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theatre directors

49 notable theatre directors on file — 4 still here, 45 not.

still with us

Kevin Spacey
alive
American actor
born 1959
Andrew Lloyd Webber
alive
British theatre composer (born 1948)
born 1948
Bill Irwin
alive
American actor, clown, and comedian (born 1950)
born 1950
Yorgos Lanthimos
alive
Greek filmmaker (born 1973)
born 1973

gone (30 of 45)

Yury Solomin
dead
Russian actor
1935 – 2024
Robert Wilson
dead
American stage director and playwright
1941 – 2025
Bahram Beyzai
dead
Iranian film director
1938 – 2025
Jerry Adler
dead
American actor
1929 – 2025
Aleksandr Shirvindt
dead
Soviet and Russian actor, theatrical director, drama teacher, television presenter, screenwriter
1934 – 2024
Anja Breien
dead
Norwegian film director
1940 – 2026
Ventura Pons
dead
Catalan film director
1945 – 2024
Claus Peymann
dead
German theatre director and manager
1937 – 2025
Kaspar Rostrup
dead
Danish theatre and film director
1940 – 2025
Rimas Tuminas
dead
Lithuanian director
1952 – 2024
Roberto De Simone
dead
Italian theatre director, composer and musicologist
1933 – 2025
Nugzar Bagration-Gruzinsky
dead
Pretender to the Georgian throne
1950 – 2025
René Pollesch
dead
German author and playwright
1962 – 2024
Whitney Rydbeck
dead
American actor
1945 – 2024
Juan Margallo
dead
actor, director and author of Spanish Theatre
1940 – 2025
Gianni Quaranta
dead
Italian art designer
1943 – 2025
Héctor Noguera
dead
Chilean actor and Theatre director
1937 – 2025
Marcia Rodd
dead
American actor
1938 – 2025
Elisabeth Ohlson
dead
Swedish photographer
1961 – 2024
Nabil Lahlou
dead
Moroccan actor and film director
1945 – 2026
Claire van Kampen
dead
English director and composer
1953 – 2025
Pierre Audi
dead
Lebanese English theatre director
1957 – 2025
Ratan Thiyam
dead
Indian theatre director
1948 – 2025
Asanali Ashimov
dead
Soviet and Kazakh actor and director
1937 – 2025
Stein Winge
dead
Norwegian theatre director
1940 – 2024
Joseph Hardy
dead
American film director
1929 – 2024
Manoj Mitra
dead
Bengali Indian theatre, film and television actor, director and playwright
1938 – 2024
András Fricsay
dead
German actor
1942 – 2024
Elsie Kelly
dead
English actress
1936 – 2026
Christiane Cohendy
dead
French actress
1945 – 2026

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