100 Greatest Jewish directors
by Rafou | created - 01 Sep 2012 | updated - 27 Jun 2014 | Public
101. Stuart Rosenberg
Director | Cool Hand Luke
Stuart Rosenberg was born on August 11, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Cool Hand Luke (1967), Question 7 (1961) and The Defenders (1961). He was married to Margot Pohoryles. He died on March 15, 2007 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, ...
102. Robert Siodmak
Director | Nachts wenn der Teufel kam
Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German-born, American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for a series of stylish, unpretentious Hollywood films noirs he made in the 1940s.
Siodmak (pronounced SEE-ODD-MACK) was born in Dresden, Germany, the son of ...
103. Elliot Silverstein
Director | Cat Ballou
Elliot Silverstein was born on August 3, 1927 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Cat Ballou (1965), A Man Called Horse (1970) and The Car (1977). He was married to Alana King and Evelyn Ward. He died on November 24, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
104. Albert E. Lewin
Writer | Call Me Mister
Screenwriter and producer Albert E. Lewin studied at the Chicago Art Institute and began his career in the 1930s as an animation artist for Walt Disney Studios, working on Snow White, Fantasia and Pinocchio. He soon turned to writing radio comedy, and wrote for Bob Hope, Bing Crosby, Jack Benny, ...
105. Daniel Mann
Director | Come Back, Little Sheba
Stage, television and film director Daniel Mann was born Daniel Chugerman on August 8, 1912, in Brooklyn, NY. He was a child performer and attended the New York's Professional Children's School. He studied with renowned acting teacher Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, eventually ...
106. Anthony Mann
Director | El Cid
Anthony Mann was born on June 30, 1906 in San Diego, California, USA. He was a director and writer, known for El Cid (1961), Men in War (1957) and The Glenn Miller Story (1954). He was married to Anna, Sara Montiel and Mildred Mann. He died on April 29, 1967 in London, England.
107. Jonathan Kaplan
Director | The Accused
Jonathan Kaplan was born in Paris, France, to film composer Sol Kaplan and actress Frances Heflin (the sister of actor Van Heflin and a regular on ABC's soap opera All My Children (1970). He started his career as a child actor in the Broadway production of "The Dark at the Top of the Stairs," ...
108. Kirk Douglas
Actor | The Final Countdown
Cleft-chinned, steely-eyed and virile star of international cinema who rose from being "the ragman's son" (the name of his best-selling 1988 autobiography) to become a bona fide superstar, Kirk Douglas, also known as Issur Danielovitch Demsky, was born on December 9, 1916 in Amsterdam, New York. ...
109. Tony Kaye
Director | Detachment
Tony Kaye was born in London, United Kingdom. He has made several well-known music videos, including the video for "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum, which won a Grammy Award, "Dani California" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, "What God Wants" by Roger Waters, and "Help Me" and "God's Gonna Cut You Down" by ...
110. Barbra Streisand
Actress | Yentl
Barbra Streisand is an American singer, actress, director and producer and one of the most successful personalities in show business. She is the only person ever to receive all of the following: Oscar, Tony, Emmy, Grammy, Golden Globe, Cable Ace, National Endowment for the Arts, and Peabody awards,...
111. Daniel Attias
Director | Silver Bullet
Daniel Attias won the DGA's 2009 best drama directing award for The Wire (2002) (episode: "Transitions"). He has also been nominated three other times in that category for episodes of The Sopranos (1999) ("46 Long"), Six Feet Under (2001) ("Back to the Garden"), and "Homeland" (2015)_ ("13 Hours in...
112. Abraham Polonsky
Writer | Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here
Writer-director Abraham Lincoln Polonsky, one of the most prominent victims of the Hollywood blacklisting of communists and social progressives in the post-World War II period, was born on December 5, 1910, in New York, New York. An unreconstructed Marxist, Polonsky never hid his membership in the ...
113. Shirley Clarke
Director | The Cool World
Shirley Clarke is an important figure in the history of mid-20th century independent cinema. Born Shirley Marion Brimberg to Samuel Nathan and Florence (Rosenberg) Brimberg, she was the eldest of their three daughters. She grew up in a wealthy family. Her father, who was born in present-day Belarus...
114. Paddy Chayefsky
Writer | Marty
Author, producer, and composer who earned a Bachelor of Science degree from CCNY, then a Purple Heart during World War II while serving in the US Army. Joining ASCAP in 1955, his chief musical collaborators included George Bassman and Harry Warren. His popular-song compositions include "Marty" and ...
115. Matthew Weiner
Producer | Mad Men
Matthew Weiner was born on June 29, 1965 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is a producer and writer, known for Mad Men (2007), The Sopranos (1999) and The Romanoffs (2018). He has been married to Linda Brettler since January 1991. They have four children.
116. Henry Lynn
Director | A People Eternal
Henry Lynn was born on July 21, 1895 in Bialystok, Poland, Russian Empire. He was a director and writer, known for A People Eternal (1939), Bar-Mitzvah (1935) and Shir Hashirim (1935). He died in August 1984 in Miami Beach, Florida, USA.
117. Boaz Yakin
Writer | Fresh
Boaz Yakin was born on June 15, 1965. He is a writer and producer, known for Fresh (1994), Remember the Titans (2000) and Aviva (2020).
118. Vadim Perelman
Director | House of Sand and Fog
Vadim Perelman was born in 1963 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]. He is a director and producer, known for House of Sand and Fog (2003), Persian Lessons (2020) and The Life Before Her Eyes (2007).
119. Lisa Cholodenko
Director | The Kids Are All Right
Lisa Cholodenko earned an MFA at Columbia University Film School where she made an award-winning short film Dinner Party (1997) Her feature High Art (1998) won the National Society of Film Critics award for Ally Sheedy's performance and The Waldo Salt Screenwriting award at Sundance. Both "High Art...
120. Philip Haas
Director | Angels and Insects
Philip Haas was born in 1954 in San Francisco, California, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Angels and Insects (1995), The Blood Oranges (1997) and The Music of Chance (1993). He is married to Belinda Haas.
121. Tom Stoppard
Writer | Shakespeare in Love
Tom Stoppard was born on July 3, 1937 in Zlín, Czechoslovakia [now in Czech Republic]. He is a writer and producer, known for Shakespeare in Love (1998), Brazil (1985) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). He has been married to Sabrina Guinness since 2014. He was previously married ...
122. Roland Joffé
Director | The Mission
Roland Joffé was born on November 17, 1945 in London, England, UK. He is a producer and director, known for The Mission (1986), The Killing Fields (1984) and The Great Hunger.
123. Jack Gold
Director | Aces High
Jack Gold was born on June 28, 1930 in London, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for Aces High (1976), The National Health (1973) and Famine (1967). He was married to Denyse Alexander. He died on August 9, 2015.
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