Are Alfred L. Werker and Merian C. Cooper both directors?
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Alfred L. Werker Alfred L. Werker (December 2, 1896 – July 28, 1975) was a film director whose work in movies spanned from 1917 through 1957. After a number of film production jobs and assistant directing, Werker co-directed his first film, "Ridin' the Wind" in 1925 alongside director Del Andrews. He was brought in by Fox Film Corporation executives to re-shoot and re-edit Erich von Stroheim's film "Hello, Sister!" (1933), co-starring Boots Mallory and ZaSu Pitts.
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Merian C. Cooper Merian Caldwell Cooper (October 24, 1893 – April 21, 1973) was an American aviator, United States Air Force and Polish Air Force officer, adventurer, screenwriter, film director, and producer. Cooper was the founder of the Kościuszko Squadron during the Polish–Soviet War and was a Soviet prisoner of war for a time. He was a notable movie producer, and got his start with film as part of the Explorers Club, traveling the world and documenting adventures. He was a member of the board of directors of Pan American Airways, but his love of film always took priority. During his film career, he worked for companies such as Pioneer Pictures, RKO Pictures, and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He is also credited as co-inventor of the Cinerama film projection process. Cooper's most famous film was the 1933 movie "King Kong". He was awarded an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement in 1952 and received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1960.
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What a Life (film) What a Life is a 1939 American comedy film directed by Theodore Reed and written by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder. The film stars Jackie Cooper, Betty Field, John Howard, Janice Logan, Vaughan Glaser, Lionel Stander and Hedda Hopper. The film was released on October 6, 1939, by Paramount Pictures.
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Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and film producer. A five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and an enduring figure from the New Hollywood era, Altman was considered a "maverick" in making films with a highly naturalistic but stylized and satirical aesthetic, unlike most Hollywood films. He is consistently ranked as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in American cinema.
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Leon G. Cooperman Leon G. "Lee" Cooperman (born April 25, 1943) is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors, a New York-based investment advisory firm managing over $3.5 billion in assets under management, the majority consisting of his personal wealth.
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Bradley Cooper Bradley Charles Cooper (born January 5, 1975) is an American actor. He was one of the world's highest-paid actors for three years, and has been nominated for various accolades, including four Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awards and two Golden Globe Awards. Cooper appeared in "Forbes" Celebrity 100 on two occasions and "Time"'s list of 100 most influential people in the world in 2015.
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Jack Sher Jack Sher (16 March 1913 - 23 August 1988) was an American director, writer and producer. He wrote a number of films for Audie Murphy.
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Paul Sparer Paul Sparer (December 19, 1923, in Boston, Massachusetts – November 19, 1999) was an American character actor. He appeared as Rex Cooper in the soap operas "Somerset" and "Another World". He was also known for narrating the anthology TV series "Tales from the Darkside". His film roles include "Loving" and "The House on Carroll Street" while television appearances include "Armstrong Circle Theater", "Kojak", "The Adams Chronicles", "Lou Grant" and "". Sparer also played Dr. Edward Auster in the first episode of "Law & Order", "Prescription for Death".
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William Charles Anderson William Charles Anderson (better known as William C. Anderson; May 7, 1920, La Junta, Colorado – May 16, 2003, in Fairfield, California) was the author of more than twenty novels, historical and true life stories, and author or coauthor of several screenplays for film and television, including the adaptation of his own "Bat*21," which was made into a film, starring Gene Hackman and Danny Glover, and "Hurricane Hunters," was made into a TV-movie for ABC, starring Martin Milner.
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Lowell Sherman Lowell J. Sherman (October 11, 1885 – December 28, 1934) was an American actor and film director. At a time when it was highly unusual, he was both the actor and director on several films in the early 1930s, before completely transitioning to the role of director. At the height of his career, after scoring huge successes with his direction of the films "She Done Him Wrong" and "Morning Glory" (which starred Mae West and won her first Academy Award for Katharine Hepburn respectively), he succumbed to pneumonia after a brief illness.
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Charles L. Kimball Charles Leonard Kimball (March 24, 1897 - September 25, 1976) was an American film editor and writer.
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The Mutilator The Mutilator is a 1985 American horror film written, directed, and produced by Buddy Cooper, and co-directed by John S. Douglass.
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Delbert Mann Delbert Martin Mann Jr. (January 30, 1920 – November 11, 2007) was an American television and film director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for the film "Marty" (1955), adapted from a 1953 teleplay of the same name which he had also directed. From 1967 to 1971, he was president of the Directors Guild of America. In 2002, he received the DGA's honorary life member award. Mann was credited to have "helped bring TV techniques to the film world."
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The Last Outlaw (1927 film) The Last Outlaw is a 1927 American silent Western film directed by Arthur Rosson and starring Gary Cooper, Jack Luden, and Betty Jewel. Written by John Stone and J. Walter Rubin, based on a story by Richard Allen Gates, the film is about a frontiersman who falls in love with a pretty woman whose brother is accused of murder. He tries to prove the young man innocent of the charges, but when he is appointed sheriff, he is obliged to track down and arrest the boy. A 16mm reduction positive print exists of this film.
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Paul Morrissey Paul Morrissey (born February 23, 1938) is an American film director, best known for his association with Andy Warhol.
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Moon Over Her Shoulder Moon Over Her Shoulder is a 1941 motion picture comedy directed by Alfred L. Werker.
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Robert McKimson Robert Porter "Bob" McKimson, Sr. (October 13, 1910 – September 29, 1977) was an American animator, illustrator, and director best known for his work on the "Looney Tunes" and "Merrie Melodies" series of cartoons from Warner Bros., and later DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. He was also well known for defining Bugs Bunny's look in 1943.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls (film) For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, and Joseph Calleia. The screenwriter Dudley Nichols based his script on the 1940 novel "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The film is about an American International Brigades volunteer, Robert Jordan (Cooper), who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. During his desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge to protect Republican forces, Jordan falls in love with a young woman guerrilla fighter (Bergman).
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High Noon High Noon is a 1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, depicted in real time, centers around a town marshal, torn between his sense of duty and love for his new bride, who must face a gang of killers alone.
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Arnold Laven Arnold Laven (February 3, 1922 – September 13, 2009) was an American film and television director and producer. He was one of the founders and principals of the American film and television production company Levy-Gardner-Laven. Laven was a producer of, among other things, the long-running western television series "The Rifleman" and "The Big Valley". He also directed motion pictures, including "Without Warning!", "The Rack", "The Monster That Challenged the World", "Geronimo", "Rough Night in Jericho", and "Sam Whiskey". In the 1970s and early 1980s, Laven directed dozens of episodes of television series, including episodes of "Mannix", "The A-Team", "Hill Street Blues", "The Six Million Dollar Man", "Fantasy Island", "The Rockford Files" and "CHiPs".
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Wartnerchaney Joseph Wartnerchaney is an American director, screenwriter, and editor.
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Earl Bellamy Earl Arthur Bellamy (March 11, 1917 – November 30, 2003) was an American television and film director.