).
84. Kazuo Ishiguro
Writer | Living
Kazuo Ishiguro was born on November 8, 1954 in Nagasaki, Japan. He is a writer and producer, known for Living (2022), Never Let Me Go (2010) and The Remains of the Day (1993). He has been married to Lorna Anne MacDougall since 1986. They have one child.
85. Lukas Dhont
Director | Close
Belgian film director and screenwriter. He was featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 Europe list in 2019.
Dhont was born in Ghent, Belgium. His mother, Hilbe is a fashion teacher at an art school. He has a younger brother Michiel who is a producer. As a teenager, Dhont worked as a costume design assistant ...
86. Shannon Cohn
Producer | Below the Belt
Shannon Cohn is known for Below the Belt (2023), Endo What? (2016) and The Potential Wives of Norman Mao (2011).
87. Kenneth Anger
Director | Fireworks
Kenneth Anger grew up in Hollywood and started out as a child actor, but his interest in filmmaking was evident at an early age: he made his first film, Who Has Been Rocking My Dreamboat (1941) , at age 14.
Anger developed into one of the pioneers of the American underground film movement. His ...
88. William A. Wellman
Director | A Star Is Born
William Wellman, the Oscar-winning screenwriter-director of the original A Star Is Born (1937), was called "Wild Bill" during his World War I service as an aviator, a nickname that persisted in Hollywood due to his larger-than-life personality and lifestyle.
A leap-year baby born in 1896 on the 29th...
89. Trent Dalton
Writer | Glenn Owen Dodds
Trent Dalton is known for Glenn Owen Dodds (2010), Boy Swallows Universe (2024) and All Our Shimmering Skies (2020). He is married to Fiona Franzmann. They have two children.
90. Alan J. Pakula
Producer | Sophie's Choice
Alan J. Pakula was an American film director, writer and producer. He was nominated for three Academy Awards: Best Picture for To Kill a Mockingbird (1962), Best Director for All the President's Men (1976) and Best Adapted Screenplay for Sophie's Choice (1982).
He also directed Presumed Innocent (...
91. James Wong Howe
Cinematographer | The Thin Man
Master cinematographer James Wong Howe, whose career stretched from silent pictures through the mid-'70s, was born Wong Tung Jim in Canton (now Guangzhou), China, on August 28, 1899, the son of Wong How. His father emigrated to America the year James was born, settling in Pasco, Washington, where ...
92. Michael Goi
Director | Big Sky
Michael Goi, ASC, ISC
Michael Goi, ASC, ISC was born and raised in Chicago, where he established himself in the fields of documentaries and commercials. He has directed numerous television shows such as "Avatar: The Last Airbender", "Big Sky,", "The Rookie", "Kung Fu", "The Chilling Adventures Of ...
93. Tennessee Williams
Writer | A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams met long-term partner Frank Merlo in the summer of 1948 (Merlo died of lung cancer in the fall of 1963). Though separated briefly in 1961 and again in 1962, the two were partners for 15 years. Merlo acted as his personal manager/secretary.
Williams spent much of his most prolific ...
94. Steve McQueen
Director | 12 Years a Slave
Steve McQueen was born on October 9, 1969 in London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for 12 Years a Slave (2013), Shame (2011) and Hunger (2008). He is married to Bianca Stigter. They have two children.
95. Douglas Sirk
Director | Schlußakkord
Film director Douglas Sirk, whose reputation blossomed in the generation after his 1959 retirement from Hollywood filmmaking, was born Hans Detlef Sierck on April 26, 1897, in Hamburg, Germany, to a journalist. Both of his parents were Danish, and the future director would make movies in German, ...
96. Nicholas Ray
Director | Rebel Without a Cause
Nicholas Ray was born Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in 1911, in small-town Galesville, Wisconsin, to Lena (Toppen) and Raymond Joseph Kienzle, a contractor and builder. He was of German and Norwegian descent. Ray's early experience with film came with some radio broadcasting in high school. He left the ...
97. Irma Capece Minutolo
Actress | Fantozzi 2000 - La clonazione
Irma Capece Minutolo was born on August 6, 1935 in Naples, Campania, Italy. She was an actress, known for Fantozzi 2000 - La clonazione (1999), Siamo ricchi e poveri (1953) and Napoletani a Milano (1953). She died on June 7, 2023 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
98. Xan Cassavetes
Director | Kiss of the Damned
Xan Cassavetes was born on September 21, 1965 in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a director and actress, known for Kiss of the Damned (2012), A Woman Under the Influence (1974) and Alpha Dog (2006).
99. Luchino Visconti
Writer | Il gattopardo
Born in his ancestral palazzo, situated in the same Milanese square as both the opera house La Scala and the Milan Cathedral, Luchino Visconti (1906 - 1976) was raised under the auspices of aristocratic privilege, theater and Catholicism. This triangulation of monuments would create an equally ...
100. Michael Cimino
Director | The Deer Hunter
Michael Cimino studied architecture and dramatic arts; later he filmed advertisements and documentaries and also wrote scripts until the actor, producer and director Clint Eastwood gave him the opportunity to direct the thriller Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). But his biggest success was The Deer...
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