20+ Awesome directors you just don't care about
by Visioneer | created - 23 Jul 2011 | updated - 01 Aug 2019 | Publicin random order, equally awesome.
1. Christopher Guest
Actor | This Is Spinal Tap
U.S.-born actor, director, writer, musician, and composer best known for his mockumentaries, poking fun at heavy metal music, small town theatre, dog shows, folk music and film-making itself, Christopher Haden-Guest was born February fifth, 1948, in New York City. His mother, Jean Pauline (Hindes),...
The Big Picture / Waiting for Guffman / Best in Show / For Your Consideration
2. David Schwimmer
Actor | Friends
Born in New York and raised in Los Angeles, Schwimmer was encouraged by a high school instructor to attend a summer program in acting at Northwestern University. Inspired by that experience, he returned to Northwestern where he received a bachelor's degree in speech/theater. In 1988, along with ...
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3. James Gunn
Writer | Guardians of the Galaxy
James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers. He has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He began making 8mm films at the age ...
Slither / Special
4. Tom McCarthy
Writer | The Station Agent
Tom McCarthy is an American film director, screenwriter, and actor. He is best known for direct and write The Station Agent (2003), The Visitor (2007), Win Win (2011), and Spotlight (2015), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay, and was nominated for Best Director.
McCarthy...
The Station Agent / The Visitor / Win Win
5. Jay Chandrasekhar
Director | Super Troopers
Jay Chandrasekhar was born on April 9, 1968 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a director and actor, known for Super Troopers (2001), Club Dread (2004) and Beerfest (2006). He has been married to Susan Clarke since September 18, 2005. They have three children.
Club Dread / Beerfest
6. Scott Prendergast
Writer | Kabluey
Scott Prendergast was born on March 4, 1970 in Galveston, Texas, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for Kabluey (2007), So Help Me Todd (2022) and The Hottie & the Nottie (2008).
Kabluey
7. Bobcat Goldthwait
Director | God Bless America
Robert Francis 'Bobcat' Goldthwait, born May 26, 1962, is an American comedian, writer, producer, director, and star of films and television shows. He is most widely known for his at times screechy voice and scattergun delivery during his standup comedy performances and some film roles.
He was born ...
World's Greatest Dad, God Bless America, Stay (a/k/a Sleeping Dogs Lie)
8. Tommy Wiseau
Writer | The Room
Tommy Wiseau is an American actor, director, screenwriter & producer. He trained to be an actor at: American Conservatory Theater, Vince Chase Workshop, Jean Shelton Acting Lab, Laney College and Stella Adler Academy of Acting.
In 2001 he wrote, produced, directed and starred in The Room (2003), a ...
The Room
9. Pauly Shore
Actor | Encino Man
Stand-up comic Pauly Shore (né Paul Montgomery Shore) tasted super-stardom in 1990 when his precedent-setting MTV show Totally Pauly (1990) hit the airwaves to major fan approval. The show ran for four years, opening the door wide for him for television and film roles. In 1993, he wrote and starred...
Pauly Shore is Dead / Adopted
10. Travis Betz
Director | Lo
Travis Betz was born on December 16, 1976 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Lo (2009), The Dead Inside (2011) and ABCs of Death 2.5 (2016).
Lo
11. Mike Judge
Writer | Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
Mike Judge is an American actor, animator, film director, screenwriter, and television producer.
In 1962, Judge was born in Guayaquil, the largest city of Ecuador and the country's main port. His parents were expatriate Americans. His father was archaeologist William James Judge and his mother was ...
Office Space / Idiocracy
12. Jenna Fischer
Actress | The Office
Jenna Fischer is best known for playing Pam Beesly on the acclaimed television show The Office, for which she received an Emmy nomination for Best Supporting Actress and two SAG Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble Comedy.
She was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana, but was raised mostly in St...
Lollilove
13. Casey Affleck
Actor | Manchester by the Sea
An accomplished and striking performer, Academy Award® winner Casey Affleck has established himself as a powerful leading man with performances in multiple projects.
Caleb Casey McGuire Affleck-Boldt was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts. His mother, Chris Anne (née Boldt), is a school teacher, and ...
I'm Still Here
14. Philip Ridley
Writer | Heartless
Philip was born in the East End of London where he still lives and works. He studied painting at St Martin's School of Art and has exhibited widely throughout Europe. As a novelist his credits include Crocodilia (1988), In The Eyes Of Mr. Fury (Penguin, 1989), Flamingoes In Orbit (Hamish Hamilton, ...
The Passion of Darkly Noon / The Reflecting Skin
15. Hart Bochner
Actor | Die Hard
Hart Matthew Bochner was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, to Ruth (Roher), a concert pianist, and Lloyd Bochner, an actor. He is of Russian Jewish and Ukrainian Jewish descent. Hart made his feature film debut portraying George C. Scott's son in Ernest Hemingway's Islands in the Stream (1977) and ...
PCU / Just Add Water
16. Robert Pulcini
Director | American Splendor
Robert Pulcini was born on August 24, 1964 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for American Splendor (2003), Cinema Verite (2011) and Fleishman Is in Trouble (2022). He has been married to Shari Springer Berman since 1994.
American Splendor / The Extra Man
17. Shari Springer Berman
Director | American Splendor
Shari Springer Berman was born on July 13, 1963 in New York City, New York, USA. She is a director and writer, known for American Splendor (2003), Things Heard & Seen (2021) and The Nanny Diaries (2007). She has been married to Robert Pulcini since 1994.
American Splendor / The Extra Man
18. John Krasinski
Actor | Jack Ryan
American actor John Krasinski is known for his role as sardonic nice guy Jim Halpert on NBC's popular TV sitcom, The Office (2005), for which he won a 2007 and 2008 Screen Actors Guild Award for outstanding performance by an ensemble in a comedy series.
Born John Burke Krasinski on October 20, 1979,...
Brief Interviews With Hideous Men
19. Spencer Susser
Editor | Hesher
Spencer Susser is known for Hesher (2010), I Love Sarah Jane (2008) and Save Ralph (2021).
Hesher
20. Neil LaBute
Writer | In the Company of Men
Acclaimed and highly discussed filmmaker Neil LaBute has made himself a force to be reckoned with and a name to watch. With his true-to-life cynical and self-absorbed characters and all-too-true social themes, he has firmly established himself as an unforgiving judge of the ugliest side of human ...
The Shape of Things
21. Simon Rumley
Director | The Living and the Dead
Simon Rumley is one of the UK's most enduring independent directors. Dealing mainly in psychological situations, he has won best film or best director at the world's leading genre festivals such as: Sitges, Fantastic Fest, Fantasia, Frightfest as well as at smaller festivals such as Boston ...
22. Richard Bates Jr.
Director | Excision
Richard Bates Jr. is known for Excision (2012), Trash Fire (2016) and Tone-Deaf (2019).
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