Producers
by quietgiant2 | created - 07 Nov 2011 | updated - 2 weeks ago | Public
1. George Lucas
Writer | Star Wars
George Walton Lucas, Jr. was raised on a walnut ranch in Modesto, California. His father was a stationery store owner and he had three siblings. During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and was very much interested in drag racing. He planned to become a professional racecar ...
2. David Puttnam
Producer | The Mission
David Puttnam was born on February 25, 1941 in London, England, UK. He is a producer and executive, known for The Mission (1986), Chariots of Fire (1981) and The Killing Fields (1984). He has been married to Patricia Mary Jones since 1961. They have two children.
3. Irving Thalberg
Producer | The Tower of Lies
Irving Grant Thalberg was born in New York City, to Henrietta (Haymann) and William Thalberg, who were of German Jewish descent. He had a bad heart, having contracted rheumatic fever as a teenager and was plagued with other ailments all of his life. He was quite intelligent with a thirst for ...
4. David O. Selznick
Producer | Gone with the Wind
David O. Selznick was a son of the silent movie producer Lewis J. Selznick. David studied at Columbia University until his father lost his fortune in the 1920s. David started work as an MGM script reader, shortly followed by becoming an assistant to Harry Rapf. He left MGM to work at Paramount then...
5. Dino De Laurentiis
Producer | Le notti di Cabiria
Dino De Laurentiis left home at age 17 to enrol in film school, supporting himself as an actor, extra, propman, or any other job he could get in the film industry. His persistence paid off, and by the time he reached his 20th birthday he already had one produced film under his belt. After serving ...
6. Carlo Ponti
Producer | Doctor Zhivago
Carlo Ponti was born on December 11, 1912 in Magenta, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer and production manager, known for Doctor Zhivago (1965), The Road (1954) and Marriage Italian Style (1964). He was married to Sophia Loren and Giuliana Fiastri. He died on January 10, 2007 in Geneva, ...
7. Sam Spiegel
Producer | Lawrence of Arabia
Born in Germany he went to America some time before the second World War and spent a year in Hollywood reading foreign scripts after which he returned to Berlin where he set up his own company to organise the remaking of foreign films into German language versions. One he handled was 'All Quiet on ...
8. Erich Pommer
Producer | Metropolis
On November 1, 1895, the first public motion picture film presentation was projected at Berlin's Wintergarten with the "Bioscop" apparatus invented by Max Skladanowsky and Emil Skladanowsky. In December 1895, Auguste Lumière and Louis Lumière began exhibiting projected films to the paying public in...
9. Walt Disney
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Walter Elias Disney was born on December 5, 1901 in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Flora Disney (née Call) and Elias Disney, a Canadian-born farmer and businessperson. He had Irish, German, and English ancestry. Walt moved with his parents to Kansas City at age seven, where he spent the majority of ...
10. Darryl F. Zanuck
Producer | The Longest Day
One of the kingpins of Hollywood's studio system, Zanuck was the offspring of the ill-fated marriage of the alcoholic night clerk in Wahoo, Nebraska's only hotel and the hotel owner's daughter. Both parents had abandoned him by the time he was 13. At 15, he joined the U.S. Army, and he fought in ...
11. 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 ...
12. Al Christie
Producer | Mrs. Plum's Pudding
Al Christie began his career in 1909 with the Nestor Company. In 1912 he was put in charge of production for a series of westerns. By 1916 he had set up his own production company that produced comedy two-reelers and occasionally a full-length feature. He was the brother of producer/director ...
13. William Nicholas Selig
Producer | Something Good - Negro Kiss
Born into a large Bohemian-Polish family in Chicago on March 14, 1864, William N. Selig was one of the true pioneers of the motion picture industry. Though not widely remembered today, his Selig Polyscope Co. was responsible for many landmark events in early cinema. Among these were construction of...
14. David Horsley
Producer | The Hidden Law
David Horsley was born on March 11, 1873, in a small coal mine village called West Stanley, County of Durham, England. This village was owned and operated by the West Stanley Coal Co., which operated three coal mines with an average output of 1,500 tons of coal per day. The miners' houses ...
15. Barrie M. Osborne
Producer | The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Barrie M. Osborne was born on February 7, 1944 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001), The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) and The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002). He is ...
16. Samuel Goldwyn
Producer | The Best Years of Our Lives
Famed for his relentless ambition, bad temper and genius for publicity, Samuel Goldwyn became Hollywood's leading "independent" producer -- largely because none of his partners could tolerate him for long. Born Shmuel (or Schmuel) Gelbfisz, probably in 1879, in the Jewish section of Warsaw, he was ...
17. Steven Spielberg
Producer | Schindler's List
One of the most influential personalities in the history of cinema, Steven Spielberg is Hollywood's best known director and one of the wealthiest filmmakers in the world. He has an extraordinary number of commercially successful and critically acclaimed credits to his name, either as a director, ...
18. Frank Marshall
Producer | Congo
Frank was born in Glendale, California to musician Jack Marshall. He entered the film world when his parents invited him to a birthday party for the daughter of directing legend John Ford in 1966. There, he met Peter Bogdanovich and soon agreed to work on his first film, Targets (1968), later ...
19. Joel Silver
Producer | The Nice Guys
As flamboyant as any character in his movies, Joel Silver can be credited along with Jerry Bruckheimer as practically reinventing the action film genre in the 1980s. Born in New Jersey, he attended the New York University Film School. After college, he worked at Lawrence Gordon Pictures, earning ...
20. Bruce Berman
Producer | Training Day
Bruce Berman is Chairman and CEO of Village Roadshow Pictures. The company has a successful joint partnership with Warner Bros. Pictures to co-produce a wide range of motion pictures, with all films distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. and in select territories by Village Roadshow Pictures.
Under ...
21. Jesse L. Lasky
Producer | The Dictator
Lasky, one of the first pioneers of the Hollywood film industry and its first genuine 'mogul', was not only a consummate showman and entrepreneur, but a jack-of-all-trades. Born in San Francisco in September 1880, the son of a shoe salesman, he attended high school in San Jose and held down his ...
22. William Fox
Producer | 7th Heaven
Starting at the age 8 he had a series of jobs before starting his own business in 1900, which was sold to buy a Brooklyn nickelodeon in 1904. As the new owner with an empty house, Fox hired a coin manipulator and a barker to attract patrons into the dark 146-seat theatre. Once audiences adequately ...
23. Carl Laemmle
The roots of Universal Pictures can rightfully be traced back to 1906 when Carl Laemmle returned home to Chicago after a stint as a bookkeeper in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and opened up a chain of nickelodeons. This in turn led to the ambitious 39-year-old organizing a film exchange network he boldly ...
24. Adolph Zukor
Adolph Zukor was a poor Hungarian immigrant when he arrived in the United States in 1889. He tried his hand in the fur trade (starting as a sweeper for $2 a week pay) and proved his entrepreneurial acumen by steady advancement, eventually setting up successful businesses in New York and Chicago. By...
25. Hal B. Wallis
Producer | True Grit
Legendary producer Hal B. Wallis was born in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles when he was in his early 20s. He got a job managing a theater owned by Warner Bros., and his success at the job caught the eye of studio head Jack L. Warner, who gave him a job in the studio's publicity department. Within...
26. Jack L. Warner
Producer | My Fair Lady
With his brothers Harry M. Warner, Albert Warner, and Sam Warner, he founded Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. in 1923. They released the first motion picture with synchronized sound, The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson. In the 1930s they gave employment to a parade of stars, including Bette Davis, ...
27. Charles Pathé
Producer | À la conquête du pôle
Charles Pathé was born on December 25, 1863 in Chevry-Cossigny, Seine-et-Marne, France. He was a producer and director, known for À la conquête du pôle (1912), Arrivée d'un train (1896) and Débarquement d'un bateau (1896). He was married to Marie Foy. He died on ...
28. Robert Dorfmann
Producer | La grande vadrouille
Robert Dorfmann was born on March 3, 1912 in Paris, France. He was a producer, known for Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966), The Red Circle (1970) and Papillon (1973). He was married to Agnès Delahaie. He died on August 11, 1999 in Paris, France.
29. Seymour Nebenzal
Producer | Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
Seymour Nebenzal was born on July 22, 1899 in New York City, New York, USA. Seymour was a producer, known for The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), People on Sunday (1930) and Tomorrow We Live (1942). Seymour died on September 22, 1961 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.
30. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
31. Günter Rohrbach
Producer | The Neverending Story
Producer. Studied germanistics and graduated. From 1961 worked as an editor for the German TV channel WDR, where he was headmaster of the department teleplay between 1965 and 1979. From 1979 to 1994 he was chief executive of the German production company Bavaria Atelier GmbH. Since 1992 Rohrbach ...
32. Bernd Eichinger
Producer | Der Untergang
Bernd Eichinger was born on April 11, 1949 in Neuburg an der Donau, Bavaria, Germany. He was a producer and writer, known for Downfall (2004), The Baader Meinhof Complex (2008) and Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006). He was married to Katja Hofmann. He died on January 24, 2011 in Los Angeles, ...
33. Alexandre Mnouchkine
Producer | Der Name der Rose
Alexandre Mnouchkine was born on February 10, 1908 in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]. He was a producer and actor, known for The Name of the Rose (1986), The French Revolution (1989) and The Professional (1981). He was married to Simone Renant and Jane Hannen. He died on April 3, 1993 ...
34. Mark Johnson
Producer | Rain Man
Mark Johnson was born on December 27, 1945 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He is a producer and assistant director, known for Rain Man (1988), The Holdovers (2023) and El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie (2019). He has been married to Lezlie Brooks Johnson since September 26, 1982. They have ...
35. Francis Ford Coppola
Producer | Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola was born in 1939 in Detroit, Michigan, but grew up in a New York suburb in a creative, supportive Italian-American family. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. His mother, Italia Coppola (née Pennino), had been an actress. Francis Ford Coppola graduated ...
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36. Tomoyuki Tanaka
Producer | Kagemusha
Tomoyuki Tanaka was born on April 26, 1910 in Kashiwara, Osaka, Japan. He graduated from Kansai University in 1940 and joined Toho Studios the same year. After four years with the company, he became a producer, with his first film production being Kita no san-nin (1945). He was set to begin work on...
37. 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,...
38. 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, ...
39. Clint Eastwood
Actor | Million Dollar Baby
Clint Eastwood was born May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, to Clinton Eastwood Sr., a bond salesman and later manufacturing executive for Georgia-Pacific Corporation, and Ruth Wood (née Margret Ruth Runner), a housewife turned IBM clerk. He grew up in nearby Piedmont. At school Clint took interest in ...
40. Angelo Rizzoli
Producer | 8½
Angelo Rizzoli was born on October 31, 1889 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer and manager, known for 8½ (1963), La Dolce Vita (1960) and Red Desert (1964). He died on September 24, 1970 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy.
41. 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.
42. Michael Carreras
Producer | Dracula
Michael Carreras was born on December 21, 1927 in Wandsworth, London, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for Horror of Dracula (1958), The Lost Continent (1968) and What a Crazy World (1963). He died on April 19, 1994 in Chelsea, London, England, UK.
43. Walter Wanger
Producer | Cleopatra
A graduate of Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, Walter Wanger was among the more literate and socially conscious American film producers of his time. At the peak of his career, his salary was exceeded only by that of Louis B. Mayer at MGM. Wanger had served in the air force on the Italian front ...
44. Douglas Fairbanks
Actor | The Thief of Bagdad
Douglas Fairbanks was born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman in Denver, Colorado, to Ella Adelaide (nee Marsh) and Hezekiah Charles Ullman, an attorney and native of Pennsylvania, who was a captain for the Union forces during the Civil War. Fairbanks' paternal grandparents were German Jewish immigrants, ...
45. Hank Moonjean
Producer | Dangerous Liaisons
Hank Moonjean was born on January 19, 1930 in Evanston, Illinois, USA. He was an assistant director and producer, known for Dangerous Liaisons (1988), The Great Gatsby (1974) and Stroker Ace (1983). He died on October 7, 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
46. Mario Cotone
Production_manager | The Godfather Part II
Mario Cotone is known for The Godfather Part II (1974), Life Is Beautiful (1997) and Malena (2000).
47. Louis B. Mayer
Producer | The Great Secret
Mayer was born Lazar Meir in the Ukraine and grew up in Saint John, New Brunswick, Canada after his parents fled Russian oppression in 1886. He had a brutal childhood, raised in poverty and suffering physical and emotional abuse from his nearly-illiterate peddler father. In the early 1890s, he ...
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48. Harvey Weinstein
Producer | Shakespeare in Love
Harvey Weinstein was born on March 19, 1952, in Flushing, Queens, New York City, New York, USA, the first of two boys born to Max and Miriam Weinstein. He is a film producer, known for Pulp Fiction (1994), Shakespeare in Love (1998), and Gangs of New York (2002). He has been married and divorced ...
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49. Graham King
Producer | The Departed
Oscar-winning producer Graham King has worked behind the scenes with the industry's foremost creative talents in both major motion pictures and independent features. Over the last thirty years, King has produced or executive produced more than forty-five films, grossing 1.2 billion dollars at the ...
50. John Brabourne
Producer | Romeo and Juliet
A director of Thames Television, Euston Films and Thorn EMI, John Brabourne's entrepreneurial skills were crucial to creating some major successes in the British cinema. In the sixties he produced two celebrated Shakespeare adaptations, the film of Othello (1965) starring Laurence Olivier and ...
51. Edgar G. Ulmer
Director | The Naked Dawn
Edgar G. Ulmer was born on September 17, 1904 in Olmütz, Moravia, Austria-Hungary [now Olomouc, Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for The Naked Dawn (1955), The Black Cat (1934) and Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943). He was married to Shirley Ulmer and Joan Warner. He died on ...
52. Paul Zaentz
Producer | The English Patient
Paul Zaentz is known for The English Patient (1996), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999) and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988).
53. Saul Zaentz
Producer | The English Patient
Saul Zaentz learned gambling as a youth in Passaic, New Jersey, playing a card game called briscola. Later, in his twenties, he earned a full-time living as a gambler.
Saul settled in San Francisco after WWII, at first working for a local record distributor and eventually joining the jazz record ...
54. Arthur Freed
Producer | An American in Paris
Producer, songwriter and author, brother to Ralph Freed, Walter and Ruth Freed. He was educated at the Phillips Exeter Academy, and became associated with Gus Edwards musical acts. He performed in vaudeville with Louis Silvers, with whom he wrote revues for New York restaurants. During World War I,...
55. Stanley Donen
Director | Charade
Inspired by Fred Astaire's dancing in Flying Down to Rio (1933), Stanley Donen (pronounced 'Dawn-en') attended dance classes from the age of ten. He later recalled that the only thing he wanted to be was a tap dancer.
He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, to Helen Pauline (Cohen) and Mordecai ...
56. Goffredo Lombardo
Producer | Il gattopardo
Goffredo Lombardo was born on May 15, 1920 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was a producer, known for The Leopard (1963), Rocco and His Brothers (1960) and Family Diary (1962). He died on February 2, 2005 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
57. Robert Gordon Edwards
Production_manager | The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Robert Gordon Edwards is known for The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988), The NeverEnding Story (1984) and Death in Venice (1971).
58. James Cameron
Writer | Avatar: The Way of Water
James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University before switching to English, and eventually dropping out. He then drove a truck to support his ...
59. Renzo Rossellini
Director | L'amour à vingt ans
Renzo Rossellini first collaborated with his father, Roberto Rossellini, as an assistant director and, later, as his producer until 1977. Then, he founded and served as chairman of "Gaumont Italia" and, later, "Artisti Associati Spa". With these companies, he produced, financed and distributed more...
60. Alberto Grimaldi
Producer | Gangs of New York
Alberto Grimaldi is a fine example of a lawyer who become film producer. His first contacts with cinema were of a legal nature, but these slowly led to production. By the early 1960s he had created his company Produzioni Europee Associate (PEA), and was very successful when he distributed Joaquín ...
61. Fred Baron
Producer | Moulin Rouge!
Fred Baron is known for Moulin Rouge! (2001), I, Robot (2004) and Alita: Battle Angel (2019).
62. Richard D. Zanuck
Producer | Driving Miss Daisy
Richard D. Zanuck was born on December 13, 1934 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He was a producer and production manager, known for Driving Miss Daisy (1989), Cocoon (1985) and Deep Impact (1998). He was married to Lili Fini Zanuck, Linda Harrison and Lili Gentle. He died on July 13, 2012 in ...
63. Irwin Winkler
Producer | Life as a House
Irwin Winkler's career as a producer, director and writer encompasses popular and influential movies that have impacted contemporary culture. With a passion for big, bold, meaningful stories, his films include an array of true screen classics, garnering among them 12 Academy Awards and 52 Oscar ...
64. Scott Rudin
Producer | No Country for Old Men
Scott Rudin was born on July 14, 1958 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a producer and casting director, known for No Country for Old Men (2007), The Social Network (2010) and Lady Bird (2017).
65. Kathleen Kennedy
Producer | The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Eight-time Academy Award®-nominated, Kathleen Kennedy is one of the most successful and respected producers and executives in the film industry today. As President of Lucasfilm, she oversees the company's three divisions: Lucasfilm, Industrial Light & Magic and Skywalker Sound. In 1992, she ...
66. Merian C. Cooper
Writer | King Kong
In 1920, Merian C. Cooper was a member of volunteer of the American Kosciuszko Squadron that supported the Polish army in the war with Soviet Russia, where he met best friend and producing partner Ernest B. Schoedsack. On 26 July 1920, his plane was shot down, and he spent nearly nine months in the...
67. Oskar Messter
Producer | Rapunzel
Oskar Messter was born on November 22, 1866 in Berlin, Germany. He was a producer and director, known for Rapunzel (1897), Das wandernde Licht (1916) and Tanz der Salome (1906). He was married to Antonie König and Margarete Wittmann. He died on December 7, 1943 in Tegernsee, Bavaria, Germany.
68. Karl Ehrlich
Production_manager | Orlacs Hände
Karl Ehrlich was born on October 17, 1896 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. He was a production manager and producer, known for The Hands of Orlac (1924), 1. April 2000 (1952) and Opernball (1956). He died on February 8, 1962 in Vienna, Austria.
69. Jan Harlan
Producer | A.I. Artificial Intelligence
Jan Harlan was born on May 5, 1937 in Karlsruhe, Germany. He is a producer and director, known for A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Eyes Wide Shut (1999).
70. 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 ...
71. Robert Evans
Producer | Chinatown
Robert Evans was born in New York City, to Florence (Krasne) and Archie Shapera, a dentist with a thriving practice in Harlem. His family was of Russian Jewish descent. He was raised on Manhattan's Upper West Side. He began his show-business career as a teenage radio actor. After flopping in his ...
72. Tim Bevan
Producer | Les Misérables
Tim Bevan was born on December 20, 1957 in Queenstown, New Zealand. He is a producer and actor, known for Les Misérables (2012), United 93 (2006) and Atonement (2007). He has been married to Amy Gadney since 2001. They have two children. He was previously married to Joely Richardson.
73. Ernesto Maria Pasquali
Producer | Oltre la vita, oltre la morte
Ernesto Maria Pasquali was born in 1883 in Montù Beccaria, Lombardy, Italy. He was a producer and director, known for Oltre la vita, oltre la morte (1916), For King and Country (1913) and La contessa Arsenia (1916). He died on May 9, 1919 in Turin, Piedmont, Italy.
74. Serge Silberman
Producer | Ran
Serge Silberman was born on May 13, 1917 in Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland. He was a producer and actor, known for Ran (1985), The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Bob the Gambler (1956). He died on July 22, 2003 in Paris, France.
75. Gaston Méliès
Producer | The Prisoner's Story
Gaston Méliès was born on February 12, 1852 in Paris, France. He was a producer and director, known for The Prisoner's Story (1912), Hinemoa (1913) and Captured by Aboriginals (1913). He died on April 9, 1915 in Ajaccio, Corsica, France.
76. 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, ...
77. Buddy Adler
Producer | From Here to Eternity
While known mostly for his activities as a film producer, Maurice Buddy Adler attended both Columbia and Pennsylvania universities and wrote fiction short stories for magazines prior to becoming involved in the film industry. In 1936 he joined MGM Pictures as a writer for the regular series of ...
78. Chuck Lorre
Writer | Two and a Half Men
For the past twenty years, award-winning creator, executive producer and writer Chuck Lorre has conquered the entertainment industry with hit shows like Grace Under Fire (1993), Dharma & Greg (1997), Roseanne (1988) and Cybill (1995) as well as the number 1 comedy on television and four year ...
79. Tom Fontana
Writer | St. Elsewhere
Tom Fontana was born on September 12, 1951 in Buffalo, New York, USA. He is an Emmy Award winning writer and producer, known for Copper (2012), Borgia (2011), Oz (1997), Homicide: Life on the Street (1993) and St. Elsewhere (1982). He was twice married to Sagan Lewis, before her death in 2016.
80. Leonardo DiCaprio
Actor | Inception
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,...
81. Malte Grunert
Producer | Im Westen nichts Neues
Malte Grunert was born in 1967 in Germany. He is a producer, known for All Quiet on the Western Front (2022), Land of Mine (2015) and Perfect Sense (2011).
82. Joachim von Mengershausen
Producer | Der Himmel über Berlin
Joachim von Mengershausen was born on August 7, 1936 in Bamberg, Germany. He was a producer and actor, known for Wings of Desire (1987), Paris, Texas (1984) and Black Cat, White Cat (1998). He died on January 22, 2020 in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
83. Gerald R. Molen
Producer | Rain Man
Gerald R. Molen was born on January 6, 1935 in Great Falls, Montana, USA. He is a producer and production manager, known for Rain Man (1988), Jurassic Park (1993) and Schindler's List (1993).
84. Doug Liman
Producer | Edge of Tomorrow
Douglas Eric Liman is a Jewish-American filmmaker and producer who directed Swingers, The Bourne Identity, Chaos Walking, Jumper, Go, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Fair Game, Locked Down, Edge of Tomorrow, The Wall and American Made. He executive produced the Bourne sequels except The Bourne Legacy, The ...
85. Sally Jo Fifer
Producer | Independent Lens
Sally Jo Fifer is known for Independent Lens (1999), P.O.V. (1988) and The Invisible War (2012).
86. Eric Fellner
Producer | Les Misérables
Eric Fellner was born on October 10, 1959 in Marylebone, London, England, UK. He is a producer and executive, known for Les Misérables (2012), United 93 (2006) and Atonement (2007).
87. Gilles Waterkeyn
Producer | What Happened to Monday
Gilles Waterkeyn is known for What Happened to Monday (2017), Revenge (2017) and The Artist (2011).
88. Luc Vandal
Producer | Maelström
Luc Vandal was born in 1955 in Saint-Hyacinthe, Québec, Canada. He is a producer and production manager, known for Maelstrom (2000), Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003) and Borderline (2008).
89. Jeremy Burdek
Producer | The Artist
Jeremy Burdek is known for The Artist (2011), Erased (2012) and Black Book (2006).
90. Adrian Politowski
Producer | The Artist
Adrian Politowski is CEO of Align. A production company with headquarters in LA and presence in London, Brussels and Luxemburg. It is backed by a greenlight fund enabling to produce and fully finance features and TV.
Adrian is the Co-Founder and previous CEO of Umedia (2004-2019) where he grew the ...
91. Nadia Khamlichi
Producer | The Artist
Nadia Khamlichi is Co-founder and Chairwoman of Align, a production company with headquarters in LA and presence in London, Brussels and Luxemburg. It is backed by a greenlight fund enabling to produce and fully finance features and TV.
She is the Co-founder and previous CEO of Umedia (2004-2019) ...
92. Roger Frappier
Producer | Hochelaga, Terre des Âmes
Roger Frappier was born on April 14, 1945 in Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel, Montérégie, Quebec, Canada. He is a producer and director, known for Hochelaga, Land of Souls (2017), The Grand Seduction (2013) and Two Lovers and a Bear (2016). He has been married to Jill Frappier since 1968.
93. Samuel Z. Arkoff
By the early 1950s, future movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.'s social circle. As a shark, Arkoff was physically...
94. Antoine Fuqua
Producer | The Magnificent Seven
Antoine Fuqua is an American film director, known for his work in the film Training Day as well as The Replacement Killers, Tears of the Sun, King Arthur, Shooter, Brooklyn's Finest, Olympus Has Fallen and The Equalizer.
He has directed music videos for such artists as Arrested Development, Prince, ...
95. Luiz Carlos Barreto
Writer | Casa de Areia
Luiz Carlos Barreto was born on May 20, 1928 in Sobral, Ceará, Brazil. He is a producer and writer, known for Casa de Areia (2005), Isto É Pelé (1974) and Four Days in September (1997).
96. Ray Harryhausen
Actor | Spies Like Us
When it comes to motion-picture special effects, there is only one name that personifies movie magic: Ray Harryhausen. From his debut films with George Pal to his final film, Harryhausen imbued magic and visual strength to motion-picture special effects as no other technician has, before or since.
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97. John Houseman
Actor | The Paper Chase
Academy Award-winning actor John Houseman's main contribution to American culture was not his own performances on film but rather, his role as a midwife to one of the greatest actor-directors-cinematic geniuses his adopted country ever produced (Orson Welles) and as a midwife to a whole generation ...
98. John M. Stahl
Director | Leave Her to Heaven
John Stahl was the final executive in charge of Tiffany Pictures (located on the Talisman lot, later owned by Monogram Pictures), once a big fish in the pond of "Poverty Row", which in those days also included Columbia Pictures. With a B-movie history dating back to the silent era and after making ...
99. Ole Olsen
Producer | Himmelskibet
Ole Olsen was born on May 5, 1863 in Tangemose, Starreklinte, Denmark. He was a producer and director, known for A Trip to Mars (1918), The End of the World (1916) and A Victim of the Mormons (1911). He was married to Anna Hendriksen. He died on October 4, 1943 in Hellerup, Denmark.
100. Laurie MacDonald
Producer | Men in Black
Laurie MacDonald began her career as a documentary and news producer at KRON, the NBC affiliate in San Francisco. She later joined Columbia Pictures, where she served as a Vice President of Production. After four years, MacDonald started her own production company with her husband, screenwriter, ...
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