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1. Allen Holubar

Born in San Francisco's Castro District, Allen Holubar was the first of five children of Constantin Josef Holubar and Margaret Allen C. Holubar, who immigrated from Bohemia in 1875 and married Margaret, a Scots woman, in San Francisco (Allen was born at 44 Caselli Ave. in a house that still stands)...

2. Auguste Lumière

Producer | Londres, alerte de pompiers: film Lumière n° 246

Auguste Lumière was a French engineer, industrialist, biologist, and illusionist, born in Besançon, France. He attended the Martinière Technical School and worked as a manager at the photographic company of his father, Antoine Lumière. Although it is his brother Louis Lumière who is generally ...

3. Ben Turpin

Actor | Yankee Doodle in Berlin

First of all, the cross-eyed comedian of silent days was not born that way. Supposedly his right eye slipped out of alignment while playing the role of the similarly afflicted Happy Hooligan in vaudeville and it never adjusted. Ironically, it was this disability that would enhance his comic value ...

4. Benjamin Christensen

Director | Hævnens nat

Benjamin Christensen was born on September 28, 1879 in Viborg, Denmark. He was a director and writer, known for Blind Justice (1916), Häxan (1922) and The Devil's Circus (1926). He was married to Karen Winther, Sigrid Stahl and Ellen Arctander. He died on April 2, 1959 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

5. Buster Keaton

Actor | The General

Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. Joe and Myra were Vaudevillian comedians with a popular, ever-changing variety act, giving Keaton an eclectic and interesting upbringing. In the earliest days on stage, they traveled with a medicine ...

6. Cecil B. DeMille

Producer | The Ten Commandments

His parents Henry C. DeMille and Beatrice DeMille were playwrights. His father died when he was 12, and his mother supported the family by opening a school for girls and a theatrical company. Too young to enlist in the Spanish-American War, Cecil followed his brother William C. de Mille to the New ...

7. Cecil M. Hepworth

Producer | Alice in Wonderland

Born in London, England, in 1874, Cecil Hepworth was one of the founders of the British film industry, directing and producing many films from 1898 into the late 1920s. Developing an early interest in films from following his father on lecture tours about the magic-lantern, he patented several ...

8. Charles Avery

Director | Love and Bullets

Charles Avery was born on May 28, 1873 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Love and Bullets (1914), His Lying Heart (1916) and The Taming of the Shrew (1908). He was married to Elsa Clark, Margaret Ella Royster and Katherine Caroline Gormley. He died on July 23, 1926 ...

9. Charles Le Bargy

Actor | L'assassinat du duc de Guise

Charles Le Bargy was born on August 28, 1858 in La Chapelle, Paris, France. He was an actor and director, known for The Assassination of the Duke de Guise (1908), The Return of Ulysses (1909) and Carmen (1908). He died on February 5, 1936 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

10. Charles Chaplin

Writer | The Great Dictator

Considered to be one of the most pivotal stars of the early days of Hollywood, Charlie Chaplin lived an interesting life both in his films and behind the camera. He is most recognized as an icon of the silent film era, often associated with his popular character, the Little Tramp; the man with the ...

11. D.W. Griffith

Director | The Birth of a Nation

David Wark Griffith was born in rural Kentucky to Jacob "Roaring Jake" Griffith, a former Confederate Army colonel and Civil War veteran. Young Griffith grew up with his father's romantic war stories and melodramatic nineteenth-century literature that were to eventually shape his movies. In 1897 ...

12. Edward Warren

Director | The Adventures of a Boy Scout

Edward Warren was born in June 1856 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Adventures of a Boy Scout (1915), The Weavers of Life (1917) and The Warfare of the Flesh (1917). He died on April 3, 1930 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

13. Erich von Stroheim

Actor | Sunset Blvd.

Erich von Stroheim was born Erich Oswald Stroheim in 1885, in Vienna, Austria, to Johanna (Bondy), from Prague, and Benno Stroheim, a hatter from Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). His family was Jewish.

After spending some time working in his father's hat factory, he emigrated to America ...

14. Fabienne Fabrèges

Actress | L'altalena della vita

Fabienne Fabrèges was born in 1889 in Paris, France. She is known for L'altalena della vita (1919), Signori giurati... (1916) and Le printemps du coeur (1916).

15. Ferdinand Zecca

Director | La lutte pour la vie

Was a cafe concert entertainer before Charles Pathe noticed him during the Universal Exhibition, where Zecca had been assigned to Pathe's stand. After a few daysPathe asked Zecca if he would like to work in cinematography. Zecca immediately accepted the offer and rapidly became Pathe's right hand ...

16. Ford Sterling

Actor | The Trouble with Wives

Ford Sterling was born on November 3, 1883 in La Crosse, Wisconsin, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Trouble with Wives (1925), He Who Gets Slapped (1924) and Yankee Doodle in Berlin (1919). He was married to Teddy Sampson. He died on October 13, 1939 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

17. Francesca Bertini

Actress | Assunta Spina

Francesca Bertini was undoubtedly one of the first divas of cinema, a lady not only on screen but also in real life. She made her film debut in La dea del mare (1907) and after that producers fought for her services. In 1921 she married European nobleman and banker Alfred Cartier. She tried her ...

18. Frank Lloyd

Director | Mutiny on the Bounty

Frank Lloyd was an unpretentious, technically skilled director, who crafted several enduring Hollywood classics during the 1930's. He started out as a stage actor and singer in early 1900's London and was well-known as an imitator of Harry Lauder. After several years in music hall and with touring ...

19. Frank Powell

Director | Mrs. Balfame

Frank Powell was born on May 8, 1877 in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is known for Mrs. Balfame (1917), Princess Romanoff (1915) and The Greater Woman (1917). He was previously married to Jane Miller.

20. George Albert Smith

Director | Phantom Ride

Along with his better-known French counterpart Georges Méliès George Albert Smith was one of the first filmmakers to explore fictional and fantastic themes, often using surprisingly sophisticated special effects. His background was ideal--an established portrait photographer, he also had a ...

21. George Nichols

Actor | The Flirt

George Nichols was born on October 28, 1864 in Rockford, Illinois, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Flirt (1922), The Midnight Express (1924) and Jess (1912). He was married to Viola Alberti. He died on September 20, 1927 in Hollywood, California, USA.

22. George Siegmann

Actor | The Birth of a Nation

George Siegmann was born on February 8, 1882 in New York, USA. He was an actor and director, known for The Birth of a Nation (1915), Should She Obey? (1917) and The Three Musketeers (1921). He was married to Maude Darby. He died on June 22, 1928 in Hollywood, California, USA.

23. Georges Méliès

Director | À la conquête du pôle

Georges Méliès was a French illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.

Méliès was an especially prolific innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, ...

24. Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson

Director | The Infant at Snakeville

American actor-director-writer-producer Gilbert M. Anderson, father of the movie cowboy and the first Western star, was born Maxwell Henry Aronson in Little Rock, Arkansas. His parents, Esther (Ash) and Henry Aronson, were from New York. His father was from a German Jewish family, and his mother ...

25. Giovanni Pastrone

Director | Cabiria

Giovanni Pastrone was born on September 13, 1883 in Montechiaro d'Asti, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Cabiria (1914), Julius Caesar (1909) and Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916). He died on June 27, 1959 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.

26. Giuseppe de Liguoro

Director | L'Inferno

Giuseppe de Liguoro was born on January 10, 1869 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for Dante's Inferno (1911), Homer's Odyssey (1911) and Re Lear (1910). He died on March 19, 1944 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

27. Gustavo Serena

Actor | Assunta Spina

Gustavo Serena was born on October 5, 1881 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor and director, known for Assunta Spina (1915), La signora delle camelie (1915) and Zappatore (1930). He died on April 16, 1970 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

28. Gyula Zilahi

Actor | Örház a Kárpátokban

Gyula Zilahi was born on January 22, 1859 in Zilah, Hungary [now Zalau, Romania]. He was an actor and director, known for Örház a Kárpátokban (1914), A becsapott újságíró (1915) and Tutyu és Totyó (1915). He was married to ...

29. Hal Roach

Producer | One Million B.C.

Hal Roach was born in 1892 in Elmira, New York. After working as a mule skinner, wrangler and gold prospector, among other things, he wound up in Hollywood and began picking up jobs as an extra in comedies, where he met comedian Harold Lloyd in 1913 in San Diego. By all accounts, including his own,...

30. Harold Lloyd

Actor | Safety Last!

Born in Burchard, Nebraska, USA to Elizabeth Fraser and J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd who fought constantly and soon divorced (at the time a rare event), Harold Clayton Lloyd was nominally educated in Denver and San Diego high schools and received his stage training at the School of Dramatic Art (San ...

31. Henri Burguet

Actor | L'empreinte ou La main rouge

Henri Burguet was born on December 25, 1865 in Iasi, Romania. He was an actor and director, known for Incriminating Evidence (1908) and La savelli (1911). He died on September 9, 1931 in Paris, France.

32. Henry Lehrman

Producer | Why Sailors Go Wrong

Austrian-born Henry Lehrman entered the film industry in 1909 while working as a trolley conductor. Legend has it that he cornered director D.W. Griffith and claimed to be an agent for the French-based Pathe company, sent by them to work with Griffith. By the time Griffith found out that Lehrman's ...

33. J. Stuart Blackton

Director | The Glorious Adventure

In the US from the age of 10, he first worked as a journalist-illustrator for the New York World. Interviewing Thomas A. Edison, he so impressed the inventor with his drawings that Edison suggested he allow some of them to be photographed by the Kinetograph camera. The result was a short film, ...

34. Jacques Feyder

Director | La kermesse héroïque

Jacques Feyder was born on July 21, 1885 in Ixelles, Brabant, Belgium. He was a director and writer, known for Carnival in Flanders (1935), Le grand jeu (1934) and Fahrendes Volk (1938). He was married to Françoise Rosay. He died on May 24, 1948 in Rive-de-Prangins, Switzerland.

35. Jacques Tati

Writer | Playtime

The comic genius Jacques Tati was born Taticheff, descended from a noble Russian family. His grandfather, Count Dimitri, had been a general in the Imperial Army and had served as military attaché to the Russian Embassy in Paris. His father, Emmanuel Taticheff, was a well-to-do picture framer who ...

36. James Kirkwood

Director | In Wrong

A veteran stage actor, James Kirkwood entered films in 1909 as an actor and was soon playing leads in many of D.W. Griffith's early pictures. He turned to directing in 1912, and by 1914 was the favorite director of Mary Pickford, with whom he made nine films; he also co-starred in three of them. ...

37. Jean Renoir

Writer | La règle du jeu

Son of the famous Impressionist painter Pierre Auguste, he had a happy childhood. Pierre Renoir was his brother, and Claude Renoir was his nephew. After the end of World War I, where he won the Croix de Guerre, he moved from scriptwriting to filmmaking. He married Catherine Hessling, for whom he ...

38. John Ford

Director | The Quiet Man

John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Asked what brought him to Hollywood, he replied "the train". He became one of the most respected directors in the business, in spite of being known for his westerns, which were not considered "serious" film. He won six Oscars, ...

39. John Huston

Director | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

An eccentric rebel of epic proportions, this Hollywood titan reigned supreme as director, screenwriter and character actor in a career that endured over five decades. The ten-time Oscar-nominated legend was born John Marcellus Huston in Nevada, Missouri, on August 5, 1906. His ancestry was English,...

40. Joseph Levering

Director | Defenders of the Law

Joseph Levering was born on July 20, 1874 in Columbus, Indiana, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Defenders of the Law (1931), Terry and the Pirates (1940) and Husbands and Wives (1920). He died on August 27, 1943 in Kansas City, Missouri, USA.

41. King Vidor

Director | War and Peace

King Vidor was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter of Hungarian descent. He was born in Galveston, Texas to lumberman Charles Shelton Vidor and his wife Kate Wallis. King's paternal grandfather Károly (Charles) Vidor had fled Hungary as a refugee following the failed ...

42. Laurence Olivier

Actor | Sleuth

Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High ...

43. Léonce Perret

Director | L'enfant de Paris

Léonce Perret was born on March 13, 1880 in Niort, Deux-Sèvres, France. He was a director and actor, known for L'enfant de Paris (1913), The A.B.C. of Love (1919) and Léonce et les écrevisses (1913). He was married to Valentine Petit. He died on August 12, 1935 in Paris, France.

44. Leopoldo Fregoli

Director | La serenata di Fregoli

Leopoldo Fregoli (1867-1936) was one of the first vaudeville actors who used film in his acts. Fregoli was famous for his rapid transformation acts, in which he did impersonations of famous artistic and political characters. In 1898 he bought a Cinematographe from the Lumière brothers and started ...

45. Leslie Howard

Actor | Pygmalion

Leslie Howard Steiner was born in London to Lilian (Blumberg) and Ferdinand "Frank" Steiner. His father was a Hungarian Jewish immigrant, and his English mother was of German Jewish and mostly English descent. Leslie went to Dulwich College, then worked as a bank clerk until the outbreak of World ...

46. Lois Weber

Director | Suspense

Lois Weber, who had been a street-corner evangelist before entering motion pictures in 1905, became the first American woman movie director of note, and a major one at that. Herbert Blaché, the husband of Frenchwoman Alice Guy, the first woman to direct a motion picture (and arguably, the first ...

47. Luigi Maggi

Director | Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei

Luigi Maggi was born on December 21, 1867 in Turin, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for The Last Days of Pompeii (1908), I conquistatori (1921) and Satana (1912). He died on August 22, 1946 in Turin, Italy.

48. Luigi Romano Borgnetto

Director | La farina del diavolo

Luigi Romano Borgnetto was born on February 10, 1881 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for La farina del diavolo (1920), La rivincita di Maciste (1921) and Il segno dei tempi (1921). He died on December 25, 1957 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.

49. Luitz-Morat

Director | La cité foudroyée

Luitz-Morat was born on June 5, 1884 in Paris, France. He was an actor and director, known for The City Struck by Lightning (1924), Le sang d'Allah (1922) and Mein Leben für das Deine (1928). He was married to Simone Judic and Madeleine Ramey. He died on August 11, 1929 in Paris, France.

50. Mabel Normand

Actress | Mickey

Mabel Normand was one of the comedy greats of early film. In an era when women are deemed 'not funny enough' it seems film history has forgotten her contributions. Her films debuted the Keystone Cops, Charlie Chaplin's tramp and the pie in the face gag. She co-starred with both Chaplin and Roscoe "...

51. Mack Sennett

Producer | A Small Town Idol

Mack Sennett was born Michael Sinnott on January 17, 1880 in Danville, Quebec, Canada, to Irish immigrant farmers. When he was 17, his parents moved the family to East Berlin, Connecticut, and he became a laborer at American Iron Works, a job he continued when they moved to Northampton, ...

52. Manuel

Director | L'acteur en retard

Manuel is known for Why That Actor Was Late (1908), The New Lord of the Village (1908) and The Eclipse: Courtship of the Sun and Moon (1907).

53. Marshall Neilan

Actor | Daddy-Long-Legs

In the early days of silent pictures, Marshall Neilan was a top director for Goldwyn Pictures. He had also directed a small number of Louis B. Mayer's independently produced melodramas, but there was a mutual dislike between the two men. During the festivities inaugurating the merger of Metro and ...

54. Max Linder

Actor | Seven Years Bad Luck

Although all too frequently neglected by fans of silent comedy, Max Linder is in many ways as important a figure as Charles Chaplin, Buster Keaton or Harold Lloyd, not least because he predated (and influenced) them all by several years and was largely responsible for the creation of the classic ...

55. Max Mack

Director | Freie Liebe

Max Mack was born on October 21, 1884 in Halberstadt, Kingdom of Prussia [now Saxony-Anhalt], Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Freie Liebe (1919), Der Andere (1913) and Der Sturz des Hauses Macwell (1918). He died on February 18, 1973 in London, England, UK.

56. Orson Welles

Actor | Citizen Kane

His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...

57. Paul Wegener

Actor | Der Golem

Paul Wegener was born in Arnoldsdorf, West Prussia, part of the German Empire. His birthplace is currently part of Poland, under the name "Jarantowice". Wegener's family included a number of scientists, the most notable being his cousin Alfred Wegener (1880-1930). Alfred is remembered as the ...

58. Phillips Smalley

Director | The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

Phillips Smalley was born on August 7, 1865 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (1917), The Merchant of Venice (1914) and Captain Courtesy (1915). He was married to Phyllis Lorraine Ephlin and Lois Weber. He died on May 2, 1939 in ...

59. Raoul Walsh

Editor | The Birth of a Nation

Raoul Walsh's 52-year directorial career made him a Hollywood legend. Walsh was also an actor: He appeared in the first version of W. Somerset Maugham's "Rain" renamed Sadie Thompson (1928) opposite Gloria Swanson in the title role. He would have played the Cisco Kid in his own film In Old Arizona ...

60. Robert P. Kerr

Director | Obey the Law

Robert P. Kerr was born on October 9, 1892 in Burlington, Colorado, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Obey the Law (1924), Sons-in-Law (1924) and Hit 'em Hard (1924). He was married to Edna Barnes. He died on September 5, 1960 in Porterville, California, USA.

61. Romeo Bosetti

Director | Le cambriolé récalcitrant

Romeo Bosetti was born on January 18, 1879 in Chiari, Lombardy, Italy. He was a director and actor, known for Le cambriolé récalcitrant (1911), Fidèle jusqu'à la mort (1911) and Il ne faut pas courir deux lièvres à la fois (1914). He died on October 27, ...

62. Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle

Actor | Coney Island

Roscoe Arbuckle, the youngest of nine children, reportedly weighed 16 pounds at birth in Smith Center, Kansas on March 24, 1887. His family moved to California when he was one year old. At age 8 he first appeared on the stage. His first part was with the Webster-Brown stock company. From then until...

63. Tod Browning

Director | Dracula

Belonging to a well-situated family, Charles Browning fell in love at the age of 16 with a dancer of a circus. Following her began his itinerary of being clown, jockey and director of a variety theater which ended when he met D.W. Griffith and became an actor. He made his debut in Intolerance (1916)...

64. Victor Sjöström

Actor | Smultronstället

Victor Sjöström was born on September 20, 1879, and is the undisputed father of Swedish film, ranking as one of the masters of world cinema. His influence lives on in the work of Ingmar Bergman and all those directors, both Swedish and international, influenced by his work and the works of ...

65. W.S. Van Dyke

Director | The Thin Man

For the better part of his career, Woodbridge Strong Van Dyke lived up to his sobriquet "One-Take Woody" by steadfastly adhering to his credo of shooting each scene as quickly and efficiently as possible. Over his 25-year career, he economically directed over 90 diverse entertainments, which not ...

66. Wallace Reid

Actor | Carmen

The son of writer-theater producer-director-actor Hal Reid, Wallace was on stage by the age of four in the act with his parents. He spent most of his early years, not on the stage, but in private schools where he excelled in music and athletics. In 1910, his father went to the Chicago studio of "...

67. Wilfred Lucas

Actor | Modern Times

The youngest of three sons, he was born in Norfolk, Ontario, Canada and was educated at McGill University then In 1904 he moved to New York where he appeared in a number of plays on Broadway including The Blue Grass Handicap, The Superstition of Sue and successful The Chorus Lady after which he was...

68. Abel Gance

Writer | La roue

Born an illegitimate son of a wealthy physician, Abel Flamant, and a working class mother, Francoise Perethon. He was raised by his mother and her boyfriend, who later became her husband, Adolphe Gance. Pressured by his parents, he began his working career as a lawyer's clerk in hopes of achieving ...

69. Adolfo Padovan

Director | L'Inferno (Remastered)

Adolfo Padovan was born in Northern Italy and grew up city of Varese at the feet of Sacro Monte di Varese, part of the Campo dei Fiori mountain range, that hosts an astronomical observatory.

On completing high school he settled in Milan where he went on to study astronomy, although he chose to ...

70. Alan Crosland

Director | Mister Dynamite

Director Alan Crosland was born in New York City on August 10, 1894, into an upper-middle class family, which soon moved to East Orange, NJ, where Alan was reared. His family's finances allowed for him to spend part of his elementary education in England, where he acquired a curious Anglo-American ...

71. Albert Parker

Director | Blind Man's Bluff

Albert Parker was born on May 11, 1885 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Blind Man's Bluff (1936), The Branded Woman (1920) and The Black Pirate (1926). He was married to Margaret Greene and Margaret Johnston. He died on August 10, 1974 in London, England, ...

72. Alexander Antalffy

Director | Die Taifunhexe

Alexander Antalffy was born on February 13, 1887 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was an actor and director, known for Die Taifunhexe (1923), A kis lord (1918) and Arme Violetta (1920). He died on November 1, 1961 in München, West Germany [now Germany].

73. Alexander Korda

Director | The Private Life of Don Juan

One of a large group of Hungarian refugees who found refuge in England in the 1930s, Sir Alexander Korda was the first British film producer to receive a knighthood. He was a major, if controversial, figure and acted as a guiding force behind the British film industry of the 1930s and continued to ...

74. Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Writer | Zemlya

Aleksandr Dovzhenko was born on September 10, 1894 in Vyunishche, Sosnitsa Ueyzd, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Sosnitsa, Sosnitsa Raion, Chernihiv Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a writer and director, known for Earth (1930), Shors (1939) and Life in Bloom (1949). He was married to Yuliya ...

75. Alexandre Promio

Director | La mise en croix

The Lumiere Brothers began their career filming in locations relatively close to their home. After becoming comfortable with their instrument they began sending cameramen all over the world to direct films which they would produce. Alexandre Promio was one such cameraman. He witnessed Lumiere's ...

76. Alfred Clark

Director | Umbrella Dance

Alfred Clark was a pioneering film director who was mostly known for directing several films for the Edison Manufacturing Company. Originally, Edison had begun his film company with making shorts of vaudeville acts; but Clark, who joined the company in 1895, was the first to introduce Edison to new...

77. Alfred E. Green

Director | The Jolson Story

One of the more prolific American directors, Alfred E. Green entered films in 1912 as an actor for the Selig Polyscope Co. He became an assistant to director Colin Campbell and started directing two-reelers, turning to features in 1917. His career lasted into the mid-1950s but his output was mostly...

78. Alfred Hitchcock

Director | Psycho

Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in Leytonstone, Essex, England. He was the son of Emma Jane (Whelan; 1863 - 1942) and East End greengrocer William Hitchcock (1862 - 1914). His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry. He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock (born 1890) and ...

79. Alfred J. Goulding

Director | Dick Barton: Special Agent

Australian-born Alf Goulding was a former vaudevillian who became a director specializing in comedy shorts. He directed Harold Lloyd comedies for Hal Roach, and in the early 1920s joined Mack Sennett, then turned out two-reelers at RKO and Columbia, sometimes featuring Edgar Kennedy. In England ...

80. Alfred Machin

Director | Les héritiers de l'oncle James

Alfred Machin started his film work as camera man for Pathe at the beginning of 20 Century. During 1907 and 1909 he was in Africa, shooting documentary shorts. In 1910 he worked at the Pathe studio in Nizza, in 1911 he was one of the founding directors of the Pathe-filiale in Amsterdam, in 1913 he ...

81. Allen G. Siegler

Cinematographer | Blackmailer

Allen G. Siegler was born on June 26, 1892 in Newark, New Jersey, USA. Allen G. was a cinematographer and director, known for Blackmailer (1936), Burning Up (1930) and You May Be Next! (1936). Allen G. was married to Gertrude. Allen G. died on September 21, 1960 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

82. Amleto Palermi

Director | La peccatrice

Amleto Palermi was born on July 11, 1889 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for La peccatrice (1940), L'allegro fantasma (1941) and The Old Lady (1932). He died on April 20, 1941 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

83. André Berthomieu

Director | Belle mentalité

André Berthomieu was born on February 16, 1903 in Rouen, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France. He was a director and writer, known for Belle mentalité (1953), Préméditation (1960) and Pas si bête (1946). He died on April 10, 1960 in Vineuil-Saint-Firmin, Oise, ...

84. André Calmettes

Director | La dame aux camélias

André Calmettes was born on August 18, 1861 in Paris, France. He was a director and actor, known for La dame aux camélias (1912), Tosca (1908) and La Tosca (1909). He died on March 14, 1942 in Paris, France.

85. André Cerf

Writer | La joie d'une heure

André Cerf was born on October 31, 1902 in Paris, France. He was a writer and assistant director, known for La joie d'une heure (1930), Le mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans (1950) and Si jeunesse savait... (1948). He was married to Alix Mahieux. He died on December 3, 1993 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, ...

86. André Delvaux

Director | De man die zijn haar kort liet knippen

After having studied German philology, law, piano and composition Andre Delvaux filmed some TV documentaries. In 1965 he debuted in the movies with a film adapted from a novel of Johan Daisne. His films always played in a set between reality and fantasy. Writing his own scripts he filmed e.g. Een ...

87. André Heuzé

Writer | Le roman d'un spahi

André Heuzé was born on December 5, 1880 in Paris, France. He was a writer and director, known for Le roman d'un spahi (1936), The Struggle for Life (1907) and De film... en aiguilles (1913). He died on August 16, 1942 in France.

88. André Hunebelle

Director | OSS 117 se déchaîne

André Hunebelle (b. 1896) was an odd-job man ,always seeing which way the wind would blow when he made his movies;hence his eclecticism ,so to speak:comedies,swashbucklers (genre in which his gave his most pleasant works ),spy thrillers ,spoofs ....

His comedies (his dominant genre in the fifties) ...

89. André Zwobada

Director | Les noces de sable

André Zwoboda (1910-1994) was a shooting star. His first effort, co-directed by Renoir, Becker and Le Chanois, was a communist party's propaganda movie "La Vie Est À Nous" (1936) which has not worn well. "Croisières Sidérales" (1942) was a rare French attempt at a science-fiction movie. Its subject...

90. Anthony Asquith

Director | The Browning Version

British film director Anthony Asquith was born on November 9, 1902, to H.H. Asquith, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and his second wife. A former home secretary and the future leader of the Liberal Party, H.H. Asquith served as prime minister of the United Kingdom from 1908-1916 and was ...

91. Arthur Hotaling

Director | It Happened on Wash Day

Arthur Hotaling was born on February 3, 1873 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and writer, known for It Happened on Wash Day (1915), Wifey's Ma Comes Back (1912) and The Fake Soldiers (1913). He was married to Mae Hotely. He died on July 13, 1938 in California, USA.

92. Arturo Ambrosio

Producer | Amleto

Arturo Ambrosio was born on December 3, 1870 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy. He was a producer and director, known for Hamlet (1914), The Newspaper (1914) and Cavalleria infernale (1906). He died on March 25, 1960 in Pancalieri, Piedmont, Italy.

93. August Blom

Director | Verdens Undergang

August Blom was born on December 26, 1869 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He was a director and actor, known for The End of the World (1916), Kærlighedslængsel (1916) and The Airship Fugitives (1912). He died on January 10, 1947 in Copenhagen, Denmark.

94. Ben Sharpsteen

Director | Dumbo

Ben Sharpsteen was born on November 4, 1895 in Tacoma, Washington, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Dumbo (1941), Pinocchio (1940) and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). He died on December 20, 1980 in Santa Rosa, California, USA.

95. Bernard-Roland

Director | La vie des artistes

Bernard-Roland was born on November 22, 1910 in Moulins, Allier, France. Bernard-Roland was a director and producer, known for La vie des artistes (1938), Portrait of a Killer (1949) and Nous ne sommes pas mariés (1946). Bernard-Roland died on March 10, 1987 in Canicattini Bagni, Sicily, ...

96. Birt Acres

Cinematographer | Shoeblack at Work in a London Street

American-born English inventor and technician, a pioneer of early cinema design, photography, development, and patents. He was born to English parents in Richmond, Virginia, on July 23, 1854. His parents moved with young Birt to North Carolina and started a plantation there. However, the U.S. Civil...

97. Carl Boese

Director | Eva in Seide

Carl Boese was born on August 26, 1887 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Eva in Seide (1928), Lemkes sel. Witwe (1928) and Rendezvous (1930). He was married to Elena Luber, Margot Hollaender and Grete Hollmann. He died on July 6, 1958 in Berlin, Germany.

98. Carmine Gallone

Director | Giuseppe Verdi

Carmine Gallone was born on September 10, 1885 in Taggia, Liguria, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938), Odessa in fiamme (1942) and Scipione l'africano (1937). He was married to Soava Gallone. He died on March 12, 1973 in Frascati, Lazio, Italy.

99. Carol Reed

Director | The Third Man

Carol Reed was the second son of stage actor, dramatics teacher and impresario founder of the Royal School of Dramatic Art Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree. Reed was one of Tree's six illegitimate children with Beatrice Mae Pinney, who Tree established in a second household apart from his married life. ...

100. Charles Burguet

Director | L'essor

Charles Burguet was born on May 26, 1878 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for L'essor (1921), Gosse de riche (1920) and Les yeux qui accusent (1917). He died on June 9, 1946 in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France.