Undervalued Artists

1. Pete Seeger

Sixteen-year-old Pete Seeger enrolled at the Avon Old Farms School in Connecticut and then decided to become a hermit. His life since then has been one social cause after another, buoyed by an almost indefatigable career as a self-described "sing-along leader."

During the 1930s he attended Harvard, ...

2. Tom Paxton

Soundtrack | Demolition Man

Tom Paxton was born on October 31, 1937 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an actor and composer, known for Demolition Man (1993), The Family Man (2000) and Inside Llewyn Davis (2013). He was previously married to Margaret Ann (Midge) Cummings.

3. Bertolt Brecht

Writer | Die Dreigroschenoper

Bertolt Brecht was born on 10 February 1898 in Augsburg, Germany and one of the country's most influential poets, playwrights and screenwriters. His most famous work was the musical "The Threepenny Opera" (with Kurt Weill), but his dramas such as "Mother Courage and Her Children" or "The Good ...

4. Sidney Poitier

Actor | In the Heat of the Night

Sidney Poitier was a native of Cat Island, Bahamas, although born, two months prematurely, in Miami during a visit by his parents, Evelyn (Outten) and Reginald James Poitier. He grew up in poverty as the son of farmers, with his father also driving a cab in Nassau. Sidney had little formal ...

RIP.

5. Michael Moorcock

Soundtrack | Heavy Metal

Michael Moorcock is astounding. His enormous production contains over 50 novels, countless short stories and a rock album. He was born in London 1939, became an editor for Tarzan Adventures when he was 16 years old and than continue as an editor for Sexton Blake Library. He has since than worked ...

6. Joe Dougherty

Actor | Pistols 'n' Petticoats

Joe Dougherty was born on November 4, 1898 in Eolia, Missouri, USA. He was an actor, known for Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966) and Berth Quakes (1938). He was married to Louise Frye. He died on April 19, 1978 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

The original Porky Pig voice.

7. Nick Drake

Soundtrack | How I Live Now

Fabled singer/songwriter who only recorded three albums in his short lifetime. "Five Leaves Left" rightly brought him acclaim from the folk crowd, although the exquisite arrangements on follow-up "Bryter Layter" received surprisingly stilted attention upon release. Nick became disillusioned with ...

He never received any recognition during his lifetime. His music only started gaining praise when one of his songs was used in a car commercial during the 90s.

8. Vera Hall

Soundtrack | Basic

Vera Hall is known for Basic (2003), Freddy Got Fingered (2001) and B.B. King: The Life of Riley (2012).

9. Theo van Gogh

Director | Blind Date

Theo van Gogh was born on July 23, 1957 in Wassenaar, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands. He was a director and writer, known for Blind Date (1996), May 6th (2004) and 1-900 (1994). He died on November 2, 2004 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

A brave and admirable man.

10. Thomas M. Disch

Writer | The Brave Little Toaster

Thomas M. Disch was born on February 2, 1940 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. He was a writer, known for The Brave Little Toaster (1987), Miami Vice (1984) and Come to Venus Melancholy (1995). He died on July 4, 2008 in New York City, New York, USA.

11. Skip James

Soundtrack | Morgan

Blues singer/guitarist Skip James was born in Bentonia, MS, in 1902, the son of a minister. He learned to play piano and guitar in high school, and it wasn't long before he was playing gigs at local dances and parties. In 1930 a Mississippi record-store owner heard him and arranged for him to ...

12. João Gilberto

Soundtrack | V for Vendetta

João Gilberto was born on June 10, 1931 in Juazeiro, Bahia, Brazil. He was a music artist and composer, known for V for Vendetta (2005), A Good Day to Die Hard (2013) and Murder Mystery (2019). He was married to Maria do Céu, Claudia Faissol, Miúcha and Astrud Gilberto. He died on July 6, 2019 in ...

13. Olaf Stapledon

Writer | Last and First Men

Olaf Stapledon was born on May 10, 1886 in Wallasey, Cheshire, England, UK. He was a writer, known for Last and First Men (2020) and A Modern Magician (2019). He was married to Agnes Zena Miller. He died on September 6, 1950 in Caldy, Cheshire, England, UK.

14. Oscar Micheaux

Writer | Within Our Gates

Oscar Micheaux, the first African-American to produce a feature-length film (The Homesteader (1919)) and a sound feature-length film (The Exile (1931)), is not only a major figure in American film for these milestones, but because his oeuvre is a window into the American history and psyche ...

15. Alexi Murdoch

Soundtrack | Gone Baby Gone

Alexi Murdoch is known for Gone Baby Gone (2007), Real Steel (2011) and Away We Go (2009).

16. Sergei Eisenstein

Director | Ivan Groznyy

The son of an affluent architect, Eisenstein attended the Institute of Civil Engineering in Petrograd as a young man. With the fall of the tsar in 1917, he worked as an engineer for the Red Army. In the following years, Eisenstein joined up with the Moscow Proletkult Theater as a set designer and ...

17. Masaki Kobayashi

Director | Seppuku

Masaki Kobayashi was born on February 14, 1916 in Hokkaido, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Harakiri (1962), Samurai Rebellion (1967) and The Human Condition III: A Soldier's Prayer (1961). He died on October 4, 1996 in Tokyo, Japan.

18. Pink Anderson

Self | The Blues

Pinkney "Pink" Anderson was a singer and blues musician--mainly guitar--who was born in Laurens, SC, in 1900. He spent much of his career performing in traveling medicine shows, doing old minstrel, folk and ragtime tunes and even performing early blues numbers. As a child he made money by dancing ...

19. Salman Rushdie

Actor | Bridget Jones's Diary

He married the actress Padma Lakshmi, the hostess of "Padma's Passport," and dedicatee of his eighth novel, "Fury" (2001), on 17th April 2004. The late Ayatollah Khomeini declared a fatwa against him for the novel "The Satanic Verses" on 14th February 1989. He is currently completing a ninth novel....

20. Miles Davis

Soundtrack | Adrift

Miles Davis, famous jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader, was born 26 May 1926 in Alton, Illinois. He moved to New York in 1944 and studied at Juilliard. He left school and entered the jazz society of New York, meeting such famous musicians as Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker and Charles Mingus. ...

21. Paul Schrader

Writer | First Reformed

Although his name is often linked to that of the "movie brat" generation (Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Francis Ford Coppola, George Lucas, Brian De Palma, etc.) Paul Schrader's background couldn't have been more different than theirs. His strict Calvinist parents refused to allow him to see a...

22. Billy Bragg

Soundtrack | Paper Towns

Billy Bragg - the so-called 'Bard of Barking' - came to widespread attention as a sort of one-man Clash, busking around Britain, with a guitar and portable amp. Having briefly joined the Army, Bragg formed a punk band, Riff Raff, but it was not until he released his first mini-LP, "Life's a Riot" ...

23. Nikos Kazantzakis

Writer | The Last Temptation of Christ

Nikos Kazantzakis was born in Heraklion, Crete (Greece). He studied Law in Athens and in Paris, but soon he studied philosophy and literature. He travelled almost everywhere; he learnt many foreign languages and left his scientific research for Nitsche. At philosophy: "Ascetics" (Salvatores Dei, ...

24. Alex Kapranos

Soundtrack | Endless Love

Alex Kapranos was born on March 20, 1972 in Almondsbury, South Gloucestershire, England, UK. He is an actor and composer, known for Endless Love (2014), Dumb and Dumber To (2014) and Loudermilk (2017).

25. Ida Cox

Soundtrack | Rocketman

Ida Cox was born on February 25, 1888 in Cedartown, Georgia, USA. She was an actress, known for Rocketman (2019), Woman's a Fool (1947) and The Blues (2003). She was married to Jesse Crump, Eugene Williams and Adler Cox (musician). She died on November 10, 1967 in Knoxville, Tennessee, USA.

26. Franz Ferdinand

Soundtrack | Endless Love

Franz Ferdinand is known for Endless Love (2014), Loudermilk (2017) and Sorority Row (2009).

27. Alain Resnais

Director | Hiroshima mon amour

Alain Resnais was born on June 3, 1922 in Vannes, Morbihan, France. He was a director and editor, known for Hiroshima Mon Amour (1959), Same Old Song (1997) and My American Uncle (1980). He was married to Sabine Azéma and Florence Malraux. He died on March 1, 2014 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...

28. Evan Greer

Actor | Babylon

Evan Greer is known for Babylon (2022), Sandy Wexler (2017) and Heist: Who Stole the American Dream? (2011).

29. Phil Ochs

Soundtrack | Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune

Phil Ochs was born on December 19, 1940 in El Paso, Texas, USA. He was a composer, known for Phil Ochs: There But for Fortune (2010), The Terminal List (2022) and Made in U.S.A. (1987). He was married to Alice Ochs. He died on April 9, 1976 in Far Rockaway, New York, USA.

30. Tom Waits

Actor | Seven Psychopaths

Thomas Alan Waits was born in Pomona, California, to schoolteachers Alma Fern (Johnson) and Jesse Frank Waits. Described as one of the last beatniks of the contemporary music, Waits in fact has two separate careers. From 1973 (LP "Closing Time") to 1983 ("One From The Heart" soundtrack), he ...

31. Charlie Hebdo

32. Woody Guthrie

Soundtrack | Paper Towns

Charley and Nora Guthrie named their son after the Democrat elected president that year. Woodrow Wilson Guthrie knew hard times as a youngster (his house burned down, his sister Clara burned to death, his father's small-town business and political careers never went anywhere, his mother suffered ...

33. Pierre Boulle

Writer | The Bridge on the River Kwai

Pierre Boulle was a French novelist best known for two works, The Bridge over the River Kwai (1952) and Planet of the Apes (1963), that were both made into award-winning films.

He was an engineer serving as a secret agent with the Free French in Singapore, when he was captured and subjected to two ...

34. John Patrick Shanley

Writer | Moonstruck

John Patrick Shanley was born on October 3, 1950 in The Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Moonstruck (1987), Doubt (2008) and Congo (1995).

35. Terrence Malick

Writer | Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick was born in Ottawa, Illinois. His family subsequently lived in Oklahoma and he went to school in Austin, Texas. He did his undergraduate work at Harvard, graduating summa cum laude with a degree in philosophy in 1965.

A member of the Phi Beta Kappa honor society, he attended Magdalen ...

36. José Saramago

Writer | Enemy

José Saramago was born on November 16, 1922 in Azinhaga, Golega, Portugal. He was a writer, known for Enemy (2013), Blindness (2008) and O Evangelho Segundo Jesus Cristo. He was married to Pilar del Río and Ilda Reis. He died on June 18, 2010 in Lanzarote, Las Palmas, Canary Islands, Spain.

37. Jeff Burton

Actor | Planet of the Apes

Jeff Burton was born on March 28, 1924 in Worcester, Massachusetts, USA. He was an actor, known for Planet of the Apes (1968), Black Hooker (1974) and Coffy (1973). He died on January 18, 1988 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

38. Augusto Boal

Director | Grande Teatro Tupi

Augusto Boal was born on March 16, 1931 in Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was a director and actor, known for Grande Teatro Tupi (1951), Cidade Ameaçada (1960) and Camera Three (1955). He was married to Cecilia Thumim Boal and Albertina Gordo de Oliveira Costa. He died on May 2, ...

39. Shirley Walker

Music_department | True Lies

Shirley Walker was born in Napa, California in 1945. She was educated at Pleasant Hill High School; attended San Francisco State College on piano scholarship; studied composition with Dr. Roger Nixon; and piano with Harald Logan of Berkeley, California. She was soloist with San Francisco Symphony ...

40. Joan Baez

Soundtrack | The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Joan Baez is the middle daughter of Albert Baez and Joan Baez Sr.. At age 10, her father took a job (and the family) to Baghdad, Iraq. A year later they moved to Palo Alto, CA, home of Stanford University. In 1956, she bought her first guitar and heard Martin Luther King, Jr.'s lecture on ...

41. Raoul Peck

Director | I Am Not Your Negro

Raoul Peck was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. He is a director and writer, known for I Am Not Your Negro (2016), Lumumba (2000) and Lumumba: Death of a Prophet (1991).

42. Odetta

Soundtrack | Everything Must Go

Odetta was born on December 31, 1930 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. She was an actress, known for Everything Must Go (2010), Mudbound (2017) and Sanctuary (1961). She was married to Louisiana Red, Don Gordon and Gary Shead. She died on December 2, 2008 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA.

43. Terry George

Writer | Hotel Rwanda

Terry George was born on December 20, 1952 in Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK. He is a writer and producer, known for Hotel Rwanda (2004), In the Name of the Father (1993) and Some Mother's Son (1996). He has been married to Margaret Higgins since 1978. They have two children.

44. Leo Dan

Soundtrack | Roma

Leo Dan was born in 1945 in Atamisqui, Pcia. de Santiago del Estero, Argentina. He is a music artist and actor, known for Roma (2018), Biutiful (2010) and La muchachada de a bordo (1967).

45. Herman López

Actor | Vecinos

Herman López was born on March 16, 1961 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor, known for Vecinos (2005), Lying Heart (2016) and Juro que te amo (2008). He was married to Norma Iturbe. He died on December 19, 2021.

46. Utah Phillips

Soundtrack | Profit Motive and the Whispering Wind

Utah Phillips was born on May 15, 1935 in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He was married to Joanna Robinson. He died on May 23, 2008 in Nevada City, California, USA.

47. Michael Moorcock

Soundtrack | Heavy Metal

Michael Moorcock is astounding. His enormous production contains over 50 novels, countless short stories and a rock album. He was born in London 1939, became an editor for Tarzan Adventures when he was 16 years old and than continue as an editor for Sexton Blake Library. He has since than worked ...

One of the most underrated fantasy writers. Some people dislike him because of his rants against Tolkien, but even if you disagree with him on that, no one can deny his talent as a writer.

48. Cormac McCarthy

Writer | The Road

Cormac McCarthy was born on July 20, 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Road (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Counselor (2013). He was married to Jennifer Claire Winkley, Anne DeLisle and Lee Holleman. He died on June 13, 2023 in Santa Fe...

49. Guy Maddin

Director | The Heart of the World

Guy Maddin was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, to Herdis Maddin (a hair-dresser) and Charles "Chas" Maddin (grain clerk and general manager of the Maroons, a Winnipeg hockey team). Maddin studied economics at the University of Winnipeg, working as a bank manager, house painter, and photographic...

50. Paul Robeson

Actor | Show Boat

This handsome, eloquent and highly charismatic actor became one of the foremost interpreters of Eugene O'Neill's plays and one of the most treasured names in song during the first half of the twentieth century. He also courted disdain and public controversy for most of his career as a staunch Cold ...

51. Richard Linklater

Director | Waking Life

Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret (Krieger), who taught at a university, and Charles W. Linklater III. Richard was among the first and most successful talents to emerge during the American independent film renaissance of the 1990s. ...

Pier Paolo Pasolini achieved fame and notoriety long before he entered the film industry. A published poet at 19, he had already written numerous novels and essays before his first screenplay in 1954. His first film Accattone (1961) was based on his own novel and its violent depiction of the life ...

55. Wim Wenders

Director | Der Himmel über Berlin

Wim Wenders is an Oscar-nominated German filmmaker who was born Ernst Wilhelm Wenders on August 14, 1945 in Düsseldorf, which then was located in the British Occupation Zone of what became the Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Federal Republic of Germany, known colloquially as West Germany until ...

56. Clive Barker

Writer | Nightbreed

Born in Liverpool, England, UK, Clive Barker is an English writer, director, and visual artist, best known for his works in the genres of horror and dark fantasy. His mother Joan Ruby (née Revill) was a painter and school welfare officer and his father Leonard Barker was a personnel director for an...

57. Héctor Germán Oesterheld

Writer | El Eternauta

Héctor Germán Oesterheld was born on July 23, 1919 in Buenos Aires City, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Héctor Germán is a writer, known for The Eternaut and Exilio (2015).

58. Quirino Cristiani

Director | Peludópolis

Quirino Cristiani was born on July 2, 1896 in Santa Giuletta, Lombardy, Italy. Quirino was a director and writer, known for Peludópolis (1931), El apóstol (1917) and La intervención en la provincia de Buenos Aires (1916). Quirino died on August 2, 1984 in Bernal, Argentina.

59. William Cottrell

Director | Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs

William Cottrell was born on November 19, 1906 in South Bend, Indiana, USA. He was a writer, known for Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Alice in Wonderland (1951) and Peter Pan (1953). He was married to Hazel Sewell. He died on December 22, 1995 in Burbank, California, USA.

60. Nichelle Nichols

Actress | Star Trek

Nichelle Nichols was one of 10 children born to parents Lishia and Samuel Nichols in Robbins, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. She was a singer and dancer before turning to acting and finding fame in her groundbreaking role of Lt. Nyota Uhura in the Star Trek (1966) series.

As long as she could remember,...

RIP

61. François Ozon

Director | Dans la maison

François Ozon was born on November 15, 1967 in Paris, France. He is a director and writer, known for In the House (2012), 8 Women (2002) and Swimming Pool (2003).

62. Jerry Robinson

Writer | Joker

Jerry Robinson was an American comic book artist from Trenton, New Jersey. He was one of the earliest creative staff of the "Batman" stories by DC Comics. Robinson is primarily remembered for co-creating two popular characters: Robin/Dick Grayson and the Joker. The first was the most prominent ...

63. Henry Selick

Director | Coraline

Henry Selick is a film director, specializing in films with stop-motion animation. He has formal training as an animator.

Selick was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, son of Charles H. Selick and Melanie Molan. He was mostly raised in Rumson, New Jersey. As a child, Selick took up drawing as a hobby. ...

64. Jean 'Moebius' Giraud

Art_department | Le Cinquième Élément

Jean Giraud had one of the most interesting double lives in comics history. Under his own name, he co-created the legendary western comic 'Blueberry' (1963-2012) with writer Jean-Michel Charlier. He also used the shortened signature of "Gir" for this series. This cowboy series was noted for its ...

65. Olivia Newton-John

Soundtrack | Grease

Olivia Newton-John was an English singer and actress who was born on September 26, 1948, in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK. In 1954, her family relocated to Australia when her father was offered a job as the dean of a Presbyterian college in Melbourne. After winning a singing talent contest...

RIP

66. Peter Mullan

Actor | The Magdalene Sisters

He was interested in directing films at the age of 19 and he made several shorts. As he wasn't admitted to the National Film School, he decided to dedicate himself to acting, and made his debut in the theatre in 1988 before moving to cinema and television. Fame came with the parts he played in such...

67. Herbert Ross

Director | The Turning Point

Herbert Ross was born on May 13, 1927 in Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for The Turning Point (1977), The Goodbye Girl (1977) and The Secret of My Success (1987). He was married to Lee Radziwill and Nora Kaye. He died on October 9, 2001 in New York ...

68. Haruo Nakajima

Actor | Shichinin no samurai

Haruo Nakajima was born on January 1, 1929 in Yamagata, Japan. He was an actor, known for Seven Samurai (1954), Godzilla (1954) and Godzilla vs. Gigan (1972). He died on August 7, 2017 in Japan.

69. Toni Morrison

Writer | Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison was born on February 18, 1931 in Lorain, Ohio, USA. She was a writer and actress, known for Song of Solomon, Beloved (1998) and American Experience (1987). She was married to Harold Morrison. She died on August 5, 2019 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA.

70. Walter Murch

Sound_department | The English Patient

Walter Murch has been editing sound in Hollywood since starting on Francis Ford Coppola's film The Rain People (1969). He edited sound on American Graffiti (1973) and The Godfather Part II (1974), won his first Academy Award nomination for The Conversation (1974), won his first Oscar for Apocalypse...

71. Winsor McCay

Writer | Gertie the Dinosaur

Like many pioneers, the work of 'Winsor McCay' has been largely superseded by successors such as Walt Disney and Max Fleischer but he more than earns a place in film history for being the American cinema's first great cartoon animator. He started out as a newspaper cartoonist, achieving a national ...

72. Fernando Vallejo

Writer | Fragmentos de Amor

Fernando Vallejo was born on October 24, 1942 in Medellin, Colombia. He is a writer and director, known for Fragments of Love (2016), El Borro Soñador and Podarok Very (2016).

73. Barbet Schroeder

Director | La Virgen de los Sicarios

Barbet Schroeder was born on August 26, 1941 in Tehran, Iran. He is a director and producer, known for Our Lady of the Assassins (2000), Single White Female (1992) and Murder by Numbers (2002). He has been married to Bulle Ogier since April 1991.

74. Walter Greenwood

Writer | Love on the Dole

Walter Greenwood was born on December 17, 1903 in Salford, Greater Manchester, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Love on the Dole (1941), No Limit (1935) and Chance of a Lifetime (1950). He was married to Pearl Alice Osgood. He died on September 13, 1974 in Isle of Man, UK.

75. Quino

Writer | Mafalda

Quino was born on July 17, 1932 in San José, Mendoza Province, Argentina. He was a writer and director, known for Mafalda (1973), Bez wody (1998) and Me doy cuenta... (2015). He was married to Alicia Colombo. He died on September 30, 2020 in Luján de Cuyo, Mendoza Province, Argentina.

In general, non superhero comic book artists are way underrated.

76. Bobby Driscoll

Actor | Peter Pan

Bobby Driscoll was a natural-born actor. Discovered by chance at the age of five-and-a-half in a barber shop in Altadena, CA. and then convincing in anything he ever undertook on the movie screen and on television throughout his career spanning 17 years (1943-1960). Includes such notable movie ...

77. Arturo Mercado

Actor | Santo Luzbel

Arturo Mercado is known for Santo Luzbel (1996), Vecinos (2005) and Agent Macaw: Shaken & Stirred (2009).

78. Norman McLaren

Producer | Neighbours

Norman McLaren is one of the most awarded filmmakers in the history of Canadian cinema, and a pioneer in both animation and filmmaking. Born in Scotland, he entered the Glasgow School of Fine Arts in 1932 to study set design. His early experiments in animation included actually scratching and ...

79. Rocío Garcel

Actress | Doragon Bôru Sûpâ Burorî

Rocío Garcel (born on September 18, 1948 in Mexico City) is a Mexican dubbing actress. Known internationally for lending her voice to Bulma in the Spanish-language version for Latin America of Dragon Ball, she has also lent her voice to the iconic character Astro Boy. At the beginning of the 80s, ...

80. Ari Folman

Writer | The Congress

Ari Folman was born on December 17, 1962 in Haifa, Israel. He is a writer and director, known for The Congress (2013), Waltz with Bashir (2008) and Saint Clara (1996).

81. Isao Tomita

Composer | Tasogare Seibei

Isao Tomita was born on April 22, 1932 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a composer, known for The Twilight Samurai (2002), Ocean's Thirteen (2007) and Demon Pond (1979). He was married to Akiko. He died on May 5, 2016 in Tokyo, Japan.

82. Oren Lavie

Soundtrack | The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian

Oren Lavie is known for The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008), Oren Lavie Featuring Vanessa Paradis: Did You Really Say No (2017) and Oren Lavie: Her Morning Elegance (2009).

83. Osamu Tezuka

Writer | Tenrankai no e

Tezuka Osamu was born on November 3, 1928 in Toyonaka, Japan as the first child of Fumiko & Yutaka Tezuka. At 5, he & his family moved to the village of Kohama in Hyogo prefecture (present day city of Takarazuka). When he was 7, he entered Ikeda Elementary School in Osaka. Due to his diminutive ...

84. Julian Schnabel

Director | Before Night Falls

Julian Schnabel was born on October 26, 1951 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Before Night Falls (2000), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (2007) and At Eternity's Gate (2018). He was previously married to Olatz López Garmendia and Jacqueline Schnabel.

85. Fito Páez

Composer | Vidas privadas

Fito Páez was born on March 13, 1963 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province, Argentina. He is a composer and actor, known for Privates Lives (2001), La balada de Donna Helena (1994) and ¿De quién es el portaligas? (2007). He was previously married to Cecilia Roth.

86. Shotaro Ishinomori

Writer | Power Rangers

Shotaro Ishinomori was born on January 25, 1938 in Tome, Japan as Shotaro Onodera. As 1 of the most prolific comic artist in history, his works encompasses over 770 titles exceeding 128,000 pages. Being 1 of the early pioneers of Japanese manga, he was 1 of the few comic artists whose works has ...

87. Pedro Armendáriz Jr.

Actor | Licence to Kill

Pedro Armendáriz Jr. was born on April 6, 1940 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and producer, known for Licence to Kill (1989), Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003) and The Mask of Zorro (1998). He was married to Lucía Gómez de Parada. He died on December 26, 2011 in New York ...

88. Denny O'Neil

Writer | Madame Web

Dennis O'Neil began as Stan Lee's editorial assistant in the mid-1960s. He wrote comic stories for Batman starting in the 1970s, and was one of the guiding forces behind returning the Batman character to its dark roots from the campiness of the '60s. He's written several novels, comics, short ...

89. Yoshiyuki Tomino

Writer | Kidô senshi Z Gundam - A New Translation: Hoshi wo tsugumono

Yoshiyuki Tomino was born on November 5, 1941 in Odawara, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Mobile Suit Z Gundam: A New Translation - Heirs to the Stars (2004), Mobile Suit Z Gundam II: A New Translation - Lovers (2005) and Mobile Suit Gundam (1979).

90. Alexander Kluge

Director | Abschied von gestern - (Anita G.)

Writer. Director. Producer. Studied law and graduated. Was one of the founders of the Oberhausener Manifest in 1962. Since 1962 Headmaster of the 'Institut fuer Filmgestaltung' at the 'Hochschule fuer Gestaltung' in Ulm, Germany. Since 1988 produces broadcastings dealing with cultural aspects in ...

91. Eiichi Yamamoto

Director | Kanashimi no Beradonna

Graduated in the Kyôto Prefecture. After several years working as animator in Ryûichi Yokoyama's animation Studio Otogi, Yamamoto joined Osamu Tezuka to found Mushi Production in 1961 and since until 1973 worked as producer, supervising director or director of a dozen of animation productions from ...

92. David Hand

Director | Bambi

David Hand was born on January 23, 1900 in Plainfield, New Jersey, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Bambi (1942), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and The Cuckoo. He was married to Josephine Hale Marks. He died on October 11, 1986 in San Luis Obispo, California, USA.

93. Neutral Milk Hotel

Music_department | Brothers & Cardinals

Neutral Milk Hotel is known for Brothers & Cardinals (2017) and You've Passed (2017).

94. Reynaldo Arenas

Writer | Before Night Falls

Reynaldo Arenas was born on July 16, 1943 in Holguín, Cuba. He was a writer, known for Before Night Falls (2000), Improper Conduct (1984) and Our Time (1983). He died on December 7, 1990 in New York City, New York, USA.

95. Meiko Kaji

Actress | Shurayukihime

Meiko Kaji was born on March 24, 1947 in the Kanda area of Tokyo, Japan. Following graduation from the Yakumo Academy High School in Meguro, Tokyo, Japan in 1965, Kaji first began acting in films in the mid-1960's under her real name of Masako Ôta. She was given the stage name Meiko Kaji by ...

96. Wilfred Jackson

Director | Cinderella

Wilfred Jackson was born on January 24, 1906 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director, known for Cinderella (1950), Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Alice in Wonderland (1951). He died on August 7, 1988 in Balboa Island, Newport Beach, California, USA.

97. Larry Morey

Writer | Bambi

American lyricist and author Lawrence L. 'Larry' Morey was chiefly noted for co-writing (with the composer and songwriter Frank Churchill) the musical numbers for Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), including "Heigh-Ho", "I'm Wishing" and "Whistle While You Work". He also worked on the...

98. Bill Watterson

Director | Dave Made a Maze

Bill Watterson was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Dave Made a Maze (2017).

99. The Strokes

Soundtrack | Spider-Man

The Strokes is known for Spider-Man (2002), Click (2006) and Somewhere (2010).

100. Rubén Moya

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Rubén Moya was born on October 31, 1960 in Chilpancingo, Guerrero, Mexico. He was an actor, known for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (2017), Los gatos de las azoteas (1988) and Narcosatanicos diabolicos (1991). He died on June 11, 2023 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.