list of b-movie directors of the world
by paywhat | created - 17 May 2022 | updated - 04 Jun 2022 | Public
1. Roger Corman
Actor | The Silence of the Lambs
Roger William Corman was born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Initially following in his father's footsteps, Corman studied engineering at Stanford University but while in school, he began to lose interest in the profession and developed a growing passion for film. Upon graduation, he worked a...
2. Lloyd Kaufman
Producer | The Toxic Avenger
Stanley Lloyd Kaufman never really wanted to make movies, he wanted to work in Broadway musicals. During his years in Yale he was introduced to "B" pictures and the works of Roger Corman. Lloyd later got the opportunity to executive-produce a short movie made by a fellow student. The film, called "...
3. James Gunn
Writer | Guardians of the Galaxy
James Gunn was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, to Leota and James Francis Gunn. He is from a large Catholic family, with Irish and Czech ancestry. His father and his uncles were all lawyers. He has been writing and performing as long as he can remember. He began making 8mm films at the age ...
4. Andy Sidaris
Director | Malibu Express
Andy Sidaris was born on February 20, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Malibu Express (1985), Stacey (1973) and Seven (1979). He was married to Anne Sidaris-Reeves and Arlene Sidaris. He died on March 7, 2007 in Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
5. Zalman King
Producer | Nine 1/2 Weeks
Zalman King was born on May 23, 1942 in Trenton, New Jersey, USA. He was a producer and director, known for 9½ Weeks (1986), Galaxy of Terror (1981) and In God's Hands (1998). He was married to Patricia Louisianna Knop. He died on February 3, 2012 in Santa Monica, California, USA.
6. Jing Wong
Producer | Hak bak jin cheung
Wong Jing is one of Hong Kong's most prolific, talented and controversial filmmakers. His directorial style, at best, manages to combine commercial appeal and artistic aspects. Most of his films were among the biggest box office hits, partly due to possessing an amazing sense of what would play ...
7. Amir Shervan
Director | Samurai Cop
Amir Shervan, was born Amir Hosein Ghaffar in Tehran, Iran on May 24, 1929. In the U.S. he is mostly known for directing the movies Hollywood cop and Samurai Cop but was better known in Iran for his directing, writing and acting in numerous films.
Shervan studied theater in Pasadena California in ...
8. Andrew Lau
Cinematographer | Mou gaan dou
Andrew Lau Wai-Keung was born in Hong Kong in 1960, and has been fond of photography as a child. He joined Shaw Brothers (HK) Ltd. after secondary school graduation. The first film he participated in as a semi-skilled worker in cinematography was Legendary Weapons of China directed by Chia-Liang Liu...
9. Herman Yau
Director | Chak dan juen ga 2
Herman Yau was born in 1961 in Guangzhou, China. He is a director and cinematographer, known for Shock Wave 2 (2020), Jing xin dong po (2004) and Shock Wave (2017).
10. Godfrey Ho
Director | The Ninja Squad
Godfrey Ho was born in 1948 in Hong Kong. He is a director and writer, known for The Ninja Squad (1986), Thunder of Gigantic Serpent (1988) and Challenge of the Ninja (1986).
11. David DeCoteau
Director | Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge
A dual citizen of Canada and the USA, David DeCoteau has worked professionally in the movie business since he was 18 years old. He got his start through a generous offer from movie legend Roger Corman, who hired him in 1980 as a production assistant at New World Pictures. In 1986, DeCoteau directed ...
12. Yen-Ping Chu
Director | Chao ji 3 deng bing
Yen-Ping Chu was born in 1950 in Taiwan. He is a director and writer, known for Me and You and a Girl Named Ugly (1997), Yi shi er niao (2005) and The Treasure Hunter (2009).
13. Steven C. Miller
Director | Margaux
Steven C. Miller was born in Decatur, Ga. His love for film began early when his father bought him a VHS video camera. Miller started off small with multiple music videos and short films. In 2005 Miller attended and graduated Full Sail University.
In 2005, immediately after graduating film school at...
14. Richard W. Munchkin
Director | Ring of Fire
Richard W. Munchkin was born in 1955 in Des Plaines, Illinois, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Ring of Fire (1991), Ring of Fire II: Blood and Steel (1993) and Texas Payback (1995).
15. Albert Pyun
Director | Cyborg
Albert Pyun was an award-winning US filmmaker best known for his contributions to the science-fiction and action genres. He is credited with pioneering the cyborg sub-genre and is considered to be a maverick and renegade in independent genre cinema. With over 50 titles to his name, he has enjoyed a...
16. Fred Olen Ray
Director | Hatfields and McCoys: Bad Blood
Fred Olen Ray spent most of his childhood in Florida, where he was always a fan of horror movies on TV. He collected autographs of many of the actors in those films where he met Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing. His early career was filled with low-budget horror and science-fiction films, but the ...
17. Keoni Waxman
Producer | Shooting Gallery
Keoni Waxman is an American filmmaker who was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is known for writing, directing and producing action films, dark thrillers and indie dramas which he shoots all over the world for his company ActionHouse Pictures. Keoni currently resides with his family in Santa...
18. Brian A. Miller
Director | Vice
Brian A. Miller is a Los Angeles based feature film writer and director known for Reprisal (2018), Backtrace, Vice (2015), The Prince (2014), and Officer Down (2015) and the upcoming "Price of Valor". He's worked with such name actors as Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, John Cusack, Jason Patric, ...
19. Tom Six
Director | The Human Centipede (First Sequence)
Tom Six was born on August 29, 1973 in Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands. He is a director and writer, known for The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2009), The Human Centipede III (Final Sequence) (2015) and The Human Centipede 2 (Full Sequence) (2011).
20. Jörg Buttgereit
Director | Lexx
Jörg Buttgereit was born on December 20, 1963 in Berlin, West Germany. He is a director and writer, known for Lexx (1996), Captain Berlin versus Hitler (2009) and Nekromantik (1988).
21. Eli Roth
Producer | Thanksgiving
Eli Raphael Roth was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Cora (Bialis), a painter, and Sheldon H. Roth, a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, and clinical professor. His family is Jewish (from Austria, Hungary, Russia, and Poland). He began shooting Super 8 films at the age of eight; after watching Ridley ...
22. Jim Wynorski
Director | The Lost Empire
A 25-year veteran in the Hollywood exploitation field, writer/producer/director Jim Wynorski is responsible for over 150 varied motion pictures in a myriad of genres. Leaving behind a successful commercial business in New York, Wynorski relocated to California in 1980 and soon found himself on the ...
23. Steven R. Monroe
Director | I Spit on Your Grave
Steven R. Monroe was born in Queens, New York and is a true child of film. His entire immediate family was, or is, part of the entertainment industry. Monroe started very early in life making movies with his Super 8 camera when he was 8 years old and receiving his first paycheck in at the age of 12...
24. Darren Lynn Bousman
Director | Repo! The Genetic Opera
Darren Lynn Bousman was born on January 11, 1979 in Overland Park, Kansas, USA. He is a director and producer, known for Repo! The Genetic Opera (2008), Saw II (2005) and Abattoir (2016). He has been married to Laura Bousman since January 2, 2010. They have two children.
25. Meir Zarchi
Producer | Day of the Woman
Meir is a filmmaker most known for I Spit on Your Grave (1978) about one woman and a group of maniacs. In 2010, Steven R. Monroe directed the remake I Spit on Your Grave (2010) starring Sarah Butler & Jeff Branson. Meir executive produced the film and was an associate producer for the remake as ...
26. Sion Sono
Director | Ai no mukidashi
Shion Sono is a Japanese director, writer and poet. Born in Aichi Perfecture in 1961 he started his career working as a poet before taking his first steps in film directing. As a student he shot a series of short films in Super 8 and managed to make his first feature films in the late 80s and early...
27. Gregory Dark
Director | New Wave Hookers
Gregory Dark was born on July 12, 1957 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a director and producer. He has been married to Sharlotte Blake since 2002. He was previously married to Ruby Richards.
28. David Lam
Director | Sao hei xing dong
David Lam is known for The Tipping Point (2022), First Shot (1993) and Z Storm (2014).
29. Hideo Nakata
Director | Honogurai mizu no soko kara
Born in Kinko-cho, Asakuchi-gun (present-day Asakuchi City), Okayama Prefecture. He is most familiar to Western audiences for his work on Japanese horror films such as Ring (1998), Ring 2 (1999) and Dark Water (2002). Several of these were remade in English as The Ring (2002), Dark Water (2005), ...
30. Aaron Norris
Producer | Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire
Aaron Norris was born in Gardena, California, USA. He is a producer and director, known for Walker, Texas Ranger: Trial by Fire (2005), Ant-Man (2015) and Not Easily Broken (2009). He has been married to Rebecca since September 15, 1981. They have three children.
31. Clarence Fok
Actor | Ging chaat goo si
Clarence Fok is known for Police Story (1985), The Iceman Cometh (1989) and Martial Angels (2001).
32. Charles Band
Producer | Puppet Master
Charles Band is a writer, producer, director and publisher. He was born on December 27, 1951 in Los Angeles, California, as Charles Robert Band. His father was producer and director Albert Band and his brother is composer Richard Band.
Band has been writing, producing and directing films in the ...
33. Don E. FauntLeRoy
Cinematographer | Jeepers Creepers
Don E. FauntLeRoy was accepted into the American Society of Cinematographers, with only 7 years experience as a Director of Photography. His rise has been swift, and his reputation as one of the most talented young cinematographers, rapid. Don's major break came in 1994, when he was given the ...
34. Anthony Hickox
Director | Hellraiser III: Hell on Earth
Anthony (Tony), started as a club promoter in London in the early eighties and financed his first short 'rock-a-bye baby' by holding an event at Le'quipe Anglaise, where all the door money went to finance the film. In fact, when it was finished it was the clubs owner Shariffi who showed it to ...
35. James Franco
Actor | Spring Breakers
Known for his breakthrough starring role on Freaks and Geeks (1999), James Franco was born April 19, 1978 in Palo Alto, California, to Betsy Franco, a writer, artist, and actress, and Douglas Eugene "Doug" Franco, who ran a Silicon Valley business. His mother is Jewish and his father was of ...
36. Dustin Ferguson
Director | Spider Baby, or the Maddest Story Ever Told
Born October 16th, 1982 in Dodge City, KS. Award-winning filmmaker Dustin Ferguson (aka "Dark Infinity") has owned and operated several film distribution and production companies since 2007, including SoCal Cinema Studios located in Panorama City, CA. Ferguson is best known for Directing, Producing...
37. Donald G. Jackson
Producer | Return of the Roller Blade Seven
Donald G. Jackson was born on April 24, 1943 in Tremont, Mississippi, USA. He was a producer and writer, known for Return of the Roller Blade Seven (1993), The Roller Blade Seven (1991) and Rollergator (1996). He died on October 20, 2003 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
38. Edward D. Wood Jr.
Writer | Plan 9 from Outer Space
Hacks are nothing new in Hollywood. Since the beginning of the film industry at the turn of the 20th century, thousands of untalented people have come to Los Angeles from all over America and abroad to try to make it big (as writers, producers, directors, actors, talent agents, singers, composers, ...
39. Tommy Wiseau
Writer | The Room
Tommy Wiseau is an American actor, director, screenwriter & producer. He trained to be an actor at: American Conservatory Theater, Vince Chase Workshop, Jean Shelton Acting Lab, Laney College and Stella Adler Academy of Acting.
In 2001 he wrote, produced, directed and starred in The Room (2003), a ...
40. Neil Breen
Director | Fateful Findings
Neil Breen was born on November 23, 1958. He started his career as a real-estate agent and architect in Las Vegas before switching to being an independent filmmaker.
Breen never attended film school; he learned everything he needed to know on his own. He deliberately makes independent films as he ...
41. Clifton Ko
Director | Nan hai shi san lang
Clifton Ko was born on August 6, 1958 in Hong Kong. He is an actor and director, known for The Mad Phoenix (1997), Wonder Mama (2014) and Dearest Anita (2019).
42. Lik-Chi Lee
Production_manager | Siu Lam juk kau
Lik-Chi Lee was born in May 1961 in Hong Kong. He is an actor and director, known for Shaolin Soccer (2001), Ten Brothers (1995) and From Beijing with Love (1994).
43. Frankie Chan
Composer | Chung Hing sam lam
Frankie Chan was born on November 30, 1951 in Hong Kong. He is a composer and actor, known for Chungking Express (1994), Fallen Angels (1995) and Goodbye My Love (1986). He is married to Sheila Chan. They have one child.
44. Man-Kei Chin
Director | Mat to sing suk si 33D
45. Sean S. Cunningham
Producer | Friday the 13th
Like William Girdler, Oliver Hellman or even Ed Wood, Sean S. Cunningham had a successful career of starting films cheap and fast. Originally from New York, Cunningham had a vast knowledge of directing films and came to Hollywood. He started about the same time Wes Craven did. Cunningham meets ...
46. Nick Palumbo
Director | Murder-Set-Pieces
Nick Palumbo attended film school in Los Angeles. He wrote, produced, and directed one of the most notorious horror cult films of all time; Murder-Set-Pieces. Shot on location in Las Vegas on 35mm and screened for its theatrical world premiere at the prestigious Sitges International Film Festival ...
47. Grant S. Johnson
Director | Agent Game
Grant S. Johnson is known for Agent Game (2022), May December (2023) and Nighthawks (2019).
48. Zackary Adler
Director | The Courier
Zackary Adler has just completed The Courier, a fast paced action thriller which he co-wrote and directed staring Olga Kurylenco and Gary Oldman. The Courier centers around a black market London motorcycle courier (Kurylenco) who is set up as a patsy for an assassination attempt against a witness ...
49. Martin Weisz
Director | Rohtenburg
Renowned video and commercial director, Martin Weisz has shot music videos for such artists as Brandy, Puff Daddy, Korn, Live, Crazytown, Sisqo, Nickelback, Fuel, Mel B, JC Chasez and numerous others. By 2005, alongside dozens of commercials, he had directed more than 350 music videos. Martin ...
50. Fan Ho
Director | Ta Bei wu ai
Fan Ho was born on October 8, 1931 in Shanghai, China. He was a director and actor, known for Ta Bei wu ai (1980), Ye ji qing (1989) and Hua jie (1982). He died on June 19, 2016 in San Jose, California, USA.
51. Peter Sullivan
Producer | Secret Obsession
Sullivan was diagnosed with a severe hearing loss as a child. With the assistance of hearing aids, he speaks and read lips fluently. He often expresses his personal challenges and journey in his work. Speaking to CineMovie about his movie "Cucuy," Sullivan explained:
"Amelia is hearing impaired and ...
52. Siu-Hung Chung
Director | Dong fang kuai che
Siu-Hung Chung is known for Dong fang kuai che (1996), Last Ghost Standing (1999) and Bin lim mai ching (2002).
53. William Castle
Director | Homicidal
William Castle was born on April 24, 1914 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Homicidal (1961), House on Haunted Hill (1959) and The Lady from Shanghai (1947). He was married to Ellen. He died on May 31, 1977 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
54. James Cullen Bressack
Producer | Darkness of Man
James Cullen Bressack is an American producer, director, and screenwriter and son of three time Emmy-award winning writer Gordon Bressack and voice actress Ellen Gerstell. At the age of 18 he received critical attention from audiences and critics alike when he made his debut feature, My Pure Joy.
...
55. Edward Drake
Writer | Guns Up
Edward Drake studied at the University of Melbourne. A former assistant of Academy Award-winning producer Michael Sugar at Anonymous Content and director Mark Romanek, Drake has collaborated with Grammy-winning artists including The Fratellis, Jack Ü, and the Stanton Warriors. He is a member of the...
56. Mike Burns
Music_department | Broken City
Mike Burns is a film director, music supervisor, and Grammy nominated music Producer. Mike's passion for music and film started at an early age where he produced short films in high school where he attended New World School of the Arts in Miami. He moved to Los Angeles in 2000, where he began ...
57. Jared Cohn
Director | Street Survivors: The True Story of the Lynyrd Skynyrd Plane Crash
Jared Cohn is a film and television director, writer and producer based in Los Angeles, California. Born and raised in New York, Jared received a bachelor in fine arts from the from New York Institute of Technology... then went west. Jared enjoys music, painting, photography, cinematography and ...
58. Dimitri Logothetis
Producer | Jiu Jitsu
Dimitri Logothetis immigrated to America with his parents at age six. He grew up in Los Angeles, went to high school in the South Bay were he played football, and attended college at Loyola Marymount were received a Masters in Film and Television. Dimitri made a short film at Loyola which he ...
59. J.F. Lawton
Writer | Pretty Woman
J. F. Lawton was born on August 11, 1960 in Riverside, California. His father was the famous writer Harry Lawton, author of the award winning novel "Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt" (1960). The book became the basis for the movie Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969), starring Robert Redford. When he ...
60. Rodney McDonald
Director | Sonic Impact
Rodney McDonald is known for Sonic Impact (1999), Deep Core (2000) and Steel Sharks (1997).
61. Yaky Yosha
Director | Sus'etz
Yaky Yosha was born on April 17, 1951 in Tel Aviv, Israel. He is a director and writer, known for Rockinghorse (1978), The Vulture (1981) and Dead End Street (1982).
62. Jag Mundhra
Director | Bawandar
Jag Mundhra was born on October 29, 1948 in Nagpur, Central Provinces and Berar, India. He was a director and writer, known for Bawandar (2000), Shades of Gray (1997) and The Jigsaw Murders (1989). He died on September 4, 2011 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
63. Andrew Stevens
Producer | The Boondock Saints
Andrew Stevens, President/CEO of Andrew Stevens Entertainment and Stevens Entertainment Group, has produced and/or financed one hundred and eighty films through his various production and distribution companies. Unique in the motion picture industry, Stevens has functioned in almost every capacity ...
64. Lawrence Lanoff
Director | Romancing Sara
Lawrence Lanoff is known for Romancing Sara (1995), The Chosen One: Legend of the Raven (1998) and Playing Dangerous (1995).
65. Robert Angelo
Director | The Pleasure Zone
Robert Angelo is known for The Pleasure Zone (1999), Hot Line (1994) and Beverly Hills Bordello (1996).
66. Kelley Cauthen
Editorial_department | To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Kelley Cauthen is known for To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018), Quarantine 2: Terminal (2011) and Impact Point (2008).
67. Tinto Brass
Writer | La vacanza
Giovanni Brass was born on 26 March 1933 into the family of a famous artist, Italico Brass, who was his grandfather. Italico gave his grandson a nickname "Tintoretto," which Giovanni later adapted into his cinematic name, Tinto Brass.
Tinto inherited his grandfather's artistic skills, but he applied...
68. Lee Frost
Director | Drop Out
Lee Frost rates highly as one of the best, most talented and versatile filmmakers in the annals of exploitation cinema. Frost was born on August 14, 1935, in Globe, Arizona. He grew up in Glendale, California, and Oahu, Hawaii. He eventually wound up in Hollywood, where he started his career making...
69. Robert Radler
Director | Turn It Up!
Robert Radler is known for Turn It Up! (2014), Best of the Best (1989) and L.A. Heat (1996).
70. Uwe Boll
Producer | Postal
As a youth, he produced a number of short films on Super 8 and video. After short stints as guest auditor at Filmacademy Vienna and Filmhochschule Munich, Boll studied literature and economics in Cologne and Siegen. He graduated from university in 1995 with a doctorate in literature. From 1995-2000...
71. Takashi Miike
Director | Jûsan-nin no shikaku
Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, ...
72. Terence H. Winkless
Writer | The Howling
Born in Massachusetts, raised in Kenilworth, Illinois and went to New Trier High School, like alumni Ann-Margaret, Charlton Heston, Bruce Dern, Virginia Madsen, among many others. USC Film School alumnus, and American Film Institute intern on "Soylent Green". Worked on the original "Gone In 60 ...
73. Jonathan Winfrey
Producer | The Marine
Jonathan Winfrey was born in 1963. He is a director and producer, known for The Marine (2006), Cousin Skeeter (1998) and Future Kick (1991).
74. Adam Simon
Writer | Salem
Simon began his career with Producer Roger Corman for whom he wrote and directed cult-classics Brain Dead and Carnosaur. And with Tim Robbins and The Actors Gang where his and Robbins' award-winning plays have been staged around the world, including New York's Public Theater and the Main Stage of ...
75. Joe Tornatore
Actor | The Sting
Joe Tornatore was born on August 18, 1934 in New York, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for The Sting (1973), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and The Zebra Force (1976).
76. Michael Winner
Director | Death Wish
Winner was an only child, born in Hampstead, London, England, to Helen (née Zlota) and George Joseph Winner (1910-1975), a company director. His family was Jewish; his mother was Polish and his father of Russian extraction. Following his father's death, Winner's mother gambled recklessly and sold ...
77. Allan A. Goldstein
Director | The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick
Allan A. Goldstein was born on May 23, 1949 in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He is a director and writer, known for The Outside Chance of Maximilian Glick (1988), Fire (2004) and Memory Run (1995).
78. J. Lee Thompson
Director | The Guns of Navarone
J. Lee Thompson was born on August 1, 1914 in Bristol, England, UK. He was a director and writer, known for The Guns of Navarone (1961), Woman in a Dressing Gown (1957) and Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972). He was married to Penny Thompson, Florence (Bill) Bailey, Lucille Kelly and Joan ...
79. Sam Firstenberg
Director | One More Chance
Since 1980 Sam Firstenberg has been in the independent filmmaking field. Directing 22 theatrical feature films since completing his graduate studies in film at Loyola Marymount University. One More Chance (1981), starring Kirstie Alley, won prizes in major film festivals and sparked the beginning ...
80. Bob Bralver
Stunts | Darkman
Bob Bralver was born on January 15, 1941 in the USA. He is an assistant director and actor, known for Darkman (1990), Road House (1989) and Suicide Kings (1997).
81. Cedric Sundstrom
Director | Captive Rage
Cedric Sundstrom was born in South Africa of Swedish decent. From the age of 13 he started making films on 8mm with friends in the neighborhood. After college he worked in the theatre as an actor and stage manager. He got to work as an assistant director on international films made in South Africa....
82. Menahem Golan
Producer | The Apple
Menahem Golan was born Menahem Globus to parents of Polish decent in Tiberias, Israel, in May 1929. In his early years, he was a pilot for the fledgling Israeli Air Force, changing his surname to Golan for patriotic reasons in 1948. A few years later, he took the first step towards his future ...
83. Gordon Hessler
Director | Pray for Death
Gordon Hessler was born in Germany, the son of a Danish mother and an English father. Educated in England, he moved to the US while in his late teens and spent several years working in documentaries. At Universal, "I guess because I had an English accent", Hessler was placed under contract to ...
84. Jeff King
Producer | The Acolyte
Jeff King is known for The Acolyte (2024), The Umbrella Academy (2019) and Blindspot (2015).
85. Wes Craven
Writer | A Nightmare on Elm Street
Wes Craven has become synonymous with genre bending and innovative horror, challenging audiences with his bold vision.
Wesley Earl Craven was born in Cleveland, Ohio, to Caroline (Miller) and Paul Eugene Craven. He had a midwestern suburban upbringing. His first feature film was The Last House on ...
86. Joseph Zito
Director | Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter
Joseph Zito is a well known action film director. Three of his movies--Missing in Action (1984), Invasion U.S.A. (1985) and Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984)--each reached the #1 box office position of top grossing film in the country in their opening weeks of U.S. theatrical release. "...
87. Sam Raimi
Director | Spider-Man
Highly inventive U.S. film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film, The Evil Dead (1981). From his childhood, Raimi was a fan of the cinema and, before he was ten-years-old, he was out making ...
88. Rob Zombie
Writer | Grindhouse
Robert Bartleh Cummings, more famously known as Rob Zombie, was born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on January 12, 1965. He is the oldest son of Louise and Robert Cummings, and has a younger brother, Michael David (aka Spider One; b. 1968), who is the lead singer of Powerman 5000. Growing up, Zombie ...
89. James Wan
Writer | Saw
James Wan (born 26 February 1977) is an Australian film producer, screenwriter and film director of Malaysian Chinese descent. He is widely known for directing the horror film Saw (2004) and creating Billy the puppet. Wan has also directed Dead Silence (2007), Death Sentence (2007), Insidious (2010)...
90. John Carpenter
Writer | The Fog
John Howard Carpenter was born in Carthage, New York, to mother Milton Jean (Carter) and father Howard Ralph Carpenter. His family moved to Bowling Green, Kentucky, where his father, a professor, was head of the music department at Western Kentucky University. He attended Western Kentucky ...
91. David Cronenberg
Actor | The Fly
David Cronenberg, also known as the King of Venereal Horror or the Baron of Blood, was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in 1943. His father, Milton Cronenberg, was a journalist and editor, and his mother, Esther (Sumberg), was a piano player. After showing an inclination for literature at an early...
92. Lucio Fulci
Writer | Lo squartatore di New York
Lucio Fulci, born in Rome in 1927, remains as controversial in death as he was in life. A gifted craftsman with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of dark humor, Fulci achieved some measure of notoriety for his gore epics of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but respect was long in coming.
Abandoning ...
93. Sam Mraovich
Actor | Ben & Arthur
Sam Mraovich was born in Stuebenville, Ohio. Favorite hobbies include oil painting, singing, being at the beach, and spending time with friends. Sam attended Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts in 1994, after graduating from State College Area High School in State College, ...
94. Tommy Lee Wallace
Director | Halloween III: Season of the Witch
Tommy Lee Wallace is an American director, writer, producer, and actor. Although having worked in diverse genres, Tommy is probably best known for his contribution to the horror film, most notably its many sequels. Early on he scripted Amityville II: The Possession (1982) and quickly moved on to ...
95. George A. Romero
Writer | Land of the Dead
George A. Romero never set out to become a Hollywood figure; by all indications, though, he was very successful. The director of the groundbreaking "Living Dead" films was born February 4, 1940 ,in New York City to Ann (Dvorsky) and Jorge Romero. His father was born in Spain and raised in Cuba, and...
96. Rick Sloane
Producer | Hobgoblins
Cinematic jack-of-all-trades Rick Sloane will never win any special awards for his admittedly cheap'n'cheesy low-budget independent movies, but he nonetheless deserves some respect for weathering the storm of lots of harsh critical notices and cranking out a sizable number of films throughout the ...
97. Ruggero Deodato
Director | Deathcember
Ruggero Deodato was born on May 7, 1939, in Potenza, Italy, and grew up outside Rome. One of his close friends at the time was Renzo Rossellini, the son of famed Italian director Roberto Rossellini. Knowing Ruggerio's love for the movies, Renzo persuaded him to work as a second unit director on ...
98. Dario Argento
Writer | Profondo rosso
Dario Argento was born on September 7, 1940, in Rome, Italy, the first-born son of famed Italian producer Salvatore Argento and Brazilian fashion model Elda Luxardo. Argento recalls getting his ideas for filmmaking from his close-knit family from Italian folk tales told by his parents and other ...
99. Luigi Bazzoni
Director | Di domenica
Luigi Bazzoni was born on June 25, 1929 in Salsomaggiore Terme, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Di domenica (1963), The Possessed (1965) and The Fifth Cord (1971). He died on March 1, 2012 in Salsomaggiore Terme, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.
100. Sergio Corbucci
Writer | Django
Sergio Corbucci was born on December 6, 1926, in Rome, Italy. He entered grade school with thoughts of becoming a businessman, but after earning a college degree in economics he took an abrupt detour into the world of cinema. Corbucci began his career as a film critic, first for the Italian film ...
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