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screenwriters
579 notable screenwriters on file — 214 still here, 365 not.
still with us (30 of 214)
Jackie Chan
aliveHong Kong actor and martial artist
born 1954
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Leonardo DiCaprio
aliveAmerican actor and producer
born 1974
Shah Rukh Khan
aliveIndian actor, producer and television personality
born 1965
Sylvester Stallone
aliveAmerican actor and filmmaker
born 1946
Quentin Tarantino
aliveAmerican filmmaker and actor
born 1963
Anthony Hopkins
aliveWelsh–American actor and director
born 1937
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James Cameron
aliveCanadian filmmaker and explorer
born 1954
Matt Damon
aliveAmerican actor
born 1970
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LeBron James
aliveAmerican basketball player
born 1984
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Ben Affleck
aliveAmerican film actor, director and screenwriter
born 1972
Margrethe II of Denmark
aliveQueen of Denmark from 1972 to 2024
born 1940
Eddie Murphy
aliveAmerican actor and comedian
born 1961
Christopher Nolan
aliveEnglish and American filmmaker
born 1970
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Francis Ford Coppola
aliveAmerican filmmaker
born 1939
Jon Voight
aliveAmerican actor
born 1938
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Sean Penn
aliveAmerican actor
born 1960
Tim Burton
aliveAmerican filmmaker and artist
born 1958
Ellen DeGeneres
aliveAmerican comedian, television host, actress, and writer
born 1958
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Cillian Murphy
aliveIrish actor
born 1976
Tom Hardy
aliveBritish actor
born 1977
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Mike Myers
aliveCanadian actor, comedian and filmmaker
born 1963
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Ben Stiller
aliveAmerican actor and comedian
born 1965
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Willem Dafoe
aliveAmerican actor
born 1955
Bill Murray
aliveAmerican actor and comedian
born 1950
Tina Fey
aliveAmerican actress, comedian, writer, producer, and playwright
born 1970
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Danny Boyle
aliveEnglish filmmaker
born 1956
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Owen Wilson
aliveAmerican actor
born 1968
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Guillermo del Toro
aliveMexican filmmaker and author
born 1964
Christopher Walken
aliveAmerican actor
born 1943
Geert Wilders
aliveDutch politician
born 1963
gone (30 of 365)
Ernest Hemingway
deadAmerican author and journalist
1899 – 1961
Alain Delon
deadFrench actor
1935 – 2024
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Alice Munro
deadCanadian writer
1931 – 2024
Kobe Bryant
deadAmerican basketball player
1978 – 2020
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Chuck Norris
deadAmerican martial artist and action actor
1940 – 2026
Roald Dahl
deadBritish writer and poet
1916 – 1990
Truman Capote
deadAmerican writer
1924 – 1984
Hedy Lamarr
deadAustrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping
1914 – 2000
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Carl Reiner
deadAmerican actor
1922 – 2020
Steve Irwin
deadAustralian zookeeper, conservationist and TV personality
1962 – 2006
Michael Crichton
deadAmerican author, screenwriter, film director
1942 – 2008
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Chadwick Boseman
deadAmerican actor
1976 – 2020
Richard Attenborough
deadBritish actor
1923 – 2014
Raj Kapoor
deadIndian actor and filmmaker
1924 – 1988
Paul Auster
deadAmerican novelist, poet, essayist, screenwriter
1947 – 2024
Rob Reiner
deadAmerican filmmaker and actor
1947 – 2025
Wilt Chamberlain
deadAmerican basketball player
1936 – 1999
Tom Stoppard
deadCzech–English playwright
1937 – 2025
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Penny Marshall
deadAmerican actress, director and producer
1943 – 2018
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Agnès Varda
deadFrench artist, film director, screenwriter and photographer
1928 – 2019
Richard Kiel
deadAmerican actor
1939 – 2014
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Gigi Riva
deadItalian association football player
1944 – 2024
Chris Farley
deadAmerican actor and comedian
1964 – 1997
Joe Flaherty
deadAmerican actor, writer, and comedian
1941 – 2024
Béla Tarr
deadHungarian filmmaker and anarchist
1955 – 2026
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Jerzy Stuhr
deadPolish film and theater actor and screenwriter
1947 – 2024
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John Candy
deadCanadian actor
1950 – 1994
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Norm Macdonald
deadCanadian comedian
1959 – 2021
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Ruth Handler
deadAmerican businesswoman
1916 – 2002
David Lodge
deadEnglish writer
1935 – 2025