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film directors
567 notable film directors on file — 226 still here, 341 not.
still with us (30 of 226)
Steven Spielberg
aliveAmerican filmmaker (born 1946)
born 1946
Woody Allen
aliveAmerican filmmaker, actor and comedian (born 1935)
born 1935
Johnny Depp
aliveAmerican actor (born 1963)
born 1963
Natalie Portman
aliveIsraeli-American actress (born 1981)
born 1981
Clint Eastwood
aliveAmerican actor and film director (born 1930)
born 1930
Tom Hanks
aliveAmerican actor and film producer (born 1956)
born 1956
George Lucas
aliveAmerican filmmaker and philanthropist (born 1944)
born 1944
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Cate Blanchett
aliveAustralian actor and producer (born 1969)
born 1969
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Morgan Freeman
aliveAmerican actor and producer (born 1937)
born 1937
Jack Nicholson
aliveAmerican actor and filmmaker (born 1937)
born 1937
Steven Seagal
aliveAmerican actor, martial artist, and film producer
born 1952
Tom Cruise
aliveAmerican actor and film producer (born 1962)
born 1962
Sylvester Stallone
aliveAmerican actor and filmmaker (born 1946)
born 1946
Quentin Tarantino
aliveAmerican filmmaker and actor (born 1963)
born 1963
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Nicolas Cage
aliveAmerican actor (born 1964)
born 1964
Anthony Hopkins
aliveWelsh–American actor and director (born 1937)
born 1937
Mel Gibson
aliveAmerican actor, director, producer and screenwriter (born 1956)
born 1956
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James Cameron
aliveCanadian filmmaker and explorer (born 1954)
born 1954
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Jodie Foster
aliveAmerican actress and filmmaker (born 1962)
born 1962
Martin Scorsese
aliveAmerican filmmaker (born 1942)
born 1942
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Ben Affleck
aliveAmerican film actor, director and screenwriter (born 1972)
born 1972
Roman Polanski
aliveFrench-Polish filmmaker (born 1933)
born 1933
Kevin Costner
aliveAmerican actor and filmmaker (born 1955)
born 1955
Hayao Miyazaki
aliveJapanese animator, filmmaker, and mangaka (born 1941)
born 1941
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Barbra Streisand
aliveAmerican singer and actress (born 1942)
born 1942
Christopher Nolan
aliveEnglish and American filmmaker (born 1970)
born 1970
Vin Diesel
aliveAmerican actor (born 1967)
born 1967
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Salma Hayek
aliveMexican and American actress (born 1966)
born 1966
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Aamir Khan
aliveIndian actor
born 1965
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Gillian Anderson
aliveAmerican actress (born 1968)
born 1968
gone (30 of 341)
Charlie Chaplin
deadEnglish actor and filmmaker
1889 – 1977
Walt Disney
deadAmerican animator, producer, director, screenwriter, voice actor and entrepreneur, founder of The Walt Disney Company
1901 – 1966
Alfred Hitchcock
deadBritish filmmaker
1899 – 1980
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Bruce Lee
deadHong Kong–American martial artist and actor
1940 – 1973
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Stanley Kubrick
deadAmerican filmmaker and photographer
1928 – 1999
Alain Delon
deadFrench actor
1935 – 2024
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Prince
deadAmerican musician
1958 – 2016
Heath Ledger
deadAustralian actor
1979 – 2008
David Lynch
deadAmerican filmmaker
1946 – 2025
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Robert Redford
deadAmerican actor and director
1936 – 2025
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Robert Duvall
deadAmerican actor and director
1931 – 2026
Philip Seymour Hoffman
deadAmerican actor
1967 – 2014
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Carl Reiner
deadAmerican actor
1922 – 2020
Michael Crichton
deadAmerican author, screenwriter, film director
1942 – 2008
Christopher Reeve
deadAmerican actor
1952 – 2004
Raj Kapoor
deadIndian actor and filmmaker
1924 – 1988
Paul Auster
deadAmerican novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter
1947 – 2024
Alan Arkin
deadAmerican actor, filmmaker
1934 – 2023
Rob Reiner
deadAmerican filmmaker and actor
1947 – 2025
Serge Gainsbourg
deadFrench singer, songwriter, composer, writer, actor and director
1928 – 1991
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Richard Harris
deadIrish actor and singer
1930 – 2002
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Marjane Satrapi
deadIranian-French graphic novelist, cartoonist, illustrator, film director, and children's book author
1969 – 2026
Anthony Perkins
deadAmerican actor
1932 – 1992
Bill Paxton
deadAmerican actor and filmmaker
1955 – 2017
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Penny Marshall
deadAmerican actress, director and producer
1943 – 2018
Dharmendra
deadIndian actor and politician
1935 – 2025
David Carradine
deadAmerican actor
1936 – 2009
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Anne Heche
deadAmerican actress
1969 – 2022
John Cassavetes
deadGreek-American actor, film director, and screenwriter
1929 – 1989
Roger Corman
deadAmerican film director and producer
1926 – 2024