Film Director

This page lists 36,578 biographies of film directors, covering lives from AD 2 to 2019. Featuring Jacques Rivette, Philipp Humm and Robert Ballard. Each profile gives life dates, nationality, education, positions held and a sourced, attributed account of the person's life.

People in this occupation

Steve Ravic

b. 1973

Jang Hoon

b. 1975

Juris Podnieks

1950 – 1992

Gokul

Jeff Grace

b. 1950

Charles McCaughan

Paul Driessen

b. 1940

Marilia Rocha

b. 1978

Dimitar Petrov

1924 – 2018

Vimukthi Jayasundara

b. 1977

Richard Stanley

b. 1966

Don King

b. 1960

Harrison Xu

Nyi Pu

1900 – 1996

Bertram Phillips

Goran Kapetanović

b. 1974

Costa Botes

1958 – 2025

David George Schickele

1937 – 1999

Lenka Udovicki

b. 1967

Jude Attipetty

b. 1959

Emil Burri

1902 – 1966

François Truffaut

1932 – 1984

Birt Acres

1854 – 1918

Barry Myers

1937 – 2016

Huang Jianxin

b. 1954

M. A. Nishad

H. B. Parkinson

1884 – 1970

Øyvind Vennerød

1919 – 1991

Ahn Tae-jin

b. 1972

Chosei Funahara

b. 1953

Mieczysław Krawicz

1893 – 1944

Peter Care

b. 1953

Amir Azizi

b. 1984

Sam Fields

1916 – 1954

Heinz Rühmann

1902 – 1994

Chong Keat Aun

b. 1978

Pierre Chenal

1904 – 1990

Tomoyuki Tanaka

1910 – 1997

Ignazio Dolce

1933 – 2010

James Melkonian

b. 1961

Aaron Allston

1960 – 2014

Marilyn Cooke

Jazz Boon

b. 1966

Montazur Rahman Akbar

b. 1957

Yevhen Syvokin

1937 – 2026

Jeffrey Blitz

b. 1969

Kike Maíllo

b. 1975

Romain Gary

1914 – 1980

Sergio Esquenazi

b. 1974

Mohan Sinha

1903 – 1984

Stevie Wermers

b. 1953

Park Hee-gon

1969 – 2025

Leopoldo Gout

b. 1972

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

b. 1972

Rich Peppiatt

b. 1901

George Pollock

1907 – 1979

Gavin Fields

André Hennicke

b. 1959

Poj Arnon

b. 1965

Yehuda Barkan

1945 – 2020

Mickey Keating

b. 1990

Peter Gornstein

Bassek Ba Kobhio

1957 – 2026

Areeya Chumsai

b. 1971

James Szalapski

1945 – 2000

George B. Seitz

1888 – 1944

Shunya Itō

b. 1937

Derek Estlin Purvis

b. 1972

John Barker

b. 1901

Ninja Thyberg

b. 1984

Thorold Dickinson

1903 – 1984

Charles A. Logue

1889 – 1938

Corey Yuen

1951 – 2022

Praveen Kandregula

Praveen Morchhale

b. 1968

Alexandre Astruc

1923 – 2016

Zanane Rajsingh

b. 1988

Irvin Willat

1890 – 1976

John Wellington Ennis

b. 1973

Luis Llosa

b. 1951

Abrar Alvi

1927 – 2009

Sarah Fortin

Lina Rodríguez

b. 1950

Harunur Rashid

Bryan Michael Stoller

b. 1960

Gil Green

b. 1975

Lars-Eric Kjellgren

1918 – 2003

Juanma Bajo Ulloa

b. 1967

Raymond Longford

1878 – 1959

Ivan Passer

1933 – 2020

Max Walker-Silverman

Josiah Kibira

Shashi Kapoor

1938 – 2017

Demetrio Aguilera Malta

1909 – 1981

Hana Makhmalbaf

b. 1988

Aldo Vergano

1891 – 1957

Louis Lentin

1933 – 2014

Kazui Nihonmatsu

1922 – 2001

Konstantin Lopushansky

b. 1947

Sudheesh Sankar