Festival de Cannes Official Selection 1946-2015 In Competition - Filmmakers (almost all and even some that should not be)

101. Kurt Maetzig

Director | Das Kaninchen bin ich

Kurt Maetzig was born on January 25, 1911 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for The Rabbit Is Me (1965), Marriage in the Shadows (1947) and Ernst Thälmann - Sohn seiner Klasse (1954). He was married to Yvonne Merin, Bärbel and Marion Keller. He died on August 8, 2012 in ...

102. Luis César Amadori

Writer | Madreselva

Luis César Amadori was born on May 28, 1903 in Pescara, Abruzzo, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Honeysuckle (1938), La pasión desnuda (1953) and Almafuerte (1949). He was married to Zully Moreno. He died on June 5, 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

103. Marcel Rivet

Writer | Portrait d'un assassin

Marcel Rivet was born on September 8, 1905 in Limoges, France. He was a writer, known for Portrait of a Killer (1949), Les amours finissent à l'aube (1953) and Opération Magali (1953). He died on October 27, 1957 in Paris, France.

104. Michael Gordon

Director | Cyrano de Bergerac

A stage actor and director, Michael Gordon broke into films in 1940 as a dialogue director, then became a film editor. He directed his first feature in 1942. He started out with low-budget crime thrillers, but in the late 1940s and early 1950s turned out several well-crafted dramas, notably Cyrano ...

105. Michelangelo Antonioni

Writer | Blow-Up

Together with Fellini, Bergman and Kurosawa, Michelangelo Antonioni is credited with defining the modern art film. And yet Antonioni's cinema is also recognized today for defying any easy categorization, with his films ultimately seeming to belong to their own distinctive genre. Indeed, the ...

106. Paul Pichonnier

Director | Images d'Ethiopie

Paul Pichonnier was born on April 4, 1910 in Lille, Nord, France. Paul was a director and cinematographer, known for Images d'Ethiopie (1949), Histoire de la LBC - Geschiedenis van de luchtverbinding België - Congo (1950) and Michel Simon sous le plâtre (1939). Paul died on October 25, ...

107. Robert Wise

Director | West Side Story

Robert Earl Wise was born on September 10, 1914 in Winchester, Indiana, the youngest of three sons of Olive R. (Longenecker) and Earl Waldo Wise, a meat packer. His parents were both of Pennsylvania Dutch (German) descent. At age nineteen, the avid moviegoer came into the film business through an ...

108. Salah Abouseif

Director | El Fetewa

Salah Abouseif was born on May 10, 1915 in Cairo, Egypt. He was a director and writer, known for El Fetewa (1957), The Monster (1954) and Mughamarat Antar wa Abla (1948). He died on June 23, 1996 in Cairo, Egypt.

109. Thorold Dickinson

Director | Giv'a 24 Eina Ona

Born in Bristol, England, Thorold Dickinson began his film career during the silent era as a writer. He went to work for Ealing in the 1930s, first as an editor and then as a director. He directed or produced military training films during World War II, and after the war he turned out a string of ...

110. Walter Kolm-Veltée

Director | Eroica

Walter Kolm-Veltée was born on December 27, 1910 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director and writer, known for Eroica (1949), Panoptikum 59 (1959) and Don Juan (1955). He died on March 8, 1999 in Vienna, Austria.

111. Adolfo Celi

Actor | Thunderball

Sicilian born actor/writer/director was very popular with European audiences, but largely unknown to the west apart from his portrayal of the villainous SPECTRE agent "Emilio Largo" in the spectacular James Bond film Thunderball (1965). However, due to his heavy accent, Celi's voice was dubbed by ...

112. 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 ...

113. Bert Haanstra

Director | Zoo

Bert Haanstra was born on May 31, 1916 in Holten, Overijssel, Netherlands. He was a director and writer, known for Zoo (1961), Glass (1958) and Spiegel van Holland (1950). He was married to Angenieta Barendiena Wijtmans. He died on October 23, 1997 in Hilversum, Noord-Holland, Netherlands.

114. Carlos Hugo Christensen

Director | A Intrusa

Born in Santiago del Estero, Argentina in 1914, Carlos Hugo Christensen is considered one of the most prolific filmmakers in Latin American history.

A pioneer in the film industry, his love of literature combined with a forward-thinking attitude towards sexuality, resulted in a unique point of view ...

115. Curzio Malaparte

Writer | Il Cristo proibito

Curzio Malaparte (1898-1957) was a prominent Italian writer who directed one film, Strange Deception (which he also wrote and scored) that was recognized a decade later by US critic Parker Tyler in his book, Classics Of The Foreign Film.After serving in the Great War. Malaparte (who chose a last ...

116. Daniel Tinayre

Director | La danza del fuego

Daniel Tinayre was born on September 14, 1910 in Vertheuil, France. He was a producer and director, known for La danza del fuego (1949), La patota (1960) and Deshonra (1952). He was married to Mirtha Legrand. He died on October 24, 1994 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

117. Eduardo De Filippo

Writer | Napoli milionaria

Coming from a show-business family (his father Eduardo Scarpetta was a famous stage actor), Eduardo de Filippo made his stage debut at age 5 playing the role of "Peppiniello" in his father's comedy "Miseria e Nobiltà". At 32 he formed his own stage company with his brother Peppino de Filippo and ...

118. Elizabeth Montagu

The Third Man

Elizabeth Montagu was born in 1909, the second daughter of Lord John Montagu of Beaulieu. Initially groomed as heir to the family estate, she accepted the role dutifully, but was greatly relieved her half-brother Edward (the present Lord Montagu) was born as this gave her the freedom to make her ...

119. Emeric Pressburger

Writer | The Red Shoes

Educated at the Universities of Prague and Stuttgart, Emeric Pressburger worked as a journalist in Hungary and Germany and an author and scriptwriter in Berlin and Paris. He was a Hungarian Jew, chased around Europe (he worked on films for UFA in Berlin and Paris) before World War II, finally ...

120. George Stevens

Director | Giant

George Stevens, a filmmaker known as a meticulous craftsman with a brilliant eye for composition and a sensitive touch with actors, is one of the great American filmmakers, ranking with John Ford, William Wyler and Howard Hawks as a creator of classic Hollywood cinema, bringing to the screen ...

121. Grigoriy Roshal

Director | Musorgskiy

Grigoriy Roshal was born on October 21, 1899 in Novozybkov, Chernigov Governorate, Russian Empire [now Bryansk Oblast, Russia]. He was a director and writer, known for Mussorgsky (1950), Ivan Pavlov (1949) and Rimskiy-Korsakov (1953). He was married to Vera Stroyeva. He died on January 11, 1983 in ...

122. Harald Braun

Writer | Herz der Welt

Harald Braun was born on April 26, 1901 in Berlin, Germany. He was a writer and director, known for No Greater Love (1952), The Last Summer (1954) and As Long as You're Near Me (1953). He died on September 24, 1960 in Xanten, North-Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.

123. Hervé Bromberger

Director | Mort, où est ta victoire?

Hervé Bromberger was born on November 10, 1918 in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France. He was a director and writer, known for Mort, où est ta victoire? (1964), Wild Fruit (1954) and Paris Vice Squad (1951). He died on November 23, 1993 in Villejuif, Val-de-Marne, France.

124. Ivan Dukinsky

125. Jacob Geis

Producer | Der fallende Stern

Jacob Geis was born on November 30, 1890 in Munich, Germany. He was a writer and producer, known for The Falling Star (1950), Jenny und der Herr im Frack (1941) and Die Erbschaft (1936). He died on July 22, 1972 in Munich, Germany.

126. Jerzy Zarzycki

Director | Robinson warszawski

Jerzy Zarzycki was born on January 11, 1911 in Lódz, Poland, Russian Empire [now Lódz, Lódzkie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Robinson warszawski (1950), Ludzie Wisly (1938) and Zolnierz królowej Madagaskaru (1958). He died on January 2, 1971 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.

127. John Waterhouse

Director | Caiçara

John Waterhouse is known for Caiçara (1950).

128. José Antonio Nieves Conde

Director | Todos somos necesarios

José Antonio Nieves Conde was born on December 22, 1915 in Segovia, Castilla y León, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Todos somos necesarios (1956), Surcos (1951) and El diablo también llora (1963). He was married to María Luisa Mascuñán. He died on September 14, 2006 in Madrid...

129. León Klimovsky

Director | La paz empieza nunca

León Klimovsky was born on October 16, 1906 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for La paz empieza nunca (1960), La pícara molinera (1955) and Salto a la gloria (1959). He was married to Inés de Tolosa. He died on April 8, 1996 in Madrid, Spain.

130. Lucas Demare

Director | Guacho

Lucas Demare was born on July 14, 1910 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a director and writer, known for Guacho (1954), Los isleros (1951) and Su mejor alumno (1944). He died on September 6, 1981 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

131. Luis Buñuel

Writer | Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie

The father of cinematic Surrealism and one of the most original directors in the history of the film medium, Luis Buñuel was given a strict Jesuit education (which sowed the seeds of his obsession with both religion and subversive behavior), and subsequently moved to Madrid to study at the ...

132. Luis Escobar

Writer | La honradez de la cerradura

Luis Escobar was born on December 5, 1908 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was an actor and writer, known for La honradez de la cerradura (1950), Patrimonio nacional (1981) and La canción de La Malibrán (1951). He died on January 14, 1991 in Madrid, Spain.

133. Luis Guillermo Villegas Blanco

Producer | La balandra Isabel llegó esta tarde

Film producer and studio head Luis Guillermo Villegas Blanco was born in Caracas, Venezuela at the turn of the last century. He is the founder of Bolivar Films of Venezuela, founded on 14 October, 1940, a company specializing in film production, processing and post-production. He has produced such ...

134. Marcel Carné

Director | Le quai des brumes

Marcel Carné, the son of a cabinet maker, entered the movies as the assistant of Jacques Feyder. At the age of 25 he directed his first movie Jenny (1936). Colaborating with the writer Jacques Prévert, the decorator Alexandre Trauner, the musician and composer Maurice Jaubert and the actor Jean ...

135. Mark Robson

Director | Peyton Place

Mark Robson studied political science and economics at the University of California. He then took a law course at Pacific Coast University, and, at one time, also attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis. Ultimately, his interests led him elsewhere, since he ended up in the movie business as a ...

136. Martin Fric

Director | Hej-rup!

Martin Fric was born on March 29, 1902 in Prague, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. He was a director and writer, known for Workers, Let's Go (1934), Capek's Tales (1947) and Tajemství krve (1953). He was married to Suzanne Marwille. He died on August 26, 1968 in Prague, ...

137. Michael Powell

Director | Peeping Tom

The son of Thomas William Powell and Mabel (nee Corbett). Michael Powell was always a self-confessed movie addict. He was brought up partly in Canterbury ("The Garden of England") and partly in the south of France (where his parents ran a hotel). Educated at Kings School, Canterbury and Dulwich ...

138. Nikos Tsiforos

Writer | Teleftaia apostoli

Nikos Tsiforos was born in 1912 in Alexandria, Egypt. He was a writer and director, known for The Last Mission (1949), Gypsy Blood (1956) and The Money Rich (1958). He died on August 6, 1970 in Athens, Greece.

139. Paul Martin

Director | Die tödlichen Träume

Paul Martin was born on February 8, 1899 in Koloszvar, Transilvania, Austria-Hungary [now Cluj-Napoca, Cluj, Romania]. He was a director and writer, known for Die tödlichen Träume (1951), Black Roses (1937) and Schwarze Rosen (1935). He was married to Frauke Lauterbach. He died on January...

140. Pietro Germi

Writer | Il ferroviere

Pietro Germi was born on September 14, 1914 in Genoa, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Railroad Man (1956), Divorce Italian Style (1961) and The Birds, the Bees and the Italians (1966). He was married to Olga D'Aiello and Anna Bancio. He died on December 5, 1974 in Rome, ...

141. Preston Sturges

Writer | Sullivan's Travels

Preston Sturges' own life is as unlikely as some of the plots of his best work. He was born into a wealthy family. As a boy he helped out on stage productions for his mother's friend, Isadora Duncan (the scarf that strangled her was made by his mother's company, Maison Desti). He served in the U.S....

142. Ramón Torrado

Writer | Rumbo

Ramón Torrado was born on April 5, 1905 in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Rumbo (1950), La virgen gitana (1951) and Malvaloca (1954). He died in January 1990.

143. Sergey Gerasimov

Director | Lev Tolstoy

Sergei Gerasimov was born in the village of Kundravy in Urals area of the Russian Empire, in 1906. He studied at the Leningrad College of Arts and graduated from the Actors Department of the Leningrad Institute for Stage Arts in 1928. He started his film career in 1924 as an actor, continued as an ...

144. Tito Davison

Writer | Doña Diabla

Born in Chillán, Chile in 1912, Davison worked in Hollywood as a comic actor in Spanish-language films for MGM (Así es la vida (1930) and La fuerza del querer (1930)) before MGM suspended production. He made his directorial debut in Argentina in 1937. He subsequently worked in Mexico and ...

145. Tom Payne

Actor | Sinhá Moça

Tom Payne was born on October 4, 1914 in Lomas de Zamora, Argentina. He was an actor and director, known for Sinhá Moça (1953), Ângela (1951) and Sai da Frente (1952). He was married to Eliane Lage. He died on September 15, 1996 in Alfenas, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

146. Vittorio De Sica

Director | Ladri di biciclette

Vittorio De Sica grew up in Naples, and started out as an office clerk in order to raise money to support his poor family. He was increasingly drawn towards acting, and made his screen debut while still in his teens, joining a stage company in 1923. By the late 1920s he was a successful matinee ...

147. Yuli Raizman

Director | Poslednyaya noch

Yuli Raizman was born on December 15, 1903 in Riga, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. He was a director and writer, known for The Last Night (1937), Dream of a Cossack (1951) and The Fall of Berlin (1945). He died on December 11, 1994 in Moscow, Russia.

148. Ahmed Badrakhan

Director | Lailat gharam

Ahmed Badrakhan was born on September 18, 1909 in Egypt. He was a director and writer, known for Lailat gharam (1951), Shi min la shi (1939) and Nashid al-Amal (1937). He died on August 26, 1969 in Egypt.

149. André Michel

Director | La sorcière

André Michel was born on November 7, 1907 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Blonde Witch (1956), Trois femmes (1952) and The Adventures of Remi (1958). He died on June 5, 1989.

150. Anthony Pelissier

Director | Encore

London-born Anthony Pelissier was the son of actress Fay Compton and producer H.G. Pelissier. He became an actor in the 1930s, but soon realized that he was more inclined to making films than appearing in them. In 1937 he got his first screenwriting credit, and remained in that field until his ...

151. Arne Mattsson

Director | Hon dansade en sommar

Arne Mattsson was born on December 2, 1919 in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden. He was a director and writer, known for One Summer of Happiness (1951), För min heta ungdoms skull (1952) and Hemsöborna (1955). He was married to Elsa Prawitz. He died on June 28, 1995 in Sweden.

152. Arne Skouen

Writer | Ni liv

Arne Skouen was born on October 18, 1913 in Oslo, Norway. He was a writer and director, known for Nine Lives (1957), Fire in the Night (1955) and Cirkus Fandango (1954). He died on May 24, 2003 in Oslo, Norway.

153. Carlos Serrano de Osma

Director | Parsifal

Carlos Serrano de Osma was born on January 16, 1916 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for The Evil Forest (1952), Embrujo (1948) and The Island Princess (1954). He died on July 26, 1984 in Alicante, Spain.

154. Daniel Mangrané

Writer | Parsifal

Daniel Mangrané was born on March 8, 1910 in Tortosa, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a writer and producer, known for The Evil Forest (1952), El duende de Jerez (1954) and Nuevos ideales (1936). He died on December 27, 1985 in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.

155. Erich Engel

Director | Unter den tausend Laternen

Erich Engel was born on February 14, 1891 in Hamburg, Germany. He was a director and writer, known for Unter den tausend Laternen (1952), ...nur ein Komödiant (1935) and Der Mann meines Lebens (1954). He was married to Annie Triebel. He died on May 10, 1966 in Berlin, Germany.

156. Frixos Iliadis

Director | Nekri politeia

Frixos Iliadis was a director and writer, known for Dead City (1951), Dating Agency (1956) and Attik's Street Organ (1955). He died on August 20, 2010 in Athens, Greece.

157. Gian Carlo Menotti

Writer | The Medium

Gian Carlo Menotti was born on July 7, 1911 in Cadegliano-Viconago, Lombardy, Italy. He was a writer and composer, known for The Medium (1951), Hallmark Hall of Fame (1951) and Great Performances (1971). He was married to Samuel Barber. He died on February 1, 2007 in Monte Carlo, Monaco.

158. Harold French

Director | Adam and Evelyne

London-born Harold French made his name on the stage, both as an actor and director. He crossed over to films, making his acting debut in 1920. He became a director shortly before the beginning of World War II, debuting with The Cavalier of the Streets (1937), and made a well-received adaptation of ...

159. Henri Storck

Director | Rubens

Henri Storck was born on September 5, 1907 in Oostende, West Flanders, Belgium. He was a director and cinematographer, known for Rubens (1948), Le banquet des fraudeurs (1952) and Boerensymfonie (1944). He died on September 16, 1999 in Brussels, Belgium.

160. José María Forqué

Director | Amanecer en Puerta Oscura

José María Forqué was born on March 8, 1923 in Zaragoza, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for Amanecer en Puerta Oscura (1957), 091 Policía al habla (1960) and De espaldas a la puerta (1959). He was married to Carmen Vázquez Vigo. He died on March 17, 1995 in Madrid, Spain.

161. Julio Bracho

Director | Crepúsculo

Julio Bracho was born on July 17, 1909 in Durango, Durango, Mexico. He was a director and writer, known for Twilight (1945), Rosenda (1948) and Cantaclaro (1946). He was married to Rosenda Monteros and Diana Bordes. He died on April 26, 1978 in Mexico, D.F., Mexico.

162. Kôzaburô Yoshimura

Director | Anjô-ke no butôkai

Kôzaburô Yoshimura was born on September 9, 1911 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Anjô-ke no butôkai (1947), A Night to Remember (1962) and Clothes of Deception (1951). He died on November 7, 2000 in Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan.

163. Kôzô Saeki

Director | Arashi no naka no hara

Kôzô Saeki was born on December 4, 1912 in Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Arashi no naka no hara (1950), Choito neesan omoide yanagi (1952) and Heso no taisho (1962). He died on December 27, 1972.

164. Mario Monicelli

Writer | I compagni

Mario Monicelli was born on May 16, 1915 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for The Organizer (1963), Speriamo che sia femmina (1986) and Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958). He was married to Chiara Rapaccini and Antonella Salerni. He died on November 29, 2010 in Rome, Lazio,...

165. Noboru Nakamura

Director | Koto

Noboru Nakamura was born on August 4, 1913 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Twin Sisters of Kyoto (1963), Sekishun (1967) and Nami (1952). He died on May 20, 1981 in Japan.

166. 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 ...

167. Pat Jackson

Director | White Corridors

Pat Jackson began as an editor and co-director of documentaries with the famed GPO Film Unit in the mid-1930s. He worked with such icons of the documentary field as John Grierson and Harry Watt, but it was his World War II semi-documentary Western Approaches (1944) that put him on the map. Praised ...

168. Pedro Lazaga

Director | La patrulla

Pedro Lazaga was born on October 3, 1918 in Valls, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a director and writer, known for La patrulla (1954), María Morena (1952) and Los chicos del Preu (1967). He died on November 30, 1979 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

169. Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre

Director | Do Ankhen Barah Haath

Rajaram has been married twice. His second marriage was to actress Jayashree. Jayashree passed away on the 19th of October, 2004 in Bombay, at the age of 84. Jayashree and Rajaram are survived by their son, Kiran Shantaram, former Sheriff of Bombay, and daughter, Rajashree, well-known former ...

170. Renato Castellani

Writer | Romeo and Juliet

Renato Castellani was born on September 4, 1913 in Finale Ligure, Liguria, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Romeo and Juliet (1954), Two Cents Worth of Hope (1952) and Sotto il sole di Roma (1948). He died on December 28, 1985 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

171. Rolf Hansen

Director | Dr. Holl

Rolf Hansen was born on December 12, 1904 in Ilmenau, Thuringia, Germany. He was a director and assistant director, known for Affairs of Dr. Holl (1951), Die große Liebe (1942) and Desires (1952). He died on December 3, 1990 in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

172. Steno

Writer | La polizia ringrazia

Steno was born on January 19, 1917 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Execution Squad (1972), Cops and Robbers (1951) and La patata bollente (1979). He died on March 12, 1988 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

173. William Wyler

Director | The Best Years of Our Lives

William Wyler was an American filmmaker who, at the time of his death in 1981, was considered by his peers as second only to John Ford as a master craftsman of cinema. The winner of three Best Director Academy Awards, second again only to Ford's four, Wyler's reputation has unfairly suffered as the...

174. Wolfgang Liebeneiner

Director | Ich klage an

Wolfgang Liebeneiner was a German-Austrian film director, stage and film actor. He was born as Wolfgang Georg Louis Liebeneiner in Liebau, Lower Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (now Lubawka, Poland). His father was in the textile business. Wolfgang was sent to the cadet schools in ...

175. Youssef Chahine

Director | Iskanderija... lih?

Youssef Chahine (born in Alexandria, Egypt, 1926) started studying in a friars' school, and then turned to Victoria College until the High School Certificate. After one year in the University of Alexandria, he moved to the U.S. and spent two years at the Pasadena Play House, taking courses on film ...

176. Zoltan Korda

Director | Cry, the Beloved Country

A one time Hungarian cavalry officer, Zoltan Korda started working in films as a cameraman then an editor before becoming a director with London Films run by his brother Alexander Korda. Zoltan had strong liberal/socialist ideals and often clashed with Alexander, who, despite their both being born ...

177. André Cauvin

Director | L'Équateur aux cent visages

André Cauvin was born on February 12, 1907 in Ixelles, Belgium. He was a director and producer, known for Black Shadows (1949), Bongolo (1952) and Bwana Kitoko (1955). He died on April 2, 2004 in Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant, Belgium.

178. Charles Frank

Director | Intimate Relations

Charles Frank was born on January 23, 1910 in Belgium. He was a director and writer, known for Disobedient (1953), The Inheritance (1947) and Rheingold Theatre (1953). He died on April 24, 1997.

179. Daniel Mann

Director | Come Back, Little Sheba

Stage, television and film director Daniel Mann was born Daniel Chugerman on August 8, 1912, in Brooklyn, NY. He was a child performer and attended the New York's Professional Children's School. He studied with renowned acting teacher Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse, eventually ...

180. Edgar Neville

Writer | El último caballo

Edgar Neville was born on December 28, 1899 in Madrid, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for El último caballo (1950), La vida en un hilo (1945) and The Crime of Bordadores Street (1946). He was married to Ángeles Rubio Argüelles y Alessandri. He died on April 23, 1967 in Madrid, ...

181. Erik Blomberg

Cinematographer | Valkoinen peura

Erik Blomberg was born on September 18, 1913 in Helsinki, Finland. He was a cinematographer and director, known for The White Reindeer (1952), Aila, Pohjolan tytär (1951) and Kihlaus (1955). He was married to Maria Karpowicz and Mirjami Kuosmanen. He died on October 12, 1996 in Kuusjoki, ...

182. George More O'Ferrall

Director | The Heart of the Matter

George More O'Ferrall was born on July 4, 1907 in Bristol, England, UK. He was a producer and director, known for The Heart of the Matter (1953), ITV Play of the Week (1955) and Picture Page (1936). He was married to Elizabeth Lockwood. He died on March 18, 1982 in Ealing, London, England, UK.

183. Gian Gaspare Napolitano

Writer | Magia verde

Gian Gaspare Napolitano was born on April 30, 1907 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Green Magic (1953), Native Drums (1955) and Passaporto rosso (1935). He died on January 5, 1966 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

184. Gilbert Prouteau

Director | La vie passionnée de Clémenceau

Gilbert Prouteau was born on June 14, 1917 in Nesmy, Vendée, France. He was a writer and director, known for La vie passionnée de Clémenceau (1953), Dieu a choisi Paris (1969) and La France à l'heure olympique (1961). He died on August 2, 2012 in Cholet, Maine-et-Loire, France.

185. 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 ...

186. 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, ...

187. Kaneto Shindô

Writer | Ichimai no hagaki

Kaneto Shindô was born on April 22, 1912 in Hiroshima, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Postcard (2010), The Naked Island (1960) and A Last Note (1995). He was married to Nobuko Otowa and Miyo Shindo. He died on May 29, 2012 in Hiroshima, Japan.

188. Ladislao Vajda

Director | Es geschah am hellichten Tag

Ladislao Vajda was born on August 18, 1906 in Budapest, Austria-Hungary [now Hungary]. He was a director and writer, known for It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958), The Miracle of Marcelino (1955) and Mi tío Jacinto (1956). He died on March 25, 1965 in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.

189. Lima Barreto

Writer | O Cangaceiro

Lima Barreto was born on June 23, 1906 in Casa Branca, São Paulo, Brazil. He was a writer and director, known for The Bandit (1953), A Primeira Missa (1961) and Quelé do Pajeú (1970). He was married to Arassary de Oliveira. He died on November 23, 1982 in Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.

190. Luis García Berlanga

Writer | El verdugo

Berlanga commenced his studies in Valencia in1928, although in 1929 his family sent him and his brother Fernando (due to a lung disease) to the Beau-soleil hospital school in Switzerland. In 1930, he returned to the San José School in Valencia where he stayed until 1931, the year in which the ...

191. Minoru Shibuya

Director | Gendai-jin

Minoru Shibuya was born on January 2, 1907 in Tokyo, Japan. He was a director and writer, known for Gendai-jin (1952), Adventure in Tokyo (1952) and Kunshô (1954). He died on December 20, 1980.

192. Raj Kapoor

Actor | Mera Naam Joker

Raj Kapoor was the son of well-known Indian actor Prithviraj Kapoor, who acted both in film and on stage. After apprenticing in the Bollywood production studios of the 1940's, at 24 years of age Raj Kapoor produced, directed and acted in Aag (1948), with his new company, RK Films. His next ...

193. Roberto Gavaldón

Director | El niño y la niebla

Roberto Gavaldon was the most prominent director of the so-called Golden Age of Mexican CInema. One of the supreme artists of the melodrama, Gavaldon was a rival to Old Hollywood movies. Gavaldon's movies, like contemporary director Emilio 'Indio' Fernandez, were popular and populist. Because that ...

194. Teinosuke Kinugasa

Director | Jigokumon

Former female impersonator who entered films in 1917 as an actor, turned to directing in 1922 and made some of the most formally brilliant Japanese films of the following decades. The few of Kinugasa's early works to have reached the West betray a highly mature, sophisticated talent. His best-known...

195. Tulio Demicheli

Writer | La herida luminosa

Tulio Demicheli was born on August 15, 1914 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He was a writer and director, known for La herida luminosa (1956), Celos (1947) and God Bless You (1948). He died on May 25, 1992 in Madrid, Spain.

196. Víctor Urruchúa

Director | Luz en el páramo

Víctor Urruchúa was born on January 22, 1906 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico. He was an actor and director, known for Luz en el páramo (1953), Encadenada (El yugo) (1947) and Two Monks (1934). He died on November 27, 1981 in Mexico City, Distrito Federal, Mexico.

197. Vladimir Pogacic

Director | Veliki i mali

Vladimir Pogacic was born on September 23, 1919 in Karlovac, Croatia, Yugoslavia. He was a director and writer, known for Veliki i mali (1956), Nevjera (1953) and The Man in the Photograph (1963). He died on September 13, 1999 in Belgrade, Serbia, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

198. Walter Lang

Director | The King and I

Walter Lang entered the film industry in New York when he got a job as a clerk in the office of a film production company. He worked his way up to assistant director, and directed his first film in 1926. By the time sound arrived Lang was already a well-regarded director, but he left the business ...

199. Alberto Cavalcanti

Director | O Canto do Mar

Born in Brazil in 1897, Alberto Cavalcanti began his film career in France in 1920, working as writer, art director and director. He directed the avant-garde documentary Nothing But Time (1926) ("Nothing but Time"), a portrait of the lives of Parisian workers in a single day. He moved to England in...

200. Aleksander Ford

Director | Piatka z ulicy Barskiej

Aleksander Ford was born on November 24, 1908 in Kiev, Russian Empire [now Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Five from Barska Street (1954), Knights of the Teutonic Order (1960) and The Eighth Day of the Week (1958). He was married to Eleanor Griswold, Olga Minska and Janina ...