Directing Wayne
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1. Jack Conway
Director | Viva Villa!
Born Hugh Ryan Conway of Irish ancestry, Jack Conway was one of a team of MGM contract directors (others included Sam Wood and Robert Z. Leonard), who forsook any pretense to a specific individual style in favor of working within the strictures set forth by studio management--as embodied by Irving ...
Brown of Harvard (1926)
2. King Vidor
Director | War and Peace
King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis. King's paternal grandfather Károly (Charles) Vidor had fled Hungary as a refugee following the failed ...
Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
3. Lewis Seiler
Director | Girls Gone Wild
Lewis Seiler went to Hollywood in 1919 and worked as a gag man and assistant director before directing a number of two-reel comedies. He was closely associated with Tom Mix Westerns during the 1920s. He spent much of the 1930s at Warner Brothers, turning out some of that studio's grittier gangster ...
The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926) Pittsburgh (1942)
4. John S. Robertson
Director | The Girl of Today
John S. Robertson was born on June 14, 1878 in London, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and actor, known for The Girl of Today (1918), The Fighting Blade (1923) and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920). He was married to Josephine Lovett. He died on November 5, 1964 in Escondido, California, USA.
Annie Laurie (1927)
5. Millard Webb
Director | Glorifying the American Girl
Millard Webb was born on December 6, 1893 in Clay City, Kentucky, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Glorifying the American Girl (1929), My Wife and I (1925) and The Love Thrill (1927). He was married to Mary Eaton and Lydia Stocking. He died on April 21, 1935 in Los Angeles,...
The Drop Kick (1927)
6. John Ford
Director | The Quiet Man
John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...
Mother Machree (1928) Four Sons (1928) Hangman's House (1928) The Black Watch (1929) Salute (1929) Men Without Women (1930) Born Reckless (1930) Stagecoach (1939) The Long Voyage Home (1940) They Were Expendable (1945) Fort Apache (1948) 3 Godfathers (1948) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949) Rio Grande (1950) The Quiet Man (1952) The Searchers (1956) The Wings of Eagles (1957) The Horse Soldiers (1959) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) How the West Was Won (1962) Donovan's Reef (1963)
7. Michael Curtiz
Director | Casablanca
Curtiz began acting in and then directing films in his native Hungary in 1912. After WWI, he continued his filmmaking career in Austria and Germany and into the early 1920s when he directed films in other countries in Europe. Moving to the US in 1926, he started making films in Hollywood for Warner...
Noah's Ark (1928) Trouble Along the Way (1953) The Comancheros (1961)
8. Benjamin Stoloff
Director | The Devil Is Driving
A UCLA graduate, Ben Stoloff started his career as a comedy short director for Fox Films, and later became a feature director for such western icons as Tom Mix and Buck Jones. He also directed a number of musicals for Fox and was a producer and director of features, mostly "B" pictures, and shorts ...
Speakeasy (1929)
9. James Tinling
Director | Deadline for Murder
James Tinling was born on May 8, 1898 in Seattle, Washington, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Deadline for Murder (1946), Trouble Preferred (1948) and The Flood (1931). He died on May 14, 1967 in Los Angeles County, California, USA.
Words and Music (1929)
10. David Butler
Director | You'll Find Out
David Butler was born on December 17, 1894 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a director and actor, known for You'll Find Out (1940), Look for the Silver Lining (1949) and If I Had My Way (1940). He was married to Elshie H Schulte. He died on June 14, 1979 in Arcadia, California, USA.
Salute (1929)
11. Edward F. Cline
Director | The Boat
Edward "Eddie" Cline began his career in the film business as one of the Keystone Kops. The former vaudevillian appeared sporadically in films as an actor until 1922, but became increasingly active behind the camera as a gagman and scenario writer for Mack Sennett. From 1916 he worked on a steady ...
The Forward Pass (1929)
12. Andrew Bennison
Director | This Sporting Age
Andrew Bennison was born on November 3, 1886 in Oakland, California, USA. He was a writer and director, known for This Sporting Age (1932), The Sin Sister (1929) and On the Level (1930). He died on January 7, 1942 in Oxnard, California, USA.
Born Reckless (1930)
13. A.F. Erickson
Director | Under Suspicion
A.F. Erickson was born on May 3, 1897 in Bloomington, Indiana, USA. He was an assistant director and production manager, known for Under Suspicion (1930), This Sporting Age (1932) and Rough Romance (1930). He died on January 15, 1956 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Rough Romance (1930)
14. Sidney Lanfield
Director | Hush Money
After a stint as a jazz musician and a vaudeville entertainer, Sidney Lanfield was hired by Fox Film Corp. in 1926 as a gag writer and brought to Hollywood. Making his debut as a director in 1930, he specialized in romances and light comedies, directing many of Bob Hope's films in the 1930s and ...
Cheer Up and Smile (1930) Three Girls Lost (1931)
15. 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 ...
The Big Trail (1930) Dark Command (1940)
16. Seymour Felix
Seymour Felix began his showbiz career as a professional dancer in vaudeville at the age of 15. In the 1920s he became a dance director in New York, where he created and staged dance numbers for stage shows like Whoopee, Roaslie, and Hit the Deck. In 1929 he worked briefly in Hollywood (Sunny Side ...
Girls Demand Excitement (1931)
17. George B. Seitz
Director | The Sky Ranger
Former playwright George B. Seitz left the theater for Hollywood in 1913, and before long he was turning out screenplays for action serials such as The Perils of Pauline (1914), The Exploits of Elaine (1914), and The Iron Claw (1916). In addition to writing and sometimes starring in these ...
Arizona (1931)
18. Louis King
Director | The Arm of the Law
Louis King was born on June 28, 1898 in Christianburg, Virginia, USA. He was a director, known for The Arm of the Law (1932), Dangerous Mission (1954) and Bengal Tiger (1936). He was married to Mary Elizabeth White. He died on September 7, 1962 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
The Deceiver (1931)
19. D. Ross Lederman
Director | Shadows of the Night
Starting out as an extra in Mack Sennett's Keystone Kops series, D. Ross Lederman worked his way through the ranks of film production, and made his mark as a second-unit director. Becoming a feature director in the late 1920s, he specialized in action films and especially westerns, turning out a ...
The Range Feud (1931) Texas Cyclone (1932) Two-Fisted Law (1932)
20. Edward Sedgwick
Director | Murder in the Fleet
Edward Sedgwick was born on November 7, 1892 in Galveston, Texas, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Murder in the Fleet (1935), Chasing the Moon (1922) and The Flaming Frontier (1926). He was married to Ebba Havez and Rose L. Elgueta. He died on March 7, 1953 in North Hollywood, ...
Maker of Men (1931)
21. Ford Beebe
Director | The Invisible Man's Revenge
Ford Beebe was born on November 26, 1888 in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944), Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (1940) and The Golden Idol (1954). He was married to Kitty Winifred Delevanti and Frances Caroline Willey. He died ...
The Shadow of the Eagle (1932)
22. Stephen Roberts
Director | Romance in Manhattan
Stephen Roberts was born on November 23, 1895 in Summersville, West Virginia, USA. He was a director and writer, known for Romance in Manhattan (1934), Pink Elephants (1926) and Hanging Fire (1926). He was married to Vee Eva Wolf. He died on July 17, 1936 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, ...
Lady and Gent (1932)
23. J.P. McGowan
Director | The Lost Express
J.P. McGowan was born on February 24, 1880 in Terowie, South Australia, Australia. He was a director and actor, known for The Lost Express (1917), Hills of Missing Men (1922) and Do or Die (1921). He was married to Mrs. Kaye Swart Northrop, Leona (Lorna) Haviland and Helen Holmes. He died on March ...
The Hurricane Express (1932)
24. Armand Schaefer
Director | Burn 'Em Up Barnes
Armand Schaefer was born on August 5, 1898 in Tavistock, Ontario, Canada. He was a production manager and producer, known for Burn 'Em Up Barnes (1934), The Three Musketeers (1933) and The Hurricane Express (1932). He was married to Audrey. He died on September 26, 1967 in Mono County, California, ...
The Hurricane Express (1932) The Three Musketeers (1933) Sagebrush Trail (1933)
25. Fred Allen
Director | The Mysterious Rider
Fred Allen began his career with Mack Sennett as an editor in 1914. He also worked for producers Thomas H. Ince, Harry Joe Brown and Charles Rogers. In the 1930s he was supervisor and sometimes director of Tom Keene's productions for RKO. He also worked for Warner Brothers as both an editor and ...
Ride Him, Cowboy (1932)
26. Roy William Neill
Director | Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man
Roy William Neill was born on September 4, 1887 in ship off Ireland. He was a director and producer, known for Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943), The Scarlet Claw (1944) and Murder Will Out (1939). He was married to Betty MacLaglen. He died on December 14, 1946 in London, England, UK.
That's My Boy (1932)
27. Tenny Wright
Director | The Telegraph Trail
Tenny Wright was born on November 18, 1885 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was an assistant director and director, known for The Telegraph Trail (1933), The Flying Marine (1929) and The Donovan Affair (1929). He was married to Marion Viola McMahon. He died on September 13, 1971 in Hollywood, ...
The Big Stampede (1932) The Telegraph Trail (1933)
28. Mack V. Wright
Director | Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island
Mack V. Wright was born on March 9, 1894 in Princeton, Indiana, USA. He was an assistant director and actor, known for Robinson Crusoe of Clipper Island (1936), Somewhere in Sonora (1933) and The Sea Hound (1947). He died on August 14, 1965 in Boulder City, Nevada, USA.
Haunted Gold (1932) Somewhere in Sonora (1933) The Man from Monterey (1933) Winds of the Wasteland (1936)
29. Colbert Clark
Writer | The Three Musketeers
Colbert Clark was born on August 31, 1898 in Galesburg, Illinois, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for The Three Musketeers (1933), The Wolf Dog (1933) and The Whispering Shadow (1933). He was married to Witney, Frances. He died on May 4, 1960 in Coronado, California, USA.
The Three Musketeers (1933)
30. 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...
Central Airport (1933) College Coach (1933) Island in the Sky (1953) The High and the Mighty (1954) Blood Alley (1955)
31. Archie Mayo
Director | Vengeance
A stage actor, Archie Mayo went to Hollywood in 1915 and worked until his retirement in 1946. He began directing slapstick two-reelers, later making features at Warner Bros. just about the time sound was being introduced into films. He did much work for Warners, but he also made films at Goldwyn ...
The Life of Jimmy Dolan (1933)
32. Phil Whitman
Writer | The Mystery Train
Phil Whitman was born in 1893 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a writer and director, known for The Mystery Train (1931), Air Eagles (1931) and A Strange Adventure (1932). She died on January 10, 1935.
His Private Secretary (1933)
33. Alfred E. Green
Director | The Jolson Story
One of the more prolific American directors, Alfred E. Green entered films in 1912 as an actor for the Selig Polyscope Co. He became an assistant to director Colin Campbell and started directing two-reelers, turning to features in 1917. His career lasted into the mid-1950s but his output was mostly...
Baby Face (1933)
34. Robert N. Bradbury
Director | The Lucky Texan
Robert N. Bradbury was born on March 23, 1886 in Walla Walla, Washington, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Lucky Texan (1934), The Star Packer (1934) and West of the Divide (1934). He was married to Nola Bradbury. He died on November 24, 1949 in Glendale, California, USA.
Riders of Destiny (1933) The Lucky Texan (1934) West of the Divide (1934) Blue Steel (1934) The Man from Utah (1934) The Star Packer (1934) The Trail Beyond (1934) The Lawless Frontier (1934) Texas Terror (1935) Rainbow Valley (1935) The Dawn Rider (1935) Westward Ho (1935) Lawless Range (1935)
35. Harry L. Fraser
Writer | Batman
Harry L. Fraser was an American film director, with a career lasting from the 1920s to the early 1950s. He was born in San Francisco, and spend most of his life in his native California.
Fraser was known during his lifetime for his contributions to the Western genre, directing or scripting films for...
Randy Rides Alone (1934) 'Neath the Arizona Skies (1934)
36. Lewis D. Collins
Director | Reformatory
Baltimore-born Lewis D. Collins got his start in show business as a stage and theater director. He moved to Hollywood in the mid-1920s, securing work as a writer and director of two-reelers. Collins was one of the more prolific American directors, up there with Sam Newfield, Lew Landers and William...
The Desert Trail (1935)
37. Carl Pierson
Director | The New Frontier
Carl Pierson was born on June 26, 1891 in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA. He was an editor and director, known for The New Frontier (1935), The Arm of the Law (1932) and Paradise Canyon (1935). He died on February 11, 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Paradise Canyon (1935) The New Frontier (1935)
38. Scott Pembroke
Director | Telephone Operator
Scott Pembroke was born on September 13, 1889 in San Francisco, California, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Telephone Operator (1937), The Jazz Cinderella (1930) and Shanghai Rose (1929). He was married to Gertrude Short. He died on February 21, 1951 in Pasadena, California, USA.
The Oregon Trail (1936)
39. Joseph Kane
Director | Sea of Lost Ships
Joseph Kane's career as a professional cellist ended when he became a film editor in 1926. His directing career started with co-directing serials for Mascot and Republic, and he soon became Republic's top western director. He handled many of John Wayne's Republic westerns of the 1940s, and piloted ...
The Lawless Nineties (1936) King of the Pecos (1936) The Lonely Trail (1936) Flame of Barbary Coast (1945) Dakota (1945)
40. Frank R. Strayer
Director | Gorilla Ship
Frank R. Strayer was born on September 20, 1891 in Altoona, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for Gorilla Ship (1932), Partners in Crime (1928) and Anybody's Blonde (1931). He was married to Erma P. Rogers. He died on February 3, 1964 in Hollywood, California, USA.
Sea Spoilers (1936)
41. David Howard
Director | The Lost Jungle
David Howard was born on October 6, 1896 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He was a director and assistant director, known for The Lost Jungle (1934), The Rookie Cop (1939) and The Mystery Squadron (1933). He died on December 21, 1941 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Conflict (1936)
42. Arthur Lubin
Director | Phantom of the Opera
A graduate of Carnegie Tech, Arthur Lubin entered films as an actor in the 1920s, and after appearing in many films turned to directing in 1934, mainly for Universal. His forte was light comedy, but he helmed many different types of pictures for the studio. Lubin was the director Universal ...
California Straight Ahead! (1937) I Cover the War! (1937) Idol of the Crowds (1937) Adventure's End (1937)
43. Charles Barton
Director | A Man's World
Charles T. Barton was born in Oakland, CA, on May 25, 1902. His father managed a candy store, and soon moved the family to Los Angeles, where Charles, nicknamed "Charlie", got a job at age 15 acting as an extra in silent movies. He eventually left acting for a job behind the camera as an assistant ...
Born to the West (1937)
44. George Sherman
Director | Storm Over Lisbon
American second feature director George Sherman arrived in California aboard the SS Mongolia (bound from New York City, where he was born), on which he served as a bellboy. He began his career in the movie business in the mail room at Warner Brothers before working his way up to assistant director....
Pals of the Saddle (1938) Overland Stage Raiders (1938) Santa Fe Stampede (1938) Red River Range (1938) The Night Riders (1939) Three Texas Steers (1939) Wyoming Outlaw (1939) New Frontier (1939) Big Jake (1971)
45. William A. Seiter
Director | The Cheerful Fraud
Originally a writer and artist, William A. Seiter entered films with Selig. He worked from 1915 as a stunt double and bit player at Keystone and quickly graduated to directing comedy shorts. He moved up to features in the 1920s. He married actress Laura La Plante, who he directed in several films, ...
Allegheny Uprising (1939) A Lady Takes a Chance (1943)
46. Bernard Vorhaus
Assistant_director | Roman Holiday
Born in New York, director Bernard Vorhaus made his name in England during the 1930s and later became a victim of the Hollywood blacklist. His most well-known film was The Last Journey (1935), but his quirky thriller about phony spiritualists, The Amazing Mr. X (1948), has a loyal following. A ...
Three Faces West (1940) Lady from Louisiana (1941)
47. Tay Garnett
Director | China Seas
Following his service as a naval aviator in WW I, Tay Garnett entered films in 1920 as a screenwriter. After a stint as a gag writer for Mack Sennett and Hal Roach he joined Pathe, then the distributor for both competing comedy producers, and in 1928 began directing for that company. Garnett ...
Seven Sinners (1940)
48. John H. Auer
Producer | Moonlight Masquerade
Born in Hungary and educated in Vienna, John H. Auer was an actor in European films from the age of 12. After his career as a child actor ended, he entered the business world, but soon decided to rejoin the film industry. He journeyed to Hollywood in 1928 to find work as a director, but came up ...
A Man Betrayed (1941)
49. Henry Hathaway
Director | True Grit
Henry Hathaway, son of a stage actress and manager, started his career as a child actor in westerns directed by Allan Dwan. His movie career was interrupted by World War I. After his discharge he briefly tried a career in finance but returned to Hollywood to work as an assistant director under such...
The Shepherd of the Hills (1941) Legend of the Lost (1957) North to Alaska (1960) Circus World (1964) The Sons of Katie Elder (1965) True Grit (1969)
50. Leigh Jason
Director | Metropolitan Nocturne
Leigh Jason (born Leigh Jacobson) was an instructor at UCLA before entering the film business in 1924 as an electrician. He turned to screenwriting in 1926, then changed his name to Leigh Jason when he started directing in 1928. He turned out numerous shorts and B pictures, mainly thrillers and ...
Lady for a Night (1942)
51. Cecil B. DeMille
Producer | The Ten Commandments
His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he was 12, and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company. Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C. de Mille to the New ...
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
52. Ray Enright
Director | Song of the West
Ray Enright, born in Anderson, Indiana, came to Los Angeles with his family at the age of five. He attended Los Angeles High School and in 1913 started motion picture work as an assistant cutter at the Mack Sennett studio. He served in World War I as a member of the Signal Corps. After the war he ...
The Spoilers (1942)
53. William C. McGann
Special_effects | Key Largo
William C. McGann was an American director of second features. He began his film career as assistant cameraman and graduated to cinematographer for Douglas Fairbanks in the late 1910s. He had a long tenure as director with the Warner Bros. "B" unit, 1930-39. Afterwards, he had brief spells with ...
In Old California (1942)
54. David Miller
Director | The Story of Esther Costello
David Miller was born on November 28, 1909 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Story of Esther Costello (1957), Twist of Fate (1954) and Flying Tigers (1942). He was married to Frances Raeburn. He died on April 14, 1992 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
Flying Tigers (1942)
55. Jules Dassin
Director | Du rififi chez les hommes
Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Never on Sunday (1960), and Topkapi (1964).
He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish ...
Reunion in France (1942)
56. Albert S. Rogell
Director | The Wrecker
Born in Oklahoma City, Albert Rogell moved with his family to Spokane, WA, when he was a child. At 15 he got a job with the Washington Motion Picture Co. Having gotten a taste of the film business, he headed to Los Angeles after the company went bankrupt, and had a succession of jobs before joining...
In Old Oklahoma (1943)
57. Edward Ludwig
Director | Caribbean
Russian-born Edward Ludwig came to the U.S. as a child and was educated in Canada and New York City. He entered the film business as an actor in silents, then became a scenarist and screenwriter, and in the early 1930s turned to directing. Although most of his films were routine second features, he...
The Fighting Seabees (1944) Wake of the Red Witch (1948) Big Jim McLain (1952)
58. Edwin L. Marin
Director | Invisible Agent
Director Edwin L. Marin was born in Jersey City, NJ, in 1899. He traveled to Hollywood as a young man, and at age 20 got a job in the industry as an assistant cameraman. By 1932 he had crossed over to directing, first for low-budget studio Tiffany Pictures. However, he worked his way up the ...
Tall in the Saddle (1944)
59. Edward Dmytryk
Director | The Caine Mutiny
Edward Dmytryk grew up in San Francisco, the son of Ukrainian immigrants. After his mother died when he was 6, his strict disciplinarian father beat the boy frequently, and the child began running away while in his early teens. Eventually, juvenile authorities allowed him to live alone at the age ...
Back to Bataan (1945)
60. Mervyn LeRoy
Director | Gypsy
The great San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906 was a tragedy for Mervyn LeRoy. While he and his father managed to survive, they lost everything they had. To make money, LeRoy sold newspapers and entered talent contests as a singer. When he entered vaudeville, his act was "LeRoy and Cooper--Two...
Without Reservations (1946)
61. James Edward Grant
Writer | The Alamo
James Edward Grant started as a newspaperman in Chicago in the 1920s. He moved to Hollywood to write under contract with Republic. His passions were bullfighting and writing. He spent the last years of his life in Spain.
Angel and the Badman (1947)
62. Richard Wallace
Director | Kick In
Richard Wallace was born in Sacramento, California, in 1894. At 14 years of age he got a job as a theater projectionist, a job he held for four years. He later traveled to Los Angeles to get into the film industry, and wound up as an editor for such studios as Triangle and Robertson-Cole. His ...
Tycoon (1947)
63. Howard Hawks
Director | Red River
What do the classic films Scarface (1932), Twentieth Century (1934), Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), Sergeant York (1941), To Have and Have Not (1944), The Big Sleep (1946), Red River (1948) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) and Rio Bravo (1959) have in...
Red River (1948) Rio Bravo (1959) Hatari! (1962) El Dorado (1967) Rio Lobo (1970)
64. Arthur Rosson
Director | Red River
The brother of cinematographer Harold Rosson, director Richard Rosson and actress Helene Rosson, Arthur Rosson started in films as a stuntman and joined Vitagraph in 1909, later working as an associate director with Cecil B. DeMille for 16 years. By the 1920s he was a full-time director, and from ...
Red River (1948)
65. George Waggner
Director | The Wolf Man
George Waggner was born on September 7, 1894 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for The Wolf Man (1941), Man Made Monster (1941) and Frisco Sal (1945). He was married to Danny Shannon. He died on December 11, 1984 in Hollywood, California, USA.
The Fighting Kentuckian (1949) Operation Pacific (1951)
66. Allan Dwan
Director | Bound in Morocco
Allan Dwan was born on April 3, 1885 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. He was a director and writer, known for Bound in Morocco (1918), A Perfect Crime (1921) and Panthea (1917). He was married to Marie Shelton and Pauline Bush. He died on December 28, 1981 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, ...
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
67. 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 ...
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
68. John Farrow
Writer | Around the World in Eighty Days
John Farrow wrote short stories and plays during his four-year career in the navy. In the late 1920s he came to Hollywood as a technical advisor for a film about Marines and stayed as a screenwriter, from A Sailor's Sweetheart (1927) through Tarzan Escapes (1936). He married Tarzan's Jane, Maureen ...
Hondo (1953) The Sea Chase (1955)
69. Dick Powell
Actor | Murder, My Sweet
Few actors ever managed a complete image transition as thoroughly as did Dick Powell: in his case, from the boyish, wavy-haired crooner in musicals to rugged crime fighters in film noirs. Powell grew up in the town of Little Rock, Arkansas, one of three brothers (one of them, Howard, ended up as ...
The Conqueror (1956)
70. Josef von Sternberg
Director | The Devil Is a Woman
Josef von Sternberg split his childhood between Vienna and New York City. His father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, could not support his family in either city; Sternberg remembered him only as "an enormously strong man who often used his strength on me." Forced by poverty to drop ...
Jet Pilot (1957)
71. Hal Kanter
Writer | Julia
Hal Kanter started out writing variety shows and revues for television in the early 1950s. He turned to screenwriting in the mid-1950s, specializing in comedies (he wrote for Bob Hope and Martin & Lewis) but also turning out dramas such as The Rose Tattoo and Let's Make Love. He directed a few ...
I Married a Woman (1958)
72. John Huston
Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...
The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
73. John Wayne
Actor | True Grit
John Wayne was born Marion Robert Morrison in Iowa, to Mary Alberta (Brown) and Clyde Leonard Morrison, a pharmacist. He was of English, Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and Irish ancestry.
Clyde developed a lung condition that required him to move his family from Iowa to the warmer climate of southern ...
The Alamo (1960) The Green Berets (1968)
74. Andrew Marton
Assistant_director | Ben-Hur
Budapest-born Endre Marton began in the film industry as an editor and assistant director with Vita and Sascha Films in Vienna. Following a brief sojourn in Hollywood with Ernst Lubitsch in 1923, he returned to Germany, having being signed as chief editor by the Tobis company. He made his ...
The Longest Day (1962)
75. Andrew V. McLaglen
Director | The Wild Geese
Andrew V. McLaglen was born on July 28, 1920 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. He was a director and assistant director, known for The Wild Geese (1978), Fools' Parade (1971) and Hellfighters (1968). He was married to Sheila Anne Corbett, Sarah (Sally) Greenwood Pierce, Veda Ann Borg and Maria ...
McLintock! (1963) Hellfighters (1968) The Undefeated (1969) Chisum (1970) Cahill U.S. Marshal (1973)
76. George Stevens
Director | Giant
George Stevens, a filmmaker known as a meticulous craftsman with a brilliant eye for composition and a sensitive touch with actors, is one of the great American filmmakers, ranking with John Ford, William Wyler and Howard Hawks as a creator of classic Hollywood cinema, bringing to the screen ...
The Greatest Story Ever Told (1965)
77. Otto Preminger
Actor | Stalag 17
Otto Ludwig Preminger was born in Wiznitz, Bukovina, Austria-Hungary. His father was a prosecutor, and Otto originally intended to follow his father into a law career; however, he fell in love with the theater in his 20's and became one of the most imaginative stage producers and directors. He was ...
In Harm's Way (1965)
78. Melville Shavelson
Writer | The Five Pennies
Melville Shavelson was born on April 1, 1917 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a writer and director, known for The Five Pennies (1959), Houseboat (1958) and The Seven Little Foys (1955). He was married to Ruth Lafaye Florea and Lucille (Lucy) T. Myers. He died on August 8, 2007 in ...
Cast a Giant Shadow (1966)
79. Burt Kennedy
Director | The War Wagon
American screenwriter and director--particularly of westerns--Burt Kennedy was the son of performers. He was part of their act, "The Dancing Kennedys", from infancy. He served in World War II as a cavalry officer and was highly decorated. After the war he joined the Pasadena Community Playhouse, ...
The War Wagon (1967) The Train Robbers (1973)
80. Ray Kellogg
Visual_effects | Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Ray Kellogg was born on November 15, 1905 in Council Bluffs, Iowa, USA. He was an assistant director, known for Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), The King and I (1956) and The Seven Year Itch (1955). He died on July 5, 1976 in Ontario, California, USA.
The Green Berets (1968)
81. Mark Rydell
Actor | The Long Goodbye
Mark Rydell was born on March 23, 1929 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and actor, known for The Long Goodbye (1973), On Golden Pond (1981) and Hollywood Ending (2002). He was previously married to Esther Jacobs and Joanne Linville.
The Cowboys (1972)
82. John Sturges
Director | The Great Escape
John Sturges was an American film director, mostly remembered for his outstanding Western films. In 1992, Sturges was awarded a Golden Boot Award for his lifelong contribution to the Western genre.
Sturges was born in the village of Oak Park, Illinois, within the Chicago metropolitan area. By 1930, ...
McQ (1974)
83. Douglas Hickox
Director | Blackout
Douglas Hickox was born on January 10, 1929 in London, England, UK. He was an assistant director and director, known for Blackout (1985), Sitting Target (1972) and The Hound of the Baskervilles (1983). He was married to Josephine Elizabeth Popovic nee May, Anne V. Coates and Annabel Hickox. He died...
Brannigan (1975)
84. Stuart Millar
Producer | Little Big Man
Stuart Millar was born on April 25, 1929 in New York, New York, USA. He was a producer and director, known for Little Big Man (1970), Dream Breakers (1989) and When the Legends Die (1972). He died on August 22, 2006.
Rooster Cogburn (1975)
85. Don Siegel
Director | Escape from Alcatraz
Don Siegel was educated at Cambridge University, England. In Hollywood from the mid-'30s, he began his career as an editor and second unit director. In 1945 he directed two shorts (Hitler Lives (1945) and Star in the Night (1945)) which both won Academy Awards. His first feature as a director was ...
The Shootist (1976)
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