Did Elia Kazan and Peter Szewczyk both count film directing among their many skills?
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Elia Kazan Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by "The New York Times" as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
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Peter Szewczyk Peter Szewczyk is an American film and animation director, cinematographer and music video director.
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Józef Szajna Józef Szajna (] ; March 13, 1922 in Rzeszów, Poland – June 24, 2008 in Warsaw) was a Polish set designer, director, play writer, theoretician of the theatre, painter and graphic artist.
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Alexey Saltykov (director) Aleksey Aleksandrovich Saltykov (Russian: Алексей Александрович Салтыков ; 13 May 1934 – 8 April 1993) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter. People's Artist of the RSFSR (1980).
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Frank Wisbar Frank Wisbar (born Franz Wysbar 9 December 1899 – 17 March 1967) was a German film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 20 films between 1932 and 1967 in Germany and the United States, as well as amassing many television credits. He was a member of the jury at the 10th Berlin International Film Festival.
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Barry Ackroyd Barry Ackroyd, BSC (born 12 May 1954) is an English cinematographer. Ackroyd has frequently worked with British film director, Ken Loach as well as action film director Paul Greengrass. He worked on Kathryn Bigelow's 2008 war film "The Hurt Locker" as well as the critically acclaimed 2013 biographical thriller "Captain Phillips", the former earning him an Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography. In 2014, Ackroyd became the president of the British Society of Cinematographers.
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Zoltán Huszárik Zoltán Huszárik (born József Zoltán Huszárik, May 14, 1931 – October 15, 1981) was an influential Hungarian film director, screenwriter, visual artist and occasional actor, an acclaimed auteur of the European modern art film.
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Takhir Sabirov Takhir Sabirov (Russian: Тахир Сабиров ) (born December 21, 1929 in Stalinabad (USSR) now Dushanbe, Tajikistan) is a renowned Tajik film director, actor, screenwriter, art director, and one of the most notable figures of the Tajik cinema. He is known as the "founding father" of the "One Thousand and One Nights" dynasty of the film industry due to his creation of the 'Scheherazade' trilogy.
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John Waters John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films.
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Lev Arnshtam Lev Oskarovich Arnshtam (Russian: Лео Оскарович Арншта́м ; 15 January 1905 – 26 December 1979) was a Soviet film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1936 and 1967.
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Steve Sekely Steve Sekely (1899-1979) was a Hungarian film director. Born Székely István, he was known by several names, based on his changing professional and immigration status, including Stefan Szekely.
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Andrzej Kotkowski Andrzej Kotkowski (17 February 1940 – 15 January 2016) was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He directed seventeen films between 1972 and 2009.
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Dziga Vertov Dziga Vertov (Russian: Дзига Вертов ; born David Abelevich Kaufman, Russian: Дави́д А́белевич Ка́уфман , and also known as Denis Kaufman; 2 January 1896 – 12 February 1954) was a Soviet pioneer documentary film and newsreel director, as well as a cinema theorist. His filming practices and theories influenced the cinéma vérité style of documentary movie-making and the Dziga Vertov Group, a radical film-making cooperative which was active from 1968 to 1972.
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László Szabó (actor) László Szabó (born 24 March 1936) is a Hungarian actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 120 films since 1952, including seven films that have been screened at the Cannes Film Festival.
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Henryk Szaro Henryk Szaro (1900–1942) was a Polish screenwriter and film director. He was born Henoch Szapiro, of Jewish background. He became a leading Polish director of the late 1920 and 1930s. Szaro was killed in the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942 during the German Occupation of Poland in the Second World War.
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Euzhan Palcy Euzhan Palcy is a film director, writer and producer from Martinique, French West Indies. She is notable for being the first black woman director produced by a major Hollywood studio (MGM), for "A Dry White Season", as well as being the only woman filmmaker to have directed Marlon Brando, whom she brought back to the screen after a gap of nine years. Palcy is the first black director (male or female) to direct an actor to an Oscar nomination and the first black director to win a César Award, the highest French film award. She is also the first black director to win of a Venice Film Festival Award (Silver Lion).
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Barbara Loden Barbara Loden (July 8, 1932 – September 5, 1980) was a Tony-award-winning American stage and film actress as well as a director of off-Broadway theater and a critically acclaimed feature film. Loden began her career at an early age in New York City as a commercial model and chorus-line dancer. She became a regular sidekick on the irreverent "Ernie Kovacs Television Show" and was a lifetime member of the famed Actors Studio. She appeared in several projects directed by her second husband, Elia Kazan, including "Splendor in the Grass". She wrote, directed, and starred in "Wanda", a groundbreaking independent film that won the International Critics Award at the 1970 Venice Film Festival.
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Ken Loach Kenneth Charles Loach (born 17 June 1936) is an English director of television and independent film. He is known for his socially critical directing style and for his socialist ideals, which are evident in his film treatment of social issues such as poverty ("Poor Cow", 1967), homelessness ("Cathy Come Home", 1966) and labour rights ("Riff-Raff", 1991, and "The Navigators", 2001).
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László Benedek László Benedek (] ; March 5, 1905 – March 11, 1992; sometimes "Laslo Benedek") was a Hungarian-born film director and cinematographer, most notable for directing "The Wild One" (1953).
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Elia Suleiman Elia Suleiman (Arabic: إيليا سليمان‎ ‎ , ] ; born July 28, 1960) is a Palestinian film director and actor of Rûm Greek Orthodox origin. He is best known for the 2002 film "Divine Intervention" (Arabic: يد إلهية‎ ‎ ), a modern tragic comedy on living under occupation in Palestine which won the Jury Prize at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival. Elia Suleiman's cinematic style is often compared to that of Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton, for its poetic interplay between "burlesque and sobriety". He is married to Lebanese singer and actress Yasmine Hamdan.
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Efraim Sevela Efraim Sevela (Russian: Эфраим Севела , Hebrew: אפרים סבלה‎ ‎ , pen-name of Efim Evelevich Drabkin – Russian: Ефим Евелевич Драбкин ; March 8, 1928, Babruysk, Mahilyow Voblast, Belarus – August 18, 2010) was a Soviet writer, screenwriter, director, producer, who after his emigration from the Soviet Union lived in Israel, USA and Russia.
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Mario Soffici Mario Soffici (14 May 1900 – 10 May 1977) was an Italian born Argentine film director, actor and screenwriter of the classic era.