Great Writers, Directors & Producers
by OneSentenceReview | created - 06 Jan 2021 | updated - 3 days ago | Public1. Max Landis
Writer | Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
Max Landis was born on August 3, 1985 in Los Angeles County, California, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (2016), Chronicle (2012) and Mr. Right (2015).
2. Roman Polanski
Director | Chinatown
Roman Polanski is a Polish film director, producer, writer and actor. Having made films in Poland, Britain, France and the USA, he is considered one of the few truly international filmmakers. Roman Polanski was born in Paris in 1933.
His parents returned to Poland from France in 1936, three years ...
3. Aaron Seltzer
Writer | Disaster Movie
Aaron Seltzer was born on January 12, 1974 in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada. He is a writer and director, known for Disaster Movie (2008), Date Movie (2006) and Epic Movie (2007).
4. Jason Friedberg
Writer | Disaster Movie
Jason Friedberg was born on January 16, 1970 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Disaster Movie (2008), Epic Movie (2007) and Meet the Spartans (2008).
5. Van Neistat
Director | A Space Program
Van Neistat is known for A Space Program (2015), The Hero's Journey (2017) and The Neistat Brothers (2010).
6. Bob Landis
Cinematographer | National Geographic Explorer
Bob Landis is known for National Geographic Explorer (1985), Return of the Wolf (2000) and The Living Edens (1997).
7. Adam B. Stein
Director | Freaks
Adam B. Stein is known for Freaks (2018), Kim Possible (2019) and Mech-X4 (2016).
8. Zach Lipovsky
Producer | Freaks
Emmy-nominated director Zach Lipovsky started his career on Spielberg's filmmaking competing "On the lot" where he placed 5th out of 12,000 directors worldwide.
Zach has gone on to direct and produce projects for TV and film for Syfy, Lionsgate, Legendary and Disney where he was the producing ...
9. Anders Thomas Jensen
Writer | Retfærdighedens ryttere
Anders Thomas Jensen was born on 6th April 1972 in Frederiksværk on Sjælland in Denmark to Carl Benny Jensen and Kirsten Jensen (born Sørensen). He attended the high school in Frederiksværk from 1988 to 1991. In 1990 while still in high school, he wrote and directed 10 år på bagen - 3 år i skyggen ...
10. Zack Snyder
Director | 300
Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter, best known for action and science fiction films. Snyder made his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead and has gone on to be known for his comic book movies and ...
11. Stephen Sommers
Producer | G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra
Stephen Sommers was born on March 20, 1962 in Indianapolis, Indiana. Raised in St. Cloud, Minnesota, he attended St. John's University and the University of Seville in Spain. Afterward, Sommers spent the next four years performing as an actor in theater groups and managing rock bands throughout ...
12. Paul Feig
Producer | Freaks and Geeks
Paul Feig is an American film director and writer who is known for creating Freaks and Geeks and directing Bridesmaids, The Heat, Spy and A Simple Favor. He is known for directing films starring frequent collaborator Melissa McCarthy. He also directed the highly controversial 2016 reboot of ...
13. Philippe Mora
Director | Mad Dog Morgan
Philippe Mora is a highly talented artist and film-maker with an impressive resume to boast of. He was born in Paris in 1949 to Georges and Mirka Mora, who moved to Melbourne, Australia in 1951. There the elder Moras became very important local artistic and cultural figures. Georges was an art ...
14. Luc Besson
Writer | Le Cinquième Élément
Luc Besson spent the first years of his life following his parents, scuba diving instructors, around the world. His early life was entirely aquatic. He already showed amazing creativity as a youth, writing early drafts of The Big Blue (1988) and The Fifth Element (1997), as an adolescent bored in ...
15. Michael Crichton
Writer | Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton was born in Chicago, Illinois, but grew up in Roslyn, New York. His father was a journalist and encouraged him to write and to type. Michael gave up studying English at Harvard University, having become disillusioned with the teaching standards--the final straw came when he ...
16. Joseph Garner
Producer | Joker
Joseph Garner was born on October 25, 1980. Joseph is a producer and director, known for Joker (2019), Due Date (2010) and War Dogs (2016).
17. Sam Cullman
Cinematographer | If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front
Sam Cullman is an award-winning director and cinematographer known for If a Tree Falls: A Story of the Earth Liberation Front (2011), P.O.V. (1988), Art and Craft (2014) and Remastered: The Lion's Share (2018). In addition to providing camerawork for his own projects and those he produces, ...
18. Hazel Brugger
Actress | Stand Up Comedy Show
Hazel Brugger was born on December 9, 1993 in San Diego, California, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for Stand Up Comedy Show (2017), Kurzstrecke (2020) and Hazel Brugger: Tropical (2020). She has been married to Thomas Spitzer since 2020. They have one child.
19. Teller
Writer | Penn & Teller: Bullshit!
Teller was born on February 14, 1948 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (2003), Penn & Teller Get Killed (1989) and Tim's Vermeer (2013).
20. Terry Gilliam
Writer | Brazil
Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...
21. David Cronenberg
Actor | The Fly
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...
22. Seth W. Owen
Writer | Morgan
Seth W. Owen is known for Morgan (2016), All Nighter (2017) and Peepers (2010).
23. 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 ...
24. Andrea Rosen
Actress | The Ten
Andrea Rosen was born on February 2, 1974 in Delmar, New York, USA. She is an actress and writer, known for The Ten (2007), Stella (2005) and Squirrel (2018).
25. Mark Protosevich
Writer | The Cell
Mark Protosevich was born on August 24, 1961 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is a writer and producer, known for The Cell (2000), Oldboy (2013) and I Am Legend (2007).
26. Gary Goetzman
Producer | A Man Called Otto
Gary Goetzman was born on November 6, 1952 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a producer and actor, known for A Man Called Otto (2022), Mamma Mia! (2008) and My Big Fat Greek Wedding (2002). He has been married to Leslie Anne Carroll since March 23, 1986. They have two children.
27. Paul Thomas Anderson
Director | Punch-Drunk Love
Anderson was born in 1970. He was one of the first of the "video store" generation of film-makers. His father was the first man on his block to own a V.C.R., and from a very early age Anderson had an infinite number of titles available to him. While film-makers like Spielberg cut their teeth making...
28. Jalmari Helander
Director | Rare Exports
Jalmari Helander was born on July 21, 1976 in Helsinki, Finland. He is a director and writer, known for Rare Exports (2010), Sisu (2022) and Big Game (2014).
29. Peter Thorwarth
Writer | Die Welle
Peter Thorwarth was born on June 3, 1971 in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a writer and director, known for The Wave (2008), If it Don't Fit, Use a Bigger Hammer (1997) and Bang Boom Bang - Ein todsicheres Ding (1999). He is married to Nele Kiper. They have one child.
30. Joshua Kennedy
Actor | House of the Gorgon
Joshua Kennedy is the South Texas based actor-writer-producer-director of more than twenty low-budget feature films. Since graduating from Pace University in New York City, Kennedy has been the recipient of the Rondo Hatton Award for Best Independent Film with "House of the Gorgon," the prestigious...
31. Johannes Naber
Director | Der Albaner
Johannes Naber was born in 1971 in Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Der Albaner (2010), Age of Cannibals (2014) and Operation Curveball (2020).
32. Ben Best
Actor | Land of the Lost
Ben Best was born on September 13, 1974 in the USA. He was a writer and actor, known for Land of the Lost (2009), Eastbound & Down (2009) and Observe and Report (2009). He died on September 12, 2021.
33. Xao Seffcheque
Writer | Ein Jahr - die Anrheiner
Xao Seffcheque was born in 1956 in Graz, Styria, Austria. He was a writer and actor, known for Ein Jahr - die Anrheiner (1999), Die Kleinen und die Bösen (2015) and Das große Sitzen (1998). He died on May 26, 2023 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
34. Albert Espinosa
Writer | Tu vida en 65'
Albert Espinosa Puig is an industrial engineer, writer, actor and director. The young life of Albert was marked by cancer (age 14 to 24), due to this he had a leg amputated, a lung and half of his liver. He spent much of his youth in hospital fighting this disease. But he has always been happy. The...
35. Bettina Oberli
Director | Wanda, mein Wunder
Bettina Oberli was born in 1972 in Interlaken, Bern, Switzerland. She is a director and writer, known for My Wonderful Wanda (2020), With the wind (2018) and Im Nordwind (2004).
36. Petra Biondina Volpe
Writer | Die göttliche Ordnung
Swiss-Italian screenwriter and director Petra Volpe pursued her film education at the Film Academy Konrad Wolf in Potsdam Babelsberg, Germany. Her notable feature "The Divine Order" was chosen as Switzerland's entry for the Best Foreign Language Film category at the 90th Academy Awards. Premiering ...
37. Michael Haneke
Writer | Caché
A true master of his craft, Michael Haneke is one of the greatest film artists working today and one who challenges his viewers each year and work goes by, with films that reflect real portions of life in realistic, disturbing and unforgettable ways. One of the most genuine filmmakers of the world ...
38. David Wnendt
Director | Er ist wieder da
David Wnendt was born in 1977 in Gelsenkirchen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Look Who's Back (2015), Combat Girls (2011) and Sun and Concrete (2023).
39. Sabine Pochhammer
Writer | Feuchtgebiete
Sabine Pochhammer is known for Wetlands (2013), Late Bloomers (2006) and Was ich von ihr weiß (2005).
40. Oliver Berben
Producer | Er ist wieder da
Oliver Berben was born on August 29, 1971 in Munich, Germany. He is a producer and writer, known for Look Who's Back (2015), Carnage (2011) and Bewegte Männer (2003). He has been married to Katrin Kraus since November 2014. They have one child.
41. Lars von Trier
Writer | Dancer in the Dark
Probably the most ambitious and visually distinctive filmmaker to emerge from Denmark since Carl Theodor Dreyer over 60 years earlier, Lars von Trier studied film at the Danish Film School and attracted international attention with his very first feature, The Element of Crime (1984). A highly ...
42. Nicola Guaglianone
Writer | Lo chiamavano Jeeg Robot
Nicola Guaglianone was born on May 5, 1973 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is a writer and actor, known for They Call Me Jeeg Robot (2015), Indivisible (2016) and L'ora legale (2017).
43. Daniel Dencik
Writer | Ekspeditionen til verdens ende
Daniel Dencik is a Danish writer and film director, born May 9, 1972, in Stockholm, Sweden. He debuted as a poet 1998, and graduated from The National Film School of Denmark as a film editor 1999. He was the editor of the cult movie Noi Albinoi by his friend Dagur Kari before he began directing his...
44. Brian Duffield
Writer | No One Will Save You
Brian Duffield was born on November 5, 1985. He is a writer and producer, known for No One Will Save You (2023), Spontaneous (2020) and Cocaine Bear (2023).
45. Matthew Robinson
Writer | The Invention of Lying
Matthew Robinson was born on May 26, 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for The Invention of Lying (2009), Love and Monsters (2020) and Live Die Repeat and Repeat.
46. Pierre Mazingarbe
Writer | Ce qui me fait prendre le train
Pierre Mazingarbe is known for Ce qui me fait prendre le train (2014), Moonkup: Les noces d'Hémophile (2015) and Les poissons préfèrent l'eau du bain (2011).
47. Digna Sinke
Producer | After the Tone
Digna Sinke was born on October 17, 1949 in Zonnemaire, Zeeland, Netherlands. She is a producer and director, known for After the Tone (2014), Belle van Zuylen - Madame de Charrière (1993) and De Stille Oceaan (1984).
48. Nick Park
Writer | The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
Nick Park was born on December 6, 1958 in Preston, Lancashire, England, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005), Chicken Run (2000) and Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993).
49. Stephen Groo
Producer | Tomb Raider: Holy Statue of Light
Stephen Groo was born in Artesia, California. He went to Brigham Young University and graduated in 2000 with a BA in Fine Arts. He has been a film director for 21 years and has produced over 200 films. He finished his feature film Unexpected Race 2016 with Jack Black and Jon Heder. A documentary ...
50. Michael Glawogger
Writer | Workingman's Death
Michael Glawogger was born on December 3, 1959 in Graz, Austria. He was a writer and director, known for Workingman's Death (2005), Untitled (2017) and Whores' Glory (2011). He died on April 23, 2014 in Liberia.
51. Joel Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Joel Daniel Coen is an American filmmaker who regularly collaborates with his younger brother Ethan. They made Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, True Grit, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, Inside Llewyn Davis, Hail Caesar and other projects. Joel ...
52. Ethan Coen
Producer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The younger brother of Joel, Ethan Coen is an Academy Award and Golden Globe winning writer, producer and director coming from small independent films to big profile Hollywood films. He was born on September 21, 1957 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. In some films of the brothers- Ethan & Joel wrote, Joel...
53. Jack London
Writer | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Jack London was the best-selling, highest paid and most popular American author of his time.
He was born John Griffith Chaney, on January 12, 1876, in San Francisco. He was raised by his mother Flora Wellman and his stepfather John London (he didn't know who his father was until his adulthood). ...
54. Mark Twain
Writer | Big River
Mark Twain, born Samuel Langhorne Clemens in Florida, Missouri in 1835, grew up in Hannibal. He was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River. Throughout his career, Twain served as a writer, lecturer, reporter, editor, printer, and prospector. Twain took his pen name from an alert cry used on his...
55. M. Night Shyamalan
Producer | Lady in the Water
Born in Puducherry, India, and raised in the posh suburban Penn Valley area of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, M. Night Shyamalan is a film director, screenwriter, producer, and occasional actor, known for making movies with contemporary supernatural plots.
He is the son of Jayalakshmi, a Tamil ...
56. Riley Stearns
Writer | Dual
Riley Stearns was born on June 29, 1986 in Texas, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Dual (2022), The Art of Self-Defense (2019) and Faults (2014). He was previously married to Mary Elizabeth Winstead.
57. Doris Dörrie
Writer | Kirschblüten - Hanami
Dörrie completed her schooling at a humanistic high school, from which she graduated in 1973 with her Abitur. In the same year he spent two years in the USA. There she studied film and acting at the Drama Department at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. This was followed by ...
58. Gareth Edwards
Visual_effects | Monsters
Gareth James Edwards was born on June 1, 1975 in the English town of Nuneaton, Warwickshire. Growing up, he admired movies such as the 1977 classic "Star Wars", and went on to pursue a film career. He even cites George Lucas and Steven Spielberg as his biggest influences. Edwards studied BA (Hons) ...
59. Albert R. Broccoli
Producer | Moonraker
Albert Romolo Broccoli was born in Astoria, Queens (New York City) on April 5th, 1909. His mother and father, Cristina and Giovanni Broccoli, raised young Albert in New York on the family farm. The family was in the vegetable business, and Albert claimed one of his uncles brought the first broccoli...
60. Surveillance Camera Man
Cinematographer | Surveillance Camera Man 1-8
Surveillance Camera Man is known for Surveillance Camera Man (2018) and Surveillance Camera Man #6 (2014).
61. Mark Laita
Director | Soft White Underbelly
Mark Laita is known for Soft White Underbelly (2016), Workbook Radio (2018) and The Joe Rogan Experience (2009).
62. Fred Wolf
Writer | Grown Ups
Fred began work as a stand-up comedian in the early days of the "comic boom" in Los Angeles, and after more than 100 TV appearances and a two year stint co-hosting the popular Comedy Central show "Comics Only" with Paul Provenza, Fred began submitting jokes to Johnny Carson, Joan Rivers, and many ...
63. Terry Jones
Writer | The Meaning of Life
Terry Jones was born in Colwyn Bay, North Wales, the son of Dilys Louisa (Newnes), a homemaker, and Alick George Parry Jones, a bank clerk. His older brother is production designer Nigel Jones. His grandparents were involved in the entertainment business, having managed the local Amateur Operatic ...
64. Terry Pratchett
Writer | Good Omens
Terry Pratchett was born on April 28, 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK. He was a writer and actor, known for Good Omens (2019), Untitled Discworld Project and The Wee Free Men. He was married to Lyn Marian Purves. He died on March 12, 2015 in Broadchalke, Salisbury, Wiltshire, ...
65. Alex Garland
Writer | Ex Machina
Alex Garland is an English novelist, screenwriter, film producer and director. He is best known for the films Ex Machina (2015) and Annihilation (2018).
Garland's others works as a writer includes The Beach (2000), 28 Days Later (2002), Sunshine (2007), Never Let Me Go (2011) and Dredd (2012).
He is ...
66. Fran Walsh
Writer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Fran Walsh is a New Zealand writer and wife of New Zealand film director Peter Jackson. She co-wrote The Lord of the Rings film trilogy, which is seen by many as Jackson's magnum opus and one of the most significant film series ever made. She also wrote The Hobbit trilogy, a prequel to Jackson's ...
67. Franklin Ritch
Actor | The Artifice Girl
Franklin Ritch is an independent filmmaker- writing, directing, and editing with a passion for unique ideas and sharp storytelling. Since high school, Franklin has developed a vast filmography of short films, web series, features, and other anomalous explorations into the medium of film. ...
68. Whitley Strieber
Whitley Strieber began his writing career with a pair of modern-Gothic horror novels, The Wolfen (1981) and The Hunger (1983), for which he earned renown as one of the best of the "new wave" of horror writers. Both of these novels were made into films.
In the mid-eighties his novels of nuclear ...
69. Daniel Kwan
Director | Everything Everywhere All at Once
Daniel Kwan with Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, are a duo of film directors and writers. They began their career as directors of music videos, including the popular DJ Snake promotional for the single "Turn Down for What" (2013). They have since ventured into film, having written ...
70. Wolfgang Petersen
Director | Das Boot
A controversial film maker, Wolfgang Petersen has at once been lauded for his professionalism and attention to detail and decried for turning out a string of standard commercial Hollywood blockbusters. The son of a naval officer, Petersen held a lifelong fascination with the sea and naval subjects....
71. Frank Miller
Writer | Sin City
Frank Miller was born in Olney, Maryland, to a nurse mother and a carpenter and electrician father, and was raised in Montpelier, Vermont. He is of Irish descent. Miller was a big comics writer/artist in the '70s and '80s. He wrote and penciled the Marvel series "Daredevil" for a long time. His ...
72. Bill Zebub
Director | Night of the Pumpkin
Bill Zebub is known for Night of the Pumpkin (2010), Jesus, the Total Douchebag (2011) and The Worst Horror Movie Ever Made (2005).
73. Jonathan Jacobson
Writer | The Kill Room
Jonathan Jacobson grew up in the small town of Chester, CT, literally surrounded by movies, as his parents owned and operated a local video store. After exhausting the narrative possibilities that directing his friends with his camcorder allowed, he attended NYU's Tisch Film School. While a student...
74. Chris Molinaro
Writer | Drunk Bus
Chris Molinaro is an award-winning screenwriter with 20-years in the TV and film industry. His first feature film, the critically acclaimed DRUNK BUS, stars Charlie Tahan from OZARK and Kara Hayward from MOONRISE KINGDOM. Originally scheduled to premiere at The 2020 SXSW Film Festival that got ...
75. Claire Downes
Actress | Nanny McPhee
Claire Downes is known for Nanny McPhee (2005), The Job Lot (2013) and We Can Be Heroes (2017).
76. Ian Jarvis
Writer | The Job Lot
Ian Jarvis is known for The Job Lot (2013), The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (2024) and We Can Be Heroes (2017).
77. Stuart Lane
Writer | The Job Lot
Stuart Lane is known for The Job Lot (2013), Carters Get Rich (2017) and The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin (2024).
78. Louise Hogarth
Producer | Angels in the Dust
Louise Hogarth is an award-winning independent documentary filmmaker. For the past two decades she has been directing and producing extraordinary documentaries that highlight cutting-edge controversial social issues including "The Panama Deception," that she co-produced in 1992 about the US ...
79. Paul Wernick
Writer | Deadpool
Paul Wernick is a Canadian screenwriter and producer known for writing the Deadpool film trilogy starring Ryan Reynolds and Zombieland starring Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone. He regularly collaborates with his writing partner Rhett Reese. He also wrote Life, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, Spiderhead, 6 ...
80. Rhett Reese
Writer | Deadpool
Rhett Reese is an American screenwriter and producer known for writing the Deadpool film trilogy starring Ryan Reynolds and Zombieland. He regularly collaborates with his writing partner Paul Wernick. He also wrote Life, Clifford's Really Big Movie, G.I. Joe: Retaliation, 6 Underground and Cruel ...
81. Alice Guy
Director | The Woman of Mystery
The world's first female filmmaker, French-born Alice Guy entered the film business in 1896 as a secretary at Gaumont, a manufacturer of movie cameras and projectors who had purchased a "cinématographer" from its inventors, the Lumiere brothers. The next year Gaumont became the world's first motion...
82. Martin McDonagh
Writer | In Bruges
Martin McDonagh was born on March 26, 1970 in Camberwell, London, England, UK. He is a writer and director, known for In Bruges (2008), Seven Psychopaths (2012) and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017).
83. Steve Oram
Actor | Sightseers
Steve Oram was born on August 25, 1973 in Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England, UK. He is an actor and writer, known for Sightseers (2012), The World's End (2013) and Aaaaaaaah! (2015).
84. Krystle Wright
Director | Where the Wild Things Play
Krystle Wright is an adventure sports photographer from Queensland, Australia, although she now lives a semi-nomadic lifestyle in her quest to capture and present unique moments from extreme sports, expeditions and adventures across the globe.
Whether she's camping on a frozen fjord for a month in ...
86. Chris Baugh
Director | Wreck
Chris Baugh is known for Wreck (2022), Boys from County Hell (2020) and Bad Day for the Cut (2017).
87. Erin Cressida Wilson
Writer | Secretary
Erin Cressida Wilson was a Professor of Playwriting in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She also is affiliated with the Department of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Wilson formerly was a professor at Brown University, and before that ...
88. Josh Gates
Producer | Hacking the System
Originally from the small town of Manchester-by-the-Sea, Massachusetts. Josh is graduate of Boston's Tufts University, from which he holds degrees in archaeology and drama. His work and travels have taken him to more than 50 countries around the world.
An avid SCUBA diver, Josh has assisted in ...
89. Woody Allen
Writer | Annie Hall
Woody Allen was born on November 30, 1935, as Allen Konigsberg, in The Bronx, NY, the son of Martin Konigsberg and Nettie Konigsberg. He has one younger sister, Letty Aronson. As a young boy, he became intrigued with magic tricks and playing the clarinet, two hobbies that he continues today.
Allen ...
90. Roseanne Liang
Writer | Shadow in the Cloud
Roseanne Liang is known for Shadow in the Cloud (2020), Do No Harm (2017) and My Wedding and Other Secrets (2011).
91. Nick Bakay
Producer | Sabrina the Teenage Witch
A native of Buffalo, New York, Nick Bakay graduated from Kenyon College in Ohio. In 1983, Bakay graduated from the Professional Acting Program at SMU in Dallas, Texas with an MFA (Master of Fine Arts). After moving to New York, he spent the early part of his acting career performing in numerous ...
92. Rock Reuben
Producer | The King of Queens
After a decade of performing stand up comedy and making many national television appearances, Rock Reuben got his big break -- landing a writing job on the hit CBS sitcom "King of Queens," ultimately rising to the rank of Executive Producer. After the shows amazing nine-year run, Rock created the ...
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