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| title | full_name | born | died | nationality | occupation | url |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Steven Spielberg | Steven Allan Spielberg | 1946 | n/a | American | film director, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Spielberg |
| Woody Allen | Heywood "Woody" Allen | 1935 | n/a | American | film director, writer, actor, and comedian whose career spans more than six decades and multiple Academy Award-winning films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woody_Allen |
| Stanley Kubrick | Stanley Kubrick | 1928 | 1999 | American | film director, producer, screenwriter, and photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick |
| Roman Polanski | Roman Polanski | 1933 | n/a | Polish | film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Polanski |
| Oliver Stone | William Oliver Stone | 1946 | n/a | American | film director, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Stone |
| Bryan Singer | Bryan Jay Singer | 1965 | n/a | American | film director, producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Singer |
| Michael Bay | Michael Benjamin Bay | 1965 | n/a | American | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Bay |
| Ben Stiller | Benjamin Edward Meara Stiller | 1965 | n/a | American | actor, comedian, producer, film director, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Stiller |
| Paul Newman | Paul Leonard Newman | 1925 | 2008 | American | actor, film director, race car driver, and entrepreneur | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Newman |
| Eli Roth | Eli Raphael Roth | 1972 | n/a | American | film director, producer, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli_Roth |
| Brett Ratner | Brett Ratner | 1969 | n/a | American | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brett_Ratner |
| Leonard Nimoy | Leonard Simon Nimoy | 1931 | 2015 | American | actor, author, film director, singer, and photographer who achieved international fame for playing Spock in the Star Trek franchise for almost 50 years; from two pilot episodes in 1964 and 1965 to his final film performance in 2013 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Nimoy |
| John Milius | John Frederick Milius | 1944 | n/a | American | screenwriter, film director, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Milius |
| Jason Alexander | Jay Scott Greenspan | 1959 | n/a | American | actor, comedian, film director, and television presenter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jason_Alexander |
| Fritz Lang | Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang | 1890 | 1976 | Austrian | film director, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Lang |
| James Toback | James Toback | 1944 | n/a | American | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Toback |
| Lloyd Kaufman | Stanley Lloyd Kaufman Jr. | 1945 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, producer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lloyd_Kaufman |
| Joel Schumacher | Joel T. Schumacher | 1939 | 2020 | American | film director, screenwriter, producer, and costume designer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Schumacher |
| Paul Bern | Paul Bern | 1889 | 1932 | German | film director, screenwriter, and producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, where he became the assistant to Irving Thalberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Bern |
| Aaron Sorkin | Aaron Benjamin Sorkin | 1961 | n/a | American | playwright, screenwriter, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Sorkin |
| Billy Wilder | Billy Wilder | 1906 | 2002 | Austrian | film director, producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Wilder |
| David Cronenberg | David Paul Cronenberg | 1943 | n/a | Canadian | film director, screenwriter, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cronenberg |
| Darren Aronofsky | Darren Aronofsky | 1969 | n/a | American | film director, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darren_Aronofsky |
| Chris Weitz | Christopher John Weitz | 1969 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Weitz |
| Peter Brook | Peter Stephen Paul Brook | 1925 | n/a | English | theatre and film director who has been based in France since the early 1970s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Brook |
| Ari Aster | Ari Aster | 1986 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Aster |
| Cecil B. DeMille | Cecil Blount DeMille | 1881 | 1959 | American | film director, producer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_B._DeMille |
| Errol Morris | Errol Mark Morris | 1948 | n/a | American | film director known for documentaries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Errol_Morris |
| Sergei Eisenstein | Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein | 1948 | n/a | Soviet | film director and film theorist, a pioneer in the theory and practice of montage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Eisenstein |
| Pier Paolo Pasolini | Pier Paolo Pasolini | 1922 | 1975 | Italian | film director, poet, writer, and intellectual, who also distinguished himself as an actor, journalist, novelist, playwright, and political figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Paolo_Pasolini |
| Sidney Lumet | Sidney Arthur Lumet | 1924 | 2011 | American | film director, producer, and screenwriter with over 50 films to his credit | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Lumet |
| Sydney Pollack | Sydney Irwin Pollack | 1934 | 2008 | American | film director, producer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Pollack |
| Rosanna Arquette | Rosanna Lisa Arquette | null | null | American | actress, film director, and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosanna_Arquette |
| Max Fleischer | Max Fleischer | 1883 | 1972 | American | animator, inventor, film director and producer, and studio founder and owner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Fleischer |
| Barry Levinson | Barry Lee Levinson | 1942 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, producer, comedy writer, comedian and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barry_Levinson |
| Stanley Kramer | Stanley Earl Kramer | 1913 | 2001 | American | film director and producer, responsible for making many of Hollywood's most famous "message films" (he would call his movies heavy dramas) and a liberal movie icon | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kramer |
| Shawn Levy | Shawn Adam Levy | 1968 | n/a | Canadian | film director, producer, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shawn_Levy |
| Otto Preminger | Otto Ludwig Preminger | 1905 | 1986 | Austrian | theatre and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Preminger |
| William Wyler | William Wyler | null | null | Swiss | film director and producer who won the Academy Award for Best Director three times, those being for Mrs. Miniver (1942), The Best Years of Our Lives (1946), and Ben-Hur (1959), all of which also won for Best Picture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Wyler |
| George Cukor | George Dewey Cukor | 1899 | 1983 | American | film director and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Cukor |
| Nicolas Winding Refn | Nicolas Winding Refn | 1970 | n/a | Danish | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Winding_Refn |
| David Gelb | David Gelb | 1983 | n/a | American | film director and co-founder of Supper Club, a production company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Gelb |
| Michael Curtiz | Michael Curtiz | 1886 | 1962 | Hungarian | film director, recognized as one of the most prolific directors in history | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Curtiz |
| Ernst Lubitsch | Ernst Lubitsch | 1892 | 1947 | German | film director, producer, writer, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Lubitsch |
| Derek Jarman | Michael Derek Elworthy Jarman | 1942 | 1994 | English | film director, stage designer, author and gay rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Jarman |
| Dean Israelite | Dean Israelite | 1984 | n/a | South African | film director, writer, and producer, best known for directing the found footage film Project Almanac, the 2017 reboot of Power Rangers, and the 2019 reboot of Are You Afraid of the Dark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Israelite |
| Alexander Korda | Sir Alexander Korda | 1893 | 1956 | Hungarian | film director, producer and screenwriter, who founded his own film production studios and film distribution company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Korda |
| Miloš Forman | Jan Tomáš "Miloš" Forman | 1932 | 2018 | Czech | film director, screenwriter, actor, and professor who rose to fame in his native Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the United States in 1968 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miloš_Forman |
| Max Reinhardt | Max Reinhardt | 1873 | 1943 | Austrian | theatre and film director, intendant, and theatrical producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Reinhardt |
| David O. Russell | David Owen Russell | 1958 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_O._Russell |
| Josh Fox | Josh Fox | null | null | American | film director, playwright and environmental activist, best known for his Oscar-nominated, Emmy-winning 2010 documentary, Gasland | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Fox |
| Paul Auster | Paul Benjamin Auster | 1947 | n/a | American | writer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Auster |
| Fred Zinnemann | Alfred Zinnemann | 1907 | 1997 | Austrian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Zinnemann |
| Craig Mazin | Craig Mazin | 1971 | n/a | American | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Mazin |
| Samuel Fuller | Samuel Michael Fuller | 1912 | 1997 | American | film director, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, and World War II veteran known for directing low-budget genre movies with controversial themes, often made outside the conventional studio system | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Fuller |
| Susanne Bier | Susanne Bier | 1960 | n/a | Danish | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susanne_Bier |
| Casey Calvert | Casey Calvert | null | null | American | pornographic actress and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casey_Calvert |
| Richard Lester | Richard Lester Liebman | 1932 | n/a | American | film director based in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lester |
| Doug Liman | Douglas Eric Liman | 1965 | n/a | American | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Liman |
| Mervyn LeRoy | Mervyn LeRoy | 1900 | 1987 | American | film director, film producer and screenplay writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervyn_LeRoy |
| Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Joseph Leo Mankiewicz | 1909 | 1993 | American | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_L._Mankiewicz |
| Stanley Donen | Stanley Donen | 1924 | 2019 | American | film director and choreographer whose most celebrated works are On the Town (1949) and Singin' in the Rain (1952), both of which he co-directed with star Gene Kelly | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Donen |
| Claude Lelouch | Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch | 1937 | n/a | French | film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Lelouch |
| Chantal Akerman | Chantal Anne Akerman | 1950 | 2015 | Belgian | film director, screenwriter, artist, and film professor at the City College of New York | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chantal_Akerman |
| Ephraim Kishon | Ephraim Kishon | 1924 | 2005 | Israeli | author, dramatist, screenwriter, and Oscar-nominated film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephraim_Kishon |
| Ed Skrein | Edward George Skrein | 1983 | n/a | English | actor, film director, screenwriter and rapper | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Skrein |
| Paul Mazursky | Irwin Lawrence "Paul" Mazursky | 1930 | 2014 | American | film director, screenwriter, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Mazursky |
| Richard Brooks | Richard Brooks | 1912 | 1992 | American | screenwriter, film director, novelist and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Brooks |
| Laurence Harvey | Laurence Harvey | 1928 | 1973 | Lithuanian | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurence_Harvey |
| Philip Kaufman | Philip Kaufman | 1936 | n/a | American | film director and screenwriter who has directed fifteen films over a career spanning more than six decades | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kaufman |
| Carl Wilhelm | Carl Wilhelm | 1872 | 1936 | null | prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Wilhelm |
| Richard Benjamin | Richard Samuel Benjamin | 1938 | n/a | American | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Benjamin |
| Richard Fleischer | Richard O. Fleischer | 1916 | 2006 | American | film director whose career spanned more than four decades, beginning at the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood and lasting through the American New Wave | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Fleischer |
| Elaine May | Elaine Iva May | 1932 | n/a | American | comedian, film director, screenwriter, playwright, and actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_May |
| Lewis Milestone | Lewis Milestone | n/a | 1931 | Russian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Milestone |
| William Castle | William Castle | 1914 | 1977 | American | film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Castle |
| Boots Riley | Raymond Lawrence "Boots" Riley | 1971 | n/a | American | film director, producer, screenwriter, rapper, and communist activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boots_Riley |
| Anthony Mann | Anthony Mann | 1906 | 1967 | American | film director and stage actor, best remembered for his work in the film noir and Westerns genres | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Mann |
| Miranda July | Miranda July | 1974 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, singer, actress and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miranda_July |
| Jonathan Levine | Jonathan A. Levine | 1976 | n/a | American | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Levine |
| Bob Gale | Michael Robert Gale | 1951 | n/a | American | screenwriter, producer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Gale |
| Claude Berri | Claude Berri | 1934 | 2009 | French | film director, writer, producer, actor and distributor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Berri |
| Dave Fleischer | Dave Fleischer | 1894 | 1979 | American | film director and producer, best known as a co-owner of Fleischer Studios with his older brother Max Fleischer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Fleischer |
| Daniel Pritzker | Daniel Pritzker | 1959 | n/a | American | billionaire heir, musician, film director, and member of the Pritzker family | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Pritzker |
| Olivier Assayas | Olivier Assayas | 1955 | n/a | French | film director, screenwriter and film critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Assayas |
| Arthur Hiller | Arthur Hiller | 1923 | 2016 | Canadian | television and film director with over 33 films to his credit during a 50-year career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Hiller |
| Max Ophüls | Maximillian Oppenheimer | 1902 | 1957 | German | film director who worked in Germany (1931–1933), France (1933–1940 and 1950–1957), and the United States (1947–1950) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Ophüls |
| David Zucker | David Samuel Zucker | 1947 | n/a | American | film director, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Zucker |
| Scott Silver | Scott Silver | 1964 | n/a | American | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Silver |
| Robert Siodmak | Robert Siodmak | 1900 | 1973 | German | film director who also worked in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Siodmak |
| Alan J. Pakula | Alan Jay Pakula | 1928 | 1998 | American | film director, writer and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_J._Pakula |
| Jonathan Lynn | Jonathan Lynn | 1943 | n/a | English | stage and film director, producer, writer, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Lynn |
| Nicholas Hytner | Sir Nicholas Robert Hytner | 1956 | n/a | English | theatre director, film director, and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Hytner |
| Lewis Gilbert | Lewis Gilbert | 1920 | 2018 | English | film director, producer and screenwriter who directed more than 40 films during six decades; among them such varied titles as Reach for the Sky (1956), Sink the Bismarck! (1960), Alfie (1966), Educating Rita (1983) and Shirley Valentine (1989), as well as three James Bond films: You Only Live Twice (1967), The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) and Moonraker (1979) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_Gilbert |
| Peter Hyams | Peter Hyams | 1943 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter and cinematographer known for directing Capricorn One (which he also wrote), the 1981 science fiction-thriller Outland, the 1984 science fiction film 2010: The Year We Make Contact (a sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), the 1986 action/comedy Running Scared, the comic book adaptation Timecop, the action film Sudden Death (both starring Jean-Claude Van Damme), and the horror films The Relic and End of Days | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Hyams |
| Irving Pichel | Irving Pichel | 1891 | 1954 | American | actor and film director, who won acclaim both as an actor and director in his Hollywood career | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Pichel |
| Kenneth Lonergan | Kenneth Lonergan | 1962 | n/a | American | film director, playwright, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenneth_Lonergan |
| Adam Shankman | Adam Michael Shankman | 1964 | n/a | American | film director, producer, dancer, author, actor, and choreographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Shankman |
| Henry Koster | Henry Koster | 1905 | 1988 | German | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Koster |
| Emeric Pressburger | Emeric Pressburger | 1902 | 1988 | Hungarian | screenwriter, film director, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeric_Pressburger |
| Mark Rydell | Mark Rydell | 1929 | n/a | American | actor, film director, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rydell |
| Romain Gary | Romain Gary | 1980 | n/a | French | novelist, diplomat, film director, and World War II aviator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romain_Gary |
| Albert Band | Albert Band | 1924 | 2002 | French | film director and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Band |
| Liz Garbus | Elizabeth Freya Garbus | 1970 | n/a | American | documentary film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Garbus |
| Norman Taurog | Norman Rae Taurog | 1899 | 1981 | American | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Taurog |
| Danielle Harris | Danielle Andrea Harris | 1977 | n/a | American | actress and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Harris |
| Robert Wiene | Robert Wiene | 1873 | 1938 | null | film director of the silent era of German cinema | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Wiene |
| Henry Jaglom | Henry David Jaglom | 1938 | n/a | English | actor, film director and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Jaglom |
| Mark Robson (film director) | Mark Robson | 1913 | 1978 | Canadian | film director, producer, and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Robson_(film_director) |
| Michael Radford | Michael James Radford | 1946 | n/a | null | Anglo-Indian-born English film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Radford |
| Joe May | Joe May (born Joseph Otto Mandl, 7 November 1880 – 29 April 1954) | 1880 | 1954 | Austrian | film director and film producer and one of the pioneers of German cinema | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_May |
| Michel Hazanavicius | Michel Hazanavicius | 1967 | n/a | French | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Hazanavicius |
| Ricardo Cortez | Ricardo Cortez | 1900 | 1977 | American | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricardo_Cortez |
| Karl Freund | Karl W. Freund, A.S.C. | 1890 | 1969 | Austrian | cinematographer and film director best known for photographing Metropolis (1927), Dracula (1931), and television's I Love Lucy (1951-1957) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Freund |
| Amy Heckerling | Amy Heckerling | 1954 | n/a | American | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amy_Heckerling |
| Ruben Fleischer | Ruben Samuel Fleischer | 1974 | n/a | American | film director, film producer, television producer, music video director, and commercial director who lives in Los Angeles | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruben_Fleischer |
| Jack Bender | Jack Bender | 1949 | n/a | American | television and film director, television producer and former actor best known for his work as a director on Lost, The Sopranos and Game of Thrones | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Bender |
| Lawrence Sher | Lawrence Sher | 1970 | n/a | American | cinematographer and film director, best known for comedy films such as Garden State, The Dictator, and The Hangover series, frequently collaborating with directors Todd Phillips and Zach Braff | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Sher |
| Raymond Bernard | Raymond Bernard | 1891 | 1977 | French | film director and screenwriter whose career spanned more than forty years | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Bernard |
| Ari Folman | Ari Folman | 1962 | n/a | Israeli | film director, screenwriter, animator and film score composer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ari_Folman |
| István Szabó | István Szabó | 1938 | n/a | Hungarian | film director, screenwriter, and opera director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/István_Szabó |
| Bruce Sinofsky | Bruce Sinofsky | 1956 | 2015 | American | documentary film director, particularly known for his films the Paradise Lost trilogy, Brother's Keeper and Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, all created with Joe Berlinger | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Sinofsky |
| George Sidney | George Sidney | 1916 | 2002 | null | Academy Award-winning, American film director and producer who worked primarily at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Sidney |
| Jean-Pierre Mocky | Jean-Pierre Mocky | 1929 | 2019 | French | film director, actor, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Mocky |
| Jules White | Jules White | 1900 | 1985 | Hungarian | film director and producer best known for his short-subject comedies starring The Three Stooges | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_White |
| Robert Rossen | Robert Rossen | 1908 | 1966 | American | screenwriter, film director, and producer whose film career spanned almost three decades | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Rossen |
| Bob Rafelson | Bob Rafelson | 1933 | n/a | American | film director, writer and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Rafelson |
| Juraj Herz | Juraj Herz | 1934 | 2018 | Slovak | film director, actor, and scene designer, associated with the Czechoslovak New Wave movement of the 1960s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juraj_Herz |
| Etan Cohen | Etan Cohen | 1974 | n/a | Israeli | screenwriter and film director who has written scripts for Hollywood movies, including Tropic Thunder, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, and Men in Black 3 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etan_Cohen |
| Dean Devlin | Dean Devlin | 1962 | n/a | American | screenwriter, film producer, television producer, television director, film director, and former actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_Devlin |
| Avi Nesher | Avi Nesher | 1952 | n/a | Israeli | film producer, film director, screenwriter and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avi_Nesher |
| Barbara Kopple | Barbara Kopple | 1946 | n/a | American | film director known primarily for her documentary work | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Kopple |
| William Karel | William Karel | 1940 | n/a | French | film director and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Karel |
| Jeroen Krabbé | Jeroen Aart Krabbé | 1944 | n/a | Dutch | actor and film director who has appeared in more than 60 films since 1963, including Soldaat van Oranje (1977), The Fourth Man (1983), The Living Daylights (1987), The Prince of Tides (1991), The Fugitive (1993), and Immortal Beloved (1994) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeroen_Krabbé |
| Francis Veber | Francis Paul Veber | 1937 | n/a | French | film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Veber |
| Claude Miller | Claude Miller | 1942 | 2012 | French | film director, producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Miller |
| Scott Frank | A. Scott Frank | 1960 | n/a | American | film director, producer, screenwriter, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Frank |
| Andrew Koenig | Joshua Andrew Koenig | 1968 | 2010 | American | character actor, film director, editor, writer, and human rights activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Koenig |
| John Francis Daley | John Francis Daley | 1985 | n/a | American | actor, film director, producer, screenwriter, and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Francis_Daley |
| Josh Trank | Joshua Benjamin Trank | 1984 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, and film editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Trank |
| Romola Garai | Romola Sadie Garai | 1982 | n/a | British | actress and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romola_Garai |
| Arthur Lubin | Arthur Lubin | 1898 | 1995 | American | film director and producer who directed several Abbott & Costello films, Phantom of the Opera (1943), the Francis the Talking Mule series and created the talking-horse TV series Mister Ed. A prominent director for Universal Pictures in the 1940s and 1950s, he is perhaps best known today as the man who gave Clint Eastwood his first contract in film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Lubin |
| Kurt Gerron | Kurt Gerron | 1897 | 1944 | German | Jewish actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Gerron |
| Sidney J. Furie | Sidney Joseph Furie | 1933 | n/a | Canadian | film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for his extensive work in both British cinema between the 1960s and early 1980s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_J._Furie |
| Michael Lembeck | Michael Lembeck | 1948 | n/a | American | actor and television and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Lembeck |
| Marshall Herskovitz | Marshall Schreiber Herskovitz | 1952 | n/a | American | film director, writer, and producer, and currently the President Emeritus of the Producers Guild of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_Herskovitz |
| Peter Medak | Peter Medak | 1937 | n/a | Hungarian | film director and television director of British productions | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Medak |
| László Nemes | László Nemes | 1977 | n/a | Hungarian | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/László_Nemes |
| Edgar G. Ulmer | Edgar Georg Ulmer | 1904 | 1972 | null | Jewish-Moravian, Austrian-American film director who mainly worked on Hollywood B movies and other low-budget productions, eventually earning the epithet 'The King of PRC', due to his extremely prolific output on the said Poverty Row studio | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_G._Ulmer |
| Gérard Oury | Gérard Oury | 1919 | 2006 | French | film director, actor and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gérard_Oury |
| Arturo Ripstein | Arturo Ripstein y Rosen | 1943 | n/a | Mexican | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arturo_Ripstein |
| Keith Gordon | Keith Gordon | 1961 | n/a | American | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Gordon |
| Alexandre Aja | Alexandre Jouan-Arcady | 1978 | n/a | French | film director best known for his work in the horror genre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Aja |
| Gregory Ratoff | Gregory Ratoff | 1893 | 1960 | Russian | film director, actor and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Ratoff |
| David Frankel | David Frankel | 1959 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Frankel |
| Curtis Bernhardt | Curtis Bernhardt | 1899 | 1981 | German | film director born in Worms, Germany, under the name Kurt Bernhardt | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtis_Bernhardt |
| Alexandre Arcady | Alexandre Arcady | 1947 | n/a | French | actor, film director, producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Arcady |
| Paul Weitz (filmmaker) | Paul John Weitz | 1965 | n/a | American | film director, film producer, screenwriter, playwright, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Weitz_(filmmaker) |
| Charles Vidor | Charles Vidor | 1900 | 1959 | Hungarian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Vidor |
| Adam Bernstein | Adam Bernstein | 1960 | n/a | American | film director, music video director and television director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Bernstein |
| Herbert Biberman | Herbert J. Biberman | 1900 | 1971 | American | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Biberman |
| Gene Deitch | Eugene Merril Deitch | 1924 | 2020 | American | illustrator, animator, comics artist, and film director who was based in Prague from the 1960s until his death in 2020 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Deitch |
| Adrienne Shelly | Adrienne Levine | 1966 | 2006 | American | actress, film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrienne_Shelly |
| Clive Donner | Clive Stanley Donner | 1926 | 2010 | British | film director who was part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing but the Best, What's New Pussycat?, Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clive_Donner |
| Cédric Klapisch | Cédric Klapisch | 1961 | n/a | French | film director, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cédric_Klapisch |
| Rudolph Maté | Rudolph Maté | 1898 | 1964 | Polish | cinematographer, film director and film producer who worked as cameraman and cinematographer in Hungary, Austria, Germany, France and the United Kingdom, before moving to Hollywood in the mid 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolph_Maté |
| Hart Bochner | Hart Matthew Bochner | 1956 | n/a | Canadian | actor, film director, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart_Bochner |
| William C. deMille | William Churchill deMille | 1878 | 1955 | American | screenwriter and film director from the silent film era through the early 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_C._deMille |
| George Axelrod | George Axelrod | 1922 | 2003 | American | screenwriter, producer, playwright and film director, best known for his play The Seven Year Itch (1952), which was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Axelrod |
| Eliza Hittman | Eliza Hittman | 1979 | n/a | American | screenwriter, film director, and producer from New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliza_Hittman |
| Pavel Lungin | Pavel Semyonovich Lungin | 1949 | n/a | Russian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Lungin |
| Daniel Sackheim | Daniel Sackheim | null | null | American | television and film director, producer, and photographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Sackheim |
| Susan Seidelman | Susan Seidelman | null | null | American | film director, producer, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Seidelman |
| Boris Sagal | Boris Sagal | 1923 | 1981 | American | television and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Sagal |
| Joseph Ruben | Joseph Porter Ruben | 1950 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Ruben |
| Phil Karlson | Phil Karlson | 1908 | 1982 | American | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Karlson |
| Broncho Billy Anderson | Gilbert M. "Broncho Billy" Anderson | 1880 | 1971 | American | actor, writer, film director, and film producer, who was the first star of the Western film genre | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broncho_Billy_Anderson |
| Gilbert Cates | Gilbert Cates | 1934 | 2011 | American | film director and television producer, director of the Geffen Playhouse, Also was a Member of Cates/Doty Productions and founding dean of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Cates |
| Joann Sfar | Joann Sfar | 1971 | n/a | French | comics artist, comic book creator, novelist, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joann_Sfar |
| Joshua Oppenheimer | Joshua Lincoln Oppenheimer | 1974 | n/a | American | film director based in Copenhagen, Denmark | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Oppenheimer |
| Jerry Schatzberg | Jerry Schatzberg | 1927 | n/a | American | photographer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Schatzberg |
| Bruce Paltrow | Bruce Weigert Paltrow | 1943 | 2002 | American | television and film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Paltrow |
| John M. Stahl | John Malcolm Stahl | 1886 | 1950 | American | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Stahl |
| Jon Turteltaub | Jonathan Charles Turteltaub | 1962 | n/a | American | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Turteltaub |
| Janusz Morgenstern | Janusz "Kuba" Morgenstern | 1922 | 2011 | Polish | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janusz_Morgenstern |
| Eldar Ryazanov | Eldar Aleksandrovich Ryazanov | 1927 | 2015 | Soviet | film director, screenwriter, poet, actor and pedagogue whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the Soviet former Union and former Warsaw Pact countries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldar_Ryazanov |
| Andrew Davis (director) | Andrew Davis | 1946 | n/a | American | film director, producer, writer, and cinematographer who is known for directing a number of successful action thrillers including Code of Silence, Above the Law, Under Siege, and The Fugitive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Davis_(director) |
| Melvin Frank | Melvin Frank | 1913 | 1988 | American | screenwriter, film producer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Frank |
| Alan Crosland | Alan Crosland | 1894 | 1936 | American | stage actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Crosland |
| Joel Zwick | Joel Zwick | 1942 | n/a | American | film director, television director, and theater director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Zwick |
| Simcha Jacobovici | Simcha Jacobovici | 1953 | n/a | Israeli | film director, producer, freelance journalist, and New York Times bestselling author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simcha_Jacobovici |
| Henrik Galeen | Henrik Galeen | 1881 | 1949 | Austrian | actor, screenwriter and film director considered an influential figure in the development of German Expressionist cinema during the silent era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Galeen |
| Josée Dayan | Josée Dayan | 1943 | n/a | French | film director, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josée_Dayan |
| Akiva Schaffer | Akiva D. Schaffer | 1977 | n/a | American | film director, comedian, actor, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akiva_Schaffer |
| Boaz Davidson | Boaz Davidson | 1943 | n/a | Israeli | film director, producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz_Davidson |
| Andrew Marton | Andrew Marton | 1904 | 1992 | Hungarian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Marton |
| Jake Paltrow | Jacob Danner Paltrow | 1975 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jake_Paltrow |
| Luc Bondy | Luc Bondy | 1948 | 2015 | Swiss | theatre and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luc_Bondy |
| Henry Bean | Henry Bean | 1945 | n/a | American | screenwriter, film director, film producer, novelist, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Bean |
| John Hamburg | John Liman Hamburg | 1970 | n/a | American | screenwriter, film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hamburg |
| Grigori Kozintsev | Grigori Mikhailovich Kozintsev | none | 1973 | Soviet | theatre and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grigori_Kozintsev |
| Louis Leterrier | Louis Leterrier | 1973 | n/a | French | film director and producer whose films include the first two Transporter films, Unleashed (2005), The Incredible Hulk (2008), Clash of the Titans (2010), Now You See Me (2013) and the streaming television series The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance (2019) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Leterrier |
| Melville Shavelson | Melville Shavelson | 1917 | 2007 | American | film director, producer, screenwriter, and author | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Shavelson |
| Billy Ray (screenwriter) | Billy Ray | 1962 | n/a | American | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Ray_(screenwriter) |
| Kira Muratova | Kira Georgievna Muratova | 1934 | 2018 | Soviet | Kira Muratova: The Zoological Imperium // award-winning film director, screenwriter and actress of Romanian/Jewish descent, known for her unusual directorial style | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kira_Muratova |
| Wojciech Has | Wojciech Jerzy Has | 1925 | 2000 | Polish | film director, screenwriter and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wojciech_Has |
| Agnès Jaoui | Agnès Jaoui | 1964 | n/a | French | actress, screenwriter, film director and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnès_Jaoui |
| Rodney Rothman | Rodney Rothman | null | null | American | writer, producer, and film director known for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, 22 Jump Street, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Get Him to the Greek, Undeclared, and Late Show with David Letterman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodney_Rothman |
| Teller (magician) | Teller (born Raymond Joseph Teller; February 14, 1948) | 1948 | n/a | American | magician, illusionist, writer, actor, painter, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teller_(magician) |
| John Berry (film director) | John Berry | 1917 | 1999 | American | film director, who went into self-exile in France when his career was interrupted by the Hollywood blacklist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Berry_(film_director) |
| Andrew Bergman | Andrew Bergman | 1945 | n/a | American | screenwriter, film director, and novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Bergman |
| Héctor Babenco | Héctor Eduardo Babenco | 1946 | 2016 | Argentine | film director, screenwriter, producer and actor who worked in several countries including Brazil, Argentina, and the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Héctor_Babenco |
| Zalman King | Zalman King | 1941 | 2012 | American | film director, writer, actor and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zalman_King |
| Bryan Fogel | Bryan Fogel | null | null | American | film director, producer, author, playwright, speaker and human rights activist, best known for the 2017 documentary Icarus, which won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 90th Academy Awards in 2018 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Fogel |
| Bruce Bilson | Bruce Bilson | 1928 | n/a | American | film director and television director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Bilson |
| Wallace Wolodarsky | Wallace Wolodarsky | 1963 | n/a | American | actor, screenwriter, television producer, and film director known for being one of the writers for The Simpsons during the first four seasons with his writing partner Jay Kogen | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Wolodarsky |
| Paul L. Stein | Paul Ludwig Stein | 1892 | 1951 | Austrian | film director with 67 films to his credit | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_L._Stein |
| Roger Hanin | Roger Hanin | 1925 | 2015 | French | actor and film director, best known for playing the title role in the 1989–2006 TV police drama, Navarro | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Hanin |
| Olivier Dahan | Olivier Dahan | 1967 | n/a | French | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_Dahan |
| Noémie Lvovsky | Noémie Lvovsky | 1964 | n/a | French | film director, screenwriter, and actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noémie_Lvovsky |
| Sergei Yutkevich | Sergei Iosifovich Yutkevich | 1904 | 1985 | Soviet | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Yutkevich |
| Abraham Polonsky | Abraham Lincoln Polonsky | 1910 | 1999 | American | film director, screenwriter, essayist and novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Polonsky |
| Benny Safdie | Benjamin "Benny" Safdie | 1986 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, actor and film editor, best known for working with his older brother Josh as a filmmaker, whose works include Good Time (2017) and Uncut Gems (2019) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benny_Safdie |
| Charles Shyer | Charles Richard Shyer | 1951 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Shyer |
| Gary Fleder | Gary Fleder | 1965 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Fleder |
| Ricky Blitt | Richard Michael "Ricky" Blitt | null | null | Canadian | born screenwriter, film director, producer, and actor who has been based in Los Angeles since 1994 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ricky_Blitt |
| Boaz Yakin | Boaz Yakin | 1966 | n/a | Israeli | screenwriter, film director, and producer based in New York City | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz_Yakin |
| Martin Gabel | Martin Gabel | 1911 | 1986 | American | actor, film director and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Gabel |
| Isaak Dunayevsky | Isaak Osipovich Dunaevskiy | 1955 | n/a | Soviet | film composer and conductor of the 1930s and 1940s, who composed music for operetta and film comedies, frequently working with the film director Grigori Aleksandrov | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaak_Dunayevsky |
| Michael Gordon (film director) | Michael Gordon | 1909 | 1993 | American | stage actor and stage and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Gordon_(film_director) |
| Oren Moverman | Oren Moverman | 1966 | n/a | Israeli | Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, film director, and Emmy Award-winning film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren_Moverman |
| Joseph H. Lewis | Joseph H. Lewis | 1907 | 2000 | American | B-movie film director whose stylish flourishes came to be appreciated by auteur theory-espousing film critics in the years following his retirement in 1966 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_H._Lewis |
| Mark Sandrich | Mark Sandrich | 1900 | 1945 | American | film director, writer, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Sandrich |
| Mauritz Stiller | Mauritz Stiller | 1883 | 1928 | Swedish | film director of Finnish Jewish origin, best known for discovering Greta Garbo and bringing her to America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauritz_Stiller |
| Wilhelm Thiele | Wilhelm Thiele | 1890 | 1975 | Austrian | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Thiele |
| Mike Binder | Mike Binder | 1958 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, stand-up comic, producer, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Binder |
| Gil Kenan | Gil Kenan | 1976 | n/a | British | film director, film producer, screenwriter, and animator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gil_Kenan |
| Irving Rapper | Irving Rapper | 1898 | 1999 | English | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Rapper |
| Paul Czinner | Paul Czinner | 1890 | 1972 | Hungarian | writer, film director, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Czinner |
| Alex Ross Perry | Alex Ross Perry | 1984 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ross_Perry |
| Serge Moati | Serge Moati | 1946 | n/a | French | journalist, television presenter, film director and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serge_Moati |
| Mel Stuart | Mel Stuart | 1928 | 2012 | American | film director and producer who often worked with producer David L. Wolper, at whose production firm he worked for 17 years, before going freelance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Stuart |
| Samuel Bronston | Samuel Bronston | 1908 | 1994 | null | Bessarabian-born American film producer, film director, and a nephew of socialist revolutionary figure, Leon Trotsky | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Bronston |
| Dan Gordon (screenwriter) | Dan Gordon | null | null | Israeli | screenwriter, television writer, television producer, television director, film producer, novelist, playwright, film director, and reserve duty captain in the Israel Defense Forces | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Gordon_(screenwriter) |
| Dominique Farrugia | Dominique Farrugia | 1962 | n/a | French | actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, humorist and comedian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominique_Farrugia |
| Steven Lisberger | Steven M. Lisberger | 1951 | n/a | American | film director, producer and writer famous for directing Tron in 1982 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_Lisberger |
| Anne Spielberg | Anne Spielberg | 1949 | n/a | American | screenwriter and the sister of film director Steven Spielberg | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Spielberg |
| Albert Lewin | Albert Lewin | 1894 | 1968 | American | film director, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Lewin |
| Philippe Mora | Philippe Mora | 1949 | n/a | French | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Mora |
| Ronit Elkabetz | Ronit Elkabetz | 1964 | 2016 | Israeli | actress, screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronit_Elkabetz |
| Jonathan Mostow | Jonathan Mostow | 1961 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Mostow |
| Cate Shortland | Cate Shortland | 1968 | n/a | Australian | screenwriter, film director, television director, and television writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cate_Shortland |
| Rolan Bykov | Rolan Antonovich Bykov | 1929 | 1998 | Soviet | actor, theatre and film director, screenwriter, educator at High Courses for Scriptwriters and Film Directors, poet and song writer, as well as a politician and a banker | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolan_Bykov |
| Assi Dayan | Assaf "Assi" Dayan | 1945 | 2014 | Israeli | film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assi_Dayan |
| Steve Sekely | Steve Sekely | 1899 | 1979 | Hungarian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sekely |
| Konrad Wolf | Konrad Wolf | 1925 | 1982 | null | East German film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konrad_Wolf |
| Lothar Mendes | Lothar Mendes | 1894 | 1974 | German | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lothar_Mendes |
| Alessandro Haber | Alessandro Haber | 1947 | n/a | Italian | actor, film director and singer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Haber |
| Roy Rowland (film director) | Roy Rowland | 1910 | 1995 | American | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Rowland_(film_director) |
| Ulu Grosbard | Israel "Ulu" Grosbard | 1929 | 2012 | null | Belgian-born, naturalized American theatre and film director and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulu_Grosbard |
| Julie Davis | Julie Davis | 1969 | n/a | American | film director, writer and actress | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julie_Davis |
| Jacob Fleck | Jacob Fleck | 1881 | 1953 | Austrian | film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Fleck |
| León Klimovsky | León Klimovsky | 1906 | 1996 | Argentine | film director, screenwriter and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/León_Klimovsky |
| Alexei Uchitel | Aleksei Yefimovich Uchitel | 1951 | n/a | Russian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Uchitel |
| Jonathan Liebesman | Jonathan Liebesman | 1976 | n/a | South African | film director and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Liebesman |
| Charles Guggenheim | Charles Eli Guggenheim | 1924 | 2002 | American | documentary film director, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Guggenheim |
| Luis Saslavsky | Luis Saslavsky | 1903 | 1995 | Argentine | film director, screenwriter and film producer, and one of the influential directors in the Cinema of Argentina of the classic era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luis_Saslavsky |
| Nelly Kaplan | Nelly Kaplan | 1931 | 2020 | Argentine | writer and film director who focused on the arts, film, and filmmakers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelly_Kaplan |
| Robert Land | Robert Land | 1887 | 1940 | Austrian | Jewish film director of Moravian descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Land |
| Breck Eisner | Michael Breckenridge "Breck" Eisner | 1970 | n/a | American | television and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breck_Eisner |
| Andy Fickman | Andy Fickman | null | null | American | film director, film producer, screenwriter, television director, television producer, and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Fickman |
| Francine Parker | Francine Parker | 1925 | 2007 | American | television and film director, who was one of the first female members of the Directors Guild of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francine_Parker |
| Ludwig Berger (director) | Ludwig Berger | 1892 | 1969 | German | Jewish film director, screenwriter and theatre director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Berger_(director) |
| Peter Landesman | Peter Landesman | 1965 | n/a | American | screenwriter, film director, producer, journalist, novelist and painter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Landesman |
| Aleksander Ford | Aleksander Ford | 1908 | 1980 | Polish | film director; and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. Following the war he was appointed director of the Film Polski company | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksander_Ford |
| Jeffrey Blitz | Jeffrey Blitz | null | null | American | film director, producer, and screenwriter from Ridgewood, New Jersey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Blitz |
| Michał Waszyński | Michał Waszyński | 1904 | 1965 | null | first a film director in Poland, then in Italy, and later (as Michael Waszynski) a producer of major American films, mainly in Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michał_Waszyński |
| Eric Goldberg (animator) | Eric Goldberg | 1955 | n/a | American | animator, voice actor and film director known for his work at both Walt Disney Animation Studios and Warner Bros | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Goldberg_(animator) |
| Jesse Dylan | Jesse Byron Dylan | 1966 | n/a | American | film director and production executive | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesse_Dylan |
| Alma Har'el | Alma Har'el | null | null | Israeli | music video and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_Har'el |
| Irving Reis | Irving Reis | 1906 | 1953 | null | radio program producer and director, and a film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Reis |
| Patrick Timsit | Patrick Timsit | null | null | French | comedian, writer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Timsit |
| James Gray (director) | James Gray | 1969 | n/a | American | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gray_(director) |
| Daniel Burman | Daniel Burman | 1973 | n/a | Argentine | film director, screenplay writer, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Burman |
| Moshé Mizrahi | Moshé Mizrahi | 1931 | 2018 | Israeli | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moshé_Mizrahi |
| Gottfried Reinhardt | Gottfried Reinhardt | 1913 | 1994 | Austrian | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_Reinhardt |
| Hans Behrendt | Hans Behrendt | 1889 | 1942 | German | Jewish actor, screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Behrendt |
| Ben Younger | Ben Younger | 1972 | n/a | American | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Younger |
| Stacie Passon | Stacie Passon | 1969 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, and producer whose debut film Concussion premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and subsequently won a Teddy Award Jury Prize at the 2013 Berlin International Film Festival | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stacie_Passon |
| Tanya Wexler | Tanya Wexler | 1970 | n/a | American | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanya_Wexler |
| Eytan Fox | Eytan Fox | 1964 | n/a | Israeli | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eytan_Fox |
| Rajko Grlić | Rajko Grlić | 1947 | n/a | Croatian | film director, producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajko_Grlić |
| Nabil Ayouch | Nabil Ayouch | 1969 | n/a | French | television and film director, producer, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nabil_Ayouch |
| Daniel Kash | Daniel Joshua Kash | 1959 | n/a | Canadian | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Kash |
| Jules Engel | Jules Engel | 1909 | 2003 | American | filmmaker, painter, sculptor, graphic artist, set designer, animator, film director, and teacher | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Engel |
| Iosif Kheifits | Iosif Yefimovich Kheifits | none | 1995 | Soviet | film director, winner of two Stalin Prizes (1941, 1946), People's Artist of USSR (1964), Hero of Socialist Labor (1975) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iosif_Kheifits |
| Peter Kassovitz | Peter Kassovitz | 1938 | n/a | Hungarian | film director and scriptwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Kassovitz |
| Hanns Schwarz | Hanns Schwarz | 1888 | 1945 | Austrian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanns_Schwarz |
| Michel Boujenah | Michel Boujenah | 1952 | n/a | French | Jewish actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Boujenah |
| Isidore Isou | Isidore Isou | 1925 | 2007 | Romanian | poet, dramaturge, novelist, film director, economist, and visual artist who lived in the 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_Isou |
| Bud Greenspan | Jonah J. "Bud" Greenspan | 1926 | 2010 | null | film director, writer, and producer known for his sports documentaries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Greenspan |
| Kurt Maetzig | Kurt Maetzig | 1911 | 2012 | German | film director who had a significant effect on the film industry in East Germany | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Maetzig |
| Audrey Wells | Audrey Ann Wells | 1960 | 2018 | American | screenwriter, film director, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audrey_Wells |
| Sara Sugarman | Sara Sugarman | 1962 | n/a | Welsh | actress and film director whose work includes Disney's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen (2004) and Very Annie Mary (2001) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Sugarman |
| Daphna Kastner | Daphna Kastner | 1961 | n/a | Canadian | film and television actress, screenwriter, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daphna_Kastner |
| Leonid Trauberg | Leonid Zakharovich Trauberg | 1902 | 1990 | Ukrainian | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Trauberg |
| Nina Companeez | Nina Companeez | 1937 | 2015 | French | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Companeez |
| Wolf Koenig | Wolf Koenig | 1927 | 2014 | Canadian | film director, producer, animator, cinematographer, and a pioneer in Direct Cinema at the National Film Board of Canada | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Koenig |
| Andrzej Munk | Andrzej Munk | 1921 | 1961 | Polish | film director, screen writer and documentalist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrzej_Munk |
| Joséphine de La Baume | Joséphine de La Baume | 1984 | n/a | French | actress, singer, film director, and model | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joséphine_de_La_Baume |
| Sarah Gavron | Sarah Gavron | 1970 | n/a | British | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Gavron |
| E. A. Dupont | Ewald André Dupont | 1891 | 1956 | German | film director, one of the pioneers of the German film industry | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._A._Dupont |
| Jeffrey Bloom | Jeffrey Allen Bloom | null | null | American | film director, film producer, screenwriter and photographer, currently residing in Studio City, California | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Bloom |
| Léonide Moguy | Léonide Moguy | 1899 | 1976 | null | Ukrainian, French film director, screenwriter and film editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léonide_Moguy |
| Lupu Pick | Lupu Pick | 1886 | 1931 | German | actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter of the silent era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lupu_Pick |
| Manfred Noa | Manfred Noa | 1893 | 1930 | German | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manfred_Noa |
| Alexander Rodnyansky | Alexander Yefymovych Rodnyansky | 1961 | n/a | Ukrainian | film director, film producer, television executive and businessman | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Rodnyansky |
| Murray Lerner | Murray Lerner | 1927 | 2017 | American | documentary and experimental film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Lerner |
| Wolf Rilla | Wolf Peter Rilla | 1920 | 2005 | null | film director and writer of German background, although he worked mainly in the United Kingdom | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf_Rilla |
| Yuli Raizman | Yuli Yakovlevich Raizman | 1903 | 1994 | Soviet | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuli_Raizman |
| Karl Grune | Karl Grune | 1890 | 1962 | Austrian | film director and writer who made many silent films in the 1920s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Grune |
| Simon Monjack | Simon Mark Monjack | 1970 | 2010 | English | screenwriter, film director, film producer and make-up artist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Monjack |
| Mark Rosenthal (screenwriter) | Mark David Rosenthal | null | null | American | screenwriter and film director and long-time writing partner of Lawrence Konner | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Rosenthal_(screenwriter) |
| Uri Zohar | Uri Zohar | 1935 | n/a | Israeli | former film director, actor, and comedian who left the entertainment world to become a rabbi | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uri_Zohar |
| Max Nosseck | Max Nosseck | 1902 | 1972 | German | film director, actor and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Nosseck |
| Paul Boujenah | Paul Boujenah | 1958 | n/a | French | Jewish film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Boujenah |
| Edwin H. Knopf | Edwin H. Knopf | 1899 | 1981 | American | film producer, film director, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_H._Knopf |
| Éric Rochant | Éric Rochant | 1961 | n/a | French | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Éric_Rochant |
| Marc Silverstein | Marc Silverstein | 1971 | n/a | American | screenwriter, producer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Silverstein |
| Felix Basch | Felix Basch | 1885 | 1944 | American | actor, screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Basch |
| Francis Mankiewicz | Francis Mankiewicz | 1944 | 1993 | Canadian | film director, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Mankiewicz |
| Caroline Huppert | Caroline Huppert | 1950 | n/a | French | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Huppert |
| Christopher Landon (filmmaker) | Christopher Beau Landon | 1975 | n/a | American | film director, producer, and screenwriter best known for writing the thriller Disturbia (2007) and found-footage films Paranormal Activity 2 (2010), Paranormal Activity 3 (2011), and Paranormal Activity 4 (2012), directing the horror comedy Happy Death Day, and both writing and directing Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (2014), Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, the sequel Happy Death Day 2U, and Freaky, which were also horror films, most of them with comedic elements | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Landon_(filmmaker) |
| Joseph Cedar | Yossef (Joseph) Cedar | 1968 | n/a | Israeli | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Cedar |
| Theodore J. Flicker | Theodore Jonas Flicker | 1930 | 2014 | American | playwright, theatrical producer, television and film director, actor, television writer, screenwriter, author and sculptor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_J._Flicker |
| Bart Freundlich | Bartholomew Freundlich | 1970 | n/a | American | film director, television director, screenwriter, and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bart_Freundlich |
| Pyotr Todorovsky | Pyotr Yefimovich Todorovsky | 1925 | 2013 | Russian | film director, screenwriter and cinematographer of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyotr_Todorovsky |
| Alexander Ramati | Alexander Ramati | 1921 | 2006 | Polish | writer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Ramati |
| Thor Freudenthal | Thor Freudenthal | 1972 | n/a | German | film director, screenwriter, animator and special effects artist best known for his work on Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thor_Freudenthal |
| Sergio Renán | Sergio Renán | 1933 | 2015 | Argentine | actor, film director, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergio_Renán |
| Aleksandr Zarkhi | Aleksandr Grigoryevich Zarkhi | 1908 | 1997 | Soviet | film director, screenwriter, and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Zarkhi |
| John Krokidas | John Krokidas | null | null | American | film director, screenwriter, and producer, best known for his directorial debut film, the 2013 biographical drama Kill Your Darlings | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Krokidas |
| Vadim Perelman | Vadim Perelman | 1963 | n/a | Ukrainian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vadim_Perelman |
| Dennis Berry (director) | Dennis Charles Berry | 1944 | 2021 | American | film director, actor, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Berry_(director) |
| Raphaël Glucksmann | Raphaël Glucksmann | 1979 | n/a | French | journalist, film director, and political figure | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raphaël_Glucksmann |
| Alexander Mitta | Alexander Naumovich Mitta | 1933 | n/a | Soviet | film director, screenwriter and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Mitta |
| Alan Conway | Alan Conway | 1934 | 1998 | English | conman, best known for impersonating film director Stanley Kubrick | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Conway |
| Oren Peli | Oren Peli | 1970 | n/a | Israeli | film director, producer and screenwriter, known for directing the 2007 film Paranormal Activity | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren_Peli |
| Janicza Bravo | Janicza Michelle Bravo Ford | 1981 | n/a | American | film director, film producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janicza_Bravo |
| Mark Donskoy | Mark Semyonovich Donskoy | none | 1981 | Soviet | film director, screenwriter, and studio administrative head | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Donskoy |
| Alexander Kaidanovsky | Alexander Leonidovich Kaidanovsky | 1946 | 1995 | Soviet | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Kaidanovsky |
| Nadav Lapid | Nadav Lapid | 1975 | n/a | Israeli | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadav_Lapid |
| Paul Leder | Paul Leder | 1926 | 1996 | American | film director, writer and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Leder |
| Darius Marder | Darius Marder | null | null | American | film director, screenwriter, and editor from Massachusetts | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darius_Marder |
| Jorge Mautner | Henrique George Mautner | 1941 | n/a | Brazilian | singer-songwriter, lyricist, violinist, actor, screenwriter, film director and poet, considered to be a pioneer of the MPB scene and of the Tropicalista movement | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jorge_Mautner |
| Nicholas Jarecki | Nicholas Jarecki | 1979 | n/a | American | film director, producer, and writer best known for his 2012 feature film Arbitrage | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Jarecki |
| Claudia Weill | Claudia Weill | null | null | American | film director best known for her film Girlfriends (1978), starring Melanie Mayron, Christopher Guest, Bob Balaban and Eli Wallach, made independently and sold to Warner Brothers after multiple awards at Cannes, Filmex and Sundance | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Weill |
| Alessandro Gassmann | Alessandro Gassmann | 1965 | n/a | Italian | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Gassmann |
| Rebecca Zlotowski | Rebecca Zlotowski | 1980 | n/a | French | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca_Zlotowski |
| Saul Metzstein | Saul Metzstein | 1970 | n/a | Scottish | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saul_Metzstein |
| Adolf E. Licho | Adolf Edgar Licho | 1876 | 1944 | Russian | actor, screenwriter, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_E._Licho |
| Thomas Brasch | Thomas Brasch | 1945 | 2001 | German | author, poet and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Brasch |
| Al Boasberg | Al Boasberg | 1891 | 1937 | American | comedy writer in vaudeville, radio, and film, as well as being a film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Boasberg |
| Friedrich Feher | Friedrich Feher | 1889 | 1950 | Austrian | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Feher |
| Leo Mittler | Leo Mittler | 1893 | 1958 | Austrian | playwright, screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Mittler |
| Henry Cornelius | Henry Cornelius | 1913 | 1958 | South African | film director, producer, screenwriter and film editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cornelius |
| Erik Charell | Erik Charell | 1894 | 1974 | German | theatre and film director, dancer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Charell |
| Michal Bat-Adam | Michal Bat-Adam | 1945 | n/a | Israeli | film director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and musician | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michal_Bat-Adam |
| Larry Bishop | Larry Bishop | 1948 | n/a | American | actor, screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Bishop |
| Amos Kollek | Amos Kollek | 1947 | n/a | Israeli | film director, writer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Kollek |
| Walter Stern (director) | Walter Adrian Stern | 1965 | n/a | English | music video film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Stern_(director) |
| Rudolf Bernauer | Rudolf Bernauer | 1880 | 1953 | Austrian | lyricist, librettist, screenwriter, film director, producer, | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rudolf_Bernauer |
| Ernst Reicher | Ernst Reicher | 1885 | 1936 | German | Jewish actor, screenwriter, film producer and film director of the silent era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Reicher |
| Vinko Brešan | Vinko Brešan | 1964 | n/a | Croatian | film director who emerged into international renown with three critically acclaimed and award-winning films that, each in its own way, broke some of the perceived taboos of Croatian cinema in the 1990s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vinko_Brešan |
| Alexis Granowsky | Alexis Granowsky | 1890 | 1937 | Russian | theatre director who later became a film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexis_Granowsky |
| Yehuda Barkan | Yehuda Barkan | 1945 | 2020 | Israeli | actor, film producer, film director, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yehuda_Barkan |
| Noam Murro | Noam Murro | null | null | Israeli | film director and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noam_Murro |
| Samuel Maoz | Samuel Maoz | 1962 | n/a | Israeli | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Maoz |
| Emanuele Luzzati | Emanuele Luzzati | 1921 | 2007 | Italian | painter, production designer, illustrator, film director and animator | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuele_Luzzati |
| Marilou Berry | Marilou Berry | 1983 | n/a | French | actress, film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marilou_Berry |
| Todd Strauss-Schulson | Todd Strauss-Schulson | 1980 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and cinematographer, best known for directing the comedy film A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas (2011), the horror comedy film The Final Girls (2015), and the romantic comedy film Isn't It Romantic (2019) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Strauss-Schulson |
| Jonathan Zaccaï | Jonathan Zaccaï | 1970 | n/a | Belgian | actor, film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Zaccaï |
| Wanda Jakubowska | Wanda Jakubowska | 1907 | 1998 | Polish | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanda_Jakubowska |
| Joe Nussbaum | Joseph Nussbaum | 1973 | n/a | American | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Nussbaum |
| Fedor Ozep | Fedor Ozep or Fyodor Otsep | 1895 | 1949 | Russian | film director and screenwriter, born in Moscow | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedor_Ozep |
| Arthur Bergen | Arthur Bergen | 1875 | 1943 | Austrian | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Bergen |
| Mordicai Gerstein | Mordicai Gerstein | 1935 | 2019 | American | artist, writer, and film director, best known for illustrating and writing children's books | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mordicai_Gerstein |
| Mark Levin (director) | Mark Levin | 1968 | n/a | American | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Levin_(director) |
| Max Glass | Max Glass | 1881 | 1965 | Austrian | screenwriter, film director, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Glass |
| Fabián Bielinsky | Fabián Bielinsky | 1959 | 2006 | Argentine | film director born in Buenos Aires | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabián_Bielinsky |
| Victor Trivas | Victor Trivas | 1896 | 1970 | Russian | Jewish screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Trivas |
| Dan Friedkin | Thomas Dan Friedkin | 1965 | n/a | American | billionaire businessman, heir and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Friedkin |
| Roman Karmen | Roman Lazarevich Karmen | none | 1978 | Soviet | war camera-man and film director and one of the most influential figures in documentary film making | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Karmen |
| Abram Room | Abram Matveyevich Room | 1894 | n/a | Russian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abram_Room |
| Pim de la Parra | Pim de la Parra | 1940 | n/a | Surinamese | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pim_de_la_Parra |
| Anatoly Efros | Anatoly Vasilievich Efros | 1925 | 1987 | Soviet | theatre and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Efros |
| Francesca Gregorini | Countess Francesca McKnight Donatella Romana Gregorini di Savignano di Romagna | 1968 | n/a | Italian | writer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesca_Gregorini |
| Anthony Spinelli | Anthony Spinelli | 1927 | 2000 | American | one-time mainstream actor and producer, who later became a pornographic film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Spinelli |
| Ami Canaan Mann | Ami Canaan Mann | null | null | British | film director, television director and television writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ami_Canaan_Mann |
| Aaron Woodley | Aaron Woodley | 1971 | n/a | Canadian | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Woodley |
| Mikhail Schweitzer | Mikhail (or Moisei/Moses) Abramovich Schweitzer | 1920 | 2000 | Soviet | film director, People's Artist of the RSFSR and People's Artist of the USSR. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Schweitzer |
| Samson Samsonov | Samson Iosifovich Samsonov | 1921 | 2002 | Soviet | film director and screenwriter, he was granted the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1991 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samson_Samsonov |
| Jiří Weiss | Jiří Weiss | 1913 | 2004 | Czech | film director, screenwriter, writer, playwright and pedagogue | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiří_Weiss |
| Sandra Goldbacher | Sandra A. Goldbacher | 1960 | n/a | British | film director, TV director, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Goldbacher |
| Evgeny Afineevsky | Evgeny Mikhailovich Afineevsky | 1972 | n/a | Israeli | film director, producer and cinematographer who lives in the United States | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evgeny_Afineevsky |
| John Gottowt | John Gottowt | 1881 | 1942 | Austrian | actor, stage director and film director for theatres and silent movies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gottowt |
| Álvaro Brechner | Álvaro Brechner | 1976 | n/a | Uruguayan | film director, writer and producer that lives in Spain | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Álvaro_Brechner |
| Jérémie Elkaïm | Jérémie Elkaïm | 1978 | n/a | French | actor, screenwriter and film director best known for his role in Presque rien (US title: Come Undone, 2000) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jérémie_Elkaïm |
| Paul Merzbach | Paul Merzbach | 1888 | 1943 | Austrian | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Merzbach |
| Frans Weisz | Frans Weisz | 1938 | n/a | Dutch | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frans_Weisz |
| Emma Seligman | Emma Seligman | null | null | Canadian | film director and screenwriter, best known for her feature directorial debut Shiva Baby (2020) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Seligman |
| Sebastián Borensztein | Sebastián Borensztein | 1963 | n/a | Argentine | screenwriter and film director, best known for the films Chinese Take-Away (2011), Heroic Losers (2019) and the horror television miniseries El garante | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastián_Borensztein |
| Gabriel Cowan | Gabriel Cowan | null | null | null | film director, composer and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Cowan |
| Fridrikh Ermler | Fridrikh Markovich Ermler | 1898 | 1967 | Soviet | film director, actor, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fridrikh_Ermler |
| Félix Moati | Félix Moati | 1990 | n/a | French | actor, film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_Moati |
| John Palmer (director) | John Palmer | 1943 | 2020 | Canadian | theatre and film director and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Palmer_(director) |
| Hugo Sofovich | Hugo Alberto Sofovich | 1939 | 2003 | Argentine | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Sofovich |
| Anthony Gross | Anthony Imre Alexander Gross | 1905 | 1984 | British | printmaker, painter, war artist and film director of Hungarian-Jewish, Italian, and Anglo-Irish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Gross |
| Yuli Gusman | Yuli Solomonovich Gusman | 1943 | n/a | null | Soviet, Russian film director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuli_Gusman |
| Gary Sinyor | Gary Sinyor | 1962 | n/a | English | film director, producer, and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Sinyor |
| Péter Bacsó | Péter Bacsó | 1928 | 2009 | Hungarian | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Péter_Bacsó |
| Hans Hinrich | Hans Hinrich | 1903 | 1974 | German | film director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Hinrich |
| Gaby Dellal | Gaby Dellal | 1961 | n/a | British | actress, film director and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaby_Dellal |
| Max Reichmann | Max Reichmann | 1884 | 1958 | German | film director active during the silent and early sound eras | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Reichmann |
| Diego Lerman | Diego Lerman | 1976 | n/a | Argentine | film director, producer and screenplay writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diego_Lerman |
| Peter Beauvais | Peter Beauvais | 1916 | 1986 | German | television film director and scriptwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Beauvais |
| Amos Guttman | Amos Guttman | 1954 | 1993 | Israeli | film director, born in Romania | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amos_Guttman |
| Vladimir Motyl | Vladimir Yakovlevich Motyl | 1927 | 2010 | Soviet | and Belarussian film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Motyl |
| Larry Weinstein | Larry Weinstein | 1956 | n/a | Canadian | film director of theatrical and television documentaries, performance films, and dramas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Weinstein |
| Juan Minujín | Juan Gervasio Minujín | 1975 | n/a | Argentine | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Minujín |
| William Margold | William Margold | 1943 | 2017 | American | pornographic film actor and porn film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Margold |
| Navot Papushado | Navot Papushado | 1980 | n/a | Israeli | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navot_Papushado |
| Léo Lasko | Léo Lasko | 1885 | 1949 | German | screenwriter and film director of the silent and early sound eras | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Léo_Lasko |
| Leon Hirszman | Leon Hirszman | 1937 | 1987 | Brazilian | film director, producer and screenwriter, and one of the main figures of Cinema Novo | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Hirszman |
| Tatyana Lioznova | Tatyana Mikhailovna Lioznova | 1924 | 2011 | Soviet | film director best known for her TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatyana_Lioznova |
| Yonah Lewis | Yonah Lewis | 1986 | n/a | Canadian | film director and screenwriter, who collaborates on most of his work with Calvin Thomas | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yonah_Lewis |
| David José Kohon | David José Kohon | 1929 | 2004 | Argentine | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_José_Kohon |
| Valerie Landsburg | Valerie Landsburg | 1958 | n/a | American | actress, television and film director, screenwriter, and singer-songwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerie_Landsburg |
| Adam Marcus (director) | Adam Marcus | 1970 | n/a | American | film director, writer and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Marcus_(director) |
| Alfréd Radok | Alfréd Radok | 1914 | 1976 | null | distinguished Czech stage director and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfréd_Radok |
| Harry Rasky | Harry Rasky, CM, O.Ont | 1928 | 2007 | Canadian | documentary film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Rasky |
| Sam White (film producer) | Sam White | null | null | American | film producer, film director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_White_(film_producer) |
| António da Cunha Telles | António da Cunha Telles | 1935 | n/a | Portuguese | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/António_da_Cunha_Telles |
| Shimon Dotan | Shimon Dotan | 1949 | n/a | Israeli | film director, screenwriter, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimon_Dotan |
| Ernst Laemmle | Ernst Laemmle | 1900 | 1950 | German | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Laemmle |
| James Bauer | James Bauer | 1884 | 1940 | German | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Bauer |
| Joseph Delmont | Joseph Delmont | 1873 | 1935 | Austrian | film director of some 200 films, largely shorts, in which he was noted for his innovative use of beasts of prey | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Delmont |
| Yaky Yosha | Yaky Yosha | null | null | null | film director from Israel, known for realism | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaky_Yosha |
| Lior Shamriz | Lior Shamriz | 1978 | n/a | null | writer, producer, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lior_Shamriz |
| David Secter | David Secter | null | null | Canadian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Secter |
| Lester Allen | Lester Allen | 1891 | 1949 | null | screen, stage, vaudeville, circus actor, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lester_Allen |
| Maryus Vaysberg | Maryus Erikovich Vaysberg | 1971 | n/a | Russian | film director, producer, and screenwriter of Lithuanian and Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryus_Vaysberg |
| Slava Tsukerman | Vladislav "Slava" Tsukerman | 1940 | n/a | Russian | film director of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slava_Tsukerman |
| Constantin J. David | Constantin J. David | 1886 | 1964 | German | journalist, film director, film producer, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_J._David |
| Aleksandr Faintsimmer | Aleksandr Mikhailovich Faintsimmer | 1906 | 1982 | Soviet | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Faintsimmer |
| Dover Kosashvili | Dover Kosashvili | 1966 | n/a | Israeli | film director and screenwriter of Georgian-Jewish descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dover_Kosashvili |
| Ilya Averbakh | Ilya Aleksandrovich Averbakh | 1934 | 1986 | Soviet | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Averbakh |
| Shira Geffen | Shira Geffen | 1971 | n/a | Israeli | actress, screenwriter, film director and children's book writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shira_Geffen |
| Herbert Rappaport | Herbert Rappaport | 1908 | 1983 | Austrian | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Rappaport |
| Marie Epstein | Marie Epstein | 1899 | 1995 | null | actress, scenarist, film director, and film preservationist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Epstein |
| Adrián Caetano | Israel Adrián Caetano | 1969 | n/a | Uruguayan | film director, producer and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrián_Caetano |
| Barra Grant | Barra Grant | 1948 | n/a | American | actress, screenwriter, film director and playwright | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barra_Grant |
| Martín Rejtman | Martín Rejtman | 1961 | n/a | Argentine | writer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martín_Rejtman |
| Aharon Keshales | Aharon Keshales | 1976 | n/a | Israeli | film director, screenwriter, and film critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aharon_Keshales |
| Josh Appignanesi | Josh Appignanesi | 1975 | n/a | British | film director, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Appignanesi |
| Irving Saraf | Irving Saraf | 1932 | 2012 | Polish | film producer, film editor, film director and academic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irving_Saraf |
| Piotr Szulkin | Piotr Szulkin | 1950 | 2018 | Polish | film director and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piotr_Szulkin |
| Lawrence Marston | Lawrence Marston | 1857 | 1939 | American | actor, playwright, producer, stage director and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Marston |
| Spencer Susser | Spencer Susser | 1977 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spencer_Susser |
| Nurith Aviv | Nurtih Aviv | null | null | French | film director and director of photography who was born 11 March 1945, in Tel Aviv (then in Mandatory Palestine) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurith_Aviv |
| Ivan Dykhovichny | Ivan Vladimirovich Dykhovichny | 1947 | 2009 | Russian | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Dykhovichny |
| Dave Naz | David F. Nazworthy, professionally known as Dave Naz | 1969 | n/a | American | photographer and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Naz |
| Danielle Lessovitz | Danielle Lessovitz | null | null | American | film director, producer, and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danielle_Lessovitz |
| Jonathan Tammuz | Jonathan Tammuz | null | null | British | film director, best known for directing the short film The Childeater and the feature film Rupert's Land | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Tammuz |
| Aluizio Abranches | Aluizio Abranches | null | null | Brazilian | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluizio_Abranches |
| Michèle Ohayon | Michèle Ohayon | 1968 | n/a | null | film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for the Academy Award-nominated feature documentary film, Colors Straight Up (1997), Cowboy del Amor (2005), Steal a Pencil for Me (2007) and Cristina (2016) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michèle_Ohayon |
| William De Los Santos | William De Los Santos | 1965 | n/a | null | Hawaiian American author, poet, screenwriter, film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_De_Los_Santos |
| Sidney M. Goldin | Sidney M. Goldin | 1878 | 1937 | American | silent film director as well as a prominent writer, actor and producer for Yiddish theater and Yiddish cinema during the early 20th century | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_M._Goldin |
| Ernő Metzner | Ernő Metzner | 1892 | 1953 | null | film director and production designer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernő_Metzner |
| Gregg Champion | Gregg Champion | 1956 | n/a | American | film director, known for his work on wide release and TV Hollywood movies | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregg_Champion |
| Marie-Louise Ekman | Marie-Louise Ester Maude Ekman, née Fuchs, and known during her first marriage under the surname De Geer, and during and after her second as De Geer Bergenstråhle | null | null | Swedish | painter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie-Louise_Ekman |
| Julien Nitzberg | Julien Nitzberg | 1965 | n/a | American | screenwriter, stage writer, lyricist, theater director and film director, best known in the film world as the director of the documentary The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julien_Nitzberg |
| Melville Shyer | Melville Jacob Shyer | 1895 | 1968 | American | film director, screenwriter and producer and one of the founders of the Directors Guild of America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melville_Shyer |
| Margaret Lazarus | Margaret Lazarus | 1949 | n/a | American | film producer/film director known for her work in documentary film | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Lazarus |
| Dmitry Astrakhan | Dmitry Hananovich Astrakhan | 1957 | n/a | Russian | film director and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Astrakhan |
| Semyon Aranovich | Semyon Davidovich Aranovich | 1934 | 1996 | Soviet | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_Aranovich |
| Leonid Kvinikhidze | Leonid Aleksandrovich Kvinihidze | 1937 | 2018 | Russian | screenwriter and film director His father, Aleksandr Faintsimmer, was also a film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonid_Kvinikhidze |
| Ludwik Margules | Ludwik Margules Coben | 1933 | 2006 | Polish | theatre, opera and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwik_Margules |
| Dušan Klein | Dušan Klein | 1939 | 2022 | Czech | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dušan_Klein |
| Reshef Levi | Reshef Levi | 1972 | n/a | Israeli | screenwriter, playwright, film director, producer, writer, comedian and television presenter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reshef_Levi |
| Sande Zeig | Sande Zeig | null | null | American | film director and writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sande_Zeig |
| Richard Löwenbein | Richard Löwenbein | 1894 | 1943 | Austrian | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Löwenbein |
| Meir Zarchi | Meir Zarchi | 1937 | n/a | Israeli | film director, screenwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meir_Zarchi |
| Sydney Samuelson | Sir Sydney H. Wylie Samuelson | 1925 | n/a | British | film director and cinematographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sydney_Samuelson |
| Zlatko Bourek | Zlatko Bourek | 1929 | 2018 | Croatian | Jewish film director, screenwriter, production designer, cartoonist and expert on Jewish culture | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zlatko_Bourek |
| Dany Roland | Daniel David Roland Pinto | 1962 | n/a | Argentine | musician, actor, sound designer, film director and record producer, famous for being the drummer of the popular new wave band Metrô and for his collaborations with wife Bia Lessa | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dany_Roland |
| Assaf Bernstein | Assaf Bernstein | 1970 | n/a | Israeli | screenwriter, film director and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assaf_Bernstein |
| Zako Heskiya | Zako Heskija, Isaac Solomonov Heskiya, Зако Хеския | 1922 | 2006 | Bulgarian | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zako_Heskiya |
| Vicki Shiran | Vicki Shiran | 1947 | 2004 | Israeli | criminologist, sociologist, poet, film director, media personality and activist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicki_Shiran |
| Lionel Friedberg | Lionel Friedberg | null | null | null | documentary film director, producer and writer who has written or produced films for, among others, Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, PBS, the History Channel and National Geographic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lionel_Friedberg |
| David Irving (director) | David Kenneth Irving | null | null | American | film director, screenwriter, author, and professor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Irving_(director) |
| Amnon Buchbinder | Amnon Buchbinder | 1958 | 2019 | American | screenwriter and film director,Patricia Robertson, "Film stories feed the soul" | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnon_Buchbinder |
| André Charpak | André Charpak | 1928 | 2006 | Polish | actor, dialoguist, film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/André_Charpak |
| Hanna Azoulay Hasfari | Hanna Azoulay-Hasfari | 1960 | n/a | Israeli | actress, screenwriter, playwright, film director and a two-time winner of the Ophir Award | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanna_Azoulay_Hasfari |
| Scott Masters | Scott Masters | 1934 | 2020 | American | gay pornographic film director and studio owner active in adult film since the mid-1960s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Masters |
| Jan S. Kolár | Jan S. Kolár | 1896 | 1973 | Czech | film director, screenwriter, actor and film historian | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_S._Kolár |
| Alexander Gutman | Alexander Ilyich Gutman | 1945 | 2016 | Russian | film director of Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gutman |
| Ernst Angel | Ernst Angel | 1894 | 1986 | Austrian | poet, theatre and film critic, screen play author, film director and publisher who later became a psychologist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Angel |
| Magdalena Łazarkiewicz | Magdalena Łazarkiewicz, née Holland | 1954 | n/a | Polish | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magdalena_Łazarkiewicz |
| Matthew Ogens | Matthew Ogens | null | null | American | film director, creative director, photographer and artist, best known for his 2021 Netflix documentary short film, Audible, which was nominated for Best Documentary Short Subject at the 94th Academy Awards | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Ogens |
| Esteban Sapir | Esteban Sapir | 1967 | n/a | Argentine | cinematographer, film director, and screenplay writer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esteban_Sapir |
| Martín Piroyansky | Martín Piroyansky | 1986 | n/a | Argentine | actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martín_Piroyansky |
| Isaac Ezban | Isaac Ezban | 1986 | n/a | Mexican | film director, writer and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Ezban |
| Matthew Mishory | Matthew Mishory | null | null | American | film director of Israeli descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Mishory |
| Emma Forrest | Emma Forrest | 1976 | n/a | British | film director, screenwriter and novelist | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_Forrest |
| Josephine Abady | Josephine R. "Josie" Abady | null | null | American | stage director, film director, and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Abady |
| Jonathan Kesselman | Jonathan Kesselman | 1974 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, and producer, who first gained notice as the writer and director of The Hebrew Hammer (2003) | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Kesselman |
| Henry Lynn | Henry Lynn | 1895 | 1984 | null | film director, screenwriter, and producer, who concentrated on Yiddish life and culture in the United States, early twentieth century, (1932–1939), the era of Yiddish film in America | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lynn |
| Magda Umer | Magda Umer | 1949 | n/a | Polish | singer and performer of sung poetry, journalist, author, film director, screenwriter, actress, and author of recitals | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magda_Umer |
| Elías Isaac Alippi | Elías Isaac Alippi | 1883 | 1942 | Argentine | actor, theatrical impresario, film director and theater director, who was born and died in Buenos Aires | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elías_Isaac_Alippi |
| Arnon Goldfinger | Arnon Goldfinger | 1963 | n/a | Israeli | film director and scriptwriter, winner of two Israeli Academy Awards, known for his films The Komediant and The Flat | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnon_Goldfinger |
| Emil Radok | Emil Radok | 1918 | 1994 | Czech | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emil_Radok |
| Henryk Szaro | Henryk Szaro | 1900 | 1942 | Polish | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henryk_Szaro |
| Suzanne Wasserman | Suzanne Wasserman | 1957 | 2017 | null | Chicago-born historian, Professor, writer, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suzanne_Wasserman |
| Robert Siegel (filmmaker) | Robert D. Siegel | 1971 | n/a | American | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Siegel_(filmmaker) |
| Jasmine Dellal | Jasmine Dellal | null | null | British | film director and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jasmine_Dellal |
| Alfred Deutsch-German | Alfred Deutsch-German | 1870 | 1943 | Austrian | journalist, playwright, screenwriter, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Deutsch-German |
| David Cherkassky | David Yanovich Cherkassky | 1931 | 2018 | null | Soviet film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cherkassky |
| Tom Pevsner | Thomas Pevsner | 1926 | 2014 | British | assistant film director and producer whose career spanned more than four decades | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Pevsner |
| Simon Brook (director) | Simon Brook | null | null | British | film director, mostly of documentaries | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Brook_(director) |
| Samy Szlingerbaum | Samy Szlingerbaum | 1950 | 1986 | Belgian | screenwriter, actor and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samy_Szlingerbaum |
| David Cole (journalist) | David Christopher Cole | 1968 | n/a | American | film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Cole_(journalist) |
| Friedrich Porges | Friedrich | 1890 | 1978 | Austrian | film director of the silent era, journalist, publisher, screenwriter, author and film critic | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Porges |
| Mikhail Kalik | Mikhail Naumovich Kalik | 1927 | 2017 | Soviet | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Kalik |
| Danniel Danniel | Danniel Danniel | 1950 | 2017 | Israeli | film director, screenwriter and film editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danniel_Danniel |
| Robert Bober | Robert Bober | 1931 | n/a | French | film director, theater director and writer of German-Jewish origin | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bober |
| Otto Kreisler | Otto Kreisler | 1890 | 1970 | Austrian | film director of the silent era | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Kreisler |
| Jeff L. Lieberman | Jeff L. Lieberman | null | null | null | film director, screenwriter and producer of both narrative and documentary films | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_L._Lieberman |
| Boris Grachevsky | Boris Yurevich Grachevsky | 1949 | 2021 | Russian | film director, screenwriter, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Grachevsky |
| Max Berliner | Max Berliner | 1919 | 2019 | Polish | actor, author, film director and theater director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Berliner |
| Hagi Šein | Hagi Šein | 1945 | n/a | Estonian | journalist, film director, screenwriter, professor, media pedagogue and former figure skater | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagi_Šein |
| Jessie Kahnweiler | Jessie Kahnweiler | null | null | American | actress, writer, comedian, film director and YouTube personality | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Kahnweiler |
| Siegfried Dessauer | Siegfried Dessauer | 1874 | 1956 | German | screenwriter and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siegfried_Dessauer |
| Eva Grlić | Eva Grlić | 1920 | 2008 | null | Croatian journalist and writer, mother of famous Croatian film director and producer Rajko Grlić | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Grlić |
| Shmuel Beru | Shmuel Beru | null | null | Ethiopian | Jew who migrated to Israel where he became an actor, screenwriter, and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shmuel_Beru |
| Solomon Efimovich Shulman | Solomon Efimovich Shulman | 1936 | 2017 | null | author, screenwriter, film director and adventurer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Efimovich_Shulman |
| J.D. Lifshitz | J.D. Lifshitz | 1992 | n/a | American | film director, producer, screenwriter and occasional actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J.D._Lifshitz |
| Yuval Delshad | Yuval Delshad | null | null | Israeli | film director of Iranian descent | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuval_Delshad |
| Eldar Rapaport | Eldar Rapaport | null | null | American | film director, screenwriter and producer, best known for his 2011 feature film August | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eldar_Rapaport |
| George Ovadiah | George Ovadiah | 1925 | 1996 | Iraqi | film director, scriptwriter and producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Ovadiah |
| George Roland | George Roland | 1881 | 1961 | null | Yiddish language film director and editor of the 1930s | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Roland |
| Esti Almo Wexler | Esti Almo Wexler | null | null | Ethiopian | film director, writer, and cinematographer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esti_Almo_Wexler |
| Paul Israel Pickman | Paul Israel Pickman | 1958 | n/a | American | film director, screenwriter, producer, newspaper publisher and columnist best known in United States of America for founding the Kackad (Каскад) pronounced Cascade in English) Russian newspaper | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Israel_Pickman |
| Doc Salomon | Ananda Max Salomon | 1891 | 1944 | American | film director and studio manager at Teddington Studios | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Salomon |
| Lucian Bratu | Lucian Bratu | 1924 | 1998 | Romanian | Jewish film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_Bratu |
| Ted Sharks | Ted Sharks | null | null | Japanese | film director, producer, screenwriter and editor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Sharks |
| Vladimir Schneiderov | Vladimir Schneiderov | 1900 | 1973 | null | Soviet-era explorer and educational film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Schneiderov |
| Uzi Peres | Uzi Peres | 1951 | 1992 | Israeli | film director, screenwriter and film producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uzi_Peres |
| Yossi Atia | Yossi Atia | 1979 | n/a | Israeli | artist, active primarily as a film director, video artist, and actor | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yossi_Atia |
| Benito Gutmacher | Benito Gutmacher | 1950 | n/a | null | actor, author and theatre and film director | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Gutmacher |
| Renaldo Samsara | Renaldo Samsara | 1988 | n/a | Indonesian | screenwriter, film director, film editor and indie music producer | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renaldo_Samsara |
| Eugen Thiele | Eugen Thiele | 1897 | 1938 | Austrian | film director and screenwriter | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Thiele |