Directors II
by devinrochon | created - 24 May 2014 | updated - 19 Jul 2014 | Public
1. John Hughes
Writer | Planes, Trains & Automobiles
John Hughes was an American film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He was credited for creating some of the most memorable comedy films of the 1980s and the 1990s, when he was at the height of his career. He had a talent for writing coming-of-age stories, and for depicting fairly realistic...
favorites:
The Breakfast Club (1985), Ferris Beuller's Day Off (1986), Plains, Trains, and Automobiles (1987), Sixteen Candles (1984)
want to see:
National Lampoon's Vacation (1983), Mr. Mom (1983), National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), Weird Science (1986), Pretty in Pink (1986), Some Kind of Wonderful (1987), She's Having a Baby (1988), The Great Outdoors (1989), Uncle Buck (1989), National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989), Home Alone (1990)
2. Harold Ramis
Writer | Ghostbusters
Born on November 21, 1944 in Chicago, Illinois, Harold Allen Ramis got his start in comedy as Playboy magazine's joke editor and reviewer. In 1969, he joined Chicago's Second City's Improvisational Theatre Troupe before moving to New York to help write and perform in "The National Lampoon Show" ...
favorites:
Groundhog Day (1993)
want to see:
Animal House (1979), Caddyshack (1980), Stripes (1981), National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
3. John Landis
Director | The Blues Brothers
John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of the Spanish/Italian "...
want to see: The Kentucky Fried Movie (1978), Animal House (1979), Blues Brothers (1980), An American Werewolf in London (1981), Trading Places (1983), Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983)
4. Ivan Reitman
Producer | Up in the Air
Canadian producer and director Ivan Reitman created many of American cinema's most successful and best loved feature film comedies and worked with Hollywood's acting elite. Reitman produced such hits as the ground-breaking sensation National Lampoon's National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), which ...
favorites:
Ghostbusters: 1984
want to see:
Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Heavy Metal (1981), Ghost Busters II (1989)
5. Carl Reiner
Writer | The Dick Van Dyke Show
Carl Reiner is a legend of American comedy, who achieved great success as a comic actor, a director, producer and recording artist. He won nine Emmy Awards, three as an actor, four as a writer and two as a producer. He also won a Grammy Award for his album "The 2,000 Year Old Man", based on his ...
want to see: The Jerk (1979), Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982), The Man with Two Brains (1983), All of Me (1987)
6. Rob Reiner
Actor | All in the Family
Robert Reiner was born in New York City, to Estelle Reiner (née Lebost) and Emmy-winning actor, comedian, writer, and producer Carl Reiner.
As a child, his father was his role model, as Carl Reiner created and starred in The Dick Van Dyke Show. Estelle was also an inspiration for him to become a ...
favorites:
This is Spinal Tap! (1984), The Princess Bride (1987), Stand by Me (1986), Misery (1990)
want to see:
The Sure Thing (1985), When Harry Met Sally (1989), A Few Good Men (1992), The American President (1995)
7. Amy Heckerling
Writer | Clueless
Amy Heckerling studied Film and TV at New York University and got a Masters Degree in Film from The American Film Institute. Despite this education she couldn't get a break in Hollywood. However, in 1982, she made Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), and people started to take notice. In 1985, ...
favorites:
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982), Clueless (1995)
want to see:
National Lampoon's European Vacation (1985), Look Who's Talking (1989)
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