Actors & Their Directors
Sometimes the outcome of an actors career whether successful or not depends on the people they work with. A lot of the time actors rely on directors and their creative abilities to utilize a great performance. And if they’re successful working together they may collaborate on many films following. Many examples include Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg, Robert De Niro/Martin Scorsese or Leonardo DiCaprio/Martin Scorsese among many others. This list will display a list of actors and below their names will be the list of directors they’ve worked with along with the film they worked on, if they’ve worked with each other more then once all the films they worked on will be listed as well.
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William Bradley "Brad" Pitt was born on December 18, 1963 in Shawnee, Oklahoma and raised in Springfield, Missouri to Jane Etta Pitt (née Hillhouse), a school counselor & William Alvin "Bill" Pitt, a truck company manager. At Kickapoo High School, Pitt was involved in sports, debating, student government and school musicals. Pitt attended the University of Missouri, where he majored in journalism with a focus on advertising. He occasionally acted in fraternity shows. He left college two credits short of graduating to move to California. Before he became successful at acting, Pitt supported himself by driving strippers in limos, moving refrigerators and dressing as a giant chicken while working for El Pollo Loco.
Pitt's earliest credited roles were in television, starting on the daytime soap opera Another World (1964) before appearing in the recurring role of Randy on the legendary prime time soap opera Dallas (1978). Following a string of guest appearances on various television series through the 1980s, Pitt gained widespread attention with a small part in Thelma & Louise (1991), in which he played a sexy criminal who romanced and conned Geena Davis. This led to starring roles in badly received films such as Johnny Suede (1991) & Cool World (1992).
But Pitt's career hit an upswing with his casting in A River Runs Through It (1992), which cemented his status as an multi-layered actor as opposed to just a pretty face. Pitt's subsequent projects were as quirky and varied in tone as his performances, ranging from his unforgettably comic cameo as stoner roommate Floyd in True Romance (1993) to romantic roles in such visually lavish films as Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994) and Legends of the Fall (1994), to an emotionally tortured detective in the horror-thriller Se7en (1995). His portrayal of frenetic oddball Jeffrey Goines in 12 Monkeys (1995) won him a Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role.
Pitt's portrayal of Achilles in the big-budget period drama Troy (2004) helped establish his appeal as an action star and was closely followed by a co-starring role in the stylish spy-versus-spy flick Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005). It was on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith that Pitt, who married Jennifer Aniston in a highly publicized ceremony in 2000, met Angelina Jolie. Pitt left Aniston for Jolie in 2005, a break-up that continues to fuel tabloid stories years after its occurrence.
He continues to wildly vary his film choices, appearing in everything from high-concept popcorn flicks such as Megamind (2010) to adventurous critic-bait like Inglourious Basterds (2009) and The Tree of Life (2011). He has received two Best Actor Oscar nominations, for The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008) and Moneyball (2011). In 2014, he starred in the war film Fury (2014), opposite Shia LaBeouf, Logan Lerman, Jon Bernthal, and Michael Peña.
Pitt and Jolie have 6 children, 3 adopted & 3 biological.Lawrence Bassoff (Hunk; 1987)
Roger Donaldson (No Way Out; 1987)
Peter Werner (No Man’s Land; 1987)
Marek Kanievska (Less Than Zero; 1987)
Bozidar Nikolic (The Dark Side of the Sun; 1988)
Mel Damski (Happy Together; 1989)
Rospo Pallenberg (Cutting Class; 1989)
Sandy Tung (Across the Tracks; 1991)
Ridley Scott (2; Thelma & Louise; 1991, The Counselor; 2013)
Tom DiCillo (Johnny Suede; 1991)
Ralph Bakshi (Cool World; 1992)
Robert Redford (A River Runs Through It; 1992)
Dominic Sena (Kalifornia; 1993)
Tony Scott (2; True Romance, 1993; Spy Game 2002)
Donald Petrie (The Favor; 1994)
Neil Jordan (Interview with a Vampire; 1994)
Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall; 1994)
David Fincher (3; Seven, 1995; Fight Club, 1999; The Curious Case of Benjamin Button; 2008)
Terry Gilliam (12 Monkeys; 1995)
Barry Levinson (Sleepers; 1996)
Alan J. Pakula (The Devils Own; 1997)
Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet; 1997)
Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black; 1998)
Guy Ritchie (Snatch; 2000)
Gore Verbinski (The Mexican; 2001)
Steven Soderbergh (3; Oceans Eleven, 2001; Oceans Twelve, 2004; Oceans Thirteen, 2007)
Tim Johnson (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas; 2003)
Patrick Gilmore (Sinbad: Legend of the Seven Seas; 2003)
Wolfgang Petersen (Troy; 2004)
Doug Liman (Mr. & Mrs. Smith; 2005)
Alejandro G. Innaritu (Babel; 2006)
Andrew Dominik (2; The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; 2007, Killing Them Softly; 2012)
Joel Coen (Burn After Reading; 2008)
Ethan Coen (Burn After Reading; 2008)
Quentin Tarantino (2; Inglorious Bastards, 2009; Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, 2019)
Tom McGrath (Megamind; 2010)
Terrence Malick (The Tree of Life; 2011)
Bennett Miller (Moneyball; 2011)
George Miller (Happy Feet Two; 2011)
Marc Forster (World War Z; 2013)
Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave; 2013)
David Ayer (Fury; 2014)
Angelina Jolie (By the Sea; 2015)
Adam McKay (The Big Short; 2015)
Robert Zemeckis (Allied; 2016)
David Michod (War Machine; 2017)
James Gray (Ad Astra; 2019)
Aaron Nee (The Lost City; 2022)
Adam Nee (The Lost City; 2022)
David Leitch (Bullet Train; 2022)
Damien Chazelle (Babylon; 2022)
Collaborations:
Steven Soderbergh - 3
David Fincher - 3
Quentin Tarantino - 2
Tony Scott - 2
Ridley Scott - 2
Andrew Dominik - 2
Other notable directors:
Joel Coen
Ethan Coen
Robert Zemeckis
Guy Ritchie
Gore Verbinski
Alejandro G. Innaritu
David Leitch
Damien Chazelle
James Gray
Steve McQueen
Terrence Malick
George Miller
Bennett Miller
Doug Liman
Wolfgang Petersen
Robert Redford
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Barry Levinson
Ralph Bakshi- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Benjamin Géza "Ben" Affleck-Boldt was born on August 15, 1972 in Berkeley, California and raised in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to mother Chris Anne (Boldt), a school teacher, and father Timothy Byers "Tim" Affleck, a social worker. Ben has a younger brother, actor Casey Affleck, who was born in 1975. He is of mostly English, Irish, German, and Scottish ancestry. His middle name, Géza, is after a Hungarian family friend who was a Holocaust survivor.
Affleck wanted to be an actor ever since he could remember, and his first acting experience was for a Burger King commercial, when he was on the PBS mini-series, The Voyage of the Mimi (1984). It was also at that age when Ben met his lifelong friend and fellow actor, Matt Damon. They played little league together and took drama classes together. Ben's teen years consisted of mainly TV movies and small television appearances including Hands of a Stranger (1987) and The Second Voyage of the Mimi (1988). He made his big introduction into feature films in 1993 when he was cast in Dazed and Confused (1993). After that, he did mostly independent films like Kevin Smith's Mallrats (1995) and Chasing Amy (1997) which were great for Ben's career, receiving renowned appreciation for his works at the Sundance film festival. But the success he was having in independent films didn't last much longer and things got a little shaky for Ben. He was living in an apartment with his brother Casey and friend Matt, getting tired of being turned down for the big roles in films and being given the forgettable supporting ones. Since Matt was having the same trouble, they decided to write their own script, where they could call all the shots. So, after finishing the script for Good Will Hunting (1997), they gave it to their agent, Patrick Whitesell, who showed it to a few Hollywood studios, finally being accepted by Castle Rock. It was great news for the two, but Castle Rock wasn't willing to give Ben and Matt the control over the project they were hoping for. It was friend Kevin Smith who took it to the head of Miramax who bought the script giving Ben and Matt the control they wanted and, in December 5, 1997, Good Will Hunting (1997) was released, making the two unknown actors famous. The film was nominated for 9 Academy Awards and won two, including Best Original Screenplay for Ben and Matt. The film marked Ben's breakthrough role, in which he was given for the first time the chance to choose roles instead of having to go through grueling auditions constantly.
Affleck chose such roles in the blockbusters Armageddon (1998), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Pearl Harbor (2001). In the early years of the 2000s, he also starred in the box office hits Changing Lanes (2002), The Sum of All Fears (2002), and Daredevil (2003), as well as the disappointing comedies Gigli (2003) and Surviving Christmas (2004). While the mid 2000s were considered a career downturn for Affleck, he received a Golden Globe nomination for his performance in Hollywoodland (2006). In the several years following, he played supporting roles, including in the films Smokin' Aces (2006), He's Just Not That Into You (2009), State of Play (2009), and Extract (2009). He ventured into directing in 2007, with the thriller Gone Baby Gone (2007), which starred his brother, Casey Affleck, and was well received. He then directed, co-wrote, and starred in The Town (2010), which was named to the National Board of Review Top Ten Films of the year. For the political thriller Argo (2012), which he directed and starred in, Affleck won the Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for Best Director, and the Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, and BAFTA Award for Best Picture (Affleck's second Oscar win).
In 2014, Affleck headlined the book adaptation thriller Gone Girl (2014). He starred as Bruce Wayne/Batman in the superhero film Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), Suicide Squad (2016), and Justice League (2017). He reprised the role in Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021) and he will next appear as Batman in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) and The Flash (2023).
Recently he has given praise-worthy performances in The Way Back (2020) as a recovering alcoholic, The Last Duel (2021) (notably he also co-wrote the script), and a scene-stealing golden globe nominated performance in The Tender Bar (2021).Robert Mandel (School Ties; 1992)
Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; 1992)
Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused; 1993)
Kevin Smith (7; Mallrats; 1995, Chasing Amy; 1997, Dogma; 1999, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; 2001, Jersey Girl; 2004, Jay and Silent Bob Reboot; 2019, Clerks III; 2022)
Rich Wilkes (Glory Daze; 1995)
Mark Pellington (Going All the Way; 1997)
Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting; 1997)
John Madden (Shakespeare in Love; 1998)
Joe Chappelle (Phantoms; 1998)
Michael Bay (2; Armageddon; 1998, Pearl Harbor; 2001)
Bronwen Hughes (Forces of Nature; 1999)
Risa Bramon García (200 Cigarettes; 1999)
Don Roos (Bounce; 2000)
John Frankenheimer (Reindeer Games; 2000)
Ben Younger (Boiler Room; 2000)
Robert Ramirez (Joseph: King of Dreams; 2000)
Rob DeLuca (Joseph: King of Dreams; 2000)
Billy Bob Thornton (Daddy and Them; 2001)
Roger Michell (Changing Lanes; 2002)
Phil Alden Robinson (The Sum of All Fears; 2002)
Jordan Brady (The Third Wheel; 2002)
Mark Steven Johnson (Daredevil; 2003)
Martin Brest (Gigli; 2003)
John Woo (Paycheck; 2003)
Mike Mitchell (Surviving Christmas; 2004)
Rob Bowman (Elektra; 2005)
Mike Binder (Man About Town; 2006)
Allen Coulter (Hollywoodland; 2006)
Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces; 2006)
Ken Kwapis (He’s Just Not That Into You; 2009)
Kevin Macdonald (State of Play; 2009)
Mike Judge (Extract; 2009)
John Wells (The Company Man; 2010)
Terrence Malick (To the Wonder; 2012)
Brad Furman (Runner Runner; 2013)
David Fincher (Gone Girl; 2014)
Zach Snyder (2; Batman vs. Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2015; Justice League, 2017)
Gavin O’Connor (2; The Accountant; 2016, The Way Back, 2020)
J.C Chandor (Triple Frontier; 2019)
Dee Rees (The Last Thing He Wanted; 2020)
Ridley Scott (The Last Duel; 2021)
George Clooney (The Tender Bar; 2021)
Adrian Lyne (Deep Water; 2022)
Amanda Micheli (Jennifer Lopez: Halftime; 2022)
Andy Muschietti (The Flash; 2023)
Robert Rodriguez (Hypnotic; 2023)
Collaborations:
Kevin Smith - 7
Michael Bay - 2
Zach Snyder - 2
Gavin O’Connor - 2
Other notable directors:
Ridley Scott
David Fincher
Richard Linklater
John Frankenheimer
Ken Kwapis
Robert Rodriguez
Terrence Malick
Joe Carnahan
Mike Binder
Gus Van Sant
Films Affleck directed himself:
Argo
The Town
Gone Baby Gone
Gimme Shelter
Live By Night
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50 Cent (Curtis James Jackson) is an American rapper, actor, producer, and entrepreneur.
He began a musical career and in 2000 he produced Power of the Dollar for Columbia Records, but days before the planned release he was shot and the album was never released. In 2002, after Jackson released the compilation album Guess Who's Back?, he was discovered by Eminem and signed to Shady Records, under the aegis of Dr. Dre's Aftermath Entertainment and Interscope Records.
With the help of Eminem and Dr. Dre (who produced his first major-label album, Get Rich or Die Tryin'), Jackson became one of the world's best selling rappers and rose to prominence with East Coast hip hop group G-Unit (which he leads de facto). In 2003, he founded G-Unit Records, signing his G-Unit associates Young Buck, Lloyd Banks and Tony Yayo. Jackson had similar commercial and critical success with his second album, The Massacre, which was released in 2005. He released his fifth studio album, Animal Ambition, in 2014 and as of 2019 is working on his sixth studio album, Street King Immortal.
During his career Jackson has sold over 30 million albums worldwide and won several awards, including a Grammy Award, thirteen Billboard Music Awards, six World Music Awards, three American Music Awards and four BET Awards. He has pursued an acting career, appearing in the semi-autobiographical film Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005), the Iraq War film Home of the Brave (2006) and Righteous Kill (2008).Jim Sheridan (Get Rich or Die Tryin’; 2005)
Irwin Winkler (Home of the Brave; 2006)
Jon Avnet (Righteous Kill; 2008)
Charles Winkler (Streets of Blood; 2009)
Alex De Rakoff (Dead Man Running; 2009)
Brian A. Miller (2; Caught in the Crossfire, 2010; The Prince; 2014)
Gela Babluani (13; 2010)
Jessy Terreo (2; Gun, 2010; Freelancers, 2012)
Joel Schumacher (Twelve; 2010)
Roger Michell (Morning Glory; 2010)
Jason Hewitt (Blood Out; 2011)
Mike Gunther (Setup; 2011)
Mario Van Peebles (All Things Fall Apart; 2011)
David Barrett (Fire with Fire; 2012)
Mikael Hafstrom (Escape Plan; 2013)
Jon Turtletaub (Last Vegas; 2013)
Scott Walker (The Frozen Ground; 2013)
Gil Medina (Vengeance; 2014)
Paul Feig (Spy; 2015)
Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw; 2015)
Akiva Shaffer w/ Jorma Taccone (Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping; 2016)
Christian Gudagast (Den of Thieves; 2018)
Steven C. Miller (Escape Plan 2: Hades; 2018)
John Herzfeld (Escape Plan: The The Extractor; 2019)
Collaborations:
Jessy Terrero - 2
Brian A. Miller - 2
Other notable directors:
Antoine Fuqua
Paul Feig
Jon Turtletaub
Joel Schumacher
Jon Avnet
Irwin Winkler- Actor
- Director
- Writer
Casey Affleck is a renowned American actor, filmmaker, and producer recognized for his captivating performances and commitment to independent cinema. With an Academy Award under his belt and a reputation as a powerful leading man, Casey Affleck has established himself as one of the most compelling and versatile actors in contemporary cinema. Throughout his career, he has consistently delivered performances of exceptional depth and nuance in a wide range of film genres.
Affleck's breakout role came in Andrew Dominik's critically acclaimed character drama, "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford" (2007). His performance as Robert Ford, a young man consumed by a complex cocktail of admiration and resentment for the notorious outlaw Jesse James (portrayed by Brad Pitt), earned him widespread recognition, including Academy Award, Golden Globe, and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
He solidified his critical acclaim with a starring role in his brother Ben Affleck's directorial debut, "Gone, Baby, Gone" (2007). This gripping neo-noir followed two Boston-based private detectives searching for an abducted young girl. Affleck's performance, showcasing both vulnerability and determination, further cemented his reputation as a rising dramatic force.
The following decade saw Affleck continue to diversify his roles, venturing outside the realm of independent drama to blockbuster productions. He was seen in Christopher Nolan's ambitious sci-fi epic "Interstellar" (2014) alongside an ensemble cast including Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway. Affleck also appeared in Scott Cooper's gritty crime thriller, "Out of the Furnace" (2013), where he shared the screen with Christian Bale.
His versatility continued to shine with his performance in the independent film "Ain't Them Bodies Saints" (2013), showcasing a quieter, more brooding side to his acting talents. That same year, Affleck turned his attention to production, establishing The Affleck/Middleton Project with John Powers Middleton as a platform to develop and produce a diverse array of film and television projects.
Affleck's directorial work came to fruition with the release of the mockumentary "I'm Still Here" (2010), which he directed, wrote, and produced, featuring Joaquin Phoenix in a performance art piece that blurred the lines between fiction and reality. This experimental project demonstrated Affleck's willingness to challenge conventional storytelling formats.
In 2016, Affleck returned to the spotlight with his career-defining performance in Kenneth Lonergan's profoundly moving drama, "Manchester by the Sea." His portrayal of Lee Chandler, a grief-stricken man coping with immense loss, earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. This raw and unforgettable performance cemented Affleck's status as one of the industry's finest dramatic actors.
2016 also saw Affleck star in several other notable films, including the action thriller "Triple 9" (2016) and Disney's historical drama, "The Finest Hours." He further expanded his range with roles in independent films like David Lowery's "A Ghost Story" (2017), a meditative exploration of loss and the passage of time.
Affleck has continued to take on challenging projects that have pushed his boundaries as an actor. Most recently, he starred opposite Elisabeth Moss in the psychological thriller "Light of My Life" (2019), which he also wrote and directed.
His upcoming projects include a pivotal role in Christopher Nolan's highly-anticipated "Oppenheimer" (2023), where he portrays theoretical physicist Robert Oppenheimer himself. Affleck is also slated to star in "Slingshot" (2024), a science fiction thriller set in space.
Casey Affleck's talent for embodying complex, flawed characters with profound authenticity has made him one of the most sought-after actors in the industry. With his captivating performances, dedication to his craft, and his discerning eye for unique storytelling projects, the future remains bright for this remarkable actor.Gus Van Sant (3; To Die For; 1995, Good Will Hunting; 1997, Gerry; 2002)
Charles T. Kanganis (Race the Sun; 1996)
Kevin Smith (Chasing Amy; 1997)
Morgan J. Freeman (Desert Blue; 1998)
Risa Bramon García (200 Cigarettes; 1999)
Paul and Chris Weitz (American Pie; 1999)
William Roth (Floating; 1999)
Nick Gomez (Drowning Mona; 2000)
Lisa Krueger (Commited; 2000)
Michael Almereyda (Hamlet; 2000)
Phillip Charles MacKenzie (Attention Shoppers; 2000)
James B. Rogers (American Pie 2; 2001)
Stephen Carpenter (Soul Survivors; 2001)
Stephen Soderbergh (3; Oceans Eleven; 2001, Oceans Twelve 2004; Oceans Thirteen; 2007)
Steve Buscemi (Lonesome Jim; 2005)
Tony Goldwyn (The Last Kiss; 2006)
Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; 2007)
Ben Affleck (Gone Baby Gone; 2007)
Michael Winterbottom (The Killer Inside Me; 2010)
Brett Ratner (Tower Heist; 2011)
Sam Fell w/ Chris Butler (ParaNorman; 2012)
David Lowery (3; Ain’t Them Bodies Saints; 2013, A Ghost Story; 2017, The Old Man & the Gun; 2018)
Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace; 2013)
Christopher Nolan (Interstellar; 2014, Oppenheimer; 2023)
Shaun Monson (Unity; 2015)
Kenneth Lonergan (Manchester by the Sea; 2016)
Craig Gillespie (The Finest Hours; 2016)
John Hillcoat (Triple 9; 2017)
Gabriela Cowperthwaite (The Friend; 2019)
Mona Fastvold (The World to Come; 2020)
Vaughn Stein (Every Breath You Take; 2020)
Mikael Håfström (Slingshot; 2024)
Collaborations:
David Lowery - 3
Stephen Soderbergh - 3
Gus Van Sant - 3
Christopher Nolan - 2
Other notable directors:
Scott Cooper
Brett Ratner
Ben Affleck
Kevin Smith
Kenneth Lonergan- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Matthew Paige Damon was born on October 8, 1970, in Boston, Massachusetts, to Kent Damon, a stockbroker, realtor and tax preparer, and Nancy Carlsson-Paige, an early childhood education professor at Lesley University. Matt has an older brother, Kyle, a sculptor. His father was of English and Scottish descent, and his mother is of Finnish and Swedish ancestry. The family lived in Newton until his parents divorced in 1973, when Damon and his brother moved with his mother to Cambridge. He grew up in a stable community, and was raised near actor Ben Affleck.
Damon attended Cambridge Rindge and Latin School and he performed in a number of theater productions during his time there. He attended Harvard University as an English major. While in Harvard, he kept on skipping classes to pursue acting projects, which included the TNT original film, Rising Son (1990), and prep-school drama, School Ties (1992). It was until his film, Geronimo: An American Legend (1993), was expected to be a big success that he decided to drop out of university completely. Arriving in Hollywood, Matt managed to get his first break with a part in the romantic comedy, Mystic Pizza (1988). However, the film did not do too well and his film career failed to take off. Not letting failure discourage him from acting, he went for another audition, and managed to get a starring role in School Ties (1992). Up next for Matt was a role as a soldier who had problems with drug-addiction in the movie, Courage Under Fire (1996). Matt had, in fact, lost forty pounds for his role which resulted in health problems.
The following year, he garnered accolades for Good Will Hunting (1997), a screenplay he had originally written for an English class at Harvard University. Good Will Hunting (1997) was nominated for 9 Academy Awards, one of which, Matt won for Best Original Screenplay along with Ben Affleck. In the year 1998, Matt played the title role in Steven Spielberg's film, Saving Private Ryan (1998), which was one of the most acclaimed films in that year. Matt had the opportunity of working with Tom Hanks and Vin Diesel while filming that movie. That same year, he starred as an earnest law student and reformed poker player in Rounders (1998), starring opposite Edward Norton and John Malkovich. The next year, Matt rejoined his childhood friend, Ben Affleck and fellow comedian, Chris Rock, in the comedy Dogma (1999).
Towards the end of 1999, Matt played "Tom Ripley", a working-class young man who tastes the good life and will do anything to live it. Both Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow also starred in the movie. The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) earned mixed reviews from critics, but even so, Matt earned praise for his performance. Matt lent his voice to the animated movie, Titan A.E. (2000) in the year 2000, which also earned mixed reviews from the public. He also starred in two other movies, All the Pretty Horses (2000) and the golf comedy-drama, The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000), starring alongside Will Smith. In the year 2003, he signed on to star in The Informant! (2009) by Steven Soderbergh and the Farrelly Brothers' Stuck on You (2003). He also starred in Gerry (2002), a film he co-wrote with his friends, Gus Van Sant and Casey Affleck. One of Matt's most recognizable work to date is his role in the "Bourne" movie franchise. He plays an amnesiac assassin, "Jason Bourne", in The Bourne Identity (2002), The Bourne Supremacy (2004) and The Bourne Ultimatum (2007). Another praised role is that as "Linus Caldwell" in the "Ocean's" movie franchise. He had the opportunity to star opposite George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Julia Roberts and Don Cheadle in Ocean's Eleven (2001). The successful crime comedy-drama eventually had two other sequels, Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007). Among other highly acclaimed movies that Matt has been a part of are Terry Gilliam's The Brothers Grimm (2005), George Clooney's Syriana (2005), Martin Scorsese's The Departed (2006) and Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd (2006).
In his personal life, Matt is now happily married to Argentine-born Luciana Barroso, whom he met in Miami, where she was working as a bartender. They married in a private civil ceremony on December 9, 2005, at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. The couple have four daughters Alexia, Luciana's daughter from a previous relationship, as well as Isabella, Gia and Stella. Matt is a big fan of the Boston Red Sox and he tries to attend their games whenever possible. He has also formed great friendships with his Ocean's co-stars, George Clooney and Brad Pitt, whom he works on charity projects with. He and actor Ben Affleck have remained lifelong friends and collaborators.Donald Petrie - Mystic Pizza; 1988
Robert Mandel - School Ties; 1992
Walter Hill - Geronimo: An American Legend; 1993
Rich Wilkes - Glory Daze; 1995
Edward Zwick - Courage Under Fire; 1996
Kevin Smith - 2; Chasing Amy, 1997; Dogma, 1999
Francis Ford Coppola - The Rainmaker; 1997
Gus Van Sant - 3; Good Will Hunting; 1997, Gerry; 2002, Promised Land; 2012
Steven Spielberg - Saving Private Ryan; 1998
John Dahl - Rounders; 1998
Anthony Minghella - The Talented Mr. Ripley; 1999
Don Bluth w/ Gary Goldman - Titan A.E.; 2000
Robert Redford - The Legend of Bagger Vance; 2000
Billy Bob Thornton - All the Pretty Horses; 2000
Steven Soderbergh - (6; Oceans Eleven, 2001; Oceans Twelve, 2004; Oceans Thirteen, 2007; Che: Part II, 2007; The Informant, 2009; Contagion, 2011)
Kelly Asbury w/ Lorna Cook (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron; 2002)
Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity; 2002)
Peter and Bobby Farrelly (Stuck on You; 2003)
Paul Greengrass (4; The Bourne Supremacy; 2004, The Bourne Ultimatum, 2007; Green Zone, 2009, Jason Bourne; 2016)
Terry Gilliam (2; The Brothers Grimm; 2005, The Zero Theorem; 2013)
Stephen Gaghan (Syriana; 2005)
Martin Scorsese (The Departed; 2005)
Robert De Niro (The Good Shepherd; 2006)
Hayao Miyazaki (Ponyo; 2008)
Clint Eastwood (2; Invictus, 2009; Hereafter, 2010)
Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit; 2010)
George Nolfi (The Adjustment Bureau; 2011)
Kenneth Lonergan (2; Margaret, 2011; Manchester by the Sea, 2016)
George Miller (Happy Feet Two, 2011)
Cameron Crowe (We Bought a Zoo; 2011)
Richard LaGravenese (Behind the Candelabra; 2013)
Neill Blomkamp (Elysium; 2013)
George Clooney (2; The Monuments Men; 2014, Suburbicon; 2017)
Christopher Nolan (2; Interstellar; 2014, Oppenheimer; 2023)
Ridley Scott (2; The Martian; 2015, The Last Duel; 2020)
Zhang Yimou (The Great Wall; 2016)
Alexander Payne (Downsizing; 2017)
James Mangold (Ford v. Ferrari; 2019)
Tom McCarthy (Stillwater; 2020)
Taika Waititi (2; Thor: Ragnarok; 2017, Thor: Love and Thunder; 2022)
Collaborations
Steven Soderbergh - 6
Paul Greengrass - 4
Gus Van Sant - 3
Ridley Scott - 2
George Clooney - 2
Kenneth Lonergan - 2
Clint Eastwood - 2
Terry Gilliam - 2
Kevin Smith - 2
Taika Waititi - 2
Christopher Nolan - 2
Other notable directors:
James Mangold
Alexander Payne
Steven Spielberg
Joel and Ethan Coen
George Miller
Martin Scorsese
Francis Ford Coppola
Hayao Miyazaki
Stephen Gaghan
Doug Liman
Edward Zwick- Actor
- Soundtrack
A familiar character face in movies and television, Walter Abel was a dedicated stage actor who had studied at the prestigious American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York before moving on to a progression of stage work that culminated in his first appearance on Broadway in the original play "Forbidden" in late 1919. The year before he had just dabbled in the relatively new film industry doing Out of a Clear Sky (1918) directed by prolific silent actor and director Marshall Neilan. Abel did just one other silent and then moved back into serious stage work for ten years (including doing some road productions in 1924) before once again surfacing in film for the first sound version of the play Liliom (1930). Perhaps he was enticed with doing the play on film, but his was a small part and the sound of early talkies - as usual - was lousy. Once again Abel returned to Broadway and worked steadily from late 1930 into part of the 1934 season. He would have some 40 Broadway roles in his career.
About that time his stage success was noticed by Hollywood, and he was signed with RKO. The studio had decided to do the first sound version of Alexander Dumas' The Three Musketeers (1935) which first appeared as a silent in 1922 with Douglas Fairbanks. The part of the enthusiastic but novice D'Artagnan really called for a younger actor reflecting those traits, and RKO decided to go with Abel. He had a bright voice and an animated style of theater acting that seemed a good bet. It was all the more impressive considering Abel was in his mid 30s - but he looked younger. RKO did not skimp on the film. The director was Rowland Lee, who had just finished another Dumas filming, The Count of Monte Cristo (1934) with Robert Donat. The rousing music was composed by Max Steiner, and the costumes were gloriously rendered by Walter Plunkett.
Abel had a strong supporting cast in the three musketeers: Paul Lukas, Moroni Olsen, and Onslow Stevens. Imposing European leading man Lukas and LA native Stevens had transitioned from silent films. This was Olsen's first movie, but he was a stage actor with his own acting troupe and some Broadway experience. As Porthos he had the opportunity to boom and bellow with hammy 19th century theatrics that fit the part. Abel's competence and an experienced cast showed in an enthusiastic rendition of the story with dueling set ups by first-time fencing choreographer Ralph Faulkner that would be taken to heart by later productions. So those who have tended to hindsight this film as a pale forerunner of later versions really do it a contextual injustice.
The movie did well enough, and Abel moved among second tier RKO leads through 1938, while playing support to bigger names. But that is showbiz - obviously he was destined as a supporting actor, and he handled both comedy and drama with a self-assured style that kept him very busy through the 1940s. He was back on Broadway occasionally as well, with a last appearance in 1975. By 1949 he quickly embraced early TV playhouse productions and would appear in some 30 roles by 1960. He transitioned to being a familiar face on episodic TV along with a few more film roles through the 1960s and up to just a few years before his passing.Frank Borzage (2; Liliom, 1930; Green Light, 1937)
Rowland V. Lee (The Three Musketeers; 1935)
Benjamin Stoloff (Two in the Dark; 1936)
Stephen Roberts (The Lady Consents; 1936)
George Nicholls Jr. (2; The Witness Chair, 1936; Portia on Trial, 1937)
Fritz Lang (Fury; 1936)
Joseph Santley (We Went to College; 1936)
Edward Killy (Second Wife; 1936)
Leigh Jason (Wise Girl; 1937)
Lew Landers (Law of the Underworld; 1938)
Lloyd Bacon (Racket Busters; 1938)
William A. Wellman (2; Men with Wings; 1938, Island in the Sky; 1953)
Alfred E. Green (King of the Turf; 1939)
Frank McDonald (First Offenders; 1939)
Steve Sekely (Miracle on Main Street; 1939)
Dorothy Arzner (Dance, Girl, Dance; 1940)
Mitchell Leisen (3; Arise, My Love; 1940, Hold Back the Dawn; 1941, Dream Girl; 1947)
Arthur Lubin (Who Killed Aunt Maggie; 1940)
Eugene Forde (Michael Shayne, Private Detective; 1940)
Mark Sandrich (3; Skylark, 1941; Holiday Inn, 1942, So Proudly We Hail; 1943)
Ralph Murphy (Glamour Girl; 1941)
Alfred Santell (Beyond the Blue Horizon; 1942)
John Farrow (2; Wake Island; 1942, The Hitler Gang; 1944)
George Marshall (Star Spangled Rhythm; 1942)
Charles Lamont (Fired Wife; 1943)
Vincent Sherman (Mr. Skeffington; 1944)
King Vidor (An American Romance; 1944)
William A. Seiter (The Affairs of Susan; 1945)
Hal Walker (Duffy’s Tavern; 1945)
Richard Wallace (Kiss and Tell; 1945)
Norman Z. McLeod (The Kid from Brooklyn; 1946)
Henry Hathaway (13 Rue Madeleine; 1947)
Harve Foster (The Fabulous Joe; 1947)
Ernst Lubitsch (The Lady in Ermine; 1948)
Gordon Douglas (So This is Love; 1948)
Nunnally Johnson (Night People; 1954)
André de Toth (The Indian Fighter; 1955)
Walter Doniger (The Steel Jungle; 1956)
Henry Levin (Bernardine; 1957)
Edward Dmytryk (2; Raintree County; 1957, Mirage; 1965)
David Friedkin (Handle with Care; 1958)
William Dieterle (Quick, Lets Get Married; 1964)
Theodore Gershuny (Silent Night, Bloody Night; 1972)
Anthony Harvey (Grace Quigley; 1985)
Collaborations:
Mark Sandrich - 3
Mitchell Leisen - 3
Edward Dmytryk - 2
John Farrow - 2
William A. Wellman - 2
George Nicholls Jr. - 2
Frank Borzage - 2
Other notable directors:
Ernst Lubitsch
King Vidor
Fritz Lang
Norman Z. McLeod
Lew Landers- Actor
- Soundtrack
Academy Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham was born on October 24, 1939 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and raised in El Paso, Texas. His father, Fred Abraham, was a Syrian (Antiochian Orthodox Christian) immigrant. His mother, Josephine (Stello) Abraham, was the daughter of Italian immigrants. Born with the first name "Murray", he added an "F." to distinguish his stage name.
Primarily a stage actor, Abraham made his screen debut as an usher in George C. Scott's comedy They Might Be Giants (1971). By the mid-1970s, Murray had steady employment as an actor, doing commercials and voice-over work. He can be seen as one of the undercover police officers along with Al Pacino in Sidney Lumet's Serpico (1973), and in television roles including the villain in one third-season episode of Kojak (1973). His film work of those years also included the roles of a cabdriver in The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975), a mechanic in The Sunshine Boys (1975), and a police officer in All the President's Men (1976).
Beyond these small roles, Abraham continued to do commercials and voice-over work for income. But in 1978, he decided to give them up. Frustrated with the lack of substantial roles, Abraham said, "No one was taking my acting seriously. I figured if I didn't do it, then I'd have no right to the dreams I've always had". His wife, Kate Hannan, went to work as an assistant and Abraham became a "house husband". He described, "I cooked and cleaned and took care of the kids. It was very rough on my macho idea of life. But it was the best thing that ever happened to me". Abraham appeared as drug dealer Omar Suárez alongside Pacino again in the gangster film Scarface (1983). He also gained visibility voicing a talking bunch of grapes in a series of television commercials for Fruit of the Loom underwear.
In 1985, he was honored with as Academy Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role for the acclaimed role of envious composer Antonio Salieri in Amadeus (1984), an award for which Tom Hulce, playing Mozart in that movie, had also been nominated. He was also honored with a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Drama, among other awards, and his role in the film, is still considered to be his most iconic as the film's director Milos Forman inspired the work of the role with Abraham's wide range of qualities as a great stage and film actor.
After Amadeus, he next appeared in The Name of the Rose (1986), in which he played Bernardo Gui, nemesis to Sir Sean Connery as William of Baskerville. In the DVD audio commentary, his director on the film, Jean-Jacques Annaud, described Abraham as an "egomaniac" on the set, who considered himself more important than Sean Connery, since Connery did not have an Oscar. That said, the film was a critical success. Abraham had tired of appearing as villains and wanted to return to his background in comedy, as he also explained to People Weekly magazine in an interview he gave at the time of its release.Anthony Harvey (They Might Be Giants; 1971)
Sidney Lumet (Serpico; 1973)
Melvin Frank (The Prisoner of Second Avenue; 1975)
Herbert Ross (The Sunshine Boys, 1975)
Alan J. Pakula (All the President’s Men; 1976)
Richard Lester (The Ritz; 1976)
Jeremy Paul Kagan (2; The Big Fix; 1978, By the Sword; 1991)
Brian De Palma (2; Scarface; 1983, The Bonfire of the Vanities; 1990)
Milos Forman (Amadeus; 1984)
Jean-Jacques Annaud (The Name of the Rose; 1986)
Pasquale Squitieri (The Third Solution; 1988)
Steven Lisberger (Slipstream; 1989)
David Saperstein (Beyond the Stars; 1989)
Jack Smight (The Favorite; 1989)
Peter Yates (An Innocent Man; 1989)
Martin Sheen (Cadence; 1990)
Souheil Ben-Barka (Battle of the Three Kings; 1990)
Michael Karbelnikoff (Mobsters; 1991)
Steven Hilliard Stern (Money; 1991)
Andrew V. McLaglen (Eye of the Widow; 1991)
Gene Quintano (Loaded Weapon 1; 1992)
John McTiernan (Last Action Hero; 1992)
Boaz Yakin (Fresh; 1994)
Ernest R. Dickerson (Surviving the Game; 1994)
Roger Christian (Nostradamus; 1994)
Woody Allen (Mighty Aphrodite; 1995)
Peter Duncan (Children of the Revolution; 1996)
Guillermo Del Toro (Mimic; 1997)
Jonathan Frakes (Star Trek: Insurrection; 1998)
Tim Hill (Muppets From Space; 1999)
Gus Van Sant (Finding Forrester; 2000)
Pupi Avati (The Knights of the Quest; 2001)
Steve Beck (Thirteen Ghosts; 2001)
Jon Purdy (Joshua; 2002)
Renzo Martinelli (5; Five Moons Square; 2003, The Stone Merchant; 2006, Carnera: The Walking Mountain; 2008, Barbarossa; 2009, The Day of the Seige: September Eleven 1683; 2012)
Egidio Eronico (Rua Alguem 5555: My Father; 2003)
Lina Wertmuller (Too Much Romance...It’s Time for Stuffed Peppers; 2004)
Mary McGuckien (The Bridge of San Luis Rey; 2004)
Giulio Base (The Inquiry; 2006)
Robert Young (Blood Monkey; 2007)
Liana Marabini (The Unseen World; 2010)
Peter Greenaway (Goltzius and the Pelican Company; 2012)
Niels Arden Oplev (Dead Man Down; 2013)
Joel and Ethan Coen (Inside Llewyn Davis; 2013)
Giancarlo Giannini (The Gambler Who Wouldn’t Die; 2013)
Wes Anderson (2; The Grand Budapest Hotel; 2014, Isle of Dogs; 2018)
Louis Nero (The Mystery of Dante; 2014)
Evan Oppenheimer (A Little Game; 2014)
Otto Bathurst (Robin Hood; 2018)
Dean DeBlois (How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World; 2019)
Charlie Bean (Lady and the Tramp; 2019)
Shari Springer Berman w/ Robert Pulcini (Things Heard and Seen; 2020)
Collaborations:
Renzo Martinelli - 5
Wes Anderson - 2
Brian de Palma - 2
Jeremy Paul Kagan - 2
Other notable directors:
Joel and Ethan Coen
Milos Forman
Dean DeBlois
Gus Van Sant
Sidney Lumet
Herbert Ross
Alan J. Pakula
Woody Allen
Guillermo del Toro
John McTiernan
Jean-Jacques Annaud- Actor
- Soundtrack
A former song-and-dance man and veteran of vaudeville, burlesque and Broadway, Jack Albertson is best known to audiences as "The Man" in the TV series Chico and the Man (1974), for which he won an Emmy. In 1968 Albertson, the brother of actress Mabel Albertson, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in The Subject Was Roses (1968), a part which also won him the Tony award during its Broadway run.Garson Kanin (Next Time I Marry; 1938)
Busby Berkeley (Strike Up the Band; 1940)
George Seaton (2; Miracle on 34th Street; 1947, Teacher’s Pet; 1958)
Alfred E. Green (Top Banana; 1954)
Blake Edwards (2; Bring Your Smile Along; 1955, Days of Wine and Roses; 1962)
Lewis Seiler (Over Exposed; 1956)
Mark Robson (The Harder They Fall; 1956)
George Sidney (The Eddy Duchin Story; 1956)
Harry Keller (The Unguarded Moment; 1956)
Dick Powell (You Can’t Run Away from It; 1956)
André de Toth (Monkey on My Back; 1957)
Joseph Pevney (Man of a Thousand Faces; 1957)
Charles Walters (Don’t Go Near the Water; 1957)
Charles Lederer (Never Steal Anything Small; 1959)
Charles Barton (The Shaggy Dog; 1959)
Joseph M. Newman (The George Raft Story; 1961)
Delbert Mann (Lover Come Back; 1961)
Millard Kaufman (Convicts 4; 1962)
George Roy Hill (Period of Adjustment; 1962)
Daniel Mann (Who’s Got the Action?; 1962)
Robert Stevenson (Son of Flubber; 1963)
Gene Nelson (Kissin’ Cousins; 1964)
Norman Tokar (A Tiger Walks; 1964)
Jerry Lewis (The Patsy; 1964)
John Rich (Roustabout; 1964)
Richard Quine (How to Murder Your Wife; 1965)
Irvin Kershner (The Flim-Flam Man; 1967)
Fielder Cook (How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life; 1968)
Ulu Grosbard (The Subject Was Roses; 1968)
Hall Bartlett (Changes; 1969)
George Cukor w/ Joseph Strick (Justine; 1969)
Marc Daniels (Squeeze a Flower; 1970)
Jack Smight (Rabbit, Run; 1970)
Mel Stuart (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory; 1971)
Dick Ross (The Late Liz; 1971)
John Florea (Pickup on 101; 1972)
Ronald Neame (The Poseidon Adventure; 1972)
Gary Sherman (Dead & Buried; 1981)
Richard Rich w/ Ted Berman & Art Stevens (The Fox and the Hound; 1981)
Collaborations;
George Seaton - 2
Blake Edwards - 2
Other notable directors:
George Cukor
Mel Stuart
George Roy Hill
Busby Berkeley
Irvin Kershner
Jerry Lewis- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Keanu Charles Reeves, whose first name means "cool breeze over the mountains" in Hawaiian, was born September 2, 1964 in Beirut, Lebanon. He is the son of Patric Reeves, a showgirl and costume designer, and Samuel Nowlin Reeves, a geologist. Keanu's father was born in Hawaii, of British, Portuguese, Native Hawaiian, and Chinese ancestry, and Keanu's mother is originally from Essex England. After his parents' marriage dissolved, Keanu moved with his mother and younger sister, Kim Reeves, to New York City, then Toronto. Stepfather #1 was Paul Aaron, a stage and film director - he and Patricia divorced within a year, after which she went on to marry (and divorce) rock promoter Robert Miller. Reeves never reconnected with his biological father. In high school, Reeves was lukewarm toward academics but took a keen interest in ice hockey (as team goalie, he earned the nickname "The Wall") and drama. He eventually dropped out of school to pursue an acting career.
After a few stage gigs and a handful of made-for-TV movies, he scored a supporting role in the Rob Lowe hockey flick Youngblood (1986), which was filmed in Canada. Shortly after the production wrapped, Reeves packed his bags and headed for Hollywood. Reeves popped up on critics' radar with his performance in the dark adolescent drama, River's Edge (1986), and landed a supporting role in the Oscar-nominated Dangerous Liaisons (1988) with director Stephen Frears.
His first popular success was the role of totally rad dude Ted "Theodore" Logan in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989). The wacky time-travel movie became something of a cultural phenomenon, and audiences would forever confuse Reeves's real-life persona with that of his doofy on-screen counterpart. He then joined the casts of Ron Howard's comedy, Parenthood (1989) and Lawrence Kasdan's I Love You to Death (1990).
Over the next few years, Reeves tried to shake the Ted stigma with a series of highbrow projects. He played a slumming rich boy opposite River Phoenix's narcoleptic male hustler in My Own Private Idaho (1991), an unlucky lawyer who stumbles into the vampire's lair in Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), and Shakespearean party-pooper Don John in Much Ado About Nothing (1993).
In 1994, the understated actor became a big-budget action star with the release of Speed (1994). Its success heralded an era of five years in which Reeves would alternate between small films, like Feeling Minnesota (1996) and The Last Time I Committed Suicide (1997), and big films like A Walk in the Clouds (1995) and The Devil's Advocate (1997). (There were a couple misfires, too: Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and Chain Reaction (1996).) After all this, Reeves did the unthinkable and passed on the Speed sequel, but he struck box-office gold again a few years later with the Wachowski siblings' cyberadventure, The Matrix (1999).
Now a bonafide box-office star, Keanu would appear in a string of smaller films -- among them The Replacements (2000), The Watcher (2000), The Gift (2000), Sweet November (2001), and Hardball (2001) - before The Matrix Reloaded (2003) and The Matrix Revolutions (2003) were both released in 2003.
Since the end of The Matrix trilogy, Keanu has divided his time between mainstream and indie fare, landing hits with Something's Gotta Give (2003), The Lake House (2006), and Street Kings (2008). He's kept Matrix fans satiated with films such as Constantine (2005), A Scanner Darkly (2006), and The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008). And he's waded back into art-house territory with Ellie Parker (2005), Thumbsucker (2005), The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009), and Henry's Crime (2010).
Most recently, as post-production on the samurai epic 47 Ronin (2013) waged on, Keanu appeared in front of the camera in Side by Side (2012), a documentary on celluloid and digital filmmaking, which he also produced. He also directed another Asian-influenced project, Man of Tai Chi (2013).
In 2014, Keanu played the title role in the action revenge film John Wick (2014), which became popular with critics and audiences alike. He reprised the role in John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), taking the now-iconic character to a better opening weekend and even more enthusiastic reviews than the first go-around.Peter Markle (Youngblood; 1986)
Paul Lynch (Flying; 1986)
Tim Hunter (River’s Edge; 1986)
Thom Eberhardt (The Night Before; 1988)
Marisa Silver (Permanent Record; 1988)
Ron Nyswaner (The Prince of Pennsylvania; 1988)
Stephen Frears (Dangerous Liaisons; 1988)
Stephen Herek (Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure; 1989)
Ron Howard (Parenthood; 1989)
Lawrence Kasdan (I Love You to Death; 1990)
Jon Amiel (Tune in Tomorrow; 1990)
Kathryn Bigalow (Point Break; 1991)
Pete Hewitt (Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey; 1991)
Gus Van Sant (2; My Own Private Idaho; 1991, Even Cowgirls Get the Blues; 1993)
Francis Ford Coppola (Bram Stoker’s Dracula; 1992)
Kenneth Branagh (Much Ado About Nothing; 1993)
Alex Winter w/ Tom Stern (Freaked; 1993)
Bernardo Bertolucci (Little Buddha; 1993)
Jan de Bont (Speed; 1994)
Robert Longo (Johnny Mnemonic; 1995)
Alfonso Arau (A Walk in the Clouds; 1995)
Andrew Davis (Chain Reaction; 1996)
Steven Baigelman (Feeling Minnesota; 1996)
Stephen T. Kay (The Last Time I Committed Suicide; 1997)
Taylor Hackford (The Devil’s Advocate; 1997)
Lana and Lilly Wachowski (3; The Matrix; 1999, The Matrix Reloaded; 2003, The Matrix Revolutions; 2003)
Melissa Behr w/ Sherrie Ross (Me and Will; 1999)
Howard Deutch (The Replacements; 2000)
Joe Charbanic (The Watcher; 2000)
Sam Raimi (The Gift; 2000)
Pat O’Connor (Sweet November; 2001)
Brian Robbins (Hardball; 2001)
Nancy Meyers (Something’s Gotta Give; 2003)
Francis Lawrence (Constantine; 2005)
Mike Mills (Thumbsucker; 2005)
Scott Coffey (Elle Parker; 2005)
Richard Linklater (A Scanner Darkly; 2006)
Alejandro Agresti (The Lake House; 2006)
Michael Taylor (The Great Warming; 2006)
David Ayer (Street Kings; 2008)
Scott Derrickson (The Day the Earth Stood Still; 2008)
Rebecca Miller (The Private Life of Pippa Lee; 2009)
Malcolm Venville (Henry’s Crime; 2010)
Christopher Kenneally (Side by Side; 2012)
Mark L. Mann (Generation Um...; 2012)
Carl Rinsch (47 Ronin; 2013)
Chad Stahelski (4; John Wick; 2014, John Wick: Chapter 2; 2017, John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum; 2019, John Wick: Chapter 4)
Eli Roth (Knock Knock; 2014)
Alex Winter (Deep Web; 2015)
Steven Okazaki (Mifune: The Last Samurai; 2015)
Gee Malik Linton (Exposed; 2016)
Peter Atencio (Keanu; 2016)
Nicolas Winding Refn (The Neon Demon; 2016)
Ana Lily Amirpour (The Bad Batch; 2016)
Courtney Hunt (The Whole Truth; 2016)
Marti Noxon (To the Bone; 2017)
Judy Greer (A Happening of Monumental Proportions; 2017)
Alex Israel (SPF-18; 2017)
Matthew Ross (Siberia; 2018)
Victor Levin (Destination Wedding; 2018)
Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Replicas; 2019)
Nahnatchka Khan (Always Be My Maybe; 2019)
Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4; 2019)
Scott Aukerman (Between Two Ferns: The Movie; 2019)
Tim Hill (The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run; 2020)
Dean Parisot (Bill & Ted Face the Music; 2020)
Lana Wachowski (4; The Matrix; 1999, The Matrix Reloaded; 2003, The Matrix Revelations; 2003, The Matrix Resurrections; 2021)
Jared Stern (DC League of Super-Pets; 2022)
Collaborations:
Chad Stahelski - 4
Lana and Lilly Wachowski - 3
Gus Van Sant - 2
Alex Winter - 2
Other notable directors:
Eli Roth
Scott Derrickson
Richard Linklater
Sam Raimi
David Ayer
Kenneth Branagh
Francis Ford Coppola
Stephen Frears
Nancy Meyers
Francis Lawrence
Kathryn Bigalow
Ron Howard
Jon Amiel
Lawrence Kasdan- Producer
- Actress
- Music Department
Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C. Her mother, Helga Bullock (née Helga Mathilde Meyer), was a German opera singer. Her father, John W. Bullock, was an American voice teacher, who was born in Alabama, of German descent. Sandra grew up on the road with her parents and younger sister, chef Gesine Bullock-Prado, and spent much of her childhood in Nuremberg, Germany. She often performed in the children's chorus of whatever production her mother was in. That singing talent later came in handy for her role as an aspiring country singer in The Thing Called Love (1993). Her family moved back to the Washington area when she was adolescent. She later enrolled in East Carolina University in North Carolina, where she studied acting. Shortly afterward she moved to New York to pursue a career on the stage. This led to acting in television programs and then feature films. She gave memorable performances in Demolition Man (1993) and Wrestling Ernest Hemingway (1993), but did not achieve the stardom that seemed inevitable for her until her work in the smash hit Speed (1994). She now ranks as one of the most popular actresses in Hollywood. For her role in The Blind Side (2009) she won the Oscar, and her blockbusters The Proposal (2009), The Heat (2013) and Gravity (2013) made her a bankable star. With $56,000,000, she was listed in the Guinness Book Of World Records as the highest-paid actress in the world.J. Christian Ingvordsen (Hangmen; 1987)
Daniel Adams (A Fool and His Money; 1989)
Robert Brooks (Who Shot Patakango; 1989)
Dale Launer (Love Potion No. 9; 1992)
George Sluizer (The Vanishing; 1993)
Matthew Irmas (When the Party’s Over; 1993)
Peter Bogdanovich (The Thing Called Love; 1993)
Marco Brambilla (Demolition Man; 1993)
Luis Llosa (Fire on the Amazon; 1993)
Randa Haines (Wrestling Ernest Hemingway; 1993)
Jan de Bont (2; Speed; 1994, Speed 2: Cruise Control; 1997)
Frank Rainone (Who Do I Gotta Kill; 1994)
Jon Turtletaub (While You Were Sleeping; 1995)
Irwin Winkler (The Net; 1995)
Bill Bennett (Two If By Sea; 1996)
Joel Schumacher (A Time to Kill; 1996)
Richard Attenborough (In Love and War; 1997)
Forest Whitaker (Hope Floats; 1998)
Griffin Dunne (Practical Magic; 1998)
Brenda Chapman w/ Steve Hickner and Simon Wells (The Prince of Egypt; 1998)
Bronwen Hughes (Forces of Nature; 1999)
Eric Blakeney (Gun Shy; 2000)
Betty Thomas (28 Days; 2000)
Donald Petrie (Miss Congeniality; 2000)
Barbet Schroeder (Murder by Numbers; 2002)
Callie Khouri (Divine Secrets of the Yaya Sisterhood; 2002)
Marc Lawrence (Two Week Notice; 2002)
Paul Haggis (Crash; 2004)
Kevin Bacon (Loverboy; 2005)
John Pasquin (Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous; 2005)
Alejandro Agresti (The Lake House; 2006)
Douglas McGrath (Infamous; 2007)
Mennan Yapo (Premonition; 2007)
Anne Fletcher (The Proposal; 2009)
Phil Traill (All About Steve; 2009)
John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side; 2009)
Stephen Daldry (Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close; 2011)
Paul Feig (The Heat; 2013)
Alfonso Cauron (Gravity; 2013)
Pierre Coffin w/ Kyle Balda (Minions; 2015)
David Gordon Green (Our Brand is Crisis; 2015)
Gary Ross (Oceans 8; 2018)
Susanne Bier (Bird Box; 2018)
Nora Fingscheidt (The Unforgivable; 2021)
Aaron Nee (The Lost City; 2022)
Adam Nee (The Lost City; 2022)
David Leitch (Bullet Train; 2022)
Collaborations:
Jan de Bont - 2
Other notable directors:
Richard Attenborough
Stephen Daldry
John Lee Hancock
Paul Feig
Alfonso Cauron
David Gordon Green
Peter Bogdanovich
Joel Schumacher
Irwin Winkler
Paul Haggis
David Leitch- Actor
- Director
- Soundtrack
Don Ameche was a versatile and popular American film actor in the 1930s and '40s, usually as the dapper, mustached leading man. He was also popular as a radio master of ceremonies during this time. As his film popularity waned in the 1950s, he continued working in theater and some TV. His film career surged in a comeback in the 1980s with fine work as an aging millionaire in Trading Places (1983) and a rejuvenated oldster in Cocoon (1985).
Ameche was born Dominic Felix Amici in Kenosha, Wisconsin, to Barbara Edda (Hertel) and Felice Amici, a bartender.Richard Boleslawski (Clive in India; 1935)
Harry Lachman (Dante’s Inferno; 1935)
Otto Brower (Sins of Man; 1936)
Henry King (3; Ramona; 1936, In Old Chicago; 1938, Alexander’s Ragtime Band; 1938)
Edward H. Griffith (Ladies in Love; 1936)
Sidney Lanfield (One in a Million; 1936, Swanee River; 1939)
Tay Garnett (Love is News; 1937)
Norman Taurog (2; Fifty Roads to Town; 1937, You Can’t Have Everything; 1937)
George Marshall (Love Under Fire; 1937)
Roy Del Ruth (Happy Lansing; 1938)
Allan Dwan (2; Josette; 1938, The Three Musketeers; 1939)
Alfred L. Werker (Getaway; 1938)
Mitchell Leisen (Midnight; 1939)
Irving Cummings (5; The Story of Alexander Graham Bell; 1939, Hollywood Cavalcade; 1939, Lillian Russell; 1940, Down Argentine Way; 1940, That Night in Rio; 1941)
Archie Mayo (2; Four Sons; 1940, Confirm or Deny; 1941)
Walter Lang (2; Moon Over Miami; 1941, Greenwich Village; 1944)
Victor Schertzinger (Kiss the Boys Goodbye; 1941)
W.S. Van Dyke (The Feminine Touch; 1941)
Harold D. Schuster (Girl Trouble; 1942)
Gregory Ratoff (Something to Shout About; 1943)
Ernst Lubitsch (Heaven Can Wait; 1943)
Irving Pichel (Happy Land; 1943)
Henry Hathaway (Wing and a Player; 1944)
Richard Wallace (It’s in the Bag; 1945)
Sam Wood (Guest Wife; 1945)
Frank Ryan (So Goes My Love; 1946)
Frank Borzage (That’s My Man; 1947)
Douglas Sirk (2; Sleep, My Love; 1948, Slightly French; 1949)
Vincent Sherman (A Fever in the Blood; 1961)
Bert I. Gordon (Picture Mommy Dead; 1966)
Norman Tokar (The Boatniks; 1970)
Hy Averback (Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came; 1970)
John Landis (3; Trading Places; 1983, Coming to America; 1988, Oscar; 1991)
Ron Howard (Cocoon; 1985)
Charles S. Dubin (A Masterpiece of Murder; 1986)
William Dear (Harry and the Hendersons; 1987)
David Mamet (Things Change; 1988)
Daniel Petrie (Cocoon: The Return; 1988)
Jackson Hunsicker (Oddball Hall; 1991)
Ted Kotcheff (Folks; 1992)
Duwayne Durham (Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey; 1993)
Jessie Nelson (Corrina, Corrina; 1994)
Collaborations:
Irving Cummings - 5
John Landis - 3
Henry King - 3
Douglas Sirk - 2
Walter Lang - 2
Archie Mayo - 2
Allan Dwan - 2
Norman Taurog - 2
Other notable Directors:
Ron Howard
Frank Borzage
Ernst Libitsch
Daniel Petrie
Roy Del Ruth- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Writer
Alan Alda (born under the name Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo) is an American actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter from New York City. His father was the Italian-American actor Robert Alda. Alda's best known role was playing chief surgeon Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the medical-themed sitcom M*A*S*H (1972-1983) for 11 seasons. He twice won the "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series" for this role. Alda was later nominated for the "Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor", for his portrayal of career politician Ralph Owen Brewster (1888-1961) in the biographical film "The Aviator" (2004). The film depicted Brewster's opposition to the commercial interests of Howard Hughes, and the alleged political corruption which caused the end of Brewster's career.
In 1936, Alda was born in the Bronx, New York City. By that time, his father Robert Alda (1914-1986) had already started performing in vaudeville and burlesque theaters. Alda's mother was former beauty queen Joan Browne. Alda had Italian ancestry on his father's side of the family, and Irish ancestry on his mother's side of the family. Alda spend much of his childhood touring the United States with his father, as his father's acting job required frequent travel.
In 1943, Alda contracted polio. His parents chose to administer a painful treatment regimen, "consisting of applying hot woolen blankets to his limbs and stretching his muscles". This treatment had been developed by the Australian nurse Elizabeth Kenny (1880-1952), and was based on the principle of muscle rehabilitation. Though the treatment was considered controversial, it seemingly helped Alda to recover his mobility.
Alda received his secondary education at Archbishop Stepinac High School, an all-boys Roman Catholic high school located in White Plains, New York, United States. The school was named in honor of Aloysius Stepinac (1898 - 1960), the Archbishop of Zagreb who was hero-worshiped for his conviction for treason by communist Yugoslavia. Alda received his college education at Fordham University, a Jesuit research university located in New York City. He graduated In 1956 with a Bachelor of Arts degree.
During his college years, Alda worked for the radio station WFUV. The station was owned by Fordham University, and was operated by its students. Alda joined the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) , a training program intended for prospective commissioned officers of the United States Armed Forces. He subsequently entered the United States Army Reserve. He served for a year at Fort Benning, a United States Army post straddling the Alabama-Georgia border . He then spend 6 months stationed in Korea. His official rank at that time was that of a gunnery officer, though Alda claims that he was placed in charge of a mess tent.
In 1956, Alda was introduced to Jewish-American musician Arlene Weiss (a clarinetist). They soon bonded due to their similar tastes in humor, and started dating each other. They were married on March 15, 1957. They had three daughters, born between 1958 and 1961.
Alda started his acting career in the mid-1950s, as a theatrical actor. He joined the Compass Players (1955-1958), a short-lived improvisational theatre revue which was based in Chicago. He subsequently joined the improvisational group Second City, and the regional theater company Cleveland Play House for its 1958-1959 season. In 1958, he had his first guest star role in television. He appeared in an episode of "The Phil Silvers Show", a military-themed sitcom about a swindler operating within the United States Army.
Alda made his film debut in the comedy-drama film "Gone Are the Days!" (1963). The film was a satire of segregation and bigotry, based on a play written by Ossie Davis (1917-2005). Alda was part of the recurring cast of "That Was the Week That Was" (1963-1965), a political satire series which targeted various political figures of the era. It was based on a British satire series of the same name. Most episodes of the American version are considered lost, though there are surviving audio recordings.
In 1968, Alda had his first starring role in a film. He portrayed sports journalist George Plimpton (1927-2003) in the sports comedy "Paper Lion". The film depicted Plimpton's brief term as a player of the Detroit Lions, and focused on his inexperience and ineptitude as a football player.
Alda played the accountant Morton Krim in the World War II-themed war comedy "The Extraordinary Seaman" (1969). The film depicts four sailors of the United States Navy who have been stranded on an island of the Philippines. They encounter the ghost of a British naval officer who was killed in World War I, and he encourages them to launch an attack on Japanese positions. Due to the ghost's perpetual bad luck, their attack is ill-fated.
Alda next played the male lead in the drama film "Jenny" (1970). In the film, main character Jenny Marsh (played by Marlo Thomas) was impregnated in a one-night-stand and has few options in life. Her acquaintance Delano (played by Alda) agrees to marry her and to claim the child's paternity, in an effort to avoid being drafted for war service. The film depicts the problems of a typical "marriage of convenience" (a marriage contracted for reasons other than that of love and commitment), and Delano's attempts to maintain both his marriage and his long-term relationship with another woman. The film earned 2,825,000 million dollars at the worldwide box office.
Alda also played the main character in the crime film "The Moonshine War" (1970), which was set in Prohibition-era Kentucky. He played John "Son" Martin, a man whose main source of income is the production of moonshine whiskey. An acquaintance in the Internal Revenue Service starts pressuring him for a cut on the profits. When Son refuses, the acquaintance reports his activities to a violent gang leader and his henchmen. Son has to outwit the gang in order to survive. The film was one of several films greenlit by Louis Polk and Herb Solow, the then-new co-leaders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Alda had his first role in a horror film, when he played the main character in the occult-themed horror film "The Mephisto Waltz" (1971). He played music journalist Myles Clarkson, who unexpectedly befriends piano virtuoso Duncan Ely (played by Curd Jürgens). He does not realize that Ely is dying due to cancer, and that he intends to perform a body-swapping spell to take over Clarkson's body. Once the spell succeeds, Ely starts a new career in Clarkson's body and kills Clarkson's daughter. Ely fails to realize that his new "wife" Paula Clarkson (played by Jacqueline Bisset) intends to use the same spell to swap bodies with Ely's adult daughter. Bisset was praised for her "chillingly effective" performance, but film critics argued that Alda had been miscast in this role.
Alda had a scarier role in the psychological thriller "To Kill a Clown" (1972), playing disturbed Vietnam War veteran Evelyn Ritchie. Ritchie was once a military officer, but retired after having one of his legs amputated. He agrees to become the landlord of a young married couple, despite his intense dislike for the artistic lifestyle of his tenant Timothy Frischer (played by Heath Lamberts). He starts treating Frischer as a military subordinate, and insists on keeping both of his tenants as prisoners in their residence. The young couple soon learn that Ritchie has sadistic tendencies, and that he had a history of tormenting his subordinates throughout his military career.
Alda had the big break in his career when cast to play chief surgeon Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the medical-themed sitcom M*A*S*H (1972-1983). The series depicted life within a "Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" (MASH) during the Korean War (1950-1953). It was based on the novel "MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors" (1968) by military surgeon H. Richard Hornberger. The series often questioned the United States' role in the Cold War, and satirized authority figures. Its ratings placed it among the top 10 most viewed shows throughout most of its run, and it was critically acclaimed. Alda appeared in all 256 episodes of the series, which helped him become a household name in the United States. Alda eventually served as the series' producer, creative consultant, and co-writer.
Alda played the male lead in the romantic comedy "Same Time, Next Year" (1978), which was his first film role since the early 1970s. The film depicts an extramarital affair which lasts for 26 years (1951-1977), despite the two lovers only meeting once per year. The film also covers the effects time has on the couple's political ideologies, and how they react to the deaths of various family members. The film was partially shot at the Heritage House Inn in Little River, California. The inn became a popular romantic getaway due to the film's enduring popularity. Alda was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for "Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy", but the award was instead won by rival actor Warren Beatty.
Alda was part of the ensemble cast in the comedy film "California Suite" (1978). He played successful screenwriter Bill Warren, who is involved in a custody dispute with his ex-wife, the workaholic Hannah Warren (played by Jane Fonda). Both parents claim custody over their adolescent daughter Jenny Warren (played by Dana Plato), and have little regard for Jenny's plans about her own life. The film's cast was nominated for several awards, but Alda was overshadowed by his co-stars.
Alda received his first screenwriting credit for the political drama film "The Seduction of Joe Tynan" (1979). He also played the film's eponymous character. He portrayed an ambitious American senator, whose marriage seems to be deteriorating. He briefly has an extramarital affair with labor lawyer Karen Traynor (played by Meryl Streep), but decides against seeking a divorce. The film earned about 19.6 million dollars at the worldwide box office. Alda was praised more for his ability as a screenwriter than his acting in this film. Streep was nominated for several acting awards for her supporting role, having a breakthrough in her career.
Alda made his directorial debut with the romantic comedy film "The Four Seasons" (1981), depicting the relationships between three upper middle-class married couples. Alda kept for himself the role of Jack Burroughs, a lawyer who has a tendency towards expressing narrow moral attitudes. The film was an unexpected box office hit, earning about 50,4 million dollars at the box office. It was the ninth highest-grossing film of 1981, and won the "Bodil Award for Best Non-European Film". Alda was again nominated for the "Golden Globe Award for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy", but the award was instead won by rival actor Dudley Moore.
Alda had a hiatus in his acting and directing career during the early 1980s, as he had to take care of his terminally-ill parents. He attempted a comeback by directing the comedy film "Sweet Liberty" (1986), which parodies Hollywood filmmaking. Alda kept for himself the role of Michael Burgess, a college professor and historical novelist. Burgess wants to oversee the adaptation of his historically-accurate and realistic novel into a Hollywood film, but soon realizes that the film's screenwriter has turned the film into a historically inaccurate soap opera. He then sets out to sabotage the film. The film only earned 14.2 million dollars at the box office, despite the critical praise for its leading actors. The poor box office performance was attributed to its release time at movie theaters. It was directly competing with two more lucrative films, "Top Gun" and "Short Circuit".
Alda's next directing effort was the romantic comedy "A New Life" (1988), which depicted the problems faced by middle-aged divorced people. Alda played Steve Giardino, a workaholic businessman who received a divorce after more than 25 years of marriage. His attempts to pursue a new romance are complicated by his inexperience at dating and his unwillingness to father children again. Giardino soon suffers a heart attack due to his poor eating habits. He falls in love with the female physician attending to his problem, Dr. Kay Hutton (played by Veronica Hamel). The film was a box-office flop, only earning 7,7 million dollars at the box office. Critics found the film pleasant, but predictable.
Alda played pompous television producer Lester in the comedy-drama film "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989). In the film, Lester wants to finance a documentary celebrating his own life and work. He hires his brother-in-law to direct it, documentary filmmaker Clifford "Cliff" Stern (played by Woody Allen). He is unaware that Stern despises him. Stern uses the film to expose Lester's mistreatment of his employees, and Lester's sexual harassment towards actresses. The film earned 18,2 million dollars at the box office. For his role, Alda won the "National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actor".
Alda had his final directing credit with the romantic comedy "Betsy's Wedding" (1990). Alda played the main role of Eddie Hopper, a construction contractor who insists on organizing a lavish wedding for his beloved daughter Betsy Hopper (played by Molly Ringwald). Since Eddie can not actually afford the wedding expenses, he requests financial assistance from loan sharks. The film earned 19.7 million dollars at the box office, but its leading actresses (Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy) were both nominated for Golden Raspberry Awards. Unlike Alda's previous directing efforts, critics were mostly hostile towards the film.
Alda played the evil mentor Leo Green in the erotic thriller "Whispers in the Dark" (1992). In the film, main character Ann Hecker (a psychiatrist, played by Annabella Sciorra) seeks help from her mentor Leo Green due to suffering from disturbing dreams. Hecker is soon implicated in the murder of her female patient Eve Abergray (played by Deborah Unger), and then in the murder of the police detective investigating the case. She eventually realizes that her mentor has been obsessed with her for years. He committed both murders in a misguided attempt to protect her. This was Alda's first villainous role in a film since the early 1970s. The film only earned 11.1 million dollars at the box office.
In 1993, Alda became the new host of the science-themed television program "Scientific American Frontiers" (1990-2005). The series was a spin-off of the popular science magazine "Scientific American" (1845-). The show typically focused on new technology, and on scientific and medical discoveries. Alda remained the host for 12 years, and was credited with inspiring youngsters to follow scientific careers.
Alda was reduced to the supporting role of the protagonist's confidant in the black comedy film "Manhattan Murder Mystery" (1993). The main plot involved amateur detectives who were investigating the mysterious death of a neighbor, who seemed to have died twice and on two entirely different locations. They eventually realize that they have stumbled on the deaths of two sisters with a close family resemblance, and that the motive for the murders was their family fortune. The film only earned 11.2 million dollars at the box office. Its perceived failure led to the termination of a long-term deal between director Woody Allen and the film studio TriStar Pictures.
Alda had a more comedic role in the political satire film "Canadian Bacon" (1995). The film satirized international relations between Canada and the United States. Alda played an unnamed President of the United States who wants to start a new war to boost his sagging poll numbers, but lacks a credible enemy to serve as an opponent. He finds that Russia is not interested in renewed hostilities, and a proposal to declare war on international terrorism is rejected as absurd. So he uses a flimsy excuse to declare war on Canada, and uses television channels to transmit anti-Canada propaganda to the gullible American population. The film was a box office flop, despite featuring a large cast of Canadian actors. It is mostly remembered as the final film appearance for actor John Candy.
Alda next had a supporting role in the black comedy "Flirting with Disaster" (1996). In the film, an adult, married man searches throughout the United States for the biological parents who gave him up for adoption. He eventually learns that his biological father is Richard Schlichting (played by Alda), a man who has devoted the last 30 years in producing and distributing "lysergic acid diethylamide" (LSD). The family reunion is less than happy, and the protagonist is introduced to a biological brother who despises him. The film earned 14,7 million dollars at the box office.
Alda had another villainous role in the action thriller film "Murder at 1600" (1997), playing national security adviser Alvin Jordan. In the film, Jordan has organized a conspiracy in order to blackmail the President of the United States into resigning, and to start a second Korean War. The conspiracy involved murdering a White House secretary (who had a brief affair with the president) and framing the President for murdering her. The film earned 41,1 million dollars at the worldwide box office, Alda's most profitable film in a decade.
Alda played news anchorman Kevin Hollander in the media-themed thriller "Mad City" (1997). In the film, a fired museum guard takes several people hostage at his former workplace. The news media decides to exploit the situation for profit, and several reporters compete in trying to get the lion's share of the publicity. The situation escalates until the museum guard becomes a suicide bomber. The film only earned 10.5 million dollars at the box office.
Alda's career had declined in the early 2000s, but this situation was only temporary. In 2004, Alda joined the recurring cast of the political television series "The West Wing" (1999-2006). The series depicted the administration of a fictional United States president and his staff. Alda played Republican senator Arnold Vinick for 28 episodes. His character was depicted as a fiscal conservative, who was opposed to corporate welfare and resented to Christian' right's influence on his political party. Vinick became the new Secretary of State in the finale of the series. For his role, Alda won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series in 2006.
Alda's film career experienced a revival with his portrayal of career politician Ralph Owen Brewster (1888-1961) in the biographical film "The Aviator" (2004). He was nominated for the "Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor", the first Academy Award nomination in Alda's career. The award was instead won by rival actor Morgan Freeman. The critical acclaim for his role went against years of criticism for his acting abilities. Alda received several new offers for film roles.
Alda remained active as an actor throughout the 2000s and 2010s. He published three different memoirs between 2005 and 2017, covering different aspects of his life and career. In July 2018, he announced in an interview that he had been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 2015. While this has not ended his acting career, he feared that the effects could be distracting to viewers of his work.
From 2018 to 2020, Alda had a recurring role in the crime drama television series "Ray Donovan" (2013-2020). The series depicted the life and career of a professional "fixer" of the entertainment industry, in charge of bribes, payoffs, threats, crime-scene clean-up, and other illegal activities. Alda also appeared in the spin-off film "Ray Donovan: The Movie" (2022), which concluded remaining plot-lines from the series. By 2022, Alda was 86-years-old. He may no longer be in his prime, but the aging actor seems to have no plans to retire yet.Nicholas Webster (Gone Are the Days; 1963)
Alex March (Paper Lion; 1968)
John Frankenheimer (The Extraordinary Seaman; 1969)
George Bloomfield (2; Jenny; 1970, To Kill a Clown; 1972)
Richard Quine (The Moonshine War; 1970)
Paul Wendkos (The Mephisto Waltz; 1971)
Robert Mulligan (Same Time, Next Year; 1978)
Herbert Ross (California Suite; 1978)
Jerry Schatzberg (The Seduction of Joe Tynan; 1979)
Woody Allen (3; Crimes and Misdemeanors; 1989, Manhattan Murder Mystery; 1993, Everyone Says I Love You; 1996)
Christopher Crowe (Whispers in the Dark; 1992)
Michael Moore (Canadian Bacon; 1995)
David O. Russell (Flirting with Disaster; 1996)
Dwight H. Little (Murder at 1600; 1997)
Costas-Gavras (Mad City; 1997)
Nicholas Hytner (The Object of My Affection; 1998)
Nancy Meyers (What Women Want; 2000)
Martin Scorsese (The Aviator; 2004)
Rod Lurie (2; Resurrecting the Champ; 2007, Nothing but the Truth; 2008)
Terry Kinney (Diminishing Capacity; 2008)
Marc Abraham (Flash of Genius; 2008)
Brett Ratner (Tower Heist; 2011)
David Wain (Wanderlust; 2012)
George Tillman Jr. (The Longest Ride; 2015)
Steven Spielberg (Bridge of Spies; 2015)
Noah Baumbach (Marriage Story; 2019)
Collaborations:
Woody Allen - 3
Rod Lurie - 2
George Bloomfield - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Martin Scorsese
John Frankenheimer
David O. Russell
Brett Ratner
Noah Baumbach
Nancy Meyers
Herbert Ross- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Bhanji on December 31, 1943 in Scarborough, Yorkshire, England. His father, Rahimtulla Harji Bhanji, was a Kenyan-born medical doctor, of Gujarati Indian descent, and his mother, Anna Lyna Mary (Goodman), was an English actress. Ben began to act in stage plays during the 1960s. He soon became a successful stage actor, and also began to have roles in films and television. His birth name was Krishna Bhanji, but he changed his name to "Ben Kingsley" soon after gaining fame as a stage actor, fearing that a foreign name could hamper his acting career.
Kingsley first earned international fame for his performance in the drama movie Gandhi (1982). His performance as Mohandas K. Gandhi earned him international fame. He won many awards - including an Academy Award for Best Actor. He also won Golden Globe, BAFTA and London Film Critics' Circle Awards. After acting in Gandhi (1982), Ben was recognized as one of the finest British actors.
After his international fame for appearing in Gandhi (1982), Kingsley appeared in many other famous movies. His success as an actor continued. His performance as Itzhak Stern in the drama movie Schindler's List (1993) earned him a BAFTA nomination for best supporting actor. Schindler's List (1993) won seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. During the late 1990s, Kingsley acted in many successful movies. He played Sweeney Todd in the television movie The Tale of Sweeney Todd (1997), for which he was nominated for the Screen Actors' Guild Award. His other notable role was as Otto Frank in the television movie Anne Frank: The Whole Story (2001), for which he won the Screen Actors' Guild Award.
In 2002, Kingsley was appointed Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen's New Years Honours for his services to drama. In 2013, he received the BAFTA Los Angeles Britannia Award for Worldwide Contribution to Filmed Entertainment. That same year, he also received the Fellowship Award at the Asian Awards in London, England.Michael Tuchner (Fear is the Key; 1972)
Richard Attenborough (Gandhi; 1982)
David Jones (Betrayal; 1983)
Arthur Joffe (Harem; 1985)
John Irvin (Turtle Diary; 1985)
James Ivory (Maurice; 1987)
James Dearden (Pascali’s Island; 1988)
Thom Eberhardt (Without a Clue; 1988)
Tony Palmer (Testimony; 1988)
Steven Lisberger (Slipstream; 1989)
Eric Rochet (The 5th Monkey; 1990)
Giacomo Battiato (A Violent Life; 1990)
Barry Levinson (Bugsy; 1991)
Fabio Capri (Necessary Love; 1991)
Phil Alden Robinson (Sneakers; 1992)
Jon Acevski (Freddie as FRO7; 1992)
Steven Zaillian (Searching for Bobby Fischer; 1993)
Ivan Reitman (Dave; 1993)
Steven Spielberg (2; Schindler’s List; 1993, A.I. Artificial Intelligence; 2001)
Roman Polanski (2; Death and the Maiden; 1994, Oliver Twist; 2005)
Roger Donaldson (Species; 1995)
Trevor Nunn (Twelfth Night; 1996)
Christian Duguay (The Assignment; 1997)
Nick Willing (Photographing Fairies; 1997)
David Hugh Jones (The Confession; 1999)
Michael Winner (Parting Shots; 1999)
William Sachs (Spooky House; 2000)
Mike Nichols (What Planet Are You From; 2000)
William Friedkin (Rules of Engagement; 2000)
Robert H. Gardner (Islam: Empire of Earth; 2000)
Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast; 2000)
Clare Peploe (The Triumph of Love; 2001)
Jay Russell (Tuck Everlasting; 2002)
Vadim Perelman (House of Sand and Fog; 2003)
Jonathan Frakes (Thunderbirds; 2004)
E. Elias Merhige (Suspect Zero; 2004)
Peter Hyams (A Sound of Thunder; 2005)
Uwe Boll (BloodRayne; 2005)
Paul McGuigan (Lucky Number Slevin; 2006)
John Dahl (You Kill Me; 2007)
Doug Lefler (The Last Legion; 2007)
John Stronach w/ Bill Boyce (The Ten Commandment; 2007)
Isabel Coixet (2; Elegy; 2008, Learning to Drive; 2014)
Joshua Seftel (War, Inc. (2008)
Marco Schnabel (The Love Guru; 2008)
Jonathan Levine (The Wackness; 2008)
Brad Anderson (2; Transsiberian; 2008, Stonehearst Asylum; 2014)
Kari Skogland (Fifty Dead Men Walking; 2008)
Bruce Neibaur (Journey to Mecca; 2009)
Martin Scorsese (2; Shutter Island; 2010, Hugo; 2011)
Leena Yadav (Teen Patti; 2010)
Mike Newell (Prince of Persia: Sands of Time; 2010)
Seth Swirsky (Beatles Stories; 2011)
Larry Charles (The Dictator; 2012)
Shane Black (Iron Man 3; 2013)
Gavin Hood (Ender’s Game; 2013)
Chandran Rutman (A Common Man; 2013)
Mark Schmidt (Walking with the Enemy; 2013)
Philipp Stolzi (The Physician; 2013)
Rob Meyer (A Birder’s Guide to Everything; 2013)
Mark Jackson (War Story; 2014)
Drew Pearce (All Hail the King; 2014)
Graham Annable w/ Anthony Stacchi (The Boxtrolls; 2014)
Ridley Scott (Exodus: Gods and Kings; 2014)
Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum: Secret of the Tomb; 2014)
Jon Wright (Robots Overload; 2014)
Terrence Malick (3; Knight of Cups; 2015, The
Last Planet; 2020, The Way of the Wind; 2022)
Anton Corbijn (Life; 2015)
Colin Teague (DragonHeart 3: The Sorcerer’s Curse; 2015)
Shaun Monson (Unity; 2015)
Tarsem Singh (Self/less; 2015)
Robert Zemeckis (The Walk; 2015)
Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book; 2016)
Eran Creevy (Collide; 2016)
Joseph Ruben (The Ottoman Lieutenant; 2017)
Alain Desrochers (Security; 2017)
David Michod (War Machine; 2017)
Brad Silberling (An Ordinary Man; 2017)
Per Fly (Backstabbing for Beginning; 2018)
Chris Weitz (Operation Finale; 2018)
David Raymond (Night Hunter; 2018)
Daniel Alfredson (Intrigo: Death of an Author; 2018)
Gideon Raff (The Red Sea Diving Resort; 2019)
Eran Riklis (Spider in the Web; 2019)
Doug Liman (Locked Down; 2021)
Destin Daniel Cretton (Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings; 2021)
Paul Feig (The School for Good and Evil; 2022)
Mary Harron (Daliland; 2023)
Wes Anderson (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar; 2023)
Collaborations:
Terrence Malick - 3
Martin Scorsese - 2
Steven Spielberg - 2
Brad Anderson - 2
Isabel Coixet - 2
Roman Polanski - 2
Other notable directors:
Jon Favreau
Robert Zemeckis
Ridley Scott
Shane Black
William Friedkin
Ivan Reitman
Steven Zaillian
Mike Nichols
Mike Newell
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James Ivory
Barry Levinson
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With his breakthrough performance as Eames in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi thriller Inception (2010), English actor Tom Hardy has been brought to the attention of mainstream audiences worldwide. However, the versatile actor has been steadily working on both stage and screen since his television debut in the miniseries Band of Brothers (2001). After being cast in the World War II drama, Hardy left his studies at the prestigious Drama Centre in London and was subsequently cast as Twombly in Ridley Scott's Black Hawk Down (2001) and as the villain Shinzon in Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).
Edward Thomas Hardy was born on September 15, 1977 in Hammersmith, London; his mother, Elizabeth Anne (Barrett), is an artist and painter, and his father, Chips Hardy, is a writer. He is of English and Irish descent. Hardy was brought up in East Sheen, London, and first studied at Reed's School. His education continued at Tower House School, then at Richmond Drama School, and subsequently at the Drama Centre London, along with fellow Oscar nominee Michael Fassbender. After winning a modeling competition at age 21, he had a brief contract with the agency Models One.
Tom spent his teens and early twenties battling delinquency, alcoholism and drug addiction; after completing his work on Star Trek: Nemesis (2002), he sought treatment and has also admitted that his battles with addiction ended his five-year marriage to Sarah Ward. Returning to work in 2003, Hardy was awarded the Evening Standard Most Promising Newcomer Award for his theatre performances in the productions of "In Arabia, We'd All Be Kings" and "Blood". In 2003, Tom also co-starred in the play "The Modernists" with Paul Popplewell, Jesse Spencer and Orlando Wells.
During the next five years, Hardy worked consistently in film, television and theatre, playing roles as varied as Robert Dudley in the BBC's The Virgin Queen (2005), Bill Sikes in Oliver Twist (2007) and starring in "The Man of Mode" at the National Theatre. On the silver screen, he appeared in the crime thriller Layer Cake (2004) with Daniel Craig, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006), and the romp Scenes of a Sexual Nature (2006).
In 2006, Hardy created "Shotgun", an underground theatre company along with director Robert Delamere, and directed a play, penned by his father for the company, called "Blue on Blue". In 2007, Hardy received a best actor BAFTA nomination for his touching performance as Stuart Shorter in the BBC adaptation of Alexander Masters' bestselling biography Stuart: A Life Backwards (2007). Hailed for his transformative character acting, Hardy was lauded for his emotionally and physically convincing portrayal in the ill-fated and warmhearted tale of Shorter, a homeless and occasionally violent man suffering from addiction and muscular dystrophy.
The following year, he appeared as gay hoodlum Handsome Bob in the Guy Ritchie film RocknRolla (2008), but this would be his next transformation that would prove his extensive range and stun critics. In the film Bronson (2008), Hardy played the notorious Charles Bronson (given name, Michael Peterson), the "most violent prisoner in Britain". Bald, pumped-up, and outfitted with Bronson's signature strongman mustache, Hardy is unrecognizable and gives a harrowing performance that is physically fearless and psychologically unsettling. Director Nicolas Winding Refn breaks the fourth wall with Hardy retelling his tales directly to viewers as well as performing them outright before an audience of his own imagining. The performance mixes terrifying brutality, vaudevillian showmanship, wry humor, and an alarming amount of commitment, and won Hardy a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor. The performance got Hollywood's attention, and in 2009, Hardy was named one of Variety's "10 Actors to Watch". That year, he continued to garner praise for his starring role in The Take (2009), a four-part adaptation of Martina Cole's bestselling crime novel, as well as for his performance as Heathcliff in a version of Wuthering Heights (2009).
Recent work includes the aforementioned breakthrough appearance in Inception (2010) alongside Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Ken Watanabe, Michael Caine, Marion Cotillard and Elliot Page. The movie was released in July 2010 and became one of top 25 highest grossing films of all time, collecting eight Oscar nominations (including Best Picture) and winning four.
Other films include Warrior (2011), opposite Joel Edgerton, the story of two estranged brothers facing the fight of a lifetime from director Gavin O'Connor, and This Means War (2012), directed by McG and co-starring Reese Witherspoon and Chris Pine. Tom also starred in the heralded Cold War thriller, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011) with Colin Firth and Gary Oldman. Hardy rejoined Christopher Nolan for The Dark Knight Rises (2012); he played the villain role of Bane opposite Christian Bale, Anne Hathaway, Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Gary Oldman. Hardy's menacing physique and his character's scrambled, hard-to-distinguish voice became a major discussion point as the film was released.
Outside of performing, Hardy is the patron for the charity "Flack", which is an organization to aid the recovery of the homeless in Cambridge. And in 2010, Hardy was named an Ambassador for The Prince's Trust, which helps disadvantaged youth. On the recent stage, he starred in the Brett C. Leonard play "The Long Red Road" in early 2010. Written for Hardy and directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, the play was staged at Chicago's Goodman Theater.
In 2015, Hardy starred as the iconic Mad Max in George Miller's reboot of his franchise, Mad Max: Fury Road (2015). He also collected a British Independent Film Award for his portrayal of both the Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie, in Legend (2015), and an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John Fitzgerald in The Revenant (2015). Hardy also starred on the BBC series Peaky Blinders (2013), alongside Cillian Murphy, and on the television series Taboo (2017), both created by Steven Knight.
He has an outlaw biker story among other projects in development. In 2010, Hardy became engaged to fellow English actress Charlotte Riley, whom he starred with in The Take (2009) and Wuthering Heights (2009), and is raising a young son, Louis Thomas Hardy, with ex-girlfriend Rachael Speed. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire at the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours for his services to drama.Ridley Scott (Black Hawk Down; 2001)
Stuart Baird (Star Trek: Nemesis; 2002)
Paul McGuigan (The Reckoning; 2003)
Matthew Parkhill (Dot the I; 2003)
Simon De Silva (LD 50 Lethal Dose; 2003)
Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake; 2004)
Sofia Coppola (Marie Antoinette; 2006)
Jonathan English (Minotaur; 2006)
Ed Blum (Scenes of a Sexual Nature; 2006)
Tony Mitchell (Flood; 2007)
Tom Shankland (WAZ; 2007)
Charles-Henri Belleville (The Inheritance; 2007)
Malcolm Martin (Sucker Punch; 2008)
Guy Ritchie (RocknRolla; 2008)
Nicolas Winding Refn (Bronson; 2008)
Mimi Leder (Thick as Thieves; 2009)
Christopher Nolan (3; Inception; 2010, The Dark Knight Rises; 2012, Dunkirk; 2017)
Tomas Alfredson (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; 2011)
Gavin O’Connor (Warrior; 2011)
McG (This Means War; 2012)
John Hillcoat (Lawless; 2012)
Steven Knight (Locke; 2013)
Michael R. Roskam (The Drop; 2014)
Daniel Espinosa (Child 44; 2015)
George Miller (Mad Max: Fury Road; 2015)
Rufus Norris (London Road; 2015)
Brian Helgeland (Legend; 2015)
Alejandro G. Innaritu (The Revenant; 2015)
Ruben Fleischer (Venom; 2018)
Josh Trank (Capone; 2020)
Andy Serkis (Venom: Let There Be Carnage; 2020)
Jon Watts (Spider-Man: No Way Home; 2021)
Lana Wachowski (The Matrix Resurrections; 2021)
Gareth Evans (Havoc; 2023)
Jeff Nichols (The Bikeriders; 2023)
Collaborations;
Christopher Nolan - 3
Other notable directors:
Ridley Scott
Alejandro G. Innaritu
Gavin O’Connor
Guy Ritchie
George Miller
Sofia Coppola
Matthew Vaughn
Lana Wachowski
Jon Watts
Jeff Nichols- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Thomas Jeffrey Hanks was born in Concord, California, to Janet Marylyn (Frager), a hospital worker, and Amos Mefford Hanks, an itinerant cook. His mother's family, originally surnamed "Fraga", was entirely Portuguese, while his father was of mostly English ancestry. Tom grew up in what he has called a "fractured" family. He moved around a great deal after his parents' divorce, living with a succession of step-families. No problems, no alcoholism - just a confused childhood. He has no acting experience in college and credits the fact that he could not get cast in a college play with actually starting his career. He went downtown, and auditioned for a community theater play, was invited by the director of that play to go to Cleveland, and there his acting career started.
Ron Howard was working on Splash (1983), a fantasy-comedy about a mermaid who falls in love with a business executive. Howard considered Hanks for the role of the main character's wisecracking brother, which eventually went to John Candy. Instead, Hanks landed the lead role and the film went on to become a surprise box office success, grossing more than $69 million. After several flops and a moderate success with the comedy Dragnet (1987), Hanks' stature in the film industry rose. The broad success with the fantasy-comedy Big (1988) established him as a major Hollywood talent, both as a box office draw and within the film industry as an actor. For his performance in the film, Hanks earned his first Academy Award nomination as Best Actor.
Hanks climbed back to the top again with his portrayal of a washed-up baseball legend turned manager in A League of Their Own (1992). Hanks has stated that his acting in earlier roles was not great, but that he subsequently improved. In an interview with Vanity Fair, Hanks noted his "modern era of movie making ... because enough self-discovery has gone on ... My work has become less pretentiously fake and over the top". This "modern era" began for Hanks, first with Sleepless in Seattle (1993) and then with Philadelphia (1993). The former was a blockbuster success about a widower who finds true love over the radio airwaves. Richard Schickel of Time magazine called his performance "charming", and most critics agreed that Hanks' portrayal ensured him a place among the premier romantic-comedy stars of his generation.
In Philadelphia, he played a gay lawyer with AIDS who sues his firm for discrimination. Hanks lost 35 pounds and thinned his hair in order to appear sickly for the role. In a review for People, Leah Rozen stated, "Above all, credit for Philadelphia's success belongs to Hanks, who makes sure that he plays a character, not a saint. He is flat-out terrific, giving a deeply felt, carefully nuanced performance that deserves an Oscar." Hanks won the 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Philadelphia. During his acceptance speech, he revealed that his high school drama teacher Rawley Farnsworth and former classmate John Gilkerson, two people with whom he was close, were gay.
Hanks followed Philadelphia with the blockbuster Forrest Gump (1994) which grossed a worldwide total of over $600 million at the box office. Hanks remarked: "When I read the script for Gump, I saw it as one of those kind of grand, hopeful movies that the audience can go to and feel ... some hope for their lot and their position in life ... I got that from the movies a hundred million times when I was a kid. I still do." Hanks won his second Best Actor Academy Award for his role in Forrest Gump, becoming only the second actor to have accomplished the feat of winning consecutive Best Actor Oscars.
Hanks' next role - astronaut and commander Jim Lovell, in the docudrama Apollo 13 (1995) - reunited him with Ron Howard. Critics generally applauded the film and the performances of the entire cast, which included actors Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Gary Sinise, Ed Harris, and Kathleen Quinlan. The movie also earned nine Academy Award nominations, winning two. Later that year, Hanks starred in Disney/Pixar's computer-animated film Toy Story (1995), as the voice of Sheriff Woody. A year later, he made his directing debut with the musical comedy That Thing You Do! (1996) about the rise and fall of a 1960s pop group, also playing the role of a music producer.
As of 2022, Hanks is 66-years-old. He has never retired from acting, and has remained active in the film industry for more than four decades.Armand Mastroianni (He Knows You’re Alone; 1980)
Ron Howard (5; Splash; 1984, Apollo 13; 1995, The Di Vinci Code; 2006, Angels & Demons; 2009, Inferno; 2016)
Neal Israel (Bachelor Party; 1984)
Stan Dragoti (The Man with the One Red Shoe; 1985)
Nicholas Meyer (Volunteers; 1985)
Richard Benjamin (The Money Pit; 1986)
Garry Marshall (Nothing in Common; 1986)
Moshe Mizrahi (Every Time We Say Goodbye; 1986)
Tom Mankiewicz (Dragnet; 1987)
Penny Marshall (2; Big; 1988, A League of Their Own; 1992)
David Seltzer (Punchline; 1988)
Joe Dante (The Burbs; 1989)
Roger Spottiswoode (Turner & Hooch; 1989)
John Patrick Shanley (Joe vs. the Volcano; 1990)
Brian de Palma (The Bonfire of the Vanities; 1990)
Richard Donner (Radio Flyer; 1992)
Nora Ephron (2; Sleepless in Seattle; 1993, You’ve Got Mail; 1998)
Jonathan Demme (Philadelphia; 1993)
Robert Zemeckis (3; Forrest Gump; 1994, Cast Away; 2000, The Polar Express; 2005, Pinocchio; 2022)
John Lasseter (3; Toy Story; 1995, Toy Story 2; 1999, Cars; 2006)
Steven Spielberg (5; Saving Private Ryan; 1998, Catch Me If You Can; 2002, The Terminal; 2005, Bridge of Spies; 2015, The Post; 2017)
Frank Darabont (The Green Mile; 1999)
Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition; 2002)
Joel and Ethan Coen (The Ladykillers; 2004)
Joel Zwick (Elvis Has Left the Building; 2004)
Mike Nichols (Charlie Wilson’s War; 2007)
David Silverman (The Simpsons Movie; 2007)
Sean McGinly (The Great Buck Howard; 2009)
Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3; 2010)
Stephen Daldry (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; 2011)
Lana and Lilly Wachowski w/ Tom Tykwer (Cloud Atlas; 2012)
Paul Greengrass (2; Captain Phillips; 2013, News of the World; 2020)
John Lee Hancock (Saving Mr. Banks; 2013)
Meg Ryan (Ithaca; 2015)
Tom Tykwer (A Hologram for a King; 2016)
Clint Eastwood (Sully; 2016)
Doug Nichol (California Typewriter; 2016)
James Ponsoldt (The Circle; 2017)
Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4; 2019)
Marielle Heller (A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood; 2019)
Aaron Schneider (Greyhound; 2020)
Jason Woliner (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm; 2020)
Miguel Sapochnik (Finch; 2021)
Baz Luhrmann (Elvis; 2022)
Marc Forster (A Man Called Otto; 2022)
Wes Anderson (Astroid City; 2023)
Collaborations:
Steven Spielberg - 5
Ron Howard - 5
Robert Zemeckis - 4
John Lasseter - 3
Penny Marshall - 2
Nora Ephron - 2
Paul Greengrass - 2
Tom Tykwer - 2
Other notable directors:
Clint Eastwood
Frank Darabont
Mike Nichols
Stephen Daldry
Brian de Palma
Joel and Ethan Coen
Sam Mendes
John Lee Hancock
Jonathan Demme
Garry Marshall
The Wachowskis
Richard Donner
Wes Anderson- Actor
- Producer
- Director
George Timothy Clooney was born on May 6, 1961, in Lexington, Kentucky, to Nina Bruce (née Warren), a former beauty pageant queen, and Nick Clooney, a former anchorman and television host (who was also the brother of singer Rosemary Clooney). He has Irish, English, and German ancestry. Clooney spent most of his youth in Ohio and Kentucky, and graduated from Augusta High School. He was very active in sports such as basketball and baseball, and tried out for the Cincinnati Reds, but was not offered a contract.
After his cousin, Miguel Ferrer, got him a small role in a feature film, Clooney began to pursue acting. His first major role was on the sitcom E/R (1984) as Ace. More roles soon followed, including George Burnett, the handsome handyman on The Facts of Life (1979); Booker Brooks, a supervisor on Roseanne (1988); and Detective James Falconer on Sisters (1991). Clooney had his breakthrough when he was cast as Dr. Doug Ross on the award-winning drama series ER (1994), opposite Anthony Edwards, Noah Wyle and Julianna Margulies.
While filming "ER" (1994), Clooney starred in a number of high profile film roles, such as Robert Rodriguez's From Dusk Till Dawn (1996), and One Fine Day (1996), opposite Michelle Pfeiffer. In 1997, Clooney took on the role of Batman in Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin (1997). The film was a moderate success in the box office, but was slammed by critics, notably for the nipple-laden Batsuit. Clooney went on to star in Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight (1998), Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line (1998), and David O. Russell's Three Kings (1999).
In 1999, Clooney left "ER" (1994) (though he would return for the season finale) and appeared in a number of films, including O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000), The Perfect Storm (2000) and Ocean's Eleven (2001). Collaborating once again with Steven Soderbergh, Ocean's Eleven (2001) received critical acclaim, earned more than $450 million at the box office, and spawned two sequels: Ocean's Twelve (2004) and Ocean's Thirteen (2007).
In 2002, Clooney made his directorial debut with Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002), an adaptation of TV producer Chuck Barris' autobiography. This was the first film under the banner of Section Eight Productions, a production company he founded with Steven Soderbergh. The company also produced many acclaimed films, including Far from Heaven (2002), Syriana (2005), A Scanner Darkly (2006) and Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005). Clooney won his first Oscar for Best Supporting Actor in Syriana (2005), and was nominated for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay for Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005).
In 2006, Section Eight Productions was shut down so that Soderbergh could concentrate on directing, and Clooney founded a new production company, Smokehouse Productions, with his friend and longtime business partner, Grant Heslov.
Clooney went on to produce and star in Michael Clayton (2007) (which earned him an Oscar nomination for Best Actor), directed and starred in Leatherheads (2008), and took leading roles in Burn After Reading (2008), The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), and Jason Reitman's Up in the Air (2009). Clooney received critical acclaim for his performance in Up in the Air (2009) and was nominated for several awards, including a Golden Globe Award and Academy Award. He didn't win that year, but took home both Best Actor awards (as well as countless nominations) for his role as a father who finds out his wife was unfaithful as she lays in a coma in Alexander Payne's The Descendants (2011). Through his career, Clooney has been heralded for his political activism and humanitarian work. He has served as one of the United Nations Messengers of Peace since 2008, has been an advocate for the Darfur conflict, and organized the Hope for Haiti telethon, to raise money for the victims of the 2010 earthquake. In March 2012, Clooney was arrested for civil disobedience while protesting at the Sudanese embassy in Washington, D.C.
Clooney was married to actress Talia Balsam, from 1989 until 1993. After their divorce, he swore he would never marry again. Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman bet him $10,000 that he would have children by the age of 40, and sent him a check shortly after his birthday. Clooney returned the funds and bet double or nothing he wouldn't have children by the age of 50. Although he has remained a consummate bachelor, Clooney has had many highly publicized relationships, including with former WWE wrestler Stacy Keibler. In 2014, he married lawyer and activist Amal Clooney, with whom he has two children, twins.Neal Israel (Combat Academy; 1986)
Bill Froehlich (Return to Horror High; 1987)
Andre Szots (Grizzly 2: The Predator; 1987)
John De Bello (Return of the Killer Tomatoes; 1988)
Alfredo Ringel (Unbecoming Age; 1992)
Deborah Ringel (Unbecoming Age; 1992)
David Marconi (The Harvest; 1993)
Robert Rodriguez (3; From Dusk Till Dawn; 1996, Spy Kids; 2001, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over; 2003)
Michael Hoffman (One Fine Day; 1996)
Joel Schumacher (Batman & Robin; 1997)
Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker; 1997)
Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line; 1998)
Steven Soderbergh (6; Out of Sight; 1998, Oceans 11; 2001, Oceans 12; 2004, Oceans 13; 2007, Solaris; 2002, The Good German; 2006)
Grant Heslov (2; Waiting for Woody; 1998, The Men Who Stared at Goats; 2009)
David O. Russell (Three Kings; 1999)
Liam O. Mochain (The Book that Wrote Itself; 1999)
Trey Parker (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut; 1999)
Wolfgang Petersen (The Perfect Storm; 2000)
Joel Coen (4; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; 2000, Intolerable Cruelty; 2003, Burn After Reading; 2008, Hail, Caesar!; 2016)
Ethan Coen (4; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; 2000, Intolerable Cruelty; 2003, Burn After Reading; 2008, Hail, Caesar; 2016)
Anthony and Joe Russo (Welcome to Collinwood; 2002)
Stephen Gaghan (Syriana; 2005)
Tony Gilroy (Michael Clayton; 2007)
Ted Braun (Darfur Now; 2007)
Paul Freedman (Sand and Sorrow; 2007)
Wes Anderson (Fantastic Mr. Fox; 2009)
Jason Reitman (Up in the Air; 2009)
Anton Corbijn (The American; 2010)
Alexander Payne (The Descendants; 2011)
Alfonso Cauron (Gravity; 2013)
Brad Bird (Tomorrowland; 2015)
Sofia Coppola (A Very Murray Christmas; 2015)
Jodie Foster (Money Monster; 2016)
Ol Parker (Ticket to Paradise; 2022)
Collaborations:
Steven Soderbergh - 6
Joel Coen - 4
Ethan Coen - 4
Robert Rodriguez - 3
Grant Heslov - 2
Other notable directors:
Alexander Payne
Alfonso Cauron
Wes Anderson
Sofia Coppola
Brad Bird
Wolfgang Petersen
David O. Russell
Terrence Malick
Anthony and Joe Russo
Jason Reitman
Films Clooney Directed:
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2004)
Good Night and Good Luck (2005)
Leatherheads (2008)
The Ides of March (2011)
The Monuments Man (2014)
Suburbicon (2017)
The Midnight Sky (2020)- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Bill Murray is an American actor, comedian, and writer. The fifth of nine children, he was born William James Murray in Wilmette, Illinois, to Lucille (Collins), a mailroom clerk, and Edward Joseph Murray II, who sold lumber. He is of Irish descent. Among his siblings are actors Brian Doyle-Murray, Joel Murray, and John Murray. He and most of his siblings worked as caddies, which paid his tuition to Loyola Academy, a Jesuit school. He played sports and did some acting while in that school, but in his words, mostly "screwed off." He enrolled at Regis College in Denver to study pre-med but dropped out after being arrested for marijuana possession. He then joined the National Lampoon Radio Hour with fellow members Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, and John Belushi. However, while those three became the original members of Saturday Night Live (1975), he joined Saturday Night Live with Howard Cosell (1975), which premiered that same year. After that show failed, he later got the opportunity to join Saturday Night Live (1975), for which he earned his first Emmy Award for Outstanding Writing in a Comedy-Variety or Music Series. He later went on to star in comedy films, including Meatballs (1979), Caddyshack (1980), Stripes (1981), Tootsie (1982), Ghostbusters (1984), Ghostbusters II (1989), Scrooged (1988), What About Bob? (1991), and Groundhog Day (1993). He also co-directed Quick Change (1990). Murray garnered additional critical acclaim later in his career, starring in Lost in Translation (2003), which earned him a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for Best Actor, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor. He also received Golden Globe nominations for his roles in Ghostbusters, Rushmore (1998), Hyde Park on Hudson (2012), St. Vincent (2014), and the HBO miniseries Olive Kitteridge (2014), for which he later won his second Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or a Movie.Paul Mazursky (Next Stop, Greenwich Village; 1976)
Ivan Reitman (4; Meatballs; 1979, Stripes; 1981, Ghostbusters; 1984, Ghostbusters II; 1989)
Michael O’Donoghue (Mr. Mikes Mondo Video; 1979)
Picha (2; Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle; 1979, B.C. Rock; 1984)
Boris Szulzinger (Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle; 1979)
Art Linson (Where the Buffalo Roam; 1980)
Harold Ramis (2; Caddyshack; 1980, Groundhog Day; 1993)
Ira Miller (Loose Shoes; 1980)
Sydney Pollak (Tootsie; 1982)
Tom Schiller (Nothing Lasts Forever; 1984)
John Byrum (The Razor’s Edge; 1984)
Frank Oz (2; Little Shop of Horrors; 1986, What About Bob?; 1991)
John Hughes (She’s Having a Baby; 1988)
Richard Donner (Scrooged; 1988)
John McNaughton (3; Max Dog and Glory; 1993, Wild Things; 1998, Speaking of Sex; 2001)
Tim Burton (Ed Wood; 1994)
Peter Farrelly (3; Kingpin; 1995, Dumb and Dumber To; 2014, The Greatest Beer Run Ever; 2023)
Bobby Farrelly (2; Kingpin; 1995, Dumb and Dumber To; 2014)
Howard Franklin (Larger Than Life; 1995)
Joe Pytka (Space Jam; 1996)
Jon Amiel (The Man Who Know too Little; 1997)
Philip Frank Messina (With Friends Like These; 1998)
Wes Anderson (10; Rushmore; 1998, The Royal Tenenbaums; 2001, The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou; 2004, The Darjeeling Limited; 2007, Fantastic Mr. Fox; 2009, Moonrise Kingdom; 2012, The Grand Budapest Hotel; 2014, Isle of Dogs; 2018, The French Dispatch; 2020, Asteroid City (2023))
Tim Robbins (Cradle Will Rock; 1999)
McG (Charlie’s Angels; 2000)
Michael Almereyda (Hamlet; 2000)
Sofia Coppola (2; Lost in Translation; 2003, On the Rocks; 2021)
Jim Jarmusch (4; Coffee and Cigarettes; 2003, Broken Flowers; 2005, The Limits of Control; 2009, The Dead Don’t Die; 2019)
Peter Hewitt (Garfield: The Movie; 2004)
Andy Garcia (The Lost City; 2005)
Tim Hill (Garfield: Tale of Two Kitties; 2006)
Peter Segal (Get Smart; 2008)
Gil Kenan (City of Ember; 2008)
Ruben Fleischer (2; Zombieland; 2009, Zombieland: Double Tap; 2019)
Aaron Schneider (Get Low; 2010)
Mitch Glazer (Passion Play; 2011)
Roman Coppola (A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III; 2012)
Roger Michell (Hyde Park on Hudson; 2012)
George Clooney (The Monuments Men; 2014)
Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent; 2014)
Cameron Crowe (Aloha; 2015)
Barry Levinson (Rock the Kasbah; 2015)
Jon Favreau (The Jungle Book; 2016)
Paul Feig (Ghostbusters; 2016)
Jason Reitman (Ghostbusters: Afterlife; 2020)
Peyton Reed (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; 2022)
Aziz Ansari (Being Mortal; 2022)
Peter Farrelly (The Greatest Beer Run Ever; 2023)
Collaborations:
Wes Anderson - 9
Ivan Reitman - 4
Jim Jarmusch - 4
John McNaughton - 3
Peter Farrelly - 3
Sofia Coppola - 2
Harold Ramis - 2
Ruben Fleischer - 2
Bobby Farrelly - 2
Frank Oz - 2
Picha - 2
Other notable directors:
Jon Favreau
Paul Feig
Jason Reitman
Barry Levinson
Tim Burton
Richard Donner
Sydney Pollak
John Hughes
Peter Farrelly- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
John William Ferrell was born in Irvine, California, to Betty Kay (Overman), a teacher, and Roy Lee Ferrell, Jr., a musician. His parents were originally from Roanoke Rapids, North Carolina.
A graduate of the University of Southern California, Ferrell became interested in performing while a student at University High School in Irvine, where he made his school's daily morning announcements over the public address system in disguised voices. He started as a member of the Los Angeles comedy/improvisation group The Groundlings, where fellow cast members Ana Gasteyer, Maya Rudolph and former Saturday Night Live (1975) repertory players such as Laraine Newman, Jon Lovitz and Phil Hartman began their careers. It was there he met Chris Kattan and the two became good friends and both went on to Saturday Night Live (1975) later. He has also appeared on several television programs, including Strangers with Candy (1999), Grace Under Fire (1993) and Living Single (1993) during his time at The Groundlings. Will also lent his voice to the armless and legless dad of cartoon family "The Oblongs".
In 1995 he became a feature cast member at Saturday Night Live (1975) during the show's rapid re-casting. He was declared quite possibly the worst cast member ever during his first season. However, his talents of impersonations and range of characters shot him forward to making him arguably the greatest Saturday Night Live (1975) cast member ever. During his seven year run he is one of the few cast members to ever be nominated for an Emmy for a performance and played George W. Bush during the 2000 elections. He has appeared in every Saturday Night Live (1975) movie since his premiere on the show in 1995. In 2002 he left Saturday Night Live (1975) and was the only cast member to ever receive a farewell from all the current cast members at the end of the season finale show. Since leaving the show Will has pursued a career in films. In 2000, he married Viveca Paulin, and lives in L.A.Jay Roach (3; Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; 1997, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me; 1999, The Campaign; 2012)
Jim Milio (Men Seeking Women; 1997)
John Fortenberry (A Night at the Roxbury; 1998)
Joe Dietl (The Thin Pink Line; 1998)
Michael Irpino (The Thin Pink Line; 1998)
Bruce McCulloch (Superstar; 1999)
Donal Lardner Ward (The Suburbans; 1999)
Reginald Hudlin (The Ladies Man; 2000)
Nick Gomez (Drowning Mona; 2000)
Ben Stiller (2; Zoolander; 2001, Zoolander 2; 2016)
Kevin Smith (Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back; 2001)
Mort Nathan (Boat Trip; 2002)
Todd Phillips (2; Old School; 2003, Starsky & Hutch; 2004)
Jon Favreau (Elf; 2003)
Woody Allen (Melinda and Melinda; 2004)
Adam McKay (5; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; 2004, Talladega Nights: Ballad of Ricky Bobby; 2006, Step Brothers; 2008, The Other Guys; 2010, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues; 2013)
Malcolm Ingram (Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party; 2004)
Jennifer Schwalbach (Oh, What a Lovely Tea Party; 2004)
David Dobkin (2; Wedding Crashers; 2005, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga; 2020)
Susan Stroman (The Producers; 2005)
Adam Rapp (Winter Passing; 2005)
Nora Ephron (Bewitched; 2005)
Jesse Dylan (Kicking & Screaming; 2005)
Luke and Andrew Wilson (The Wendell Baker Story; 2005)
Marc Forster (Stranger than Fiction; 2006)
Matthew O’Callaghan (Curious George; 2006)
Josh Gordon (Blades of Glory; 2007)
Will Speck (Blades of Glory; 2007)
Kent Alterman (Semi-Pro; 2008)
Brad Silberling (Land of the Lost; 2009)
Neal Brennan (The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard; 2009)
Tom McGrath (Megamind; 2010)
Dan Rush (Everything Must Go; 2010)
Matt Piedmont (Casa de mi padre; 2012)
Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie; 2012)
Eric Wareheim (Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie; 2012)
Shawn Levy (The Internship; 2013)
Phil Lord (The LEGO Movie; 2014)
Christopher Miller (The LEGO Movie; 2014)
Etan Cohen (2; Get Hard; 2015, Holmes & Watson; 2018)
Sean Anders (3; Daddy’s Home; 2015, Daddy’s Home 2; 2017, Spirited; 2022)
Andrew Jay Cohen (The House; 2017)
Mike Mitchell (The LEGO Movie: The Second Part; 2019)
Fred Wolf (Drunk Parents; 2019)
Scott Aukerman (Between Two Ferns: The Movie; 2019)
James Franco (Zeroville; 2019)
Nat Faxon (Downhill; 2020)
Jim Rush (Downhill; 2020)
Chris Henchy (Impractical Jokers: The Movie; 2020)
John Morris (Spirited; 2022)
Josh Greenbaum (Strays; 2023)
Greta Gerwig (Barbie; 2023)
Collaborations:
Adam McKay - 5
Jay Roach - 3
Ben Stiller - 2
Sean Anders - 2
Etan Cohen - 2
David Dobkin - 2
Todd Phillips - 2
Other notable directors:
Phil Lord
Christopher Miller
Marc Forster
Nora Ephron
Kevin Smith
Jon Favreau
Woody Allen- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Richard Dreyfuss is an American leading man, who has played his fair share of irritating pests and brash, ambitious hustlers.
He was born Richard Stephen Dreyfus in Brooklyn, New York, to Geraldine (Robbins), an activist, and Norman Dreyfus, a restaurateur and attorney. His paternal grandparents were Austro-Hungarian Jewish immigrants, and his mother's family was Russian Jewish.
Richard worked his way up through bit parts (The Graduate (1967), for one) and TV before gaining attention with his portrayal of Baby Face Nelson in John Milius' Dillinger (1973). He gained prominence as a college-bound young man in American Graffiti (1973) and as a nervy Jewish kid with high hopes in The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974). By the latter part of the 1970s Dreyfuss was established as a major star, playing leads (and alter-egos) for Steven Spielberg in two of the top-grossing films of the that decade: Jaws (1975) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He won a Best Actor Oscar in his first romantic lead as an out-of-work actor in The Goodbye Girl (1977). Dreyfuss also produced and starred in the entertaining private eye movie The Big Fix (1978). After a brief lull in the early 1980s, a well-publicized drug problem and a string of box-office disappointments (The Competition (1980), Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1981), The Buddy System (1984)), a clean and sober Dreyfuss re-established himself in the mid-'80s as one of Hollywood's more engaging leads. He co-starred with Bette Midler and Nick Nolte in Paul Mazursky's popular Down and Out in Beverly Hills (1986). That same year he provided the narration and appeared in the opening and closing "bookends" of Rob Reiner's nostalgic Stand by Me (1986). He quickly followed that with Nuts (1987) opposite Barbra Streisand, Barry Levinson's Tin Men (1987) in a memorable teaming with Danny DeVito, and Stakeout (1987) with Emilio Estevez. Dreyfuss continued working steadily through the end of the 1980s and into the 1990s, most notably in Mazursky's farce Moon Over Parador (1988), Spielberg's Always (1989), Postcards from the Edge (1990) and Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990). He appeared as a member of an ensemble that included Holly Hunter, Gena Rowlands and Danny Aiello in the romantic comedy Once Around (1991) and as a pop psychiatrist, the author of several successful self-help books, who is driven to the edge by nutcase Bill Murray in the popular comedy What About Bob? (1991). Dreyfuss has also remained active in the theater ("Death and Maiden", 1992) and on TV. In his next project he starred the thriller Silent Fall (1994) with John Lithgow and Linda Hamilton, being the film debut of Liv Tyler, Steven Tyler's daughter (Aerosmith's lead vocals). Just later Dreyfuss made Another Stakeout (1993), sequel of Stakeout (1987) where was team again with Emilio Estevez accompanied of Rosie O'Donnell, the adaptation of Neil Simon's play Lost in Yonkers (1993) and followed with a supporting turn as the querulous political opponent in The American President (1995). Dreyfuss received some of the best notices of his career as a determined, inspiring music teacher coping with a deaf son and the demands of his career in Mr. Holland's Opus (1995). Closing the 20th century he was in Sidney Lumet's Night Falls on Manhattan (1996) with Andy Garcia, the crime comedy Mad Dog Time (1996) as the mob boss Vic, the screwball comedy Krippendorf's Tribe (1998) about an anthropologist who creates a false lost New Guinea tribe for not losing his job in the university, TV movie Lansky (1999) about the infamous mob boss to end, the too TV movie Fail Safe (2000) playing The President, and The Crew (2000), about four older mobsters retired in Miami, partnering with Hollywood legends Burt Reynolds, Dan Hedaya and Seymour Cassel.
His start in the 21st century was with the adaption of Luis Sepúlveda's novel The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001), playing an old man to must to hunt a female jaguar turned crazy. It was followed by the supporting apparition in the comedy Who Is Cletis Tout? (2001) and another TV movie about 1981 Ronald Reagan's shooting The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001). After the short-lived TV series The Education of Max Bickford (2001) about a teacher in a women's college where his daughter is student, Dreyfuss returned to cinema in Silver City (2004) and the box-office bomb Poseidon (2006) with Kurt Russell, Emmy Rossum and Josh Lucas. Playing former vice-president Dick Cheney in the Oliver Stone's biopic W. (2008) and Irv, the cunning tourist in Greece turned in assistant of a troubled tour guide in My Life in Ruins (2009), Dreyfuss participated in low-budget productions as Leaves of Grass (2009) and The Lightkeepers (2009), for making a cameo in the wild and crazy Piranha 3D (2010) about prehistoric men-eater piranhas that make a bloodbath in a spring break. Returning to first line playing evil Alexander Dunning in the actioner RED (2010), his further productions included Paranoia (2013) as Liam Hemsworth's father partnering Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman, road movie Cas & Dylan (2013) opposites Tatiana Maslany and the biopic TV mini-series Madoff (2016) about the infamous multi-billion-dollar and hustler Bernie Madoff. Tireless and always implied in new projects, Dreyfuss played George, the funny online date of Candice Bergen in Book Club (2018), the comedy and road movie The Last Laugh (2019) with Chevy Chase, and the set in wilderness thriller Daughter of the Wolf (2019) with Gina Carano and Brendan Fehr. Making his 73rd birthday in 2020, Dreyfuss is an example of talent, diversity and love for his work, touching not only all the genres in cinema but leaving an unforgettable footprint at any of them.Mark Robson (Valley of the Dolls; 1967)
Mike Nichols (2; The Graduate; 1967, Postcards from the Edge; 1990)
Arthur Dreifuss (The Young Runaways; 1968)
Jack Arnold (Hello Down There; 1969)
Ricou Browning (Hello Down There; 1969)
George Lucas (American Graffiti; 1973)
John Milius (Dillinger; 1973)
Ted Kotcheff (The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz; 1974)
Michael Barry (The Second Coming of Suzanne; 1974)
John Byrum (Inserts; 1975)
Steven Spielberg (3; Jaws; 1976, Close Encounters of the Third Kind; 1977, Always; 1989)
Herbert Ross (The Goodbye Girl; 1977)
Jeremy Paul Kagan (The Big Fix; 1978)
Joel Oliansky (The Competition; 1980)
John Badham (3; Where Life Is It Anyway?; 1981, Stakeout; 1987, Another Stakeout; 1993)
Glenn A. Jordan (The Buddy System; 1984)
Paul Mazursky (2; Down and Out in Beverly Hills; 1986, Moon Over Parador; 1988)
Rob Reiner (2; Stand By Me; 1986, The American President; 1995)
Barry Levinson (Tin Men; 1987)
Martin Ritt (Nuts; 1987)
Jon Pytka (Let It Ride; 1989)
Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; 1990)
Lasse Hallstrom (Once Around; 1991)
Frank Oz (What About Bob; 1991)
Martha Coolidge (Lost in Yonkers; 1993)
Bruce Beresford (Silent Fall; 1994)
Tony Spiridakis (The Last World; 1995)
Stephen Herek (Mr. Holland’s Opus; 1995)
Henry Selick (James and the Giant Peach; 1996)
Larry Bishop (Mad Dog Time; 1996)
Sidney Lumet (Night Falls in Manhattan; 1997)
Todd Holland (Krippendorf’s Tribe; 1998)
Michael Dinner (The Crew; 2000)
Rolf de Heer (The One Man Who Read Love Stories; 2001)
Chris Ver Weil (Who Is Cletis Tout?; 2001)
Bill Kowalchuk (Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and the Island of Misfit Toys; 2001)
John Sayles (Silver City; 2004)
Wolfgang Petersen (Poseidon; 2006)
Don Casper (Signs of the Time; 2008)
Oliver Stone (W.; 2008)
Leslie Carde (America Betrayed; 2008)
Donald Petrie (My Life in Ruins; 2009)
Tim Blake Nelson (Leaves of Grass; 2009)
Daniel Adams (The Lightkeepers; 2009)
Alexandre Aja (Piranha 3D; 2010)
Robert Schwentke (Red; 2010)
Robert Luketic (Paranoia; 2013)
Jason Priestley (Cas and Dylan; 2013)
Naomi Foner (Very Good Girls; 2013)
Martin Weisz (Squatters; 2014)
Mora Stephens (Zipper; 2015)
Bill Holderman (Book Club; 2018)
Cuba Gooding Jr. (Bayou Caviar; 2018)
Greg Pritikin (The Last Laugh; 2019)
Jonas Aukerlund (Polar; 2019)
David Hackl (Daughter of the Wolf; 2019)
Shelagh McLeod (Astronaut; 2019)
Joel David Moore (Killing Winston Jones; 2020)
Christian Sesma (Every Last One of Them; 2021)
Adam Lipsius (Crime Story; 2021)
Richard Gray (Murder of Yellowstone City; 2022)
Collaborations:
Steven Spielberg - 3
John Badham - 3
Mike Nichols - 2
Rob Reiner - 2
Paul Mazursky - 2
Other notable directors:
Oliver Stone
Wolfgang Petersen
Barry Levinson
Herbert Ross
Bruce Beresford
Sidney Lumet
George Lucas- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of Portuguese and Swedish descent.
Growing up with his two younger brothers, Dave Franco, also an actor, and Tom Franco, James graduated from Palo Alto High School in 1996 and went on to attend UCLA, majoring in English. To overcome his shyness, he got into acting while studying there, which, much to his parents' dismay, he left after only one year. After fifteen months of intensive study at Robert Carnegie's Playhouse West, James began actively pursuing his dream of finding work as an actor in Hollywood. In that short time, he landed himself a starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999). The show, however, was not a hit to its viewers at the time, and was canceled after its first year. Now, it has become a cult-hit. Prior to joining Freaks and Geeks (1999), Franco starred in the TV miniseries To Serve and Protect (1999). After that, he had a starring role in Whatever It Takes (2000).
Although he'd been working steadily, it wasn't until the TNT made-for-television movie, James Dean (2001) that James rose to fan-magazine fame and got to show off his talent. Since then, he has been working non-stop. After losing the lead role to Tobey Maguire, James settled for the part of "Harry Osborne", Spider-Man's best friend in the summer 2002 major hit Spider-Man (2002). He returned to the Osborne role for the next two films in the trilogy.
Next was Deuces Wild (2002) and City by the Sea (2002), in which Robert De Niro personally had him cast, after viewing his performance in James Dean (2001). He was seen in David Gordon Green's Pineapple Express (2008) opposite Seth Rogen, in George C. Wolfe's Nights in Rodanthe (2008), starring Richard Gere and Diane Lane and in Paul Haggis' In the Valley of Elah (2007), starring Tommy Lee Jones. Also starring opposite Sean Penn in Gus Van Sant's Milk (2008) in which his performance earned him an Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Actor. Definitely growing out of his shyness, James Franco is turning into a legend of his own.Raja Gosnell (Never Been Kissed; 1999)
David Raynr (Whatever It Takes; 2000)
Matthew Cole Weiss (Mean People Suck; 2001)
Sam Raimi (4; Spider-Man; 2002, Spider-Man 2; 2004, Spider-Man 3; 2007, Oz the Great and Powerful; 2013)
Scott Kalvert (Deuces Wild; 2002)
Nicolas Cage (Sonny; 2002)
Michael Caton-Jones (City by the Sea; 2002)
Robert Altman (The Company; 2003)
John Dahl (The Great Raid; 2005)
Kevin Reynolds (Tristan & Isolde; 2006)
Justin Lin (2; Annapolis; 2006, Finishing the Game; 2007)
Neil LaBute (The Wicker Man; 2006)
Tony Bill (Flyboys; 2006)
Karen Moncrieff (The Dead Girl; 2006)
Nancy Meyers (The Holiday; 2006)
Tommy O’Haver (An American Crime; 2007)
Steve Buscemi (Interview; 2007)
Judd Apatow (Knocked Up; 2007)
Paul Haggis (In the Valley of Elah; 2007)
Gregory Mackenzie (Camille; 2008)
David Gordon Green (2; Pineapple Express; 2008, Your Highness; 2011)
George C. Wolfe (Nights in Rodanthe; 2008)
Gus Van Zant (2; Milk; 2008, My Own Private River; 2012)
Rob Epstein (2; Howl; 2010, Lovelace; 2013)
Jeffrey Friedman (2; Howl; 2010, Lovelace; 2013)
Shawn Levy (Date Night; 2010)
Jay Anania (2; Shadows and Lies; 2010, The Letter; 2012)
Ryan Murphy (Eat Prey Love; 2010)
Danny Boyle (127 Hours; 2010)
Michel Gondry (The Green Hornet; 2011)
Rupert Wyatt (Rise of the Planet of the Apes; 2011)
Stephen Elliott (About Cherry; 2012)
Carter (Maladies; 2012)
Ariel Vromen (The Iceman; 2012)
Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers; 2012)
Travis Mathews (Interior. Leather Bar; 2013)
Seth Rogen (2; This is the End; 2013, The Interview; 2014)
Evan Goldberg (2; This is the End; 2013, The Interview; 2014)
Gia Coppola (Palo Alto; 2013)
Paul Haggis (Third Person; 2013)
Gary Fleder (Homefront; 2013)
Rob Thomas (Veronica Mars; 2014)
Matt Reeves (Dawn of the Planet of the Apes; 2014)
Henrik Ruben Genz (Good People; 2014)
Rupert Goold (True Story; 2015)
Gabrielle Demeestere (Yosemite; 2015)
Justin Kelly (2; I Am Michael; 2015, King Cobra; 2016)
Werner Herzog (Queen of the Desert; 2015)
Wim Wenders (Everything Will Be Fine; 2015)
Robert Duvall (Wild Horses; 2015)
Pamela Romanowsky (2; The Adderall Diaries; 2015, The Institute; 2017)
Mark Osborne (The Little Prince; 2015)
Vladimir de Fontenay (Memoria; 2015)
Nina Ljeti (Memoria; 2015)
Jonathan Levine (The Night Before; 2015)
Andrew Neel (Goat; 2016)
Conrad Vernon (Sausage Party; 2016)
Greg Tiernan (Sausage Party; 2016)
Ian Olds (Burn Country; 2016)
John Hamburg (Why Him; 2016)
Giancarlo Esposito (The Show; 2017)
Ridley Scott (Alien: Covenant; 2017)
Bruce Thierry Cheung (2; Don’t Come Back from the Moon; 2017, Future World; 2018)
Dan Bush (The Vault; 2017)
Jonathan and Josh Baker (Kin; 2018)
Joel and Ethan Coen (The Ballad of Buster Scruggs; 2018)
Aaron Woodley (Arctic Dogs; 2019)
Collaborations:
Sam Raimi - 4
Bruce Thierry Cheung - 2
Pamela Romanowsky - 2
Justin Kelly - 2
Seth Rogen - 2
Evan Goldberg - 2
Gus Van Sant - 2
David Gordon Green - 2
Jay Anania - 2
Justin Lin - 2
Rob Epstein - 2
Jeffrey Friedman - 2
Other notable directors:
Danny Boyle
Joel and Ethan Coen
Ridley Scott
Werner Herzog
Wim Wenders
Matt Reeves
Paul Haggis
Judd Apatow
Robert Altman
Michael Caton-Jones
Films Franco Directed:
The Ape (2005)
Good Time Max (2007)
The Broken Tower (2011)
Sal (2011)
Interior. Leather Bar (2013)
As I Lay Dying (2013)
Child of God (2013)
The Sound and the Fury (2014)
In Dubious Battle (2016)
The Institute (2017)
The Disaster Artist (2017)
Future World (2018)
The Pretenders (2018)
Zeroville (2019)
The Long Home (?)- Actor
- Writer
- Music Department
Candy was one of Canada's greatest and funniest character actors. His well-known role as the big hearted buffoon earned him classics in Uncle Buck (1989) and Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). His career has handed him some dry spells but Candy always rebounded.
Born in Newmarket, Ontario, in the year 1950, Candy was the son of Evangeline (Aker) and Sidney James Candy. His mother was of Ukrainian and Polish ancestry. Candy found his passion for drama while attending a community college. In 1971 Candy made his TV debut in an episode of Police Surgeon (1971) co-starring Sharon Farrell, John Hamelin, and Nick Mancuso. Candy then found a number of bit parts in other Canadian television shows and also in such small films as Tunnel Vision (1976) and Find the Lady (1976). However, his big success came at the age of twenty-seven, when he became part of the comedy group "Second City" in Toronto. Alongside such soon-to-be Canadian stars as Catherine O'Hara (one of Candy's lifelong friends), Eugene Levy, Rick Moranis, and Harold Ramis, Candy was also part of the television show the group inspired. SCTV (1976) earned Candy a reputation for his quirky humor and his uncanny imitations of others.
After the television series, Candy appeared alongside fellow Canadian Dan Aykroyd in the Steven Spielberg flop 1941 (1979). However, other jobs followed and Candy landed a role, once again with Aykroyd, in the successful classic The Blues Brothers (1980). Candy played a parole officer who is part of the chase after Jake and Elwood Blues. The film was a hit and Candy followed up accordingly.
Candy acted in the smash hit Stripes (1981) where he played a dopey, overweight recruit affectionately nicknamed 'Ox'. After the success of Stripes (1981), Candy returned to the Second City with the other former stars, in SCTV Network (1981). Candy also hosted "Saturday Night Live" before landing himself a role in the Ron Howard film Splash (1983), a romantic comedy about a mermaid who washes ashore and learns to live like a human. Candy played a sleazy womanizing brother to the character played by Tom Hanks. The film was a bigger success than even Stripes (1981) and a number of people have said that Splash (1983) was his breakout role.
He took a second billing in the comedic film Brewster's Millions (1985) where a man must spend thirty million in order to inherit three hundred million from his deceased relative. Candy played the man's best friend, who accidentally gets in the way as much as helping out. Candy continued making films tirelessly, including the film Armed and Dangerous (1986) where he and Eugene Levy play characters who become security guards.
1987 was an especially good year to Candy, giving him two classic roles: Barf the Mawg in the Mel Brooks comedy Spaceballs (1987) and the bumbling salesman Del Griffith alongside Steve Martin's uptight character in the John Hughes film Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987). The latter film is a golden classic and is one of Candy's greatest films. He followed up immediately with The Great Outdoors (1988), once again alongside Dan Aykroyd. Candy landed another classic role in the film Uncle Buck (1989) which was about a bumbling uncle who must look after his brother's three children.
Although he was in the smash hit Home Alone (1990), Candy's career fell into a slump, turning out unsuccessful films in the early nineties. This caused him to change his strategy by taking more serious roles. The first of these serious roles was the corrupt lawyer Dean Andrews in the 'Oliver Stone' film JFK (1991). The film was a big success, and Candy moved on from this victory to make the film Cool Runnings (1993) about the first Jamaican bobsled team.
Candy was well known for his size, six feet two and weighing around 300 pounds. However, he was very sensitive about the subject and in the nineties tried to lose weight and quit smoking. He was aware that heart attacks were in his family: both his father and his grandfather died of heart attacks and Candy wanted to prevent that happening to him as best he could.
In the mid-nineties Candy filmed the Michael Moore comedy Canadian Bacon (1995) then went to Mexico to film the western spoof Wagons East (1994). It was in Mexico that Candy had a heart attack and passed away in March 1994. Canadian Bacon (1995) was released a year after his death and is his last film.
Candy was loved by thousands of people who loved his classic antics in Splash (1983) and The Great Outdoors (1988). He was well-known for his roles in Stripes (1981) and Uncle Buck (1989) and he himself never forgot his Canadian background.Paul Bogart (Class of 44; 1973)
John Trent (2; It Seemed Like A Good Idea at the Time; 1975, Find the Lady; 1976)
Neal Israel w/ Bradley R. Swirnoff (Tunnel Vision; 1976)
Martyn Burke (The Clown Murders; 1976)
Daryl Duke (The Silent Partner; 1978)
Melvin Frank (Lost and Found; 1979)
Steven Spielberg (1941; 1979)
George Bloomfield (Deadly Companion; 1980)
John Landis (The Blues Brothers; 1980)
Gerald Potterton (Heavy Metal; 1981)
Malcolm Leo w/ Andrew Solt (It Came from Hollywood; 1982)
Harold Ramis (National Lampoon’s Vacation; 1983)
David Steinberg (Going Berserk; 1983)
Ron Howard (Splash; 1984)
Walter Hill (Brewster’s Millions; 1985)
Ken Kwapis (Sesame Street Presents: Follow That Bird; 1985)
Carl Reiner (Summer Rental; 1985)
Nicholas Meyer (Volunteers; 1985)
Mark L. Lester (Armed and Dangerous; 1986)
Frank Oz (Little Shop of Horrors; 1986)
Mel Brooks (Spaceballs; 1987)
John Hughes (3; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; 1987, She’s Having a Baby; 1988, Uncle Buck; 1989)
Howard Deutch (The Great Outdoors; 1988)
Michael Dinner (Hot to Trot; 1988)
Paul Flaherty (Who’s Harry Crumb; 1989)
Jim Drake (Speed Zone; 1989)
Daniel Raskov (Masters of Menace; 1990)
Chris Columbus (2; Home Alone; 1990, Only the Lonely; 1991)
Hendel Butoy w/ Mike Gabriel (The Rescuers Down Under; 1990)
Dan Aykroyd (Nothing but Trouble; 1991)
Bryan Gordon (Career Opportunities; 1991)
Tom Mankiewicz (Delirious; 1991)
Oliver Stone (JFK; 1991)
Eugene Levy (Once Upon a Crime; 1992)
Daniel Stern (Rookie of the Year; 1993)
Jon Turtletaub (Cool Runnings; 1993)
Peter Markle (Wagons East; 1994)
Michael Moore (Canadian Bacon; 1995)
Collaborations;
John Hughes - 3
Chris Columbus - 2
John Trent - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Frank Oz
John Landis
Michael Moore
Oliver Stone
Mel Brooks
Ron Howard
Carl Reiner
Ken Kwapis
Harold Ramis- Actor
- Writer
- Director
David Thewlis was born David Wheeler in 1963 in Blackpool, Lancashire, to Maureen (Thewlis) and Alec Raymond Wheeler, and lived with his parents above their combination wallpaper and toy shop during his childhood. Originally, he came to London with his band Door 66, however he changed his plans and entered Guildhall School of Drama.
He had minor roles in films and TV until he took the main role in Naked (1993). The film won him several awards including the New York Critics Award. He has since been in many other films including DragonHeart (1996), Restoration (1995), Black Beauty (1994) and he took the part of Professor Remus John Lupin in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004) and its sequels.
Recently, he starred in the third season of FX's Fargo (2014).
He lived with the British actress Anna Friel from 2001-2010. They have a daughter, Gracie Ellen Mary, born July 9, 2005.Mike Leigh (3; The Short and Curlies; 1987, Life is Sweet; 1990, Naked; 1993)
Christine Edzard (Little Dorrit; 1987)
Paul Greengrass (Resurrected; 1989)
Mark Peploe (Afraid of the Dark; 1991)
Louis Malle (Damage; 1992)
David Jones (The Trial; 1993)
Caroline Thompson (Black Beauty; 1994)
Agnieszka Holland (Total Eclipse; 1995)
Michael Hoffman (Restoration; 1995)
Henry Selick (James and the Giant Peach; 1996)
Rob Cohen (DragonHeart; 1996)
John Frankenheimer (The Island of Dr. Moreau; 1996)
Paul Chart (American Perfekt; 1997)
Jean-Jacques Annaud (Seven Years in Tibet; 1997)
Joel and Ethan Coen (The Big Lebowski; 1998)
David Caffrey (Divorcing Jack; 1998)
Bernardo Bertolucci (Besieged; 1998)
Peter Hewitt (Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?; 1999)
Derek W. Hayes w/ Stanislav Sokolov (The Miracle Maker; 2000)
Paul McGuigan (Gangster No. 1; 2000)
Nick Love (Goodbye Charlie Bright; 2001)
Richard Donner (Timeline; 2003)
Alfonso Cuaron (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; 2004)
Ridley Scott (Kingdom of Heaven; 2005)
Terrence Malick (The New World; 2005)
Michael Caton-Jones (Basic Instinct 2; 2006)
John Moore (The Omen; 2006)
Paul Auster (The Inner Life of Martin Frost; 2007)
David Yates (4; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; 2007, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; 2009, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows Part 1 and Part 2; (2011,2012)
Mark Herman (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas; 2008)
Emily Young (Veronika Decides to Die; 2009)
Bernard Rose (Mr. Nice; 2010)
William Monahan (London Boulevard; 2010)
Luc Besson (The Lady; 2011)
Roland Emmerich (Anonymous; 2011)
Steven Spielberg (War Horse; 2011)
Bonnie Wright (Separate We Come, Separate We Go; 2012)
Dean Parisot (Red 2; 2013)
Bill Condon (The Fifth Estate; 2013)
Terry Gilliam (The Zero Theorem; 2013)
James Marsh (2; The Theory of Everything; 2014, The Mercy; 2017)
Brad Anderson (Stonehearst Asylum; 2014)
John Boorman (Queen and Country; 2014)
Alejandro Amenabar (Regression; 2015)
Brian Helgeland (Legend; 2015)
Justin Kurzel (Macbeth; 2015)
Charlie Kaufman w/ Duke Johnson (Anomalisa; 2015)
Patty Jenkins (Wonder Woman; 2017)
Zack Snyder (Justice League; 2017)
Billie Piper (Rare Beasts; 2019)
Atom Egoyan (Guest of Honour; 2019)
Craig Roberts (Eternal Beauty; 2019)
Charlie Kaufman (I’m Thinking of Ending Things; 2020)
Harry Bradbeer (Enola Holmes 2; 2022)
Toby Genkel (The Amazing Maurice; 2022)
Florian Westerman (The Amazing Maurice; 2022)
James Cameron (Avatar 3; 2024)
Collaborations:
David Yates - 4
Mike Leigh - 3
James Marsh - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
James Cameron
Patty Jenkins
Zack Snyder
Terry Gilliam
Bill Condon
Paul Greengrass
Roland Emmerich
Ridley Scott
Joel and Ethan Coen
Richard Donner
Alfonso Cuaron
Terrence Malick
Jean-Jacques Annaud
Rob Cohen
John Frankenheimer- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Danny DeVito has amassed a formidable and versatile body of work as an actor, producer and director that spans the stage, television and film.
Daniel Michael DeVito Jr. was born on November 17, 1944, in Neptune, New Jersey, to Italian-American parents. His mother, Julia (Moccello), was a homemaker. His father, Daniel, Sr., was a small business owner whose ventures included a dry cleaning shop, a dairy outlet, a diner, and a pool hall.
While growing up in Asbury Park, his parents sent him to private schools. He attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel grammar school and Oratory Prep School. Following graduation in 1962, he took a job as a cosmetician at his sister's beauty salon. A year later, he enrolled at New York's American Academy of Dramatic Arts so he could learn more about cosmetology. While at the academy, he fell in love with acting and decided to further pursue an acting career. During this time, he met another aspiring actor Michael Douglas at the National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Connecticut. The two would later go on to collaborate on numerous projects. Soon after he also met an actress named Rhea Perlman. The two fell in love and moved in together. They were married in 1982 and had three children together.
In 1968, Danny landed his first part in a movie when he appeared as a thug in the obscure Dreams of Glass (1970). Despite this minor triumph, Danny became discouraged with the film industry and decided to focus on stage productions. He made his Off-Broadway debut in 1969 in "The Man With the Flower in His Mouth." He followed this up with stage roles in "The Shrinking Bride," and "Lady Liberty." In 1975, he was approached by director Milos Forman and Michael Douglas about appearing in the film version of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), which would star Jack Nicholson in the leading role. With box office success almost guaranteed and a chance for national exposure, Danny agreed to the role. The movie became a huge hit, both critically and financially, and still ranks today as one the greatest movies of all time. Unfortunately, the movie did very little to help Danny's career. In the years following, he was relegated to small movie roles and guest appearances on television shows. His big break came in 1978 when he auditioned for a role on an ABC sitcom pilot called Taxi (1978), which centered around taxi cab drivers at a New York City garage. Danny auditioned for the role of dispatcher Louie DePalma. At the audition, the producers told Danny that he needed to show more attitude in order to get the part. He then slammed down the script and yelled, "Who wrote this sh**?" The producers, realizing he was perfect for the part, brought him on board. The show was a huge success, running from 1978 to 1983.
Louie DePalma, played flawlessly by Danny, became one of the most memorable (and reviled) characters in television history. While he was universally hated by TV viewers, he was well-praised by critics, winning an Emmy award and being nominated three other times. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Danny maintained his status as a great character actor with memorable roles in movies like Romancing the Stone (1984), Ruthless People (1986), Throw Momma from the Train (1987) and Twins (1988). He also had a great deal of success behind the camera, directing movies like The War of the Roses (1989) and Hoffa (1992). In 1992, Danny was introduced to a new generation of moviegoers when he was given the role of The Penguin/Oswald Cobblepot in Tim Burton's highly successful Batman Returns (1992). This earned him a nomination for Best Villain at the MTV Movie Awards. That same year, along with his wife Rhea Perlman, Danny co-founded Jersey Films, which has produced many popular films and TV shows, including Pulp Fiction (1994), Get Shorty (1995), Man on the Moon (1999) and Erin Brockovich (2000). DeVito has many directing credits to his name as well, including Throw Momma from the Train (1987), The War of the Roses (1989), Hoffa (1992), Death to Smoochy (2002) and the upcoming St. Sebastian.
In 2006, he returned to series television in the FX comedy series It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005). With a prominent role in a hit series, Devito's comic talents were now on display for a new generation of television viewers. In 2012, he provided the title voice role in Dr. Seuss' The Lorax (2012).
These days, he continues to work with many of today's top talents as an actor, director and producer.Robert Clouse (Dreams of Glass; (1970)
Mario Monicelli (Lady Liberty; 1971)
Martin Brest (Hot Dogs for Gauguin; 1972)
Joseph Jacoby (Hurry Up, or I’ll Be 30; 1973)
Kirk Douglas (Scalawag; 1973)
Milos Forman (2; One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest; 1975, Man on the Moon; 1999)
Ivan Nagy (Deadly Hero; 1975)
Michael Schultz (Car Wash; 1976)
Sam Grossman (The Van; 1977)
Gene Wilder (The World’s Greatest Lover; 1977)
Jack Nicholson (Goin’ South; 1978)
Brice Mack (Swap Meet; 1979)
Jeremy Joe Kronsberg (Going Ape; 1981)
James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment; 1983)
Robert Zemeckis (Romancing the Stone; 1984)
Amy Heckerling (Johnny Dangerously; 1984)
Lewis Teague (The Jewel of the Nile; 1985)
Ken Finkleman (Head Office; 1985)
Brian de Palma (Wise Guys; 1986)
Jim Abrahams w/ David & Jerry Zucker (Ruthless People; 1986)
Michael Joens (My Little Pony: The Movie; 1986)
Barry Levinson (2; Tin Men; 1987, The Survivor; 2021)
Ivan Reitman (2; Twins; 1988, Junior; 1994)
Norman Jewison (Other People’s Money; 1991)
Tim Burton (3; Batman Returns; 1992, Big Fish; 2003, Dumbo; 2019)
Marshall Herskovitz (Jack the Bear; 1993)
John McTiernan (Last Action Hero; 1993)
Tom Ropelewski (Look Who’s Talking Now; 1993)
Penny Marshall (Renaissance Man; 1994)
Barry Sonnenfeld (2; Get Shorty; 1995, Men in Black; 1997)
Joe Pytka (Space Jam; 1996)
Francis Ford Coppola (The Rainmaker; 1997)
Ron Clements w/ John Musker (Hercules; 1997)
Curtis Hanson (LA Confidential; 1997)
Richard LaGravenese (Living Out Loud; 1998)
John Swanback (The Big Kahuna; 1999)
Sofia Coppola (The Virgin Suicides; 2000)
Scott Alexander w/ Larry Karaszewski (Screwed; 2000)
David Mamet (Heist; 2001)
Sam Weisman (What’s the Worst That Could Happen; 2001)
Jay Roach (Austin Powers in Goldmember; 2002)
Woody Allen (Anything Else; 2003)
Neri Parenti (Christmas in Love; 2004)
F. Gary Gray (Be Cool; 2005)
Randall Miller (2; Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School; 2005, Nobel Son; 2007)
Greg Glienna (Relative Strangers; 2006)
Mark Rydell (Even Money; 2006)
Brad Silberling (10 Items or Less; 2006)
Billy Kent (The Oh in Ohio; 2006)
John Whitesell (Deck the Halls; 2006)
Jake Paltrow (The Good Night; 2007)
Robert Ben Garant (Reno 911: Miami; 2007)
Hart Bochner (Just Add Water; 2008)
Sam Harper (House Broken; 2009)
Brian Koppelman w/ David Levien (Solitary Man; 2009)
Mark Steven Johnson (When in Rome; 2010)
Casey Affleck (I’m Still Here; 2010)
Sebastian Gutiérrez (2; Girl Walks into a Bar; 2011, Hotel Noir; 2012)
Chris Paine (Revenge of the Electric Car; 2011)
Chris Renaud (The Lorax; 2012)
Michael Johnson (All the Wilderness; 2014)
Todd Solondz (Weiner-Dog; 2016)
Taylor Hackford (The Comedian; 2016)
Scott Christian Sava w/ Tony Bancroft (Animal Crackers; 2017)
Karey Kirkpatrick (Smallfoot; 2018)
Jake Kasdan (Jumanji: The Next Level; 2019)
Thea Sharrock (The One and Only Ivan; 2020)
Justin Simian (Haunted Mansion; 2023)
Collaborations:
Tim Burton (3)
Sebastian Gutierrez (2)
Randall Miller (2)
Barry Sonnenfeld (2)
Barry Levinson (2)
Ivan Reitman (2)
Milos Forman (2)
Other notable directors:
Woody Allen
Taylor Hackford
Jake Kasdan
F. Gary Gray
Curtis Hanson
Francis Ford Coppola
Penny Marshall
John McTiernan
Brian de Palma
Robert Zemeckis
James L. Brooks
Ron Clements
John Musker
Martin Brest
Films DeVito Directed:
Throw Momma from the Train
The War of the Roses
Hoffa
Matilda
Death to Smoochy
Duplex- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Actor Jeff Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, but was raised in Chelsea, Michigan. He is the son of Marjorie J. (Ferguson) and Robert Lee Daniels, who owned The Chelsea Lumber Company and was also mayor of Chelsea. Jeff attended Central Michigan University, but became involved in acting and dropped out to pursue a career as an actor. Daniels made his feature film debut in Milos Forman's Ragtime (1981).
Daniels went on to prove himself to be one of Hollywood's most reliable and versatile actors with roles in successes such as Terms of Endearment (1983), The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985), Something Wild (1986), Arachnophobia (1990), Dumb and Dumber (1994), Pleasantville (1998), The Hours (2002) and Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005), to name a few.
Alongside screen work, Daniels has many stage credits to his name and is the founder of The Purple Rose Theater Company in Chelsea, Michigan. He is also a musician and songwriter and has recorded two albums. Daniels is married to his childhood sweetheart, Kathleen Treado and they have three children.Milos Forman (Ragtime; 1981)
James L. Brooks (Terms of Endearment; 1983)
Woody Allen (2; The Purple Rose of Cairo; 1985, Radio Days; 1987)
Roger Donaldson (Marie; 1985)
Jonathan Demme (Something Wild; 1986)
Mike Nichols (Heartburn; 1986)
Peter Yates (The House on Carroll Street; 1988)
Robert Greenwald (Sweet Hearts Dance; 1988)
David Leland (Checking Out; 1989)
Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia; 1990)
Jim Abrahams (Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael; 1990)
Bud Yorkin (Love Hurts; 1991)
Terry Hughes (The Butcher’s Wife; 1991)
David Twohy (Timescrape; 1992)
Bill Phillips (There Goes the Neighborhood; 1992)
Gary O. Bennett (Rain Without Thunder; 1993)
Ronald F. Maxwell (2; Gettysburg; 1993, Gods and Generals; 2003)
Jan de Bont (Speed; 1994)
Peter Farrelly (2; Dumb and Dumber; 1994, Dumb and Dumber To; 2014)
John Korty (Redwood Curtain; 1995)
Carroll Ballard (Fly Away Home; 1996)
John Herzfeld (2 Days in The Valley; 1996)
Stephen Herek (101 Dalmatians; 1996)
Jonathan Lynn (Trial and Error; 1997)
Gary Ross (Pleasantville; 1998)
Donald Petrie (My Favorite Martian; 1999)
James D. Stern (It’s the Rage; 1999)
Michael Walker (Chasing Sleep; 2000)
John Stockwell (Cheaters; 2000)
Clint Eastwood (Blood Work; 2002)
Stephen Daldry (The Hours; 2002)
Rowdy Herrington (I Witness; 2003)
Dan Harris (Imaginary Heroes; 2004)
Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale; 2005)
Wayne Wang (Because of Winn-Dixie; 2005)
George Clooney (Good Night and Good Luck; 2005)
Barry Sonnenfeld (RV; 2006)
Douglas McGrath (Infamous; 2006)
Scott Frank (The Lookout; 2007)
Tim Hamilton (Mama’s Boy; 2007)
Caroline Zelder (A Plumm Summer; 2007)
Kirk DeMicco (Space Chimps; 2008)
Jeffrey Nachmanoff (Traitor; 2008)
Kevin Macdonald (State of Play; 2009)
John Hindman (The Answer Man; 2009)
Sam Mendes (Away We Go; 2009)
Kieran & Michele Mulroney (Paper Man; 2010)
Rob Epstein w/ Jeffrey Friedman (Howl; 2010)
Rian Johnson (Looper; 2012)
Michael Uppendahl (Quad; 2013)
Bobby Farrelly (Dumb and Dumber To; (2014)
Danny Boyle (Steve Jobs; 2015)
Ridley Scott (The Martian; 2016)
Robert Schwentke (The Divergent Series: Allegiant; 2016)
Ben Lewin (The Catcher Was a Spy; 2018)
Timothy Busfield (Guest Artist; 2019)
Michael Uppendahl (Adam; 2020)
Collaborations:
Woody Allen (2)
Peter Farrelly (2)
Ronald F. Maxwell (2)
Other notable directors:
Ridley Scott
Rian Johnson
Bobby Farrelly
Sam Mendes
Noah Baumbach
Clint Eastwood
Stephen Daldry
Milos Forman
James L. Brooks
George Clooney
Jonathan Demme
Frank Marshall
Mike Nichols
Jim Abrahams- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Julia Fiona Roberts never dreamed she would become the most popular actress in America. She was born in Smyrna, Georgia, to Betty Lou (Bredemus) and Walter Grady Roberts, one-time actors and playwrights, and is of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, German, and Swedish descent. As a child, due to her love of animals, Julia originally wanted to be a veterinarian, but later studied journalism. When her brother, Eric Roberts, achieved some success in Hollywood, Julia decided to try acting. Her first break came in 1988 when she appeared in two youth-oriented movies Mystic Pizza (1988) and Satisfaction (1988). The movies introduced her to a new audience who instantly fell in love with this pretty woman. Julia's biggest success was in the signature movie Pretty Woman (1990), for which Julia got an Oscar nomination, and also won the People's Choice award for Favorite Actress. Even though Julia would spend the next few years either starring in serious movies, or playing fantasy roles like Tinkerbell, the movie audiences would always love Julia best in romantic comedies. With My Best Friend's Wedding (1997) Julia gave the genre fresh life that had been lacking in Hollywood for some time. Offscreen, after a brief marriage, Julia has been romantically linked with several actors, and married cinematographer Daniel Moder in 2002; the couple has three children together.
Julia has also become involved with UNICEF charities and has made visits to many different countries, including Haiti and India, in order to promote goodwill. Julia Robert remains one of the most popular and sought-after talents in Hollywood.J. Christian Ingvordsen (Firehouse; 1987)
Joan Freeman (Satisfaction; 1988)
Donald Petrie (Mystic Pizza; 1988)
Peter Masterson (Blood Red; 1989)
Herbert Ross (Steel Magnolias; 1989)
Joel Schumacher (2; Flatliners; 1990, Dying Young; 1991)
Joseph Ruben (Sleeping with the Enemy; 1991)
Steven Spielberg (Hook; 1991)
Robert Altman (2; The Player; 1992, Pret-a-Porter; 1994)
Alan J. Pakula (The Pelican Brief; 1993)
Charles Shyer (I Lovd Trouble; 1994)
Lasse Hallstrom (Something to Talk About; 1995)
Stephen Frears (Mary Reilly; 1996)
Neil Jordan (Michael Collins; 1996)
P.J. Hogan (My Best Friends Wedding; 1997)
Richard Donner (Conspiracy Theory; 1997)
Chris Columbus (Stepmom; 1998)
Roger Michell (Notting Hill; 1999)
Garry Marshall (3; Runaway Bride; 1999, Valentines Day; 2010, Mother’s Day; 2016)
Steven Soderbergh (3; Erin Brockovich; 2000, Ocean’s Eleven; 2001, Ocean’s Twelve; 2004)
Gore Verbinski (The Mexican; 2001)
Joe Roth (America’s Sweetheart; 2001)
Barry Tubb (Grand Champion; 2002)
Mike Newell (Mona Lisa Smile; 2003)
Mike Nichols (2; Closer; 2004, Charlie Wilson’s War; 2007)
John A. Davis (The Ant Bully; 2006)
Gary Winick (Charlottes Web; 2006)
Dennis Lee (Fireflies in the Garden; 2008)
Tony Gilroy (Duplicity; 2009)
Dermot Mulroney (Love, Wedding, Marriage; 2011)
Tom Hanks (Larry Crowne; 2011)
Tarsem Singh (Mirror, Mirror; 2012)
John Wells (August: Osage County; 2013)
Billy Ray (Secret in Their Eyes; 2015)
Jodie Foster (Money Monster; 2016)
Kelly Asbury (Smurfs: The Lost Village; 2017)
Stephen Chbosky (Wonder; 2017)
Peter Hedges (Ben is Back; 2018)
Ol Parker (Ticket to Paradise; 2022)
Sam Esmail (Leave the World Behind; 2023)
Collaborations:
Steven Soderbergh - 3
Garry Marshall - 3
Mike Nichols - 2
Joel Schumacher - 2
Robert Altman - 2
Other notable directors:
Tom Hanks
Stephen Chbosky
Tony Gilroy
Mike Newell
Steven Spielberg
Gore Verbinski
Stephen Frears
Herbert Ross
Alan J. Pakula
Chris Columbus
Lasse Hallstrom
Richard Donner
Donald Petrie- Actor
- Producer
- Music Department
Humanitarian and actor Richard Gere was born on August 31, 1949, in Philadelphia, the second of five children of Doris Anna (Tiffany), a homemaker, and Homer George Gere, an insurance salesman, both Mayflower descendants. Richard started early as a musician, playing a number of instruments in high school and writing music for high school productions. He graduated from North Syracuse Central High School in 1967, and won a gymnastics scholarship to the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, where he majored in philosophy. He left college after two years to pursue acting, landing a lead role in the London production of the rock musical "Grease" in 1973. The following year he would be in other plays, such as "Taming of the Shrew." Onscreen, he had a few roles, and gained recognition in Looking for Mr. Goodbar (1977). Offscreen, he spent 1978 meeting Tibetans when he traveled to Nepal, where he spoke to many monks and lamas. Returning to the US, on Broadway he portrayed a concentration-camp prisoner in "Bent," for which he received the 1980 Theatre World Award. Back in Hollywood, he played the title role in American Gigolo (1980), establishing himself as a major star; this status was reaffirmed by An Officer and a Gentleman (1982). In the early 1980s, Richard went to Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador (amidst ongoing wars and political violence); he traveled with a doctor and visited refugee camps. It is said that Richard was romantically linked with Tuesday Weld, Priscilla Presley, Barbra Streisand and Kim Basinger. In 1990 Richard teamed up with Julia Roberts to star in the blockbuster Pretty Woman (1990); his cool reserve was the perfect complement to Julia's bubbling enthusiasm. The film captured the nation's heart, and won the People's Choice award for Best Movie. Fans clamored for years for a sequel, or at least another pairing of Julia and Richard. They got that with Runaway Bride (1999), which was a runaway success (Richard got $12 million, Julia made $17 million, the box office was $152 million, which shows what happens when you give the public what it wants!). Offscreen, Richard and Cindy Crawford got married December 12, 1991 (they were divorced in 1995). Afterwards, Richard started dating actress Carey Lowell. They had a son, Homer James Jigme Gere, on February 6, 2000. Richard was picked by People magazine as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world in 1991, and as their Sexiest Man Alive in 1999. He is an accomplished pianist and music writer. Above all, Richard is a humanitarian. He's a founding member of "Tibet House," a nonprofit organization dedicated to the preservation of Tibetan culture. He has been an active supporter of "Survival International" for several years, a worldwide organization supporting tribal peoples, affirming their right to decide their own future and helping them protect their lives, lands and human rights (these tribes are global, including the natives of the Amazon, the Maasai of East Africa, the Wichi of Argentina, and others). In 1994 Richard went to London to open Harrods' sale, donating his £50,000 appearance fee to Survival. He has been prominent in their charity advertising campaigns.Milton Katselus (Report to the Commissioner; 1975)
John D. Hancock (Baby Blue Marine; 1976)
Richard Brooks (Looking for Mr. Goodbar; 1977)
Robert Mulligan (Bloodbrothers; 1978)
Terrence Malick (Days of Heaven; 1978)
John Schlesinger (Yanks; 1979)
Paul Schrader (American Gigolo; 1980)
Taylor Hackford (An Officer and a Gentleman; 1982)
John Mackenzie (The Honorary Consul; 1983)
Jim McBride (Breathless; 1983)
Francis Ford Coppola (The Cotton Club; 1984)
Bruce Beresford (King David; 1985)
Richard Pearce (No Mercy; 1986)
Sidney Lumet (Power; 1986)
Gary Sinise (Miles from Home; 1988)
Mike Figgis (2; Internal Affairs; 1990, Mr. Jones; 1993)
Garry Marshall (2; Pretty Woman; 1990, Runaway Bride; 1999)
Akira Kurosawa (Rhapsody in August; 1991)
Phil Joanau (Final Analysis; 1992)
Jon Amiel (Sommersby; 1993)
Mark Rydell (Intersection; 1994)
Jerry Zucker (First Knight; 1995)
Gregory Hoblit (Primal Fear; 1996)
Michael Caton-Jones (The Jackal; 1997)
Jon Avnet (2; Red Corner; 1997, Three Christs; 2017)
Robert Altman (Dr. T & the Women; 2000)
Joan Chen (Autumn in New York; 2000)
Mark Pellington (The Mothman Prophecies; 2001)
Adrian Lyne (Unfaithful; 2002)
Rob Marshall (Chicago; 2002)
Peter Chelsom (Shall We Dance; 2004)
Scott McGehee w/ David Siegel (Bee Season; 2005)
Lasse Hallstrom (2; The Hoax; 2006, Hachi: A Dog’s Tale; 2009)
Richard Shepard (The Hunting Party; 2007)
Todd Haynes (I’m Not There; 2007)
Andrew Lau (The Flock; 2007)
George C. Wolfe (Nights in Rodanthe; 2008)
Mira Nair (Amelia; 2009)
Antoine Fuqua (Brooklyn’s Finest; 2009)
Michael Brandt (The Double; 2011)
Nicholas Jarecki (Arbitrage; 2012)
Barrett Esposito (Henry & Me; 2014)
Oren Moverman (2; Time Out of Mind; 2014, The Dinner; 2017)
John Madden (The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel; 2015)
Andrew Renzi (The Benefactor; 2015)
Joseph Cedar (Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer; 2016)
Collaborations:
Garry Marshall - 2
Oren Moverman - 2
Lasse Hallstrom - 2
Jon Avnet - 2
Mike Figgis - 2
Other notable directors:
Antoine Fuqua
Robert Altman
Terrence Malick
John Madden
Michael Caton-Jones
Taylor Hackford
Francis Ford Coppola
Bruce Beresford- Actress
- Producer
- Executive
Julianna Margulies was born on June 8, 1966 in Spring Valley (near New York City), as the youngest of three daughters of Francesca (Goldberg), a teacher and dancer in American Ballet, and Paul Margulies, an advertising writer and philosopher. She is of Ashkenazi Jewish heritage (from Romania, Austria, Hungary, and Russia). Until beginning high school in New Hampshire at age 14, she lived several years with her family in Paris and in England. She obtained a B.A. degree in liberal arts from Sarah Lawrence College, where she appeared in several plays on campus. She jobbed as a waitress until her first role as a prostitute looking to go straight in Out for Justice (1991). It took more than a year to find another role; during that time, she managed to support herself from several regional theater productions and national TV ads. Until she became a regular in ER (1994), she guest starred in several television series and a pilot. Since then, she has starred in several films, including Ghost Ship (2002), Evelyn (2002), and Snakes on a Plane (2006), and headlines the CBS drama The Good Wife (2009), for which she has won both an Emmy and a Golden Globe.John Flynn (Out of Justice; 1991)
Jack N. Green (Traveller; 1997)
Bruce Beresford (2; Paradise Road; 1997, Evelyn; 2002)
Richard Linklater (The Newton Boys; 1998)
Boaz Yakin (A Price Above Rubies; 1998)
Gurinder Chadka (What’s Cooking; 2000)
Ralph Zondag w/ Eric Leighton (Dinosaur; 2000)
George Hickenlooper (The Man from Elysian Field; 2001)
Steve Beck (Ghost Ship; 2002)
Jay Alaimo (Slingshot; 2005)
Finn Taylor (The Darwin Awards; 2006)
Andrew Goldberg (The Armenian Genocide; 2006)
David R. Ellis (Snakes on a Plane; 2006)
Chad Lowe (Beautiful Ohio; 2006)
Raymond De Felitta (City Island; 2009)
Fisher Stevens (Stand Up Guys; 2012)
Neil Burger (The Upside; 2019)
Jon Avnet (Three Christs; 2020)
Collaborations:
Bruce Beresford - 2
Other notable directors:
Richard Linklater
Steve Beck
Boaz Yakin
David R. Ellis
Jon Avnet- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Walton Goggins is an actor of considerable versatility and acclaim who has delivered provocative performances in a multitude of feature films and television series. He won a Critics' Choice Award for his performance in the HBO comedy series "Vice Principals" and landed an Emmy nomination for his role of 'Boyd Crowder' on FX's "Justified," among numerous accolades.
Goggins is the producer/star of the hit new CBS single-camera comedy "The Unicorn," which debuted as TV's #1 New Show and has been picked up for a full season. The series is about a tight-knit group of best friends and family who help 'Wade' (Goggins) embrace his "new normal" in the wake of the loss of his wife one year ago. As a sometimes ill-equipped but always devoted single parent to his two adolescent daughters, he is taking the major step of dating again. To Wade's amazement, he's a hot commodity with women, and his friends explain that he's the perfect single guy - a "unicorn": employed, attractive, and with a proven track record of commitment.
He has also re-teamed with his former "Vice Principals" co-star Danny McBride on HBO's comedy series "The Righteous Gemstones," which has been renewed for a second season. Written, directed and EP'ed by McBride, it tells the story of a world-famous televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work. Goggins plays 'Baby Billy,' a former child star who clogged and sang for Jesus. As an aging man, he's fallen on hard times and comes to the Gemstones for salvation.
On the feature front, Goggins plays the role of 'Christ' in THREE CHRISTS, which IFC Films will release in theaters, VOD and Digital on January 10, 2020. The story follows a doctor (Richard Gere) who is treating paranoid schizophrenic patients at the Ypsilanti State Hospital in Michigan, each of whom believe they are Jesus Christ. The film made its World Premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Goggins recently starred opposite Oscar winner Olivia Colman in the Appalachian thriller THEM THAT FOLLOW, which made its World Premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released in August 2019. The film followed members of an isolated community of Pentecostal snake handlers led by 'Pastor Lemuel' (Goggins). In the can is the indie feature WORDS ON BATHROOM WALLS.
In 2018, Goggins appeared in three major studio features: He starred opposite Alicia Vikander in Warner Bros./MGM's TOMB RAIDER reboot, in the role of villain 'Mathias Vogel.' The film opened as the #1 film globally. In its review, Variety proclaimed, "Goggins, a magnetic actor who projects the lean, hungry anger of vintage-period Jack Nicholson, never hits you over the head with evil; he lets Vogel's sleazy cruelty seep through his pores."
In Disney/Marvel's ANT-MAN AND THE WASP, the sequel to the superhero feature starring Paul Rudd, Goggins played 'Sonny Burch,' a character deep in the Marvel mythos. Additionally, he appeared in Twentieth Century Fox's MAZERUNNER: THE DEATH CURE, the third installment of the highly successful franchise that also opened at #1.
In recent years, Goggins has had pivotal roles in films by two of Hollywood's most important auteurs: Quentin Tarantino and Steven Spielberg. His integral role as 'Chris Mannix,' a southern renegade who claims to be the new sheriff of Red Rock in Tarantino's THE HATEFUL EIGHT, marked his second collaboration with the Academy Award-winning writer/director. He previously played slave fight trainer 'Billy Crash' in Tarantino's 2012 DJANGO UNCHAINED. That same year, Goggins also appeared in Steven Spielberg's LINCOLN, where he portrayed Congressman 'Wells A. Hutchins.'
For television, Goggins headlined and executive-produced season two of the contemporary espionage thriller "Deep State." He starred as 'Nathan Miller,' a former CIA operative who now works in the private sector as a fixer for the deep state and is at the heart of the new season. The series aired in the U.S. on EPIX, and Fox Networks Group Europe & Africa aired it globally in 50 markets in the summer of 2019.
Goggins won a Critics Choice Award for his role opposite Danny McBride in the HBO series "Vice Principals," which aired for two seasons. Created by McBride and Jody Hill, who also created "Eastbound & Down," "Vice Principals" is a dark comedy about a high school and the two people who almost run it, the vice principals (McBride and Goggins).
He starred in the first season of HISTORY's "Six," a military action drama from A+E Studios and The Weinstein Co that was the top new cable series of 2017 in total viewers. Inspired by current events, it followed an elite team of Navy SEALs whose mission to eliminate a Taliban leader in Afghanistan went awry when they uncovered a U.S. citizen working with the terrorists. Goggins played 'Rip Taggart,' the one-time leader of the SEAL team SIX squad.
For over a decade, Goggins has been one of the most magnetic and intense actors on television. He received an Emmy® nomination and four Critics Choice Award nominations for his mesmerizing portrayal of 'Boyd Crowder' on FX's Peabody Award-winning Drama series "Justified," which ran for six seasons. Goggins' 'Boyd' was the long-time friend, yet ultimate nemesis to U.S. Marshal 'Raylan Givens' (Timothy Olyphant). Elmore Leonard, EP and writer of the short story "Fire in the Hole" on which the show is based, says of 'Boyd,' "There has never been a more poetic bad guy on television in the way that he sees the world."
Goggins' critical turn as the complex transgender prostitute 'Venus Van Dam' on the FX drama series "Sons of Anarchy" earned him two Critics Choice Award nominations and helped shed a fresh light on the transgender community.
For seven years Walton garnered much acclaim for his complex and edgy portrayal of 'Detective Shane Vendrell' on FX's gritty, award-winning drama series "The Shield." He was nominated for a Television Critics Association (TCA) Award in the category of "Individual Achievement in Drama."
He has also taken his turn behind the camera. Goggins' collaborations with his partners at Ginny Mule Pictures include winning an Academy Award® for their 2001 short film, THE ACCOUNTANT, which he produced and starred in. The team produced, directed and starred in their first feature, CHRYSTAL, starring Billy Bob Thornton, which was accepted into the 2005 Sundance Film Festival's Dramatic Competition. For their third collaboration, Goggins produced and starred in the feature RANDY AND THE MOB, which won the Audience Award for Best Feature at the 2007 Nashville Film Festival.
Goggins and his Ginny Mule partners completed their fourth feature, THAT EVENING SUN, starring Hal Holbrook and Goggins. The film made its world premiere at the South By Southwest (SXSW) Film Festival in Austin, TX in 2009, where it won the Narrative Feature Audience Award and received the Special Jury Award for "Best Ensemble Cast." It went on to win awards at over 14 film festivals, culminating with the honor of the "Wyatt Award" from the Southeastern Film Critics Association (SEFCA) and two Independent Spirit Award nominations.
Goggins is co-owner of Mulholland Distilling, a portfolio of premium spirits reflecting the vibrant, rich culture of Los Angeles and one of the first spirits companies from the city of Los Angeles since prohibition. Its namesake William Mulholland was the visionary who expanded the boundaries and possibilities of L.A. by bringing water to the desert town. Now, Mulholland Distilling is bringing a different kind of water to the city, the water of life. American Whiskey. Vodka. Gin. "The Spirit of Los Angeles." With a mission to create artisanal spirits inspired by the diversity and verve of Los Angeles, the brand has worked with top distillers, blenders and mixologists across the nation to bring only the best to the City of Angels (www.mulhollanddistilling.com).
Goggins enjoys traveling the world and has spent time in Namibia, Mozambique, South Africa, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Central America, Morocco and India. He is an avid photographer and has captured many of his journeys on film.Billy Crystal (Mr. Saturday Night; 1992)
Steve Miner (Forever Young; 1992)
Christopher Cain (The Next Karate Kid; 1994)
Robert Duvall (The Apostle; 1997)
Jeb Stuart (Switchback; 1997)
John Warren (Major League: Back to the Minors; 1998)
Bharat Nalluri (The Crow: Salvation; 2000)
Tag Purvis (Red Dirt; 2000)
Tom Dey (Shanghai Noon; 2000)
Marcus Cole (Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder; 2000)
Billy Bob Thornton (Daddy and Them; 2001)
John Dahl (Joy Ride; 2001)
Ray McKinnon (3; The Accountant; 2001, Chrystal (2005, Randy and the Mob; 2007)
Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity; 2002)
Rob Zombie (House of 1000 Corpses; 2003)
Mark Whiting (Apple Jack; 2003)
Roger Donaldson (The Worlds Fastest Indian; 2005)
Matt Tauber (The Architect; 2006)
Rowan Woods (Winged Creatures; 2008)
Spike Lee (Miracle at St. Anna; 2008)
Scott Teems (That Evening Sun; 2009)
Jeff F. King (Damage; 2009)
Nimrod Antal (Predators; 2010)
Jon Favreau (Cowboys & Aliens; 2011)
Rod Lurie (Straw Dogs; 2011)
Steven Spielberg (Lincoln; 2012)
Quentin Tarantino (3; Django Unchained; 2012, The Hateful Eight; 2015, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; 2019)
Brian A. Miller (Officer Down; 2013)
Jon M. Chu (G.I. Joe: Retaliation; 2013)
Robert Rodriguez (Machete Kills; 2013)
William Monahan (Mojave; 2015)
Nima Noirizadeh (American Ultra; 2015)
Lawrence Roeck (Diablo; 2015)
Jon Avnet (Three Christs; 2017)
Wes Ball (The Maze Runner: The Death Cure; 2018)
Roar Uthaug (Tomb Raider; 2018)
Peyton Reed (Ant-Man and the Wasp; 2018)
Britt Poulton w/ Dan Madison Savage (Them That Follow; 2019)
Thor Freudenthal (Words on Bathroom Walls; 2020)
Eshom Nelms (Fatman; 2021)
Ian Nelms (Fatman; 2021)
Elaine Bogan (Spirit Untamed; 2021)
Collaborations:
Ray McKinnon - 3
Quentin Tarantino - 3
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Peyton Reed
Jon Avnet
Robert Rodriguez
Doug Liman
Spike Lee
Jon Favreau
Jon M. Chu
Rob Zombie
Roger Donaldson- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
The towering presence of Canadian actor Donald Sutherland is often noticed, as are his legendary contributions to cinema. He has appeared in almost 200 different shows and films. He is also the father of renowned actor Kiefer Sutherland, among others.
Donald McNichol Sutherland was born in Saint John, New Brunswick, to Dorothy Isobel (McNichol) and Frederick McLea Sutherland, who worked in sales and electricity. He has Scottish, as well as German and English, ancestry. Sutherland worked several different jobs - he was a radio DJ in his youth - and was almost set on becoming an engineer after graduating from the University of Toronto with a degree in engineering. However, he also graduated with a degree in drama, and he chose to abandon becoming an engineer in favour of an actor.
Sutherland's first roles were bit parts and consisted of such films as the horror film Dr. Terror's House of Horrors (1965) which starred Christopher Lee. He was also appearing in episodes of TV shows such as "The Saint" and "Court Martial". Sutherland's break would come soon, though, and it would come in the form of a war film in which he was barely cast.
The reason he was barely cast was because he had been a last-minute replacement for an actor that had dropped out of the film. The role he played was that of the dopey but loyal Vernon Pinkley in the war film The Dirty Dozen (1967). The film also starred Lee Marvin, Charles Bronson, and Telly Savalas. The picture was an instant success as an action/war film, and Sutherland played upon this success by taking another role in a war film: this was, however, a comedy called M*A*S*H (1970) which landed Sutherland the starring role alongside Elliott Gould and Tom Skerritt. This is now considered a classic among film goers, and the 35-year old actor was only getting warmed up.
Sutherland took a number of other roles in between these two films, such as the theatrical adaptation Oedipus the King (1968), the musical Joanna (1968) and the Clint Eastwood-helmed war comedy Kelly's Heroes (1970). It was Kelly's Heroes (1970) that became more well-known, and it reunited Sutherland with Telly Savalas. 1970 and 1971 offered Sutherland a number of other films, the best of them would have to be Klute (1971). The film, which made Jane Fonda a star, is about a prostitute whose friend is mysteriously murdered. Sutherland received no critical acclaim like his co-star Fonda (she won an Oscar) but his career did not fade.
Moving on from Klute (1971), Sutherland landed roles such as the lead in the thriller Lady Ice (1973), and another lead in the western Alien Thunder (1974). These films did not match up to "Klute"'s success, though Sutherland took a supporting role that would become one of his most infamous and most critically acclaimed. He played the role of the murderous fascist leader in the Bernardo Bertolucci Italian epic 1900 (1976). Sutherland also gained another memorable role as a marijuana-smoking university professor in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) among other work that he did in this time.
Another classic role came in the form of the Robert Redford film, Ordinary People (1980). Sutherland portrays an older father figure who must deal with his children in an emotional drama of a film. It won Best Picture, and while both the supporting stars were nominated for Oscars, Sutherland once again did not receive any Academy Award nomination. He moved on to play a Nazi spy in a film based on Ken Follett's book "Eye of the Needle" and he would star alongside Al Pacino in the commercial and critical disaster that was Revolution (1985). While it drove Al Pacino out of films for four years, Sutherland continued to find work. This work led to the dramatic, well-told story of apartheid A Dry White Season (1989) alongside the legendary actor Marlon Brando.
Sutherland's next big success came in the Oliver Stone film JFK (1991) where Sutherland plays the chilling role of Mister X, an anonymous source who gives crucial information about the politics surrounding President Kennedy. Once again, he was passed over at the Oscars, though Tommy Lee Jones was nominated for his performance as Clay Shaw. Sutherland went on to appear in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1992), Shadow of the Wolf (1992), and Disclosure (1994).
The new millennium provided an interesting turn in Sutherland's career: reuniting with such former collaborators as Clint Eastwood and Tommy Lee Jones, Sutherland starred in Space Cowboys (2000). He also appeared as the father figure to Nicole Kidman's character in Cold Mountain (2003) and Charlize Theron's character in The Italian Job (2003). He has also made a fascinating, Oscar-worthy performance as the revolutionist Mr. Thorne in Land of the Blind (2006) and also as a judge in Reign Over Me (2007). Recently, he has joined forces with his son Rossif Sutherland and Canadian comic Russell Peters with the new comedy The Con Artist (2010), as well as acting alongside Jamie Bell and Channing Tatum in the sword-and-sandal film The Eagle (2011). Sutherland has also taken a role in the remake of Charles Bronson's film The Mechanic (1972).
Donald Sutherland has made a lasting legacy on Hollywood, whether portraying a chilling and horrifying villain, or playing the older respectable character in his films. A true character actor, Sutherland is one of Canada's most well-known names and will hopefully continue on being so long after his time.Wolf Rilla (The World Ten Times Over; 1963)
Warren Kiefer (Castle of the Living Dead; 1964)
Silvio Narizzano (Fanatic; 1965)
Freddie Francis (Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors; 1965)
James B. Harris (The Bedford Incident; 1965)
Arthur Hiller (Promise Her Anything; 1965)
Ken Russell (Billion Dollar Brain; 1967)
Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen; 1967)
David Greene (2; The Shattered Room; 1967, Sebastian; 1968)
Michael Sarne (Joanna; 1968)
Gordon Flemyng (The Split; 1968)
Kevin Billington (Interlude; 1968)
Philip Saville (Oedipus the King; 1968)
Robert Altman (MASH; 1970)
Bud Yorkin (Start the Revolution Without Me; 1970)
Brian G. Hutton (Kelly’s Heroes; 1970)
Paul Almond (The Act of the Heart; 1970)
Paul Mazursky (Alex in Wonderland; 1970)
Alan Arkin (Little Murders; 1971)
Dalton Trumbo (Johnny Got His Gun; 1971)
Alan J. Pakula (Klute; 1972)
Francine Parker (FTA; 1972)
Alan Myerson (Steelyard Blues; 1973)
Tom Gries (Lady Ice; 1973)
Nicolas Roeg (2; Don’t Look Now; 1973, Puffball; 2007)
Claude Fournier (Alien Thunder; 1974)
Irvin Kershner (SPYS; 1974)
John Schlesinger (The Day of the Locust; 1975)
Maximilian Schell (End of the Game; 1975)
Bernardo Bertolucci (1900; 1976)
Federico Fellini (Fellini’s Casanova; 1976)
John Sturges (The Eagle Has Landed; 1976)
John Landis (2; The Kentucky Fried Movie; 1977, National Lampoon’s Animal House; 1978)
Stuart Cooper (The Disappearance; 1977)
Claude Chabrol (Blood Relatives; 1978)
Philip Kaufman (Invasion of the Body Snatchers; 1978)
Bob Clark (Murder by Decree; 1979)
Noel Black (A Man, a Woman, and a Bank; 1979)
Michael Crichton (The First Great Train Robbery; 1979)
Don Sharp (Bear Island; 1979)
Robert Redford (Ordinary People; 1980)
George Bloomfield (Nothing Personal; 1980)
Richard Pearce (Threshold; 1981)
Les Rose (Gas; 1981)
Richard Marquand (Eye of the Needle; 1981)
Herbert Ross (Max Dugan Returns; 1983)
Desmond Davis (Orders by Innocence; 1984)
Louis Malle (Crackers; 1984)
Hugh Hudson (2; Revolution; 1985, Lost Angels; 1989)
Michael Dinner (Heaven Help Us; 1985)
Henning Carlsen (The Wolf at the Door; 1986)
Burt Kennedy (The Trouble with Spies; 1987)
Free Walton (The Rosary Murders; 1987)
Ralph L. Thomas (Apprentice of Murder; 1988)
Euzhan Palcy (A Dry White Season; 1989)
John Flynn (Lock Up; 1989)
Rebecca Horn (Buster’s Bedroom; 1990)
Phillip Borsos (Bethune: The Making of a Hero; 1990)
Werner Herzog (Scream of Stone; 1991)
Oliver Stone (JFK; 1991)
John Irvin (Eminent Domain; 1991)
Ron Howard (Backdraft; 1991)
Michael Whyte (The Railway Station Man; 1992)
Fran Rubel Kuzui (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; 1992)
Rou Tomono (The Setting Sun; 1992)
Percy Adlon (Younger and Younger; 1993)
Fred Schepisi; 1993)
Paul Haggis (Red Hot; 1993)
Jacques Dorfmann (Shadow of the Wolf; 1993)
Jonathan Heap (Benefit of the Doubt; 1993)
Stuart Orme (The Puppet Masters; 1994)
Barry Levinson (Disclosure; 1994)
Wolfgang Petersen (Outbreak; 1995)
Sidney J. Furie (Hollow Point; 1996)
Joel Schumacher (A Time to Kill; 1996)
Christian Duguay (3; The Assignment; 1997, The Art of War; 2000, Jappeloup; 2013)
George P. Cosmatos (Shadow Conspiracy; 1997)
Yves Simoneau (Free Money; 1998)
Gregory Hoblit (Fallen; 1998)
Robert Towne (2; Without Limits; 1998, Ask the Dust; 2006)
John Bruno (Virus; 1999)
Jon Turtletaub (Instinct; 1999)
Henry Bromell (Panic; 2000)
Clint Eastwood (Space Cowboys; 2000)
Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within; 2001)
Feng Xiaogang (Big Shot’s Funeral; 2001)
Damian Pettigrew (Fellin: I’m a Born Liar; 2002)
F. Gary Gray (The Italian Job; 2003)
Renzo Martinelli (Five Moons Square; 2003)
Reuben Leder (Baltic Storm; 2003)
Anthony Minghella (Cold Mountain; 2003)
James C.E. Burke (Aurora Borealis; 2004)
Griffin Dunne (Fierce People; 2005)
Joe Wright (Pride and Prejudice; 2005)
Aric Avelino (American Gun; 2005)
Andrew Niccol (Lord of War; 2005)
Courtney Solomon (An American Haunting; 2005)
Jay Chandrasekhar (Beerfest; 2006)
Robert Edwards (Land of the Blind; 2006)
Mike Binder (Reign Over Me; 2007)
Denys Arcand (Days of Darkness; 2007)
Marc Fafard (Dinosaurs: Giants of Patagonia; 2007)
Peter Askin (Trumbo; 2007)
Andy Tennant (Fool’s Gold; 2008)
David Bowers (Astro Boy; 2009)
Risa Bramon Garcia (The Con Artist; 2010)
Simon West (The Mechanic; 2011)
Kevin Macdonald (The Eagle; 2011)
Seth Gordon (Horrible Bosses; 2011)
Mary McGuckian (Man on the Train; 2011)
Duncan MacNeillie (Jock the Hero Dog; 2011)
Gary Ross (The Hunger Games; 2012)
Terry Miles (Dawn Rider; 2012)
Isaac Florentine (Assassin’s Bullet; 2012)
Giuseppe Tornatore (The Best Offer; 2013)
Francis Lawrence (3; The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; 2013, The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1, and Part 2; 2014, 2015)
Jason Stone (The Calling; 2014)
Jon Cassar (Forsaken; 2015)
Barnet Bain (Milton’s Secret; 2016)
Paolo Virzi (The Leisure Seeker; 2017)
Danny Baron (Basmati Blues; 2017)
Jim Loach (Measure of a Man; 2018)
Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego (Backdraft 2; 2019)
James Gray (Ad Astra; 2019)
Giuseppe Capotondi (The Burnt Orange Heresy; 2019)
Johnny Martin (Alone; 2020)
Roland Emmerich (Moonfall; 2022)
Collaborations:
Francis Lawrence - 3
Christina Duguay - 3
Robert Towne - 2
David Greene - 2
Hugh Hudson - 2
John Landis - 2
Nicolas Roeg - 2
Other notable directors:
James Gray
Mike Binder
Joe Wright
Griffin Dunne
Andrew Niccol
Clint Eastwood
Anthony Minghella
F. Gary Gray
Jon Turtletaub
Joel Schumacher
Wolfgang Petersen
Barry Sanders
Paul Haggis
Ron Howard
Oliver Stone
Werner Herzog
Richard Marquand
Robert Redford
Herbert Ross
Michael Crichton
Robert Aldrich
Robert Altman
Irvin Kershner
Alan J. Pakula- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Jeffrey Lynn Goldblum was born October 22, 1952 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, one of four children of Shirley (Temeles), a radio broadcaster who also ran an appliances firm, and Harold L. Goldblum, a doctor. His father was of Russian Jewish descent and his mother was of Austrian Jewish ancestry.
Goldblum began his career on the New York stage after moving to the city at age seventeen. Possessing his own unique style of delivery, Goldblum made an impression on moviegoers with little more than a single line in Woody Allen's Annie Hall (1977), when he fretted about having forgotten his mantra. Goldblum went on to appear in the remake Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978) and co-starred with Ben Vereen in the detective series Tenspeed and Brown Shoe (1980) before a high-profile turn in the classic ensemble film The Big Chill (1983).
The quirky actor turned up in the suitably quirky film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984), which became a 1980s cult classic, starred in the modern-day film noir Into the Night (1985), then went on to a breakthrough role in the David Cronenberg remake The Fly (1986), which also featured actress Geena Davis, Goldblum's wife from 1987-1990 and co-star in two additional films: Transylvania 6-5000 (1985) and Julien Temple's Earth Girls Are Easy (1988).
Goldblum was the rather unlikely star of some of the biggest blockbusters of the 1990s: Steven Spielberg's dinosaur adventure Jurassic Park (1993) and its sequel The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997), as well as the alien invasion film Independence Day (1996). These films saw Goldblum playing the type of intellectual characters he has become associated with. More recently, roles have included critically acclaimed turns in Igby Goes Down (2002) and Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004). In 2009, he returned to television to star in his second crime series Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001).Michael Winner (2; Death Wish; 1974, The Sentinel; 1977)
Robert Altman (4; California Split; 1974, Nashville; 1975, Beyond Therapy; 1987, The Player; 1992)
Paul Mazursky (Next Stop, Greenwich Village; 1976)
J. Lee Thompson (St. Ives; 1976)
Paul Wendkos (Special Delivery; 1976)
Woody Allen (Annie Hall; 1977)
Joan Micklin Silver (Between the Lines; 1977)
Alan Rudolph (Remember My Name; 1978)
Robert Klane (Thank God it’s Friday; 1978)
Philip Kaufman (2; Invasion of the Body Snatchers; 1978, The Right Stuff; 1983)
Richard Pearce (Threshold; 1981)
Lawrence Kasdan (2; The Big Chill; 1983, Silverado; 1985)
W.D. Richter (The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension; 1984)
Andrew J. Kuehn (Terror in the Aisles; 1984)
John Landis (Into the Night; 1985)
Rudy de Luca (Transylvania 6-5000; 1985)
David Cronenberg (The Fly; 1986)
Ken Kwapis (Vibes; 1988)
Julien Temple (Earth Girls Are Easy; 1988)
Mel Smith (The Tall Guy; 1989)
Fernando Trueba (Twisted Obsession; 1989)
Philippe Setbon (Mister Frost; 1990)
Ben Lewin (The Favour, The Watch, and the Very Big Fish; 1991)
Paul Mones (Fathers & Sons; 1992)
Bill Duke (Deep Cover; 1992)
Steven Spielberg (2; Jurassic Park; 1993, The Lost World: Jurassic Park; 1997)
Brett Leonard (Hideaway; 1995)
Chris Columbus (Nine Months; 1995)
Victor Salva (Powder; 1995)
Reginald Hudlin (The Great White Hype; 1995)
Roland Emmerich (2; Independence Day; 1996, Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)
Larry Bishop (Mad Dog Time; 1996)
Stephen Herek (Holy Man; 1998)
Brenda Chapman w/ Steve Hickner and Simon Wells (The Prince of Egypt; 1998)
Adam Rafkin w/ Tony Markes (Welcome to Hollywood; 1998)
Matthew Tabak (Auggie Rose; 2000)
Pontus Lowenhielm w/ Patrick von Krusenstjerna (Chain of Fools; 2000)
Karl Francis (One of the Hollywood Ten; 2000)
Michael Rymer w/ Hunter Carson (Perfume; 2001)
Lawrence Guterman (Cats and Dogs; 2001)
Troy Miller (Run Ronnie Run; 2002)
Burr Steers (Igby Goes Down; 2002)
Scott Caan (Dallas 362; 2003)
Roger Spottiswoode (Spinning Boris; 2003)
Zak Penn (Incident at Loch Ness; 2004)
Wes Anderson (4; The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou; 2004, The Grand Budapest Hotel; 2014, Isle of Dogs; 2018, Asteroid City; 2022)
Nick Guthe (Mini’s First Time; 2006)
Hal Hartley (Fay Grim; 2006)
Chris Bradley w/ Kyle LaBrache (Pittsburgh; 2006)
Barry Levinson (Man of the Year; 2006)
Paul Schrader (Adam Resurrected; 2008)
Josh Gordon w/ Will Speck (The Switch; 2010)
Roger Michell (2; Morning Glory; 2010, Le Weekend; 2013)
Tim Heidecker w/ Eric Wareheim (Tim and Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie; 2012)
Wayne Thornley (Zambezia; 2012)
Shaun Monson (Unity; 2014)
David Koepp (Mortdecai; 2015)
James Gunn (Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017)
Taika Watiti (2; Thor: Ragnarok; 2017, Thor: Love and Thunder; 2022)
Felix Lajeunesse w/ Paul Raphaeel (Miyubi; 2017)
J.A. Bayona (Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom; 2018)
Drew Pearce (Hotel Artemis; 2018)
Rick Alverson (The Mountain; 2018)
Tom McGrath (The Boss Baby: Family Business; 2021)
Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World: Dominion; 2021)
Collaborations:
Robert Altman - 4
Wes Anderson - 4
Steven Spielberg - 2
Roger Michell - 2
Roland Emmerich - 2
Lawrence Kasdan - 2
Michael Winner - 2
Philip Kaufman - 2
Taika Waititi - 2
Other notable directors:
David Cronenberg
James Gunn
Barry Levinson
Roger Spottiswoode
Chris Columbus
Alan Rudolph
Paul Mazursky
Woody Allen- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Sam Neill was born in Omagh, Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, to army parents, an English-born mother, Priscilla Beatrice (Ingham), and a New Zealand-born father, Dermot Neill. His family moved to the South Island of New Zealand in 1954. He went to boarding schools and then attended the universities at Canterbury and Victoria. The 6-foot tall star has a BA in English Literature. Following his graduation, he worked with the New Zealand Players and other theater groups. He also was a film director, editor and scriptwriter for the New Zealand National Film Unit for 6 years.
Sam Neill is internationally recognised for his contribution to film and television. He is well known for his roles in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic Park (1993) and Jane Campion's Academy Award Winning film The Piano (1993). Other film roles include The Daughter (2015), Backtrack (2015) opposite Adrien Brody, MindGamers (2015), United Passions (2014), A Long Way Down (2014), Escape Plan (2013), The Hunter (2011) with Willem Dafoe, Daybreakers (2009), Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010), Little Fish (2005) opposite Cate Blanchett, Skin (2008), Dean Spanley (2008), Wimbledon (2004), Yes (2004), Perfect Strangers (2003), Dirty Deeds (2002), The Zookeeper (2001), Bicentennial Man (1999) opposite Robin Williams, The Horse Whisperer (1998) alongside Kristin Scott Thomas, Sleeping Dogs (1977), and My Brilliant Career (1979).
He received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations for the NBC miniseries Merlin (1998). He also received a Golden Globe nomination for One Against the Wind (1991), and for Reilly: Ace of Spies (1983). The British Academy of Film and Television honoured Sam's work in Reilly by naming him Best Actor. Sam received an AFI Award for Best Actor for his role in Jessica (2004).
Other television includes House of Hancock (2015), Rake (2010), Doctor Zhivago (2002), To the Ends of the Earth (2005), The Tudors (2007) with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Crusoe (2008), Alcatraz (2012) and recently in Old School (2014) opposite Bryan Brown, Peaky Blinders (2013) alongside Cillian Murphy and The Dovekeepers (2015) for CBS Studios.Roger Donaldson (Sleeping Dogs; 1977)
Michael Thornhill (The Journalist; 1979)
Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career; 1979)
Graham Baker (Omen III: The Final Conflict; 1981)
Andrzej Zulawski (Possession; 1981)
Douglas Camfield (Ivanhoe; 1982)
Tim Burstall (Attack Force Z; 1982)
Jeannot Szwarc (Enigma; 1982)
Claude Chabrol (The Blood of Others; 1984)
Donald Crombie w/ Ken Hannam (Robbery Under Arms; 1985)
Fred Schepisi (2; Plenty; 1985, Evil Angels; 1988)
Stephen Wallace (For Love Alone; 1986)
Ken Cameron (The Umbrella Woman; 1987)
Phillip Noyce (Dead Calm; 1989)
Robert Enrico w/ Richard T. Heffron (La Revolution francaise; 1989)
John McTiernan (The Hunt for Red October; 1990)
John Ruane (Death in Brunswick; 1990)
Wim Wenders (Until the End of the World; 1991)
John Carpenter (2; Memoirs of an Invisible Man; 1992, In the Mouth of Madness; 1994)
Martin Copeland w/ Scott Busby (The Rainbow Warrior; 1993)
Jane Campion (The Piano; 1993)
Steven Spielberg (Jurassic Park; 1993)
John Duigan (Sirens; 1994)
Michael Blakemore (Country Life; 1994)
Stephen Sommers (The Jungle Book; 1994)
Michael Hoffman (Restoration; 1995)
Peter Duncan (Children of the Revolution; 1996)
Mark Peploe (Victory; 1996)
Paul W.S. Anderson (Event Horizon; 1997)
Michael Cohn (Snow White: A Tale of Terror; 1997)
Robert Redford (The Horse Whisperer; 1998)
Malcolm Mowbray (Sweet Revenge; 1998)
Chris Columbus (Bicentennial Man; 1999)
Mark Lamprell (My Mother Frank; 2000)
Rob Sitch (The Dish; 2000)
Karl Zwicky (The Magic Pudding; 2000)
Joe Johnston (Jurassic Park III; 2001)
Ralph Ziman (The Zookeeper; 2001)
David Caesar (Dirty Deeds; 2002)
Gaylene Preston (Perfect Strangers; 2003)
Sally Potter (Yes; 2004)
Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon; 2004)
Tolga Ornek (Gallipoli; 2005)
Rowan Woods (Little Fish; 2005)
Ann Turner (Irresistible; 2006)
Francois Ozon (Angel; 2007)
Toa Fraser (Dean Spanley; 2008)
Anthony Fabian (Skin; 2008)
Simone North (In Her Skin; 2009)
David Wu (Iron Road; 2009)
Jonathan King (Under the Mountain; 2009)
Zack Snyder (Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole; 2009)
Mario Andreacchio (The Dragon Pearl; 2011)
Daniel Nettheim (The Hunter; 2011)
Michael Sucsy (The Vow; 2012)
Mikael Hafstrom (Escape Plan; 2013)
Jonathan Newman (The Adventurer: The Curse of the Midas Box; 2014)
Frederic Auburtin (United Passions; 2014)
Pascal Chaumeil (The Long Way Down; 2014)
Michael Petroni (Backtrack; 2015)
Simon Stone (The Daughter; 2015)
Taika Watiti (2; Hunt for the Wilderpeople; 2016, Thor: Ragnarok (2017)
Jason Connery (Tommy’s Honour; 2016)
Andrew Goth (MindGamers; 2017)
Warwick Thornton (Sweet Country; 2017)
Jaume Collet-Serra (The Commuter; 2018)
Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit; 2018)
Rachel Ward (Palm Beach; 2019)
Roger Michell (Blackbird; 2019)
Rachel Griffiths (Ride Like a Girl; 2019)
Jeremy Sims (Rams; 2020)
Ricard Cussó (Daisy Quokka: World’s Scariest Animal (2021)
Will Gluck (Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway; 2021)
Colin Trevorrow (Jurassic World: Dominion; 2022)
Collaborations:
Taika Watiti - 2
John Carpenter - 2
Fred Schepisi - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Zack Snyder
Joe Johnston
Chris Columbus
Robert Redford
Stephen Sommers
John McTiernan
Jane Campion
Phillip Noyce
Roger Donaldson- Actor
- Composer
- Producer
Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, he moved to London and joined the National Theatre, invited by Laurence Olivier, who could see the talent in Hopkins. In 1967, he made his first film for television, A Flea in Her Ear (1967).
From this moment on, he enjoyed a successful career in cinema and television. In 1968, he worked on The Lion in Winter (1968) with Timothy Dalton. Many successes came later, and Hopkins' remarkable acting style reached the four corners of the world. In 1977, he appeared in two major films: A Bridge Too Far (1977) with James Caan, Gene Hackman, Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Elliott Gould and Laurence Olivier, and Maximilian Schell. In 1980, he worked on The Elephant Man (1980). Two good television literature adaptations followed: Othello (1981) and The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1982). In 1987 he was awarded with the Commander of the order of the British Empire. This year was also important in his cinematic life, with 84 Charing Cross Road (1987), acclaimed by specialists. In 1993, he was knighted.
In the 1990s, Hopkins acted in movies like Desperate Hours (1990) and Howards End (1992), The Remains of the Day (1993) (nominee for the Oscar), Legends of the Fall (1994), Nixon (1995) (nominee for the Oscar), Surviving Picasso (1996), Amistad (1997) (nominee for the Oscar), The Mask of Zorro (1998), Meet Joe Black (1998) and Instinct (1999). His most remarkable film, however, was The Silence of the Lambs (1991), for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor. He also got a B.A.F.T.A. for this role.Lindsay Anderson (The White Bus; 1967)
Anthony Harvey (The Lion in Winter; 1968)
Tony Richardson (Hamlet; 1969)
Frank Pierson (The Looking Glass War; 1970)
Etienne Parker (When Eight Bells Toll; 1971)
Richard Attenborough (5; Young Winston; 1972, A Bridge Too Far; 1977, Magic; 1978, Chaplin; 1992, Shadowlands; 1993)
Patrick Garland (A Doll’s House; 1973)
Robert Ellis Miller (The Girl from Petrovka; 1974)
Richard Lester (Juggernaut; 1974)
Robert Wise (Audrey Rose; 1977)
Bryan Forbes (International Velvet; 1978)
David Lynch (The Elephant Man; 1980)
Richard Lang (A Change of Seasons; 1980)
Roger Donaldson (2; The Bounty; 1984, The World’s Fastest Indian; 2005)
Mike Newell (The Good Father; 1985)
David Jones (2; 84 Charing Cross Road; 1987, The Trial; 1993)
Robert Knights (The Dawning; 1988)
Michael Winner (A Chorus of Disapproval; 1989)
Michael Cimino (Desperate Hours; 1990)
Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs; 1991)
Geoff Murphy (Freejack; 1992)
Mark Joffe (Spotswood; 1992)
James Ivory (4; Howard’s End; 1992, The Remains of the Day; 1993, Surviving Picasso; 1996, The City of Your Final Destination; 2009)
Francis Ford Coppola (Bram Stoker’s Dracula; 1992)
John Schlesinger (The Innocent; 1993)
Alan Parker (The Road to Wellville; 1994)
Edward Zwick (Legends of the Fall; 1994)
Oliver Stone (2; Nixon; 1995, Alexander; 2004)
Lee Tamahori (The Edge; 1997)
Steven Spielberg (Amistad; 1997)
Martin Campbell (The Mask of Zorro; 1998)
Martin Brest (Meet Joe Black; 1998)
Jon Turtletaub (Instinct; 1999)
Brett Leonard (Siegfried & Roy: The Magic Box; 1999)
Julie Taymor (Titus; 1999)
John Woo (Mission: Impossible 2; 2000)
Ron Howard (How the Grinch Stole Christmas; 2000)
Ridley Scott (Hannibal; 2001)
Scott Hicks (Hearts in Atlantis; 2001)
Joel Schumacher (Bad Company; 2002)
Brett Ratner (Red Dragon; 2002)
Alec Baldwin (Shortcut to Happiness; 2003)
Robert Benton (The Human Stain; 2003)
John Madden (Proof; 2005)
Emilio Estevez (Bobby; 2006)
Steven Zaillian (All the King’s Men; 2006)
Gregory Hoblit (Fracture; 2007)
Robert Zemeckis (Beowulf; 2007)
Joe Johnston (The Wolfman; 2010)
Woody Allen (You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger; 2010)
Mikael Hafstrom (The Rite; 2011)
Kenneth Branagh (Thor; 2011)
Fernando Meirelles (2; 360; 2011, The Two Popes; 2019)
Sacha Gervasi; 2012)
Dean Parisot (Red 2; 2013)
Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World; 2013)
Darren Aronofsky (Noah; 2014)
Daniel Alfredson (2; Kidnapping Freddy Heineken; 2015, Blackway; 2015)
Afonso Poyart (Solace; 2015)
Shintaro Shimosawa (Misconduct; 2016)
Eran Creevy (Collide; 2016)
Michael Bay (Transformers: The Last Knight; 2017)
Taika Watiti (Thor: Ragnarok; 2017)
Florian Zeller (2; The Father; 2020, The Son; 2022)
Stella Hopkins (Elyse; 2020)
Nick Stagliano (The Virtuoso; 2021)
Valentina de Amicis (Where Are You; 2021)
Riccardo Spinotti (Where Are You; 2021)
Rich Rugdale (Zero Contact; 2021)
James Gray (Armageddon Time; 2022)
Collaborations:
Richard Attenborough - 5
James Ivory - 4
Daniel Alfredson - 2
Fernando Meirelles - 2
Florian Zeller - 2
Oliver Stone - 2
David Jones - 2
Roger Donaldson - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Darren Aronofsky
Taika Watiti
Kenneth Branagh
Woody Allen
Joe Johnston
Steven Zaillian
John Madden
Jonathan Demme
Brett Ratner
Joel Schumacher
Ridley Scott
Ron Howard
Alan Parker
Martin Campbell
Francis Ford Coppola
Robert Wise
James Gray
David Lynch
John Woo
Jon Turtletaub
John Schlesinger
Michael Cimino
Mike Newell- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Few actors in the world have had a career quite as diverse as Leonardo DiCaprio's. DiCaprio has gone from relatively humble beginnings, as a supporting cast member of the sitcom Growing Pains (1985) and low budget horror movies, such as Critters 3 (1991), to a major teenage heartthrob in the 1990s, as the hunky lead actor in movies such as Romeo + Juliet (1996) and Titanic (1997), to then become a leading man in Hollywood blockbusters, made by internationally renowned directors such as Martin Scorsese and Christopher Nolan.
Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio was born in Los Angeles, California, the only child of Irmelin DiCaprio (née Indenbirken) and former comic book artist George DiCaprio. His father is of Italian and German descent, and his mother, who is German-born, is of German, Ukrainian and Russian ancestry. His middle name, "Wilhelm", was his maternal grandfather's first name. Leonardo's father had achieved minor status as an artist and distributor of cult comic book titles, and was even depicted in several issues of American Splendor, the cult semi-autobiographical comic book series by the late 'Harvey Pekar', a friend of George's. Leonardo's performance skills became obvious to his parents early on, and after signing him up with a talent agent who wanted Leonardo to perform under the stage name "Lenny Williams", DiCaprio began appearing on a number of television commercials and educational programs.
DiCaprio began attracting the attention of producers, who cast him in small roles in a number of television series, such as Roseanne (1988) and The New Lassie (1989), but it wasn't until 1991 that DiCaprio made his film debut in Critters 3 (1991), a low-budget horror movie. While Critters 3 (1991) did little to help showcase DiCaprio's acting abilities, it did help him develop his show-reel, and attract the attention of the people behind the hit sitcom Growing Pains (1985), in which Leonardo was cast in the "Cousin Oliver" role of a young homeless boy who moves in with the Seavers. While DiCaprio's stint on Growing Pains (1985) was very short, as the sitcom was axed the year after he joined, it helped bring DiCaprio into the public's attention and, after the sitcom ended, DiCaprio began auditioning for roles in which he would get the chance to prove his acting chops.
Leonardo took up a diverse range of roles in the early 1990s, including a mentally challenged youth in What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), a young gunslinger in The Quick and the Dead (1995) and a drug addict in one of his most challenging roles to date, Jim Carroll in The Basketball Diaries (1995), a role which the late River Phoenix originally expressed interest in. While these diverse roles helped establish Leonardo's reputation as an actor, it wasn't until his role as Romeo Montague in Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet (1996) that Leonardo became a household name, a true movie star. The following year, DiCaprio starred in another movie about doomed lovers, Titanic (1997), which went on to beat all box office records held before then, as, at the time, Titanic (1997) became the highest grossing movie of all time, and cemented DiCaprio's reputation as a teen heartthrob. Following his work on Titanic (1997), DiCaprio kept a low profile for a number of years, with roles in The Man in the Iron Mask (1998) and the low-budget The Beach (2000) being some of his few notable roles during this period.
In 2002, he burst back into screens throughout the world with leading roles in Catch Me If You Can (2002) and Gangs of New York (2002), his first of many collaborations with director Martin Scorsese. With a current salary of $20 million a movie, DiCaprio is now one of the biggest movie stars in the world. However, he has not limited his professional career to just acting in movies, as DiCaprio is a committed environmentalist, who is actively involved in many environmental causes, and his commitment to this issue led to his involvement in The 11th Hour, a documentary movie about the state of the natural environment. As someone who has gone from small roles in television commercials to one of the most respected actors in the world, DiCaprio has had one of the most diverse careers in cinema. DiCaprio continued to defy conventions about the types of roles he would accept, and with his career now seeing him leading all-star casts in action thrillers such as The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010) and Christopher Nolan's Inception (2010), DiCaprio continues to wow audiences by refusing to conform to any cliché about actors.
In 2012, he played a mustache twirling villain in Django Unchained (2012), and then tragic literary character Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby (2013) and Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street (2013).
DiCaprio is passionate about environmental and humanitarian causes, having donated $1,000,000 to earthquake relief efforts in 2010, the same year he contributed $1,000,000 to the Wildlife Conservation Society.Kristine Peterson (Critters 3; 1991)
Katt Shea (Poison Ivy; 1992)
Michael Caton-Jones (This Boy’s Life; 1993)
Lasse Hallström (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape; 1993)
Scott Kalvert (The Basketball Diaries; 1995)
Sam Raimi (The Quick and the Dead; 1995)
Agnieszka Holland (Total Eclipse; 1995)
Baz Luhrmann (2; Romeo + Juliet; 1996, The Great Gatsby; 2013)
Jerry Zaks (Marvin’s Room; 1996)
James Cameron (Titanic; 1997)
Randall Wallace (The Man in the Iron Mask; 1998)
Woody Allen (Celebrity; 1998)
Danny Boyle (The Beach; 2000)
Steven Spielberg (Catch Me If You Can; 2002)
Martin Scorsese (7; Gangs of New York; 2002, The Aviator; 2004, The Departed; 2005, Shutter Island; 2010, Wolf of Wall Street; 2013, The Audition; 2015, Killers of the Flower Moon; 2022)
Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond; 2006)
Nadia Conners w/ Leila Conners (The 11th Hour; 2007)
Ridley Scott (Body of Lies; 2008)
Sam Mendes (Revolutionary Road; 2008)
Toni Myers (Hubble; 2010)
Christopher Nolan (Inception; 2010)
Clint Eastwood (J. Edgar; 2011)
Quentin Tarantino (2; Django Unchained; 2012, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood; 2019)
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (The Revenant; 2015)
Fisher Stevens (Before the Flood; 2016)
Leila Conners (Ice on Fire; 2019)
Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up; 2022)
Collaborations:
Martin Scorsese - 7
Quentin Tarantino - 2
Baz Luhrmann - 2
Leila Conners - 2
Other notable directors:
James Cameron
Steven Spielberg
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu
Clint Eastwood
Sam Mendes
Sam Raimi
Ridley Scott
Christopher Nolan
Danny Boyle
Woody Allen
Lasse Hallstrom
Michael Caton-Jones- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Adam Richard Sandler was born September 9, 1966 in Brooklyn, New York, to Judith (Levine), a teacher at a nursery school, and Stanley Alan Sandler, an electrical engineer. He is of Russian Jewish descent. At 17, he took his first step towards becoming a stand-up comedian when he spontaneously took the stage at a Boston comedy club. He found he was a natural comic. He nurtured his talent while at New York University (graduating with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1991) by performing regularly in clubs and at universities. During his freshman year, he snagged a recurring role as the Huxtable family's friend Smitty on The Cosby Show (1984). While working at a comedy club in L.A., he was "discovered" by Dennis Miller, who recommended him to Saturday Night Live (1975) producer Lorne Michaels and told him that Sandler had a big talent. This led to his being cast in the show in 1990, which he also wrote for in addition to performing. After Saturday Night Live (1975), Sandler went on to the movies, starring in such hit comedies as Airheads (1994), Happy Gilmore (1996), Billy Madison (1995) and Big Daddy (1999). He has also starred in Mr. Deeds (2002) alongside Winona Ryder; Eight Crazy Nights (2002), an animated movie about the Jewish festival of Chanukah; and Punch-Drunk Love (2002). He also writes and produces many of his own films and has composed songs for several of them, including The Wedding Singer (1998). Sandler has had several of his songs placed on the "Billboard" charts, including the classic "The Chanukah Song".Valerie Breiman (Going Overboard; 1989)
Bobcat Goldthwait (Shakes the Clown; 1991)
Steve Barron (Coneheads; 1993)
Michael Lehmann (Airheads; 1994)
Nora Ephron (Mixed Nuts; 1994)
Tamra Davis (Billy Madison; 1995)
Dennis Dugan (8; Happy Gilmore; 1996, Big Daddy; 1999, I Pronounce You Chuck & Larry; 2007, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan; 2008, Grown Ups (2010, Just Go with It; 2011, Jack & Jill; 2011, Grown Ups 2; 2013)
Ernest Dickerson (Bulletproof; 1996)
Frank Coraci (6; The Wedding Singer; 1998, The Waterboy; 1998, Click; 2006, Zookeeper; 2011, Blended; 2014, The Ridiculous 6; 2015)
Bob Saget (Dirty Work; 1998)
Mike Mitchell (Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo; 1999)
Steven Brill (5; Little Nicky; 2000, Mr. Deeds; 2002, The Do-Over; 2016, Sandy Wexler; 2017, Hubie Halloween; 2020)
Luke Greenfield (The Animal; 2001)
Paul Thomas Anderson (Punch-Drunk Love; 2002)
Seth Kearsley (Eight Crazy Nights; 2002)
Tom Brady (The Hot Chick; 2002)
Pauly Shore (Pauly Shore is Dead; 2003)
Peter Segel (2; Anger Management; 2003, 50 First Dates; 2004)
James L. Brooks (Spanglish; 2004)
Mike Bigelow (Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo; 2005)
Mike Binder (Reign Over Me; 2007)
Adam Shankman (Bedtime Stories; 2008)
Judd Apatow (Funny People; 2009)
Sean Anders (That’s My Boy; 2012)
Genndy Tartakovsky (3; Hotel Transylvania; 2012, Hotel Transylvania 2; 2015, Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation; 2018)
Chris Rock (Top Five; 2014)
Jason Reitman (Men, Women, Children; 2014)
Tom McCarthy (The Cobbler; 2014)
Chris Columbus (Pixels; 2015)
Brent Hodge w/ Derik Murray (I Am Chris Farley; 2015)
Noah Baumbach (The Meyerowitz Stories; 2017)
Robert Smigel (The Week Of; 2018)
Kyle Newacheck (Murder Mystery; 2019)
Josh and Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems; 2019)
Jeremiah Zagar (Hustle; 2022)
Johan Renck (Spaceman; 2022)
Jeremy Garelick (Murder Mystery 2; 2023)
Collaborations:
Dennis Dugan - 8
Frank Coraci - 6
Steven Brill - 5
Genndy Tartakovsky - 3
Peter Segal - 2
Other notable directors:
Noah Baumbach
Chris Columbus
Mike Binder
Paul Thomas Anderson
James L. Brooks
Bobcat Goldthwait
Nora Ephron
Jason Reitman- Actor
- Producer
- Art Department
Brendan James Fraser was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, to Canadian parents Carol Mary (Genereux), a sales counselor, and Peter Fraser, a journalist and travel executive. He is of Irish, Scottish, German, Czech, and French-Canadian ancestry. As his parents frequently moved, Brendan can claim affinity with Ottawa, Indianapolis, Detroit, Seattle, London and Rome. His early exposure to theatre, particularly in London, led him to Seattle's Cornish Institute. After graduation he found a minor role as Sailor #1 in River Phoenix's Dogfight (1991), then somewhat more substantial roles in Encino Man (1992) and School Ties (1992). He expresses a preference for playing "fish out of water" men. Five more years of supporting work led finally to the title role in George of the Jungle (1997), a role which fully utilized his charm and beefy good looks, as well as offering him a chance to show off his comic talents. He describes this role as the one which dramatically altered his career. Critical raves for his role in Gods and Monsters (1998) pointed to yet another dimension to his dramatic persona.Nancy Savoca (Dogfight; 1991)
Les Mayfield (Encino Man; 1992)
Robert Mandel (School Ties; 1992)
Keva Rosenfield (Twenty Bucks; 1993)
Percy Adlon (Younger and Younger; 1993)
Steve Rash (Son in Law; 1993)
Alek Keshishian (With Honors; 1994)
Michael Lehmann (Airheads; 1994)
Daniel Petrie Jr. (In the Army Now; 1994)
Michael Ritchie (The Scout; 1994)
Phillip Ridley (The Passion of Darkly Noon; 1995)
Lesli Linka Glatter (Now and Then; 1995)
Kelly Makin (Kids in the Hall: Brain Candy; 1996)
Richard Benjamin (Mrs. Winterbourne; 1996)
Rich Wilkes (Glory Daze; 1996)
Ross Kagan Marks (The Twilight of the Golds; 1996)
Sam Weisman (2; George of the Jungle; 1997, Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star; 2003)
James Ford Robinson (Still Breathing; 1997)
Bill Condon (Gods and Monsters; 1998)
Hugh Wilson (2; Blast from the Past; 1999, Dudley Do-Right; 1999)
Stephen Sommers (3; The Mummy; 1999, The Mummy Returns; 2001, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra; 2009)
Harold Ramis (Bedazzled; 2000)
Alan Jacobs w/ Evan Ricks (Sinbad: Beyond the Veil of Mists; 2000)
Henry Selick (Monkeybone; 2001)
Phillip Noyce (The Quiet American; 2002)
Joe Dante (Looney Tunes: Back in Action; 2003)
Paul Haggis (Crash; 2004)
Eric Eason (Journey to the End of the Night; 2006)
Michael Caleo (The Last Time; 2006)
Jieho Lee (The Air I Breathe; 2007)
Eric Brevig (Journey to the Center of the Earth; 2008)
Rob Cohen (The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor; 2008)
Iain Softley (Inkheart; 2008)
Tom Vaughan (Extraordinary Measures; 2010)
Roger Kumble (Furry Vengeance; 2010)
Terry George (Whole Lotta Sole; 2011)
Cal Brunker (Escape from Planet Earth; 2013)
Kat Coiro (A Case for You; 2013)
Billy Kent (Hair Brained; 2013)
Wayne Kramer (Pawn Shop Chronicles; 2013)
Damian Lee (Breakout; 2013)
Ronald Krauss (Gimme Shelter; 2013)
Peter Lepeniotis (The Nut Job; 2014)
George Gallo w/ Francesco Cinquemani (The Poison Rose; 2019)
Rohit Karn Batra (Line of Descent; 2019)
Steven Soderbergh (No Sudden Move; 2021)
Adil El Arbi (Batgirl; 2022)
Bilall Fallah (Batgirl; 2022)
Darren Aronofsky (The Whale; 2022)
Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon; 2022)
Max Barbakow (Brothers; 2023)
Collaborations:
Stephen Sommers - 3
Sam Weisman - 2
Hugh Wilson - 2
Other notable directors:
Rob Cohen
Phillip Noyce
Paul Haggis
Henry Selick
Joe Dante
Bill Condon
Michael Ritchie
Daniel Petrie Jr.
Harold Ramis
Les Mayfield
Steven Soderbergh
Martin Scorsese
Darren Aronofsky- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and one day be the Governor of California!?
The amazing story of megastar Arnold Schwarzenegger is a true "rags to riches" tale of a penniless immigrant making it in the land of opportunity, the United States of America. Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger was born July 30, 1947, in the town of Thal, Styria, Austria, to Aurelia Schwarzenegger (born Jadrny) and Gustav Schwarzenegger, the local police chief. From a young age, he took a keen interest in physical fitness and bodybuilding, going on to compete in several minor contests in Europe. However, it was when he emigrated to the United States in 1968 at the tender age of 21 that his star began to rise.
Up until the early 1970s, bodybuilding had been viewed as a rather oddball sport, or even a mis-understood "freak show" by the general public, however two entrepreneurial Canadian brothers Ben Weider and Joe Weider set about broadening the appeal of "pumping iron" and getting the sport respect, and what better poster boy could they have to lead the charge, then the incredible "Austrian Oak", Arnold Schwarzenegger. Over roughly the next decade, beginning in 1970, Schwarzenegger dominated the sport of competitive bodybuilding winning five Mr. Universe titles and seven Mr. Olympia titles and, with it, he made himself a major sports icon, he generated a new international audience for bodybuilding, gym memberships worldwide swelled by the tens of thousands and the Weider sports business empire flourished beyond belief and reached out to all corners of the globe. However, Schwarzenegger's horizons were bigger than just the landscape of bodybuilding and he debuted on screen as "Arnold Strong" in the low budget Hercules in New York (1970), then director Bob Rafelson cast Arnold in Stay Hungry (1976) alongside Jeff Bridges and Sally Field, for which Arnold won a Golden Globe Award for "Best Acting Debut in a Motion Picture". The mesmerizing Pumping Iron (1977) covering the 1975 Mr Olympia contest in South Africa has since gone on to become one of the key sports documentaries of the 20th century, plus Arnold landed other acting roles in the comedy The Villain (1979) opposite Kirk Douglas, and he portrayed Mickey Hargitay in the well- received TV movie The Jayne Mansfield Story (1980).
What Arnold really needed was a super hero / warrior style role in a lavish production that utilized his chiseled physique, and gave him room to show off his growing acting talents and quirky humor. Conan the Barbarian (1982) was just that role. Inspired by the Robert E. Howard short stories of the "Hyborean Age" and directed by gung ho director John Milius, and with a largely unknown cast, save Max von Sydow and James Earl Jones, "Conan" was a smash hit worldwide and an inferior, although still enjoyable sequel titled Conan the Destroyer (1984) quickly followed. If "Conan" was the kick start to Arnold's movie career, then his next role was to put the pedal to the floor and accelerate his star status into overdrive. Director James Cameron had until that time only previously directed one earlier feature film titled Piranha II: The Spawning (1982), which stank of rotten fish from start to finish. However, Cameron had penned a fast paced, science fiction themed film script that called for an actor to play an unstoppable, ruthless predator - The Terminator (1984). Made on a relatively modest budget, the high voltage action / science fiction thriller The Terminator (1984) was incredibly successful worldwide, and began one of the most profitable film franchises in history. The dead pan phrase "I'll be back" quickly became part of popular culture across the globe. Schwarzenegger was in vogue with action movie fans, and the next few years were to see Arnold reap box office gold in roles portraying tough, no-nonsense individuals who used their fists, guns and witty one-liners to get the job done. The testosterone laden Commando (1985), Raw Deal (1986), Predator (1987), The Running Man (1987) and Red Heat (1988) were all box office hits and Arnold could seemingly could no wrong when it came to picking winning scripts. The tongue-in-cheek comedy Twins (1988) with co-star Danny DeVito was a smash and won Arnold new fans who saw a more comedic side to the muscle- bound actor once described by Australian author / TV host Clive James as "a condom stuffed with walnuts". The spectacular Total Recall (1990) and "feel good" Kindergarten Cop (1990) were both solid box office performers for Arnold, plus he was about to return to familiar territory with director James Cameron in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). The second time around for the futuristic robot, the production budget had grown from the initial film's $6.5 million to an alleged $100 million for the sequel, and it clearly showed as the stunning sequel bristled with amazing special effects, bone-crunching chases & stunt sequences, plus state of the art computer-generated imagery. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) was arguably the zenith of Arnold's film career to date and he was voted "International Star of the Decade" by the National Association of Theatre Owners.
Remarkably, his next film Last Action Hero (1993) brought Arnold back to Earth with a hard thud as the self-satirizing, but confusing plot line of a young boy entering into a mythical Hollywood action film confused movie fans even more and they stayed away in droves making the film an initial financial disaster. Arnold turned back to good friend, director James Cameron and the chemistry was definitely still there as the "James Bond" style spy thriller True Lies (1994) co-starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Tom Arnold was the surprise hit of 1994! Following the broad audience appeal of True Lies (1994), Schwarzenegger decided to lean towards more family-themed entertainment with Junior (1994) and Jingle All the Way (1996), but he still found time to satisfy his hard-core fan base with Eraser (1996), as the chilling "Mr. Freeze" in Batman & Robin (1997) and battling dark forces in the supernatural action of End of Days (1999). The science fiction / conspiracy tale The 6th Day (2000) played to only mediocre fan interest, and Collateral Damage (2002) had its theatrical release held over for nearly a year after the tragic events of Sept 11th 2001, but it still only received a lukewarm reception.
It was time again to resurrect Arnold's most successful franchise and, in 2003, Schwarzenegger pulled on the biker leathers for the third time for Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003). Unfortunately, directorial duties passed from James Cameron to Jonathan Mostow and the deletion of the character of "Sarah Connor" aka Linda Hamilton and a change in the actor playing "John Connor" - Nick Stahl took over from Edward Furlong - making the third entry in the "Terminator" series the weakest to date.
Schwarzenegger married TV journalist Maria Shriver in April, 1986 and the couple have four children.
In October of 2003 Schwarzenegger, running as a Republican, was elected Governor of California in a special recall election of then governor Gray Davis. The "Governator," as Schwarzenegger came to be called, held the office until 2011. Upon leaving the Governor's mansion it was revealed that he had fathered a child with the family's live-in maid and Shriver filed for divorce.
Schwarzenegger contributed cameo roles to The Rundown (2003), Around the World in 80 Days (2004) and The Kid & I (2005). Recently, he starred in The Expendables 2 (2012), The Last Stand (2013), Escape Plan (2013), The Expendables 3 (2014), and Terminator Genisys (2015).Arthur Allan Seidelman (Hercules in New York; 1969)
Robert Altman (The Long Goodbye; 1973)
Bob Rafelson (Stay Hungry; 1976)
George Butler w/ Robert Fiore (Pumping Iron; 1977)
Hal Needham (The Villian; 1979)
Michael Schultz (Scavenger Hunt; 1979)
Kit Laughlin (The Comeback; 1980)
John Milius (Conan the Barbarian; 1982)
Richard Fleischer (2; Conan the Destroyer; 1984, Red Sonja (1985)
James Cameron (3; The Terminator; 1984, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies; 1994)
Mark L. Lester (Commando; 1985)
John Irvin (Raw Deal; 1986)
John McTiernan (2; Predator; 1987, Last Action Hero; 1993)
Paul Michael Glaser (The Running Man; 1987)
Walter Hill (Red Heat; 1988)
Ivan Reitman (4; Twins; 1988, Kindergarten Cop; 1990, Dave, 1993, Junior; 1994)
Paul Verhoeven (Total Recall; 1990)
Michael Preece (Beretta’s Island; 1993)
Chuck Russell (Eraser; 1996)
Brian Levant (Jingle All the Way; 1996)
Joel Schumacher (Batman & Robin; 1997)
Peter Hyams (End of Days; 1999)
Roger Spottiswoode (The 6th Day; 2000)
Andrew Davis (Collateral Damage; 2002)
Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; 2003)
Peter Berg (The Rundown; 2003)
Frank Coraci (Around the World in 80 Days; 2004)
Penelope Spheeris (The Kid & I; 2005)
McG (Terminator Salvation; 2009)
Sylvester Stallone (The Expendables; 2010)
Simon West (The Expendables 2; 2012)
Kim Jee-woon (The Last Stand; 2013)
Mikael Hafstrom (Escape Plan; 2013)
David Ayer (Sabotage; 2014)
Patrick Hughes (The Expendables 3; 2014)
Henry Hobson (Maggie; 2015)
Alan Taylor (Terminator Genisys; 2015)
Elliott Lester (Aftermath; 2017)
Taran Killan (Killing Gunther; 2017)
Oleg Stepchenko (Viy 2: Journey to China; 2019)
Tim Miller (Terminator: Dark Fate; 2019)
David Sandberg (Kung Fury 2; 2019)
Collaborations:
Ivan Reitman - 4
James Cameron - 3
John McTiernan - 2
Richard Fleischer - 2
Other notable directors:
Robert Altman
Paul Verhoeven
Tim Miller
Peter Berg
Joel Schumacher
David Ayer- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Bill Paxton was born on May 17, 1955 in Fort Worth, Texas. He was the son of Mary Lou (Gray) and John Lane Paxton, a businessman and actor (as John Paxton). Bill moved to Los Angeles, California at age eighteen, where he found work in the film industry as a set dresser for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his film debut in the Corman film Crazy Mama (1975), directed by Jonathan Demme. Moving to New York, Paxton studied acting under Stella Adler at New York University. After landing a small role in Stripes (1981), he found steady work in low-budget films and television. He also directed, wrote and produced award-winning short films including Barnes & Barnes: Fish Heads (1980), which aired on Saturday Night Live (1975). His first appearance in a James Cameron film was a small role in The Terminator (1984), followed by his very memorable performance as Private Hudson in Aliens (1986) and as the nomadic vampire Severen in Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark (1987). Bill also appeared in John Hughes' Weird Science (1985), as Wyatt Donnelly's sadistic older brother Chet. Although he continued to work steadily in film and television, his big break did not come until his lead role in the critically acclaimed film-noir One False Move (1991). This quickly led to strong supporting roles as Wyatt Earp's naive younger brother Morgan in Tombstone (1993) and as Fred Haise, one of the three astronauts, in Apollo 13 (1995), as well as in James Cameron's offering True Lies (1994).
Bill died on February 25, 2017, in Los Angeles, from complications following heart surgery. He was 61.Jonathan Demme (Crazy Mama; 1975)
William Asher (Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker; 1981)
Ivan Reitman (Stripes; 1981)
Franc Roddam (The Lords of Discipline; 1983)
Howard Avedis (Mortuary; 1983)
Tom Huckabee w/ Kent Smith (Taking Tiger Mountain; 1983)
Walter Hill (2; Streets of Fire; 1984, Trespass; 1992)
Graham Baker (Impulse; 1984)
James Cameron (5; Terminator; 1984, Aliens; 1986, True Lies; 1994, Titanic; 1997, Ghosts of the Abyss; 2005)
John Hughes (Weird Science; 1985)
Mark L. Lester (Commando; 1985)
Kathryn Bigelow (Near Dark; 1987)
David Beaird (Pass the Ammo; 1988)
Steven Lisberger (Slipstream; 1989)
John Irvin (Next to Kin; 1989)
Adam Simon (Brain Dead; 1990)
John Mackenzie (The Last of the Finest; 1990)
Lewis Teague (Navy SEALS; 1990)
Stephen Hopkins (Predators 2; 1990)
Adam Rifkin (The Dark Backware; 1991)
Carl Franklin (One False Move; 1992)
Chris Walas (The Vagrant; 1992)
Jennifer Chambers Lynch (Boxing Helena; 1993)
Mike Binder (Indian Summer; 1993)
George P. Cosmatos (Tombstone; 1993)
Ron Howard (Apollo 13; 1995)
Stacy Title (The Last Supper; 1995)
Robert Boris (Frank and Jesse; 1995)
Jan de Bont (Twister; 1996)
Robert Harling (The Evening Star; 1996)
Jack N. Green (Traveller; 1997)
Sam Raimi (A Simple Plan; 1998)
Ron Underwood (Mighty Joe Young; 1998)
Jonathan Mostow (U-571; 2000)
Martin Campbell (Vertical Limit; 2000)
Robert Rodriguez (2; Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams; 2002, Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over; 2003)
Todd Komarnicki (Resistance; 2003)
Jay Chandrasekhar (Club Dread; 2004)
Jonathan Frakes (Thunderbirds; 2004)
Frank E. Flowers (Haven; 2004)
Mark Cowen (Magnificent Desolation: Walking on the Moon 3D; 2005)
Stephen Berra (The Good Life; 2007)
Steven Soderbergh (Haywire; 2011)
Daniel Hsia (Shanghai Calling; 2011)
Jeff Renfroe (The Colony; 2013)
Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns; 2013)
Craig Gillespie (Million Dollar Arm; 2014)
Doug Liman (Edge of Tomorrow; 2014)
Dan Gilroy (Nightcrawler; 2014)
Sean O’Reilly (Pixies; 2015)
Peter Billingsley (Term Life; 2016)
Nathan Morlando (Mean Dreams; 2016)
James Ponsoldt (The Circle; 2017)
Collaborations:
James Cameron - 5
Walter Hill - 2
Robert Rodriguez - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Soderbergh
Doug Liman
Dan Gilroy
Jonathan Demme
Martin Campbell
Sam Raimi
Ron Howard
Mike Binder
Kathryn Bigelow
Ivan Reitman
John Hughes
Steven Lisberger- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Paul Stephen Rudd was born in Passaic, New Jersey. His parents, Michael and Gloria, both from Jewish families, were born in the London area, U.K. He has one sister, who is three years younger than he is. Paul traveled with his family during his early years, because of his father's airline job at TWA. His family eventually settled in Overland Park, Kansas, where his mother worked as a sales manager for TV station KSMO-TV. Paul attended Broadmoor Junior High and Shawnee Mission West High School, from which he graduated in 1987, and where he was Student Body President. He then enrolled at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, majoring in theater. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts-West in Los Angeles and participated in a three-month intensive workshop under the guidance of Michael Kahn at the British Drama Academy at Oxford University in Britain. Rudd helped to produce the Globe Theater's production of Howard Brenton's "Bloody Poetry," which starred Rudd as Percy Bysshe Shelley.Amy Heckerling (2; Clueless; 1995, I Could Never Be Your Woman; 2007)
Joe Chappelle (Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers; 1995)
Baz Luhrmann (Romeo + Juliet; 1996)
John Patrick Kelley (The Locusts; 1997)
Jason Bloom (Overnight Delivery; 1998)
Nicholas Hytner (The Object of My Affection; 1998)
Risa Bramon Garcia (200 Cigarettes; 1999)
Lasse Hallstrom (The Cider House Rules; 1999)
Benny Chan (Gen-Y Cops; 2000)
David Wein (5; Wet Hot American Summer; 2001, The Ten; 2007, Role Models; 2008, Wanderlust; 2012, They Came Together; 2014)
Neil LaBute (The Shape of Things; 2001)
Sean McGinly (Two Days; 2003)
Adam McKay (3; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004, Wake Up, Ron Burgundy: The Lost Movie; 2004, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues; 2013)
Dylan Kidd (P.S.; 2004)
Michael Showalter (The Baxter; 2005)
Judd Apatow (3; The 40-Year-Old Virgin; 2005, Knocked Up; 2007, This Is 40; 2012)
Billy Kent (The Oh in Ohio; 2006)
Katherine Dieckmann (Diggers; 2006)
Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum; 2006)
Robert Ben Garant (Reno 911! Miami; 2007)
Jesse Peretz (2; The Ex; 2007, Our Idiot Brother; 2011)
Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story; 2007)
Jeff Lowell (Over Her Dead Body; 2008)
Nicholas Stollar (Forgetting Sarah Marshall; 2008)
John Hamberg (I Love You, Man; 2008)
Conrad Vernon w/ Rob Letterman (Monsters vs. Aliens; 2009)
Harold Ramis (Year One; 2009)
Jay Roach (Dinners for Schmucks; 2010)
James L. Brooks (How Do You Know; 2010)
Stephen Chbosky (The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
Paul Weitz (Admission; 2013)
David Gordon Green (Prince Avalanche; 2013)
Seth Rogen w/ Evan Goldberg (This is the End; 2013)
Phil Morrison (All is Bright; 2013)
Mark Osborne (The Little Prince; 2015)
Peyton Reed (3; Ant-Man; 2015, Ant-Man and the Wasp; 2018, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; 2023)
Anthony & Joe Russo (2; Captain America: Civil War; 2016, Avengers: Endgame (2019)
Rob Burnett (The Fundamentals of Caring; 2016)
Conrad Vernon w/ Greg Tiernan (Sausage Party; 2016)
Chris Prynoski (Nerdland; 2016)
Alethea Jones (Fun Mom Dinner; 2017)
Ben Lewin (The Catcher Was a Spy; 2018)
Andrew Fleming (Ideal Home; 2018)
Duncan Jones (Mute; 2018)
Scott Aukerman (Between Two Ferns: The Movie; 2019)
Jason Reitman (Ghostbusters: Afterlife; 2020)
Collaborations:
David Wein - 5
Judd Apatow - 3
Adam McKay - 3
Peyton Reed - 3
Amy Heckerling - 2
Conrad Vernon - 2
Anthony & Joe Russo - 2
Jesse Peretz - 2
Other notable directors:
Jason Reitman
David Gordon Green
Stephen Chbosky
James L. Brooks
Jay Roach
Jake Kasdan
Lasse Hallstrom
Shawn Levy- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Kevin Norwood Bacon was born on July 8, 1958 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Ruth Hilda (Holmes), an elementary school teacher, and Edmund Norwood Bacon, a prominent architect who was on the cover of Time Magazine in November 1964.
Kevin's early training as an actor came from The Manning Street. His debut as the strict Chip Diller in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) almost seems like an inside joke, but he managed to escape almost unnoticed from that role. Diner (1982) became the turning point after a couple of television series and a number of less-than-memorable movie roles. In a cast of soon-to-be stars, he more than held his end up, and we saw a glimpse of the real lunatic image of The Bacon. He also starred in Footloose (1984), She's Having a Baby (1988), Tremors (1990) with Fred Ward, Flatliners (1990), and Apollo 13 (1995).
Bacon is married to actress Kyra Sedgwick, with whom he has 2 children.John Landis (National Lampoon’s Animal House; 1978)
Alan J. Pakula (Starting Over; 1979)
Martin Davidson (Hero at Large; 1980)
Sean S. Cunningham (Friday the 13th; 1980)
Glenn Jordan (Only When I Laugh; 1981)
Barry Levinson (2; Diner; 1982, Sleepers; 1996)
Paul Morrissey (Forty Deuce; 1982)
Mirra Bank w/ Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer (Enormous Changes at the Last Minute; 1983)
Herbert Ross (Footloose; 1984)
Thomas Michael Donnelly (Quicksilver; 1986)
Jeff Bleckner (White Water Summer; 1987)
Jay Russell (2; End of the Line; 1987, My Dog Skip; 2000)
John Hughes (2; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles; 1987, She’s Having a Baby; 1988)
Martin Campbell (Criminal Law; 1988)
Christopher Guest (The Big Picture; 1989)
Ron Underwood (Tremors; 1990)
Joel Schumacher (Flatliners; 1990)
Noah Stern (Pyrates; 1991)
Steve Rash (Queens Logic; 1991)
Ken Kwapis w/ Marisa Silver (He Said, She Said; 1991)
Oliver Stone (JFK; 1991)
Immy Humes (A Little Vicious; 1991)
Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men; 1992)
Paul Michael Glaser (The Air Up There; 1994)
Curtis Hanson (The River Wild; 1994)
Marc Rocco (Murder in the First; 1995)
Ron Howard (2; Apollo 13; 1995, Frost/Nixon; 2008)
Simon Wells (Balto; 1995)
Glenn Gordon Caron (Picture Perfect; 1997)
Mark Pellington (Destination Anywhere; 1997)
Timothy Hutton (Digging to China; 1997)
Guy Ferlund (Telling Lies in America; 1997)
John McNaughton (Wild Things; 1998)
David Koepp (2; Stir of Echoes; 1999, You Should Have Left; 2020)
J. David Shapiro (We Married Margo; 2000)
Paul Verhoeven (Hollow Man; 2000)
David Atkins (Novocaine; 2001)
Luis Mandoki (Trapped; 2002)
Clint Eastwood (Mystic River; 2003)
Nicole Kassell (The Woodsman; 2004)
Lisa Cholodenko (Cavedweller; 2004)
Bille Woodruff (Beauty Shop; 2005)
Atom Egoyan (Where the Truth Lies; 2005)
James Wan (Death Sentence; 2007)
Alison Eastwood (Rails & Ties; 2007)
Dominic Scott Kay (Saving Angelo; 2007)
Jieho Lee (The Air I Breathe; 2007)
Richard Loncraine (My One and Only; 2009)
David Briggs (Beyond All Boundaries; 2009)
James Gunn (Super; 2010)
Prachya Pinkaew (Elephant White; 2011)
Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class; 2011)
Glenn Ficarra w/ John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love; 2011)
Billy Bob Thornton (Jayne Mansfield’s Car; 2012)
Robert Schwentke (R.I.P.D.; 2013)
Clay Westervelt (Skum Rocks; 2013)
Jon Watts (Cop Car; 2015)
Scott Cooper (Black Mass; 2015)
Greg McLean (The Darkness; 2016)
Peter Berg (Patriots Day; 2016)
John Logan (They/Them; 2022)
Macon Blair (The Toxic Avenger; 2023)
Sam Esmail (Leave the World Behind; 2024)
Collaborations:
John Hughes - 2
Ron Howard - 2
Barry Levinson - 2
David Koepp - 2
Jay Russell - 2
Other notable directors:
Matthew Vaughn
James Gunn
James Wan
Clint Eastwood
Paul Verhoeven
Curtis Hanson
Rob Reiner
John Landis
Alan J. Pakula
Oliver Stone
Joel Schumacher
Ron Underwood
Ken Kwapis
Martin Campbell
Herbert Ross
Peter Berg- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
John Stephen Goodman's an American film, TV & stage actor. He was born in Affton, Missouri to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman & Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when he was a small child. He's of English, Welsh & German ancestry. He's best known for his role as Dan Conner on the TV show Roseanne (1988), which ran until 1997 & for which he earned him a Best Actor Golden Globe in 1993. He's also noted for appearances in films of the Coen brothers, w/ prominent roles in Raising Arizona (1987) as an escaped convict, in Barton Fink (1991) as a congenial murderer, in The Big Lebowski (1998) as a volatile bowler & in O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) as a cultured thief. Additionally, he has done voice work in numerous Disney & Pixar films, including the Sulley in Monsters, Inc. (2001). Having contributed to more than 50 films, he has also won 2 American Comedy Awards & hosted Saturday Night Live (1975) 14 times.Jeff Kanew (2; Eddie’s Macon Run; 1983, Revenge of the Nerds; 1984)
Michael Ritchie (The Survivors; 1983)
Louis Malle (Crackers; 1984)
Douglas Cheek (C.H.U.D.; 1984)
Andrei Konchalovsky (Maria’s Lovers; 1984)
Karel Reisz (Sweet Dreams; 1985)
David Byrne (True Stories; 1986)
Jim McBride (The Big Easy; 1987)
Joel Coen (6; Raising Arizona; 1987, Barton Fink; 1991, The Hudsucker’s Proxy; 1994, The Big Lebowski; 1998, Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?; 2000, Inside Llewyn Davis; 2013)
Hugh Wilson (Burglar; 1987)
Danny Bilson (The Wrong Guys; 1988)
David Seltzer (Punchline; 1988)
Taylor Hackford (Everybody’s All American; 1988)
Harold Becker (Sea of Love; 1989)
Steven Spielberg (Always; 1989)
John Erman (Stella; 1990)
Frank Marshall (Arachnophobia; 1990)
David S. Ward (King Ralph; 1991)
Arthur Hiller (The Babe; 1992)
Joe Dante (Matinee; 1993)
Luis Mandoki (Born Yesterday; 1993)
Dick & Ralph Zondag w/ Simon Wells and Phil Nibbelink (We’re Back a Dinosaur Story; 1993)
Joel and Ethan Coen (3; The Hudsucker Proxy; 1994, The Big Lebowski; 1998, The Hangover Part III; 2013)
Brian Levant (The Flintstones; 1994)
Bryan Gordon (Pie in the Sky; 1996)
Keith Gordon (Mother Night; 1996)
Peter Hewitt (The Borrowers; 1997)
Gregory Hoblit (Fallen; 1998)
John Landis (Blue Brothers 2000; 1998)
Bob Saget (Dirty Work; 1998)
William R. Kowalchuk (Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: The Movie; 1998)
Mario Andreacchio (The Real Macaw; 1998)
Ron Molar (The Runner; 1999)
Martin Scorsese (Bringing Out the Dead; 1999)
John Badham (The Jack Bull; 1999)
Mike Nichols (What Planet Are You From?; 2000)
Des McAnuff (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle; 2000)
David McNally (Coyote Ugly; 2000)
Mark Dindal (The Emporer’s New Groove; 2000)
Christine Lahti (My First Mister; 2001)
Harald Zwart (One Night at McCool’s; 2001)
Todd Solondz (Storytelling; 2001)
Pete Docter (2; Monsters, Inc.; 2001, Mike’s New Car; 2002)
David Caesar (Dirty Deeds; 2002)
Larry Charles (Masked and Anonymous; 2003)
Steve Trenbirth (The Jungle Book 2; 2003)
Ryan Shiraki (Freshman Orientation; 2004)
Robert Ramirez (Clifford’s Really Big Movie; 2004)
Kevin Spacey (Beyond the Sea; 2004)
Randall Miller (Marilyn Hotchkiss’ Ballroom Dancing and Charm School; 2005)
Elliot M. Bour w/ Saul Andrew Blickoff (Kronk’s New Groove; 2005)
John Lasseter (Cars; 2006)
James Wan (Death Sentence; 2007)
Tom Shadyac (Evan Almighty; 2007)
Simon J. Smith w/ Steve Hickner (Bee Movie; 2007)
The Wachowskis (Speed Racer; 2008)
Matt Aselton (Gigantic; 2008)
P.J. Hogan (Confessions of a Shopaholic; 2009)
Bertrand Tavernier (In the Electric Mist; 2009)
Tim McCanlies (Alabama Moon; 2009)
David Briggs (Beyond All Boundaries; 2009)
Ron Clements w/ John Musker (The Princess and the Frog; 2009)
Sonke Wortmann (Pope Joan; 2009)
Bob Meyer (Drunkboat; 2009)
Michel Hazanavicius (The Artist; 2011)
Kevin Smith (Red State; 2011)
Stephen Daldry (Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close; 2011)
Sam Fell w/ Chris Butler (ParaNorman; 2012)
Jay Roach (2; The Campaign; 2012, Trumbo; 2015)
Robert Lorenz (Trouble with the Curve; 2012)
Ben Affleck (Argo; 2012)
Robert Zemeckis (Flight; 2012)
Shawn Levy (The Internship; 2013)
Dan Scanlon (Monsters University; 2013)
George Clooney (The Monuments Men; 2014)
Kelsey Mann (Party Central; 2014)
Michael Bay (2; Transformers: Age of Extinction; 2014, Transformers: The Last Knight; 2017)
Rupert Wyatt (2; The Gambler; 2014, Captive State; 2019)
Jessie Nelson (Love the Coopers; 2015)
Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane; 2016)
Kevin Munroe (Ratchet & Clank; 2016)
Peter Berg (Patriots Day; 2016)
Louis Ross (Bunyan and Babe; 2017)
Jordan Vogt-Roberts (Kong: Skull Island; 2017)
David Leitch (Atomic Blonde; 2017)
Mark Cullen (Once Upon a Time in Venice; 2017)
Luc Besson (Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planet; 2017)
Rupert Wyatt (Captive State; 2019)
Will Addison (Easy Does It; 2019)
Collaborations:
Joel Coen - 6
Joel and Ethan Coen - 3
Rupert Wyatt - 2
Michael Bay - 2
Jay Roach - 2
Pete Docter - 2
Jeff Kanew - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Peter Berg
Dan Trachtenberg
Robert Zemeckis
Stephen Daldry
Kevin Smith
James Wan
John Lasseter
Mike Nichols
Taylor Hackford
Frank Marshall- Actor
- Producer
- Sound Department
Jeremy Lee Renner was born in Modesto, California, the son of Valerie (Tague) and Lee Renner, who managed a bowling alley. After a tumultuous yet happy childhood with his four younger siblings, Renner graduated from Beyer High School and attended Modesto Junior College. He explored several areas of study, including computer science, criminology, and psychology, before the theater department, with its freedom of emotional expression, drew him in.
However, Renner recognized the potential in acting as much through the local police academy as through drama classes. During his second year at Modesto Junior College, Renner role-played a domestic disturbance perpetrator as part of a police-training exercise for an easy $50. Deciding to shift his focus away from schoolwork, Renner left college and moved to San Francisco to study at the American Conservatory Theater. From there he moved to Hawaii and, in 1993, to Los Angeles.
In Los Angeles, Renner devoted himself to theater, most notably starring in and co-directing the critically acclaimed "Search and Destroy." He pursued other projects during this time as well, landing his first film role in 1995's National Lampoon's Senior Trip (1995). After several commercials and supporting roles in television movies and series, Renner captured the attention of critics with his gripping, complex portrayal of the infamous serial killer in the 2002 film Dahmer (2002). Renner's performance, which earned him an Independent Spirit Award nomination, is especially remarkable for painting a humane and sympathetic, yet deeply disturbing, portrait of the title character.
In 2003, Renner took a break from small indie films to work on his first commercially successful movie, S.W.A.T. (2003), with Colin Farrell. In 2005, he played the leading role in Neo Ned (2005) as an institutionalized white supremacist in love with a black girl, winning the Palm Beach International Film Festival's best actor award. Renner's pivotal supporting roles in 2005's 12 and Holding (2005) and North Country (2005) earned him accolades from critics, and his 2007 turn in Take (2007) garnered him the best actor award at California's Independent Film Festival. Also in 2007, Renner played a leading role in the horror film 28 Weeks Later (2007) as well as a supporting role in the underrated Western epic The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007), with Casey Affleck, Brad Pitt, and Sam Rockwell.
Renner's depiction of Jeffrey Dahmer in 2002 caught the attention of director Kathryn Bigelow, and, in 2008, she cast him in his most famous role as Sergeant First Class William James in The Hurt Locker (2008). Renner's performance as a single-minded bomb specialist scored him an Academy Award nomination for best actor. He also earned best actor nominations from the Independent Spirit Awards, the Screen Actors Guild, and the BAFTA Awards, as well as wins in this category from several film critics groups.
In 2009, Renner starred in the short-lived TV series, The Unusuals (2009), and in 2010 he played the chilling but loyal criminal Jem in Ben Affleck bank-heist thriller The Town (2010). In the fall of 2010, Renner began filming Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011). He has also since starred in The Avengers (2012), American Hustle (2013), and Kill the Messenger (2014).
Renner's strengths as an actor derive not only from his expressive eyes but also from his ability to thoroughly embody the characters he portrays. His visceral depiction of these individuals captivates audiences and empowers him to steal scenes in many of his films, even when playing a minor role. Renner gravitates toward flawed, complicated, three-dimensional characters that allow him to explore new territory within himself.
In addition to his work as an actor, Renner continues to cultivate his lifelong love of music. A singer, songwriter, and musician, he performed with the band Sons of Ben early in his career. Scenes in Love Comes to the Executioner (2006), North Country (2005), and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) briefly showcase Renner's singing talents.
Despite traveling the world for film roles and, recently, as a United Nations Goodwill Peace Ambassador to raise awareness for mine-clearing efforts in Afghanistan, Renner remains close to his roots. In 2010, Modesto Junior College presented him the Distinguished Alumnus award in recognition of his body of work as an actor. He also headlined at a benefit for Modesto's Gallo Center for the Arts in the fall of 2010.
Renner maintains a sense of humility and gratitude, even in the wake of his recent successes and recognition. He keeps himself grounded by renovating and restoring old and rundown iconic Hollywood homes, an enterprise he began back in his early days in Los Angeles. He values loyalty and a sense of both age and history, and enjoys the opportunity to help conserve these qualities in a town that favors the young and the new.Kelly Makin (National Lampoon’s Senior Trip; 1995)
David Jacobson (Dahmer; 2002)
Clark Johnson (SWAT; 2003)
Asia Argento (The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things; 2004)
Baltasar Kormákur (A Little Trip to Heaven; 2005)
Niki Caro (North County; 2005)
Michael Cuesta (2; 12 and Holding; 2005, Kill the Messenger; 2014)
Van Fischer (Neo Ned; 2005)
Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown; 2006)
Kyle Bergersen (Love Comes to the Executioner; 2006)
Andrew Dominik (The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford; 2007)
Juan Carlos Fresnadillo (28 Weeks Later; 2007)
Charles Oliver (Take; 2007)
Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker; 2008)
Jeff Balsmeyer (Ingenious; 2009)
Ben Affleck (The Town; 2010)
Brad Bird (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol; 2011)
Kenneth Branagh (Thor; 2011)
Joss Whedon (2; The Avengers; 2012, Avengers: Age of Ultron; 2015)
Tony Gilroy (The Bourne Legacy; 2012)
Tommy Wirkola (Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters; 2013)
James Gray (The Immigrant; 2013)
David O. Russell (American Hustle; 2013)
Christopher McQuarrie (Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Anthony & Joe Russo (2; Captain America: Civil War; 2016, Avengers: Endgame; 2019)
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival; 2016)
Taylor Sheridan (Wind River; 2017)
Andrew J. Cohen (The House; 2017)
Jeff Tomsic (Tag; 2018)
Aaron Woodley (Arctic Dogs; 2019)
Cate Shortland (Black Widow; 2021)
Collaborations:
Joss Whedon - 2
Anthony & Joe Russo - 2
Michael Cuesta - 2
Other notable directors:
Denis Villeneuve
Christopher McQuarrie
David O. Russell
James Gray
Tony Gilroy
Kenneth Branagh
Brad Bird
Ben Affleck
Kathryn Bigelow
Baltasar Kormakur- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Christopher Robert Evans is an American actor, film producer, and director. Evans began his acting career in typical fashion: performing in school productions and community theatre.
He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of Lisa (Capuano), who worked at the Concord Youth Theatre, and G. Robert Evans III, a dentist. His uncle is former U.S. Representative Mike Capuano. Chris's father is of half German and half Welsh/English/Scottish ancestry, while Chris's mother is of half Italian and half Irish descent. He has an older sister, Carly Evans, and two younger siblings, a brother named Scott Evans, who is also an actor, and a sister named Shana Evans. The family moved to suburban Sudbury when he was 11 years-old. Bitten by the acting bug in the first grade because his older sister, Carly, started performing, Evans followed suit and began appearing in school plays. While at Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School, his drama teacher cited his performance as "Leontes" in "The Winter's Tale" as exemplary of his skill. After more plays and regional theatre, he moved to New York and attended the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute.
On the advice of friends, he landed an internship at a casting office and befriended a couple of the agents he regularly communicated with - one of whom later took him on as a client. The screen - not the stage - then became his focus; Evans soon began auditioning for feature films and television series. Evans made one of his first appearances on The Fugitive (2000) (CBS, 2000-2001), a remake of the 1960s series and feature film starring Harrison Ford. In the episode "Guilt", Evans played the son of a small-town sheriff who tries to exact revenge after Dr. Richard Kimble - incognito as a liquor store owner - refuses to sell him and his friends alcohol. After small roles in Cherry Falls (1999) and The Newcomers (2000) - two unknown low-budget features - Evans appeared in Boston Public (2000) (Fox, 2000-2004) as a murder suspect. He then appeared in his first major feature, Not Another Teen Movie (2001), a spoof on teen comedies wherein he played a jock who makes a bet that he can turn an unpopular and unkempt girl (Chyler Leigh) into prom queen.
After filming a couple of television pilots he was confident would be successful - Just Married (2003) and Eastwick (2002) - he appeared in another listless teen comedy, The Perfect Score (2004), playing an average, ho-hum student who takes part in a plot to steal the SAT test. Hijinks naturally ensue. Then, Evans broke through to the Big Time, grabbing the lead in the kidnapping thriller, Cellular (2004), a suspenseful B movie with a cheesy gimmick - a random wrong number on his cell phone forces him into a high-stakes race to save an unknown woman's life. Despite an unassuming performance from Evans and Kim Basinger as the damsel in distress, Cellular (2004) failed to break any box office records or please a wide majority of critics. Evans then prepared himself for super stardom when he signed on to play Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four (2005), 20th Century Fox's long-awaited adaptation of the Marvel comic. Although the film was wildly uneven and disappointing, Evans nearly stole the show with his energetic, unfettered performance. In that year itself, Chris was noticed by critics and made it into magazine and Internet countdowns, scoring himself a third position of the hot body countdown from Gay.com and #18 on E! Television's 2006 101 Sexiest Celebrity Bodies.
The year 2007 also proved to be one successful year for Chris, as he had two movies released around the world that same year, starting with the second installment of the Marvel franchise Fantastic Four. Chris received positive reviews for his performance. The Nanny Diaries (2007), where Evans played Harvard Hottie, showed his sensitive. The year 2008 saw Chris Evans' part of the movie Street Kings (2008), playing the character Detective Paul Diskant. The movie is about police officers trying to cover up their wrongdoings and audiences got to see a serious side of Chris. In the same year, Chris also worked on the movie The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond (2008).James Allen Bradley (The Newcomers; 2000)
Joel Gallen (Not Another Teen Movie; 2001)
Brian Robbins (The Perfect Score; 2004)
David R. Ellis (Cellular; 2004)
Hunter Richards (London; 2005)
Tim Story (2; Fantastic Four; 2005, Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfers; 2007)
Kevin Munroe (TMNT; 2007)
Danny Boyle (Sunshine; 2007)
Sheri Springer Berman (The Nanny Diaries; 2007)
Aristomenis Tsirbas (Battle for Terra; 2007)
David Ayer (Street Kings; 2008)
Jodie Markell (The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond; 2008)
Paul McGuigan (Push; 2009)
Sylvain White (The Losers; 2010)
Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World; 2010)
Adam and Mark Kassen (Puncture; 2011)
Mark Mylod (What’s Your Number; 2011)
Joe Johnston (Captain America: The First Avenger; 2011)
Joss Whedon (2; The Avengers; 2012, Avengers: Age of Ultron; 2015)
Ariel Vromen (The Iceman; 2012)
Bong Joon-ho (Snowpiercer; 2013)
Alan Taylor (Thor: The Dark World; 2013)
Anthony & Joe Russo (4; Captain America: The Winter Soldier; 2014, Captain America: Civil War; 2016, Avengers: Infinity War; 2018, Avengers: Endgame; 2019, The Gray Man; 2022)
Justin Reardon (Playing It Cool; 2014)
Peyton Reed (Ant-Man; 2015)
Marc Webb (Gifted; 2017)
Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming; 2017)
Anne Boden w/ Ryan Fleck (Captain Marvel; 2019)
Gideon Raff (The Red Sea Diving Resort; 2019)
Rian Johnson (Knives Out; 2019)
Shawn Levy (Free Guy; 2021)
Adam McKay (Don’t Look Up; 2021)
Angus MacLane (Lightyear; 2022)
Dexter Fletcher (Ghosted; 2023)
Collaborations:
Anthony and Joe Russo - 5
Joss Whedon - 2
Tim Story - 2
Other notable directors:
Rian Johnson
Jon Watts
Marc Webb
Alan Taylor
Joe Johnston
Edgar Wright
David Ayer
Danny Boyle
Shawn Levy
Dexter Fletcher- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
One of the British theatre's most famous faces, Daniel Craig, who waited tables as a struggling teenage actor with the National Youth Theatre, has gone on to star as James Bond in Casino Royale (2006), Quantum of Solace (2008), Skyfall (2012), Spectre (2015) and No Time to Die (2021).
He was born Daniel Wroughton Craig on March 2, 1968, at 41 Liverpool Road, Chester, Cheshire, England. His father, Timothy John Wroughton Craig, was a merchant seaman turned steel erector, and then became landlord of the "Ring O'Bells" pub in Frodsham, Cheshire. His mother, Carol Olivia (Williams), was an art teacher. Craig has English, as well as Irish, Scottish and Welsh, ancestry. His parents split up in 1972, and young Daniel was raised with his older sister, Lea, in Liverpool, then in Hoylake, Wirral, in the home of his mother. His interest in acting was encouraged by visits to the Liverpool Everyman Theatre arranged by his mother. From the age of six, Craig started acting in school plays, making his debut in the Frodsham Primary School production of "Oliver!", and his mother was the driving force behind his artistic aspirations. The first Bond movie he ever saw at the cinema was Roger Moore's Live and Let Die (1973); young Daniel Craig saw it with his father, so it took a special place in his heart. He was also a good athlete and was a rugby player at Hoylake Rugby Club.
At age 14, Craig played roles in "Oliver", "Romeo and Juliet" and "Cinderella" at Hilbre High School in West Kirby, Wirral. He left Hilbre High School at age 16 to audition at the National Youth Theatre's (NYT) troupe on their tour in Manchester in 1984. He was accepted and moved down to London. There, his mother and father watched his stage debut as Agamemnon in Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida". As a struggling actor with the NYT, he was toiling in restaurant kitchens and as a waiter. Craig performed with NYT on tours to Valencia, Spain, and to Moscow, Russia, under the leadership of director Edward Wilson. He failed at repeated auditions at the Guildhall, but eventually his persistence paid off, and in 1988, he entered the Guildhall School of Music and Drama at the Barbican. There, he studied alongside Ewan McGregor and Alistair McGowan, then later Damian Lewis and Joseph Fiennes, among others. He graduated in 1991, after a three-year course under the tutelage of Colin McCormack, the actor from the Royal Shakespeare Company. From 1992-1994, he was married to Scottish actress Fiona Loudon, their daughter, named Ella Craig (born 1992).
Craig made his film debut in The Power of One (1992). His film career continued on television, notably the BBC2 serial Our Friends in the North (1996). He shot to international fame after playing supporting roles in Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and Road to Perdition (2002). He was nominated for his performances in the leading role in Layer Cake (2004), and received other awards and nominations. Craig was named as the sixth actor to portray James Bond, in October 2005, weeks after he finished his work in Munich (2005), where he co-starred with Eric Bana under the directorship of Steven Spielberg. Craig's reserved demeanor and his avoidance of the showbiz-party-red-carpet milieu makes him a cool 007. He is the first blond actor to play Bond, and also the first to be born after the start of the film series, and also the first to be born after the death of author Ian Fleming in 1964. Four of the past Bond actors: Sean Connery, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan have indicated that Craig is a good choice as Bond.
He was appointed Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George (CMG) by Queen Elizabeth II at the 2022 Queen's New Years Honours for his services to Film and Theatre.John G. Avildsen (The Power of One; 1992)
Michael Gottlieb (A Kid in King Arthur’s Court; 1995)
Peter Sehr (Obsession; 1997)
Cathal Black (Love and Rage; 1998)
Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth; 1998)
William Boyd (The Trench; 1999)
Simon Cellan Jones (Some Voices; 2000)
Terence Gross (Hotel Splendide; 2000)
Hugh Hudson (I Dreamed of Africa; 2000)
Simon West (Lara Croft: Tomb Raider; 2001)
Sam Mendes (2; Road to Perdition; 2002, Skyfall; 2012, Spectre; 2015)
Christine Jeffs (Sylvia; 2003)
Roger Michell (2; The Mother; 2003, Enduring Love; 2004)
Matthew Vaughn (Layer Cake; 2004)
John Maybury (The Jacket; 2005)
Lajos Koltai (Fateless; 2005)
Steven Spielberg (2; Munich; 2005, The Adventures of Tin-Tin; 2011)
Christian Volckman (Renaissance; 2006)
Douglas McGrath (Infamous; 2006)
Martin Campbell (Casino Royale; 2006)
Oliver Hirschbiegel (The Invasion; 2007)
Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass; 2007)
Baillie Walsh (Flashbacks of a Fool; 2008)
Marc Forster (Quantum of Solace; 2008)
Edward Zwick (Defiance; 2008)
Michael Gunton w/ Martha Holmes (One Life; 2011)
Jon Favreau (Cowboys & Aliens; 2011)
Jimmy Sheridan (Dream House; 2011)
David Fincher (The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo; 2011)
J.J. Abrams (Star Wars: The Force Awakens; 2015)
Steven Soderbergh (Logan Lucky; 2017)
Deniz Gamze Erguvan (Kings; 2017)
Rian Johnson (2; Knives Out; 2019, Knives Out 2; 2022)
Cary Joji Fukunaga (No Time to Die; 2020)
Collaborations:
Steven Spielberg - 2
Sam Mendes - 2
Roger Michell - 2
Rian Johnson - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Soderbergh
Cary Joji Fukunaga
J.J. Abrams
David Fincher
Jon Favreau
Edward Zwick
Martin Campbell
Marc Forster
Chris Weitz
Matthew Vaughn
John G. Avildsen- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Actor Ralph Nathaniel Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes was born on December 22, 1962 in Suffolk, England, to Jennifer Anne Mary Alleyne (Lash), a novelist, and Mark Fiennes, a photographer. He is the eldest of six children. Four of his siblings are also in the arts: Martha Fiennes, a director; Magnus Fiennes, a musician; Sophie Fiennes, a producer; and Joseph Fiennes, an actor. He is of English, Irish, and Scottish origin.
A noted Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. Fiennes first worked on screen in 1990 and then made his film debut in 1992 as Heathcliff in Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights (1992), opposite Juliette Binoche. 1993 was his "breakout year". He had a major role in the controversial Peter Greenaway film The Baby of Mâcon (1993), with Julia Ormond, which was poorly received. Later that year he became known internationally for portraying the amoral Nazi concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth in Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1993). For this he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor. He did not win, but did win the Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for the role, as well as Best Supporting Actor honors from numerous critics groups, including the National Society of Film Critics, and the New York, Chicago, Boston, and London Film Critics associations. His portrayal as Göth also earned him a spot on the American Film Institute's list of Top 50 Film Villains. To look suitable to represent Goeth, Fiennes gained weight, but he managed to shed it afterwards. In 1994, he portrayed American academic Charles Van Doren in Quiz Show (1994). In 1996, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance as Count Almásy the World War II epic romance, and another Best Picture winner, Anthony Minghella's The English Patient (1996), in which he starred with Kristin Scott Thomas. He also received BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations, as well as two Screen Actors Guild (SAG) Award nominations, one for Best Actor and another shared with the film's ensemble cast.
Since then, Fiennes has been in a number of notable films, including Strange Days (1995), Oscar and Lucinda (1997), the animated The Prince of Egypt (1998), István Szabó's Sunshine (1999), Neil Jordan-directed films The End of the Affair (1999) and The Good Thief (2002), Red Dragon (2002), Maid in Manhattan (2002), The Constant Gardener (2005), In Bruges (2008), The Reader (2008), co-starring Kate Winslet, Kathryn Bigelow's Oscar®-winning The Hurt Locker (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Mike Newell's screen adaptation of Charles Dickens'Great Expectations (2012), with Helena Bonham Carter and Jeremy Irvine, and Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014).
He is also known for his roles in major film franchises such as the Harry Potter film series (2005-2011), in which he played the evil Lord Voldemort. His nephew, Hero Fiennes Tiffin played Tom Riddle, the young Lord Voldemort, in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009). Ralph also appears in the James Bond series, in which he has played M, starting with the 2012 film Skyfall (2012).
In 2011, Fiennes made his directorial debut with his film adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy political thriller Coriolanus (2011), in which he also played the title character, opposite Gerard Butler and Vanessa Redgrave. Fiennes has won a Tony Award for playing Prince Hamlet on Broadway.
In 2015, Fiennes played a music producer in Luca Guadagnino's A Bigger Splash (2015), starring opposite Tilda Swinton and Matthias Schoenaerts, and in 2016, Fiennes starred in Joel and Ethan Coen's Hail, Caesar! (2016).
Since 1999, Fiennes has served as an ambassador for UNICEF UK.Peter Kosminsky (Emily Bronte’s Wuthering Heights; 1992)
Peter Greenaway (The Baby of Macon; 1993)
Steven Spielberg (Schindler’s List; 1993)
Robert Redford (Quiz Show; 1994)
Kathryn Bigelow (2; Strange Days; 1995, The Hurt Locker; 2009)
Anthony Minghella (The English Patient; 1996)
Gillian Armstrong (Oscar and Lucinda; 1997)
Jeremiah S. Chechik (The Avengers; 1998)
Brenda Chapman w/ Steve Hickner and Simon Wells (The Prince of Egypt; 1998)
Istvan Szabo (Sunshine; 1999)
Martha Fiennes (2; Onegin; 1999, Chromophobia; 2005)
Neil Jordan (2; The End of the Affair; 1999, The Good Thief; 2002)
Harry Arends w/ Jun Falkenstein and Karl Geurs (Seasons of Giving; 1999)
Derek W. Hayes w/ Stanislav Sokolov (The Miracle Maker; 2000)
David Cronenberg (Spider; 2000)
Brett Ratner (Red Dragon; 2002)
Wayne Wang (Maid in Manhattan; 2002)
Arie Posen (The Chumscrubber; 2005)
Fernando Meirelles (The Constant Gardener; 2005)
Nick Park w/ Steve Box (Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit; 2005)
James Ivory (The White Countess; 2005)
Mike Newell (2; Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire; 2005, Great Expectations; 2012)
Robert Edwards (Land of the Blind; 2006)
David Yates (4; Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix; 2007, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince; 2009, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1; 2011, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2; 2012)
Martin McDonagh (In Bruges; 2008)
Saul Dibb (The Duchess; 2008)
Stephen Daldry (The Reader; 2008)
Ricky Gervais w/ Stephen Merchant (Cemetery Junction; 2010)
Louis Leterrier (Clash of the Titans; 2010)
Susanna White (Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang; 2010)
Anthony Geffen (The Wildest Dream; 2010)
Jonathan Liebesman (Wrath of the Titans; 2012)
Sam Mendes (2; Skyfall; 2012, Spectre; 2015)
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel; 2014)
Vera Glagoleva (Two Women; 2014)
Luca Guadagnino (A Bigger Splash; 2015)
Joel and Ethan Coen (Hail, Caesar; 2015)
Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings; 2016)
Chris McKay (The LEGO Batman Movie; 2017)
Vanessa Redgrave (Sea Sorrow; 2017)
Etan Cohen (Holmes & Watson; 2018)
Gavin Hood (Official Secrets; 2019)
Mike Mitchell (The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part; 2019)
Stephen Gaghan (Dolittle; 2020)
Matthew Vaughn (The King’s Men; 2020)
Simon Stone (The Dig; 2020)
John Michael McDonagh (The Forgiven; 2021)
Mark Mylod (The Menu; 2022)
Wes Anderson (The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar; 2023)
Collaborations:
David Yates - 4
Sam Mendes - 2
Mike Newell - 2
Martha Fiennes - 2
Kathryn Bigelow - 2
Neil Jordan - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Matthew Vaughn
Gavin Hood
Joel and Ethan Coen
Wes Anderson
Stephen Daldry
Martin McDonagh
James Ivory
David Cronenberg
Robert Redford
Anthony Minghella
Brett Ratner
Wes Anderson- Actor
- Producer
- Director
A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.
In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated to peace and human welfare, democracy, gun control advocacy, support of the arts and support of nuclear disarmament. In 1998, former United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan appointed Douglas as a Messenger of Peace for his commitment on disarmament issues, including nuclear non-proliferation and halting the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.
Since his earliest acting work on Hail, Hero! (1969) and The Streets of San Francisco (1972) Douglas has played some of the most memorable and enigmatic American anti-heroes of the last half century. He is most known for his iconic screen roles, like his Academy Award-winning turn as Gordon Gekko Wall Street (1987) as well as the critically and commercially acclaimed films Fatal Attraction (1987), The American President (1995), Basic Instinct (1992), Traffic (2000) and Romancing the Stone (1984). He is also a prolific producer with credits on politically relevant and socially influential motion pictures like One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), The China Syndrome (1979), Traffic (2000) the television series: The Kominsky Method (2018) and an upcoming limited series where Douglas portrays Benjamin Franklin (2024) during his nine years in France lobbying for French aid for the American Revolution.
With a passion for complex protagonists and darkly humorous undercurrents, Douglas has received numerous accolades for his work, including two Academy Awards, five Golden Globe Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, AFI Life Achievement Award, two French César Awards for Career Achievement and, most recently, the Palme d'or d'honneur for lifetime achievement at the 76th Annual Festival de Cannes as well as the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Cinema at the Goa Film Festival in India.
Michael Douglas was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, to actors Diana Douglas (Diana Love Dill) and Kirk Douglas (born Issur Danielovitch). His paternal grandparents were Belarusian Jewish immigrants, while his mother was born in Bermuda, the daughter of a local Attorney General, Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Melville Dill; Diana's family had long been established in both Bermuda and the United States. Douglas's parents divorced when he was six, and he went to live with his mother and her new husband. Only seeing Kirk on holidays, Michael attended Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where he was about a year younger than all of his classmates.
Douglas attended the elite preparatory Choate School and spent his summers with his father on movie sets. Although accepted at Yale, Douglas attended the University of California, Santa Barbara. Deciding he wanted to be an actor in his teenage years, Michael often asked his father about getting a "foot in the door" Kirk was strongly opposed to Michael pursuing an acting career, saying that it was an industry with many downs and few ups, and that he wanted all four of his sons to stay out of it. Michael, however, was persistent, and made his film debut in his father's film Cast a Giant Shadow (1966).
After receiving his B.A. degree in 1968, Douglas moved to New York City to continue his dramatic training, studying at the American Place Theatre with Wynn Handman, and at the Neighborhood Playhouse, where he appeared in workshop productions of Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author (1976) and Thornton Wilder's Happy Journey (1963). A few months after he arrived in New York, Douglas got his first big break, when he was cast in the pivotal role of the free-spirited scientist who compromises his liberal views to accept a lucrative job with a high-tech chemical corporation in the CBS Playhouse production of Ellen M. Violett's drama, The Experiment, which was televised nationwide on February 25, 1969.
Douglas' convincing portrayal won him the leading role in the adaptation of John Weston's controversial novel, Hail, Hero! (1969), which was the initial project of CBS's newly organized theatrical film production company, Cinema Center Films. Douglas starred as a well-meaning, almost saintly young pacifist determined not only to justify his beliefs to his conservative parents but also to test them under fire in the jungles of Indochina. His second feature, Adam at Six A.M. (1970) concerned a young man's search for his roots. Douglas next appeared in the film version of Ron Cowen's play Summertree (1971), produced by 'Kirk Douglas'' Bryna Company, and then Napoleon and Samantha (1972), a sentimental children's melodrama from the Walt Disney studio.
In between film assignments, he worked in summer stock and off-Broadway productions, among them "City Scenes," Frank Gagliano's surrealistic vignettes of contemporary life in New York, John Patrick Shanley's short-lived romance "Love is a Time of Day" and George Tabori's "Pinkville," in which he played a young innocent brutalized by his military training. He also appeared in the made-for-television thriller, "When Michael Calls," broadcast by ABC-TV on February 5, 1972 and in episodes of the popular series "Medical Center" and "The F.B.I."
Impressed by Douglas' performance in a segment of The F.B.I. (1965), producer 'Quinn Martin' signed the actor for the part of Karl Malden's sidekick in the police series "The Streets of San Francisco", which premiered in September 1972 and became one of ABC's highest-rated prime-time programs in the mid-1970s. Douglas earned three successive Emmy Award nominations for his performance and he directed two episodes of the series.
During the annual breaks in the shooting schedule for The Streets of San Francisco (1972), Douglas devoted most of his time to his film production company, Big Stick Productions, Ltd., which produced several short subjects in the early 1970s. Long interested in producing a film version of Ken Kesey's grimly humorous novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975), Douglas purchased the movie rights from his father and began looking for financial backing. After a number of major motion picture studios turned him down, Douglas formed a partnership with Saul Zaentz, a record industry executive, and the two set about recruiting the cast and crew. Douglas still had a year to go on his contract for "The Streets of San Francisco," but the producers agreed to write his character out of the story so that he could concentrate on filming "Cuckoo's Nest."
A critical and commercial success, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress, and went on to gross more than $180 million at the box office. Douglas suddenly found himself in demand as an independent producer. One of the many scripts submitted to him for consideration was Mike Gray's chilling account of the attempted cover-up of an accident at a nuclear power plant. Attracted by the combination of social relevance and suspense, Douglas immediately bought the property. Deemed not commercial by most investors, Douglas teamed up with Jane Fonda and her own motion picture production company, IPC Films.
A Michael Douglas-IPC Films co-production, The China Syndrome (1979) starred Jack Lemmon, Jane Fonda, and Michael Douglas and received Academy Award nominations for Lemmon and Fonda, as well as for Best Screenplay. The National Board of Review named the film one of the best films of the year.
Despite his success as a producer, Douglas resumed his acting career in the late 1970s, starring in Michael Crichton's medical thriller Coma (1978) with Genevieve Bujold, Claudia Weill's feminist comedy It's My Turn (1980) starring Jill Clayburgh, and Peter Hyams' gripping tale of modern-day vigilante justice, "The Star Chamber" (1983). Douglas also starred in Running (1979), as a compulsive quitter who sacrifices everything to take one last shot at the Olympics, and as Zach the dictatorial director/choreographer in Richard Attenborough's screen version of the Broadway's longest running musical A Chorus Line (1985).
Douglas' career as an actor/producer came together again in 1984 with the release of the tongue-in-cheek romantic fantasy "Romancing the Stone." Douglas had begun developing the project several years earlier, and with Kathleen Turner as Joan Wilder, the dowdy writer of gothic romances, Danny DeVito as the feisty comic foil Ralphie and Douglas as Jack Colton, the reluctant soldier of fortune. "Romancing the Stone" was a resounding hit and grossed more than $100 million at the box office. Douglas was named Producer of the Year in 1984 by the National Association of Theater Owners. Douglas, Turner and DeVito teamed up in 1985 for the successful sequel The Jewel of the Nile (1985).
It took Douglas nearly two years to convince Columbia Pictures executives to approve the production of Starman (1984), an unlikely tale of romance between an extraterrestrial, played by Jeff Bridges, and a young widow, played by Karen Allen. Starman (1984) was the sleeper hit of the 1984 Christmas season and earned an Oscar nomination for Best Actor for Jeff Bridges. In 1986 Douglas created a television series based on the film for ABC which starred Robert Hays.
After a lengthy break from acting, Douglas returned to the screen in 1987 appearing in two of the year's biggest hits. He starred opposite Glenn Close in the phenomenally successful psychological thriller, "Fatal Attraction," which was followed by his performance as ruthless corporate raider Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987), earning him the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Douglas next starred in Ridley Scott's thriller Black Rain (1989) and then teamed up again with Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito in the black comedy The War of the Roses (1989).
In 1988, Douglas formed Stonebridge Entertainment, Inc., which produced Flatliners (1990), directed by Joel Schumacher and starred Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon and William Baldwin and Radio Flyer (1992) starring Lorraine Bracco and directed by Richard Donner. Douglas followed with David Seltzer's adaptation of Susan Isaacs' best-selling novel, "Shining Through," opposite Melanie Griffith. In 1992 he starred with Sharon Stone in the erotic thriller from Paul Verhoeven Basic Instinct (1992), one of the year's top grossing films.
Douglas gave one of his most powerful performances opposite Robert Duvall in Joel Schumacher's controversial drama Falling Down (1993). That year he also produced the hit comedy "Made in America" starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ted Danson and Will Smith. In 1994-95 he starred with Demi Moore in Barry Levinson's "Disclosure," based on the best seller by Michael Crichton. In 1995, Douglas portrayed the title role in Rob Reiner's romantic comedy The American President (1995) opposite Annette Bening, and in 1997, starred in The Game (1997) directed by David Fincher and co-starring Sean Penn.
Douglas formed Douglas/Reuther Productions with partner Steven Reuther in May 1994. The company, under the banner of Constellation Films, produced The Ghost and the Darkness (1996), starring Douglas and Val Kilmer, and John Grisham's The Rainmaker (1997), based on John Grisham's best selling novel, directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Matt Damon,Claire Danes, Danny DeVito, Jon Voight, Mickey Rourke, Mary Kay Place, Virginia Madsen, Andrew Shue, Teresa Wright, Johnny Whitworth and Randy Travis.
Michael Douglas and Steve Reuther also produced John Woo's action thriller Face/Off (1997) starring John Travolta and Nicolas Cage, which proved to be one of '97's major hits.
In 1998, Michael Douglas starred with Gwyneth Paltrow and Viggo Mortensen in the mystery thriller A Perfect Murder (1998), and formed a new production company, Furthur Films. 2000 was a milestone year for Douglas. "Wonder Boys" opened in February 2000 to much critical acclaim. Directed by Curtis Hanson and co-starring Tobey Maguire, Frances McDormand, Robert Downey Jr. and Katie Holmes, Douglas starred in the film as troubled college professor Grady Tripp. Michael was nominated for a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Film Award for his performance.
"Traffic" was released by USA Films on December 22, 2000 in New York and Los Angeles and went nationwide in January 2001. Douglas played the role of Robert Wakefield, a newly appointed drug czar confronted by the drug war both at home and abroad. Directed by Steven Soderbergh and co-starring Don Cheadle, Benicio del Toro, Amy Irving, Dennis Quaid and Catherine Zeta-Jones, "Traffic" was named Best Picture by New York Film Critics, won Best Ensemble Cast at the SAG Awards, won four Academy Awards (Best Screenplay, Best Editing, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro) and has been recognized on more than 175 top ten lists.
In 2001, Douglas produced and played a small role in USA Films' outrageous comedy "One Night at McCool's" starring Liv Tyler, Matt Dillon, John Goodman and Paul Reiser and directed by Harald Zwart. "McCool's" was the first film by Douglas' company Furthur Films. Also in 2001, Douglas starred in "Don't Say A Word" for 20th Century Fox. The psychological thriller, directed by Gary Fleder, also starred Sean Bean, Famke Janseen and Brittany Murphy.
In 2002, Douglas appeared in a guest role on the hit NBC comedy "Will & Grace," and received an Emmy Nomination for his performance.
Douglas starred in two films in 2003. MGM/BVI released the family drama "It Runs in the Family," which Douglas produced and starred with his father Kirk Douglas, his mother Diana Douglas his son Cameron Douglas, Rory Culkin and Bernadette Peters. He also starred in the Warner Bros. comedy "The-In Laws," with Albert Brooks, Candice Bergen and Ryan Reynolds.
In 2004, Douglas, along with his father Kirk, filmed the intimate HBO documentary "A Father, A Son... Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". Directed by award-winning filmmaker Lee Grant, the documentary examines the professional and personal lives of both men, and the impacts they each made on the motion picture industry.
In 2005, Douglas produced and starred in "The Sentinel", which was released by 20th Century Fox in April 2006. Based on the Gerald Petievich novel and directed by Clark Johnson, "The Sentinel" is a political thriller set in the intriguing world of the Secret Service. Douglas stars with Keifer Sutherland, Eva Longoria and Kim Bassinger. Douglas then filmed "You, Me & Dupree," starring with Owen Wilson, Kate Hudson and Matt Dillon. The comedy, directed by Anthony and Joe Russo, was released by Universal Pictures during the summer of 2006. In 2007 Douglas made "King of California," co-starring Evan Rachel Wood and is written and directed by Michael Cahill, and produced by Alexander Payne and Michael London.
Michael had two films released in early 2009, "Beyond A Reasonable Doubt" directed by Peter Hyams and "Ghosts of Girlfriends Past" starring Matthew McConaughey and Jennifer Garner and directed by Mark Waters. He followed with the drama "Solitary Man" directed by Brian Koppelman and David Levien, co-starring Susan Sarandon, Danny DeVito, Mary Louise-Parker, and Jenna Fischer, produced by Paul Schiff and Steven Soderbergh. In 2010, Douglas reprised his Oscar-winning role as Gordon Gekko in "Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps," earning a Golden Globe for his performance. Again directed by Oliver Stone, he co-starred with Shia Labeouf, Cary Mulligan, Josh Brolin, Frank Langella and Susan Sarandon.
In 2011, Douglas had a cameo role in Steven Soderbergh's action thriller "Haywire."
"Behind the Candelabra," based on the life of '70's/80's musical icon Liberace and his partner Scott Thorson, directed by Steven Soderbergh and costarring Matt Damon, premiered on HBO in May 2013. Douglas won an Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG Award for Best Actor in a television movie or mini series for his performance as the famed entertainer. He followed with the buddy comedy "Last Vegas," directed by John Turtletaub co-starring Robert DeNiro, Morgan Freeman and Kevin Kline and the romantic comedy "And So It Goes," co-starring Diane Keaton directed by Rob Reiner.
Douglas recently starred in and produced the thriller "Beyond The Reach," directed by Jean-Baptiste Leonetti and costarring Jeremy Irvine. He and portrayed Dr. Hank Pym in Marvel's Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018) and Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023) opposite Paul Rudd. The franchise was his first venture into the realm of comic book action adventure.
In 2017, he starred in the spy thriller "Unlocked" starring with Noomi Rapace, Orlando Bloom, John Malkovich and directed by Michael Apted.
In 1998 Douglas was made a United Nations Messenger of Peace by Kofi Annan. His main concentrations are nuclear non-proliferation and the control of small arms. He is on the Board of Ploughshares Foundation and The Nuclear Threat Initiative.
Michael Douglas was recipient of the 2009 AFI Lifetime Achievement as well as the Producers Guild Award that year. In Spring '10 he received the New York Film Society's Charlie Chaplin Award.
Douglas has hosted 11 years of "Michael Douglas and Friends" Celebrity Golf Event which has raised over $6 million for the Motion Picture and Television Fund. Douglas is very passionate about the organization, and each year he asks his fellow actors and to come out and show that "we are an industry that takes care of own".
Douglas is married to Catherine Zeta-Jones. The couple has one son, Dylan, and one daughter, Carys. Douglas also has one son, Cameron, from a previous marriage.Melville Shavelson (Cast a Giant Shadow; 1966)
David Miller (Hail, Hero; 1969)
Robert Scheerer (Adam at 6 A.M.; 1970)
Anthony Newley (Summertree; 1971)
Bernard McEveety (Napoleon and Samantha; 1972)
Michael Crichton (Coma; 1978)
James Bridges (The China Syndrome; 1979)
Steven Hilliard Stern (Running; 1979)
Claudia Weill (It’s My Turn; 1980)
Peter Hyams (2; The Star Chamber; 1983, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt; 2009)
Robert Zemeckis (Romancing the Stone; 1984)
Lewis Teague (The Jewel of the Nile; 1985)
Richard Attenborough (A Chorus Line; 1985)
Adrian Lyne (Fatal Attraction; 1987)
Oliver Stone (2; Wall Street; 1987, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; 2010)
Ridley Scott (Black Rain; 1989)
Danny DeVito (The War of the Roses; 1989)
David Seltzer (Shining Through; 1992)
Paul Verhoeven (Basic Instinct; 1992)
Joel Schumacher (Falling Down; 1993)
Barry Levinson (Disclosure; 1994)
Rob Reiner (2; The American President; 1995, And So It Goes; 2014)
Stephen Hopkins (The Ghost and the Darkness; 1996)
David Fincher (The Game; 1997)
Andrew Davis (A Perfect Murder; 1998)
Curtis Hanson (Wonder Boys; 2000)
Steven Soderbergh (2; Traffic; 2000, Haywire; 2011)
Harald Zwart (One Night at the McCools; 2001)
Gary Fleder (Don’t Say a Word; 2001)
Fred Schepisi (It Runs in the Family; 2003)
Andrew Fleming (The In-Laws; 2003)
Clark Johnson (The Sentinel; 2006)
Anthony and Joe Russo (2; You, Me and Dupree; 2006, Avengers: Endgame; 2019)
Mike Cahill (King of California; 2007)
Mark Waters (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past; 2009)
Brian Koppelman w/ David Levien (Solitary Man; 2009)
Jon Turtletaub (Last Vegas; 2013)
Jean-Baptiste Leonetti (Beyond the Reach; 2014)
Peyton Reed (3; Ant-Man; 2015, Ant-Man and the Wasp; 2018, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; 2022)
Michael Apted (Unlocked; 2017)
Han Yan (Animal World; 2018)
Collaborations:
Peyton Reed - 3
Steven Soderbergh - 2
Rob Reiner - 2
Anthony and Joe Russo - 2
Oliver Stone - 2
Peter Hyams - 2
Other notable directors:
Curtis Hanson
Andrew Davis
Stephen Hopkins
David Fincher
Barry Levinson
Joel Schumacher
Ridley Scott
Paul Verhoeven
Richard Attenborough
Robert Zemeckis
Michael Apted- Actor
- Additional Crew
- Producer
Quirky, inventive and handsome American actor Michael Keaton first achieved major fame with his door-busting performance as fast-talking ideas man Bill Blazejowski, alongside a nerdish morgue attendant (Henry Winkler), in Night Shift (1982). He played further comedic roles in Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny Dangerously (1984), and Beetlejuice (1988), earned further acclaim for his dramatic portrayal of Bruce Wayne / Batman in Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and Batman Returns (1992), and since then, has moved easily between film genres, ranging from drama and romantic comedy to thriller and action.
Keaton was born Michael John Douglas on September 5, 1951 in Coraopolis, Pennsylvania, to Leona Elizabeth (Loftus), a homemaker, and George A. Douglas, a civil engineer and surveyor. He is of Irish, as well as English, Scottish, and German, descent. Michael studied speech for two years at Kent State, before dropping out and moving to Pittsburgh. An unsuccessful attempt at stand-up comedy led Keaton to working as a TV cameraman in a cable station, and he came to realize he wanted to work in front of the cameras. Keaton first appeared on TV in several episodes of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968).
He left Pittsburgh and moved to Los Angeles to begin auditioning for TV. He began cropping up in popular TV shows including Maude (1972) and The Mary Tyler Moore Hour (1979). Around this time, Keaton decided to use an alternative surname to remove confusion with better-known actor Michael Douglas. He looked into the "K"'s for surnames and thought it was inoffensive to chose 'Keaton'. His next break was scoring a co-starring role alongside Jim Belushi in the short-lived comedy series Working Stiffs (1979), which showcased his comedic talent and led to his co-starring role in Night Shift (1982). Keaton next scored the lead in the comedy hits Mr. Mom (1983), Johnny Dangerously (1984) , Gung Ho (1986), the Tim Burton horror-comedy Beetlejuice (1988), and The Dream Team (1989).
Keaton's career was given another major boost when he was again cast by Tim Burton, this time as the title comic book superhero, millionaire playboy/crime-fighter Bruce Wayne, in Batman (1989). Burton cast him because he thought that Keaton was the only actor who could portray someone who has the kind of darkly obsessive personality that the character demands. To say there were howls of protest by fans of the caped crusader comic strip is an understatement! Warner Bros. was deluged with thousands of letters of complaint commenting that comedian Keaton was the wrong choice for the Caped Crusader, given his prior work and the fact that he lacked the suave, handsome features and tall, muscular physicality often attributed to the character in the comic books. However, their fears were proven wrong when Keaton turned in a sensational performance, and he held his own on screen with opponent Jack Nicholson, playing the lunatic villain, "The Joker". Keaton's dramatic work earned widespread acclaim from critics and audiences alike, and Batman (1989) became one of the most successful films of the year.
Keaton remained active during the 1990s, appearing in a wide range of films. Keen to diversify his work, Keaton starred as a psychotic tenant in Pacific Heights (1990), as a hard-working cop in One Good Cop (1991), and then donned the black cape and cowl once more for Batman Returns (1992). He remained in demand during the 1990s, appearing in a wide range of films, including the star-studded Shakespearian Much Ado About Nothing (1993), the drama My Life (1993), another Ron Howard comedy The Paper (1994), with sexy Andie MacDowell in Multiplicity (1996), twice in the same role, dogged Elmore Leonard character Agent Ray Nicolette, in Jackie Brown (1997) and Out of Sight (1998). He also played a killer in the mediocre thriller Desperate Measures (1998).
In the 2000s, Keaton appeared in several productions with mixed success, including Live from Baghdad (2002), First Daughter (2004), and Herbie Fully Loaded (2005). He also provided voices for characters in the animated films Cars (2006), Toy Story 3 (2010), and Minions (2015).
He returned to major film roles in the 2010s, co-starring in The Other Guys (2010), RoboCop (2014) and Need for Speed (2014). Also that year, Keaton starred alongside Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Emma Stone, and Naomi Watts in Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014), a film by 21 Grams (2003) and Biutiful (2010) director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. In the film, Keaton plays Riggan Thomson, a screen actor, famous for playing the iconic titular superhero, who puts on a Broadway play based on a Raymond Carver short story, to regain his former glory. Keaton's critically praised lead performance earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, the Critics' Choice Award for Best Actor and Best Actor in a Comedy, and nominations for the Screen Actors Guild Award, British Academy Film Award, and Academy Award for Best Actor.
In 2015, he played a journalist in Spotlight (2015), which, like Birdman, won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2016, he starred as Ray Kroc, the developer of McDonald's, in the drama The Founder (2016).
He is a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University.Joan Rivers (Rabbit Test; (1978)
Fern Field (A Different Approach; 1978)
Ron Howard (3; Night Shift; 1982, Gung Ho; 1986, The Paper; 1994)
Stan Dragoti (Mr. Mom; 1983)
Amy Heckerling (Johnny Dangerously; 1984)
Robert Mandel (Touch and Go; 1986)
Roger Young (The Squeeze; 1987)
John Hughes (She’s Having a Baby; 1988)
Tim Burton (4; Beetlejuice; 1988, Batman; 1989, Batman Returns; 1992, Dumbo; 2019)
Glenn Gordon Caron (Clean and Sober; 1988)
Howard Zieff (The Dream Team; 1989)
John Schlesinger (Pacific Heights; 1990)
Heywood Gould (One Good Cop; 1991)
Kenneth Branagh (Much Ado About Nothing; 1993)
Bruce Joel Rubin (My Life; 1993)
Ron Underwood (Speechless; 1994)
Harold Ramis (Multiplicity; 1996)
Pat O’Connor (Inventing the Abbotts; 1997)
Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown; 1997)
Barbet Schroeder (Desperate Measures; 1998)
Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight; 1998)
Troy Miller (Jack Frost; 1998)
Michael Corrente (A Shot at Glory; 2002)
John Mackenzie (Quicksand; 2004)
Forest Whitaker (First Daughter; 2004)
Geoffrey Sax (White Noise; 2005)
Hayao Miyazaki (Porco Rosso; 2005)
Angela Robinson (Herbie: Fully Loaded; 2005)
Michael Hoffman (Game 6; 2005)
John Lasseter (Cars; 2006)
Michael Caleo (The Last Time; 2006)
Vicky Jenson (Post Grad; 2009)
Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3; 2010)
Adam McKay (The Other Guys; 2010)
Joseph Ruben (Penthouse North; 2013)
Jose Padilha (RoboCop; 2014)
Scott Waugh (Need the Speed; 2014)
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu (Birdman; 2014)
Pierre Coffin w/ Kyle Balda (Minions; 2015)
Tom McCarthy (Spotlight; 2015)
John Lee Hancock (The Founder; 2016)
Jon Watts (Spider-Man: Homecoming; 2017)
Michael Cuesta (American Assassin; 2017)
Sara Colangelo (Worth; 2020)
Aaron Sorkin (The Trial of the Chicago 7; 2020)
Martin Campbell (The Protégé; 2021)
Daniel Espinosa (Morbius; 2021)
Adil El Arbi (Batgirl; 2022)
Bilall Fallah (Batgirl; 2022)
Andy Muschietti (The Flash; 2022)
Collaborations:
Tim Burton - 4
Ron Howard - 3
Other notable directors:
Steven Soderbergh
Alejandro Gonzalez Innaritu
Aaron Sorkin
John Lee Hancock
John Lasseter
Hayao Miyazaki
Quentin Tarantino
Barbet Schroeder
Harold Ramis
Kenneth Branagh
John Hughes
Jon Watts
Lee Unkrich- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Jared Leto is a very familiar face in recent film history. Although he has always been the lead vocals, rhythm guitar, and songwriter for American band Thirty Seconds to Mars, Leto is an accomplished actor merited by the numerous, challenging projects he has taken in his life. He is known to be selective about his film roles.
Jared Leto was born in Bossier City, Louisiana, to Constance "Connie" (Metrejon) and Anthony L. "Tony" Bryant. The surname "Leto" is from his stepfather. His ancestry includes English, Cajun (French), as well as Irish, German, and Scottish. Jared and his family traveled across the United States throughout his childhood, living in such states as Wyoming, Virginia and Colorado. Leto would continue this trend when he initially dropped a study of painting at Philadelphia's University of the Arts in favor of a focus on acting at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
In 1992, Leto moved to Los Angeles to pursue a musical career, intending to take acting roles on the side. Leto's first appearances on screen were guest appearances on the short-lived television shows Camp Wilder (1992), Almost Home (1993) and Rebel Highway (1994). However, his next role would change everything for Leto. While searching for film roles, he was cast in the show, My So-Called Life (1994) (TV Series 1994-1995). Leto's character was "Jordan Catalano", the handsome, dyslexic slacker, the main love interest of "Angela" (played by Claire Danes). Leto contributed to the soundtrack of the film, and so impressed the producers initially that he was soon a regular on the show until its end.
Elsewhere, Leto began taking film roles. His first theatrically released film was the ensemble piece, How to Make an American Quilt (1995), based on a novel of the same name and starring renowned actresses Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Jean Simmons and Alfre Woodard. The film was a modest success and, while Leto's next film, The Last of the High Kings (1996), was a failure, Leto secured his first leading role in Prefontaine (1997), based on long-distance runner Steven Prefontaine. The film was a financial flop, but was praised by critics, notably Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert. He also took a supporting role in the action thriller, Switchback (1997), which starred Dennis Quaid, but the film was another failure.
Leto's work was slowly becoming recognized in Hollywood, and he continued to find work in film. In 1998, everything turned for the better on all fronts. This was the year that Leto founded the band, Thirty Seconds to Mars, with his brother, Shannon Leto, as well as Matt Wachter (who later left the group), and after two guitarists joined and quit, Tomo Milicevic was brought in as lead guitarist and keyboardist. As well as the formation of his now-famous band, Leto's luck in film was suddenly shooting for the better. He was cast as the lead in the horror film, Urban Legend (1998), which told a grisly tale of a murderer who kills his victims in the style of urban legends. The film was a massive success commercially, though critics mostly disliked the film. That same year, Leto also landed a supporting role in the film, The Thin Red Line (1998). Renowned director Terrence Malick's first film in nearly twenty years, the film had dozens of famous actors in the cast, including Sean Penn, Woody Harrelson, John Travolta, Nick Nolte and Elias Koteas, to name a few. The film went through much editing, leaving several actors out of the final version, but Leto luckily remained in the film. The Thin Red Line (1998) was nominated for seven Oscars and was a moderate success at the box office. Leto's fame had just begun. He had supporting roles in both James Mangold's Girl, Interrupted (1999), and in David Fincher's cult classic, Fight Club (1999), dealing with masculinity, commercialism, fascism and insomnia. While Edward Norton and Brad Pitt were the lead roles, Leto took a supporting role and dyed his hair blond. The film remains hailed by many, but at the time, Leto was already pushing himself further into controversial films. He played a supporting role of "Paul Allen" in the infamous American Psycho (2000), starring Christian Bale, and he played the lead role in Darren Aronofsky's Requiem for a Dream (2000), which had Leto take grueling measures to prepare for his role as a heroin addict trying to put his plans to reality and escape the hell he is in. Both films were massive successes, if controversially received.
The 2000s brought up new film opportunities for Leto. He reunited with David Fincher in Panic Room (2002), which was another success for Leto, as well as Oliver Stone's epic passion project, Alexander (2004). The theatrical cut was poorly received domestically (although it recouped its budget through DVD sales and international profit), and though a Final Cut was released that much improved the film in all aspects, it continues to be frowned upon by the majority of film goers. Leto rebounded with Lord of War (2005), which starred Nicolas Cage as an arms dealer who ships weapons to war zones, with Leto playing his hapless but more moral-minded brother. The film was an astounding look at the arms industry, but was not a big financial success. Leto's flush of successes suddenly ran dry when he acted in the period piece, Lonely Hearts (2006), which had Leto playing "Ray Fernandez", one of the two infamous "Lonely Hearts Killers" in the 1940s. The film was a financial failure and only received mixed responses. Leto then underwent a massive weight gain to play "Mark David Chapman", infamous murderer of John Lennon, in the movie, Chapter 27 (2007). While Leto did a fantastic job embodying the behavior and speech patterns of Chapman, the film was a complete flop, and was a critical bomb to boot. It was during this period that Leto focused increasingly on his band, turning down such films as Clint Eastwood's World War 2 film, Flags of Our Fathers (2006).
In 2009, however, Leto returned to acting with Mr. Nobody (2009). Leto's role as "Nemo Nobody" required him to play the character as far aged as 118, even as he undergoes a soul-searching as to whether his life turned out the way he wanted it to. The film was mostly funded through Belgian and French financiers, and was given limited release in only certain countries. Critical response, however, has praised the film's artistry and Leto's acting.
He made his directorial debut in 2012 with the documentary film Artifact (2012).
Leto remains the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter for Thirty Seconds to Mars. Their debut album, 30 Seconds to Mars (2002), was released to positive reviews but only to limited success. The band achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album A Beautiful Lie (2005). Their following releases, This Is War (2009) and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013), received further critical and commercial success.
After a five years hiatus from filming, Leto returned to act in the drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013), directed by Jean-Marc Vallée and co-starring Matthew McConaughey. Leto portrayed Rayon, a drug-addicted transgender woman with AIDS who befriends McConaughey's character Ron Woodroof. Leto's performance earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Supporting Actor. In order to accurately portray his role, Leto lost 30 pounds, shaved his eyebrows and waxed his entire body. He stated the portrayal was grounded in his meeting transgender people while researching the role. During filming, Leto refused to break character. Dallas Buyers Club received widespread critical acclaim and became a financial success, resulting in various accolades for Leto, who was awarded the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role and a variety of film critics' circle awards for the role.
In 2016, he played the Joker in the super villain film Suicide Squad (2016).
Leto is considered to be a method actor, known for his constant devotion to and research of his roles. He often remains completely in character for the duration of the shooting schedules of his films, even to the point of adversely affecting his health.Jocelyn Moorhouse (How to Make an American Quilt; 1995)
David Keating (The Last of the High Kings; 1996)
Steve James (Prefontaine; 1997)
Jeb Stuart (Switchback; 1997)
Radha Bharadwaj (Basil; 1998)
Jamie Blanks (Urban Legend; 1998)
Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line; 1998)
James Toback (Black and White; 1999)
David Fincher (2; Fight Club; 1999, Panic Room; 2002)
James Mangold (Girl, Interrupted; 1999)
Mary Harrone (American Psycho; 2000)
Darren Aronofsky (Requiem for a Dream; 2000)
Adam Collis (Sunset Strip; 2000)
Danny Comden (Sol Goode; 2001)
James Cox (Highway; 2002)
Joel Schumacher (Phone Booth; 2003)
Oliver Stone (Alexander; 2004)
Andrew Niccol (Lord of War; 2005)
Todd Robinson (Lonely Hearts; 2006)
Jarrett Schaefer (Chapter 27; 2007)
Jaco Van Dormael (Mr. Nobody; 2009)
Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club; 2013)
David Ayer (Suicide Squad; 2016)
Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049; 2017)
Luke Scott (2036: Nexus Dawn; 2017)
Martin Zandvliet (The Outsider; 2018)
John Lee Hancock (The Little Things; 2021)
Daniel Espinosa (Morbius; 2021)
Collaborations:
David Fincher - 2
Other notable directors:
John Lee Hancock
Denis Villeneuve
Oliver Stone
Joel Schumacher
James Mangold
Darren Aronofsky
Terrence Malick- Actor
- Director
- Cinematographer
When hunky, twenty-year-old heart-throb Heath Ledger first came to the attention of the public in 1999, it was all too easy to tag him as a "pretty boy" and an actor of little depth. He spent several years trying desperately to sway this image, but this was a double-edged sword. His work comprised nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Ned Kelly (2003), The Brothers Grimm (2005), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), Casanova (2005), Candy (2006), I'm Not There (2007), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009). He also produced and directed music videos and aspired to be a film director.
Heath Ledger was born on the fourth of April 1979, in Perth, Western Australia, to Sally (Ramshaw), a teacher of French, and Kim Ledger, a mining engineer who also raced cars. His ancestry was Scottish, English, Irish, and Sephardi Jewish. As the story goes, in junior high school it was compulsory to take one of two electives, either cooking or drama. As Heath could not see himself in a cooking class he tried his hand at drama. Heath was talented, however the rest of the class did not acknowledge his talent. When he was seventeen he and a friend decided to pack up, leave school, take a car and rough it to Sydney. Heath believed Sydney to be the place where dreams were made or, at least, where actors could possibly get their big break. Upon arriving in Sydney with a purported sixty-nine cents to his name, Heath tried everything to get a break.
His first real acting job came in a low-budget movie called Blackrock (1997), a largely unimpressive cliché; an adolescent angst film about one boy's struggle when he learns his best mate raped a girl. He only had a very small role in the film. After that small role Heath auditioned for a role in a T.V. show called Sweat (1996) about a group of young Olympic hopefuls. He was offered one of two roles, one as a swimmer, another as a gay cyclist. Heath accepted the latter because he felt to really stand out as an actor one had to accept unique roles that stood out from the bunch. It got him small notice, but unfortunately the show was quickly axed, forcing him to look for other roles. He was in Home and Away (1988) for a very short period, in which he played a surfer who falls in love with one of the girls of Summer Bay. Then came his very brief role in Paws (1997), a film which existed solely to cash in on guitar prodigy Nathan Cavaleri's brief moment of fame, where he was the hottest thing in Australia. Heath played a student in the film, involved in a stage production of a Shakespeare play, in which he played "Oberon". A very brief role, this offered him a small paycheck but did nothing to advance his career. Then came Two Hands (1999). He went to the U.S. trying to audition for film roles, showcasing his brief role in Roar (1997) opposite then unknown Vera Farmiga.
Then Australian director Gregor Jordan auditioned him for the lead in Two Hands (1999), which he got. An in your face Aussie crime thriller, Two Hands (1999) was outstanding and helped him secure a role in 10 Things I Hate About You (1999). After that, it seemed Heath was being typecast as a young hunk, which he did not like, so he accepted a role in a very serious war drama The Patriot (2000).
What followed was a stark inconsistency of roles, Ledger accepting virtually every single character role, anything to avoid being typecast. Some met with praise, like his short role in Monster's Ball (2001), but his version of Ned Kelly (2003) was an absolute flop, which led distributors hesitant to even release it outside Australia. Heath finally had deserved success with his role in Brokeback Mountain (2005). For his portrayal of Ennis Del Mar in in the film, Ledger won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and Best International Actor from the Australian Film Institute, and was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role and for the Academy Award for Best Actor.
Ledger was found dead on January 22, 2008 in his apartment in the Manhattan neighborhood of SoHo, with a bottle of prescription sleeping pills near-by. It was concluded weeks later that he died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs that included pain-killers, sleeping pills and anti-anxiety medication. His death occurred during editing of The Dark Knight (2008) and in the midst of filming his last role as Tony in The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009).
Posthumously, he shared the 2007 Independent Spirit Robert Altman Award with the rest of the ensemble cast, the director, and the casting director for the film I'm Not There (2007), which was inspired by the life and songs of American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. In the film, Ledger portrayed a fictional actor named Robbie Clark, one of six characters embodying aspects of Dylan's life and persona.
A few months before his death, Ledger had finished filming his performance as the Joker in 'The Dark Knight (2008). His untimely death cast a somber shadow over the subsequent promotion of the $185 million Batman production. Ledger received more than thirty posthumous accolades for his critically acclaimed performance as the Joker, the psychopathic clown prince of crime, in the film, including the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, a Best Actor International Award at the 2008 Australian Film Institute Awards (for which he is the second actor to win an acting award posthumously after Peter Finch who won an Oscar for Network (Best Actor 1977)), the 2008 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Supporting Actor, the 2009 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor - Motion Picture, and the 2009 BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor.George Whaley (Clowning Around; 1995)
Steven Vidler (Blackrock; 1997)
Karl Zwicky (Paws; 1997)
Gil Junger (10 Things I Hate About You; 1999)
Gregor Jordan (2; Two Hands; 1999, Ned Kelly; 2003)
Roland Emmerich (The Patriot; 2000)
Brian Helgeland (2; A Knights Take; 2001, The Order; 2003)
Marc Forster (Monster’s Ball; 2001)
Shekhar Kapur (The Four Feathers; 2002)
Catherine Hardwicke (Lords of Dogtown; 2005)
Terry Gilliam (2; The Brothers Grimm; 2005, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; 2009)
Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain; 2005)
Lasse Hallstrom (Casanova; 2005)
Neil Armfield (Candy; 2006)
Todd Haynes (I’m Not There; 2007)
Christopher Nolan (The Dark Knight; 2008)
Collaborations:
Terry Gilliam - 2
Brian Helgeland - 2
Gregor Jordan - 2
Other notable directors:
Christopher Nolan
Lasse Hallstrom
Marc Forster
Roland Emmerich
Ang Lee- Actor
- Producer
- Director
One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained at the Stella Adler Conservatory and the American Workshop. De Niro first gained fame for his role in Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), but he gained his reputation as a volatile actor in Mean Streets (1973), which was his first film with director Martin Scorsese. He received an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in The Godfather Part II (1974) and received Academy Award nominations for best actor in Taxi Driver (1976), The Deer Hunter (1978) and Cape Fear (1991). He received the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980).
De Niro has earned four Golden Globe Award nominations for Best Actor - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy, for his work in New York, New York (1977), opposite Liza Minnelli, Midnight Run (1988), Analyze This (1999) and Meet the Parents (2000). Other notable performances include Brazil (1985), The Untouchables (1987), Backdraft (1991), Frankenstein (1994), Heat (1995), Casino (1995) and Jackie Brown (1997). At the same time, he also directed and starred in such films as A Bronx Tale (1993) and The Good Shepherd (2006). De Niro has also received the AFI Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003 and the Golden Globe Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010.
As of 2022, De Niro is 79-years-old. He has never retired from acting, and continues to work regularly in mostly film.Marcel Carne (Three Rooms in Manhattan; 1965)
Brian de Palma (4; Greetings; 1966, The Wedding Party; 1969, Hi, Mom; 1970, The Untouchables; 1987)
Jordan Leondopoulos (Sam’s Song; 1969)
Roger Corman (Bloody Mama; 1970)
Noel Black (Jennifer on My Mind; 1971)
Ivan Passer (Born to Win; 1971)
James Goldstone (The Gang that Couldn’t Shoot Straight; 1971)
John D. Hancock (Bang the Drum Slowly; 1973)
Martin Scorsese (10; Mean Streets; 1973, Taxi Driver; 1976, New York, New York; 1977, Raging Bull; 1980, The King of Comedy; 1982, Goodfellas; 1990, Cape Fear; 1991, Casino; 1995, The Audition; 2015, The Irishman; 2019)
Francis Ford Coppola (Godfather Part II; 1974)
Bernardo Bertolucci (1900; 1976)
Elia Kazan (The Last Tycoon; 1976)
Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter; 1978)
Ulu Grosbard (2; True Confessions; 1981, Falling in Love; 1984)
Sergio Leone (Once Upon a Time in America; 1984)
Terry Gilliam (Brazil; 1985)
Roland Joffe (The Mission; 1986)
Alan Parker (Angel Heart; 1987)
Martin Brest (Midnight Run; 1988)
David Jones (Jacknife; 1989)
Neil Jordan (We’re No Angels; 1989)
Martin Ritt (Stanley and Iris; 1990)
Penny Marshall (Awakenings; 1990)
Irwin Winkler (2; Guilty by Suspicion; 1991, Night and the City; 1992)
Ron Howard (Backdraft; 1991)
Barry Primus (Mistress; 1992)
John McNaughton (Mad Dog and Glory: 1993)
Michael Caton-Jones (2; That Boys Life; 1993, City by the Sea; 2002)
Kenneth Branagh (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; 1994)
Michael Mann (Heat; 1995)
Agnes Varda (One Hundred and One Nights; 1995)
Tony Scott (The Fan; 1996)
Barry Levinson (3; Sleepers; 1996, Wag the Dog; 1997, What Just Happened; 2008)
Jerry Zaks (Marvin’s Room; 1996)
James Mangold (Cop Land; 1997)
Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown; 1997)
Alfonso Cuaron (Great Expectations; 1998)
John Frankenheimer (Ronin; 1998)
Harold Ramis (2; Analyze This; 1999, Analyze That; 2002)
Joel Schumacher (Flawless; 1999)
Des McAnuff (The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle; 2000)
George Tillman Jr. (Men of Honor; 2000)
Jay Roach (2; Meet the Parents; 2000), Meet the Fockers; 2004)
John Herzfeld (15 Minutes; 2001)
Frank Oz (The Score; 2001)
Tom Dey (Showtime; 2002)
Nick Hamm (Godsend; 2004)
Vicky Jenson w/ Bibo Bergeron and Rob Letterman (Shark Tale; 2004)
Mary McGuckian (The Bridge of San Luis Rey; 2004)
John Polson (Hide and Seek; 2005)
Luc Besson (2; Arthur and the Invisibles; 2006, The Family; 2013)
Matthew Vaughn (Stardust; 2007)
Jon Avnet (Righteous Kill; 2008)
Kirk Jones (Everybody’s Fine; 2009)
Robert Rodriguez w/ Ethan Maniquis (Machete; 2010)
John Curran (Stone; 2010)
Paul Weitz (2; Little Fockers; 2010, Being Flynn; 2012)
Giovanni Veronesi (The Ages of Love; 2011)
Gary McKendry (Killer Elite; 2011)
Neil Burger (Limitless; 2011)
Garry Marshall (New Years Eve; 2011)
Rodrigo Cortes (Red Lights; 2012)
Jessy Terrero (Freelancers; 2012)
David O. Russell (3; Silver Linings Playbook; 2012, American Hustle; 2013, Joy; 2015)
Justin Zackham (The Big Wedding; 2013)
Mark Steven Johnson (Killing Season; 2013)
Jon Turtletaub (Last Vegas; 2013)
Peter Segal (Grudge Match; 2013)
David Gorvic (The Bag Man; 2014)
Nancy Meyers (The Intern; 2015)
JR (Ellis; 2015)
Scott Mann (Heist; 2015)
Dan Mazer (Dirty Grandpa; 2016)
Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone; 2016)
Taylor Hackford (The Comedian; 2016)
Todd Phillips (Joker; 2019)
George Gallo (The Comeback Trail; 2020)
Tim Hill (The War with Grandpa; 2020)
Collaborations:
Martin Scorsese - 10
Brian de Palma - 4
David O. Russell - 3
Barry Levinson - 3
Ulu Grosbard - 2
Paul Weitz - 2
Luc Besson - 2
Jay Roach - 2
Harold Ramis - 2
Irwin Winkler - 2
Michael Caton-Jones - 2
Other notable directors:
Todd Phillips
Taylor Hackford
Nancy Meyers
Robert Rodriguez
Matthew Vaughn
Jon Avnet
Frank Oz
Joel Schumacher
John Frankenheimer
James Mangold
Quentin Tarantino
Alfonso Cuaron
Tony Scott
Michael Mann
Kenneth Branagh
Ron Howard
Francis Ford Coppola
Penny Marshall
Alan Parker
Terry Gilliam
Sergio Leone
Elia Kazan
Roger Corman
Michael Cimino- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Charlie Sheen was born Carlos Irwin Estévez on September 3, 1965, in New York City. His father, actor Martin Sheen (born Ramon Antonio Gerard Estevez), was at the time just breaking into the business, with performances on Broadway. His mother, Janet Sheen (née Templeton), was a former New York art student who had met Charlie's father right after he had moved to Manhattan. Martin and Janet had three other children, Emilio Estevez, Renée Estevez, and Ramon Estevez, all of whom became actors. His father is of half Spanish and half Irish descent, and his mother, whose family is from Kentucky, has English and Scottish ancestry.
At a young age, Charlie took an interest in his father's acting career. When he was nine, he was given a small part in his dad's movie The Execution of Private Slovik (1974). In 1977, he was in the Philippines where his dad suffered a near-fatal heart attack on the set of Apocalypse Now (1979).
While at Santa Monica High School, Charlie had two major interests: acting and baseball. Along with his friends, which included Rob Lowe and Sean Penn, he produced and starred in several amateur Super-8 films. On the Vikings baseball team, he was a star shortstop and pitcher. His lifetime record as a pitcher was 40-15. His interest and skill in baseball would later influence some of his movie roles. Unfortunately, his success on the baseball field did not translate to success in the classroom, as he struggled to keep his grades up. Just a few weeks before his scheduled graduation date, Charlie was expelled due to poor attendance and bad grades.
After high school, Charlie aggressively pursued many acting roles. His first major role was as a high school student in the teen war film Red Dawn (1984). He followed this up with relatively small roles in TV movies and low-profile releases. His big break came in 1986 when he starred in Oliver Stone's Oscar winning epic Platoon (1986). He drew rave reviews for his portrayal of a young soldier who is caught in the center of a moral crisis in Vietnam.
The success of Platoon (1986) prompted Oliver Stone to cast Charlie in his next movie Wall Street (1987) alongside his father and veteran actor Martin Sheen. The movie with its "Greed is Good" theme became an instant hit with viewers.
Shortly after, Stone approached Charlie about the starring role in his next movie, Born on the Fourth of July (1989). When Tom Cruise eventually got the part, Sheen ended up hearing the news from his brother Emilio Estevez and not even getting as much as a call from Stone. This led to a fallout, and the two have not worked together since.
The fallout with Stone, however, did nothing to hurt Charlie's career in the late 1980s and early '90s, as he continued to establish himself as one of the top box office draws with a string of hits that included Young Guns (1988), Major League (1989), and Hot Shots! (1991). However, as the mid-'90s neared, his good fortune both personally and professionally, soon came to an end.
Around this time, Charlie, who had already been to drug rehab, was beginning to develop a reputation as a hard-partying, womanizer. In 1995, the same year he was briefly married to model Donna Peele, he was called to testify at the trial of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. At the trial, while under oath he admitted to spending nearly $50,000 on 27 of Fleiss' $2,500-a-night prostitutes.
His downward spiral continued the following year when his ex-girlfriend Brittany Ashland filed charges claiming that he physically abused her. He was later charged with misdemeanor battery to which he pleaded no contest and was given a year's suspended sentence, two years' probation and a $2,800 fine. He finally hit rock bottom in May 1998 when he was hospitalized in Thousand Oaks, California, following a near-fatal drug overdose. Later that month, he was ordered back to the drug rehab center, which he had previously left after one day.
During this stretch, Charlie's film career began to suffer as well. He starred in a series of box office flops that included The Arrival (1996) and Shadow Conspiracy (1997). However as the 1990s came to end, so did Charlie's string of bad luck.
In 2000, Charlie, now clean and sober, was chosen to replace Michael J. Fox on the ABC hit sitcom Spin City (1996). Though his stint lasted only two seasons, Charlie's performance caught the eye of CBS executives who in 2003 were looking for an established star to help carry their Monday night lineup of sitcoms that included Everybody Loves Raymond (1996). The sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003) starred Charlie as a swinging, irresponsible womanizer whose life changes when his nephew suddenly appears on his doorstep. The show became a huge hit, breathing much needed life into Charlie's fading career.
Charlie's personal life also appeared to be improving. In 2002, he married actress Denise Richards, whom he first met while shooting the movie Good Advice (2001). In March 2004, they had a daughter, Sam, and it was announced shortly after that Denise was pregnant with the couple's second child. By all reports, the couple seemed to be very happy together. However, like all of Charlie's previous relationships, the stability did not last long. In March of 2005, Denise, who was six-months pregnant, filed for divorce, citing irreconcilable differences. She gave birth to a second daughter, Lola, in June of that same year. Their divorce became final in late 2006.Terrence Malick (Badlands; 1973)
Lamont Johnson (The Execution of Private Slovik; 1974)
Francis Ford Coppola (Apocalypse Now; 1979)
Andre Szots (Grizzly II: The Predator; 1983)
John Milius (Red Dawn; 1984)
Richard Michaels (Silence of the Heart; 1984)
Penelope Spheeris (The Boys Next Door; 1985)
David Seltzer (Lucas; 1986)
John Hughes (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off; 1986)
Oliver Stone (3; Platoon; 1986, Wall Street; 1987, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; 2010)
John Kemeny (The Wraith; 1986)
Emilio Estevez (3; Wisdom; 1986, Men at Work; 1990, Rated X; 2000)
Peter Werner (No Mans Land; 1987)
Bill L. Norton (Three for the Road; 1987)
John Sayles (Eight Men Out; 1988)
Christopher Cain (Young Guns; 1988)
Adam Rifkin (3; Tale of Two Sisters; 1989, Never on Tuesday; 1989, The Chase; 1994)
David S. Ward (2; Major League; 1989, Major League II; 1994)
Martin Sheen (Cadence; 1990)
Christopher Leitch (Courage Mountain; 1990)
Dennis Hopper (Catchfire; 1990)
Lewis Teague (Navy SEALS; 1990)
Clint Eastwood (The Rookie; 1990)
Jim Abrahams (2; Hot Shots; 1991, Hot Shots Part Deux; 1993)
Gene Quintano (Loaded Weapon 1; 1993)
Christopher Coppola (Deadfall; 1993)
Stephen Herek (The Three Musketeers; 1993)
Deran Sarafian (Terminal Velocity; 1994)
Paul F. Bernard (Loose Women; 1996)
Paul Sabella w/ Larry Leker (All Dogs Go to Heaven II; 1996)
David Twohy (The Arrival; 1996)
Brett Ratner (Money Talks; 1997)
George P. Cosmatos (Shadow Conspiracy; 1997)
Craig R. Bailey (Bad Day on the Block; 1998)
Albert Pyun (Postmortem; 1998)
Bret Michaels (2) w/ Marvin Baker (A Letter from Death Row; 1998, No Code of Conduct; 1998)
Yves Simoneau (Free Money; 1998)
Debbie Melnyk (Junket Whore; 1998)
David Michael O’Neill (Five Aces; 1999)
Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovich; 1999)
Griffin Dunne (Lisa Picard is Famous; 2000)
Steve Rash (Good Advise; 2001)
David Zucker (2; Scary Movie 3; 2003, Scary Movie 4; 2006)
George Armitage (The Big Bounce; 2004)
Pauly Shore (Pauly Shore is Dead; 2004)
Todd Phillips (Due Date; 2010)
Tyler Perry (Madea’s Witness Protection; 2012)
Roman Coppola (A Glimpse Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III; 2012)
Rob Margolies (She Wants Me; 2012)
Lawrence Kasanoff (Foodfight; 2012)
Malcolm D. Lee (Scary Movie 5; 2013)
Robert Rodriguez (Machete Kills; 2013)
Fred Wolf (Max Families; 2017)
Martin Guigui (9/11; 2017)
Collaborations:
Oliver Stone - 3
Adam Rifkin - 3
Emilio Estevez - 3
David S. Ward - 2
David Zucker - 2
Jim Abrahams - 2
Bret Michaels - 2
Other notable directors:
Robert Rodriguez
Griffin Dunne
Brett Ratner
Clint Eastwood
John Hughes
Terrence Malick
Francis Ford Coppola
Tyler Perry
Spike Jonze
John Milius- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Ryan Rodney Reynolds was born on October 23, 1976 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the youngest of four children. His father, James Chester Reynolds, was a food wholesaler, and his mother, Tamara Lee "Tammy" (Stewart), worked as a retail-store saleswoman. He has Irish and Scottish ancestry. Between 1991-93, Ryan appeared in Fifteen (1990), a Nickelodeon series taped in Florida with many other Canadian actors. After the series ended, he returned to Vancouver where he played in a series of forgettable television movies. He did small roles in Glenn Close's Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story (1995) and CBS's update of In Cold Blood (1996). However, his run of luck had led him to decide to quit acting.
One night, he ran into fellow Vancouver actor and native Chris William Martin. Martin found Ryan rather despondent and told him to pack everything: they were going to head to Los Angeles, California. The two stayed in a cheap Los Angeles motel. On the first night of their stay, Reynolds' jeep was rolled downhill and stripped. For the next four months, Ryan drove it without doors. In 1997, he landed the role of Berg in Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place (1998). Initially, the show was reviled by critics and seemed desperate for any type of ratings success. However, it was renewed for a second season but with a provision for a makeover by former Roseanne (1988) writer Kevin Abbott. The show became a minor success and has led to additional film roles for Ryan, most notably in the last-ever MGM film, a remake of The Amityville Horror (2005). Ryan was engaged to Canadian singer-songwriter Alanis Morissette, another Nickelodeon veteran, between 2004-2006.
He has been married to Blake Lively since September 9, 2012. They have three daughters. He was previously married to Scarlett Johansson.Giles Walker (Ordinary Magic; 1993)
Evan Dunsky (The Alarmist; 1997)
Colette Burson (Coming Soon; 1999)
Andrew Fleming (2; Dick; 1999, The In-Laws (2003)
Mitch Marcus (Boltneck; 2000)
Martin Cummins (We All Fall Down; 2000)
Jeff Probst (Finder’s Fee; 2001)
Walt Becker (2; Van Wilder; 2002, Buying the Cow; 2002)
William Phillips (Foolproof; 2003)
Danny Lenier (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle; 2004)
David S. Goyer (Blade: Trinity; 2004)
Andrew Douglas (The Amityville Horror; 2005)
Rob McKittrick (Waiting...; 2005)
Roger Kumble (Just Friends; 2005)
Joe Carnahan (Smokin Aces; 2006)
John August (The Nines; 2007)
Marcos Seiga (Chaos Theory; 2008)
Adam Brooks (Definitely, Maybe; 2008)
Dennis Lee (Fireflies in the Garden; 2008)
Greg Mottola (Adventureland; 2009)
Gavin Hood (X-Men Origins: Wolverine; 2009)
Anne Fletcher (The Proposal; 2009)
Rodrigo Cortes (Buried; 2010)
Martin Campbell (Green Lantern; 2011)
David Dobkin (The Change-Up; 2011)
Suzanne Chisholm w/ Michael Parfit (The Whale; 2011)
Daniel Espinosa (2; Safe House; 2012, Life; 2017)
Seth MacFarlane (2; Ted; 2012, A Million Ways to Die in the West; 2014)
Chris Sanders w/ Kirk DeMicco (The Croods; 2013)
David Soren (Turbo; 2013)
Robert Schwentke (R.I.P.D.; 2013)
Marjane Satrapi (The Voices; 2014)
Atom Egoyan (The Captive; 2014)
Anna Boden w/ Ryan Fleck (Mississippi Grind; 2014)
Simon Curtis (Woman in Gold; 2015)
Tarsem Singh (Selfless; 2015)
Ariel Vromen (Criminal; 2016)
Tim Miller (Deadpool; 2016)
David Leitch (3; No Good Deed; 2017, Deadpool 2; 2018, Hobbs & Shaw; 2019)
Patrick Hughes (2; The Hitman’s Bodyguard; 2017, The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard; 2020)
Rob Letterman (Detective Pikachu; 2019)
Michael Bay (6 Underground; 2019)
Shawn Levy (Free Guy; 2020)
Rawson Marshall Thurber (Red Notice; 2021)
Collaborations:
David Leitch - 3
Patrick Hughes - 2
Seth MacFarlane - 2
Daniel Espinosa - 2
Walt Becker - 2
Andrew Fleming - 2
Other notable directors:
Tim Miller
Michael Bay
Shawn Levy
Chris Sanders
Martin Campbell
Rodrigo Cortes
Joe Carnahan
Rob Letterman
Tarsem Singh
Atom Egoyan- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Denzel Hayes Washington, Jr. was born on December 28, 1954 in Mount Vernon, New York. He is the middle of three children of a beautician mother, Lennis, from Georgia, and a Pentecostal minister father, Denzel Washington, Sr., from Virginia. After graduating from high school, Denzel enrolled at Fordham University, intent on a career in journalism. However, he caught the acting bug while appearing in student drama productions and, upon graduation, he moved to San Francisco and enrolled at the American Conservatory Theater. He left A.C.T. after only one year to seek work as an actor. His first paid acting role was in a summer stock theater stage production in St. Mary's City, Maryland. The play was "Wings of the Morning", which is about the founding of the colony of Maryland (now the state of Maryland) and the early days of the Maryland colonial assembly (a legislative body). He played the part of a real historical character, Mathias Da Sousa, although much of the dialogue was created. Afterwards he began to pursue screen roles in earnest. With his acting versatility and powerful presence, he had no difficulty finding work in numerous television productions.
He made his first big screen appearance in Carbon Copy (1981) with George Segal. Through the 1980s, he worked in both movies and television and was chosen for the plum role of Dr. Philip Chandler in NBC's hit medical series St. Elsewhere (1982), a role that he would play for six years. In 1989, his film career began to take precedence when he won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Tripp, the runaway slave in Edward Zwick's powerful historical masterpiece Glory (1989).
Washington has received much critical acclaim for his film work since the 1990s, including his portrayals of real-life figures such as South African anti-apartheid activist Steve Biko in Cry Freedom (1987), Muslim minister and human rights activist Malcolm X in Malcolm X (1992), boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter in The Hurricane (1999), football coach Herman Boone in Remember the Titans (2000), poet and educator Melvin B. Tolson in The Great Debaters (2007), and drug kingpin Frank Lucas in American Gangster (2007). Malcolm X and The Hurricane garnered him Oscar nominations for Best Actor, before he finally won that statuette in 2002 for his lead role in Training Day (2001).
Through the 1990s, Denzel also co-starred in such big budget productions as The Pelican Brief (1993), Philadelphia (1993), Crimson Tide (1995), The Preacher's Wife (1996), and Courage Under Fire (1996), a role for which he was paid $10 million. He continued to define his onscreen persona as the tough, no-nonsense hero through the 2000s in films like Out of Time (2003), Man on Fire (2004), Inside Man (2006), and The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009). Cerebral and meticulous in his film work, he made his debut as a director with Antwone Fisher (2002); he also directed The Great Debaters (2007) and Fences (2016).
In 2010, Washington headlined The Book of Eli (2010), a post-Apocalyptic drama. Later that year, he starred as a veteran railroad engineer in the action film Unstoppable (2010), about an unmanned, half-mile-long runaway freight train carrying dangerous cargo. The film was his fifth and final collaboration with director Tony Scott, following Crimson Tide (1995), Man on Fire (2004), Déjà Vu (2006) and The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3. He has also been a featured actor in the films produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and has been a frequent collaborator of director Spike Lee.
In 2012, Washington starred in Flight (2012), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He co-starred with Ryan Reynolds in Safe House (2012), and prepared for his role by subjecting himself to a torture session that included waterboarding. In 2013, Washington starred in 2 Guns (2013), alongside Mark Wahlberg. In 2014, he starred in The Equalizer (2014), an action thriller film directed by Antoine Fuqua and written by Richard Wenk, based on the television series of same name starring Edward Woodward. During this time period, he also took on the role of producer for some of his films, including The Book of Eli and Safe House.
In 2016, he was selected as the recipient for the Cecil B. DeMille Lifetime Achievement Award at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards.
He lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife, Pauletta Washington, and their four children.Michael Schultz (Carbon Copy; 1981)
Norman Jewison (2; A Soldier’s Story; 1984, The Hurricane; 1999)
Sidney Lumet (Power; 1986)
Richard Attenborough (Cry Freedom; 1987)
Martin Stellman (For Queen and Country; 1988)
Carl Schenkel (The Mighty Quinn; 1989)
Edward Zwick (3; Glory; 1989, Courage Under Fire; 1996, The Seige; 1998)
James D. Parriott (Heart Condition; 1990)
Spike Lee (4; Mo’ Better Blues; 1990, Malcolm X; 1992, He Got Game; 1998, Inside Man; 2006)
Mira Nair (Mississippi Masala; 1991)
Russell Mulcahy (Ricochet; 1991)
Kenneth Branagh (Much Ado About Nothing; 1993)
Alan J. Pakula (The Pelican Brief; 1993)
Jonathan Demme (2; Philadelphia; 1993, The Manchurian Candidate; 2004)
Tony Scott (5; Crimson Tide; 1995, Man on Fire; 2004, Deja Vu; 2006, The Taking of Pelham 123; 2009, Unstoppable; 2010)
Brett Leonard (Virtuosity; 1995)
Carl Franklin (2; Devil in a Blue Dress; 1995, Out of Time; 2003)
Penny Marshall (The Preacher’s Wife; 1996)
Gregory Hoblit (Fallen; 1998)
Phillip Noyce (The Bone Collector; 1999)
Boaz Yakin (Remember the Titans; 2000)
Antoine Fuqua (5; Training Day; 2001, The Equalizer; 2014, The Magnificent Seven; 2016, The Equalizer 2; 2018, The Equalizer 3; 2023)
Nick Cassavetes (John Q.; 2002)
Ridley Scott (American Gangster; 2007)
Albert & Allen Hughes (The Book of Eli; 2010)
Daniel Espinosa (Safe House; 2012)
Robert Zemeckis (Flight; 2012)
Baltasar Kormakur (2 Guns; 2013)
Dan Gilroy (Roman J. Israel, Esq.; 2017)
John Lee Hancock (The Little Things; 2021)
Joel Coen (The Tragedy of MacBeth; 2021)
Collaborations:
Tony Scott - 5
Antoine Fuqua - 5
Spike Lee - 4
Edward Zwick - 3
Norman Jewison - 2
Carl Franklin - 2
Jonathan Demme - 2
Other notable directors:
Joel Coen
John Lee Hancock
Robert Zemeckis
Ridley Scott
Phillip Noyce
Kenneth Branagh
Alan J. Pakula
Richard Attenborough
Penny Marshall- Producer
- Actor
- Writer
Willard Carroll "Will" Smith II (born September 25, 1968) is an American actor, comedian, producer, rapper, and songwriter. He has enjoyed success in television, film, and music. In April 2007, Newsweek called him "the most powerful actor in Hollywood". Smith has been nominated for five Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and has won four Grammy Awards.
In the late 1980s, Smith achieved modest fame as a rapper under the name The Fresh Prince. In 1990, his popularity increased dramatically when he starred in the popular television series The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. The show ran for six seasons (1990-96) on NBC and has been syndicated consistently on various networks since then. After the series ended, Smith moved from television to film, and ultimately starred in numerous blockbuster films. He is the only actor to have eight consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office, eleven consecutive films gross over $150 million internationally, and eight consecutive films in which he starred open at the number one spot in the domestic box office tally.
Smith is ranked as the most bankable star worldwide by Forbes. As of 2014, 17 of the 21 films in which he has had leading roles have accumulated worldwide gross earnings of over $100 million each, five taking in over $500 million each in global box office receipts. As of 2014, his films have grossed $6.6 billion at the global box office. He has received Best Actor Oscar nominations for Ali and The Pursuit of Happyness.
Smith was born in West Philadelphia, the son of Caroline (Bright), a Philadelphia school board administrator, and Willard Carroll Smith, Sr., a refrigeration engineer. He grew up in West Philadelphia's Wynnefield neighborhood, and was raised Baptist. He has three siblings, sister Pamela, who is four years older, and twins Harry and Ellen, who are three years younger. Smith attended Our Lady of Lourdes, a private Catholic elementary school in Philadelphia. His parents separated when he was 13, but did not actually divorce until around 2000.
Smith attended Overbrook High School. Though widely reported, it is untrue that Smith turned down a scholarship to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); he never applied to college because he "wanted to rap." Smith says he was admitted to a "pre-engineering [summer] program" at MIT for high school students, but he did not attend. According to Smith, "My mother, who worked for the School Board of Philadelphia, had a friend who was the admissions officer at MIT. I had pretty high SAT scores and they needed black kids, so I probably could have gotten in. But I had no intention of going to college."
Smith started as the MC of the hip-hop duo DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince, with his childhood friend Jeffrey "DJ Jazzy Jeff" Townes as producer, as well as Ready Rock C (Clarence Holmes) as the human beat box. The trio was known for performing humorous, radio-friendly songs, most notably "Parents Just Don't Understand" and "Summertime". They gained critical acclaim and won the first Grammy awarded in the Rap category (1988).
Smith spent money freely around 1988 and 1989 and underpaid his income taxes. The Internal Revenue Service eventually assessed a $2.8 million tax debt against Smith, took many of his possessions, and garnished his income. Smith was nearly bankrupt in 1990, when the NBC television network signed him to a contract and built a sitcom, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, around him.
The show was successful and began his acting career. Smith set for himself the goal of becoming "the biggest movie star in the world", studying box office successes' common characteristics.
Smith's first major roles were in the drama Six Degrees of Separation (1993) and the action film Bad Boys (1995) in which he starred opposite Martin Lawrence.
In 1996, Smith starred as part of an ensemble cast in Roland Emmerich's Independence Day. The film was a massive blockbuster, becoming the second highest grossing film in history at the time and establishing Smith as a prime box office draw. He later struck gold again in the summer of 1997 alongside Tommy Lee Jones in the summer hit Men in Black playing Agent J. In 1998, Smith starred with Gene Hackman in Enemy of the State.
He turned down the role of Neo in The Matrix in favor of Wild Wild West (1999). Despite the disappointment of Wild Wild West, Smith has said that he harbors no regrets about his decision, asserting that Keanu Reeves's performance as Neo was superior to what Smith himself would have achieved, although in interviews subsequent to the release of Wild Wild West he stated that he "made a mistake on Wild Wild West. That could have been better."
In 2005, Smith was entered into the Guinness Book of World Records for attending three premieres in a 24-hour time span.
He has planned to star in a feature film remake of the television series It Takes a Thief.
On December 10, 2007, Smith was honored at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on Hollywood Boulevard. Smith left an imprint of his hands and feet outside the world-renowned theater in front of many fans. Later that month, Smith starred in the film I Am Legend, released December 14, 2007. Despite marginally positive reviews, its opening was the largest ever for a film released in the United States during December. Smith himself has said that he considers the film to be "aggressively unique". A reviewer said that the film's commercial success "cemented [Smith's] standing as the number one box office draw in Hollywood." On December 1, 2008, TV Guide reported that Smith was selected as one of America's top ten most fascinating people of 2008 for a Barbara Walters ABC special that aired on December 4, 2008.
In 2008 Smith was reported to be developing a film entitled The Last Pharaoh, in which he would be starring as Taharqa. It was in 2008 that Smith starred in the superhero movie Hancock.
Men in Black III opened on May 25, 2012 with Smith again reprising his role as Agent J. This was his first major starring role in four years.
On August 19, 2011, it was announced that Smith had returned to the studio with producer La Mar Edwards to work on his fifth studio album. Edwards has worked with artists such as T.I., Chris Brown, and Game. Smith's most recent studio album, Lost and Found, was released in 2005.
Smith and his son Jaden played father and son in two productions: the 2006 biographical drama The Pursuit of Happyness, and the science fiction film After Earth, which was released on May 31, 2013.
Smith starred opposite Margot Robbie in the romance drama Focus. He played Nicky Spurgeon, a veteran con artist who takes a young, attractive woman under his wing. Focus was released on February 27, 2015. Smith was set to star in the Sci-Fic thriller Brilliance, an adaptation of Marcus Sakey's novel of the same name scripted by Jurassic Park writer David Koepp. But he left the project.
Smith played Dr. Bennet Omalu of the Brain Injury Research Institute in the sports-drama Concussion, who became the first person to discover chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) in a football player's brain. CTE is a degenerative disease caused by severe trauma to the head that can be discovered only after death. Smith's involvement is mostly due to his last-minute exit from the Sci-Fi thriller-drama Brilliance. Concussion was directed by Peter Landesman and-bead filmed in Pittsburgh, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. It received $14.4 million in film tax credits from Pennsylvania. Principal photography started on October 27, 2014. Actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw played his wife. Omalu served as a consultant.
As of November 2015, Smith is set to star in the independent drama Collateral Beauty, which will be directed by David Frankel. Smith will play a New York advertising executive who succumbs to an deep depression after a personal tragedy.
Nobel Peace Prize Concert December 11, 2009, in Oslo, Norway: Smith with wife Jada and children Jaden and Willow Smith married Sheree Zampino in 1992. They had one son, Trey Smith, born on November 11, 1992, and divorced in 1995. Trey appeared in his father's music video for the 1998 single "Just the Two of Us". He also acted in two episodes of the sitcom All of Us, and has appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and on the David Blaine: Real or Magic TV special.
Smith married actress Jada Koren Pinkett in 1997. Together they have two children: Jaden Christopher Syre Smith (born 1998), his co-star in The Pursuit of Happyness and After Earth, and Willow Camille Reign Smith (born 2000), who appeared as his daughter in I Am Legend. Smith and his brother Harry own Treyball Development Inc., a Beverly Hills-based company named after Trey. Smith and his family reside in Los Angeles, California.
Smith was consistently listed in Fortune Magazine's "Richest 40" list of the forty wealthiest Americans under the age of 40.Marc Rocco (Where the Day Takes You; 1992)
Richard Benjamin (Made in America; 1993)
Fred Schepisi (Six Degrees of Separation; 1993)
Michael Bay (2; Bad Boys; 1995, Bad Boys II; 2003)
Roland Emmerich (Independence Day; 1996)
Barry Sonnenfeld (4; Men in Black; 1997, Wild Wild West; 1999, Men in Black II; 2002, Men in Black III; 2012)
Tony Scott (Enemy of the State; 1998)
Robert Redford (The Legend of Bagger Vance; 2000)
Michael Mann (Ali; 2001)
Kevin Smith (Jersey Girl; 2004)
Alex Proyas (I, Robot; 2004)
Vicky Jenson w/ Bibo Bergeron and Rob Letterman (Shark Tale; 2004)
Andy Tennant (Hitch; 2005)
Gabriele Muccino (2; Pursuit of Happyness; 2006, Seven Pounds; 2008)
Francis Lawrence (I Am Legend; 2007)
Peter Berg (Hancock; 2008)
M. Night Shyamalan (After Earth; 2013)
Adam McKay (Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues; 2013)
Akiva Goldsman (Winters Tale; 2014)
Glenn Ficarra w/ John Requa (Focus; 2015)
Peter Landesman (Concussion; 2015)
David Ayer (2; Suicide Squad; 2016, Bright; 2017)
David Frankel (Collateral Beauty; 2016)
Guy Ritchie (Aladdin; 2019)
Ang Lee (Gemini Man; 2019)
Troy Quane w/ Nick Bruno (Spies in Disguise; 2019)
Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys for Life; 2020)
Reinaldo Marcus Green (King Richard; 2020)
Collaborations:
Barry Sonnenfeld - 4
Michael Bay - 2
David Ayer - 2
Gabriele Muccino - 2
Other notable directors:
Ang Lee
Guy Ritchie
M. Night Shyamalan
Peter Berg
Kevin Smith
Michael Mann
Roland Emmerich
Tony Scott
Robert Redford
Alex Proyas
Adam McKay- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Martin Fitzgerald Lawrence is an African-American comedian, producer, writer, director and actor. He is known for his roles in the Bad Boys trilogy, Martin, Def Comedy Jam, Big Momma's House, Open Season, House Party, Boomerang, Wild Hogs, What's Happening Now!!, Nothing to Lose, Life and Blue Streak. He has three daughters.Spike Lee (Do the Right Thing; 1989)
Reginald Hudlin (2; House Party; 1990, Boomerang; 1992)
Topper Carew (Talkin’ Dirty After Dark; 1991)
Doug McHenry w/ George Jackson (House Party 2; 1991)
Thomas Schlamme (You So Crazy; 1994)
Michael Bay (2; Bad Boys; 1995, Bad Boys II; 2003)
Steve Oedekerk (Nothing to Lose; 1997)
Ted Demme (Life; 1999)
Les Mayfield (Blue Streak; 1999)
Raja Gosnell (Big Momma’s House; 2000)
Sam Weisman (What’s the Worst that Could Happen? (2001)
Gil Junger (Black Knight; 2001)
David Raynr (Runteldat; 2002)
Dennis Dugan (National Security; 2003)
Steve Carr (Rebound; 2005)
John Whitesell (2; Big Momma’s House 2; 2006, Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son; 2011)
Jill Culton w/ Roger Allers (Open Season; 2006)
Walt Becker (Wild Hogs; 2007)
Malcolm D. Lee (Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins; 2008)
Roger Kumble (College Road Trip; 2008)
Neil LaBute (Death at a Funeral; 2010)
Harmony Korine (The Beach Bum; 2019)
Adil El Arbi w/ Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys for Life; 2019)
Collaborations:
Michael Bay - 2
Reginald Hudlin - 2
John Whitesell - 2
Other notable directors:
Harmony Korine
Roger Kumble
Malcolm D. Lee
Roger Allers
Dennis Dugan
Raja Gosnell
Spike Lee
Ted Demme- Actress
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Vanessa Anne Hudgens was born in Salinas, California. Her family moved to San Diego, California, while she was still a toddler. She has a younger sister, Stella Hudgens, who is also an actress. Her mother, Gina Hudgens (née Guangco), an office worker, is from the Philippines. Her father, Greg Hudgens, a firefighter, was from a family from Missouri and Illinois.
Vanessa was interested in acting and singing at a young age, inspired by her grandparents, who were musicians. At the age of 8, she started appearing in musical theater. She fell deeper in love with the arts and began studying acting, singing, and dance more seriously with Jailyn Osborne. Vanessa very briefly attended Orange County High School of the Arts. After years of auditioning, she began seeing some success. This prompted her family to move to Los Angeles, California. She started homeschooling, so she missed out on the high school experience, and she finally landed her breakthrough role in High School Musical (2006).Catherine Hardwicke (Thirteen; 2003)
Jonathan Frakes (Thunderbirds; 2004)
Kenny Ortega (High School Musical 3: Senior Year; 2008)
Todd Graff (Bandslam; 2009)
Daniel Barnz (Beastly; 2011)
Zack Snyder (Sucker Punch; 2011)
Brad Peyton (Journey 2: The Mysterious Island; 2012)
Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers; 2012)
Scott Walker (The Frozen Ground; 2013)
Robert Rodriguez (Machete Kills; 2013)
Ronald Krauss (Gimme Shelter; 2013)
Robbie Pickering (Freaks of Nature; 2015)
Ken Marino (Dog Days; 2018)
Mike Rohl (The Princess Switch; 2018)
Peter Segal (Second Act; 2018)
Jonas Akerlund (Polar; 2019)
Monika Mitchell (The Knight Before Christmas; 2019)
Adil El Arbi & Bilall Fallah (Bad Boys for Life; 2020)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Tick, Tick...Boom!; 2020)
Collaborations: none
Notable directors:
Peter Segal
Ken Marino
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Robert Rodriguez
Zack Snyder
Catherine Hardwicke- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Andrew Russell Garfield was born in Los Angeles, California, to a British mother, Lynn, and American father, Richard Garfield. When he was three, he moved to Surrey, U.K., with his parents and older brother. He is of English and Polish Jewish heritage. Andrew was raised in a middle class family, and attended a private school, the City of London Freemen's School. He began acting in youth theatre productions while he was still at school. At age 19, he went to the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama.
His first professional roles were on the stage and in 2005 he made his TV debut in the Channel 4 teen series Sugar Rush (2005) in the UK. More TV work followed (reaching a wider UK audience in a two-part story in the third season of Doctor Who (2005)), as well as a number of movie appearances. Garfield played Eduardo in The Social Network (2010) and Tommy in Never Let Me Go (2010), two films that brought him to full international attention. That same year, he was cast as the title character in the reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise, The Amazing Spider-Man (2012). He reprised the role in the sequel, The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014), before passing off the torch to Tom Holland.
Resuming his work in drama films, Garfield starred in Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes (2014), with Michael Shannon, Mel Gibson's Hacksaw Ridge (2016), about real-life Seventh Day Adventist war hero Desmond Doss, and Martin Scorsese's Silence (2016), opposite Adam Driver, playing Jesuit priests. He received his first Academy Award nomination for Best Actor for his role as Doss.
In 2017, he starred in Andy Serkis-directed drama Breathe (2017), where Garfield plays Robin Cavendish, an adventurous man paralyzed by polio. In 2018, he headlines David Robert Mitchell's noir thriller Under the Silver Lake (2018).Robert Redford (Lions for Lambs; 2007)
Justin Chadwick (The Other Boleyn Girl; 2008)
Terry Gilliam (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; 2009)
Mark Romanek (I’m Here; 2010)
David Fincher (The Social Network; 2010)
Marc Webb (2; The Amazing Spider-Man, The Amazing Spider-Man 2; 2012-2014)
Ramin Bahrani (99 Homes; 2014)
Mel Gibson (Hacksaw Ridge; 2016)
Martin Scorsese (Silence; 2017)
David Robert Mitchell (Under the Silver Lake; 2018)
Gia Coppola (Mainstream; 2019)
Michael Showalter (The Eyes of Tammy Faye; 2019)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (Tick, Tick, Boom; 2020)
Collaborations:
Marc Webb
Other notable directors:
Martin Scorsese
Mel Gibson
David Fincher
Terry Gilliam
Robert Redford
Lin-Manuel Miranda- Actor
- Producer
- Soundtrack
Nathan Lane is an American actor and singer from New Jersey who is known for playing Timon from The Lion King, Spot Helperman/Scott Leadready II from Teacher's Pet, Max Bialystock from The Producers, Snowball from Stuart Little, Hamegg from Astro Boy and Ernie Smuntz from Mouse Hunt. He is married to his husband Devlin Elliott since 2015.Hector Babenco (Ironweed; 1988)
Joyce Chopra (The Lemon Sisters; 1990)
John Patrick Shanley (Joe Versus the Volcano; 1990)
Ken Kwapis w/ Marisa Silver (He Said, She Said; 1991)
Garry Marshall (Frankie and Johnny; 1991)
James Lapine (Life with Mikey; 1993)
Barry Sonnenfeld (Addams Family Values; 1993)
Rob Minkoff (3) and Roger Allers (The Lion King; 1994, Stuart Little; 1999, Stuart Little 2; 2002)
Christopher Ashley (Jeffrey; 1995)
Mike Nichols (The Birdcage; 1996)
Gore Verbinski (Mouse Hunt; 1997)
Darrell Rooney w/ Rob DaLuca (The Lion King II; Simba’s Pride; 1998)
Irwin Winkler (At First Sight; 1999)
Andrew J. Kuehn (Get Bruce; 1999)
Andrew Bergman (Isn’t She Great; 2000)
Don Bluth w/ Gary Goldman (Titan A.E.; 2000)
Alan Rudolph (Trixie; 2000)
Jay Roach (Austin Powers in Goldmember; 2002)
Douglas McGrath (Nicholas Nickleby; 2002)
Timothy Bjorklund (Teacher’s Pet; 2004)
Robert Luketic (Win a Date with Tad Hamilton; 2004)
Bradley Raymond (The Lion King 1 1/2; 2004)
Susan Stroman (The Producers; 2005)
Peter Askin (Trumbo; 2007)
Joshua Michael Stern (Swing Vote; 2008)
David Bowers (Astro Boy; 2009)
Andrei Konchalovsky (The Nutcracker 3D; 2010)
Tarsem Singh (Mirror Mirror; 2012)
Craig Zisk (The English Teacher; 2013)
Susan Johnson (Carrie Pilby; 2016)
Lee Wilkoff (No Pay, Nudity; 2016)
Shawn Christensen (The Vanishing of Sidney Hall; 2017)
Collaborations:
Rob Minkoff - 3
Other notable directors:
Jay Roach
Alan Rudolph
Don Bluth
Irwin Winkler
Gore Verbinski
Barry Sonnenfeld
Mike Nichols
Garry Marshall- Actor
- Soundtrack
Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native USA and internationally, James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred in many films over a 40-year period, beginning with the Stanley Kubrick classic Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964). For several movie fans, he is probably best known for his role as Darth Vader in the original Star Wars trilogy (due to his contribution for the voice of the role, as the man in the Darth Vader suit was David Prowse, whose voice was dubbed because of his British West Country accent). In his brilliant course of memorable performances, among others, he has also appeared on the animated series The Simpsons (1989) three times and played Mufasa both in The Lion King (1994) and The Lion King (2019), while he returned too as the voice of Darth Vader in Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016).Stanley Kubrick (Dr. Strangelove; 1964)
Peter Glenville (The Comedians; 1967)
Aram Avakian (End of the Road; 1970)
Martin Ritt (The Great White Hope; 1970)
Sidney Lumet (King; 1970)
Arnold Perl (Malcolm X; 1972)
Joseph Sargent (The Man; 1972)
John Berry (Claudine; 1974)
John Badham (The Bingo Long Traveling All Stars & Motor Kings; 1976)
James Goldstone (Swashbuckler; 1976)
Ivan Nagy (Deadly Hero; 1976)
Tom Gries (The Greatest; 1977)
George Lucas (2; Star Wars; 1977; Revenge of the Sith; 2005)
John Boorman (Exorcist II: The Heretic; 1977)
Marty Feldman (The Last Remake of Beau Geste; 1977)
Sidney Poitier (A Piece of the Action; 1977)
Tom Kotani (The Bushido Blade; 1979)
Irvin Kershner (The Empire Strikes Back; 1980)
Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr. (The Flight of Dragons; 1982)
John Milius (Conan the Barbarian; 1982)
Richard Jeffries (Blood Tide; 1982)
Richard Marquand (Return of the Jedi; 1983)
Aaron Lipstadt (City Limits; 1985)
Steve Miner (Soul Man; 1986)
Gary Nelson (Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold; 1986)
Francis Ford Coppola (Gardens of Stone; 1987)
Connie Kaiserman (My Little Girl; 1987)
Hal Sutherland (Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night; 1987)
John Sayles (Matewan; 1987)
John Landis (Coming to America; 1988)
Francis Veber (Three Fugitives; 1989)
Phil Alden Robinson (3; Field of Dreams; 1989, Sneakers; 1992, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn; 2014)
Bob Radler (Best of the Best; 1989)
Peter Masterson (Convicts; 1990)
John McTiernan (The Hunt for Red October; 1990)
Larry Cohen (The Ambulance; 1990)
Wayne Coe (Grim Prairie Tales; 1990)
David Beaird (Scorchers; 1991)
Phillip Noyce (2; Patriot Games; 1992, Clear and Present Day; 1994)
Jon Acevski (Freddie as FRO7; 1992)
Jon Amiel (Sommersby; 1993)
David Mickey Evans (2; The Sandlot; 1993, The Sandlot 2; 2005)
Jon Hess (Excessive Force; 1993)
Robert Townsend (The Meteor Man; 1993)
Peter Segal (Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insultier; 1994)
Mick Jackson (Clean Slate; 1994)
Rob Minkoff & Roger Allers (The Lion King; 1994)
James Ivory (Jefferson in Paris; 1995)
Darrell Roodt (Cry, the Beloved Country; 1995)
Danny Cannon (Judge Dredd; 1995)
Richard Pearce (A Family Thing; 1996)
Richard LaBrie (Good Luck; 1996)
Sean McNamara (Casper: A Spirited Beginning; 1997)
Jim Kouf (Gang Related; 1997)
Mike Nichols (Primary Colors; 1998)
Darrell Rooney w/ Ron DaLuca (The Lion King II: Simba’s Pride; 1998)
Rob Smiley w/ Vincenzo Trippetti (Our Friend, Martin; 1999)
Bryan Michael Stoller (Undercover Angel; 1999)
Charles Burnett (The Annihilation of Fish; 1999)
Jeff Probst (Finders Fee; 2001)
Chris Wedge (Robots; 2005)
Dennis Dugan (Benchwarmers; 2006)
Frank Coraci (Click; 2006)
David Zucker (Scary Movie 4; 2006)
Malcolm D. Lee (Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins; 2008)
Harry Kloor w/ Daniel St. Pierre (Quantum Quest; 2010)
Gary J. Tunnicliffe (Jack and the Beanstalk; 2010)
Ronald Krauss (Gimme Shelter; 2013)
Gareth Edwards (Rogue One; 2016)
Dustin Fairbanks (Warning Shot; 2018)
Jon Favreau (The Lion King; 2019)
J.J. Abrams (The Rise of Skywalker; 2019)
Craig Brewer (Coming 2 America; 2020)
Collaborations:
Phil Alden Robinson - 3
George Lucas - 2
David Mickey Evans - 2
Phillip Noyce - 2
Other notable directors:
J.J. Abrams
Jon Favreau
Jon Amiel
John Boorman
John Berry
John McTiernan
John Landis
John Sayles
John Milius
John Badham
Francis Ford Coppola
Mike Nichols
Stanley Kubrick
Sidney Lumet
Sidney Poitier
David Zucker
Rob Minkoff
Roger Allers- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
John Cleese was born on October 27, 1939, in Weston-Super-Mare, England, to Muriel Evelyn (Cross) and Reginald Francis Cleese. He was born into a family of modest means, his father being an insurance salesman; but he was nonetheless sent off to private schools to obtain a good education. Here he was often tormented for his height, having reached a height of six feet by the age of twelve, and eventually discovered that being humorous could deflect aggressive behavior in others. He loved humor in and of itself, collected jokes, and, like many young Britons who would grow up to be comedians, was devoted to the radio comedy show, "The Goon Show," starring the legendary Peter Sellers, Spike Milligan, and Harry Secombe.
Cleese did well in both sports and academics, but his real love was comedy. He attended Cambridge to read (study) Law, but devoted a great deal of time to the university's legendary Footlights group, writing and performing in comedy reviews, often in collaboration with future fellow Python Graham Chapman. Several of these comedy reviews met with great success, including one in particular which toured under the name "Cambridge Circus." When Cleese graduated, he went on to write for the BBC, then rejoined Cambridge Circus in 1964, which toured New Zealand and America. He remained in America after leaving Cambridge Circus, performing and doing a little journalism, and here met Terry Gilliam, another future Python.
Returning to England, he began appearing in a BBC radio series, "I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again", based on Cambridge Circus. It ran for several years and also starred future Goodies Tim Brooke-Taylor, Bill Oddie and Graeme Garden. He also appeared, briefly, with Brooke-Taylor, Graham Chapman and Marty Feldman in At Last the 1948 Show (1967), for television, and a series of collaborations with some of the finest comedy-writing talent in England at the time, some of whom - Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin, and Chapman - eventually joined him in Monty Python. These programs included The Frost Report (1966) and Marty Feldman's program Marty (1968). Eventually, however, the writers were themselves collected to be the talent for their own program, Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969), which displayed a strange and completely absorbing blend of low farce and high-concept absurdist humor, and remains influential to this day.
After three seasons of the intensity of Monty Python, Cleese left the show, though he collaborated with one or more of the other Pythons for decades to come, including the Python movies released in the mid-70s to early 80s - Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975), Life of Brian (1979), Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl (1982), and The Meaning of Life (1983). Cleese and then-wife Connie Booth collaborated in the legendary television series Fawlty Towers (1975), as the sharp-tongued, rude, bumbling yet somehow lovable proprietor of an English seaside hotel. Cleese based this character on a proprietor he had met while staying with the other Pythons at a hotel in Torquay, England. Only a dozen episodes were made, but each is truly hilarious, and he is still closely associated with the program to this day.
Meanwhile Cleese had established a production company, Video Arts, for clever business training videos in which he generally starred, which were and continue to be enormously successful in the English-speaking world. He continues to act prolifically in movies, including in the hit comedy A Fish Called Wanda (1988), in the Harry Potter series, and in the James Bond series as the new Q, starting with The World Is Not Enough (1999), in which he began as R before graduating to Q. Cleese also supplies his voice to numerous animated and video projects, and frequently does commercials.
Besides the infamous Basil Fawlty character, Cleese's other well-known trademark is his rendition of an English upper-class toff. He has a daughter with Connie Booth and a daughter with his second wife, Barbara Trentham.
Education and learning are important elements of his life - he was Rector of the University of Saint Andrews from 1973 until 1976, and continues to be a professor-at-large of Cornell University in New York. Cleese lives in Santa Barbara, California.Kevin Billington (2; Interlude; 1968, The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer; 1970)
Joseph McGrath (3; The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom; 1968, The Magic Christian; 1969, The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It; 1977)
Philip Saville (The Best House in London; 1969)
Ian MacNaughton (And Now for Something Completely Different; 1971)
Rod Amateau (The Statue; 1971)
Robert Young (3; Romance with a Double Bass; 1974, Splitting Heirs; 1993, Fierce Creatures; 1997)
Terry Gilliam (2) w/ Terry Jones (6) (Monty Python and the Holy Grail; 1975, Monty Python’s Life of Brian; 1979, Time Bandits; 1981, Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life; 1983, Erik the Viking; 1989, The Wind in the Willows; 1996, Absolutely Anything; 2015)
Jim Henson (The Great Muppet Caper; 1981)
Michael Blakemore (Privates on Parade; 1982)
Terry Hughes (Monty Python Live at the Hollywood Bowl; 1982)
Mel Damski (Yellowbeard; 1983)
Lawrence Kasdan (Silverado; 1985)
Christopher Morahan (Clockwise; 1986)
Charles Crichton (A Fish Called Wanda; 1988)
Christopher Guest (The Big Picture; 1989)
Michael Winner (Bullseye; 1990)
Phil Nibbelink w/ Simon Wells (An American Tail: Fievel Goes West; 1991)
Kenneth Branagh (Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein; 1994)
Stephen Sommers (The Jungle Book; 1994)
Richard Rich (The Swan Princess; 1994)
Fred Schepisi (Fierce Creatures; 1997)
Sam Weisman (2; George of the Jungle; 1997, The Out-of-Towners; 1999)
Michael Apted (The World is Not Enough; 1999)
Andrew Bergman (Isn’t She Great; 2000)
Karl Zwicky (The Magic Pudding; 2000)
Jerry Zucker (Rat Race; 2001)
Chris Columbus (2; Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone; 2001, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets; 2002)
Roberto Benigni (Pinocchio; 2002)
Lee Tamahori (Die Another Day; 2002)
Ron Underwood (The Adventures of Pluto Nash; 2002)
McG (Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; 2003)
Gavin Grazer (Scorched; 2003)
David Grossman (George of the Jungle 2; 2003)
Andrew Adamson (Shrek 2; 2004)
Frank Coraci (Around the World in 80 Days; 2004)
Gary Chapman (Valiant; 2005)
Gary Winick (Charlottes Web; 2006)
Mike Binder (Man About Town; 2006)
Chris Miller (Shrek the Third; 2007)
Tony Leondis (Igor; 2008)
Scott Derrickson (The Day the Earth Stood Still; 2008)
Harald Zwart (The Pink Panther 2; 2009)
Jorge Blanco (Planet 51; 2009)
Donovan Marsh (Spud; 2010)
Zack Snyder (The Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole; 2010)
Mike Mitchell (2; Shrek Forever After; 2010, Trolls; 2016)
David Frankel (The Big Year; 2011)
Stephen J. Anderson w/ Don Hall (Winnie the Pooh; 2011)
Yannis Smaragdis (God Loves Caviar; 2012)
Gracie Otto (The Last Impresario; 2013)
Klay Hall (Planes; 2013)
John Barker (Spud 3: Learning to Fly; 2014)
Ross Venokar (2; Get Squirrely; 2016, Charming; 2017)
Aaron Woodley (Arctic Dogs; 2019)
Walt Becker (Clifford the Big Red Dog; 2020)
Collaborations:
Terry Jones - 6
Robert Young - 3
Joseph McGrath - 3
Terry Gilliam - 2
Mike Mitchell - 2
Ross Venokar - 2
Chris Columbus - 2
Sam Weisman - 2
Kevin Billington - 2
Other notable directors:
David Frankel
Zack Snyder
Scott Derrickson
Andrew Adamson
Ron Underwood
Roberto Benigni
Jim Henson
Lawrence Kasdan
Jerry Zucker
Stephen Sommers
Kenneth Branagh
Michael Apted
Mike Binder
Frank Coraci- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Jay Baruchel was born in Ottawa, Ontario, and was raised in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He is the son of Robyne (Ropell), a freelance writer, and Serge Victor Baruchel, an antiques dealer. He has a younger sister who also acts. He started acting in 1995 when he made his first of three appearances on the hit show Are You Afraid of the Dark? (1990). He was also in more localized shows such as My Hometown (1996) and Popular Mechanics for Kids (1997).
Baruchel had spent some downtime and finally got a chance to be in a classic film called Almost Famous (2000) in 2000. He played "Vic", a devout fan of Led Zeppelin. Judd Apatow soon had a show in the works and Baruchel played "Steven Karp" on Undeclared (2001). He also had the chance to star alongside actors such as Ian Somerhalder and James Van Der Beek as "Harry" in The Rules of Attraction (2002). Things began to slow down a bit after a couple more failed shows. He came back as the courageous "Danger Barch" in Million Dollar Baby (2004). He has also appeared in many independent films, such as Fetching Cody (2005), Just Buried (2007) and Real Time (2008).
He was also in many successful American comedy films. He was the lead in She's Out of My League (2010) and played one of Seth Rogen's best friends (which he really is) in the movie Knocked Up (2007). He also made his mark in family-friendly films such as How to Train Your Dragon (2010), playing the unlikely "Viking Hiccup" and also played the title role in The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010) alongside his newly-found kindred spirit, actor Nicolas Cage.
Baruchel lived his dream as he worked on the hockey comedy Goon (2011), and is working on many other films that are what he considers to be passion projects.Marc F. Voizard (Running Home; 1999)
Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous; 2000)
Roger Avery (The Rules of Engagement; 2002)
Jesse Warn (Nemesis Game; 2003)
Clint Eastwood (Million Dollar Baby; 2004)
David Ray (Fetching Cody; 2005)
Zackary Adler (I’m Reed Fish; 2006)
Judd Apatow (Knocked Up; 2007)
Chaz Thorne (Just Buried; 2007)
Jason Stone (Jay and Seth versus the Apocalypse; 2007)
Randall Cole (Real Time; 2008)
Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder; 2008)
Peter Sollett (Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist; 2008)
Kyle Newman (Fanboys; 2009)
Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian; 2009)
Jacob Tierney (2; The Trotsky; 2009, Good Neighbours; 2010)
Jim Field Smith (She’s Out of My League; 2010)
Chris Sanders (How to Train Your Dragon; 2010)
Jon Turtletaub (The Sorcerer’s Apprentice; 2010)
John Puglisi (Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon; 2010)
Michael Dowse (Goon; 2011)
Steve Hickner (Book of Dragons; 2011)
Tom Owens (Gift of the Night Fury; 2011)
David Cronenberg (Cosmopolis; 2012)
Seth Rogen (This is the End; 2013)
Evan Goldberg (This is the End; 2013)
Jonathan Sobol (The Art of the Steal; 2013)
Jose Padilha (RoboCop; 2014)
Dan Fogler w/ Michael Canzoniero (Don Peyote; 2014)
Dean DeBlois (3; How to Train Your Dragon (2010), How to Train Your Dragon 2; 2014, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World; 2019)
Tyson Caron (Lovesick; 2016)
Lone Scherfig (The Kindness of Strangers; 2019)
Matt Johnson (BlackBerry; 2023)
Collaborations:
Dean DeBlois - 3
Jacob Tierney - 2
Other notable directors:
Clint Eastwood
David Cronenberg
Jon Turtletaub
Cameron Crowe
Judd Apatow
Chris Sanders
Shawn Levy
Ben Stiller- Actor
- Producer
- Additional Crew
Timothy Allen Dick was born on June 13, 1953, in Denver, Colorado, to Martha Katherine (Fox) and Gerald M. Dick. His father, a real estate salesman, was killed in a collision with a drunk driver while driving his family home from a University of Colorado football game, when Tim was eleven years old. His mother, a community service worker, remarried her high school sweetheart, an Episcopalian deacon, two years after Tim's father's death. He was raised with his many siblings and step-siblings. When Tim was young, his family moved to Birmingham, Michigan.
In high school, his favorite subject was shop, of course, and after high school, he attended Western Michigan University and graduated with a degree in Television Production in 1975. In 1978, he was arrested on drug charges and spent two years in jail. Upon his release, he had a new outlook on life and on a dare from a friend, started his comedy career at the Comedy Castle in Detroit. Later, he went on to do several cable specials, including, Comedy's Dirtiest Dozen (1988) and Tim Allen: Men Are Pigs (1990). In 1991, he became the star of his own hit television series on ABC called Home Improvement (1991). While continuing to film his television series throughout most of the 1990s, he starred in a string of blockbuster movies, including The Santa Clause (1994), Toy Story (1995), Toy Story 2 (1999) and Galaxy Quest (1999). In August 1996, he developed and unveiled his own signature line of power tools, manufactured by Ryobi. On top of all that, he has his own racing team, Tim Allen/Saleen RRRRacing. In May 1999, he ended his series Home Improvement (1991) after eight seasons and in 2001, he filmed such movies as Big Trouble (2002) and Joe Somebody (2001).Ciro Duran (Tropical Snow; 1988)
Lenny Wong (Comedy’s Dirtiest Dozen; 1988)
John Pasquin (3; The Santa Clause; 1994, Jungle 2 Jungle; 1997, Joe Somebody; 2001)
John Lasseter (3; Toy Story; 1995, Toy Story 2; 1999, Cars; 2006)
Peter Baldwin (Meet Wally Sparks; 1997)
Bryan Spicer (For Richer or Poorer; 1997)
Dean Parisot (Galaxy Quest; 1999)
Tad Stones (Buzz Lightyear of the Star Command: The Adventure Begins; 2000)
Chris Ver Weil (Who is Cletis Tout; 2001)
Barry Sonnenfeld (Big Trouble; 2002)
Michael Lembeck (2; The Santa Clause 2; 2002, The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause; 2006)
Joe Roth (Christmas with the Kranks; 2004)
Brian Robbins (The Shaggy Dog; 2006)
Peter Hewitt (Zoom; 2006)
Walt Becker (Wild Hogs; 2007)
David Mamet (Redbelt; 2008)
Howard Michael Gould (The Six Wives of Henry Lefay; 2009)
Lee Unkrich (Toy Story 3; 2010)
Jordan Brady (I Am Comic; 2010)
Gary Rydstrom (Hawaiian Vacation; 2011)
Angus MacLane (Small Fry; 2011)
Mark Walsh (Partysaurus Rex; 2012)
Alastair Fothergill w/ Mark Linfield (Chimpanzee; 2012)
Anthony Geffen w/ Sias Wilson (2; The Penguin King; 2012, Adventures of the Penguin King; 2013)
Michelle Schumacher (3 Geezers; 2013)
David E. Talbert (El Camino Christmas; 2017)
Rich Moore w/ Phil Johnston (Ralph Breaks the Internet; 2018)
Josh Cooley (Toy Story 4; 2019)
Justin Folk (No Safe Spaces; 2020)
Collaborations:
John Lasseter - 3
John Pasquin - 3
Anthony Geffen - 2
Sias Wilson - 2
Michael Lembeck - 2
Other notable directors:
Rich Moore
Lee Unkrich
Barry Sonnenfeld
Dean Parisot
David Mamet- Mexican character actor Rodolfo Acosta (born Rodolfo Acosta Pérez) achieved his greatest success in the US, primarily as a villain in westerns. He was born in Chamizal, a section of land disputed by Mexico and Texas due to changes in the Rio Grande river which forms the border. At the time of Acosta's birth, the area was generally accepted by both Mexican and Texas governments as U.S. territory, and Acosta was born an American citizen, despite the fact that his birthplace is now in the Mexican state of Chihuahua. He served in the U.S. Navy in naval intelligence during World War II and married Jeanine Cohen, a woman he met in Casablanca during the North African campaign. They had four children. She filed for divorce when she found out Acosta was having an affair and sharing an apartment in Mexico City with actress Ann Sheridan in the 1950s.) They divorced in 1957. Rodolfo Acosta married again on September 18, 1971 to Vera Martinez and they had one child. She divorced him in 1974 a few weeks before his death at the Motion Picture and Television Country House and Hospital in Woodland Hills, California. After the war, Acosta worked in Mexico in films of the great director Emilio Fernández, which led to a bit in John Ford's film The Fugitive (1947). He came to the US and was signed by Universal for a small role in One Way Street (1950). He stayed in the US and his sharp, ruthless features led him to a long succession of roles as bandits, Indian warriors and outlaws. In The Tijuana Story (1957), he actually had a sympathetic leading role, but in general he spent his career as a very familiar western bad guy.Miguel M. Delgado (I Am a Fugitive; 1946)
John Ford (2; The Fugitive; 1947, How the West Was Won; 1962)
Emilio Fernandez (4; Salon Mexico; 1949, Victims of Sin; 1950, Maria Islands; 1951, Acapulco; 1952)
Julio Bracho (2; Philip of Jesus; 1949, Take Me in Your Arms; 1954)
Hugo Fregonese (One Way Street; 1950)
Miguel Contreras Torres (2; Pancho Villa Returns; 1950, The Last Rebel; 1958)
Budd Boetticher (3; Bullfighter and the Lady; 1951, Horizons West; 1952, Wings of a Hawk; 1953)
Fernando A. Rivera (The Lovers; 1951)
Alberto Got (Sensuality; 1951)
Frederick de Cordova (Yankee Buccaneer; 1952)
Joseph Kane (San Antone; 1953)
Robert Wise (Destination Gobi; 1953)
Harmon Jones (City of Bad Men; 1953)
Jacques Tourneur (Appointment in Honduras; 1953)
John Farrow (Hondo; 1953)
Nunnally Johnson (Night People; 1954)
Delmer Daves (Drum Beat; 1954)
Allan Dwan (Passion; 1954)
Harry Horner w/ Rafael Portillo (A Life in the Balance; 1955)
Roberto Gavaldon (The Littlest Outlaw; 1955)
Robert D. Webb (The Proud Ones; 1956)
Richard Fleischer (2; Bandido; 1956, Che; 1969)
Elmo Williams (Apache Warrior; 1957)
Charles Marquis Warren (Trooper Hook; 1957)
Leslie Kardos (The Tijuana Story; 1957)
Henry Hathaway (3; From Hell to Texas; 1958, How the West Was Won; 1962, The Sons of Katie Elder; 1965)
James Clavell (Walk Like a Dragon; 1960)
Philip Leacock (Let No Man Write My Epitaph; 1960)
Don Siegel (2; Flaming Star; 1960, Stranger on the Run; 1967)
Herbert Coleman (Posse from Hell; 1961)
Marlon Brando (One-Eyed Jacks; 1961)
Vincent Sherman (The Second Time Around; 1961)
George Marshall (How the West Was Won; 1962)
Norman Tokar (Savage Sam; 1963)
Herschel Daugherty (The Raiders; 1963)
Gordon Douglas (Rio Conchos; 1964)
George Stevens (The Greatest Story Ever Told; 1965)
Serge Bourguignon (The Reward; 1965)
Burt Kennedy (2; Return of the Seven; 1966, Young Billy Young; 1969)
Fernando Lamas (The Violent Ones; 1967)
Jack Shea (Dayton’s Devils; 1968)
Richard Benedict (Impasse; 1969)
Howard Sackler (The Great White Hope; 1970)
Carol Reed (Flap; 1970)
Carl Monson (Blood Legacy; 1971)
Collaborations:
Emilio Fernandez - 4
Henry Hathaway - 3
Budd Boetticher - 3
Burt Kennedy - 2
John Ford - 2
Don Siegel - 2
Richard Fleischer - 2
Julio Bracho - 2
Miguel Contreras Torres - 2
Other notable directors:
George Stevens
George Marshall
Norman Tokar
Marlon Brando
Vincent Sherman
Allan Dwan
Robert Wise
Nunnally Johnson - Jay Acovone is a versatile actor who is best known for his ability to play authoritative characters such as Mafia bosses, villains, police/military, and lawyers. He was born in NYC; his parents later moved to Mahopac, NY, where he graduated from Mahopac High School. While he was always an avid movie fan, it was a chance encounter with a friend, urging him to take part in a play, that set him on a path for a career in acting.
Acovone attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts (AADA) and the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York. His break came when he was cast to play "Skip Lee", opposite Al Pacino, in the controversial movie Cruising (1980) (written and directed by William Friedkin). He spent the next few years working on daytime television in NYC, but moved to Los Angeles when he landed a co-starring role in Hollywood Beat.
Acovone went on to have several supporting roles in film and television including Women of Valor (1986) and Cold Steel (1987) before being recruited to be a series regular on Beauty and the Beast (1987). After Beauty and the Beast ended, he continued to have multiple supporting or lead roles in TV and films including: Out for Justice (1991), Lookin' Italian (1994), Matlock (1986) and Friends (1994). The mid-1990s brought a role in the blockbuster hit Independence Day (1996) and a major recurring role in the TV series Stargate SG-1 (1997). Stargate-SG1 won multiple awards, including the Saturn Award for Best Syndicated/Cable Television Series for three different years.
The following decade led to a role in Cast Away (2000), Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003), and S.W.A.T. (2003); recurring roles in Silk Stalkings (1991), Sliders (1995), NYPD Blue (1993), and The X-Files (1993); guest-starring roles in CSI: NY (2004), Monk (2002), Criminal Minds (2005), and 24 (2001). In recent years, Acovone saw a brief return to daytime television with a recurring role on General Hospital (1963) (Maurice Benard), and then went on to guest-star on multiple hit TV dramas including: The Mentalist (2008), Leverage (2008), CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (2000), Vegas (2012), and NCIS (2003). In 2016, he acted in the motion capture video game Mafia III (2016), playing Mafia boss Sal Marcano.
In 2017, Acovone was asked to perform the audiobook version of George R. R. Martin (Game of Thrones (2011))'s novel, "Wildcards-Dead Man's Hand", along with Adrian Paul.
Acovone lives in Los Angeles with his wife and their cat.William Friedkin (Cruising; 1980)
Allan Moyle (Times Square; 1980)
John Flynn (Out of Justice; 1991)
Albert & Charles Band (Doctor Mordrid; 1992)
Gary Davis (Conflict of Interest; 1993)
Guy Magar (Lookin’ Italian; 1994)
Roland Emmerich (Independence Day; 1996)
Annette Haywood-Carter (Foxfire; 1996)
Mimi Leder (The Peacemaker; 1997)
Scott P. Levy (Time Under Fire; 1997)
John Duigan (Molly; 1999)
Anne de Salvo (The Amati Girls; 2000)
Robert Zemeckis (Cast Away; 2000)
Simon Wincer (Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles; 2001)
Andrew Davis (Collateral Damage; 2002)
Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; 2003)
Clark Johnson (S.W.A.T.; 2003)
Jack Ersgard (Rancid; 2004)
John Moyer (Mobsters and Mormons; 2005)
Oliver Stone (World Trade Center; 2006)
Martin Weisz (The Hills Have Eyes II; 2007)
Craig Ross Jr. (Traci Townsend; 2007)
Robert Dyke (InAlienable; 2007)
Matthew Arnold (Shadow People; 2013)
Julius Amedume (Rattlesnakes; 2019)
Collaborations: none
Notable directors:
Oliver Stone
Robert Zemeckis
Andrew Davis
Simon Wincer
Roland Emmerich
Jonathan Mostow
John Duigan
Mimi Leder
William Friedkin
John Flynn - Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Nick Adams, best known to audiences as Johnny Yuma of the TV series The Rebel (1959), played leads and supporting parts in many films of the 1950s, often cast in the same "troubled young man" mold as his good friend, James Dean. He was nominated for an Oscar for his performance in Twilight of Honor (1963). He died in 1968 due to an overdose of drugs he was taking for a nervous disorder.Irving Brecher (Somebody Loves Me; 1952)
Mervyn LeRoy (4; Strange Lady in Town; 1955, Mister Roberts; 1955, No Time for Sergeants; 1958, The FBI Story; 1959)
John Ford (Mister Roberts; 1955)
Joshua Logan (2; Mister Roberts; 1955, Picnic; 1955)
Nicholas Ray (Rebel Without a Cause; 1955)
Stuart Heisler (I Died a Thousand Times; 1955)
Al Lewis (Our Miss Brooks; 1956)
William Witney (A Strange Adventure; 1956)
Delmer Daves (The Last Wagon; 1956)
George Stevens (Giant; 1956)
Gerd Oswald (Fury at Showdown; 1957)
Alexander Mackendrick (Sweet Smell of Success; 1957)
Henry Ephron (Sing, Boy, Sing; 1958)
George Seaton (2; Teacher’s Pet; 1958, The Hook; 1963)
Michael Gordon (Pillow Talk; 1959)
Don Siegel (Hell is for Heroes; 1962)
David Swift (The Interns; 1962)
John Sturges (A Girl Named Tamiko; 1962)
Boris Sagal (Twilight of Honor; 1963)
Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (The Young Lovers; 1964)
Terry Morse (Young Dillinger; 1965)
Ishiro Honda (2; Frankenstein Conquers the World; 1965, Invasion of Astro-Monster; 1965)
Daniel Haller (Die, Monster, Die; 1965)
Harmon Jones (Don’t Worry, We’ll Think of a Title; 1966)
Russell S. Doughten (Fever Heat; 1968)
Nick Webster (Mission Mars; 1968)
Collaborations:
Mervyn LeRoy - 4
George Seaton - 2
Joshua Logan - 2
Ishiro Honda - 2
Other notable directors:
Harmon Jones
Samuel Goldwyn Jr.
Don Siegel
George Stevens
John Ford
John Sturges- Character actor Wesley Addy began his prolific career as a prime player on the classical stage before coming to occasional films and TV in the early 1950s. Known for his intelligent, white-collar demeanor and lean, icy, cultivated menace, the silver-haired performer, who was actually born in Omaha, Nebraska, was often mistaken as British.
Majoring in economics at the University of California in Los Angeles, Wesley switched gears and trained in summer theater on Martha's Vineyard before trekking to New York City to pursue a professional career. In 1935, the actor made his Broadway stage debut with Orson Welles in Archibald Macleish's "Panic". He continued with roles as both "Marcellus" and "Fortinbras" in Leslie Howard's production of "Hamlet". Other Shakespearean roles during this early period included "Hotspur" in "Henry IV, Part I", "Benvolio" in "Romeo and Juliet" and "Orsino" in "Twelfth Night". He often performed the Bard in the company of such legendary interpreters as Orson Welles, Laurence Olivier and, more frequently, Maurice Evans.
World War II interrupted Addy's early momentum but he eventually returned to the theatre following his tour of duty and played opposite Katharine Cornell in "Antigone" and "Candida". A continued presence on Broadway, he had strong stage roles in "The Traitor", "Another Part of the Forest", "King Lear" and "The Leading Lady".
In 1951, the 38-year-old Addy made his film debut in the drama, The First Legion (1951), and would be seen from time to time throughout the decade in such dramatic fare as Scandal Sheet (1952), My Six Convicts (1952) and Time Table (1956). Some of his chillier roles came in films directed by Robert Aldrich, who utilized the actor quite often -- Kiss Me Deadly (1955), The Big Knife (1955), The Garment Jungle (1957), Ten Seconds to Hell (1959) and the Grand Guignol classics, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) and Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964).
Never acquiring a strong footing in the movies, Wesley changed his on-camera focus in the 1960s to TV and also sought out theatre roles, as well. In 1961, Wesley married actress Celeste Holm. Together, they proved a strong stage coupling in both comedies and dramas -- "Invitation to a March", "A Month in the Country", "Mame", "Candida", "Light Up the Sky", "Mama" and "With Love and Laughter".
A reliable, durable performer, Wesley played suave gents and villains on TV. A major portion of his work came from daytime soaps -- including The Edge of Night (1956), Days of Our Lives (1965), Ryan's Hope (1975) and Loving (1983). Later films included Seconds (1966), Network (1976), The Europeans (1979) and The Verdict (1982). He continued to act close to the end. His last film role was as a judge in Before and After (1996) starring Meryl Streep and Liam Neeson, which was released in the year of his death. He was 83.Douglas Sirk (The First Legion; 1951)
Hugo Fregonese (My Six Convicts; 1952)
Robert Aldrich (7; Kiss Me Deadly; 1955, The Big Knife; 1955, Ten Seconds to Hell; 1959, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane; 1962, 4 for Texas; 1963, Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte; 1964, The Grissom Gang; 1971)
Mark Stevens (Time Table; 1956)
Vincent Sherman (The Garment Jungle; 1957)
John Frankenheimer (Seconds; 1966)
Delbert Mann (Mister Buddwing; 1966)
Richard Fleischer (Tora! Tora! Tora!; 1970)
Sidney Lumet (2; Network; 1976, The Verdict; 1982)
James Ivory (2; The Europeans; 1979, The Bostonians; 1984)
Vern Oakley (A Modern Affair; 1996)
Barbet Schroeder (Before and After; 1996)
Arthur Allan Seidelman (Harvest of Fire; 1996)
Collaborations:
Robert Aldrich - 7
Sidney Lumet - 2
James Ivory - 2
Other notable directors:
John Frankenheimer
Vincent Sherman
Delbert Mann
Richard Fleischer
Barbet Schroeder - Actor
- Soundtrack
The actor and Broadway director Luther Adler was born into a Yiddish theatrical dynasty. One of the six children born to Jacob P. and Sara Adler, he made his debut in the world in New York City, originally billed as Lutha J. Adler. His full siblings Charles, Jay, Julia, and Stella (the famous acting teacher) as well as his half-siblings Celia and Abram Adler all appeared on Broadway, and his father Jacob, the biggest star of the Yiddish-language theater, was considered one of the great American actors.
The Yiddish theater was an important cultural venue in the days when the millions of Jewish immigrants in the greater metropolitan New York area spoke Yiddish as their first (and sometimes only) language. People who trained and appeared in the Yiddish theater were instrumental in the development of the modern American theater and film, and some, including Sidney Lumet, are still active in the 21st century. It was in this cultural milieu that Luther and his siblings got their grounding in acting and the theater.
Jacob Adler owned and operated his own stage in New York's Lower East Side, and Luther began appearing in the family productions at the age of five with the Adler production of "Schmendrick." He made his official debut as an actor at the age of 13 at his father's theater and his Broadway debut at the the age of 18. Billed as Lutha Adler, he appeared in the Provincetown Players' production of Theodore Drieser's "The Hand of the Potter" in December 1921 at the Provincetown Playhouse,
Adler's first Broadway hit was "Humoresque" in 1923, and he appeared regularly in top productions throughout the '20s, including "Street Scene" (1929) and "Red Dust" (1929). Along with his sister 'Stella Adler", Luther Adler was one of the original members of the Group Theatre acting company, which was formed in 1931 by Harold Clurman (his future brother-in-law), Cheryl Crawford, and Lee Strasberg. Others who would make their bones in the company were Elia Kazan, Julius "John" Garfield, Howard Da Silva, Franchot Tone, John Randolph, Will Geer, Clifford Odets and Lee J. Cobb.
The Group Theatre was dedicated to bringing realism to the American stage and was instrumental in introducing the Stanislavsky technique into American acting. Most members were leftists if not communists, and the collective wanted to produce plays dealing with social issues. For the Groupe Theatre, Adler appeared in "Night Over Taos" (1932), "Success Story" (1933), "Alien Corn" (1933) and two seminal works of the American stage written by Odets: "Awake and Sing!" (1935) and "Golden Boy" (1937). He played opposite leading ladies Katharine Cornell in "Alien Corn" (1933), his sister Stella in "Gold Eagle Guy "(1934), "Awake and Sing!" and "Paradise Lost" (both 1935), and Frances Farmer in "Golden Boy" (1937).
His appearance as the urban ethnic boxer Joe Bonaparte in Odets' "Golden Boy" arguably was his greatest role, but when the film was made in 1939, he was passed over for the improbably cast Wlliam Holden, a white-bread WASP. Although Adler appeared in many motion pictures, his reputation would remain primarily that of a stage actor.
Adler became a director on Broadway in 1942, though his first staging, "They Should Have Stayed in Bed", was a flop, lasting but 11 performances. He next directed Ben Hecht's pro-Israel propaganda play "A Flag is Born" in 1946, starring the great Paul Muni, a graduate of the Yiddish theater, and newcomer Marlon Brando, an Irish-American born-Protestant who had been trained by his sister Stella. The play, which raised money for Jewsh refugees from the Holocaust seeking sanctuary in Palestine, was a hit, running for 120 performances. He also directed "Angel Street" (1955) and "A View from the Bridge" (1960). He last appeared on Broadway as a replacement in the long running "Fiddler on the Roof."
Adler made his movie debut in Lancer Spy (1937), but he never became a star in that medium. His best roles like "Golden Boy" and "Humoresque" were taken by other actors, including Group Theatre alumnus John Garfield. He had memorable supporting turns in the noir classic D.O.A. (1949), in Joseph Losey's remake of M (1951), in Paul Muni's last film The Last Angry Man (1959), in the Holocaust drama The Man in the Glass Booth (1975), and as Paul Newman's mobster uncle in Absence of Malice (1981). He also worked frequently on television.
From 1938 until 1947, Adler was married to the actress Sylvia Sidney. They had one child, a son, Jacob. Luther Adler died in Kutztown, Pennsylvania on December 8, 1984. He was 81 years old.Gregory Ratoff (Lancer Spy; 1937)
Edward Dmytryk (Cornered; 1945)
Leslie Fenton (Saigon; 1948)
Charles Vidor (The Loves of Carmen; 1948)
Edward Ludwig (Wake of the Witch; 1948)
Joseph L. Mankiewicz (House of Strangers; 1949)
Rudolph Mate (D.O.A.; 1949)
Jean Negulesco (Under the Sky; 1950)
Gordon Douglas (Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye; 1950)
H. Bruce Humberstone (South Sea Sinner; 1950)
Joseph Losey (M; 1951)
Frank Tuttle (The Magic Face; 1951)
Henry Hathaway (The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel; 1951)
Joseph Kane (Hoodlum Empire; 1952)
Elmo Williams (The Tall Texan; 1953)
Fred F. Sears (The Miami Story; 1954)
Lewis R. Foster (Crashout; 1955)
Richard Fleischer (The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing; 1955)
Nicholas Ray (Hot Blood; 1956)
Daniel Mann (The Last Angry Man; 1959)
Melville Shavelson (Cast a Giant Shadow; 1966)
Paul Bogart (The Three Sisters; 1966)
Martin Ritt (The Brotherhood; 1968)
Carlo Lizzani (Crazy Joe; 1974)
Arthur Hiller (The Man in a Glass Booth; 1975)
Marvin J. Chomsky (Murph the Surf; 1975)
Fred Williamson (Meet Johnny Barrows; 1976)
Stuart Rosenberg (Voyage of the Damned; 1976)
Sydney Pollak (Absence of Malice; 1981)
Collaborations: none
Notable directors:
Richard Fleischer
Martin Ritt
Sydney Pollak
Henry Hathaway
Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Edward Dmytryk
H. Bruce Humberstone
Charles Vidor- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Scott Adsit performed on the mainstage of Chicago's Second City, between 1994 and 1998, and, alongside Saturday Night Live (1975)'s Rachel Dratch and Tina Fey, was one of the driving forces behind such groundbreaking revues as "Pinata Full of Bees" and "Paradigm Lost". An in-depth look at his craft is available in the PBS documentary, Second to None (2001). A 1995 sketch he performed with former SNL head writer, Adam McKay, "Gump", was included as one of Second City's all-time best on the CD's which come with the book "Second City" by Sheldon Patinkin. Scott has proudly described the mission of comedy as "changing the world with our funny skits and songs".Peter Chelsom (Town & Country; 2001)
Nicole Holofcener (Lovely & Amazing; 2001)
Troy Miller (Run Ronnie Run; 2002)
Bob Odenkirk (Melvin Goes to Dinner; 2003)
F. Gary Gray (2; The Italian Job; 2003, Be Cool; 2005)
David Caffrey (Grand Theft Parsons; 2003)
Steven Spielberg (The Terminal; 2004)
Steven Brill (Without a Paddle; 2004)
Jesse Dylan (Kicking & Screaming; 2005)
Richard Linklater (Bad News Bears; 2005)
Jeff Garlin (I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With; 2006)
Steve Pink (Accepted; 2006)
Christopher Guest (For Your Consideration; 2006)
Sean Meredith (Dante’s Inferno; 2007)
Craig Gillespie (Mr. Woodstock; 2007)
Steven Soderbergh (The Informent; 2009)
Massy Tadjedin (Last Night; 2010)
Jason Winer (Arthur; 2011)
Rawson Marshall Thurber (We’re the Millers; 2013)
Kat Coiro (A Case for You; 2013)
Desiree Akhavan (Appropriate Behavior; 2014)
Theodore Melfi (St. Vincent; 2014)
Don Hall w/ Chris Williams (Big Hero 6; 2014)
Chris Kasick (Uncle Nick; 2015)
Collaborations:
F. Gary Gray - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Steven Soderbergh
Richard Linklater
Christopher Guest
Don Hall
Chris Williams- Actor
- Music Department
John Agar was born in Chicago, the eldest of four children. In World War II, Sgt. John Agar was a United States Army Air Force physical instructor. His 1945 marriage at the Wilshire Memorial Church to "America's Sweetheart" Shirley Temple put him in the public eye for the first time, and a movie contract with independent producer David O. Selznick quickly ensued.
Agar debuted opposite John Wayne, Henry Fonda and Temple in John Ford's Fort Apache (1948), initial film in the famed director's "Cavalry Trilogy".
His marriage to Shirley Temple ended in 1949, while his movie career continued.
Popular with fans of Westerns and sci-fi flicks, Agar was a staple at film conventions and autograph shows.John Ford (2; Fort Apache; 1948, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; 1949)
Richard Wallace (Adventure in Baltimore; 1949)
Robert Stevenson (I Married a Communist; 1949)
Allan Dwan (Sands of Iwo Jima; 1949)
Lewis Seiler (Breakthrough; 1950)
Raoul Walsh (Along the Great Divide; 1950)
Lew Landers (The Magic Carpet; 1951)
Joseph Kane (Woman of the North Country; 1952)
Hal R. Makelim (Man of Conflict; 1953)
Hugo Hass (2; Bait; 1954, Hold Back Tomorrow; 1955)
Oscar Rudolph (The Rocket Man; 1954)
Edmond O’Brien w/ Howard W. Koch (Shield for Murder; 1954)
Abner Biberman (The Golden Mistriss; 1954)
Jack Arnold (2; Revenge of the Creature; 1955, Tarantula; 1955)
Richard Bartlett (The Lonesome Trail; 1955)
Charles F. Haas (Star in the Dust; 1956)
Edward L. Cahn (3; Flesh and the Spur; 1956, Jet Attack; 1958, Invisible Invaders; 1959)
Virgil Vogel (The Mole People; 1956)
Jesse Hibbs (Joe Butterfly; 1957)
Edgar G. Ulmer (The Daughter of Dr. Jekyll; 1957)
Nathan H. Juran (The Brain from Planet Arous; 1957)
Charles Marquis Warren (Ride a Violent Mile; 1957)
Gerardo de Leon w/ Eddie Romero (Cavalry Command; 1958)
Bert I. Gordon (Attack of the Puppet People; 1958)
Paul Landres (Frontier Gun; 1958)
Frank McDonald (Raymie; 1959)
Gene Nelson (Hand of Death; 1962)
Sidney W. Pink (Journey to the Seventh Planet; 1962)
Francis D. Lyon (The Young and the Brave; 1963)
Richard Rush (Of Love and Desire; 1963)
William F. Claxton (2; Law of the Lawless; 1963, Stage of Thunder Rock; 1964)
Christian Nyby (Young Fury; 1965)
R.G. Springsteen (2; Johnny Reno; 1965, Waco; 1966)
Arthur C. Pierce (Women of the Prehistoric Planet; 1966)
Larry Buchanan (3; Curse of the Swamp Creature; 1966, Zontar, the Thing from Venus; 1966, Hell Raiders; 1968)
Roger Corman (The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre; 1967)
James A. Sullivan (Night Flight; 1967)
Andrew V. MacLaglen (2; The Undefeated; 1969, Chisum; 1970)
George Sherman (Big Jake; 1971)
John Guillermin (King Kong; 1976)
Ricou Browning (Mr. No Legs; 1978)
Steve De Jarnatt (Miracle Mile; 1988)
Clive Barker (Nightbreed; 1990)
Rockne S. O’Bannon (Fear; 1990)
John Carpenter w/ Tobe Hooper (Body Bags; 1993)
Ted Newsom w/ Wayne Berwick (The Naked Monster; 2005)
Collaborations:
Edward L. Cahn - 3
Larry Buchanan - 3
Andrew V. MacLaglen - 2
R.G. Springsteen - 2
William F. Claxton - 2
John Ford - 2
Hugo Hass - 2
Jack Arnold - 2
Other notable directors:
Roger Corman
Lew Landers
Robert Stevenson
Allan Dwan
John Guillermin- Actor
- Producer
- Director
American actor and producer Matthew David McConaughey was born in Uvalde, Texas. His mother, Mary Kathleen (McCabe), is a substitute school teacher originally from New Jersey. His father, James Donald McConaughey, was a Mississippi-born gas station owner who ran an oil pipe supply business. He is of Irish, Scottish, German, English, and Swedish descent. Matthew grew up in Longview, Texas, where he graduated from the local High School (1988). Showing little interest in his father's oil business, which his two brothers later joined, Matthew was longing for a change of scenery, and spent a year in Australia, washing dishes and shoveling chicken manure. Back to the States, he attended the University of Texas in Austin, originally wishing to be a lawyer. But, when he discovered an inspirational Og Mandino book "The Greatest Salesman in the World" before one of his final exams, he suddenly knew he had to change his major from law to film.
He began his acting career in 1991, appearing in student films and commercials in Texas and directed short films as Chicano Chariots (1992). Once, in his hotel bar in Austin, he met the casting director and producer Don Phillips, who introduced him to director Richard Linklater for his next project. At first, Linklater thought Matthew was too handsome to play the role of a guy chasing high school girls in his coming-of-age drama Dazed and Confused (1993), but cast him after Matthew grew out his hair and mustache. His character was initially in three scenes but the role grew to more than 300 lines as Linklater encouraged him to do some improvisations. In 1995, he starred in Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation (1994), playing a mad bloodthirsty sadistic killer, opposite Renée Zellweger.
Shortly thereafter, moving to L.A., Matthew became a sensation with his performances in two high-profile 1996 films Lone Star (1996), where he portrayed killing suspected sheriff and in the film adaptation of John Grisham's novel A Time to Kill (1996), where he played an idealistic young lawyer opposite Sandra Bullock and Kevin Spacey. The actor was soon being hailed as one of the industry's hottest young leading man inspiring comparisons to actor Paul Newman. His following performances were Robert Zemeckis' Contact (1997) with Jodie Foster (the film was finished just before the death of the great astronomer and popularizer of space science Carl Sagan) and Steven Spielberg's Amistad (1997), a fact-based 1839 story about the rebellious African slaves. In 1998, he teamed again with Richard Linklater as one of the bank-robbing brothers in The Newton Boys (1998), set in Matthew's birthplace, Uvalde, Texas. During this time, he also wrote, directed and starred in the 20-minute short The Rebel (1998).
In 1999, he starred in the comedy Edtv (1999), about the rise of reality television, and in 2000, he headlined Jonathan Mostow's U-571 (2000), portraying officer Lt. Tyler, in a WW II story of the daring mission of American submariners trying to capture the Enigma cipher machine.
In the 2000s, he became known for starring in romantic comedies, such as The Wedding Planner (2001), opposite Jennifer Lopez, and How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003), in which he co-starred with Kate Hudson. He played Denton Van Zan, an American warrior and dragons hunter in the futuristic thriller Reign of Fire (2002), where he co-starred with Christian Bale. In 2006, he starred in the romantic comedy Failure to Launch (2006), and later as head coach Jack Lengyel in We Are Marshall (2006), along with Matthew Fox. In 2008, he played treasure hunter Benjamin "Finn" Finnegan in Fool's Gold (2008), again with Kate Hudson. After playing Connor Mead in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009), co-starring with Jennifer Garner, McConaughey took a two year hiatus to open different opportunities in his career. Since 2010, he has moved away from romantic comedies.
That change came in 2011, in his first movie after that pause, when he portrayed criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller in The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), that operates mostly from the back seat of his Lincoln car. After this performance that was considered one of his best until then, Matthew played other iconic characters as district attorney Danny Buck Davidson in Bernie (2011), the wild private detective "Killer" Joe Cooper in Killer Joe (2011), Mud in Mud (2012), reporter Ward Jensen in The Paperboy (2012), male stripper club owner Dallas in Magic Mike (2012), starring Channing Tatum. McConaughey's career certainly reached it's prime, when he played HIV carrier Ron Woodroof in the biographical drama Dallas Buyers Club (2013), shot in less than a month. For his portrayal of Ron, Matthew won the Best Actor in the 86th Academy Awards, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor, among other awards and nominations. The same year, he also appeared in Martin Scorsese's The Wolf of Wall Street (2013). In 2014, he starred in HBO's True Detective (2014), as detective Rustin Cohle, whose job is to investigate with his partner Martin Hart, played by Woody Harrelson, a gruesome murder that happened in his little town in Louisiana. The series was highly acclaimed by critics winning 4 of the 7 categories it was nominated at the 66th Primetime Emmy Awards; he also won a Critics' Choice Award for the role.
Also in 2014, Matthew starred in Christopher Nolan's sci-fi film Interstellar (2014), playing Cooper, a former NASA pilot.Bob Balaban (My Boyfriends Back; 1993)
Richard Linklater (3; Dazed and Confused; 1993, The Newton Boys; 1998, Bernie; 2011)
William Dear (Angels in the Outfield; 1994)
Kim Henkel (Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation; 1995)
Herbert Ross (Boys on the Side; 1995)
Rich Wilkes (Glory Daze; 1995)
John Sayles (Lone Star; 1996)
Joel Schumacher (A Time to Kill; 1996)
Howard Franklin (Larger then Life; 1996)
Robert Zemeckis (Contact; 1997)
Steven Spielberg (Amistad; 1997)
Sandra Bullock (Making Sandwiches; 1998)
Ron Howard (EDtv; 1999)
Jonathan Mostow (U-571; 2000)
Adam Shankman (The Wedding Planner; 2001)
Bill Paxton (Frailty; 2001)
Jill Sprecher (Thirteen Conversations About One Thing; 2001)
Rob Bowman (Reign of Fire; 2002)
Donald Petrie (How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days; 2003)
Matthew Bright (Tiptoes; 2003)
Breck Eisner (Sahara; 2005)
Mark Cowen (Magnificent Desolation; 2005)
D.J. Caruso (Two for the Money; 2005)
Tom Dey (Failure of Launch; 2006)
McG (We Are Marshall; 2006)
Andy Tennant (Fool’s Gold; 2008)
Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder; 2008)
S.R. Bindler (Surfer, Dude; 2008)
Mark Waters (Ghosts of Girlfriends Past; 2009)
Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer; 2011)
William Friedkin (Killer Joe; 2011)
Jeff Nichols (Mud; 2012)
Steven Soderbergh (Magic Mike; 2012)
Lee Daniels (The Paperboy; 2012)
Jean-Marc Vallee (Dallas Buyers Club; 2013)
Martin Scorsese (Wolf of Wall Street; 2013)
Christopher Nolan (Interstellar; 2014)
Gus Van Sant (The Sea of Trees; 2015)
Gary Ross (Free State of Jones; 2016)
Travis Knight (Kubo and the Two Strings; 2016)
Garth Jennings (Sing; 2016)
Stephen Gaghan (Gold; 2016)
Nikolaj Arcel (The Dark Tower; 2017)
Yann Demange (White Boy Rick; 2018)
Steven Knight (Serenity; 2019)
Harmony Korine (The Beach Bum; 2019)
Guy Ritchie (The Gentlemen; 2020)
Collaborations:
Richard Linklater - 3
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Travis Knight
Christopher Nolan
Martin Scorsese
William Friedkin
Guy Ritchie
Gus Van Sant
Ron Howard
Herbert Ross
Jeff Nichols
Jean-Marc Vallee
Robert Zemeckis- Actor
- Director
- Producer
McAvoy was born on 21 April 1979 in Glasgow, Scotland, to James, a bus driver, and Elizabeth (née Johnstone), a nurse. He was raised on a housing estate in Drumchapel, Glasgow by his maternal grandparents (James, a butcher, and Mary), after his parents divorced when James was 11. He went to St Thomas Aquinas Secondary in Jordanhill, Glasgow, where he did well enough and started 'a little school band with a couple of mates'.
McAvoy toyed with the idea of the Catholic priesthood as a child but, when he was 16, a visit to the school by actor David Hayman sparked an interest in acting. Hayman offered him a part in his film The Near Room (1995) but despite enjoying the experience McAvoy didn't seriously consider acting as a career, although he did continue to act as a member of PACE Youth Theatre. He applied instead to the Royal Navy and had already been accepted when he was also offered a place at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama (RSAMD).
He took the place at the RSAMD (now the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland) and, when he graduated in 2000, he moved to London. He had already made a couple of TV appearances by this time and continued to get a steady stream of TV and movie work until he came to attention of the British public in 2004 playing car thief Steve McBride in the successful UK TV series Shameless (2004) and then to the rest of the world in 2005 as Mr Tumnus, the faun, in Disney's adaptation of C. S. Lewis's The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (2005). In The Last King of Scotland (2006) McAvoy portrayed a Scottish doctor who becomes the personal physician to dictator Idi Amin, played by Forest Whitaker. McAvoy's career breakthrough came in Atonement (2007), Joe Wright's 2007 adaption of Ian McEwan's novel.
Since then, McAvoy has taken on theatre roles, starring in Shakespeare's 'Macbeth' (directed by Jamie Lloyd), which launched the first Trafalgar Transformed season in London's West End and earned him an Olivier award nomination for Best Actor. In January 2015, McAvoy returned to the Trafalgar Studios stage to play Jack Gurney, the delusional 14th Earl of Gurney who believes he is Jesus, in the first revival of Peter Barnes's satire 'The Ruling Class', a role for which he was subsequently awarded the London Evening Standard Theatre Award's Best Actor.
On screen, McAvoy has appeared as corrupt cop Bruce Robertson in Filth (2013), a part for which he received a Scottish BAFTA for Best Actor, a British Independent Film Award for Best Actor, a London Critics Circle Film Award for British Actor of the Year and an Empire Award for Best Actor. More recently, he reprised his role as Professor Charles Xavier in X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014), X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) and X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019). He began his depiction of Kevin Wendell Crumb, also known as The Horde, a man with an extreme case of dissociative identity disorder in M. Night Shyamalan's thriller Split (2016) and continued it in the sequel, Glass (2019). Also in 2019, he played Bill Denbrough in It Chapter Two (2019), the horror sequel to It (2017).
McAvoy and Jamie Lloyd look set to continue their collaboration in December 2019, with a production of 'Cyrano de Bergerac' at the Playhouse Theatre in the West End, London. The project has been on the cards as long ago as 2017, when McAvoy posted a picture of him reading the script and wearing a false nose.Gillies MacKinnon (Regeneration; 1997)
Boris von Sychowski (Swimming Pool; 2001)
Stephen Fry (Bright Young Things; 2003)
Jeremy Wooding (Bollywood Queen; 2003)
Richard Loncraine (Wimbledon; 2004)
Anders Ronnow Klarlund (Strings; 2004)
Damien O’Donnell (Inside I’m Dancing; 2004)
Andrew Adamson (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; 2005)
Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland; 2006)
Tom Vaughan (Starter for 10; 2006)
Mark Palansky (Penelope; 2006)
Julian Jarrold (Becoming Jane; 2007)
Joe Wright (Atonement; 2007)
Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted; 2008)
Michael Hoffman (The Last Station; 2009)
Kelly Asbury (Gnomeo & Juliet; 2011)
Robert Redford (The Conspirator; 2011)
Matthew Vaughn (X-Men: First Class; 2011)
Sarah Smith (Arthur Christmas; 2011)
Eran Creevy (Welcome to the Punch; 2013)
Danny Boyle (Trance; 2013)
Jon S. Baird (Filth; 2013)
James Bobin (Muppets Most Wanted; 2014)
Bryan Singer (2; X-Men: Days of Future Past; 2014, X-Men: Apocalypse; 2016)
Ned Benson (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rugby; 2014)
Paul McGuigan (Victor Frankenstein; 2015)
M. Night Shyamalan (2; Split; 2016, Glass; 2019)
David Leitch (2; Atomic Blonde; 2017, Deadpool 2; 2018)
Wim Wenders (Submergence; 2017)
John Stevenson (Sherlock Gnomes; 2018)
Simon Kinberg (Dark Phoenix; 2019)
Andy Muschietti (It: Chapter Two; 2019)
Collaborations:
Bryan Singer - 2
David Leitch - 2
M. Night Shyamalan - 2
Other notable directors:
Danny Boyle
Robert Redford
Matthew Vaughn
Joe Wright
Andrew Adamson- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Bill Hader is an American comedian and actor who is known for playing in Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2013. He created and starred in the HBO show Barry. He also played Flint Lockwood from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Colonel Custer from Night at the Museum 2, Fear from Inside Out and Richie Tozier from It Chapter Two. He was married to Maggie Carey and has three children.Anthony & Joe Russo (You, Me, and Dupree; 2006)
Judd Apatow (3; Knocked Up; 2007, This is 40; 2012, Trainwreck; 2015)
Akiva Schaffer (2; Hot Rod; 2007, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping; 2016)
Greg Mottola (3; Superbad; 2007, Adventureland; 2009, Paul; 2011)
Bob Oedekirk (The Brothers Solomon; 2007)
Edward Burns (Purple Violets; 2007)
David Gordon Green (Pineapple Express; 2008)
Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder; 2008)
Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall; 2008)
Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian; 2009)
Harold Ramis (Year One; 2009)
Carlos Saldanha (Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs; 2009)
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (2; Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs; 2009, 22 Jump Street; 2014)
Edgar Wright (Scott Pilgrim vs. the World; 2010)
Mike Disa (Hookwinked Too! Hood vs. Evil; 2011)
Barry Sonnenfeld (Men in Black III; 2012)
Cal Brunker (Escape from Planet Earth; 2013)
Dan Scanlon (Monsters University; 2013)
J.J. Abrams (Star Trek Into Darkness; 2013)
David Soren (Turbo; 2013)
Maggie Carey (The To Do List; 2013)
Ned Benson (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby; 2013)
Cody Cameron w/ Kris Pearn (Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2; 2013)
Spike Jonze (Her; 2013)
Craig Johnson (Skeleton Twins; 2014)
David Wain (They Came Together; 2014)
David O. Russell (Accidental Love; 2015)
Pete Docter (Inside Out; 2015)
Rebecca Miller (Maggie’s Plan; 2015)
Josh Cooley (2; Riley’s First Date; 2015, Toy Story 4; 2019)
Conrad Vernon w/ Greg Tiernan (Sausage Party; 2016)
Clay Kaytis w/ Fergal Reilly (The Angry Birds Movie; 2016)
Steven Spielberg (The BFG; 2016)
Andrew Stanton (Finding Dory; 2016)
Dean Israelite (Power Rangers; 2017)
Rich Moore w/ Phil Johnston (Ralph Breaks the Internet; 2018)
Thurop Van Orman (The Angry Birds Movie 2; 2019)
Andy Muschietti (It Chapter Two; 2019)
Marc Lawrence (Noelle; 2019)
Collaborations:
Judd Apatow - 3
Greg Mottola - 3
Josh Cooley - 2
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller - 2
Akiva Shaffer - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
David O. Russell
Spike Jonze
J.J. Abrams
Anthony & Joe Russo
Andrew Stanton
Barry Sonnenfeld
Edgar Wright
Harold Ramis
David Gordon Green
Ben Stiller
Shawn Levy- Actor
- Producer
- Art Department
Jeffrey Leon Bridges was born on December 4, 1949 in Los Angeles, California, the son of well-known film and TV star Lloyd Bridges and his long-time wife Dorothy Dean Bridges (née Simpson). He grew up amid the happening Hollywood scene with big brother Beau Bridges. Both boys popped up, without billing, alongside their mother in the film The Company She Keeps (1951), and appeared on occasion with their famous dad on his popular underwater TV series Sea Hunt (1958) while growing up. At age 14, Jeff toured with his father in a stage production of "Anniversary Waltz". The "troublesome teen" years proved just that for Jeff and his parents were compelled at one point to intervene when problems with drugs and marijuana got out of hand.
He recovered and began shaping his nascent young adult career appearing on TV as a younger version of his father in the acclaimed TV- movie Silent Night, Lonely Night (1969), and in the strange Burgess Meredith film The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go (1970). Following fine notices for his portrayal of a white student caught up in the racially-themed Halls of Anger (1970), his career-maker arrived just a year later when he earned a coming-of-age role in the critically-acclaimed ensemble film The Last Picture Show (1971). The Peter Bogdanovich- directed film made stars out off its young leads (Bridges, Timothy Bottoms, Cybill Shepherd) and Oscar winners out of its older cast (Ben Johnson, Cloris Leachman). The part of Duane Jackson, for which Jeff received his first Oscar-nomination (for "best supporting actor"), set the tone for the types of roles Jeff would acquaint himself with his fans -- rambling, reckless, rascally and usually unpredictable).
Owning a casual carefree handsomeness and armed with a perpetual grin and sly charm, he started immediately on an intriguing 70s sojourn into offbeat filming. Chief among them were his boxer on his way up opposite a declining Stacy Keach in Fat City (1972); his Civil War-era conman in the western Bad Company (1972); his redneck stock car racer in The Last American Hero (1973); his young student anarchist opposite a stellar veteran cast in Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh (1973); his bank-robbing (also Oscar-nominated) sidekick to Clint Eastwood in Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974); his aimless cattle rustler in Rancho Deluxe (1975); his low-level western writer who wants to be a real-life cowboy in Hearts of the West (1975); and the brother of an assassinated President who pursues leads to the crime in Winter Kills (1979). All are simply marvelous characters that should have propelled him to the very top rungs of stardom...but strangely didn't.
Perhaps it was his trademark ease and naturalistic approach that made him somewhat under appreciated at that time when Hollywood was run by a Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino-like intensity. Neverthless, Jeff continued to be a scene-stealing favorite into the next decade, notably as the video game programmer in the 1982 science-fiction cult classic Tron (1982), and the struggling musician brother vying with brother Beau Bridges over the attentions of sexy singer Michelle Pfeiffer in The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989). Jeff became a third-time Oscar nominee with his highly intriguing (and strangely sexy) portrayal of a blank-faced alien in Starman (1984), and earned even higher regard as the ever-optimistic inventor Preston Tucker in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988).
Since then Jeff has continued to pour on the Bridges magic on film. Few enjoy such an enduring popularity while maintaining equal respect with the critics. The Fisher King (1991), American Heart (1992), Fearless (1993), The Big Lebowski (1998) (now a cult phenomenon) and The Contender (2000) (which gave him a fourth Oscar nomination) are prime examples. More recently he seized the moment as a bald-pated villain as Robert Downey Jr.'s nemesis in Iron Man (2008) and then, at age 60, he capped his rewarding career by winning the elusive Oscar, plus the Golden Globe and Screen Actor Guild awards (among many others), for his down-and-out country singer Bad Blake in Crazy Heart (2009). Bridges next starred in Tron: Legacy (2010), reprising one of his more famous roles, and received another Oscar nomination for Best Actor for his role in the Western remake True Grit (2010). In 2014, he co-produced and starred in an adaptation of the Lois Lowry science fiction drama The Giver (2014).
Jeff has been married since 1977 to non-professional Susan Geston (they met on the set of Rancho Deluxe (1975)). The couple have three daughters, Isabelle (born 1981), Jessica (born 1983), and Hayley (born 1985). He hobbies as a photographer on and off his film sets, and has been known to play around as a cartoonist and pop musician. His ancestry is English, and smaller amounts of Scots-Irish (Northern Irish), Irish, Swiss-German, and German.John Cromwell (The Company She Keeps; 1951)
Paul Bogart (Halls of Anger; 1970)
Peter Bogdanovich (2; The Last Picture Show; 1971, Texasville; 1990)
Burgess Meredith (The Yin and the Yang of Mr. Go; 1971)
John Huston (Fat City; 1972)
Robert Benton (2; Bad Company; 1972, Nadine; 1987)
Richard C. Sarafian (Lolly-Madonna XXX; 1973)
Lamont Johnson (2; The Last American Hero; 1973, Somebody Killed Her Husband; 1978)
John Frankenheimer (The Iceman Cometh; 1973)
Michael Cimino (2; Thunderbolt and Lightfoot; 1974, Heaven’s Gate; 1980)
Frank Perry (Rancho Deluxe; 1975)
Howard Zieff (Hearts of the West; 1975)
Bob Rafelson (Stay Hungry; 1976)
John Guillermin (King Kong; 1976)
William Richert (2; Winter Kills; 1979, The American Success Company; 1980)
Ivan Passer (Cutter’s Way; 1981)
Steven Lisberger (Tron; 1982)
Robert Mulligan (Kiss Me Goodbye; 1982)
Arthur Rankin Jr. w/ Jules Bass (The Last Unicorn; 1982)
Taylor Hackford (Against All Odds; 1984)
John Carpenter (Starman; 1984)
Richard Marquand (Jagged Edge; 1985)
Hal Ashby (8 Million Ways to Die; 1986)
Sidney Lumet (The Morning After; 1986)
Francis Ford Coppola (Tucker: The Man and His Dream; 1988)
Alan J. Pakula (See You in the Morning; 1989)
Steve Kloves (The Fabulous Baker Boys; 1989)
Richard LaGravenese (The Fisher King; 1991)
Martin Bell (American Heart; 1993)
George Sluizer (The Vanishing; 1993)
Peter Weir (Fearless; 1993)
Stephen Hopkins (Blown Away; 1994)
Walter Hill (Wild Bill; 1995)
Ridley Scott (White Squall; 1996)
Barbra Streisand (The Mirror Has Two Faces; 1996)
Joel and Ethan Coen (2; The Big Lebowski; 1998, True Grit; 2010)
Mark Pellington (Arlington Road; 1999)
Albert Brooks (The Muse; 1999)
Matthew Warchus (Simpatico; 1999)
Rod Lurie (The Contender; 2000)
Dominique Forma (Scenes of a Crime; 2001)
Iain Softley (K-PAX; 2001)
Keith Fulton w/ Louis Pepe (Lost in La Mancha; 2002)
Larry Charles (Masked and Anonymous; 2003)
Gary Ross (Seabuscuit; 2003)
Tod Williams (The Door in the Floor; 2004)
Michael Traeger (The Amateurs; 2005)
Terry Gilliam (Tideland; 2005)
Jessica Bendinger (Stick It; 2006)
Ash Brannon w/ Chris Buck (Surf’s Up; 2007)
Jon Favreau (Iron Man; 2008)
Robert B. Weide (How to Lose Friends & Alienate People; 2008)
Michael Meredith (The Open Road; 2009)
Scott Cooper (Crazy Heart; 2009)
Grant Heslov (The Men Who Stars at Goats; 2009)
Joseph Kosinski (2; Tron: Legacy; 2010, Only the Brave; 2017)
Kristi Jacobson w/ Lori Silverbush (A Place at the Table; 2012)
Robert Schwentke (R.I.P.D.; 2013)
Phillip Noyce (The Giver; 2014)
Sergei Bodrov (Seventh Son; 2014)
Mark Osborne (The Little Prince; 2015)
David Mackenzie (Hell or High Water; 2016)
Mark Webb (The Only Living Boy in New York; 2017)
Matthew Vaughn (Kingsmen: The Golden Circle; 2017)
Drew Goddard (Bad Times at the El Royale; 2018)
Susan Kucera (Living in the Future’s Past; 2018)
Collaborations:
Joel and Ethan Coen - 2
Peter Bogdanovich - 2
Joseph Kosinski - 2
William Richert - 2
Michael Cimino - 2
Lamont Johnson - 2
Robert Benton - 2
Other notable directors:
Matthew Vaughn
Mark Webb
Phillip Noyce
Scott Cooper
Jon Favreau
Terry Gilliam
Ridley Scott
Walter Hill
Stephen Hopkins
Alan J. Pakula
Francis Ford Coppola
Sidney Lumet
John Carpenter
Robert Mulligan
Taylor Hackford
Steven Lisberger
John Frankenheimer- Actor
- Producer
- Executive
Barry Robert Pepper was born on April 4, 1970, in Campbell River, British Columbia, Canada. He has two older brothers named Alex and Doug Pepper. The Peppers didn't stick around Campbell River for too long. They had been building a ship in their backyard for years. When Barry was five years old, the ship was done and the family set sail. The ship, named "The Moonlighter," was a 50-foot craft that would be their home for the next five years. They navigated through the South Pacific islands, using only a sextant and the stars as guides. While visiting such exotic locales as Fiji and Tahiti, Barry was educated through correspondence courses and sometimes enrolled in public schools. He grew up around Polynesian children and credits them for his love of dance, music and other expressive arts. Barry had plenty of time to practice his newfound loves, too. Without television as entertainment on the ship, the family relied on games and sketch acting for fun. When the five-year cruise was over, the Peppers returned to their native Canada, where they set up shop on a small island off the West Coast near Vancouver. They built a farm on the outskirts of a small artists' town, which was populated mainly by hippies, poets, musicians and other craftsmen. While in high school, Barry was enthusiastic about art and excelled in sports. In addition to playing volleyball, he was an excellent rugby player. He graduated in 1988 from George P. Vanier High School in Courtenay and then enrolled in college and majored in marketing and graphic design, but after getting involved with the Vancouver Actors Studio, he changed his course. Once again, he was using "the stars" to navigate. Barry landed his first role on Madison (1993) (a sort of Canadian 90210) and other prominent television series before moving on to more prestigious roles in the US. Television movies followed, most notably the mini-series Titanic (1996), which costarred George C. Scott. Still, Barry's career really wasn't taking off. He was a hard-working actor, but not a star. That all changed in 1998. After a string of big screen duds, Pepper obtained his breakthrough role as a Bible-quoting sniper in Steven Spielberg's WW II drama Saving Private Ryan (1998). With the success of the film came sudden stardom for its cast--complete with photo spreads, interviews and even some Oscar buzz. Barry followed the film with a small but noteworthy role in the blockbuster, Enemy of the State (1998) opposite Will Smith and Gene Hackman. Next he co-starred in an Oscar-worthy film starring Tom Hanks: Stephen King's The Green Mile (1999). Barry received much critical acclaim in 2001 for his portrayal of Roger Maris in the made-for-cable drama about the 1961 home run race between Maris and Mickey Mantle called 61* (2001).Charles Robert Carner (A Killer Among Friends; 1992)
Robert Lieberman (Titanic; 1996)
Reto Salimbeni (Urban Safari; 1996)
Dean Semler (Firestorm; 1998)
Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan; 1998)
Tony Scott (Enemy of the State; 1998)
Frank Darabont (The Green Mile; 1999)
Roger Christian (Battlefield Earth; 2000)
Martin Cummins (We All Fall Down; 2000)
Billy Crystal (61*; 2001)
Brian Koppelman w/ David Levien (Knockaround Guys; 2001)
Randall Wallace (We Were Soldiers; 2002)
Spike Lee (25th Hour; 2002)
Charles Martin Smith (The Snow Walker; 2003)
Russell Mulcahy (3: The Dale Earnhardt Story; 2004)
Tommy Lee Jones (The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada; 2005)
Roger Spottiswoode (Ripley Under Ground; 2005)
Clint Eastwood (Flags of Our Fathers; 2006)
Simon Brand (Unknown; 2006)
Gabriele Muccino (Seven Pounds; 2008)
Marc Forby (Princess Kaiulani; 2009)
Jon Gunn (Like Dandelion Dust; 2009)
George Hickenlooper (Casino Jack; 2010)
Joel and Ethan Coen (True Grit; 2010)
John Kent Harrison (When Love is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story; 2010)
Allen Hughes (Broken City; 2013)
Ric Roman Waugh (Snitch; 2013)
Gore Verbinski (The Lone Ranger; 2013)
Michael Cuesta (Kill the Messenger; 2014)
Wes Ball (2; Maze Runner: Scorch Trials; 2015, Maze Runner: Death Cure; 2018)
Chris Wedge (Monster Trucks; 2016)
George Mendeluk (Bitter Harvest; 2017)
Alexandre Aja (Crawl; 2019)
Václav Marhoul (The Painted Bird; 2019)
Jason Cabell (Running with the Devil; 2019)
Collaborations:
Wes Ball - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Clint Eastwood
Tony Scott
Spike Lee
Frank Darabont- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Often mistaken for an American because of his skill at imitating accents, actor Tim Roth was born Timothy Simon Roth on May 14, 1961 in Lambeth, London, England. His mother, Ann, was a teacher and landscape painter. His father, Ernie, was a journalist who had changed the family name from "Smith" to "Roth"; Ernie was born in Brooklyn, New York, to an immigrant family of Irish ancestry.
Tim grew up in Dulwich, a middle-class area in the south of London. He demonstrated his talent for picking up accents at an early age when he attended school in Brixton, where he faced persecution from classmates for his comfortable background and quickly perfected a cockney accent to blend in. He attended Camberwell Art College and studied sculpture before he dropped out and pursued acting.
The blonde actor's first big break was the British TV movie Made in Britain (1982). Roth made a huge splash in that film as a young skinhead named Trevor. He next worked with director Mike Leigh on Meantime (1983), which he has counted among his favorite projects. He debuted on the big screen when he filled in for Joe Strummer in the Stephen Frears neo-noir The Hit (1984). Roth gained more attention for his turn as Vincent Van Gogh in Vincent & Theo (1990) and his work opposite Gary Oldman in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990).
He moved to Los Angeles in search of work and caught the eye of young director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino had envisioned Roth as a possible Mr. Blonde or Mr. Pink in his heist flick Reservoir Dogs (1992), but Roth campaigned for the role of Mr. Orange instead, and ultimately won the part. It proved to be a huge breakthrough for Roth, as audiences found it difficult to forget his performance as a member of a group of jewelry store robbers who is slowly bleeding to death. Tarantino cast Roth again in the landmark film Pulp Fiction (1994). Roth and actress Amanda Plummer played a pair of robbers who hold up a restaurant. 1995 saw the third of Roth's collaborations with Tarantino, a surprisingly slapstick performance in the anthology film Four Rooms (1995). That same year Roth picked up an Academy Award nomination for his campy turn as a villain in the period piece Rob Roy (1995).
Continuing to take on disparate roles, Roth did his own singing (with an American accent to boot) in the lightweight Woody Allen musical Everyone Says I Love You (1996). He starred opposite Tupac Shakur in Shakur's last film, the twisted comedy Gridlock'd (1997). The pair received positive critical notices for their comic chemistry. Standing in contrast to the criminals and baddies that crowd his CV, Roth's work as the innocent, seafaring pianist in the Giuseppe Tornatore film The Legend of 1900 (1998) became something of a fan favorite. Grittier fare followed when Roth made his directorial debut with The War Zone (1999), a frank, critically acclaimed drama about a family torn apart by incest. He made his next high-profile appearance as an actor as General Thade, an evil simian in the Tim Burton remake of Planet of the Apes (2001). Roth was, of course, all but unrecognizable in his primate make-up.
Roth has continued to enjoy a mix of art house and mainstream work, including everything from the lead role in Francis Ford Coppola's esoteric Youth Without Youth (2007) to becoming "The Abomination" in the special effects-heavy blockbuster The Incredible Hulk (2008). Roth took his first major American television role when he signed on to the Fox-TV series Lie to Me (2009)Alan Clarke (Made in Britain; 1982)
Stephen Frears (The Hit; 1984)
Ray Davies (Return to Waterloo; 1984)
Chris Menges (A World Apart; 1988)
Agnieszka Holland (To Kill a Priest; 1988)
Peter Greenaway (The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, & Her Lover (1989)
Robert Altman (Vincent & Theo; 1990)
Sabine Prenczina (Farendj; 1990)
Tom Stoppard (Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead; 1990)
Simon Target (Backsliding; 1992)
Quentin Tarantino (3; Reservoir Dogs; 1992, Pulp Fiction; 1994, The Hateful Eight; 2015)
Jeff Stanzler (Jumpin at the Boneyard; 1992)
Michael Steinberg (Bodies, Rest & Motion; 1993)
Angela Pope (Captives; 1994)
James Gray (Little Odessa; 1994)
Michael Caton-Jones (Rob Roy; 1995)
Buddy Giovinazzo (No Way Home; 1996)
Woody Allen (Everyone Says I Love You; 1996)
Vondie Curtis-Hall (Gridlock’d; 1997)
Bill Duke (Hoodlum; 1997)
Jonas & Josh Pate (Deceiver; 1997)
Michael Di Jiacomo (Animals with the Tollkeeper; 1997)
Giuseppe Tornatore (The Legend of 1900; 1998)
Wim Wenders (2; The Million Dollar Hotel; 2000, Don’t Come Knocking; 2005)
Roland Joffe (Vatel; 2000)
Nora Ephron (Lucky Numbers; 2000)
Tim Burton (Planet of the Apes; 2001)
Werner Herzog (Invincible; 2001)
Peter Hyams (The Musketeer; 2001)
Keith Snyder (Emmett’s Mark; 2002)
Mike Barker (To Kill a King; 2003)
Jean Beaudin (Battle of the Brave; 2004)
Hans Petter Moland (The Beautiful Country; 2004)
John Sayles (Silver City; 2004)
Walter Salles (Dark Water; 2005)
Francis Ford Coppola (Youth Without Youth; 2007)
David Leland (Virgin Territory; 2007)
Michael Haneke (Funny Games; 2007)
Louis Leterrier (The Incredible Hulk; 2008)
Alexandre Rockwell (Pete Smalls is Dead; 2010)
Nicholas Jarecki (Arbitrage; 2012)
Rufus Norris (Broken; 2012)
Eric Rochant (Mobius; 2013)
Craig Viveiros (The Liability; 2013)
Olivier Dahan (Grace of Monaco; 2014)
Frederic Auburtin (United Passions; 2014)
Ava DuVernay (Selma; 2014)
Ruba Nadda (October Gale; 2015)
Gabriel Ripstein (600 Miles; 2015)
Michel Franco (Chronic; 2015)
Ilya Naishuller (Hardcore Henry; 2015)
Paco Cabezas (Mr. Right; 2015)
Leif Tilden (1 Mile to You; 2017)
James Oakley (The Con is On; 2018)
Jonathan Sobol (The Padre; 2018)
Julius Onah (Luce; 2019)
Francois Girard (The Song of Names; 2019)
Tara Woods (QT8: The First Eight; 2019)
Mia Hansen-Love (Bergman Island; 2020)
Collaborations:
Quentin Tarantino - 3
Wim Wenders - 2
Other notable directors:
Ava DuVernay
Francis Ford Coppola
Werner Herzog
Woody Allen
James Gray
Stephen Frears
Michael Caton-Jones
Robert Altman- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Highly talented, lightly built American actor who always looks unsettled and jumpy has become a favourite of cult/arthouse film aficionados with his compelling performances in a broad range of cinematic vehicles.
Turturro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian-American parents, Katherine (Incerella), a jazz singer, and Nicholas Turturro, a construction worker and carpenter, who was born in Giovinazzo. His brother, also named Nicholas Turturro, is an actor, and actress Aida Turturro is his cousin.
Turturro has become a regular in the thought provoking films of Spike Lee and the off the wall comedies of Joel Coen & Ethan Coen. His wonderful performances include as the highly agitated "Pino" in Do the Right Thing (1989), as an intellectual playwright in Barton Fink (1991), a pedophile tenpin bowler in The Big Lebowski (1998), a confused boyfriend in Jungle Fever (1991) and as the voice of Harvey the dog in Summer of Sam (1999).
Turturro has continued to appeal to audiences despite his unconventional looks and the often annoying onscreen mannerisms of his characters which he used to great effect in films such as his blue collar tale of warring brothers in the construction business, Mac (1992), as the irate, dumped game show contestant, Herbie Stempel, in Robert Redford's dynamic Quiz Show (1994). One of modern American cinema's gems of acting, Turturro remains in strong demand for his high calibre thespian talents.Martin Scorsese (2; Raging Bull; 1980, The Color of Money; 1986)
Mark Buntzman (Exterminator 2; 1984)
Garry Marshall (The Flamingo Kid; 1984)
Susan Seidelman (Desperately Seeking Susan; 1985)
William Friedkin (To Live and Die in L.A.; 1985)
Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters; 1986)
Ron Howard (Gung Ho; 1986)
Michael Dinner (Off Beat; 1986)
Tony Bill (Five Corners; 1987)
Michael Cimino (The Sicilian; 1987)
Spike Lee (9; Do the Right Thing; 1989, Mo’ Better Blues; 1990, Jungle Fever; 1991, Clockers; 1995, Girl 6; 1996, He Got Game; 1998, Summer of Sam; 1999, She Hate Me; 2004, Miracles at St. Anna; 2008)
Dennis Hopper (Catchfire; 1990)
Phil Joanou (State of Grace; 1990)
Joel Coen (2; Miller’s Crossing; 1990, Barton Fink; 1991)
William Reilly (Men of Respect; 1991)
Dennis Dugan (2; Brain Donors; 1992, You Don’t Mess with the Zohan; 2008)
Bill Forsyth (Being Human; 1993)
Peter Weir (Fearless; 1993)
Robert Redford (Quiz Show; 1994)
Sam Henry Kass (The Search for One-Eyed Jimmy; 1994)
David Salle (Search and Destroy; 1995)
Diane Keaton (Unstrung Heroes; 1995)
Tom DiCillo (Box of Moonlight; 1996)
Allison Anders (Grace of My Heart; 1996)
Francesco Rosi (The Truce; 1997)
John Dahl (Rounders; 1998)
Brandon Cole (O.K. Garage; 1998)
Joel and Ethan Coen (2; The Big Lebowski; 1998, Oh, Brother Where Art Thou?; 2000)
Michael Di Jiacomo (2;Animals with the Tollkeeper; 1998, Somewhere Tonight; 2011)
Tim Robbins (Cradle Will Rock; 1999)
Sally Potter (The Man Who Cried; 2000)
Peter Askin w/ Douglas McGrath (Company Man; 2000)
Arto Paragamian (Two Thousand and None; 2000)
Marleen Gorris (The Luzhin Defence; 2000)
Henry Selick (Monkeybone; 2001)
Jill Sprecher (Thirteen Conversations About One Thing; 2001)
Andrew Davis (Collateral Damage; 2002)
Steven Brill (Mr. Deeds; 2002)
Nicolas Winding Refn (Fear X; 2003)
Peter Segal (Anger Management; 2003)
Enzo D’Alo (Opopomoz; 2003)
Ademir Kenovic (Secret Passage; 2004)
David Koepp (Secret Window; 2004)
John Canemaker (The Moon and the Son; 2005)
Robert De Niro (The Good Shepherd; 2006)
Santiago Amigorena (A Few Days in September; 2006)
Michael Bay (4; Transformers; 2007, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; 2009, Transformers: Dark of the Moon; 2011, Transformers: The Last Knight; 2017)
Noah Baumbach (Margot and the Wedding; 2007)
Anthony Hopkins (Slipstream; 2007)
Barry Levinson (What Just Happened; 2008)
Tony Scott (The Taking of Pelham 123; 2009)
Andrei Konchalovsky (The Nutcracker 3D; 2010)
John Lasseter (Cars 2; 2011)
Marc Turtletaub (Gods Behaving Badly; 2013)
John Slattery (God’s Pocket; 2014)
Ridley Scott (Exodus: Gods and Kings; 2014)
Nanni Moretti (Mia Madre; 2015)
Marco Pontecorvo (Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells; 2015)
Frank Coraci (The Ridiculous 6; 2015)
Jonathan Jakubowicz (Hands of Stone; 2016)
Gillian Robespierre (Landline; 2017)
Sébastian Lelio (Gloria Bell; 2018)
Martin Krecji (The True Adventures of Wolfboy; 2019)
Matt Reeves (The Batman; 2021)
Collaborations:
Spike Lee - 9
Michael Bay - 4
Joel Coen - 4
Joel and Ethan Coen - 2
Michael Di Jiacomo - 2
Dennis Dugan - 2
Martin Scorsese - 2
Other notable directors:
Ridley Scott
Tony Scott
Barry Levinson
Noah Baumbach
Robert Redford
Ron Howard
Woody Allen
Garry Marshall
Peter Weir- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Jonah Hill was born and raised in Los Angeles, the son of Sharon Feldstein (née Chalkin), a fashion designer and costume stylist, and Richard Feldstein, a tour accountant for Guns N' Roses. He is the brother of music manager Jordan Feldstein and actress Beanie Feldstein. He graduated from Crossroads School in Santa Monica and went on to The New School in New York to study drama.
He began writing and performing in plays while at college in New York, and managed to get himself introduced to Dustin Hoffman, through whom he got an audition for his first film role in I Heart Huckabees (2004). A succession of increasingly high-profile film and TV parts followed until he eventually landed one of the starring roles in the teen hit, Superbad (2007). Continuing to write and act, more roles followed as well as popular appearances on US TV talk shows.David O. Russell (I heart Huckabees; 2004)
Judd Apatow (3; The 40-Year-Old Virgin; 2005, Knocked Up; 2007, Funny People; 2009)
Nicholaus Goossen (Grandma’s Boy; 2006)
Frank Coraci (Click; 2006)
Steve Pink (Accepted; 2006)
Brad Silberling (10 Items or Less; 2006)
Jeffrey Blitz (Rocket Science; 2007)
Tom Shadyac (Evan Almighty; 2007)
Greg Mottola (Superbad; 2007)
Jake Kasdan (Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story; 2007)
Fred Wolf (Strange Wilderness; 2008)
Jimmy Hayward w/ Steve Martino (Horton Hears a Who; 2008)
Nicholas Stoller (2; Forgetting Sarah Marshall; 2008, Get Him to the Greek; 2010)
Hart Bochner (Just Add Water; 2008)
Shawn Levy (Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian; 2009)
Larry Charles (Bruno; 2009)
Ricky Gervais (The Invention of Lying; 2009)
Jay & Mark Duplass (Cyrus; 2009)
Chris Sanders & Dean DeBlois (How to Train Your Dragon; 2010)
Tom McGrath (Megamind; 2010)
John Puglisi (Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon; 2010)
Bennett Miller (Moneyball; 2011)
Tom Owens (Gift of the Night Fury; 2011)
David Gordon Green (The Sitter; 2011)
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (3; 21 Jump Street; 2012, The LEGO Movie; 2014, 22 Jump Street; 2014)
Akiva Schaffer (The Watch; 2012)
Quentin Tarantino (Django Unchained; 2012)
Seth Rogen w/ Evan Goldberg (This is the End; 2013)
Martin Scorsese (Wolf of Wall Street; 2013)
Dean DeBlois (2; How to Train Your Dragon 2; 2014, How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World; 2019)
Rupert Goold (True Story; 2015)
Joel and Ethan Coen (Hail, Caesar; 2016)
Conrad Vernon w/ Greg Tiernan (Sausage Party; 2016)
Todd Phillips (War Dogs; 2016)
Chris McKay (The LEGO Batman Movie; 2017)
Gus Van Sant (Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot; 2018)
Mike Mitchell (The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part; 2019)
Harmony Korine (The Beach Bum; 2019)
Collaborations:
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller - 3
Judd Apatow - 3
Dean DeBlois - 3
Nicholas Stoller - 2
Other notable directors:
Martin Scorsese
Joel and Ethan Coen
Quentin Tarantino
Gus Van Sant
Todd Phillips
David Gordon Green
Chris Sanders
Shawn Levy
David O. Russell
Jake Kasdan
Tom Shadyac- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Channing Tatum was born in a small town, Cullman, Alabama, 50 miles north of Birmingham. He is the son of Kay (Faust), an airline worker, and Glenn Matthew Tatum, who worked in construction. Growing up, he was full of energy and somewhat troublesome, so his parents decided to enroll him in different sports such as track and field, baseball, soccer, and football to keep him out of trouble. In the ninth grade he was sent to Catholic school. It was there that he discovered his passion for football and his hopes became centered on earning an athletic college scholarship. Channing's goal was finally met, and in his senior year in high school, he was recruited and earned a full athletic college scholarship to a school in West Virginia.
Tatum is also skilled in Kung Fu and in Gor-Chor Kung Fu, a form of martial arts, in which he has earned belts. Channing later left college and, in the meantime, worked as a construction worker, a stripper, a mortgage broker and salesman. He has modeled for Abercrombie & Fitch, Nautica, Gap, Aeropostale, Emporio Armani, and has been featured in television commercials for American Eagle, Pepsi, and some very popular Mountain Dew commercials.
Channing can be seen on the big screen as a featured actor in Coach Carter (2005), in which he plays a high school basketball player. He was also in the very popular TV series CSI: Miami (2002) where he played the role of Bob Davenport.Thomas Carter (Coach Carter; 2005)
Barbara Kopple (Havoc; 2005)
Steve Boyum (Supercross; 2005)
Steven Spielberg (War of the Worlds; 2005)
Andy Fickman (She’s the Man; 2006)
Anne Fletcher (Step Up; 2006)
Dito Montiel (3; A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints; 2006, Fighting; 2009, The Son of No One; 2011)
Stuart Townsend (Battle in Seattle; 2007)
Jon M. Chu (2; Step Up 2: The Streets; 2008, G.I. Joe: Retaliation; 2013)
Kimberly Peirce (Stop-Loss; 2008)
Michael Mann (Public Enemies; 2009)
Stephen Sommers (G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra; 2009)
Lasse Hallstrom (Dear John; 2010)
Ron Howard (The Dilemma; 2011)
Kevin Macdonald (The Eagle; 2011)
Jamie Linden (10 Years; 2011)
Steven Soderbergh (4; Haywire; 2011, Magic Mike; 2012, Side Effects; 2013, Logan Lucky; 2017)
Michael Sucsy (The Vow; 2012)
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller (3; 21 Jump Street; 2012, The LEGO Movie; 2014, 22 Jump Street; 2014)
Seth Rogen w/ Evan Goldberg (This is the End; 2013)
Roland Emmerich (White House Down; 2013)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt (Don Jon; 2013)
Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher; 2014)
Jorge R. Gutierrez (The Book of Life; 2014)
Lana and Lilly Wachowski (Jupiter Ascending; 2015)
Gregory Jacobs (Magic Mike XXL; 2015)
Quentin Tarantino (The Hateful Eight; 2015)
Joel and Ethan Coen (Hail, Caesar; 2016)
Chris McKay (The LEGO Batman Movie; 2017)
Matthew Vaughn (Kingmen: The Golden Circle; 2017)
Karey Kirkpatrick (Smallfoot; 2018)
Mike Mitchell (The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part; 2019)
Collaborations:
Steven Soderbergh - 4
Phil Lord & Christopher Miller - 3
Dito Montiel - 3
Jon M. Chu - 2
Other notable directors:
Quentin Tarantino
Joel and Ethan Coen
Steven Spielberg
Matthew Vaughn
Stephen Sommers
Roland Emmerich
Bennett Miller
Ron Howard
Lasse Hallstrom
The Wachowskis- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Jude Law is an English actor. Law has been nominated for two Academy Awards and continues to build a prolific body of work that spans from early successes such as Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) to more recent turns as Dr. John Watson in Sherlock Holmes (2009) and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011), as Hugo's father in Hugo (2011) and in the titular role in Dom Hemingway (2013).
David Jude Law was born on December 29, 1972 in Lewisham, London, England, to Margaret Anne (Heyworth) and Peter Robert Law, both of whom taught at comprehensive schools; his father later became a headmaster. Law has said that he was named after both the book Jude the Obscure and the song Hey Jude.
In 1992, Jude began his stage career. He starred in many plays throughout London, and was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award of "Outstanding Newcomer" After doing the play "Indiscretions" in London, he moved and did it again on Broadway. This time, he was alongside Kathleen Turner. He then received a Tony Nomination for "Outstanding Supporting Actor". He was then rewarded the Theatre World Award. After Broadway, Jude started on the big screen, in many independent films. His first big-named movie was Gattaca (1997), with Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke. He also had a good role in Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997). Jude's latest rise to fame has been because of The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), in which he plays Matt Damon's obsession. The film did very well at the box office, and critics loved Jude's acting.
Following the success of Gattaca (1997) and The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999), Law's feature film career continued to gain momentum throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s with roles in such films as Enemy at the Gates (2001), Road to Perdition (2002), I Heart Huckabees (2004), The Aviator (2004) and many others. Law is one of three actors, along with Colin Farrell and Johnny Depp, to take over acting responsibilities in the Terry Gilliam project The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009) following Heath Ledger's death.
Law is a partner in the production company "Natural Nylon". His partners include Jonny Lee Miller, Ewan McGregor and his ex-wife Sadie Frost.
Law has been active in many charitable activities and supports several different foundations and causes, doing work for organizations including the Make-A-Wish Foundation, Make Poverty History, Breast Cancer Care and others. Law is also a peace advocate, and in 2011, participated in street protests against the rule of Alexander Lukashenko in Belarus.
Law married Sadie Frost in 1997 and the couple had two sons (Rafferty and Rudy) and a daughter (Iris) before divorcing in 2003. Law and Alfie (2004) co-star Sienna Miller were engaged to be married in 2005 and separated in 2006 (they would later rekindle their relationship in 2009, splitting once again in 2011). Law and American model Samantha Burke had a brief relationship in 2008 that resulted in the birth of Law's fourth child, daughter Sophia. Law's fifth child, with an ex-girlfriend, Catherine Harding, was born in 2015.Phil O’Shea (The Grace; 1992)
Paul W.S. Anderson (Shopping; 1994)
Billy Hopkins (I Love You, I Love You Not; 1996)
Sean Mathias (Bent; 1997)
Brian Gilbert (Wilde; 1997)
Andrew Niccol (Gattaca; 1997)
Clint Eastwood (Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil; 1997)
Charlie Peters (Music from Another Room; 1998)
Dominic Anciano w/ Ray Burdis (2; Final Cut; 1998, Love, Honour and Obey; 2000)
Po-Chih Leong (The Wisdom of Crocodiles; 1998)
David Cronenberg (Existenz; 1999)
Antoni Aloy (Presence of Mind; 1999)
Anthony Minghella (3; The Talented Mr. Ripley; 1999, Cold Mountain; 2003, Breaking and Entering; 2006)
Jean-Jacques Annaud (Enemy at the Gates; 2001)
Steven Spielberg (A.I. Artificial Intelligence; 2001)
Sam Mendes (Road to Perdition; 2002)
David O. Russell (I ❤️ Huckabees; 2003)
Charles Shyer (Alfie; 2004)
Mike Nichols (Closer; 2004)
Martin Scorsese (2; The Aviator; 2004, Hugo; 2011)
Kerry Conran (Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow; 2004)
Brad Silberling (Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events; 2004)
Steven Zaillian (All the King’s Men; 2006)
Nancy Meyers (The Holiday; 2006)
Wong Kar-wai (My Blueberry Nights; 2007)
Kenneth Branagh (Sleuth; 2007)
Sally Potter (Rage; 2009)
Terry Gilliam (The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus; 2009)
Guy Ritchie (3; Sherlock Holmes; 2009, Sherlock Holmes: Game of Shadows; 2011, King Arthur: Legend of the Sword; 2017)
Miguel Sapochnik (Repo Men; 2010)
Steven Soderbergh (2; Contagion; 2011, Side Effects; 2013)
Fernando Meirelles (360; 2011)
Joe Wright (Anna Karenina; 2012)
Peter Ramsey (Rise of the Guardians; 2013)
Richard Shepard (Dom Hemingway; 2013)
Wes Anderson (The Grand Budapest Hotel; 2014)
Kevin Macdonald (Black Sea; 2014)
Paul Feig (Spy; 2015)
Michael Grandage (Genius; 2016)
Brady Corbet (Vox Lux; 2018)
David Yates (Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald; 2018)
Anna Boden w/ Ryan Fleck (Captain Marvel; 2019)
Woody Allen (A Rainy Day in New York; 2019)
Sean Durkin (The Nest; 2020)
Reed Moreno (The Rhythm Section; 2020)
Collaborations:
Guy Ritchie - 3
Anthony Minghella - 3
Martin Scorsese - 2
Steven Soderbergh - 2
Dominic Ansiano - 2
Ray Burdis - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Clint Eastwood
Woody Allen
Wes Anderson
Kenneth Branagh
Terry Gilliam
David O. Russell
David Cronenberg
Mike Nichols
Joe Wright
Fernando Meirelles
Paul Feig
Andrew Niccol- Actress
- Director
- Soundtrack
Karen Jane Allen was born in Carrollton, rural southern Illinois, to Patricia (Howell), a teacher, and Carroll Thompson Allen, an FBI agent. She spent her first 10 years traveling around the country with her parents and two sisters. She was always "the new girl in school." Acting did not really cross Allen's mind until she was in her early 20s, when she saw a Jerzy Grotowski theater production that impressed her so much, she instantly decided to give it a shot. She trained as a classical actress and enrolled at the Actors Studio and with Lee Strasberg in New York City. During this period, she made several student films and directed and acted in several plays. In 1976, she made her first film appearance in the award-winning small film The Whidjitmaker (1976).
Her first major film role came as Katy in 1978's National Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), which became one of the biggest hits of the year, obtained "classic" status, and launched a whole host of young "hot" stars. However, shortly after National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) opened, Allen was struck by a rare and dangerous eyesight condition called keratoconjunctivitis. Luckily, the condition subsided and Allen could continue her dramatic rise to the top. Lead roles in cult favorites like The Wanderers (1979) and the controversial thriller Cruising (1980) followed, as did smaller parts as in Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979). However, it was her performance in Rob Cohen's A Small Circle of Friends (1980), as well as her previously mentioned turn in National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), that caught the eye of a certain Steven Spielberg. He then cast her as the feisty heroine and co-star of Harrison Ford in his big-budget blockbuster Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), which became a huge hit in 1981-82 and is regarded by many film buffs as the greatest action-adventure film ever made.
Following the huge success of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), Allen chose to spend more than two years out of the limelight, concentrating on smaller, more personal projects. She won a major award for her performances on Broadway, won critical acclaim for her portrayal of Abra in the hugely successful ABC production of East of Eden (1981), and had parts in two smaller films: Alan Parker's Shoot the Moon (1982) and Split Image (1982), co-starring James Woods and Peter Fonda. She returned to the mainstream in 1984 with Until September (1984) and Starman (1984), co-starring Jeff Bridges and directed by John Carpenter (of Halloween (1978) fame), but once again decided to leave the limelight for a couple of years to do more stage work and some troubled indie films. While Allen has worked almost constantly since then, giving notable performances in Paul Newman's screen adaptation of The Glass Menagerie (1987), the Christmas hit Scrooged (1988), and Steven Soderbergh's underrated King of the Hill (1993), she has not been able to scale the same dizzy heights as the early 1980s hits. Most of her lead roles in feature films since Starman (1984) have not been that well-received (Animal Behavior (1989), Ghost in the Machine (1993), and The Turning (1992) among them). However, she has been seen to good effect on TV in such films as Challenger (1990), in which she portrayed tragic schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, and All the Winters That Have Been (1997), co-starring Richard Chamberlain.
She has also made special guest star appearances on such shows as Law & Order (1990), Knots Landing (1979), and Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1985), and in several TV movies, including Hostile Advances: The Kerry Ellison Story (1996) and Secret Weapon (1990). She also played the lead in the CBS series The Road Home (1994). Karen Allen was married to soap star Kale Browne (with whom she co-starred in 'Til There Was You (1997)) in 1988 and they have a son, Nicholas. Apart from acting, Allen is also an accomplished singer, songwriter, and musician. She played in a band with Kathleen Turner, and recorded a duet with Jeff Bridges for the Starman (1984) soundtrack album.
She also writes plays, screenplays, and poetry; owns her own Ashtanga yoga enterprise; and spends time at her Berkshire Mountains farm or Upper West Side Manhattan townhouse. The classically trained actress also has a screenplay called "The Second Coming," which is about to be made into a movie. Most recently she has starred opposite Peter Coyote in The Basket (1999), and appeared in the blockbuster The Perfect Storm (2000), in which she co-starred with George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Diane Lane. In addition to these, she is working on Shaka Zulu: The Citadel (2001) and recently made an independent film, In the Bedroom (2001). Karen Allen is undoubtedly one of the most talented, ambitious, and versatile actresses of the last 20 years. In many ways, her own choices to "go back to theater and smaller projects" are the only things that have really stopped her being a major, major star. Allen was voted one of the most beautiful women in the world in 1983, and is a naturally attractive lady - who often plays characters significantly younger than herself. She also often plays unglamorous types - and there is no one better at portraying real, human, and wholly believable people.John Landis (Animal House; 1978)
Woody Allen (Manhattan; 1979)
Philip Kaufman (The Wanderers; 1979)
William Friedkin (Cruising; 1980)
Rob Cohen (A Small Circle of Friends; 1980)
Steven Spielberg (2; Raiders of the Lost Ark; 1981, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; 2008)
Alan Parker (Shoot the Moon; 1982)
Ted Kotcheff (Split Image; 1982)
John Carpenter (Starman; 1984)
Richard Marquand (Until September; 1984)
Pierre-William Glenn (Terminus; 1987)
Paul Newman (The Glass Menagerie; 1987)
Gilbert Cates (Backfire; 1988)
Richard Donner (Scrooged; 1988)
Jenny Bowen w/ Kjehl Rasmussen (Animal Behavior; 1989)
Ben Jordan (Challenger; 1990)
Ian Sharpe (Secret Weapon; 1990)
Michael Jenkins (Sweet Talker; 1991)
L.A. Luopolo (The Turning; 1992)
Spike Lee (Malcolm X; 1992)
David Mickey Evans (The Sandlot; 1993)
Steven Soderbergh (King of the Hill; 1993)
John Mackenzie (Voyage; 1993)
Rachel Talalay (Ghost in the Machine; 1993)
Allan Kroeker (Hostile Advances; 1996)
Scott Winant (Til There Was You; 1997)
Brian de Palma w/ Russ Brandt (Falling Sky; 1998)
Wolfgang Petersen (The Perfect Storm; 2000)
Todd Field (In the Bedroom; 2001)
Eric Stoltz (My Horrible Year; 2001)
Bart Freundlich (World Traveler; 2001)
Zak Tucker (Poster Boy; 2004)
James Toback (When Will I Be Loved; 2004)
George LaVoo (A Dog Year; 2009)
John Gray (White Irish Drinkers; 2010)
Robert Harmon (November Christmas; 2010)
Mark Kemble (Bad Hart; 2015)
Alexander Janko (Year by the Sea; 2016)
James Mangold (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny; 2023)
Collaborations:
Steven Spielberg - 2
Other notable directors:
Woody Allen
Wolfgang Petersen
Brian de Palma
Steven Soderbergh
Richard Donner
William Friedkin
John Landis
Philip Kaufman
Alan Parker
John Carpenter
Rob Cohen
James Mangold- Actor
- Writer
Shia LaBeouf's natural talent and raw energy have secured his place as one of Hollywood's leading men.
Most recently, LaBeouf starred alongside Vanessa Kirby and Ellen Burstyn in Kornel Mundruczo's Oscar® nominated Pieces of a Woman. In the critically acclaimed film, a grieving couple (Kirby/LaBeouf) embarks on an emotional journey after the loss of their baby. Previously, Shia was also seen in the crime drama, The Tax Collector, which was written and directed by David Ayer. He most recently wrapped production on Abel Ferrarra's Padre Pio which follows the life of the now saint during his time as a monk in Puglia, Italy.
LaBeouf received rave reviews for his performance in Honey Boy, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film also marks Shia's first feature length film as a screenwriter. LaBeouf portrays a law breaking, alcohol-abusing father who tries to mend his tumultuous relationship with his son (Lucas Hedges & Noah Jupe) over the course of a decade. The film received a Special Jury Award for Vision and Craft at the festival. In 2019, Shia starred in The Peanut Butter Falcon, the highest grossing indie film of the year with $20,500,000 domestic box office receipts. The film, also starring Dakota Johnson, Bruce Dern and Zachary Gottsagen, won the Audience Award at the SXSW Film Festival.
Other credits include drama, Borg vs. McEnroe (critics heralded LaBeouf's performance as "perfection," "flawless" and "explosive"); the critically acclaimed independent film American Honey , directed by Andrea Arnold, (his performance earned him a British Independent Film Award nomination for "Best Actor," a London Critics' Circle Film Award nomination for "Supporting Actor of the Year," and an Independent Spirit Award nomination for "Best Supporting Male"); the post-apocalyptic thriller, Man Down alongside Gary Oldman and Kate Mara; the war drama Fury, directed by David Ayer, opposite Brad Pitt; Lars von Trier's drama, Nymphomaniac: Vol. 1; Lars von Trier's Nymphomaniac: Vol. 2; and the suspense drama Charlie Countryman, opposite Evan Rachel Wood, Mads Mikkelsen and Melissa Leo.
LaBeouf starred in Transformers: Dark of the Moon (grossing over $1 billion worldwide), which marked his third and final turn as the enterprising and heroic Sam Witwicky. From the original Transformers released in 2007 (which earned over $700 million around the world in theatrical release and became the highest grossing DVD of the year) to the second installment in 2009, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, (which garnered global receipts upwards of $836 million,) Sam continued to find himself in the middle of a life and death struggle between warring robot legions on earth. Additional film credits include Robert Redford's The Company You Keep, Lawless alongside Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman and Guy Pearce, Oliver Stone's Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps opposite Michael Douglas, the fourth installment of Steven Spielberg's "Indiana Jones" series, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, alongside Harrison Ford, D.J. Caruso's Eagle Eye, the Anthony Minghella-scripted segment of New York, I Love You, a romantic anthology also starring Julie Christie and John Hurt, the popular thriller Disturbia, the Oscar® nominated animated film Surf's Up alongside Jeff Bridges, A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints, which won "Best Ensemble Cast" at the Sundance Film Festival, Emilio Estevez's acclaimed drama Bobby, Disney's The Greatest Game Ever Played which follows the true story of a 19-year-old amateur athlete's journey to winning the U.S. Open, I, Robot, Constantine, Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle, HBO's "Project Greenlight" featuring The Battle of Shaker Heights produced by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and in 2003 he made his feature film debut in the comedy Holes, based on the best-selling book by Louis Sacher.
On television, LaBeouf garnered much praise from critics everywhere for his portrayal of "Louis Stevens" on the Disney Channel's original series "Even Stevens." In 2003, he earned a Daytime Emmy award for "Outstanding Performer in a Children's Series" for his work on the highly-rated family show.Efram Potelle w/ Kyle Rankin (The Battle of Shaker Heights; 2003)
McG (Charlie’s Angels: Full Throttle; 2003)
Troy Miller (Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd; 2003)
Andrew Davis (Holes; 2003)
Alex Proyas (I, Robot; 2004)
Bill Paxton (The Greatest Game Ever Played; 2005)
Hayao Miyazaki (Nausicaa of The Valley of the Wind; 2005)
Francis Lawrence (Constantine; 2005)
Emilio Estevez (Bobby; 2006)
Dito Montiel (2; A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints; 2006, Man Down; 2015)
D.J. Caruso (2; Disturbia; 2007, Eagle Eye; 2008)
Ash Bannon w/ Chris Buck (Surf’s Up; 2007)
Michael Bay (3; Transformers; 2007, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen; 2009, Transformers: Dark of the Moon; 2011)
Steven Spielberg (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull; 2008)
Oliver Stone (Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps; 2009)
John Hillcoat (Lawless; 2012)
Robert Redford (The Company You Keep; 2012)
Fredrik Bond (Charlie Countryman; 2013)
Lars von Trier (Nymphomaniac; 2013)
David Ayer (2; Fury; 2014, The Tax Collector; 2020)
Andrea Arnold (American Honey; 2016)
Janus Metz Pedersen (Borg vs McEnroe; 2017)
Alma Har’el (Honey Boy; 2019)
Tyler Nilson w/ Michael Schwartz (The Peanut Butter Falcon; 2019)
Kornel Mundruczo (Pieces of a Woman; 2021)
Collaborations:
Michael Bay - 3
David Ayer - 2
D.J. Caruso - 2
Dito Montiel - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
Robert Redford
Lars von Trier
Hayao Miyazaki
Andrew Davis
Oliver Stone
Francis Lawrence- Bruce Altman was born on 3 July 1955 in The Bronx, New York, USA. He is an actor, known for Running Scared (2006), Matchstick Men (2003) and Regarding Henry (1991). He has been married to Darcy M. McGraw since 1982. They have one child.Mike Nichols (Regarding Henry; 1991)
Stacy Cochran (My New Gun; 1992)
James Foley (2; Glengarry Glen Ross; 1992, Fifty Shades Darker; 2017)
Daniel Stern (Rookie of the Year; 1993)
Anthony Minghella (Mr. Wonderful; 1993)
Mike Figgis (Mr. Jones; 1993)
Robert Redford (Quiz Show; 1994)
Ron Howard (The Paper; 1994)
Michael Pressman (The Gillian on Her 37th Birthday; 1996)
James Mangold (2; Cop Land; 1997, Girl, Interrupted; 1999)
Nicholas Hytner (The Object of My Affection; 1998)
Michael Cuesta (2; L.I.E.; 2001, 12 and Holding; 2005)
Roger Michell (2; Changing Lanes; 2002, Morning Glory; 2010)
Richard Benjamin (Marci X; 2003)
Ridley Scott (Matchstick Men; 2003)
Wayne Kramer (Running Scared; 2006)
Mort Nathan (Bag Boy; 2007)
Marcel Langenegger (Deception; 2008)
Jay DiPietro (Peter and Vandy; 2009)
Gary Winick (Bride Wars; 2009)
Tennyson Bardwell (The Skeptic; 2009)
Brian Koppelman w/ David Levien (Solitary Man; 2009)
Nancy Meyers (It’s Complicated; 2009)
Jay Roach (Game Change; 2012)
Nicholas Jarecki (Arbitrage; 2012)
Walter Strafford (Kilimanjaro; 2013)
Ken Scott (Delivery Man; 2013)
Raymond De Felitta (Rob the Mob; 2014)
Paul Dalio (Touched with Fire; 2015)
Patricia Riggen (Miracles from Heaven; 2016)
Michael Tyburski (The Sound of Silence; 2019)
Richard Tanne (Chemical Hearts; 2020)
Collaborations:
James Foley - 2
James Mangold - 2
Roger Michell - 2
Michael Cuesta - 2
Other notable directors:
Nancy Meyers
Jay Roach
Ridley Scott
Ron Howard
Robert Redford
Mike Nichols
Anthony Minghella
Mike Figgis - Actor
- Writer
- Producer
A native of New Jersey and son of a mechanic, African-American John Amos has relied on his imposing build, eruptive nature and strong, forceful looks to obtain acting jobs, and a serious desire for better roles to earn a satisfying place in the annals of film and TV. He has found it a constant uphill battle to further himself in an industry that tends to diminish an actor's talents with severe and/or demeaning stereotypes and easy pigeonholing. A tough, often hot-headed guy with a somewhat tender side, John would succeed far better on stage than on film and TV...with one extremely noteworthy exceptions.
Born on December 27, 1939, John was first employed as an advertising copywriter, a social worker at New York's Vera Institute of Justice, and an American and Canadian semi-professional football player before receiving his calling as an actor. A stand-up comic on the Greenwich Village circuit, the work eventually took him West and, ultimately, led to his hiring as a staff writer on Leslie Uggams' musical variety show in 1969. Making his legit stage debut in a 1971 L.A. production of the comedy "Norman, Is That You?", John went on to earn a Los Angeles Drama Critics nomination for "Best Actor". As such, he formed his own theater company and produced "Norman, Is That You?" on tour.
The following year he returned to New York to take his first Broadway bow in "Tough To Get Help". By this time he had secured secondary work on the classic The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970) as Gordy the weatherman. His character remained on the periphery, however, and he left the show after three discouraging seasons. On the bright side, he won the recurring role of the sporadically-unemployed husband of maid Florida Evans (played by Esther Rolle) on Norman Lear's Maude (1972) starring Bea Arthur. The two characters were spun-off into their own popular series as the parental leads in Good Times (1974).
Good Times (1974), a family sitcom that took place in a Chicago ghetto high-rise, initially prided itself as being the first network series ever to be created by African-Americans. But subsequent episodes were taken over by others and John was increasingly disgruntled by the lack of quality of the scripts and the direction Lear was taking the show. Once focused on the importance of family values, it was shifting more and more toward the silly antics of Jimmie 'JJ' Walker, who was becoming a runaway hit on the show as the aimless, egotistical, jive-talking teenage son JJ. John began frequently clashing with the higher-ups and, by 1976, was released from the series, with his character being killed in an off-camera car accident while finding employment out of state.
Amos rebounded quickly when he won the Emmy-nominated role of the adult Kunte Kinte in the ground-breaking epic mini-series Roots (1977), one of the most powerful and reverential TV features ever to hit television. It was THE TV role of his career, but he found other quality roles for other black actors extremely difficult to come by. He tried his best to avoid the dim-headed lugs and crime-motivated characters that came his way. Along with a few parts (the mini-movie Willa (1979) and the films The Beastmaster (1982) and Coming to America (1988)), he had to endure the mediocre (guest spots on The Love Boat (1977), "The A-Team", "Murder, She Wrote" "One Life to Live"). John also toiled through a number of action-themed films that focused more on grit and testosterone than talent.
He found one answer to this acting dilemma on the proscenium stage. In 1985, the play "Split Second" earned him the NAACP Award as Best Actor. He also received fine reviews in a Berkshire Theater festival production of "The Boys Next Door", a tour of O'Neill's towering play "The Emperor Jones", and in a Detroit production of Athol Fugard's "Master Harold...and The Boys". In addition, John directed two well-received productions, "Miss Reardon Drinks a Little" and "Twelve Angry Men", in the Bahamas. He took on Shakespeare as Sir Toby Belch in "Twelfth Night" at Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare and earned strong notices in the late August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Fences" at the Capital Repertory Company in Albany, New York. Overseas he received plaudits for his appearance in a heralded production of "The Life and Death of a Buffalo Soldier" at the Bristol's Old Vic in England. Capping his theatrical career was the 1990 inaugural of his one-man show "Halley's Comet", an amusing and humanistic American journey into the life of an 87-year-old who recalls, among other things, World War II, the golden age of radio, the early civil rights movement, and the sighting of the Comet when he was 11. He wrote and has frequently directed the show, which continues to play into the 2007-2008 season.
In recent years, John has enjoyed recurring parts on "The West Wing" and "The District", and is more recently appearing in the offbeat series Men in Trees (2006) starring Anne Heche. John Amos has two children by his former wife Noel Amos and two children. Son K.C. Amos director, writer, producer, editor and daughter Shannon Amos a director, writer and producer. Amos has one grand child,a grand-daughter, Quiera Williams.Richard C. Sarafian (Vanishing Point; 1971)
Melvin Van Peebles (Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song; 1971)
Robert Scheerer (The World’s Greatest Athlete; 1973)
Sidney Poitier (Lets Do It Again; 1975)
Gus Trikonis (2; Touched By Love; 1980, Dance of the Dwarfs; 1983)
Don Coscarelli (The Beastmaster; 1982)
John Badham (American Flyers; 1985)
John Landis (Coming to America; 1988)
John Flynn (Lock Up; 1989)
George A. Romero w/ Dario Argento (Two Evil Eyes; 1990)
Renny Harlin (Die Hard 2; 1990)
Russell Mulcahy (Ricochet; 1991)
John Turturro (Mac; 1993)
David A. Prior (Night Trap; 1993)
Jason Alexander (For Better or Worse; 1995)
Ice Cube (The Players Club; 1998)
Cheryl Dunye (My Baby’s Daddy; 2004)
Evgeny Lavrentiev (Countdown; 2004)
Aleksei Sidorov (Shadowboxing; 2005)
Rich Thorne (Dr. Dolittle 3; 2006)
Tyler Perry (Madea’s Witness Protection; 2012)
Craig Moss (Bad Asses on the Bayou; 2015)
Josh and Benny Safdie (Uncut Gems; 2019)
Craig Brewer (Coming 2 America; 2020)
Collaborations:
Gus Trikonis
Other notable directors:
John Landis
John Badham
Russell Mulcahy
Sidney Poitier
Richard C. Sarafian
Melvin Van Peebles
George A. Romero
Renny Harlin- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Anthony Anderson is an American actor, comedian and game show host who is known for playing Louis Booker from Kangaroo Jack, Glen Whitmann from Transformers, Ray Ray from The Proud Family and Antwon Mitchell from The Shield. He also acted in Blackish, Hoodwinked, The Departed, Agent Cody Banks 2 and Scream 4.Barry Levinson (Liberty Heights; 1999)
Ted Demme (Life; 1999)
David Raynr (Trippin’; 1999)
Andrzej Bartkowiak (3; Romeo Must Die; 2000, Exit Wounds; 2001, Cradle 2 the Grave; 2003)
Raja Gosnell (Big Momma’s House; 2000)
Peter & Bobby Farrelly (Me, Myself, & Irene; 2000)
John Ottman (Urban Legend: Final Cut; 2000)
John Whitesell (2; See Spot Run; 2001, Malibu’s Most Wanted; 2003)
Doug McHenry (Kingdom Come; 2001)
Mark Brown (Two Can Play That Game; 2001)
DJ Pooh (3 Strikes; 2001)
Tim Story (Barbershop; 2002)
David McNally (Kangaroo Jack; 2003)
David Zucker (2; Scary Movie 3; 2003, Scary Movie 4; 2006)
Cheryl Dunye (My Baby’s Daddy; 2004)
Kevin Allen (Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London; 2004)
Danny Leiner (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle; 2004)
Jeffrey W. Byrd (King’s Ransom; 2005)
Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow; 2005)
Cory Edwards (Hoodwinked; 2005)
Russ Parr (The Last Stand; 2006)
Luc Besson (Arthur and the Invisible; 2006)
Martin Scorsese (The Departed; 2006)
Michael Bay (Transformers; 2007)
Alan Poul (The Back-Up Plan; 2010)
Ben Stassen (A Turtle’s Tale: Sammy’s Adventure; 2010)
Wes Craven (Scream 4; 2011)
David Frankel (The Big Year; 2011)
Leone Marucci (The Power of Few; 2012)
Peter Segal (Grudge March; 2013)
Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (The Town that Dreaded Sundown; 2014)
Malcolm D. Lee (Barbershop: The Next Cut; 2016)
Eshom Nelms (Small Town Crime; 2017)
Timothy Reckart (The Star; 2017)
Carlos Saldanha (Ferdinand; 2017)
Chris Robinson (Beats; 2019)
Collaborations:
Andrzej Bartkowiak - 3
David Zucker - 2
John Whitesell - 2
Other notable directors:
Martin Scorsese
Wes Craven
David Frankel
Peter Segal
Malcolm D. Lee
Michael Bay
Luc Besson
Barry Levinson
Ted Demme- Actor
- Writer
- Producer
Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, an accountant. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of eleven. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was physically weak. At the age of 12, Van Damme began his martial arts training at Centre National De Karate (National Center of Karate) under the guidance of Master Claude Goetz in Ixelles, Belgium. Van Damme trained for 4 years and earned a spot on the Belgium Karate Team. He won the European professional karate association's middleweight championship as a teenager, and also beat the 2nd best karate fighter in the world. His goal was to be number one but got sidetracked when he left his hometown of Brussels. In 1976 at the age of sixteen, Jean-Claude started his Martial Arts fight career.
Over the next 6-years, he competed in both full-contact and semi-contact matches. He debuted under his birth name of Jean Claude Van Varenberg. In his first match, Jean-Claude was staggered by a round-house kick thrown by fellow countryman, Toon Van Oostrum in Brussels, Belgium. Van Damme was badly stunned, but came back to knockout Van Oostrum moments later. In 1977, at the WAKO Open International in Antwerp, Belgium, Jean-Claude lost a decision to fellow team mate Patrick Teugels in a semi-contact match. At the 1978 Challenge De Espoirs Karate Tournament (1st Trials),Jean-Claude placed 2nd in the semi-contact division. He defeated twenty-five opponents during the week long tournament, but lost in the finals to Angelo Spataro from the Naha Club. Later in 1978, Jean-Claude lost a 3-round match for the Belgium Lightweight Championship (semi-contact) to his fellow team-mate to Patrick Teugels.
In 1979, Jean-Claude traveled to the United States of America, to Tampa, Florida. In his first and only match against a United States opponent, Van Damme faced 'Sherman 'Big Train'Bergman', a kick-boxer from Miami Beach, Florida. For the first and only time in his career, Jean-Claude was knocked to the canvas after absorbing a powerful left hook from Bergman. However, Jean-Claude climbed off the canvas and with a perfectly timed ax-kick, knocked Bergman out in 56 seconds of the first round. Jean-Claude was a member of the Belgium team which competed on December 26, 1979 at the La Coupe Fancois Persoons Karate Tournament which was sanctioned by the Federation bruxelloise de Karate. Van Damme's final match victory enabled his team to win the European Team Karate Championship. In Full-Contact karate, Jean-Claude knocked out England's Micheal Heming in 46 seconds of the first round. In 1980, Van Damme knocked out France's Georges Verlugels in 2 rounds of a match fought under kick-boxing rules. Jean-Claude wanted to defeat his rival Patrick Teugels. At the Forest Nationals in Brussels, on March 8, 1980, Jean-Claude knocked Teugels down and Teugels suffered a nose injury and was unable to continue. Jean-Claude was awarded a first round victory.
Jean-Claude retired from martial arts in 1982, following a knockout over Nedjad Gharbi in Brussels,Belgium. Jean-Claude posted a 18-1 (18 knockouts) Kickboxing record, and a Semi-Contact record of 41-4. He came to Hong Kong at the age of 19 for the first time and felt insured to do action movies in Hong Kong. In 1981 Van Damme moved to Los Angeles. He took English classes while working as carpet layer, pizza delivery man, limo driver, and thanks to Chuck Norris he got a job as a bouncer at a club. Norris gave Van Damme a small role in the movie Missing in Action (1984), but it wasn't good enough to get anybody's attention. Then in 1984 he got a role as a villain named Ivan in the low-budget movie No Retreat, No Surrender (1985). Then one day, while walking on the streets, Jean-Claude spotted a producer for Cannon Pictures, and showed some of his martial arts abilities which led to a role in Bloodsport (1988). But the movie, filmed in Hong Kong, was so bad when it was completed, it was shelved for almost two years. It might have never been released if Van Damme did not help them to recut the film and begged producers to release it. They finally released the film, first in Malaysia and France and then into the U.S. Shot on a meager 1.5 million dollar budget, it became a U.S box-office hit in the spring of 1988. It made about 30 million worldwide and audiences supported this film for its new sensational action star Jean-Claude Van Damme.
His martial arts assets, highlighted by his ability to deliver a kick to an opponent's head during a leaping 360-degree turn, and his good looks led to starring roles in higher budgeted movies like Cyborg (1989), Lionheart (1990), Double Impact (1991) and Universal Soldier (1992). In 1994, he scored with his big breakthrough $100 million worldwide hit Timecop (1994). But in the meantime, his personal life was coming apart. A divorce, followed by a new marriage, followed by another divorce. It began to show up in his career when his projects began to tank at the box office - The Quest (1996), which he directed; Maximum Risk (1996) and Double Team (1997). The three films made less than $50 million combined. In 1999 he remarried his ex-wife Gladys Portugues and restarted his lost career to attain new goals. With help from his family he faced his problems and made movies like Replicant (2001), Derailed (2002), and In Hell (2003) which did averagely in box office terms, but he tried to give his fans the best, his acting in those movies got better, more emotional and each movie was basically in different action tones.Andre Delvaux (Woman Between Wolf and Dog; 1979)
William A. Levey (Monaco Forever; 1984)
Joel Silberg (Breslin’; 1984)
Joseph Zito (Missing in Action; 1984)
Corey Yuen (No Retreat, No Surrender; 1986)
John McTiernan (2; Predator; 1987, Last Action Hero; 1993)
Newt Arnold (Bloodsport; 1988)
Eric Karson (Black Eagle; 1988)
Albert Pyun (2; Cyborg; 1989, Kickboxer 2; 1991)
David Worth (Kickboxer; 1989)
Sheldon Lettich (4; Lionheart; 1990, Double Impact; 1991, The Order; 2001, The Hard Corps; 2006)
Deran Sarafian (Death Warrant; 1990)
Roland Emmerich (Universal Soldier; 1992)
Robert Harmon (Nowhere to Run; 1993)
John Woo (Hard Target; 1993)
Peter Hyams (3; Timecop; 1994, Sudden Death; 1995, Enemies Closer; 2013)
Steven E. de Souza (Street Fighter; 1994)
Ringo Lam (3; Maximum Risk; 1996, Replicant; 2001, In Hell; 2003)
Tsui Hark (2; Double Team; 1997, Knock Up; 1998)
Peter MacDonald (Legionnaire; 1998)
Mic Rodgers (Universal Soldier: The Return; 1999)
John G. Avildsen (Inferno; 1999)
Bob Misiorowski (Derailed; 2002)
Tristan Aurouet w/ Gilles Lellouche (Narco; 2004)
Philippe Martinez (Wake of Death; 2004)
Simon Fellows (2; Second in Command; 2006, Until Death; 2007)
Omer Faruk Sorak (The Exam; 2006)
Isaac Florentine (The Shepherd: Border Patrol; 2008)
Frederic Forestier w/ Thomas Langmann (Asterix at the Olympic Games; 2008)
Mabrouk el Mechri (JCVD; 2008)
John Hyams (3; Universal Soldier: Regeneration; 2009, Dragon Eyes; 2012, Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning; 2012)
Jennifer Yuh Nelson (2; Kung Fu Panda 2; 2011, Kung Fu Panda 3; 2016)
Ernie Barbarash (3; Assassination Games; 2011, Six Bullets; 2012, Pound of Fish, 2015)
Djamel Bensalah (Beur sur la ville; 2011)
Maryus Vaysberg (Rzhevsky Versus Napoleon; 2012)
Simon West (The Expendables 2; 2012)
Dominic Burns (UFO; 2012)
Rob Meltzer (Welcome to the Jungle; 2013)
Keith Palmer (Swelter; 2014)
Da Peng (Jian Bing Man; 2015)
Alessandro Carloni (Kung Fu Panda 3; 2016)
John Stockwell (Kickboxer: Vengeance; 2016)
Peter Malota (Kill Em All; 2017)
Dimitri Logothetis (Kickboxer: Retaliation; 2018)
Pasha Patriki (Black Water; 2018)
Julien Leclercq (The Bouncer; 2018)
Kyle Balda (Minions: Rise of Gru; 2021)
Collaborations:
Sheldon Lettich - 4
John Hyams - 3
Ernie Barbarash - 3
Ringo Lam - 3
Jennifer Yuh Nelson - 2
Simon Fellows - 2
Tsui Hark - 2
Albert Pyun - 2
John McTiernan - 2
Other notable directors:
Simon West
John G. Avildsen
Peter MacDonald
Steven E. De Souza
Roland Emmerich
John Woo
Robert Harmon- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Steve Carell, one of America's most versatile comics, was born Steven John Carell on August 16, 1962, in Concord, Massachusetts. He is the son of Harriet Theresa (Koch), a psychiatric nurse, and Edwin A. Carell, an electrical engineer. His mother was of Polish descent and his father of Italian and German ancestry (Steve's grandfather had changed the surname from "Caroselli" to "Carell"). Steve was educated at The Fenn School, an all-boys private school in Concord, Massachusetts, then at Middlesex School in Concord. After graduating from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, he moved to Chicago where he taught an improvisational comedy class and performed with The Second City troupe, alongside Stephen Colbert.
Carell made his film debut as "Tesio" in Curly Sue (1991). In 1996, he became a cast member of The Dana Carvey Show (1996), and provided the voice for Gary, opposite Colbert in "The Ambiguously Gay Duo". This animated short series produced by Robert Smigel continued on Saturday Night Live (1975), but Carell has joked that he auditioned for SNL and lost the job to Will Ferrell. Carell made a number of guest appearances on such shows as Come to Papa (2004), Just Shoot Me! (1997), and Watching Ellie (2002), before landing a regular stint as a correspondent on The Daily Show (1996) from 1999 until 2005.
Carell played Evan Baxter opposite Jim Carrey in Bruce Almighty (2003), and Uncle Arthur opposite Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell in Bewitched (2005). He broke out as a leading man after starring in the summer box-office hit The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), which he also co-wrote; the film was chosen as one of the Top Ten movies of 2006 by the American Film Institute. He next starred in the critically acclaimed Little Miss Sunshine (2006), an indie dark comedy which became a surprise hit and earned four Oscar nominations, and won two (Best Supporting Actor for Alan Arkin and Best Screenplay for Michael Arndt). In 2007, Carell reprised his role as Evan Baxter, filling Jim Carrey's leading-man shoes as a politician asked by God to build a giant ark in Evan Almighty (2007), the second installment of the "Almighty" franchise, co-starring Lauren Graham and Morgan Freeman. In 2008, he re-united with Jim Carrey in the highly successful animation hit Horton Hears a Who! (2008), then appeared as Agent Maxwell Smart in the popular comedy Get Smart (2008).
Throughout this time, Carell maintained a successful career in television, starring as Michael Scott in the American remake of the Britain's existential comedy, The Office (2005). He received the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in Television Comedy for this leading role in 2006, and earned both Emmy and Golden Globe nominations each consecutive show until he departed in 2011.
In 2010, Carell announced he was leaving "The Office" to concentrate on his film career, and has made steady appearance in such films as Date Night (2010), Despicable Me (2010), Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011), and Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (2012). Carell's most recent roles are the comedies Despicable Me 2 (2013), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013), and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (2014), and the drama Foxcatcher (2014), and the more serious Beautiful Boy (2018) and Vice (2018).
Steve Carell has been enjoying a happy family life with his wife, actress Nancy Carell, whom he met when she was a student in an improv class he was teaching at The Second City comedy troupe in Chicago. The couple have two children, daughter Elizabeth (born in May 2001), and son John (born in June 2004). Steve Carell lives with his family in Los Angeles, California.John Hughes (Curly Sue; 1991)
Louis C.K. (Tomorrow Night; 1998)
Stephen Gyllenhaal (Homegrown; 1998)
Tom Shadyac (2; Bruce Almighty; 2003, Evan Almighty; 2007)
Joe Nussbaum (Sleepover; 2004)
Adam McKay (4; Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy; 2004, Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues; 2013, The Big Short; 2015, Vice; 2018)
Woody Allen (2; Melinda and Melinda; 2005, Cafe Society; 2016)
Nora Ephron (Bewitched; 2005)
Judd Apatow (2; The 40 Year Old Virgin; 2005, Knocked Up; 2007)
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris (2; Little Miss Sunshine; 2006, Battle of the Sexes; 2017)
Tim Johnson w/ Karey Kirkpatrick (Over the Hedge; 2006)
Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life; 2007)
Jimmy Hayward & Steve Martino (Horton Hears a Who; 2008)
Peter Segal (Get Smart; 2008)
Shawn Levy (Date Night; 2010)
Pierre Coffin (4) w/ Chris Renaud (2; Despicable Me; 2010, Despicable Me 2; 2013, Minions; 2015, Despicable Me 3; 2017)
Jay Roach (Dinner for Schmucks; 2010)
Glenn Ficarra w/ John Requa (Crazy, Stupid, Love; 2011)
Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend for the End of the World; 2012)
David Frankel (Hope Springs; 2012)
Don Scardino (The Incredible Burt Wonderstone; 2013)
Nat Faxon w/ Jim Rash (The Way Way Back; 2013)
Miguel Arteta (Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day; 2014)
Bennett Miller (Foxcatcher; 2014)
Kyle Balda (3; Minions; 2015, Despicable Me 3; 2017, Minions: The Rise of Gru)
Peter Sollett (Freeheld; 2015)
Josh Greenbaum (Too Funny to Fail; 2017)
Richard Linklater (Last Flag Flying; 2017)
Felix van Groeningen (Beautiful Boy; 2018)
Robert Zemeckis (Welcome to Marwen; 2018)
Jon Stewart (Irresistible; 2020)
Collaborations:
Adam McKay - 4
Pierre Coffin - 4
Kyle Balda - 3
Tom Shadyac - 2
Woody Allen - 2
Chris Renaud - 2
Jonathan Dayton - 2
Valerie Faris - 2
Judd Apatow - 2
Other notable directors:
Robert Zemeckis
Richard Linklater
Bennett Miller
David Frankel
Shawn Levy
Jay Roach
Nora Ephron
John Hughes
Stephen Gyllenhaal- Actor
- Producer
- Director
William George Zane, better known as Billy Zane, was born on February 24, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, to Thalia (Colovos) and William Zane, both of Greek ancestry. His parents were amateur actors and managed a medical technical school. Billy has an older sister, actress and singer Lisa Zane. Billy was bitten by the acting bug early on. In his early teens, he attended Harand Camp of the Theater Arts in Elkhart Lake, Wisconsin. In 1982, he attended the American School in Switzerland. His high school days were spent at Francis Parker High School in Chicago, Illinois. Daryl Hannah and Jennifer Beals also attended Parker, prior to Billy's attendance.
Soon after graduating from high school, Billy decided to venture out to California to attempt acting for the first time. Within three weeks, he won his very first big screen role in Back to the Future (1985), playing the role of Match, one of Biff Tannen's thugs. He would later reprise that role for the sequel Back to the Future Part II (1989). Then after a small role in the science fiction horror film Critters (1986), he landed starring roles in several television films. Billy played villain Hughie Warriner in the Australian thriller film Dead Calm (1989), where he met his future wife, Lisa Collins.
He also co-starred in Memphis Belle (1990), a film version of a 1944 documentary about a World War II bomber. In 1991, he appeared as John Justice Wheeler on several episodes of David Lynch's television series Twin Peaks (1990). Billy starred as the eponymous superhero in The Phantom (1996) and as Caledon Hockley in the billion dollar grossing Titanic (1997). Then, he starred in the television movie Cleopatra (1999) where he met his soon-to-be fiance, actress Leonor Varela from whom he subsequently separated. In 2005, he had a recurring role as the poetry loving ex-demon Drake on the television series Charmed (1998).Robert Zemeckis (2; Back to the Future; 1985, Back to the Future Part II; 1989)
Stephen Herek (Critters; 1986)
Charles Braverman (Brotherhood of Justice; 1986)
Valerie Breiman (Going Overboard; 1989)
Phillip Noyce (Dead Calm; 1989)
Peter Lehner (Megaville; 1990)
Michael Caton-Jones (Memphis Belle; 1990)
Andre R. Gutfreund (Femme Fatale; 1991)
Rafael Eisenman (Lake Consequence; 1992)
Sally Potter (Orlando; 1992)
Luis Llosa (Sniper; 1993)
Mario Van Peebles (Posse; 1993)
John Singleton (Poetic Justice; 1993)
George P. Cosmatos (Tombstone; 1993)
Jon Purdy (Reflections on a Crime; 1994)
Ezio Greggio (The Silence of the Hams; 1994)
Elliot Silverstein (Flashfire; 1994)
Norman Jewison (Only You; 1994)
Strathford Hamilton (The Set-Up; 1995)
Ernest Dickerson (Demon Knight; 1995)
Simon Wincer (The Phantom; 1996)
Jim Wilson (Head Above Water; 1996)
Alan Eastman (Danger Zone; 1996)
Michael Oblowitz (This World, Then the Fireworks; 1997)
James Cameron (Titanic; 1997)
Aris Iliopolis (I Woke Up Early the Day I Died; 1998)
John Landis (Susan’s Plan; 1998)
Bradley Raymond w/ Tom Ellery (Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World; 1998)
Ben Stiller (2; Zoolander; 2001, Zoolander 2; 2016)
Henry Bean (The Believer; 2001)
Roman Coppola (CQ; 2001)
Sam Pillsbury (Morgan’s Ferry; 2001)
Christian McIntire (Silent Warning; 2003)
Michael D. Sellers (Vlad; 2003)
Gorman Bechard (The Kiss; 2003)
John Sayles (Silver City; 2004)
Charley Stadler (Dead Fish; 2005)
Andrzej Sekula (The Pleasure Drivers; 2005)
Uwe Boll (2; BloodRayne; 2005, Darfur; 2009)
Colin Teague (The Last Drop; 2006)
Stewart Raffill (Survival Island; 2006)
Serdar Akar w/ Sadullah Senturk (Valley of the Wolves: Iraq; 2006)
Bennett Joshua Davlin (Memory; 2006)
John Kalangis (The Mad; 2007)
Alki David w/ Michael Greenspan (Fishtales; 2007)
Jesse Johnson (Alien Agent; 2007)
Stephen Manuel (Perfect Hideout; 2008)
Glen Pitre (The Man Who Came Back; 2008)
Robert Iscove (Love N Dancing; 2009)
Terence Daw (Surviving Evil; 2009)
Timothy Bond (Blue Seduction; 2009)
Yorgos Noussias (Evil: In the Time of Heroes; 2009)
Paul Breuls (The Hessen Affair; 2009)
Stuart Cooper (Magic Man; 2010)
Dan Garcia (Enemies Among Us; 2010)
Christian E. Christiansen (The Roommate; 2011)
Claudio Fah (2; Sniper: Reloaded; 2011, Sniper: Ultimate Kill; 2017)
Paris Leonti (Mercenaries; 2011)
Giles Borg (Flutter; 2011)
Lucius C. Kuert (Mysteria; 2011)
Roel Raine (The Scorpion King 3: Battle for Redemption; 2012)
Rebecca Thomas (Electrick Children; 2012)
Charles Randolph-Wright (Mama, I Want to Sing; 2012)
Nika Agiashvili (A Green Story; 2012)
Bernard Rose (Two Jacks; 2012)
Gabriela Tagliavini (Border Run; 2012)
Frank Merle (The Employer; 2012)
Giorgio Serafini w/ Shawn Sourgose (Blood of Redemption; 2013)
Mark Jones (Scorned; 2014)
B. Harrison Smith (Zombie Killers: Elephant’s Graveyard; 2015)
Robert Adetuyi (Trouble Sleeping; 2015)
Riz Story (A Winter Rose; 2016)
Pat Williams (Dead Rising: Endgame; 2016)
Don Michael Paul (Sniper: Ghost Shooter; 2016)
Geoff Anderson (The Adventure Club; 2016)
Bruce Macdonald (Samson; 2018)
Etan Cohen (Holmes & Watson; 2018)
Van Ling (Cliffs of Freedom; 2019)
Collaborations:
Ben Stiller - 2
Uwe Boll - 2
Robert Zemeckis - 2
Claudio Fah - 2
Other notable directors:
James Cameron
George P. Cosmatos
John Sayles
Phillip Noyce
Stephen Herek
Michael Caton-Jones
Sally Potter
Simon Wincer
John Landis
John Singleton
Mario Van Peebles
Norman Jewison
Roman Coppola- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Forest Steven Whitaker has packaged a king-size talent into his hulking 6' 2", 220 lb. frame. He won an Academy Award for his performance as Ugandan dictator Idi Amin in the film The Last King of Scotland (2006), and has also won a Golden Globe and a BAFTA. He is the fourth African-American male to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, following in the footsteps of Sidney Poitier, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx.
Whitaker was born on July 15, 1961 in Longview, Texas, to Laura Francis (Smith), a special education teacher, and Forest Steven Whitaker, an insurance salesman. His family moved to South Central Los Angeles in 1965. The athletically-inclined Whitaker initially found his way into college via a football scholarship. Later, however, he transferred to USC where he set his concentration on music and earned two more scholarships training as an operatic tenor. This, in turn, led to another scholarship at Berkeley with a renewed focus on acting and the performing stage.
Whitaker made his film debut at the age of 21 in the raucous comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) wherein he played, quite naturally, a footballer. He went on to play another sports-oriented student, a wrestler, in his second film Vision Quest (1985). He gained experience on TV as well with featured spots on such varied shows as Diff'rent Strokes (1978) and Cagney & Lacey (1981), not to mention the TV-movie Civil War epic North & South: Book 1, North & South (1985) and its sequel. The movie that truly put him on the map was The Color of Money (1986). His one big scene as a naive-looking pool player who out-hustles Paul Newman's Fast Eddie Felson was pure electricity. This led to more visible roles in the "A" class films Platoon (1986), Stakeout (1987), and Good Morning, Vietnam (1987), which culminated in his breakout lead portrayal of the tortured jazz icon 'Charlie "Bird" Parker' in Clint Eastwood's passion project Bird (1988), for which Whitaker won the Cannes Film Festival award for "best actor" and a Golden Globe nomination. Whitaker continued to work with a number of well-known directors throughout the 1990s.
While his "gentle giant" characters typically display innocence, indecision, and timidity along with a strong underlying humanity, he has certainly not shied away from the edgier, darker corners of life as his occasional hitmen and other menacing streetwise types can attest. Although in only the first section of the film, he was memorable as the IRA-captured British soldier whose bizarre relationship with a mysterious femme fatale serves as the catalyst for the critically-lauded drama The Crying Game (1992). Always a willing participant to push the envelope, he's gone on to enhance a number of lesser films. Among those was his plastic surgeon in Johnny Handsome (1989), gay clothing designer in Robert Altman's Ready to Wear (1994), alien hunter in Species (1995), absentee father confronted by his estranged son in Smoke (1995), and Mafia hitman who models himself after the samurai warrior in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999), among many others. As would be expected, he's also had his share of epic-sized bombs, notoriously the L. Ron Hubbard sci-fi disaster Battlefield Earth (2000). On the TV front, he was the consulting producer and host of a revamped Rod Serling's cult series classic The Twilight Zone (2002), which lasted a disappointing one season.
In the early 1990s, Whitaker widened his horizons to include producing/directing and has since gained respect behind the camera as well. He started things off co-producing the violent gangster film A Rage in Harlem (1991), in which he co-starred with Gregory Hines and Robin Givens, and then made his successful directorial debut with the soulful Waiting to Exhale (1995), showcasing a legion of distaff black stars. He also directed co-star Whitney Houston's music video of the movie's theme song ("Shoop Shoop"). He also helmed the fluffy romantic comedy First Daughter (2004) with Katie Holmes and Michael Keaton. Whitaker also served as an executive producer on First Daughter. He had previously executive produced several made-for-television movies, most notably the 2002 Emmy-award winning Door to Door, starring William H. Macy. He produced these projects through his production company, Spirit Dance Entertainment, which he shut down in 2005 to concentrate on his acting career.
In 2002, he co-starred in Joel Schumacher's thriller, Phone Booth, with Kiefer Sutherland and Colin Farrell. That year, he also co-starred with Jodie Foster in Panic Room.
Whitaker's greatest success to date is the 2006 film, The Last King of Scotland. His performance earned him the 2007 Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, For that same role, he also received the Golden Globe Award, the Screen Actors Guild Award, a BAFTA Award, and many critical accolades. He has also received several other honors. In September 2006, the 10th Annual Hollywood Film Festival presented him with its "Hollywood Actor of the Year Award," He was also honored at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival 2007, receiving the American Riviera Award. Previously, in 2005, the Deauville Festival of American Film paid tribute to him. In 2007, Forest Whitaker won the Cinema for Peace Award 2007.
In 2007, Whitaker co-starred in The Great Debaters with fellow Oscar winner Denzel Washington, and in 2008, Whitaker played opposite Keanu Reeves in Street Kings and Dennis Quaid in Vantage Point.
In 2009, Forest co-starred in the Warner Bros. film "Where the Wild Things Are," directed by Spike Jonze, which was a mix of live-action, animation and puppetry as an adaptation of the Maurice Sendak classic children's book. Around the same time, he also starred n "Repossession Mambo", with Jude Law, "Hurricane Season", "Winged Creatures", and "Powder Blue". He appeared in the Olivier Dahan film "My Own Love Song", opposite Renée Zellweger, and was part of the Africa Movie Academy Awards in 2009, in Nigeria.
He is married to former model Keisha Whitaker and has three children by her. His younger brothers Kenn Whitaker and Damon Whitaker are both actors as well.
Forest was given a star on the Hollywood Walk in April of 2007. In November 2007, Whitaker was the creative mind behind DEWmocracy.com, a website that let people decide the next flavor of Mountain Dew in a "People's Dew" poll. He directed a short film and created the characters for the video game. Whitaker has done extensive humanitarian work, he has been involved with organizations like, Penny Lane, an organization that provides assistance to abused teenagers. PETA and Farm Sanctuary, organizations that protect animals' rights. Close friends with Neurosurgeon Dr. Keith Black, Forest has helped raise awareness and funds for Dr. Blacks research. During the last couple of years, he has become a spokesperson for Hope North Ugandan orphanage and Human Rights Watch. In the year 2001 Forest received a Humanitas Prize. He was recently honored by The City of Los Angeles with the Hope of Los Angeles Award. And his entire clan received the LA BEST Family Focus Award. Last year he joined forces with "Idol Gives Back" and "Malaria No More"; he has become a GQ Ambassador supporting and fundraising for Hope North. He was a Surrogate for Barack Obama's campaign supporting him across the United States.
Whitaker's multimedia company, Spirit Dance Entertainment, includes film, television and music production. He works closely with a number of charitable organizations, giving back to his community by serving as an Honorary Board Members for Penny Lane, an organization that provides assistance to abused teenagers, the Human Rights Watch and The Hope North organization.Nick Castle (Tag: The Assassination Game; 1982)
Amy Heckerling (Fast Times at Ridgemont High; 1982)
Harold Becker (Vision Quest; 1985)
Martin Scorsese (The Color of Money; 1986)
Oliver Stone (Platoon; 1986)
John Badham (Stakeout; 1987)
Barry Levinson (Good Morning, Vietnam; 1987)
Newt Arnold (Bloodsport; 1988)
Clint Eastwood (Bird; 1988)
Walter Hill (Johnny Handsome; 1989)
Richard Benjamin (Downtown; 1990)
Roy London (Diary of a Hitman; 1991)
Bill Duke (A Rage in Harlem; 1991)
Howard Deutch (Article 99; 1992)
Neil Jordan (The Crying Game; 1992)
Alan J. Pakula (Consenting Adults; 1992)
Nick Mead (Bank Robber; 1993)
Abel Ferrera (2; Body Snatchers; 1993, Mary; 2005)
Stephen Hopkins (Blown Away; 1994)
Robert Altman (Pret-a-Porter; 1994)
Doug McHenry (Jason’s Lyric; 1994)
Roger Donaldson (Species; 1995)
Wayne Wang w/ Paul Auster (Smoke; 1995)
Jon Turtletaub (Phenomenon; 1996)
Robert Patton-Spruill (Body Count; 1998)
Jim Jarmusch (Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai; 1999)
Craig Bolotin (Light It Up; 1999)
Richard Pearce (Witness Protection; 1999)
Roger Christian (Battlefield Earth; 2000)
Paul Rachman (Four Dogs Playing Poker; 2000)
John Irvin (The Fourth Angel; 2001)
Timothy Linh Bui (2; Green Dragon; 2001, Powder Blue; 2009)
David Fincher (Panic Room; 2002)
Joel Schumacher (Phone Booth; 2002)
Vadim Jean (Jiminy Glick in Lalawood; 2004)
Baltasar Kormakur (A Little Trip to Heaven; 2005)
Aric Avelino (American Gun; 2005)
Mark Rydell (Even Money; 2006)
Jordan Barker (The Marsh; 2006)
Christopher Reeve w/ Daniel St. Pierre and Colin Brady (Everyone’s Hero; 2006)
Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland; 2006)
Jieho Lee (The Air I Breathe; 2007)
Denzel Washington (The Great Debaters; 2007)
Pete Travis (Vantage Point; 2008)
David Ayer (Street Kings; 2008)
Guillaume Ivernel w/ Arthur Qwak (Dragon Hunters; 2008)
Rowan Woods (Winged Creatures; 2008)
Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are; 2009)
Tim Story (Hurricane Season; 2009)
Miguel Sapochnik (Repo Man; 2010)
Benoit Philippon (Lullaby for Pi; 2010)
Olivier Dahan (My Own Love Song; 2010)
Paul T. Scheuring (The Experiment; 2010)
Rick Famuyiwa (2; Our Family Wedding; 2010, Dope; 2015)
Aaron Harvey (Catch .44; 2011)
Jessy Terrero (Freelancers; 2012)
Damian Lee (A Dark Truth; 2012)
Stephane Aubier w/ Vincent Patar and Benjamin Renner; 2012)
Kim Jee-Won (The Last Stand; 2013)
Jerome Salle (Zulu; 2013)
David A. Armstrong (Pawn; 2013)
Lee Daniels (The Butler; 2013)
Kasi Lemmons (Black Nativity; 2013)
Scott Cooper (Out of the Furnace; 2013)
Philippe Caland (Repentance; 2013)
Rachid Bouchareb (Two Men in Town; 2014)
Olivier Megaton (Taken 3; 2014)
Antoine Fuqua (Southpaw; 2015)
Denis Villeneuve (Arrival; 2016)
Gareth Edwards (Rogue One; 2016)
Boots Riley (Sorry to Bother You; 2017)
Andrew Heckler (Burden; 2017)
Roland Joffe (The Forgiven; 2017)
Ryan Coogler (Black Panther; 2017)
David M. Rosenthal (How It Ends; 2017)
Brad Furman (City of Lies; 2017)
Mark Steven Johnson (Finding Steve McQueen; 2019)
David E. Talbert (Jingle Jangle; 2020)
Liesl Tommy (Respect; 2020)
Collaborations:
Abel Ferrara - 2
Rick Famuyiwa - 2
Timothy Linh Bui - 2
Other notable directors:
Ryan Coogler
Denis Villeneuve
Martin Scorsese
Alan J. Pakula
Robert Altman
David Fincher
David Ayer
Amy Heckerling
Gareth Edwards
Oliver Stone
Barry Levinson
Clint Eastwood
Walter Hill
Joel Schumacher
Scott Cooper- Actress
- Producer
- Casting Department
Catherine Keener is an American actress, Oscar-nominated for her roles in the independent films Being John Malkovich (1999) and Capote (2005). Acclaimed in her community for her quirky roles in independent film and mainstream such as The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005), Keener got her start as a casting director in New York City.
Catherine Ann Keener was born in Miami, Florida, and was raised in Hialeah, FL. She is the daughter of Evelyn (Jamiel) and James Keener, who owned an auto shop. She is of Lebanese (mother) and English, Scottish, and German (father) descent. Keener attended Wheaton College in Massachusetts. She began taking acting classes when she was unable to sign up for a photography class. After graduating, Keener managed a McDonalds in New York City before becoming an assistant casting director and soon relocating to Los Angeles.
Not long after, Keener told her superior of her aspirations for acting and she landed a one-worded role as a waitress in About Last Night (1986). Two years later, she landed a role in a film called Survival Quest (1988), where she met her future husband, Dermot Mulroney. After struggling for years in the industry, Keener landed a role in an independent film, opposite the unknown Brad Pitt, in Johnny Suede (1991). Her ascent in independent film began as she starred in Living in Oblivion (1995) and Walking and Talking (1996) before her mainstream break with Being John Malkovich (1999) in 1999, which earned Keener her first Oscar nomination. Since then, Catherine Keener has starred in several critically acclaimed films.Edward Zwick (About Last Night; 1986)
Don Coscarelli (Survival Quest; 1989)
Dennis Hopper (Catchfire; 1990)
Blake Edwards (Switch; 1991)
Tom DiCillo (4; Johnny Suede; 1991, Living in Oblivion; 1995, Box of Moonlight; 1996, The Real Blonde; 1997)
Allan Moyle (The Gun in Betty Lou’s Handbag; 1992)
Bill Duke (The Cemetery Club; 1993)
Nicole Holofcener (5; Walking and Talking; 1996, Lovely & Amazing; 2001, Money With Friends; 2006, Please Give; 2010, Enough Said; 2013)
Stacy Cochran (Boys; 1996)
Steven Soderbergh (2; Out of Sight; 1998, Full Frontal; 2002)
Neil LaBute (Your Friends & Neighbors; 1998)
Joel Schumacher (8mm; 1999)
Matthew Warchus (Simpatico; 1999)
Spike Jonze (3; Being John Malkovich; 1999, Adaptation; 2002, Where the Wild Things Are; 2009)
Danny DeVito (Death to Smoochy; 2002)
Andrew Niccol (Simone; 2002)
Rebecca Miller (The Ballad of Jack and Rose; 2005)
Sydney Pollack (The Interpreter; 2005)
Judd Apatow (The 40 Year Old Virgin; 2005)
Bennett Miller (Capote; 2005)
Tommy O’Haver (An American Crime; 2007)
Sean Penn (Into the Wild; 2007)
Andrew Fleming (Hamlet 2; 2008)
Barry Levinson (What Just Happened; 2008)
Charlie Kaufman (Synecdoche, New York; 2008)
Michael Winterbottom (Genova; 2008)
Joe Wright (The Soloist; 2009)
Jay & Mark Duplass (Cyrus; 2010)
Chris Columbus (Percy Jackson & The Olympians: The Lightning Thief; 2010)
David Schwimmer (Trust; 2010)
Julian Fareno (The Oranges; 2011)
Bruce Beresford (Peace, Love and Misunderstanding; 2011)
Carter (Maladies; 2012)
Yaron Zilberman (A Late Quartet; 2012)
Chris Sanders w/ Kirk DeMicco (The Croods; 2013)
Jeff Tremaine (Bad Grandpa; 2013)
Paul Greengrass (Captain Phillips; 2013)
Mark Jackson (War Story; 2014)
John Carney (Begin Again; 2014)
Charles Biname (Elephant Song; 2014)
David O. Russell (Accidental Love; 2015)
Alan Gilsenan (Unless; 2016)
Jordan Peele (Get Out; 2017)
Courtney Moorehead Balaker (Little Pink House; 2017)
Peer Pedersen (We Don’t Belong Here; 2017)
Sacha Gervasi (November Criminals; 2017)
Mark Pellington (Nostalgia; 2018)
Brad Bird (Incredibles 2; 2018)
Stefano Sollima (Sicario: Day of the Soldado; 2018)
Joel Crawford (The Croods 2; 2020)
Collaborations:
Nicole Holofcener - 5
Tom DiCillo - 4
Spike Jonze - 3
Steven Soderbergh - 2
Other notable directors:
Jordan Peele
Brad Bird
David O. Russell
Paul Greengrass
Chris Columbus
Sean Penn
Barry Levinson
Joel Schumacher
Joe Wright
Judd Apatow
Sydney Pollack
Edward Zwick
Bruce Beresford- Actress
- Director
- Producer
Multi-talented, multi-award-winning actress Kathleen (Doyle) Bates was born on June 28, 1948, and raised in Memphis, Tennessee. She is the youngest of three girls born to Bertye Kathleen (Talbot), a homemaker, and Langdon Doyle Bates, a mechanical engineer. Her grandfather was author Finis L. Bates. Kathy has English, as well as Irish, Scottish, and German, ancestry, and one of her ancestors, an Irish emigrant to New Orleans, once served as President Andrew Jackson's doctor.
Kathy discovered acting appearing in high school plays and studied drama at Southern Methodist University, graduating in 1969. With her mind firmly set, she moved to New York City in 1970 and paid her dues by working everything from a cash register to taking lunch orders. Things started moving quickly up the ladder after giving a tour-de-force performance alongside Christopher Walken at Buffalo's Studio Arena Theatre in Lanford Wilson's world premiere of "Lemon Sky" in 1970, but she also had a foreshadowing of the heartbreak to come after the successful show relocated to New York's off-Broadway Playhouse Theatre without her and Walken wound up winning a Drama Desk award.
By the mid-to-late 1970s, Kathy was treading the boards frequently as a rising young actress of the New York and regional theater scene. She appeared in "Casserole" and "A Quality of Mercy" (both 1975) before earning exceptional reviews for her role of Joanne in "Vanities". She took her first Broadway curtain call in 1980's "Goodbye Fidel," which lasted only six performances. She then went directly into replacement mode when she joined the cast of the already-established and highly successful "Fifth of July" in 1981.
Kathy made a false start in films with Taking Off (1971), in which she was billed as "Bobo Bates". She didn't film again until Straight Time (1978), starring Dustin Hoffman, and that part was not substantial enough to cause a stir. Things turned hopeful, however, when Kathy and the rest of the female ensemble were given the chance to play their respective Broadway parts in the film version of Robert Altman's Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982). It was a juicy role for Kathy and film audiences finally started noticing the now 34-year-old.
Still and all, it was the New York stage that continued to earn Kathy awards and acclaim. She was pure textbook to any actor studying how to disappear into a role. Her characters ranged from free and life-affirming to downright pitiable. Despite winning a Tony Award nomination and Outer Critic's Circle Award for her stark, touchingly sad portrait of a suicidal daughter in 1983's "'night, Mother" and the Obie and Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for her powerhouse job as a romantic misfit in "Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune," Kathy had no box-office pull, however, and was never a strong consideration when the roles transferred to the screen. Her award-winning stage went to established film stars. First Sissy Spacek took over her potent role as the suicidal Jessie Cates in 'night, Mother (1986), then Michelle Pfeiffer seized the moment to play her dumpy lover character in Frankie and Johnny (1991). It would take Oscar glory to finally rectify the injustice.
It was Kathy's fanatical turn as the drab, chunky, porcine-looking psychopath Annie Wilkes, who kidnaps her favorite author (James Caan) and subjects him to a series of horrific tortures, that finally turned the tide for her in Hollywood. With the 1990 shocker Misery (1990), based on the popular Stephen King novel, Bates and Caan were box office magic. Moreover, Kathy captured the "Best Actress" Oscar and Golden Globe award, a first in that genre (horror) for that category. To add to her happiness she married Tony Campisi, also an actor, in 1991.
Quality film scripts now started coming her way and the 1990s proved to be a rich and rewarding time for her. First, she and another older "overnight" film star, fellow Oscar winner Jessica Tandy, starred together in the modern portion of the beautifully nuanced, flashback period piece Fried Green Tomatoes (1991). She then outdid herself as the detached and depressed housekeeper accused of murdering her abusive husband (David Strathairn) in Dolores Claiborne (1995). Surprisingly, she was left out of the Oscar race for these two excellent performances. Not so, however, for her flashy political advisor Libby Holden in the movie Primary Colors (1998), receiving praise and a "Best Supporting Actress" nomination.
Kathy has continued to work prolifically on TV as a 14-time Emmy winner or nominee thus far. She has also taken to directing a couple of TV-movies on the sly. As most actors, she has been in hit and miss TV shows. On the hit side, she has earned a Golden Globe and Emmy nomination for her portrayal of Jay Leno's manager playing tough politics in The Late Shift (1996) and played to the hilt the cruel-minded orphanage operator, Miss Hannigan, in Annie (1999) for which she also earned an Emmy nom. She has done some eye-catching, offbeat turns on regular series such as Six Feet Under (2001) (for which she also earned a DGA award for helming an episode), The Office (2005), Harry's Law (2011) and especially American Horror Story (2011) for which she won an Emmy as Ethel Darling. She also won an Emmy for a guest episode on the hit sitcom Two and a Half Men (2003).
Interesting millennium filming have included a Catholic school's Mother Superior in the comic drama Bruno (2000); Jesse James' mother in American Outlaws (2001); a quirky, liberal mom in About Schmidt (2002) for which she earned another "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar nomination; a brief but potent turn as Gertrude Stein in Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris (2011); Queen Victoria in the adventurous remake of Around the World in 80 Days (2004); wacky parent types in the comedies Failure to Launch (2006) and Relative Strangers (2006); Mother Claus in the seasonal farce Fred Claus (2007); an over-gushy foster mother in the dramedy The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015); and a wrenching performance as the mother of a suspected terrorist in Richard Jewell (2019) for which she earned her third "Best Supporting Actress" Oscar nomination.
Divorced from husband Campisi since 1997, Kathy has been the Executive Committee Chair of the Actors Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Board of Governors.Milos Forman (Taking Off; 1971)
Ulu Grosbard (Straight Time; 1978)
Robert Altman (Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean; 1982)
John Herzfeld (Two of a Kind; 1983)
Sidney Lumet (The Morning After; 1986)
Michie Gleason (Summer Heat; 1987)
Jimmy Huston (My Best Friend is a Vampire; 1987)
Bud Yorkin (Arthur 2: On the Rocks; 1988)
John David Coles (Signs of Life; 1989)
Paul Brickman (Men Don’t Leave; 1990)
Warren Beatty (Dick Tracy; 1990)
Luis Mandoki (White Palace; 1990)
Rob Reiner (3; Misery; 1990, North; 1994, Rumor Has It; 2005)
Woody Allen (Shadows and Fog; 1991)
Hector Babenco (At Play in the Fields of the Lord; 1991)
Jon Avnet (Fried Green Tomatoes; 1991)
Athol Fagard w/ Peter Goldsmid (The Road to Mecca; 1992)
Norman Rene (Prelude to a Kiss; 1992)
Beeban Kidron (2; Used People; 1992, Swept from the Sea; 1997)
Tony Bill (A Home of Our Own; 1993)
Sam Shepard (Curse of the Starving Class; 1994)
Taylor Hackford (Dolores Claiborne; 1995)
Patrick Read Johnson (Angus; 1995)
Jeremiah Chechik (Diabolique; 1996)
Emilio Estevez (The War at Home; 1996)
James Cameron (Titanic; 1997)
Mike Nichols (Primary Colors; 1998)
Frank Coraci (2; The Waterboy; 1998, Around the World in 80 Days; 2004)
Steven Zaillian (A Civil Action; 1998)
Shirley MacLaine (Bruno; 2000)
Jerry Zucker (Rat Race; 2001)
Les Mayfield (American Outlaws; 2001)
Todd Louiso (Love Liza; 2002)
Tom Shadyac (Dragonfly; 2002)
Alexander Payne (About Schmidt; 2002)
P.J. Hogan (Unconditional Love; 2002)
Nick Hurran (Little Black Book; 2004)
Ezekiel Norton (Popeye’s Voyage: The Quest for Pappy; 2004)
Wendy Apple (The Cutting Edge: The Magic of Movie Editing; 2004)
Mary McGuckian (The Bridge of San Luis Rey; 2004)
Tom Dey (Failure to Launch; 2006)
Greg Glienna (Relative Strangers; 2006)
Christopher N. Rowley (Bonneville; 2006)
Gary Winick (Charlotte’s Web; 2006)
Simon J. Smith w/ Steve Hickner (Bee Movie; 2007)
David Dobkin (Fred Claus; 2007)
Chris Weitz (The Golden Compass; 2007)
Richard LaGravenese (P.S. I Love You; 2007)
Robert Zappia (Christmas is Here Again; 2007)
Tyler Perry (The Family That Preys; 2008)
Scott Derrickson (The Day- Actor
- Soundtrack
Kevin Anderson can be seen as ne'er do well hit man Lonnie in the upcoming "Justified City Primeval" on Netflix/FX this coming summer. Before that, he starred as Father Frollo in iconic Styx rock star Dennis DeYoung's brilliant musical production of "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". Recently, Kevin has tackled a myriad of challenging and varied roles onstage including Lee in "True West" and Jeeter in "Last of the Boys" at Seattle Rep, and John Adams in the musical "1776". A Steppenwolf ensemble member for 40 years, he created and originated the role of Mr. Breeding in their production of Tracy Letts' scathing political satire "The Minutes" in 2017.
Kevin has enjoyed an enduring, distinguished career which spans the breadth of over four decades. An actor's actor and respected by his peers, Kevin is recognized for starring opposite some of the entertainment industry's most accomplished and established actors including Julia Roberts, Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, Naomi Watts, Angela Basset, Michelle Pfeiffer, Patti LuPone, Jessica Chastain, Albert Finney, Jessica Lange, Vanessa Redgrave, and Richard Gere to name a few. He has also worked with some of the most iconic film and stage directors of our time including Alan J. Pakula, Norman Jewison, Mike Figgis, Phillip Kaufman, Sir Peter Hall, Trevor Nunn, Gary Sinise, Robert Falls, and the indomitable composer Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Anderson made his feature film debut in the Warner Brothers hit "Risky Business" with Tom Cruise yet first big break came with Steppenwolf Theatre's "Orphans" (Joseph Jefferson Award). Kevin gained national critical acclaim for his riveting performance in which he played the show-stopping, frenetic, simian younger brother Phillip who lived on Star Kist tuna and Hellman's mayonnaise. This production took him all over the world from New York City's Broadway (Theatre World Award) to London's West End with Albert Finney to the Hollywood movie starring Finney and Mathew Modine and directed by the late great Alan J. Pakula. From that point on, Kevin's career continued to gather speed. He starred as Richard Gere's brother in the rural family drama "Miles From Home" directed by Gary Sinise, followed by Norman Jewison's "In Country" with Bruce Willis. The hit film "Sleeping With the Enemy" in which Anderson starred opposite Julia Roberts established him as one of Hollywood's most promising young leading men.
Kevin has always been drawn to compelling characters and powerful dramas. Throughout his career, he has shown exceptional range and performed in an eclectic array of material ranging from "Liebestraum" with director Mike Figgis, "Hoffa" portraying Bobby Kennedy opposite Jack Nicholson in the title role, "Rising Sun" with Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes, to the romantic comedy "The Night We Never Met" with Mathew Broderick and Annabella Sciorra. He has gone from musicals like "Sunset Boulevard" opposite Patti Lupone in London's West End, to Tony nominated American classics on Broadway like "Death of a Salesman" opposite Brian Dennehy, "Orpheus Descending" opposite Vanessa Redgrave, and "Come Back Little Sheba" opposite Epatha S. Merkersen, or the "Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore" with Olympia Dukakis. He has performed in independent films at Sundance, and then on to both cable and network television. Other notable film work includes the Miramax release "Firelight" opposite French actress Sophie Marceau, the drama "Eye of God" by actor/writer/director Tim Blake Nelson, and "A Thousand Acres" opposite Michelle Pfeiffer. Some other favorite feature films include "Doe Boy", "When Strangers Appear" with Radha Mitchell, "Charlotte's Web" in which he plays Dakota Fanning's father, and "Ruby's Bucket of Blood", in which he starred as a white blues singer who falls in love with an African American nightclub owner (Angela Basset).
Kevin is perhaps best known for his performance of Father Ray, the maverick Catholic priest in ABC's ground-breaking television series "Nothing Sacred" for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award in 1998. He also received Best Actor nominations from the Viewers for Quality Television, the Online Film and Television Association, the Television Critics Association, and a Peabody Award for the creators and production. Other forays into television include the critically acclaimed but short-lived Jerry Bruckheimer series "Skin" opposite Olivia Wilde. Other favorite television films include "Power and Beauty" opposite the stunning Natasha Henstridge and directed by Susan Seidelman, "Monday Night Mayhem" with John Turturro and directed by Ernest Dickerson, and "Hunt for the Unicorn Killer" (Best Actor Nomination - Online Film and Television Association) opposite Naomi Watts.
Subsequent returns to the stage have been as varying as they were lauded, from the world premiere of "Sunset Boulevard" in London as the original musical Joe Gillis opposite Patti LuPone, to "Death of a Salesman" (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award, Outer Critics Circle Award), to a heartbreaking turn in "I Never Sang for My Father" with John Mahoney at Steppenwolf Theatre, to the cult hit "Brooklyn the Musical" on Broadway with Karen Olivo, to "Come Back Little Sheba" (Outer Critics Circle Award nomination) on Broadway with "Law and Order's" S. Epatha Merkersen and Zoe Kazan, to a hit stage production of the Stephen King epic "The Shawshank Redemption" in the starring role of Andy Dufresne in Dublin and London's West End. He starred as John the Baptist opposite Jessica Chastain and Al Pacino in the stage production of Oscar Wilde's "Salome" which was made into a documentary entitled "Wilde Salome" directed by Pacino. Other notable Off-Broadway, London, and Chicago productions include "Pal Joey" in the title role, "Moonchildren" (Cynthia Nixon), "Brilliant Traces" (Joan Cusack), "The Red Address", "Speaking in Tongues" (Karen Allen), "Summer and Smoke" (Amanda Plummer), "Dinner With Friends (Samantha Bond, Elizabeth McGovern), and "Earthly Possessions" (Joan Allen) and "Detroit" (Laurie Metcalfe) at Steppenwolf.
Kevin is a graduate of Chicago's Goodman School of Drama and hails from Gurnee, Illinois, a small farming community bordering Wisconsin in the heart of the Midwest - a true blue cow town. Kevin's goals and ideals remain as steadfast today as they were as when he first started acting. Acting has never been about fame and fortune for Kevin. His only desire has been to be the best actor that he can possibly be. To achieve this, he realized early on that to be successful, he had to strive to work with the best material, on the most interesting, challenging new roles, and to seek to work with the most talented and inspiring directors and actors that he could possibly find. These same goals remain as constant and true today, and he is truly honored to have worked with such amazing and creative powerhouses throughout his career.Paul Brickman (Risky Business; 1983)
Alan J. Pakula (Orphans; 1987)
Gary Sinise (Miles from Home; 1988)
Norman Jewison (In Country; 1989)
Joseph Ruben (Sleeping with the Enemy; 1991)
Mike Figgis (Liebestraum; 1991)
Danny DeVito (Hoffa; 1992)
Warren Leight (The Night We Never Met; 1993)
Philip Kaufman (Rising Sun; 1993)
Jocelyn Moorhouse (A Thousand Acres; 1997)
Tim Blake Nelson (Eye of God; 1997)
William Nicholson (Firelight; 1997)
Bill Forsyth (Gregory’s Two Girls; 1999)
Randy Redroad (The Doe Boy; 2001)
Scott Reynolds (When Strangers Appear; 2001)
Gary Winick (Charlotte’s Web; 2006)
Don Mancini (Curse of Chucky; 2013)
Al Pacino (Salome; 2013)
Randall Wallace (Heaven Is for Real; 2014)
Collaborations: none
Notable directors:
Danny DeVito
Mike Figgis
Philip Kaufman
Alan J. Pakula
Norman Jewison
Tim Blake Nelson- Actor
- Soundtrack
Adam Baldwin is an American actor who is from Illinois. He is known for playing Jayne Cobb from Firefly and Serenity, Hal Jordan in various DC cartoons and games and Animal Mother from Full Metal Jacket. He also acted in Independence Day, The Patriot, Predator 2, American Underdog, Superman: Doomsday and Halo 3: ODST. He is married to Ami Julius and has three children.Tony Bill (My Bodyguard; 1980)
Robert Redford (Ordinary People; 1980)
Joel Schumacher (D.C. Cab; 1983)
James Foley (Reckless; 1984)
Stanley Kubrick (Full Metal Jacket; 1987)
Fred Walton (Hadley’s Rebellion; 1987)
Eric Red (Cohen and Tate; 1989)
Keith Gordon (The Chocolate War; 1989)
John Irvin (Next to Kin; 1989)
Stephen Hopkins (Predator 2; 1990)
Irwin Winkler (Guilty by Suspicion; 1991)
Marc Rocco (Where the Day Takes You; 1992)
Richard Donner (Radio Flyer; 1992)
Luis Llosa (Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon; 1993)
Duane Clark (Bitter Harvest; 1993)
Gail Harvey (Cold Sweat; 1994)
Lawrence Kasdan (Wyatt Earp; 1994)
Jocelyn Moorhead (How to Make an American Quilt; 1995)
Roland Emmerich (2; Independence Day; 1996, The Patriot; 2000)
Fred Gallo (Starquest II; 1997)
Bradford May (Gargantua; 1998)
Lyndon Chubbuck (The Right Temptation; 2000)
Michael Polish (Jackpot; 2001)
Randall Fontana (Farewell, My Love; 2001)
Heywood Gould (Double Bang; 2001)
Mark L. Lester (Betrayal; 2003)
Alki David (The Freediver; 2004)
Mark Atkins (Evil Eyes; 2004)
John Putch (Ths Poseidon Adventure; 2005)
Joss Whedon (Serenity; 2005)
Jeremy Kasten (The Thirst; 2006)
Giancarlo Esposito (Gospel Hill; 2008)
Steven Brill (Drillbit Taylor; 2008)
Gregory Dark (Little Fish, Strange Pond; 2009)
Richard Gabai (InSight; 2011)
Joe Pearson (War of the Worlds: Goliath; 2012)
Vincent D’Onofrio (The Kid; 2019)
Collaborations:
Roland Emmerich - 2
Other notable directors:
Robert Redford
Joel Schumacher
Stanley Kubrick
James Foley
Irwin Winkler
Stephen Hopkins
Lawrence Kasdan
Richard Donner
Joss Whedon- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Stephen Baldwin was born on 12 May 1966 in Massapequa, Long Island, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for The Usual Suspects (1995), Bio-Dome (1996) and The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000). He has been married to Kennya Baldwin since 10 June 1990. They have two children.Michael Seresin (Homeboy; 1988)
Kevin Reynolds (The Beast; 1988)
Uli Edel (Last Exit to Brooklyn; 1989)
Brian de Palma (Casualties of War; 1989)
Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July; 1989)
Mike Binder (Crossing the Bridge; 1992)
Mario Van Peebles (Posse; 1993)
Duane Clark (Bitter Harvest; 1993)
Andrew Fleming (Threesome; 1994)
John G. Avildsen (8 Seconds; 1994)
Gillies MacKinnon (A Simple Twist of Fate; 1994)
Alan Rudolph (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle; 1994)
Paul Warner (Fall Time; 1995)
Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects; 1995)
Jeff Celentano (Under the Hula Moon; 1995)
Jason Bloom (Bio-Dome; 1996)
Kevin Hooks (Fled; 1996)
George Sluizer (Crimetime; 1996)
Tamra Davis (Half Baked; 1998)
Ken Sanzel (Scar City; 1998)
Bruno Barreto (One Tough Cop; 1998)
George Haas (Friends & Lovers; 1999)
Mike Binder (The Sex Monster; 1999)
John Flynn (2; Absence of Good; 1999, Protection; 2001)
Damian Harris (Mercy; 2000)
Brian Levant (The Flintstones of Viva Rock Vegas; 2000)
Allan Moyle (XChange; 2000)
Kari Skogland (Zebra Lounge; 2001)
Mark S. Grenier (Dead Awake; 2001)
Steve Boyum (Slap Shot: Breaking the Ice; 2002)
Christine McIntire w/ Bill Lundy (Silent Warnings; 2003)
Jim Wynorski (Lost Treasure; 2003)
William Webb (Target; 2004)
Kevin Downes (Six: The Mark Unleashed; 2004)
Tim Chey (The Genius Club; 2006)
David Dobkin (Fred Claus; 2007)
Rocco DeVilliers (The Flyboys; 2008)
Danny Lerner (Shark in Venice; 2008)
Amit Gupta (Let the Game Begin; 2010)
John Kafka w/ Yoon-suk Choy (Dino Time; 2012)
Steve Race (I’m In Love with a Church Girl; 2013)
Carey Scott (Faith of Our Fathers; 2015)
Hasan Karacadag (Magi; 2016)
Aneesh Daniel (The Least of Three: The Graham Staines Story; 2019)
Collaborations:
John Flynn - 2
Other notable directors:
Bryan Singer
Brian de Palma
Oliver Stone
Mike Binder
Mario Van Peebles
John G. Avildsen
Alan Rudolph
David Dobkin- Actor
- Producer
- Stunts
William Baldwin has distinguished himself as an actor/producer/writer who continues to showcase his multitude of talents in the world of film and television.
Baldwin has a busy year ahead starring in several high-profile upcoming projects. He is currently travelling the world shooting back-to-back productions - most recently wrapping his recurring role opposite Miles Teller in Nicolas Winding Refn's highly-anticipated upcoming Amazon series "Too Old to Die Young."
He is about to begin production in Canada starring in & executive producing the new Netflix / CBC family drama "Northern Rescue" opposite Kathleen Robertson. After the death of his wife, John West (Baldwin) packs up his three children and moves from their hectic urban life to his small northern hometown to take command of the local search-and-rescue service. Once there, the family struggles with their new surroundings, new friends and accepting Sarah's death.
Additionally, Baldwin will reprise his role as Brian McCaffrey from the 1991 blockbuster "Backdraft" in the Universal / Netflix sequel "Backdraft 2," along with Donald Sutherland. The action drama is now shooting in Eastern Europe. He then will return to the United States to begin his recurring role in the USA Network/SyFy series "The Purge" (Fall 2018). Based on the popular Blumhouse film franchise about one day each year when murder and mayhem is legalized - the series will be an entirely new chapter in America's 12 hours of annual lawlessness. Baldwin will play David Ryker, the handsome & powerful Managing Partner at an investment firm, who leads his team with confidence & intelligence, but also harbors a Purge night secret. He will also appear in the upcoming Netflix series "Insatiable."
Baldwin made his television series debut starring in the hit ABC series, "Dirty Sexy Money," opposite Jill Clayburgh, Donald Sutherland and Peter Krause. The tongue-in-cheek drama focused on the wealth, power & privilege of the fictional Darling family of New York City. He won rave reviews portraying Patrick Darling, the state Attorney General - who harbored a multitude of scandalous secrets - including an affair with his transgendered mistress. Since then, he has appeared on several acclaimed series including BBC's "Copper," TV Land's "Hot in Cleveland," NBC's "Parenthood" & "30 Rock," CW's "Gossip Girl" and FX's "Wilfred." He has also guested/recurred on such series as "MacGyver," "Hawaii 5-0," "Hit the Floor," "Forever," and starred in the popular Lifetime telefilm "The Craig's List Killer."
Baldwin has starred in over 30 films of varied genres. In 2005, he memorably starred with Laura Linney and Jeff Daniels in the critical award-winning hit film "The Squid & The Whale." The drama, directed by Noah Baumbach and produced by Wes Anderson, was recognized on over 200 Top 10 Lists that year. He also appeared in the hit comedy "Forgetting Sarah Marshall," with Kristen Bell & Russell Brand, co-starred with William Hurt & Tim Robbins in the independent comedy "Noise," as well as the 2007 Slamdance Film Festival & HBO Comedy Arts Festival entry "Humble Pie." His other film credits include the screen adaptation of Noel Coward's "Relative Values," "One Eyed King," "The Brotherhood of Murder," "Curdled," "Virus," "Pyromaniacs: A Love Story," "Shattered Image," "Double Bang," "Fair Game," "Sliver," "Three of Hearts," "Flatliners," "Internal Affairs," and the "The Preppy Murder." He made his feature film debut in Oliver Stone's "Born on the Fourth of July."
As a producer, Baldwin co-produced the independent film "Lymelife" starring Cynthia Nixon & his brother Alec. He produced & starred in "Lead with the Heart" and "Second Time Around" for the Hallmark Network.
A native of Massapequa, New York, Baldwin graduated Binghamton University with a degree in Political Science, and politics remains a passion. Baldwin serves on the boards of KCLU radio, The Massapequa Community Fund, The Committee to Preserve Olympic Wrestling, The Los Angelitos Orphanage and The Carol M. Baldwin Breast Cancer Research Fund.
Baldwin lives in California with his wife, singer/songwriter Chynna Phillips and their three children Jameson, Vance and Brooke. He was also the Executive Producer for Phillips' record "One Reason" for her band "Chynna & Vaughan."Oliver Stone (Born on the Fourth of July; 1989)
Mike Figgis (Internal Affairs; 1990)
Joel Schumacher (Flatliners; 1990)
Ron Howard (Backdraft; 1991)
Yurek Bogayevicz (Three of Hearts; 1993)
Phillip Noyce (Sliver; 1993)
Joshua Brand (A Pyromaniac’s Love Story; 1995)
Andrew Sipes (Fair Game; 1995)
Reb Braddock (Curdled; 1996)
Warren Beatty (Bulworth; 1998)
Raul Ruiz (Shattered Image; 1998)
John Bruno (Virus; 1999)
Jeff Celentano (Primary Suspect; 2000)
Eric Styles (Relative Values; 2000)
Heywood Gould (Double Bang; 2001)
Robert Moresco (One Eyed King; 2001)
Allan Moyle (Say Nothing; 2001)
Brian Burns (You Stupid Man; 2002)
Marc S. Grenier (Red Rover; 2003)
Bryan Goeres (Art Heist; 2004)
Noah Baumbach (The Squid and the Whale; 2005)
Kurt Voelker (Park; 2007)
Alfredo de Villa (Adrift in Manhattan; 2007)
Caroline Zelder (A Plumm Summer; 2007)
Henry Bean (Noise; 2007)
Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall; 2008)
Derick Martini (Lymelife; 2008)
Sam Liu w/ Lauren Montgomery (Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths; 2010)
Namrata Singh Gujral (1 a Minute; 2010)
Duncan MacNeillie (Jock the Hero Dog; 2011)
John Kafka w/ Yoon-suk Choy (Dino Time; 2012)
Peter Engert (Aftermath; 2014)
Boaz Dvir (A Wing and a Prayer; 2015)
Louis Nero (The Broken Key; 2017)
Andrzej Bartkowiak (Maximum Impact; 2017)
Gonzalo Lopez-Gallego (Backdraft 2; 2019)
Collaborations: none
Notable directors:
Ron Howard
Oliver Stone
Mike Figgis
Joel Schumacher
Phillip Noyce
Warren Beatty
Allan Moyle
Noah Baumbach
Nicholas Stoller- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Eric Balfour is a true Angelino, one who embraces everything the City of Angels has to offer. As a lover of the ocean he is an avid surfer and supports many environmental causes. His charitable endeavors include Surfrider, Oceana and Sea Shepard. As a lover of fashion he's built an incredible sustainable clothing company Electric & Rose made in Los Angeles with his wife Erin. Its namesake is an homage to the cross streets in Venice where they called home. And lastly his acting which he may be most known for. As a creative force in both film and TV, Balfour continues to play interesting and captivating characters. He will next be seen in the Amazon series Wilderness. He was last seen in the Paramount Plus series The Offer. Other notable roles include the acclaimed Six Feet Under, 24, Ray Donovan, Haven, Country Comfort and many others. On the big screen, Balfour can be seen in a laundry list of films among a whose who of Hollywood. Notable films include Texas Chainsaw Massacre and indie and award winning films like Quention Tarantino's Hellride Ariel Vromen's RX and Clement Virgos Lie With Me. Balfour lives in Los Angeles with his wife Erin his two sons Oliver and Romeo and his dog Coconut. When not on set you can find him at the beach with his family.Raul Ruiz (Shattered Images; 1996)
George Huang (Trojan War; 1997)
Deborah Kaplan w/ Harry Elfont (Can’t Hardly Wait; 1998)
Eric Stanze (Scrapbook; 1999)
Nancy Meyers (What Women Want; 2000)
Joe Roth (America’s Sweethearts; 2001)
Tim McCanlies (Secondhand Lions; 2003)
Marcus Nispel (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre; 2003)
F. Gary Gray (Be Cool; 2005)
Clement Virgo (Lie with Me; 2005)
Curtis Hanson (In Her Shoes; 2005)
Maryus Vaysberg (The Elder Son; 2006)
Larry Bishop (Hell Ride; 2008)
Frank Miller (The Spirit; 2008)
Bill Corcoran (Rise of the Gargoyles; 2009)
David Mackenzie (Spread; 2009)
Jonas Akerlund (Horsemen; 2009)
Greg and Colin Strause (Skyline; 2010)
Stephen T. Kay (Cell 213; 2011)
Adam MacDonald (Backcountry; 2014)
Collaborations: none
Notable directors:
Curtis Hanson
Nancy Meyers
Frank Miller
F. Gary Gray
Joe Roth
David Mackenzie- Actor
- Director
- Producer
Bob Balaban was born on 16 August 1945 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Gosford Park (2001), A Mighty Wind (2003) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He has been married to Lynn Grossman since 1 April 1977. They have two children.John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy; 1969)
Fred Coe (Me, Natalie; 1969)
Stuart Hagmann (The Strawberry Statement; 1970)
Mike Nichols (Catch-22; 1970)
John Erman (Making It; 1971)
Gower Champion (Bank Shot; 1974)
Milton Katselas (Report to the Commissioner; 1975)
Steven Spielberg (Close Encounters of the Third Kind; 1977)
Claudia Weill (Girlfriends; 1978)
Ken Russell (Altered States; 1980)
Sidney Lumet (Prince of the City; 1981)
Sydney Pollack (Absence of Malice; 1981)
John Badham (Whose Life Is It Anyway; 1981)
Peter Hyams (2010: The Year We Make Contact; 1984)
Jay Russell (End of the Line; 1987)
John Frankenheimer (Dead Bang; 1989)
Woody Allen (2; Alice; 1990, Deconstructing Harry; 1997)
Jodie Foster (Little Man Tate; 1991)
Tim Robbins (2; Bob Roberts; 1992, Cradle Will Rock; 1999)
E. Max Frye (Amos & Andrew; 1993)
Barry Sonnenfeld (For Love or Money; 1993)
Jonathan Lynn (Greedy; 1994)
Paul Weiland (City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly’s Gold; 1994)
Bryan Gordon (Pie in the Sky; 1996)
Christopher Guest (5; Waiting for Guffman; 1996, Best in Show; 2000, A Mighty Wind; 2003)
Armin Mueller-Stahl (Conversation with the Beast; 1996, For Your Consideration; 2006, Mascots; 2016)
Jill Sprecher (2; Clockwatchers; 1997, Thin Ice; 2011)
Peter Kassovitz (Jakob the Liar; 1999)
Damon Santostefano (Three to Tango; 1999)
Gore Verbinski (The Mexican; 2001)
Terry Zwigoff (Ghost World; 2001)
Robert Altman (Gosford Park; 2001)
Frank Darabont (The Majestic; 2001)
Kevin Donovan (The Tuxedo; 2002)
Tom Cairns (Marie and Bruce; 2004)
Bennett Miller (Capote; 2005)
Bart Freundlich (Trust the Man; 2005)
M. Night Shyamalan (Lady in the Water; 2006)
Justin Theroux (Dedication; 2007)
Ken Kwapis (License to Wed; 2007)
Scott Hicks (No Reservations; 2007)
Sally Potter (Rage; 2009)
Rob Epstein w/ Jeffrey Friedman (Howl; 2010)
Bibo Bergeron (A Monster in Paris; 2011)
Wes Anderson (4; Moonrise Kingdom; 2012, The Grand Budapest Hotel; 2014, Isle of Dogs; 2018, The French Dispatch; 2020)
Shari Springer Berman w/ Robert Pulcini (Girl Most Likely; 2012)
John Turturro (Fading Gigolo; 2013)
George Clooney (The Monuments Men; 2014)
Kent Jones (Hitchcock/Truffant; 2015)
Osgood Perkins (I Am the Pretty Thing That Lives in the House; 2016)
Daniel Adams (An L.A. Minute; 2018)
Collaborations:
Wes Anderson - 4
Christopher Guest - 5
Jill Sprecher - 2
Woody Allen - 2
Tim Robbins - 2
Other notable directors:
Steven Spielberg
M. Night Shyamalan
Frank Darabont
Gore Verbinski
Barry Sonnenfeld
John Schlesinger
John Frankenheimer
Sydney Pollack
Sidney Lumet
Mike Nichols
John Badham- Actor
- Producer
- Director
Jason Bateman is an American film and television actor, known for his role as Michael Bluth on the television sitcom Arrested Development (2003), as well as his role on Valerie (1986).
He was born in Rye, New York. His father, Kent Bateman, from a Utah-based family, is a film and television director and producer, and founder of a Hollywood repertory stage company. His mother, Victoria Bateman, was born in Shropshire, England, and worked as a flight attendant. His sister is actress Justine Bateman. In 1981, at the age of 12, young Bateman made his debut on television as James Cooper Ingalls in Little House on the Prairie (1974): Uncle Jed, appearing in 18 more episodes in one season. Jason also appeared in the original Knight Rider with David Hasselhoff for the season three episode "Lost Knight" (aired Dec 1984) playing the character "Doug" who befriends Kitt when he loses his memory. In the mid-1980s, he became the DGA's youngest-ever director when he directed three episodes of Valerie (1986) at age 18. During the 2000s, Bateman's film career has been on soaring trajectory. In 2005, he won the Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series, Musical or Comedy, for Arrested Development (2003), and received other awards and nominations.
Bateman has been enjoying a happy family life with his wife, actress Amanda Anka (daughter of singer Paul Anka), with whom he has two children. The Batemans reside in Los Angeles, California.Christopher Leitch (Teen Wolf Too; 1987)
Chris Thomson (Moving Target; 1988)
Stan Dragoti (Necessary Roughness; 1991)
Neal Israel (Breaking the Rules; 1992)
Jeff Franklin (Love Stinks; 1999)
Danny Comden (Sol Goode; 2001)
Roger Kumble (The Sweetest Thing; 2002)
Todd Phillips (Starsky & Hutch; 2004)
Rawson Marshall Thurber (2; Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story; 2004, Central Intelligence; 2016)
Peyton Reed (The Break-Up; 2006)
Luc Besson (Arthur And The Invisibles; 2006)
Jesse Peretz (The Ex; 2006)
Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces; 2007)
Peter Berg (2; The Kingdom; 2007, Hancock; 2008)
Jason Reitman (2; Juno; 2007, Up in the Air; 2009)
Zach Helm (Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporiam; 2007)
Steven Conrad (The Promotion; 2008)
Nicholas Stoller (Forgetting Sarah Marshall; 2008)
Ben Stiller (Tropic Thunder; 2008)
Kevin Macdonald (State of Play; 2009)
Ricky Gervais w/ Matthew Robinson (The Invention of Lying; 2009)
Mike Judge (Extract; 2009)
Peter Billingsley (Couples Retreat; 2009)
Josh Gordon w/ Will Speck (2; The Switch; 2010, Office Christmas Party; 2016)
Greg Mottola (Paul; 2011)
Seth Gordon (2; Horrible Bosses; 2011, Identity Thief; 2013)
David Dobkin (The Change-Up; 2011)
Dax Shepard w/ David Palmer (Hit and Run; 2012)
Morgan Spurlock (Mansome; 2012)
Henry Alex Rubin (Disconnect; 2012)
Peter Glanz (The Longest Week; 2014)
Shawn Levy (This Is Where I Leave You; 2014)
Sean Anders (Horrible Bosses 2; 2014)
Daniel Junge w/ Kief Davidson (A Lego Documentary; 2014)
Joel Edgerton (The Gift; 2015)
Byron Howard w/ Rich Moore (Zootopia; 2016)
John Francis Daley w/ Jonathan Goldstein (Game Night; 2018)
Collaborations:
Seth Gordon - 2
Josh Gordon - 2
Will Speck - 2
Jason Reitman - 2
Rawson Marshall Thurber - 2
Other notable directors:
Joel Edgerton
Byron Howard
Rich Moore
Shawn Levy
Greg Mottola
Mike Judge
Luc Besson
Peyton Reed
Todd Phillips
Peter Berg- Actor
- Producer
- Writer
Joel Edgerton was born on June 23, 1974 in Blacktown, New South Wales, Australia, to Marianne (van Dort) and Michael Edgerton, who is a solicitor and property developer. His brother is filmmaker Nash Edgerton. His mother is a Dutch immigrant. Joel went to Hills Grammar School in the Western Suburbs of Sydney, and after leaving, he attended Nepean Drama School in 1994. Joel has done many projects on stage and off, but most people will recognize him from his work on the Australian television series The Secret Life of Us (2001), in which he played William McGill. This gave him his first big break through in the television industry. For this role, he was nominated in 2001 for an AFI Award. As well as "The Secret Life of Us", he has also appeared in other television projects such as The Three Stooges (2000), Dossa and Joe (2002), Secret Men's Business (1999), Never Tell Me Never (1998) and Saturn's Return (2001). Joel has done a lot of work on the theatrical stage having played King Henry in "Henry V", Prince Hal in "Henry III", and others including "Road", "Third World Blues" and "Dead White Males". As well as acting, he has also starred, co-written and produced the short movie Bloodlock (1998).
His first international break came from when he played Uncle Owen Lars in Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002). Since then, he has also starred in Ned Kelly (2003), King Arthur (2004), Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005) and Kinky Boots (2005).Charles T. Kanganis (Race the Sun; 1996)
John Curran (Praise; 1998)
Alan White (Erskineville Kings; 1999)
Clinton Smith (Sample People; 2000)
Scott Roberts (The Hard Word; 2002)
George Lucas (2; Star Wars: Attack of the Clones; 2002, Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith; 2004)
Paul Goldman (The Night We Called it a Day; 2003)
Gregor Jordan (Ned Kelly; 2003)
Antoine Fuqua (King Arthur; 2004)
Julian Jarrold (Kinky Boots; 2005)
Anthony Lucas (The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello; 2005)
Joe Carnahan (Smokin’ Aces; 2006)
Nash Edgerton (3; Spider; 2007, The Square; 2008, Gringo; 2018)
David Michod (3; Crossbow; 2007, Animal Kingdom; 2010, The King; 2019)
Stewart Hendler (Whisper; 2007)
Tatia Rosenthal ($9.99; 2008)
Joe Hewitt (Acolytes; 2008)
Claire McCarthy (The Waiting City; 2009)
Paul Middleditch (Separation City; 2009)
Zack Snyder (Legends of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole; 2010)
Gavin O’Connor (2; Warrior; 2011, Jane Got a Gun; 2015)
Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. (The Thing; 2011)
Kieran Darcy-Smith (Wish You Were Here; 2012)
Peter Hedges (The Odd Life of Timothy Green; 2012)
Kathryn Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty; 2012)
Baz Luhrmann (Ths Great Gatsby; 2013)
Matthew Saville (Felony; 2013)
Ridley Scott (Exodus: Gods and Kings; 2014)
Anton Corbijn (Life; 2014)
Scott Cooper (Black Mass; 2015)
Jeff Nichols (2; Midnight Special; 2016, Loving; 2016)
Trey Edward Shults (It Comes at Night; 2017)
David Ayer (Bright; 2017)
Francis Lawrence (Red Sparrow; 2018)
David Lowery (The Green Knight; 2020)
Collaborations:
Nash Edgerton - 3
David Michod - 3
Jeff Nichols - 2
Gavin O’Connor - 2
George Lucas - 2
Other notable directors:
David Lowery
David Ayer
Francis Lawrence
Scott Cooper
Ridley Scott
Kathryn Bigelow
Zack Snyder
Joe Carnahan
Baz Luhrmann- Actor
- Soundtrack
American leading man of the 1940s and 1950s, Dana Andrews was born Carver Dana Andrews on New Years Day 1909 on a farmstead outside Collins, Covington County, Mississippi. One of thirteen children, including fellow actor Steve Forrest, he was a son of Annis (Speed) and Charles Forrest Andrews, a Baptist minister.
Andrews studied business administration at Sam Houston State Teachers College in Texas, but took a bookkeeping job with Gulf Oil in 1929, aged 20, prior to graduating. In 1931, he hitchhiked to California, hoping to get work as an actor. He drove a school bus, dug ditches, picked oranges, worked as a stock boy, and pumped gas while trying without luck to break into the movies. His employer at a Van Nuys gas station believed in him and agreed to invest in him, asking to be repaid if and when Andrews made it as an actor. Andrews studied opera and also entered the Pasadena Community Playhouse, the famed theatre company and drama school. He appeared in scores of plays there in the 1930s, becoming a favorite of the company. He played opposite future star Robert Preston in a play about composers Gilbert and Sullivan, and soon thereafter was offered a contract by Samuel Goldwyn.
It was two years before Goldwyn and 20th Century-Fox (to whom Goldwyn had sold half of Andrews' contract) put him in a film, but the roles, though secondary, were mostly in top-quality pictures such as The Westerner (1940) and The Ox-Bow Incident (1942). A starring role in the hit Laura (1944), followed by one in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), made him a star, but no later film quite lived up to the quality of these. During his career, he had worked with with such directors as Otto Preminger, Fritz Lang, William Wyler, William A. Wellman, Jean Renoir, and Elia Kazan.
Andrews slipped into a steady stream of unremarkable films in which he gave sturdy performances, until age and other interests resulted in fewer appearances. In addition, his increasing alcoholism caused him to lose the confidence of some producers. Andrews took steps to curb his addiction and in his later years was an outspoken member of the National Council on Alcoholism, who decried public refusal to face the problem. He was probably the first actor to do a public service announcement about alcoholism (in 1972 for the U.S. Department of Transportation), and did public speaking tours. Andrews was one of the first to speak out against the degradation of the acting profession, particularly actresses doing nude scenes just to get a role.
Andrews was elected president of the Screen Actors Guild in 1963, serving until 1965. He retired from films in the 1960s and made, he said, more money from real estate than he ever did in movies. Yet he and his second wife, actress Mary Todd, lived quietly in a modest home in Studio City, California. Andrews suffered from Alzheimer's disease in his later years and spent his final days in a nursing facility. He died of congestive heart failure and pneumonia in 1992, aged 83.H. Bruce Humberstone (2; Lucky Cisco Kid; 1940, Madison Avenue; 1961)
Allan Dwan (2; Sailor’s Lady; 1940, Enchanted Island; 1958)
George B. Seitz (Kit Carson; 1940)
William Wyler (2; The Westerner; 1940, The Best Years of Our Lives; 1946)
John Ford (2; Tobacco Road; 1941, December 7th; 1943)
Irving Cummings (Belle Starr; 1941)
Jean Renoir (Swamp Water; 1941)
Howard Hawks (Ball of Fire; 1941)
Eugene Forde (Berlin Correspondent; 1942)
Archie Mayo (Crash Dive; 1943)
William A. Wellman (2; The Ox-Bow Incident; 1943, The Iron Curtain; 1948)
Lewis Milestone (3; The North Star; 1943, A Walk in the Sun; 1945, No Minor Vices; 1948)
Gregg Toland (December 7th; 1943)
Elliott Nugent (Up in Arms; 1944)
Darryl F. Zanuck (The Purple Heart; 1944)
Henry Hathaway (Wing and a Player; 1944)
Otto Preminger (5; Laura; 1944, Fallen Angel; 1945, Daisy Kenyon; 1947, Where the Sidewalks Ends; 1950, In Harm’s Way; 1965)
Walter Lang (State Fair; 1945)
Jacques Tourneur (3; Canyon Passage; 1946, Night of the Demon; 1957, The Fearmakers; 1958)
Elia Kazan (2; Boomerang; 1947, The Last Tycoon; 1976)
John Cromwell (Night Song; 1948)
Henry King (Deep Waters; 1948)
Jean Negulesco (The Forbidden Street; 1949)
George Sherman (2; Sword in the Desert; 1949, Comanche; 1956)
Mark Robson (3; My Foolish Heart; 1949, Edge of Doom; 1950, I Want You; 1951)
Alfred L. Werker (2; Sealed Cargo; 1951, Three Hours to Kill; 1954)
Lloyd Bacon (The Frogman; 1951)
Robert Parrish (Assignment - Paris!; 1952)
William Dieterle (Elephant Walk; 1954)
George Marshall (Duel in the Jungle; 1954)
Jerry Hopper (Smoke Signal; 1955)
Mervyn LeRoy (Strange Lady in Town; 1955)
Fritz Lang (2; While the City Sleeps; 1956, Beyond a Reasonable Doubt; 1956)
Robert Pirosh w/ John E. Burch (Spring Reunion; 1957)
Hall Bartlett (Zero Hour; 1957)
Joseph Pevney (The Crowded Sky; 1960)
John Sturges (The Satan Bug; 1965)
Andrew Marton (Crack in the World; 1965)
William Conrad (Brainstorm; 1965)
Lesley Selander (Town Tamer; 1965)
Vittorio Salla (Berlin, Appointment for the Spies; 1965)
Tony Richardson (The Loved One; 1965)
Ken Annakin (Battle of the Bulge; 1965)
R.G. Springsteen (Johnny Reno; 1966)
Herbert J. Leder (The Frozen Dead; 1966)
John Brahm (Hot Rods to Hell; 1967)
Mario Sequi (The Cobra; 1967)
Andrew V. McLaglen (The Devil’s Brigade; 1968)
Boris Sagal (2; The Falling of Raymond; 1971, Ike; 1979)
Peter Collinson (Innocent Bystanders; 1972)
Jack Smight (Airport 1975; 1974)
Antonio Margheriti (Take a Hard Ride; 1975)
Vincent Sherman (The Last Hurrah; 1977)
Ted Post (Good Guys Wear Black; 1978)
Irving Rapper (Born Again; 1978)
Cliff Robertson (The Pilot; 1980)
Bert Lovitt (Prince Jack; 1985)
Collaborations:
Otto Preminger - 5
Lewis Milestone - 3
Mark Robson - 3
Jacques Tourneur - 3
Boris Sagal - 2
Fritz Lang - 2
Alfred L. Werker - 2
George Sherman - 2
John Ford - 2
Elia Kazan - 2
William A. Wellman - 2
William Wyler - 2
Allan Dwan - 2
H. Bruce Humberstone - 2
Other notable directors:
Howard Hawks
Mervyn LeRoy
John Sturges
Walter Lang
Darryl F. Zanuck
Archie Mayo
Irving Cummings
Lloyd Bacon- David Andrews, born and raised in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, graduated summa cum-laude from Louisiana State University, before going on to study law at Duke University and earning his degree from Stanford Law School. After becoming a member of the California bar and practicing law for a short time, he took what he calls a "hard right", deciding to leave the legal profession for an acting career. Now a 35-year industry veteran, David Andrews has worked with some of Hollywood's top directors and Oscar-winning actors, and has been singled out by critics for his work on both stage and screen.
A highly versatile actor and consummate professional, David's roles have run the gamut in films such as World War Z (2013), Apollo 13 (1995), Fight Club (1999), Hannibal (2001), A Walk to Remember (2002), The Conspirator (2010), Cherry 2000 (1987), and Fair Game (2010), in which he was singled out for his powerful portrayal of Scooter Libby.
On television, David has starred as a series regular on JAG (1995), The Monroes (1995), Mann & Machine (1992), The Antagonists (1991), HBO's 12 Miles of Bad Road (2008), and the BBC's Pulaski: The TV Detective (1987), for which he received an ACE Award nomination for Best Actor in the title role. In addition to a very long list of guest starring roles, David has recurred on numerous series: Netflix' hit series House of Cards (2013), Justified (2010), Murder in the First (2014), The Catch (2016), Crisis (2014), The Whispers (2015), Necessary Roughness (2011), the CSI franchise (tt0247082 and tt0313043), Covert Affairs (2010), Brothers & Sisters (2006), Surface (2005), Dragnet (2003), and Murder One (1995). He has a recurring role as Sam Vincent on USA's soon-to-be released series Shooter (2016).
MOW/mini-series projects, to name just a few, include HBO's Band of Brothers (2001), and From the Earth to the Moon (1998), for which he earned a SAG Award for Outstanding Ensemble Performance and critical acclaim for his performance as astronaut Frank Borman.
David recently finished co-writing his second feature film script, Bushido, a action/adventure tale of self discovery set in Japan amidst the chaos and destruction of the final days of WWII.Wes Craven (A Nightmare on Elm Street; 1984)
Robert Greenwald (The Burning Bed; 1984)
Dick Lowry (Wild Horses; 1985)
Steve de Jarnatt (Cherry 2000; 1987)
Ralph S. Singleton (Graveyard Shift; 1990)
Lawrence Kasdan (Wyatt Earp; 1994)
Ron Howard (Apollo 13; 1995)
Lorraine Senna (Our Son, the Matchmaker; 1996)
Craig R. Baxley (Bad Day on the Block; 1997)
Sam Pillsbury (Fifteen and Pregnant; 1998)
Rob Cohen (2; The Rat Pack; 1998, Stealth; 2005)
David Fincher (Fight Club; 1999)
Douglas Barr (2; Switched at Birth; 1999, The Jensen Project; 2010)
Ridley Scott (Hannibal; 2001)
Adam Shankman (A Walk to Remember; 2002)
Jonathan Mostow (Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines; 2003)
Lasse Hallstrom (Dear John; 2010)
Doug Liman (Fair Game; 2010)
Robert Redford (The Conspirator; 2010)
Dante Ariola (Arthur Newman; 2011)
Marc Forster (World War Z; 2013)
Kevin Greutert (Jessabelle; 2014)
Collaborations:
Rob Cohen - 2
Douglas Barr - 2
Other notable directors:
Robert Redford
Doug Liman
Ridley Scott
Adam Shankman
Marc Forster
David Fincher
Ron Howard
Wes Craven
Lawrence Kasdan - Actor
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The son of a Georgia minister, Edward Andrews debuted on stage in 1926 at age 12. By 1935, he had landed on Broadway. A solid character actor, his amiable demeanor made him a natural for the jovial, grandfatherly types and genial, small-town businessmen he often played, but his very large physique and peering eyes, partially hidden behind ever-present large-framed eyeglasses, served him well when cast as a heavy, i.e. a sinister character like a corrupt businessman or official, or worse. He was memorable as the glad-handing, charming but murderous leader of a corrupt political machine in The Phenix City Story (1955) and, later in his career, as Molly Ringwald's solicitous grandfather in Sixteen Candles (1984).Phil Karlson (2; The Phenix City Story; 1955, The Young Doctors; 1961)
Mark Robson (The Harder They Fall; 1956)
Roy Rowland (These Wilder Years; 1956)
Vincente Minnelli (Tea and Sympathy; 1956)
Charles Marquis Warren (2; Tension at Table Rock; 1956, Trooper Hook; 1957)
William Wyler (Friendly Persuasion; 1956)
Philip Dunne (Three Brave Men; 1956)
Harry Keller (2; The Unguarded Moment; 1956, The Brass Bottle; 1964)
David Friedkin (Hot Summer Night; 1957)
Jack Arnold (The Tattered Dress; 1957)
Gordon Douglas (The Fiend Who Walked the West; 1958)
Hugo Haas (Night of the Quarter Moon; 1958)
Richard Brooks (Elmer Gentry; 1960)
Robert Stevenson (2; The Absent Minded Professor; 1961, Son of Flubber; 1963)
John Frankenheimer (The Young Savages; 1961)
Jack Sher (Love in a Goldfish Bowl; 1961)
Otto Preminger (Advise & Consent; 1962)
Norman Jewison (3; 40 Pounds of Trouble; 1962, The Thrill of It All; 1963, Send Me No Flowers; 1964)
Norman Tokar (A Tiger Walks; 1964)
David Swift (Good Neighbor Sam; 1964)
Curtis Bernhardt (Kisses of My President; 1964)
Delmer Daves (Youngblood Hawke; 1964)
Earl Bellamy (Fluffy; 1965)
Frank Tashlin (The Glass Bottom Boat; 1966)
Andrew Marton (Birds Do It; 1966)
Peter Tewksbury (The Trouble with Girls; 1966)
Richard Fleischer (Tora! Tora! Tora!; 1970)
Alan Rafkin (How to Frame a Figg; 1971)
Vincent McEveety (2; The Million Dollar Duck; 1971, Charley and the Angel; 1973)
Robert Butler (Now You See Him, Now You Don’t; 1972)
Billy Wilder (Avanti; 1972)
William Byron Hillman (The Photographer; 1974)
Rod Amateau (The Seniors; 1978)
John Hughes (Sixteen Candles; 1984)
Joe Dante (Gremlins; 1985)
Collaborations:
Norman Jewison - 3
Vincent McEveety - 2
Robert Stevenson - 2
Phil Karlson - 2
Charles Marquis Warren - 2
Harry Keller - 2
Other notable directors:
John Hughes
Otto Preminger
John Frankenheimer
William Wyler
Joe Dante
Vincente Minnelli