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2005 Greg Garrison, American Director
2004 President Bush signs the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Act of 2004 which reorganizes intelligence agencies and creates position of national security director 2004 Larry Buchanan, American Director 2004 Philippe de Broca, director, King of Hearts, dies at 69 2004 Margaret Hassan, humanitarian, director of Care in Iraq who was murdered by terrorists, dies at 59 2004 Theo van Gogh, controversial Dutch director murdered by terrorists, Submission 2004 Theo van Gogh, director, Dutch filmmaker murdered by a terrorist, dies at 47 2004 Christopher Reeve, director/actor/advocate, Superman, dies at 52 2004 Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director 2004 Cecily Adams, casting director/actress, Deep Space Nine, dies at 46 2003 Elia Kazan, director, On the Waterfront, dies at 94 2003 Leni Riefenstahl, director, Triumph of the Will, dies at 101 2003 John Schlesinger, director, Midnight Cowboy, dies at 77 2003 Stan Brakhage, American Director 2002 George Roy Hill, director, The Sting, dies at 80 2002 Ian McNaughton, director, Monty Python's Flying Circus, dies at 76 2002 Charles Guggenheim, American Director 2002 J. Lee Thompson, British Director 2002 John Frankenheimer, director, The Manchurian Candidate, dies at 72 2002 George Sidney, American Director 2002 Billy Wilder, director, Some Like it Hot, dies at 95 2002 Ted Demme, director, Beautiful Girls, dies at 38 2001 Herbert Ross, director, The Turning Point, dies at 74 2001 Fred De Cordova, producer/director, Tonight Show, dies at 90 2001 Michael Ritchie, American Director 2001 Stanley Kramer, director, Judgment at Nuremberg, dies at 87 2000 David Brower, ecological activist, executive director of the Sierra Club for nearly 20 years, dies at 88 2000 Edward L. Bernds, director, The Three Stooges shorts, dies at 94 2000 Paul Bartel, director/actor, Eating Raoul, dies at 61 2000 Roger Vadim, director, And God Created Woman, dies at 72 2000 Todd Karns, actor/theater director and founder, It's a Wonderful Life, dies at 79 1999 Robert Bresson, French Director 1999 James Broughton, American Director 1999 Garson Kanin, writer/director, Born Yesterday, dies at 86 1999 Stanley Kubrick, director, -2001, dies at 70 1999 Jose Quintero, director, founded the Circle in the Square company, dies at 75 1999 Robert Shaw, chorale director, founded the Robert Shaw Chorale, dies at 82 1998 Alan J. Pakula, "director, producer", All the President's Men, dies at 70 1998 Akira Kurosawa, director, Rashomon, dies at 88 1998 John Derek, actor/director, dies at 71 1997 Giorgio Strehler, theatre director, dies at 76 1997 Juzo Itami, Japanese director, commits suicide at 64 1997 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer, dies at 68 1997 Saul Chaplin, director (West Side Story), dies at 85 1997 Sam Fuller, director/writer (Big Red One), dies at 86 1997 Jean-Claude Lauzon, director/writer (Leola), dies in air crash at 43 1997 Fred Zinnemann, director, A Man for All Seasons, dies of heart attack at 89 1997 Frank Launder, director/scriptwriter, dies at 91 1997 King Hu, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn', dies at 64 1997 Duncan Wood, television director and producer, dies at 71 1997 Sheldon Leonard, producer and director, I Spy - Dick Van Dyke, dies at 89 1996 Derek Prouse, writer actor and director (Le Scandale), dies at 74 1996 Marcel Carne, French Director 1996 Ted Bessell, director/actor (That Girl), dies of an aneurism at 61 1996 Christine Pascal, actress/director (Smile, Elsa), dies at 43 1996 Rex Tucker, TV writer/director, dies at 83 1996 Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera 1996 Salah Abou Seif, film director, dies at 81 1996 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director, dies at 78 1996 Peter Glenville, actor and director (Hotel Paradiso, Becket), dies at 82 1996 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general of ITA, dies at 83 1996 Giles Grangier, film director, dies at 84 1996 William E Colby, director of CIA (1973-76), dies 1996 William Egan Colby, cIA Director, dies at 76 1996 Donald Cammell, film director, dies at 62 1996 David Keylsey, actor and director, dies at 63 1996 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991, dies at 51 1996 Rene Clement, film director, dies at 83 1996 Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, dies of heart attack at 54 1996 Lucio Fulci, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, dies at 68 1996 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60 1996 Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday 1996 Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director, dies at 68 1995 Peter Refn, Danish journalist/director (Violets are Blue), dies at 54 1995 Trenchard Cox, museum director, dies at 90 1995 Robert Parrish, film director editor/actor (Casino Royale), dies at 79 1995 Louis Malle, film director (Pretty Baby), dies at 63 1995 John Walker, museum director, dies at 88 1995 Frank Perry, film director, dies at 65 1995 Nanni Loy, film Director, dies at 69 1995 James Ackley Maxwell, actor and director (Traitors, Otley), dies at 66 1995 Ida Lupino, actress/director (Hard Way, High Sierra), dies at 77 1995 Werner Grusch, film director, dies at 51 1995 Barney Simon, theatre director/writer, dies at 63 1995 Roy Rowland, film director, dies at 84 1995 Murray Dickie, opera singer/director, dies at 71 1995 Isadore "Friz" Freling, cartoon director (Sylvester), dies at 88 1995 Arthur Lubin, film director, dies at 95 1995 Reza Abdoh, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS, died of AIDS at age 32 1995 Arthur Lubin, director (Francis The Talking Mule, Mr. Ed), dies at 96 1995 Joseph Heifitz, film director, dies at 89 1995 Cyril Enfield, film Director, dies at 80 1995 Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70 1995 Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director (Weevers' Duin), dies at 56 1995 Jack Clayton, British director (Great Gatsby), dies at 73 1995 Elfi Althoff-Jacobi, Austrian circus director, dies at 80 1995 Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV Director/film-maker, dies at 45 1995 Phillip Borsos, Tasmanian/Canadian director (Mean Season), dies 1995 George Abbot, director (Damn Yankees), dies at 107 1995 James P Grant, U.S. director of UNICEF (1980-95), dies at 72 1995 Ken Hill, playwright/director, dies at 57 1995 Mehdi Bazargan, director Iranian oil corp/premier (1979), dies at 86 1995 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Dutch playwright/director (Pinter), dies at 81 1994 Pierre Dreyfus, French director of Renault (1955-75), dies at 87 1994 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director, dies at 71 1994 Jan Wiegel, director/producer (Uninhabitable Country), dies at 64 1994 George G F van Renesse, concert pianist/music director, dies at 85 1994 Harry Horner, Czechoslovakian/U.S. set designer/director, 'Our Town', dies at 84 1994 Ivo Perilli, Italian screenplay/director (Ragazzo), dies at 92 1994 Ferdinand J Kranenburg, director of queen (North Holland), dies at 83 1994 Sergei F Bondartsjoek, actor and director (Waterloo), dies at 74 1994 Rik van Bentum, painter/art director of Paradiso, dies at 57 1994 Wilhelmus HL "Willem" Tollenaar, actor and director (Elkerlyc), dies at 82 1994 James Hill, English director/screenwriter (Born Free), dies at 75 1994 James Hill, director, dies at 75 1994 Madeleine Renaud, French actress (Longest Day)/director, dies at 94 1994 Arthur Krim, U.S. director (United Artists, Orion Pictures), dies 1994 Terence Young, British director (Thunderball), dies of at 79 1994 Duccio Tessari, Italian director, dies of cancer at 67 1994 James Clavell, author/director (King Rat, Shogun), dies at 69 1994 Wolf Donner, Austrian movie historian/festival director, dies at 55 1994 Lindsay Anderson, British director/critic (If ...), dies at 71 1994 Zoltan Fabri, Hungarian director, dies of heart attack at 76 1994 Aleksander Petrovic, film Director, dies at 65 1994 Henri Calef, Bulgarian/French director (Jericho), dies 1994 Christian-Jaque, Christian Maudet, French director (Nana), dies 1994 Gottfried Reinhardt, Goldmann, German/US director, dies at 83 1994 Bart Scheepens, actor and director, dies of AIDS at 50 1994 Christian-Jaque, French director (Babette s'and va-t-and guerre), dies 1994 Roelof Kiers, VPRO-programmer/director (Macchiavelli), dies at 56 1994 William Marshall, actor and director (Santa Fe Trail), dies at 86 1994 Massimo Troisi, Italian actor and director (Ricomincio da tre), dies at 41 1994 Sidney Gilliat, British screenwriter/director, dies at 86 1994 Rita Gillespie, tV Director, dies at 65 1994 Carl Althoff, German circus director, dies at 82 1994 Phani Majumdar, film director, dies at 82 1994 Joe Layton, director (Richard Pryor Live on Sunset Strip), dies at 63 1994 Imre Gyongyossy, Hungarian director, dies at 64 1994 Michael Carreras, film Director, dies at 67 1994 Marcel Ichac, French alpinist/director (Karakoram), dies at 87 1994 Marlon Riggs, U.S. writer/director/producer (Ethnic notions), dies at 37 1994 Frank G Wells, U.S. director (Walt Disney), dies at 62 1994 Derek Jarman, English director (Last of England), dies at 52 1994 Derek Jarman, actor and director (Tempest), dies of AIDS at 52 1994 Ken Hall, Australian director/producer (Kokoda front line), dies at 92 1994 Richard Bissell, U.S. under director of CIA (Pig's Bay), dies at 84 1994 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director (KNMI), dies at 84 1994 Gerardus J Sizoo, physicist/director of Dutch Free University, dies 1994 Pierre-Paul Schweitzer, French director of IMF (1963-73), dies at 81 1993 Arthur Dreifuss, director/producer (Murder in Amsterdam), dies at 85 1993 Alexander Mackendrick, British/US director (Lady Killers), dies at 81 1993 Alexander Mackendrick, director (Whiskey Galore!), dies at 81 1993 Maroun Bagdadi, director/writer (Little Wars, Veiled Man), dies at 42 1993 Herve Bromberger, French director/screenwriter, dies at 75 1993 Christopher Frank, director/actor (Annee Des Meduses), dies at 50 1993 Emile Ardolino, director (Sister Act), dies of AIDS at 50 1993 Emile Ardolino, director (Dirty Dancing), dies at 50 of AIDs 1993 Gerald Thomas, director (Carry on), dies at 72 1993 Duncan Gibbins, director (Fire With Fire), dies in California fire at 41 1993 Federico Fellini, director (La Dolce Vita), dies of stroke at 73 1993 Raymond Lockhart, TV director (Huntley Brinkley Report), dies at 65 1993 Mustafa Abada, Algerian TV director, murdered 1993 Gordon Douglas, actor and director (Tony Rome), dies of cancer at 85 1993 Gordon Douglas, director (Call Me Mr. Tibbs, Our Gang), dies at 85 1993 Christian Nyby, U.S. director (Big Sleep, Thing), dies at 80 1993 Charles Lamont, actor and director (Abbott and Costello movies), dies at 95 1993 Hall Bartlett, U.S. director (Jonathan Livingston Seagull), dies at 70 1993 Bob Verstraete, Dutch actor/screenwriter/director (Alicia), dies at 71 1993 Francis Mankiewicz, Canad director (Lesson bons debarras), dies at 49 1993 Director Oliver Stone files for divorce from Elizabeth 1993 Roy London, U.S. actor and director (Tiger Warsaw), dies of lymphoma at 50 1993 Elmar Klos, director (Obzalovany, Obchod na Korze), dies at 83 1993 Donald Alexander, System director/producer (East Valley), dies at 79 1993 President Clinton fires FBI director William Sessions 1993 Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83 1993 Jean Negulesco, film director and screenwriter dies at 93 1993 Willy C of Hemert, director/(text)poet (Small Truth), dies at 81 1993 James Bridges, writer and director (Paper Chase), dies of cancer at 57 1993 Richard Murphy, director (3 Stripes in the Sun), dies of stroke at 81 1993 Cy Howard, director (Lovers and Other Strangers), dies at 77 1993 Michael Gordon, actor and director (Pillow Talk), dies at 83 1993 Henny Budie, Dutch director/producer (Sterrenslag), dies 1993 Max Croiset, Dutch actor/dramatist/director (Zeekant), dies at 80 1993 Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47 1993 Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place), dies at 69 1993 Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves), dies at 35 1993 Richard Sale, writer and director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80 1993 Ishiro Honda, Japanese director/producer (Godzilla), dies at 81 1993 Leslie Norman, English director/producer (Dunkirk), dies at 82 1993 John Grossman, Czechoslovakian director (Process, Revisor), dies 1993 Douglas Heyes, director/writer (Kitten with a Whip), dies at 73 1993 Franz Schnyder, Swiss director (10th of May), dies at 82 1993 James Woolsey, becomes 16th director of CIA 1993 Joseph L Mankiewicz, U.S. writer and director (All about Eve), dies at 83 1993 Admiral Studeman, ends term as acting director of CIA 1993 Francois Reichenbach, French director (L'Amerique Insolite), dies at 70 1993 Admiral Studeman, serves as acting director of CIA 1993 Joseph Anthony [Deuster], U.S. director/actor (Rainmaker), dies at 80 1993 Robert M Gates, ends term as 15th director of CIA 1993 Mia Meijer, Dutch playwright/director (Machine Child), dies 1993 Carles Mira, Spanish director (Que Nos Quiten Lo Bailao), dies at 45 1993 George L George, Russian/US journalist/director/producer, dies at 85 1992 Luis Alcoriza, actor/writer/director (Tiburoneros), dies of emphysema 1992 Clem Beauchamp, U.S. stuntman/director (Tarzan, Superman), dies 1992 Gregory Markopoulos, German/U.S. director (Iliac Passion, Bliss), dies 1992 Ton Hasebos, cameraman/TV director (Gnome Hasebos), dies 1992 Frederick Combs, playwright/director, dies of AIDS at 57 1992 Erik Terpstra, director (Versier de leegte, De ander, Daniel), dies 1992 Feliks Arons, Dutch director/actor (A Bridge Too Far), dies at 48 1992 John Stuges, director (Gunfight at OK Corral), dies of emphysema at 82 1992 David Kaplan, news director (ABC), killed in Sarajevo Yugoslavia 1992 Nico Booken, director (Jewish Labor Social), dies 1992 Juris Podnieks, cameraman/director (Commandant), drowns 1992 Joris Diels, Flemish/Dutch director/actor (It's a Cruel World), dies 1992 Director Frank Perry (Mommie Dearest) marries Virginia Bush Ford 1992 Edward Fleming, Danish director (Lille Spejl), dies 1992 Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler), dies of cancer at 73 1992 John Myhers, director/actor (Billion Dollar Hobo), dies at 70 1992 Bruce Hopkins, performer/director, dies at 44 1992 Margareth Wallmann, Austrian opera director, dies at 88 1992 Satyajit Ray, Indian director (Distant Thunder/Agantuk), dies at 70 1992 William O. Studeman, becomes deputy director of CIA 1992 Richard Brooks, director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo), dies at 79 1992 Ray Danton, U.S. actor and director (Psychic Killer), dies at 60 1992 Wim Ramaker, Dutch director/writer (On Death Track), dies 1992 Jose Ferrer, actor and director (Cyrano de Bergerac), dies at 80 1992 A J Antoon, director (That Championship Season), dies at 47 1991 Daniel Mann, U.S. director (Rose tattoo), dies of heart failure at 79 1991 Tony Richardson, British director (Tom Jones), dies of AIDs at 63 1991 Robert M. Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA 1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as acting director of CIA 1991 Jan Hart, director (Friends of Curacao), dies 1991 Chuck Vincent, Adult film director, dies of heart attack at 51 1991 Ernestine McClendon, director/actress (Homer and Eddie), dies 1991 Frank Capra, director (It's a Wonderful Life), dies at 94 1991 Richard J Kerr, serves as acting director of CIA 1991 Elise Hoomans, actress/director (Medea/Virginia Woolf?, dies) 1991 Richard J. Kerr, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1991 William H. Webster, ends term as 14th director of CIA 1991 Mervyn Nelson, director (Some of My Best Friends Are...), dies at 76 1991 Robert DiMatte, Jr., stage director/actor, dies at 43 1991 Andy Milligan, cinematographer/director (Sweeney Todd), dies at 62 1991 Eva La Gailliene, British/U.S. actress/director (Resurrection), dies at 92 1991 Lino Brocka, director (Macho Dancer, Jaguar), dies in car crash at 51 1991 Herman Niels, Flemish radio director, dies 1991 CIA director William H. Webster resigns 1991 Richard Thorpe, director (Jailhouse Rock, Night Must Fall), dies 1991 Don[ald] Siegel, U.S. director (Coogan's Bluff/Dirty Harry), dies at 78 1991 David Lean, director (28 academy awards), dies of pneumonia at 83 1991 Richard Thorpe, director (MGM), dies at 95 1991 Edward A Blatt, director (Between 2 Worlds), dies at 88 1991 Jan Ode, Dutch pianist/director Sweelinck Conservatory, dies 1990 Martin Ritt, U.S., director/actor (Norma Rae), dies at 70 1990 Ugo Tognazzi actor and director (La Cage Aux Folles), dies at 68 1990 Hans Freudenthal, mathematician/director OW&OC (F Institution), dies 1990 Richard Haines, director (Splatter University), dies 1990 Alan Clarke, director (Elephant, Road, Scum, Firm), dies at 54 1990 Joseph Hardy, actor and director (Tree Grows in Brooklyn), dies at 71 1990 Robert D Webb, director/actor (Love Me Tender, Jackals), dies at 87 1990 Michael Powell, English director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84 1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association executive director 1989 Jan Teulings, Dutch actor and director (Dorp aan de Rivier), dies 1989 Georges Simenon, Belgian/French writer and director (Maigret), dies at 86 1989 F de Jong Edz, Dutch historian/director (IISG), dies 1989 Joris Ivens, director (Indonesia), dies at 90 1989 Richard Quine, director/actor (Babes on Broadway), dies at 68 1989 Jack Starrett, director/actor (Chase, Nightwish, 1st Blood), dies 1989 Sergio Leone, Italian director (Good, Bad and Ugly), dies at 60 1989 Richard J. Kerr replaces Robert M. Gates as deputy director of CIA 1989 Mauritius Balfoort, French/Flemish director, dies at 83 1989 George O'Hanlon, actor and director (Bop Girl, Zamba), dies at 71 1989 John Cassavetes, actor and director (Husbands, Dirty Dozen), dies at 59 1989 John Cassavetes, U.S. actor (Rosemary's Baby)/director, dies at 59 1988 Hal Ashby, academy-award winning director, dies of cancer at 59 1988 Hall Ashby, U.S. director (Shampoo, 8 Million Ways to Die), dies at 59 1988 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, writer and director (Hadimassa), dies at 60 1988 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director (Louis Pasteur), dies at 84 1988 Henry Koster, director, dies 1988 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, opera director (Carmina Burana), dies at 56 1988 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA (1961-72), dies at 78 1988 Alf Kjellin, Swedish actor and director (Juggler), dies 1987 Hans Gal, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory 1987 Emlyn Williams, actor and director (I Accuse, Ivanhoe, Scarf), dies at 81 1987 Mervyn Leroy, actor/screenwriter/director (Quo Vadis), dies at 86 1987 John Huston, US/Irish actor and director (Maltese Falcon), dies at 81 1987 King Donovan, actor and director (Enforcer, Perfect Furlough), dies 1987 "Twilight Zone" director John Landis found innocent in death of actor 1987 William H. Webster replaces Robert M. Gates as 14th director of CIA 1987 John Baur, museum director, dies at 78 1987 William J Casey, director of CIA (1981-87), dies at 73 1987 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90 1987 Yves Allegret, French director (Such a lovely tiny beach), dies at 79 1987 William J Casey, ends term as 13th director of CIA 1987 Douglas Sirk, director (Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje), dies at 86 1986 Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director (Stalker), dies at 54 1986 Mr Gates, serves as acting director of CIA 1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure 1986 Emilio Fernandez, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre), dies at 82 1986 Vincente Minnelli, director (Gigi, Goodbye Charlie), dies in LA at 76 1986 Yakima Canutt, actor and director (Diary of a Young Comic), dies at 91 1986 Robert M. Gates, becomes deputy director of CIA 1986 Jerry Paris, director/actor (Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show), dies at 60 1986 John N. McMahon, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1985 Sergei Yutkevich, Russian director, (Otello, Banya), dies at 80 1985 Henry Hathaway, actor and director (Nob Hill), dies of heart attack at 86 1984 Sam Peckinpah, director, dies of cardiac arrest at 59 1984 George Waggner, director/writer, dies at 90 1984 Eduardo De Filippo, director (7 Deadly Sins, Shoot Loud), dies at 84 1984 Yilmaz Gueney, director (Yol, Arkadas, Baba, Agit), dies at 47 1984 Joseph Losey, director (Go-Between, M, Concrete Jungle), dies at 75 1984 August "Guus" Oster, actor and director (Carrie), dies at 68 1984 Wolfgang Staudte, German director (Ciske de Rat), dies at 77 1983 Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure 1983 Luis Bunuel, director (Monk), dies of cirrhosis of liver at 83 1983 George Cukor, director (My Fair Lady), dies on 84th birthday 1983 Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer and director (Tijl), dies at 87 1983 Reginald Denham, director/writer (Death at BC House), dies at 89 1983 George Cukor, director, dies of stroke and heart attack at 83 1982 Elio Petri, Italian director (Workers Class), dies at 53 1982 Jacques Tatischeff, French actor and director (Parade), dies at 74 1982 King Vidor, director (War and Peace), dies at 88 of a heart ailment 1982 Fernando Lamas, actor and director (Lost World), dies of cancer at 67 1982 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor and director (Paul Vlaanderen), dies at 89 1982 Alberto Cavalcanti, Brazilian director (Herr Puntila), dies at 85 1982 Aleksandr A Alekseyev, Russian director, dies 1982 Jean J A Girault, French director (Gendarme Saint-Tropez), dies at 58 1982 Henry King, U.S. director (Song of Bernadette, Gunfighter), dies 1982 Henry King, director, dies at 86 1982 Gerard[us M] Rutten, director (Sterren stralen overal), dies 1982 Roberto Calvi, director (Banco Ambrosiano), hangs himself 1982 John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA 1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, dies of drug overdose at 36 1982 Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director (Free Academy), dies at 60 1982 Marcel Camus, French director (Orfeu Negro), dies at 69 1981 Allan Dwan, Canadian Director 1981 Abel Gance, french movie director (J'accuse), dies at 92 1981 Nigel Patrick, actor and director (Sapphire, Prize of Gold), dies at 68 1981 Roy Wilkins, longtime executive director of NAACP, dies at 80 1981 Billy [William] Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur, Funny Girl), dies 1981 William Wyler, U.S. director (Ben Hur), dies 1981 Humphrey Keervelt, director (Suriname Planning Bureau), murdered 1981 Rene Clair, French director (It Happened Tomorrow), dies at 82? 1981 Admiral Bobby R. Inman, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA 1981 William J Casey becomes 13th director of CIA (until 1987) 1981 Admiral Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), ends term as 12th director of CIA 1981 Frank C Carlucci, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1980 Raoul Walsh, U.S. director (High Sierra), dies at about 88 1980 Lewis Milestone, Russian Director 1980 Tex Avery, cartoon director (What's up, doc?), dies at 72 1980 Alfred Joseph Hitchcock, British director (Psycho, Birds), dies at 80 1980 Alfred Hitchcock, English Director 1979 Dorothy Arzner, American Director 1979 John Cromwell, actor and director (Of Human Bondage), dies at 91 1979 Dr. Walter Massey named director of Argonne national Lab 1979 August Maes, Flemish actor and director (Farmer that Dies), dies at 85 1979 Jean Renoir, French writer and director 'Human Beast', 'Rules of the Game', dies at 84 1978 CIA director, Admiral Stansfield Turner retires from the Navy 1978 Bob de Lange, Dutch actor and director (Daniel), dies at 62 1978 Edward D Wood, Jr., director (Plan 9), dies of heart failure at 54 1978 Mark Robson, Canadian Director 1978 Frank C Carlucci succeeds John F Blake as deputy director of CIA 1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl 1977 Howard Hawks, director (Rio Lobo, Hatari!), dies at 81 1977 Richard Carlson, actor and director (Little Foxes, Hunted), dies at 65 1977 E Henry Knoche, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1977 John F. Blake promoted from acting to deputy director of CIA 1977 Carter De Haven, Francis O'Callaghan, actor, director, writer, worked with Charlie Chaplin, dies in Glendale, California, at age 90 1977 John R Powers, U.S. director model bureau, dies at 80 1977 Roberto Rossellini, Italian director (Roma citt aperta), dies at 71 1977 Ricardo Cortez, actor and director (Bad Company, Flesh), dies at 87 1977 Bryan Foy, director/writer, dies at 80 1977 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche 1977 George Bush, ends term as 11th director of CIA 1977 Mr. Knoche, serves as acting director of CIA 1977 Henri-Georges Clouzot, director (Diabolique, Truth), dies at 69 1976 Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP 1976 Bruno VeSota, actor and director (Chopper, Teenage Doll), dies at 54 1976 Dalton Trumbo, U.S. writer and director (Johnny Got His Gun), dies at 70 1976 Fritz Lang, director (Cloak and Dagger, Metropolis), dies at 85 1976 James Wong Howe, Chinese Director 1976 E. Henry Knoche, becomes deputy director of CIA 1976 Vernon A. Walters, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1976 Carol Reed, director (Agony and Ecstasy), dies 1976 Luchino Visconti di Modrone, It director (Terra Diaeresis), dies at 69 1976 Joseph Henabery, actor and director (Cobra), dies at 88 1976 George Bush becomes 11th director of CIA (until 1977) 1976 William E. Colby, ends term as 10th director of CIA 1975 William A Wellman, U.S. director (Ox Bow Incident), dies at 79 1975 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland 1975 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian poet/author/director, murdered at 53 1975 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap 1975 Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, chansonnier/director, dies at 38 1975 Paul Verhoeven, director (Robocop, 4th Man, Total Recall), dies at 73 1975 George Stevens, U.S. director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70 1975 Karel Paul van der Mandele, director (Rotterdam Bank), dies at 94 1975 Arthur Pierson, actor and director (Hat Check Girl), dies at 73 1974 Pietro Germi, actor and director (Serafino, Climax), dies at 60 1974 Clive Brook, actor and director (On Approval), dies at 87 1974 Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director (Boccacio 70), dies 1974 Harmony Korine, American Director 1974 Donald Crisp, actor and director (Beloved Brat, Dawn Patrol), dies at 91 1973 Marc Allegret, French director (Lady Chatterley), dies at 72 1973 William E. Colby, becomes 10th director of CIA 1973 General Walters, ends term as acting director of CIA 1973 John Ford, U.S. director (Mary of Scotland, Stagecoach), dies at 78 1973 Jean-Pierre Melville, director (Bob Le Flambeur), dies at 57 1973 H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF 1973 General Walters, serves as acting director of CIA 1973 James R. Schlesinger, ends term as 9th director of CIA 1973 George Breakstone, actor and director (Great Expectations), dies at 53 1973 Grigory M Kosinzev, Russian director, dies 1973 James Haven, American Director 1973 Acting FBI director L Patrick Gray resigns after admitting he destroyed evidence in the Watergate scandal 1973 James R. Schlesinger, becomes 9th director of CIA 1973 Richath Helms, ends term as 8th director of CIA 1972 Jude Law, born in Lewisham, England, actor, producer, director, Academy Award nominee for movie 'Cold Mountain' 1972 Ben Affleck, born in Berkeley, California, actor, director, screenwriter, Academy-award winner for Good Will Hunting, 1987, founded production company LivePlanet with actor Matt Damon 1972 Adriaan J. Zoetmulder, author/director, Eindhovens Newspaper 1972 Lt. General Vernon A Walters, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1972 Alejandro Amenabar, Spanish Director 1971 Lieutenant General Robert E Cushman,, Jr., USMC, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1971 Milton Rosmer, director (Murder in the Red Barn), dies at 90 1971 Edward Sedgwick, director, dies of barbiturate overdose at 28 1971 Robert Gordon director/writer (Loveless), dies at 76 1971 Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director (King Lear), dies at 82 1971 Joseph Ford McGuinn, director, dies of heart attack at 67 1971 Vernon E Jordan, Jr., appointed executive director of National Urban League 1971 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director (Evil Eye), dies at 66 1971 Sofia Coppola, American Director 1971 Whitney Young, Jr., National Urban League director, drowns in Nigeria 1970 Morgan Spurlock, American Director 1970 M. Night Shyamalan, American Director 1970 Kevin Smith, director, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks 1970 Christopher Nolan, British Director 1970 Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director 1969 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director (Shanghai Express), dies at 75 1969 Bert [Lambertus] Bakker, director Free Netherland/inventor, dies 1969 Rex Ingram, actor and director (Elmer Gantry), dies of heart attack at 73 1969 Robert Lehman, U.S. multi-millionaire/director (Met Museum of Art), dies 1969 Voyteck Freykowski, U.S. director, murdered 1969 Rob de Vries, actor and director (Ciske de Rat, Silent Raid), dies at 51 1969 Robert E. Cushman, Jr., becomes deputy director of CIA 1969 Piotr F. Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director (Chechov), dies at 82 1969 Darren Aronofsky, American Director 1969 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1969 Allan Welsh Dulles, U.S. diplomat/director (CIA 1953-61), dies at 75 1968 Hugo Haas, actor and director (Bait, Pick Up), dies of asthma at 66 1968 Erich Von Stroheim, actor and director (Napoleon), dies of cancer at 52 1968 Guy Ritchie, British Director 1968 Robert Rodriguez, director, El Mariachi, Desperado 1968 Carl T Dreyer, Danish director (Passion of Jeanne d'Arc), dies 1968 Anthony Asquith, British director (Court Martial), dies at 65 1968 Ed Burns, director/actor, Brothers McMullen 1968 John Singleton, director and screenwriter, Boyz in the Hood 1967 Fred Engelen, Flemish actor and director (Kritisch Theater), dies at 54 1967 Elmer Rice, New York playwright/director/novelist, dies at 74 1967 Anthony Mann, U.S. director (El Cid, Last Frontier), dies at 60 1967 Frank Wisbar, director (Fireside Theater), dies at 67 1967 Antonio Moreno, Spanish actor and director (It, Careers), dies at 79 1966 Wieland Wagner, German opera director, dies 1966 Vice Admiral Rufus L Taylor, USN, becomes deputy director of CIA 1966 Richath Helms, promoted from deputy director to 8th director of CIA 1966 Vice Admiral William F Raborn, Jr., USN, ends term as 7th director of CIA 1966 Erwin Piscator, German director (Plebeians test rebellion), dies at 72 1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as executive director of Players' Association 1966 Antoine Fuqua, American Director 1966 Vincent J Donehue, director (Lonelyhearts), dies of Hodgkin's at 50 1966 Floyd B McKissick, named national director of CORE 1965 Gong Li, born in Shenyang, China, actress, appeared in director Zhang Yimou's film, Ju Dhou, Red Sorghum, received Golden Rooster award 1965 Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres 1965 Chuckii Booker, born in Los Angeles, California, rocker, singer, songwriter, bandleader, rhythm and blues artist, musical director, recorded and produced with Barry White, Janet Jackson 1965 Brigitte Rouan, Toulon France, director/actress, Outremer 1965 Bryan Singer, American Director 1965 Sam Mendes, British Director 1965 Uwe Boll, German Director 1965 Adrian Schoevers, Dutch director (Schoevers Institution), dies 1965 Richard Helms replaces Marshall S. Carter as deputy director of CIA 1965 Michael Bay, American Director 1965 Jan Sverak, Zatec Czechoslovakia, director, Kolya, Jizda, Ropaci 1965 Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor and director, dies at 63 1964 Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director KNMI, dies at 85 1964 Guillermo del Toro, Mexican Director 1964 [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, actor and director (3 Drops of Water), dies at 81 1964 Tom Terriss, English director (His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru), dies at 91 1964 Carl T. Rowan named director of U.S. Information Agency 1963 Robert Hamer, British Director 1963 Gustaf Grundgens, actor, director and theatre director (M), dies at 63 1963 Cruys Voorbergh, actor and director (Vliegende Hollander), dies at 64 1963 Quentin Tarantino, director and screenwriter, Pulp Fiction 1963 Neil LaBute, American Director 1963 Reza Abdoh, born in Tehran, Iran, playwright, theatre director, produced King Lear, Oedipus Rex, confronted audiences with issues of race, class, AIDS 1963 John Farrow, actor and director (Botany Bay), dies at 58 1963 Dick Powell, actor and director (Dick Powell Theater), dies at 58 1962 Rebecca Miller, American Director 1962 Frank Borzage, U.S., director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo), dies at 69 1962 David Fincher, American Director 1962 Michael Curtiz, Hungarian Director 1962 Lt General Marshall S Carter, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1962 Val Paul, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922, dies at 73 in Hollywood, California 1962 Stephen Sommers, American Director 1962 General Charles P. Cabell, USAF, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1962 Joel Wyner, actor and director, Lyle Springer-Sirens, Listen, Club 1961 Reginald Hudlin, director, House Party 1961 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA 1961 Peter Jackson, New Zealander Director 1961 Sunny Deol, born in New Delhi, India, actor, action movie star, director, producer, winner, two National Film Awards, hit film 'Gadar: Ek Prem Katha' 1961 Simon Delmonte, actor and director (Bleke Bet), dies at 68 1961 Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League 1961 Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director (Dutch Comedy), dies at 70 1961 Roy Del Ruth, director (About Face, Folies Bergere), dies at 67 1961 Robert Carlyle, Scottish Director 1961 August Defresne, Dutch director (Anno Christi 969), dies at 67 1961 Michael Winterbottom, British Director 1961 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli, dies at 59 1961 Eduard R Verkade, Dutch actor and director (Pygmalion), dies at 82 1961 Alexander Payne, American Director 1960 Kenneth Branagh, born in Belfast, actor and director, High Season, Dead Again 1960 Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies 1960 Alfred E Green, director (Copacabana), dies after long illness at 71 1960 Helen Rees, director, Design Museum 1960 Frank Lloyd, director (Berkeley Square, Blood on the Sun), dies at 72 1960 Richard Linklater, American Director 1960 Atom Egoyan, born in Cairo, Egypt, director, Adjuster, Next of Kin 1960 Emory Johnson, director (Phantom Express, Shield of Honor), dies at 66 1960 Oscar awarded to Netherlands director Bert Haanstra 1959 Bert Leysen, Belgian TV director, dies at 39 1959 Charles Lotsy, Dutch insurance director/chief d'equipe, dies at 66 1959 Preston Sturges, Edmund Biden, U.S. director/screenwriter, dies at 60 1959 Grock, Adrien Wettach, Swiss clown/circus director, dies at 79 1959 Charles Vidor, director (Gilda, Farewell to Arms), dies at 58 1959 Irving Cummings Sr, actor and director (In Old Ariz), dies at 70 1959 Luc Besson, French Director 1959 Frank Darabont, American Director 1959 Brett Bodine, born in Chemung, New York, auto racer, former NASCAR Winston Cup driver, current Sprint Cup, pace car driver, employed as Director of Cost and Research by NASCAR 1959 John Singleton, born in Los Angeles, California, director, Boyz n The Hood 1958 Nick Park, British Director 1958 Chris Columbus, writer and director, Mrs Doubtfire, Nine Months 1958 Tim Burton, American Director 1958 Walter Schumann, choral director (Ford Show), dies at 44 1958 Marshal Boelganin resigns as director of Staatsbank 1958 Soviet Marshal Bulganin resigns as director of State Bank 1958 Bobby Farrelly, American Director 1958 Marshal Boelganin becomes director of Russian Staatsbank 1958 Fiona Reynolds, director/Council for Protection of Rural England 1957 Louis B. Mayer, American Director 1957 Mira Nair, Indian Director 1957 Sacha Guitry, actor/playwright/director (Lovers and Thieves), dies at 72 1957 Theo van Gogh, controversial Dutch director, Submission 1957 Cameron Crowe, director, Jerry Maguire, Fast Times at Ridgemont High 1957 Max Ophuls, Maximilian Oppenheimer, German/French director, dies 1957 Spike Lee, born in Atlanta, director, Mo Better Blues, Jungle Fever, Malcolm X 1956 Dolf de Vries, Dutch musical/director/arranger, Josephine 1956 Peter Farrelly, American Director 1956 Hart Bochner, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, Rich and Famous 1956 Danny Boyle, English Director 1956 Walter S Adams, U.S. astronomer/director of Mount Wilson, dies at 79 1956 Lars von Trier, Danish Director 1956 Walter Salles, Brazilian Director 1955 Claus Strigel, director, Obituary for the Automobile, Act of God 1955 William Nigh, director (Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr. Wong), dies at 74 1955 Lloyd Bacon, director (Fuller Brush Girl, 42nd Street), dies at 65 1955 Roland Emmerich, German Director 1955 Bill Condon, American Director 1955 Piet Lieftinck becomes director v/h IMF (World bank) 1955 Henry W. Methorst, Dutch director (Central Bureau of Statistic), dies 1955 Juliusz Machulski, born in Poland, director, writer and actor, Do It Yourself 1954 Alex Cox, born in Bebington, Mereyside, England, screenwriter, film director, independent film producer, actor, author, directed film 'Repo Man', wrote book '10,000 Ways to Die' 1954 Emir Kusturica, Serbian Director 1954 Ang Lee, director, Ice Storm, Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility 1954 James Cameron, born in Kapuskasing, Ontario, writer and director, True Lies, Titanic 1954 Dirk Verbeek, actor and director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70 1954 Judith Weir, born in Cambridge, England, composer, professor of music at Cardiff University, Artistic Director, Spitafields Festival, Composer in Association for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra 1954 Jane Campion, New Zealander Director 1954 Piers Gardner, director, British Institute of International and Comparative Law 1954 Ron Howard, Oklahoma, actor and director, American Graffiti, Happy Days 1954 Anthony Minghella, director, English Patient 1953 Jack Scalia, actor and director, Amore, Deadly Desire, Donor, T-Force 1953 John Malkovich, born in Christopher, Illinois, actor and director, Killing Fields 1953 Jean-Claude Lauzon, Montreal, director and writer, Leola, Night Zoo 1953 Yahoo Serious, Australian Director 1953 General Charles P Cabell, USAF, becomes deputy director of CIA 1953 Jean Epstein, French director (Vive la Vie), dies at 56 1953 Barry Sonnenfeld, director, When Harry Met Sally, Big, Misery 1953 Paul Haggis, Canadian Director 1953 Allen W. Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA 1953 General Walter Bedell Smith, USA, ends term as 4th director of CIA Allen W Dulles, becomes acting director of CIA 1953 Jim Jarmusch, American Director 1952 Susan Seidelman, director, Desperately Seeking Susan 1952 Christine Pascal, actress/director, Smile, Nothing But Lies, Elsa 1952 Gus Van Sant, American Director 1952 David Pack, born in Los Angeles, California, musician, producer, Grammy-Award winning record producer for Wynnona, Aretha Franklin, Kenny Loggins, Phil Collins, Music Director for President Bill Clinton's Inaugurations, 1992 and 1996, cofounder, lead vocalist for band, Ambrosia 1952 Matthew Bright, American Director 1952 Zoltan Kocsis, born in Budapest, Hungary, composer, pianist, conductor, musical director, Hungarian National Philharmonic 1951 Kathryn Bigelow, American Director 1951 Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director 1951 De Raymond, French High Director of Cambodia, murdered 1951 Pedro Almodovar, Spain, director/screenwriter, Kika, Matador 1951 William H. Jackson, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1951 Dean Pitchford, born in Honolulu, Hawaii, prolific songwriter, screenwriter, director, actor, novelist, Oscar, Golden Globe award-winner, wrote with composers Alan Menken, Rupert Holmes, collaborated on songs for movie, Fame, wrote screenplay for movie, 'Footloose' 1951 Robert J. Flaherty, Director 1951 Lis Howell, director of programs, GMTV 1951 FBI director J. Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner 1950 Gillian Armstrong, born in Melbourne, Australia, director, High Tide, Mrs. Soffel 1950 Peter Jan Rens, Dutch actor and director, Mister Cactus, Passion 1950 William H. Jackson, becomes deputy director of CIA 1950 Andre van de Berg, actor and director, Transport 1950 Roelof S "Roel" Bakker, Dutch actor and director, Love Potion 1950 Goutam Ghose, director, Patang, Voyage Beyond, Paar 1950 Chantal Akerman, actor and director, Akermania, Je Tu II Elle 1950 Peter Schaufuss, director of ballet, Deutsche Opera Berlin 1950 Jerry Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun 1950 Neil Jordan, director, Crying Game 1950 John Hughes, director, Breakfast Club, Ferris Bueller 1950 Lizzie Borden, director and writer, Love Crimes, Working Girls 1950 John Hughes, director, Breakfast Club, 16 Candles, Weird Science 1949 Sam Wood, U.S. communist fighter/director (Night at Opera), dies at 66 1949 Anthony Akerman, South Africa, director 1949 Nigel Lucius Graeme Finch, TV director/film-maker 1949 Timothy Cordy, British director, Town and Country Planning Association 1949 Joao Botelho, Lamego Portugal, director, Trafico, Hard Times 1949 Stuart Marshall, director, Desire 1949 Leslie Joan Corn, theatre producer, director and writer 1949 D Watson, director, Brighton U 1949 Brigadier General Edwin K. Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1949 Victor Fleming, director (Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind), dies at 65 1949 Lawrence Kasdan, born in Miami, Florida, director and writer, Accidental Tourist 1949 Wayne Wang, director, Chan is Missing, Slamdance 1948 Marleen Gorris, Dutch director, Mres Dalloway, Antonia, Last Island 1948 Agnieszka Holland, Warsaw Poland, actress/director, Europa Europa 1948 Stanner E V Taylor, U.S. director/writer (Lucky Jim, Ramona), dies at 71 1948 Aline Issermann, director, Amant Magnifiquew 1948 Bille August, director, Best Intentions, Twist and Shout 1948 Michael Houlihan, director, Horniman Museum and Gardens 1948 Paul Wegener, German actor and director (Golem, Svengali), dies at 73 1948 Don Boyd, director, Goldeneye, 21, East of Elephant Rock 1948 Sergei Bodrov, born in Khabarovsk, Russia, director, Katala, Somebody to Love 1948 D[avid] W[ark] Griffith, U.S. director/producer, dies 1948 D. W. Griffith, American Director 1948 Joe Roth, American Director 1948 Albert Innaurato, Philadelphia, playwright/director, Age in Soho 1948 Jacques Feyder, actor and director (kermesse heroique), dies at 59 1948 John Amiel, director, Queen of Hearts, Tune in Tomorrow 1948 Felix MH Troch, Flemish actor and director, Gekkenbriefje 1948 Robert Zemeckis, director, Forrest Gump, Back to the Future 1948 Bud Cort, New Rochelle, New York, actor and director, Electric Dreams, M*A*S*H 1948 Mike Figgis, English Director 1948 Bill Alexander, theatre director 1948 Sergy Eisenstein, film director, dies at 50 1948 Sergei Eisenstein, Russian director (Battleship Potemkin), dies at 50 1948 Errol Morris, American Director 1948 Nicholas Broomfield, director/editor, Dark Obsession, Heidi Fleiss 1948 John Carpenter, born in Carthage, New York, director, Halloween, The Thing 1948 Gillies Mackinnon, director, Playboys 1947 Steven Spielberg, born in Cincinnati, director, ET, Close Encounters, Jaws 1947 Earnest Lubitsch, actor and director (Anna Boleyn, Ninotchka), dies 1947 Jonathan Kaplan, Paris, France, director, Heart Like a Wheel 1947 Patrice Leconte, director, Monsieur Hire, Hairdresser's Husband 1947 Edward Yang, director, Tewrrorizers 1947 David Zucker, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director, Airplane, Naked Gun, Top Secret 1947 Harry Carey Sr, actor and director (Red River, Sundown), dies at 69 1947 David French, British director, Deep Sleep, Bingo 1947 Ann Hui, director, Boat People 1947 Rear Admiral Roscoe H Hillenkoetter, USN, becomes 3th director of CIA 1947 David Leland, born in Cambridge, England, actor and director, Nothing But Trouble 1947 Wilf Stevenson, director, British Film Institute 1947 David Gee, director, Friends of the Earth 1947 Hsiao-hsien Hou, director, Cheerful Wind, City of Sadness, Puppetmaster 1947 Priscilla Yates, director, Royal Academy of Dancing 1947 Paul Auster, U.S. author, poet and director, Mr Vertigo, Smoke 1947 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director, dies at 74 1947 Israel Wetrin, managing director, Elonex 1947 Brigadier General Edwin K Wright, USA, becomes deputy director of CIA 1946 Joe Dante, director, Matinee, Twilight Zone, Police Squad, Gremlins 1946 Fawzi Husseini, Arabic High Director for Palestine, murdered 1946 David Stockman, Reagan's ex-budget director 1946 Ivan Reitman, director/producer, Private Parts, Ghostbusters, Dave 1946 Richard Loncraine, director, Missionary, Deep Cover, Bellman and True 1946 Jean-Jacques Beineix, director, Betty Blue, Diva 1946 Alasdair Fraser, QC/director, Public Prosecutions for N Ireland 1946 Oliver Stone, born in New York City, director, Wall St, Good Morning Vietnam, Platoon 1946 Dennis Dugan, born in Wheaton, Illinois, actor and director, Can't Buy Me Love, Howling 1946 Bill Forsyth, director, Local Hero, Breaking, Indiana, Housekeeping 1946 Paul Schrader, director, American Gigolo, Cat People, Hardcore 1946 Randal Kleiser, American Director 1946 Kingman Douglass, ends term as deputy director of CIA 1946 Sylvester Stallone, born in New York City, actor and director, Rocky, Rambo, Cobra 1946 Neil MacGregor, director, British National Gallery 1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA 1946 Lasse Hallstrom, director, Once Around, My Life as a Dog, ABBA 1946 Earl of Cromer, managing director, Inchcape, China, Ltd 1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director, Marriage of Maria Braum 1946 Ronald Bear, actor and director, Havana, Make-up 1946 Cher, born in El Centro, California, born Cherilyn Sarkisian, singer, songwriter, director, record producer, won Academy Award, sold over 100 million records 1946 John Woo, Chinese Director 1946 Franc Roddam, director, K2, Bride, Aria, Quadrophenia 1946 John Waters, director, Hairspray 1946 Peter L de Baan, Dutch actor, director and playwright, Leonce and Lena 1946 Robert E. McKee, CEO and managing director, Conoco-UK 1946 Bruce Weber, director, Broken Noses 1946 Bigas Luna, director and writer, Anguish 1946 David Wall, English ballet dancers/director, Royal Academy of Dancing 1946 Haile Gerima, director of Ashes and Embers 1946 Kingman Douglass, becomes deputy director of CIA 1946 Michael Radford, director, 1984, White Mischief 1946 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German director/actor, Ehe der Maria Braun 1946 Miles Mander, actor and director (Murder, 3 Musketeers), dies at 57 1946 Hector Babenco, director, Ironweed, Kiss of the Spider Woman 1946 Timothy Clifford, director, National Galleries of Scotland 1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, becomes 1st director of CIA 1946 David Lynch, born in Missoula, Montana, actor and director, Dune, Eraserhead 1945 Taylor Hackford, director, Idolmaker, Officer and a Gentleman 1945 Lloyd Kaufman, American Director 1945 Nicholas Meyer, director, Star Trek II Wrath of Khan 1945 Penelope Spheeris, American Director 1945 Roland Joffe, director, City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields 1945 Nikita Mikhalkov, director, Dark Eyes, Slave of Love 1945 Benoat Lamy, Belgian director 1945 Bruno Nuytten, director, Camille Claudel 1945 Robert Greenwald, American Director 1945 Bob Balaban, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, 2010, Girlfriends 1945 Wim Wenders, West German director, American Friend, Hammett 1945 Jos Stelling, director, Pointsman 1945 Donna Deitch, director, Sexual Advances, Women of Brewster Place 1945 Clive Hollick, born in Britain, Labor Party, financier, youngest director of Hambros Bank, 1973, CEO, Mills & Allen International, MAI 1945 Rob Reiner, born in Bronx New York, actor and director, All in the Family, Stand By Me 1945 Curtis Hanson, American Director 1945 Andrew Bergman, director/screenwriter, Soapdish, Honeymoon in Vegas 1945 Thomas Brasch, born in Germany, writer, author, poet, film director, Best Director, 1981 Bavarian Film Awards 1945 K M Jenkins, British director of personnel, Royal Mail 1945 Vadim Abdrashitov, director, Fox Hunt, Parade of Planets 1945 Harun Farocki, actor and director, Nicht loeschbares Feur 1944 Taylor Hackford, director, Devil's Advocate 1944 Harry Langdon, U.S. comic/director (Heart Trouble), dies at 60 1944 Harold Ramis, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, SCTV, Stripes 1944 Merzak Allouache, director, Salut Cousin, Amour a Paris 1944 Dario Bellezza, born in Rome, Italy, poet, author, playwright, associate director of Nuovi argomenti, published texts by Alberto Moravia, won the Viareggio prize in 1976 for Morte segreta, the Gatto prize in 1991 1944 Peter Weir, born in Sydney, Australia, director and writer, Witness, Dead Poets Society 1944 Tony Scott, director, Top Gun, Revenge, Days of Thunder 1944 Peter Ryan, British national director, Police Training 1944 George Lucas, Modesto, California, director, Star Wars, Indiana Jones 1944 Jim Abrahams, Shorewood, Wisconsin, director, Hot Shots, Top Secret 1944 Niklaus Schilling, Basel Germany, director, Dormire, Atem, Rheingold 1944 Charles Burnett, director, When it Rains, Glass Shield 1944 R. J. B. Knight, deputy director, National Maritime Museum 1944 David Melville, professor and director, Middlesex Polytechnic 1944 Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, dies at 79 1944 Jacques Doillon director and writer, La Fille de Quinze Ans 1944 ... Formans, director Milos Formans mother, dies in Auschwitz 1944 Colin Nutley, director and writer, Such is Life, Black Jack 1944 Jonathan Demme, born in Baldwin, New York, actor and director, Caged Heat, Swing Shift 1944 Buddhadev Dasgupta, director, Charachar, Grihajuddha 1944 Neely Bruce, born in America, composer, conductor, pianist, scholar of American music, Professor of Music and American Studies at Wesleyan University, chorus director for Connecticut Opera 1944 Felix Arons, Dutch director/actor, Waaldrecht 1943 Roelof den Ambtman, Dutch actor and director, One Evening at Eva 1943 Stephen Wallace, director, For Love Affair, Hunger, Mail Order Bride 1943 Albert Lee, born in Leominster, Herefordshire, Grammy-award winning English guitarist, musical director, celebrated finger-style and hybrid picking technique, played with the Crickets 1943 Arturo Ripstein, director, El Lugar Sin Limites, Foxtrot 1943 Nicholas Peter Negroponte, New York City, founder/director, Media Lab at MIT 1943 Jim Mitchell, American Director 1943 Roger Donaldson, director, Cocktail, Cadillac Man, White Sands 1943 Italian director Federico Fellini marries actress Giulietta Masina 1943 Jean-Jacques Annaud, director, Bear, Black and White, Coup de Tete 1943 Udo Zimmermann, born in Dresden, Germany, composer, conductor, artistic director, music director, Leipzig Opera House 1943 Alain Corneau, director, Choice of Arms 1943 Peter Hyams, director, 2010, Capricorn 1, Relic, Timecop 1943 Auguste Reitsma, Dutch resistance fighter (census director), executed 1943 Jon Jost, director, All the Vermeers in New York 1943 Harve Brosten, comedy writer/producer/director, All in the Family 1943 Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko, playwright/director, dies 1943 [Gerardus] Bob van Toll, actor/interpreter/director, Pastorale 1943 1943 Clarice Elaine Gaylord, director of research grants, EPA 1943 Ian Robertson, British museum director, National Army Museum 1943 Mike Newell, director, Bad Blood, Awakening, Amazing Grace and Chuck 1943 Richard Eyre, British director, National Theatre 1943 David Cronenberg, Toronto, Ontario, director, Shivers, Fly, Brood 1943 Andre Techine, director and writer, Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous 1943 Roberto Faenza, director, Cop Killers, Corrupt 1943 Mike Leigh, dramatist/director, High Hopes, Secrets and Lies 1943 Michael Mann, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, Sexpot, Close Friends 1943 Tobe Hooper, American Director 1943 Henri J "Adriaan" Adriaansen, mime/director, Stinging Nettle King 1942 Mani Kaul, director, Idiot, Nazar, Dhrupad, Duvidha 1942 Hector Abbas, actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58 1942 Robbe de Deer, Flemish director/producer, Fugitive Cinema, Bomb 1942 Werner Herzog, director, Burden of Dreams, Stroszek, Woyzeck 1942 David Steinberg, Winnipeg Canada, comedian/director, End 1942 Wilbert Bank, actor and director, On Hope of Blessing 1942 Neil Chalmers, director, National History Museum, London 1942 Mario Brenta, writer and director, Maicol, Barnabo of the Mountains 1942 Bill Bryden, theatre director 1942 Douglas Trumbull, director, Silent Running, Brainstorm 1942 Peter Greenaway, British Director 1942 Joop van den Ende, director, Alsmeer Studio 1942 Margarethe Von Trotta, Berlin Germany, actress/director, Marianne 1942 Claude Miller, director, Garde a Vue, Little Thief, Wild Child 1942 Derek Jarman, actor and director, Angelic Conversation, Edward II 1942 Willy Bogner, Jr., Munich, director, On Her Majesty's Secret Service 1942 Walter Hill, director, 48 Hours, Extreme Prejudice 1941 Daniel Schmid, actor and director, Paloma, Violanta, Hecate, Amateurs 1941 Humberto Solas, director and writer, Lucia 1941 Vivian Stern, director, Nacros 1941 Jim McBride, born in New York City, director/actor, Hot Times, Breathless, Big Easy 1941 Barbet Schroeder, director, Barfly, Single White Female, More 1941 Patricio Guzman, director/actor, Cruz del Sur, Moon over Parador 1941 Lut[guard] Tomsin, actress/director, Knock on the Door 1941 James Scott, director, Strike it Rich 1941 Krzysztof Kieslowski, born in Poland, director/actor, Underground Passage 1941 Denys Arcand, director, Jesus of Montreal 1941 Allan Carr, Illinois, director, Grease, Happiest Millionaire 1941 Nora Ephron, New York, novelist/screenwriter/director, Michael, Heartburn 1941 Ruth Stonehouse, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance', dies in Hollywood, California, at age 48 1941 Max Stafford-Clark, artistic director, Royal Court Theatre 1941 Hans W. Geissendorfer, born in Augsburg, Germany, director, Sternsteinhof 1941 Roman Balayan, born in Nerke, Azerbaijan, director, Filer, Biryuk 1941 Dick Top, Dutch actor and director, Witch of Haarlem 1941 Adrian Lyne, director, Fatal Attraction, 9 Weeks, Jacob's Ladder 1941 Oskar Loerke, German director (Longest Day-1926), dies at 56 1941 Michael Apted, director/researcher, Granada TV 1941 Hayao Miyazaki, Japanese Director 1940 James Burrows, TV producer/director, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers 1940 Kumar Shahani, writer and director, Kasbam Tarang, Maya Darpan 1940 Helma Sanders-Brahms, Emden Germany, director, Apple Trees, Manoever 1940 Brian DePalma, born in Newark, New Jersey, film director, Body Double, Dressed to Kill 1940 Brian De Palma, American Director 1940 Dario Argento, director, Creepers, Deep Red, Tenebrae 1940 Bruce Beresford, Austral director, Driving Miss Daisy, Tender Mercies 1940 Barbara Mills, QC, British Director of Public Prosecutions 1940 Karel Vachek, director, Moravska Hellas, Elective Affinities 1940 Nazi collaborator Rost of Tonningen appointed director of Marxist 1940 Y G Van de Peat, Dutch director of employment, commits suicide 1940 Abbas Kiarostami, author/director, Under the Olive Trees, Close Up 1940 Hans Dulfer, tenor saxophonist/director, Paradiso 1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, Parma, Italy, director, 1900, Last Emperor 1940 James L. Brooks, producer/director, Broadcast News, Taxi, Critic 1940 Souleymane Cisse, director, Waati, Yeelen, Finye, Baara 1940 Pilar Miro, director, Wether, Beltenebros 1940 Lino Brocka, born in San Jose, Philippines, director, Macho Dancer, Jaguar 1940 Bernardo Bertolucci, born in Parma, Italy, director, Last Tango in Paris 1940 RA Weiss, director, Institute of Cancer Research 1940 George A. Romero, actor and director, Creepshow, Martin, 2 Evil Eyes 1940 Harry Kumel, Flemish director, Monsieur Hawarden 1940 Trevor Nunn, English Director 1939 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director (The White), dies at 57 1939 Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, Dutch actor and director (Two Boys), dies at 67 1939 Joel Schumacher, American Director 1939 John Badham, Luton England, director, Dracula, Short Circuit 1939 H Onno C R Ruding, director, Amrobank, Dutch Financial minister, CDA 1939 Wes Craven, born in Cleveland, Ohio, director, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream 1939 Peter Bogdanovich, born in Kingston, New York, director/producer, Last Picture Show 1939 17th earl of Pembroke, English landowner/director, Emily 1939 Rudolphus FM "Ruud" Lubbers, director Dutch/CDA-premier, 1982-94 1939 Francis Ford Coppola, born in Detroit, director, Godfather, Apocalypse Now 1939 Toni Cade Bambara, director 1939 Bertrand Blier, born in Paris, France, novelist and director, Going Places 1939 David Mlinaric, British interior director 1939 Kenzo Takada, Japanese director, Dream After Dream 1939 Victor Fleming replaces George Cukor as director of Gone With the Wind 1939 Michael Rudman, English theater director/producer, Donkeys' Years 1939 John D Hancock, actor and director, Black Marble, Traxx, Houston Knights 1939 Johann Strauss, Austrian conductor/Royal ball director, dies at 72 1938 Wibo van de Linde, Dutch TV host/director, Avro 1938 Michael Ritchie, American Director 1938 Porter Goss, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, Representative-R-Florida 1989 - 2004, Director of CIA 2004 - 2006 1938 H J de Royen, director, Dutch Concertgebouw Orchestra 1938 Pupi Avati, Bologna Italy, director, Festival, Bix, Impiegati 1938 Marcus Jan Adriani, biologist/director, Weevers' Duin 1938 Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russian director (S Method), dies at 75 1938 Paul Bartel, born in Brooklyn, New York, director/actor, Eating Raoul 1938 Paul Verhoeven, director, Basic Instinct, Total Recall 1938 Richard Benjamin, New York City, director/actor, Goodbye Columbus, He and She 1938 Michael Shea, director, Hanson Trust, Queen's press sect 1938 Jerzy Skolimowski, Warsaw, Poland, director, Hands Up, Deep End 1938 Marlies van Alcmaer, Smal, Dutch actress/director, Bridge too Far 1937 Rob Houwer, Dutch director/producer/actor, OK, Professor Columbus 1937 Ridley Scott, director, Alien, Blade Runner 1937 Claude Lelouch, movie director, A Man and A Woman, Cat and Mouse, Bolero 1937 R B Heywood, director, British Antarctic Survey 1937 Joop Admiral, Dutch actor and director, You Are My Mother 1937 Max Hebditch, director, Museum of London 1937 Varbara Ann Teer, U.S. actress/director, National Black Theatre Company 1937 Richard Foreman, New York City, theatrical director, Daily Life 1937 Roger Penske, born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, owner, Penske Racing, auto racing team, the Penske Corporation, corporate director, General Electric 1937 Ken Hill, playwright/director 1937 Liliana Cavani, Bologna Italy, director, Berlin Affair 1936 Matt Clark, Washington D.C., actor and director, Return to Oz, Horror Show 1936 Philip Kaufman, director, Right Stuff, Henry and June 1936 Rob Touber, Robert J Noordervliet, cabaret director, Capers 1936 Jose Sanjurjo y Sacanell, Spanish general/high director, dies 1936 Jan Nemec, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, director, Diamonds of the Night 1936 Berend Boudewijn [van der Woude], Dutch TV host/director, Baantjer 1936 Kenneth Loach, TV director (Singing the Blues in Red), dies 1936 Mark Burns, British director, Juggernaut 1936 Peter H J "Piet" van Doorne, director BOVA Red Peppers, executed at 52 1936 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator 1936 Daniel Goode, born in America, composer, clarinetist, studied with Henry Cowell, influenced by Indonesian gamelan music, bird song, Cape Breton fiddling, minimal music, member, Gamelan Son of Lion, Director, Electronic Music Studio, Rutgers University 1936 Meindert Leerling, Dutch TV director/MP, RPF 1935 Bruno Canino, born in Naples, Italy, composer, pianist, chamber musician, accompanist, studied with Vincenzo Vitale, and in Milan with Bruno Bettinelli, music director of Biennale di Venezia, recordings include Bach Goldberg Variations 1935 Fernando Lopes, Portugal, director, Encoberto, Matar Saudades 1935 Michael Winner, producer/director, Big Sleep, Death Wish 1935 Hans Croiset, Dutch theatre director/actor, Witte Waan 1935 Roy Strong, writer/art historian/director, Victoria and Albert Museum 1935 Charles Shere, born in Berkeley, California, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp' 1935 Charles Shere, composer, music critic, Music Director for radio KPFA, Berkeley, wrote book, 'How I Saw Duchamp', dies 1935 Patrick Garland, director, Doll House 1935 Hans H. Boswinkel, actor and director, Surprise Attack, Tutorials in Love 1935 Barend Barendse, actor and director (Broken Lives), dies at 82 1935 Noam Sheriff, born in Tel Aviv, Israel, musician, composer, conductor, most renowned Israeli musician, director of Haifa Symphony Orchestra 1934 Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president 1934 J. Carter Brown, Providence Rhode Island, art director, Washington National Gallery 1934 Robert Lang, actor, Night Watch, director 1934 Edward Bond, English playwright/director, Blow-up 1934 Claude Berri, born in Paris, France, director, Le Sex Shop, L'Homme Blesse 1934 Sydney Pollack, born in Indiana, American film director, producer, actor in over 30 films 1934 Simon Mackay, born in Scotland, born Simon Mackay, Baron Tanlaw of Tanlawhill in the County of Dumfries, Lord Tannlaw, crossbench member of the House of Lords, director or family company Inchape 1934 Judith Jamison, artistic director, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater 1934 David Hugh Jones, Poole Dorset England, director, Betrayal 1934 Federico Mayor Zaragoza, Barcelona Spain, UNESCO director, 1987- 1934 Donald Cammell, film director 1933 Peter Hartling, born in Chemnitz, Germany, writer, poet, managing director, S. Fisher Verlag publishing house, editor, Der Monat, magazine 1933 Phill Niblock, born in Anderson, Indiana, composer, videographer, filmmaker, director, avente-garde music foundation, Experimental Media 1933 Roman Polanski, born in Paris, France, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown 1933 Roman Polanski, Poland, director, Rosemary's Baby, Chinatown, Pirates 1933 Chuck Cassey, born in Chicago, choral director, Jimmy Dean Show 1933 1st female director (Nellie T Ross) of U.S. Mint takes office 1933 Darijan Bozic, born in Slavonski Brod, Croatia, composer, conductor, manager, artistic director of The Slovene National Theater Opera and Ballet Ljubljana 1933 Richard Williams, Canadian Director 1933 Jorn Donner, Helsinki Finland, director, Anna, Tenderness 1933 Stan Brakhage, American Director 1933 Jean-Marie Straub, France, director, Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach 1932 Noam Pitlik, Philadelphia Pennsylvania, actor and director, Sanford and Son, Bob Newhart 1932 Louis Malle, France, director, Atlantic City, Black Moon, Viva Maria 1932 Dusan Makavejev, Belgrade Yugoslavia, director, Man is Not a Bird 1932 Jeremy Isaacs, general director, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden 1932 Robert Benton, Texas, writer and director, Kramer vs Kramer 1932 Daphne Swallow, commandant/director, WRNS 1932 Melvin Van Peebles, born in Chicago, Illinois, actor and director, 'Sophisticated Gent' 1932 William Odom, American, NASA director, Soviet Union expert, U.S. Army lieutenant general, advised Carter, Reagan 1932 David Keylsey, actor and director 1932 Barry Levinson, born in Baltimore, Maryland, director, Rainman 1932 King Hu, born in Beijing, China, film director, scriptwriter, set designer, directed films 'Come Drink With Me', 'Dragon Gate Inn' 1932 David Bolton, director, British Royal United Service for Defense 1932 Barney Simon, theatre director/writer 1932 Peter Moores, director, Littlewoods 1932 Andrei Tarkovski, Russian director, Solaris, Stalker 1932 Andrei Tarkovsky, Russian Director 1932 Nagisa Oshima, born in Kyoto, Japan, director, Town of Love and Hope 1932 Jean-Pierre Ponnele, Paris, France, opera director, Carmina Burana 1932 Milos Forman, Czechoslovakian/U.S. director, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest', 'Amadeus' 1932 Alexander Kluge, born in Halberstadt, Germany, film director, author, work 'Butalitat im Stein' or 'Brutality in Stone', helped launch New German Cinema 1932 Jack Hibbert, director, Central Statistical Office 1932 Francois Truffaut, Paris, director, Jules and Jim, Fahrenheit 451 1932 Christopher Price, Director, Leeds Metropolitan U 1932 Richard Lester, movie director, Hard Day's Night, Help!, Petulia 1931 Evald Schorm, Prague Czechoslovakia, director, Courage for Every Day 1931 Ellen Blazer, Dutch TV director, Sonja 1931 Mike Nichols, Peschowsky, director, Catch 22, Biloxi Blues 1931 David Wilson, director of British Museum, 1977-92 1931 Ray Danton, New York City, actor and director, Longest Day, Psychic Killer 1931 Jan Torell, Limhamm Sweden, director, New Land, Emigrants 1931 Ivo Petric, composer, classical music, toured with Slavko Osterc ensemble, Artistic Director, Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra 1979 - 1995 1931 Jacques Demy, born in France, director, Lola, Magic Donkey 1931 Florence Sharples, director, British YWCA 1931 Joan Clague, director of nursing services, Marie Curie Foundation 1931 Martin Rogers, director, Farmington Institute for Christian Studies 1931 Ted Kotcheff, Canadian Director 1931 Denis Lawton, director, London University Institute of Educ 1931 Wolfgang Kohlhaase, born in Berlin, actor, director and writer, Solo Sunday 1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director, Royal Collection 1931 Cornelis T. "Cor" van de Molen, director Social Businesses of Press 1931 Charles Nelson Reilly, born in New York, American actor, director, comedian, drama teacher, game show panelist 1930 Peter Hall, born in Suffolk, England, director, Royal Shakespeare Company 1930 Jean-Louis Trintignant, France, actor and director, Man and a Woman, Z 1930 Maximilian Schell, Austria, actor and director, Odessa File, Julia 1930 Jean-Luc Godard, French director, Alphaville, Hail Mary, Breathless 1930 Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director (Dr. Faustus), dies at 26 1930 Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory 1930 Frank Perry, film director 1930 James Komack, born in New York City, writer/director/actor, Courtship of Eddie's Father 1930 Robert Evans, born in New York City, director/actor, Love Story, Godfather, Chinatown 1930 Claude Chabrol, born in Paris, France, director, Les Cousins, Ophelia 1930 Bo Gunnar Widerberg, born in Malmo, Sweden, director, Elvira Madigan 1930 William S Sessions, Arkansas, director of FBI 1930 Stanley Wells, director, Shakespeare Institute University of Birmingham 1930 Paul Mazursky, born in Brooklyn, writer and director, Moscow on the Hudson 1930 Richard Donner, American Director 1930 Raymond St. Jacques, actor and director, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Mr. Moses 1930 Mabel Normand, actress/director (Extra Girl), dies at 35 1930 John Frankenheimer, New York City, director, Birdman of Alcatraz 1930 Ricou Browning, Florida, director/actor, Thunderball 1930 Frederick Wiseman, American Director 1929 Jan Wiegel, director/producer, Classroom of Anne Frank, Myrada 1929 Alan Mouncer, film director/producer 1929 Peter Yates, director, Breaking Away, Bullitt 1929 Robert Wade-Gery, diplomat and executive director, Barclays de Zoete Wedd 1929 Hugo Claus, Flemish writer and director, Cool Lover, Sugar 1929 Dennis Farr, director, Courtauld Institute Galleries 1929 James Ackley Maxwell, actor and director, Traitors, Pyt Potter, Otley 1929 Elio Petri, Italy, director, Property is no theft 1929 Rita Gillespie, TV director 1929 Aleksander Petrovic, film director 1929 Wim Bary, Dutch actor/theater director, Nice Boys 1929 Sergio Leone, Italian, director, Fist Full of Dollars 1928 Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor and director (Streets of sin), dies at 45 1928 Johnny Mann, born in Baltimore, Maryland, music director, Johnny Mann Stand Up and Cheer 1928 Nicolas Roeg, born in London, England, cinematographer/director, Aria, Eureka 1928 Stanley Kubrick, born in Bronx, New York, director, 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Lolita 1928 Pavel Kohout, born in Czechoslovakia, director/author, Poor Murderer 1928 Michael Blakemore, British theater director, Country Life 1928 Geraint Gruffydd, director, University of Wales Centre for Welsh Studies 1928 James Ivory, producer/director, Howard's End, Remains of the Day 1928 Tony Richardson, born in England, director, Delicate Balance 1928 Agnes Varda, French photograph/director, Cleo de 5 7, Le bonheur 1928 Alan J. Pakula, director, All the President's Men, Klute 1928 Dimitri Frenkel Frank, Dutch writer and director, Hadimassa 1928 Peter Roger Hunt, born in London, England, director, Dr. No 1928 Harold Prince, U.S. producer/director, West Side Story, Evita 1928 Roger Vadim, born in France, director, And God Created Women, Barbarella 1928 William Peter Blatty, New York City, author/director, The Exorcist 1927 Michael Carreras, film director 1927 Pierre Alechinsky, Belgian painter/director, Cobra 1927 John Downey, born in Chicago, Illinois, composer, pianist, conductor, professor of composition and theory, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, founder, director of the Wisconsin Contemporary Music Forum 1927 Gwyn Ward Thomas, Beritsh TV director 1927 Ann Jellicoe, theater director/playwright, Knack 1927 Ken Russell, England, director, Tommy, Altered States, Gothic 1927 Ruth Berghaus, choreographer/director 1927 Bob Fosse, born in Chicago, Illinois, choreographer/director, Cabaret, Damn Yankees 1927 Lucio Fulci, born in Rome, Italy, director, screenwriter, actor, known for directing gore films, Zombi 2 and The Beyond, other genres, including giallo, western, comedy 1927 Michael Walsh, major-general/director, Overseas Relations 1927 David Hobman, director, Age Concern England 1927 Michael Levey, director, British National Gallery 1927 James Eberle, British admiral/director, Royal Institute of International Affairs 1927 Herbert Ross, director/choreographer, Footloose 1927 Robert Orben, magician, comedy writer, author, specializes in observational comedy, wrote, 'Encyclopedia of Patter', 'Speaker's Handbook of Humor', speechwriter for Vice President Gerald R. Ford, became Director, White House Speechwriting Department 1927 Frank Dunlop, director, Edinburgh International Festival 1927 Anthony Garner, director, Conservative Central Office 1926 Alfred "Fred" Benavente, director/actor, Farce Majeur 1926 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor and director (Krates), dies at 72 1926 Arthur Wills, born in England, composer, professor at Royal Academy of Music in London, Director of Music at Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, England, composed music for the organ and secular music based on George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four 1926 Pierre Janssen, art museum director 1926 John Derek, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, 10, Annapolis Story 1926 Frank Hauser, British theatrical director 1926 Bryan Forbes, director/producer, Endless Games, King Rat 1926 Karel Reisz, director, Everybody Wins, Isadora, Who'll Stop the Rain 1926 Norman Jewison, director, Moonstruck, ...and Justice For All 1926 Mel Brooks, born in New York City, comedian/actor and director, Blazing Saddles, Spaceballs 1926 Arthur Bell, royal botanic gardens director, Kew Gardens 1926 Dick Williams, born in Wall Lake, Iowa, choral director, Andy Williams Show 1926 Cicely Berry, voice director, Royal Shakespeare Company 1926 Roger Corman, born in Detroit, producer and director, Little Shop of Horrors 1926 Andre Delvaux, born in Heverie, Belgium, director and writer, Benvenuta 1926 Andrzej Wajda, born in Suwalki, Poland, director, Ashes and Diamonds, Lotna 1926 John Schlesinger, born in London, England, director, Midnight Cowboy, Darling 1925 Jordan Klein, born in Miami, Florida, cameraman/director, Thunderball 1925 Max Linder, French actor/comic/director (Max toreador), dies at 41 1925 Nanni Loy, film director 1925 Jerry Paris, born in San Francisco, California, director/actor, Jerry-Dick Van Dyke Show 1925 Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theater director (l'odeon), dies at 64 1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt 1925 Jos Jacobs, Flemish director, Madonna of Nedermunster 1925 Ab Abspoel, Dutch actor and director, Surprise Attack, Elevator 1925 Richard C. Sarafian, New York City, director/actor, Foley Square 1925 Rik Kuijpers, Belgian director, Sea gulls die in the harbor 1925 Robert Cohan, artistic director, Contemporary Dance Trust 1925 Duncan Wood, TV director/producer 1925 Peter Brook, born in London, director, 1776, TV writer 1925 Michael Kaye, director, City of London Festival 1925 Sam Peckinpah, born in Fresno, California, film director, Wild Bunch, Straw Dogs 1925 Robert Altman, born in Kansas City, Missouri, director, Nashville, M*A*S*H 1925 David Emms, director, London Goodenough Trust for Overseas Graduates 1925 PER Bailey, director, Gatwick and Stansted Airports 1924 Frank Corsaro, New York harbor, opera director 1924 Lucas J "Luc" Lutz, Dutch actor and director, Hague Comedy 1924 Edward D Wood, Jr., Poughkeepsie, New York, director, Plan 9 from Outer Space 1924 Norman Ayrton, opera director, Royal Shakespearean Academy - UK 1924 Zelda Fichandler, Boston, theater director/producer, Raisin, K2 1924 John Kilgour, director of prison medical services, Home Office 1924 Howard Roberts, born in Burlington, New Jersey, choral director, Leslie Uggams Show 1924 Sidney Lumet, born in Philadelphia, director, Group, Pawnbroker, Fail Safe 1924 Jean J A Girault, French director/screenwriter, l'Amour 1924 Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Buenos Aires, director, Monday's Child 1924 Stanley Donen, South Carolina, film director/producer, Bedazzled, Damn Yankees 1924 Murray Dickie, opera singer and director 1924 Charles Guggenheim, American Director 1924 Sarah Caldwell, born in Maryville, Missouri, conductor/opera director, Flagstaff 1924 Lionel Dakers, director, Royal School of Church Music 1923 Heinz Bernard Lowenstein, actor and director 1923 Stansfield Turner, CIA director 1923 Arthur Hiller, director, Love Story 1923 Richard Attenborough, England, actor and director, Gandhi, Young Winston 1923 Gwyn Ward Thomas, British TV director 1923 Michael Jaffe, director, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England 1923 Horst Tapper, German director/actor, Derrick 1923 Irvin Kershner, Philadelphia, director, Never Say Never Again 1923 Lindsay Anderson, born in Bangalore, India, director, Thursday's Children 1923 Mauritius H Binger, director/producer (Living Ladder), dies 1923 Nancy Francy, director, Claire's Knee 1923 Lee Hale, born in Tacoma, Washington, choral director, The Entertainers 1923 Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director, Doctor Noir 1923 Franco Zeffirelli, Florence Italy, director, Romeo and Juliet 1923 Norman Mailer, born in New Jersey, American novelist, poet, playwright, film director, wrote 40 books and 11 novels 1923 Larry Buchanan, American Director 1922 Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director, Lucky Luciano 1922 Oskar Werner, film actor and director, Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel 1922 Arthur Penn, Philadelphia, director, Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde 1922 Guy Hamilton, British Director 1922 Frank Hauser, British theatrical director 1922 Adolfo Celi, born in Sicily, Italy, director, Next Man, Murders in Rue Morgue 1922 Blake Edwards, born in Oklahoma, writer and director, 10, SOB, Breakfast at Tiffany's 1922 Miroslav "Standa" Bares, Czechoslovakian/Dutch actor and director, Billy Budd 1922 Derek Prouse, writer actor/film festival director, Le Scandale 1922 Artie Malvin, U.S. music director, Julie LaRosa/Steve Lawrence 1922 Francois Reichenbach, French director, La douceur du Village 1922 Michael Cacoyannis, director, Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women 1922 Tony Charmoli, director/choreographer, Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye 1922 Alain Resnais, born in France, director, Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour 1922 M. Alain Resnais, born in Vannes, France, director, Melo, I Want to Go Home 1922 Juan A Bardem, Spanish director/critic, Comicos 1922 Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, dies at 39 1922 Barry Levinson, director, Rain Man 1922 Bruno VeSota, born in Illinois, actor and director, Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers 1922 Ugo Tognazzi, born in Cremona, Italy, actor and director, La Cage Aux Folles 1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini, born in Bologna, Italy, director, Teorema, Pigsty 1922 William Desmond Taylor, director/actor (Broken Coin), dies at 49 1922 Ken Hughes, Liverpool England, director, Casino Royale 1921 Gene Saks, New York, actor and director, One and Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave 1921 Miklos Jancso, Vac Hungry, director, Muzsika, Aube, Pacifist 1921 Milos Jancso, Vac Hungary, director, My Way Home 1921 Jackie Cooper, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, Hennesey, People's Choice 1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI 1921 Giorgio Strehler, theatre director 1921 Georg G Lampe, Dutch painter/director, Free Academy 1921 Chris Marker, French Director 1921 Joseph Papp, born in Brooklyn, stage producer/director, Pirates of Penzance 1921 Hendrik J Witteveen, economist/minister of finance/director, IMF 1921 Satyajit Ray, Calcutta India, director, Goddess, Adversary 1921 Amadou-Mahtar M'Bow, Senegal, director general, UNESCO 1921 Joan Greenwood, born in London, actress and director, Amorous Mr. Prawn 1921 Jack Clayton, film director 1921 B M Ducat-Amos, Air Commandant/director, RAF Nursing Service 1921 Andre Hodeir, born in Paris, France, violinist, composer, studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, founder and director of Jazz Groupe de Paris, comprised of nine musicians including Bobby Jaspar and Nat Peck 1920 Daniel Petrie, Canadian Director 1920 Richard Quine, born in Detroit, Michigan, actor and director, Clay Pigeon 1920 Sergei F Bondarchuk, director/actor, Boris Godunov, Step, Otello 1920 Sergey Bondarchuk, Belozerka Ukraine, director, War and Peace 1920 Egbert van Paridon, Dutch actor and director, Assault 1920 Fons Rademakers, director, Assault, actor, Daughter of Darkness 1920 Bert Leysen, TV director, Belgian National TV 1920 Lewis Gilbert, born in London, England, director/actor, You Only Live Twice 1920 Louise Wood, director of Girl Scouts of USA, 1961-72 1920 George Breakston, Paris, France, actor and director, Jungle Stampede 1920 William Egan Colby, CIA director, Nixon 1919 Bernhard Wicki, St. Polten Austria, director/actor, Crime and Passion 1919 Shirley Clarke, film director 1919 Lenn Hjortzberg, Karlskrona Sweden, director, Persona, Devil's Eye 1919 Antonius C "Ton" Lutz, Dutch actor and director, Lucifer 1919 Beppie Nooij, actress/director, Bluejackets-Rooie Sien 1918 Humphrey van Loo, Dutch news director, ANP/Reuter 1918 Robert Aldrich, U.S. director/producer, Dirty Dozen 1918 Ingmar Bergman, born in Sweden, director, writer, producer for stage, film and television, Academy Award winner 1918 Buster Davis, born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, choral director, Garry Moore Show 1918 Ted Post, Director, Peacemaker, Beneath the Planet of the Apes 1918 Ida Lupino, actress screenwriter director/producer, Jennifer 1918 Caspar MB "Cas" Baas, Dutch actor/playwright/director, Ciske the Rat 1917 Jean-Pierre Melville, Paris, France, director, A Cop 1917 Yuri "Petrovich" Lyubimov, U.S.S.R., director, Taganka 1917 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director 1917 Mel Ferrer, born in New Jersey, actor in television, film and theater, film director and film producer 1917 John Cunningham, executive director, British Aerospace 1917 Robert Cowans, executive director, British Aerospace 1917 Herbert Beerbohm Tree, English actor and director (Hamlet), dies 1917 Wieland Wagner, German opera director 1916 Ray Conniff, Attleboro, Massachusetts, chorus director, Ray Conniff Singers 1916 Bob de Lange, Jacob Bernard, Dutch actor and director, Daniel 1916 George Sidney, American Director 1916 Rossano Brazzi, Bolognia Italy, actor and director, Antaeus-Survivors 1916 Erich Von Stroheim, Jr., actor and director, Napoleon, Sunset Blvd 1916 David Brown, born in New York City, director, Jaws, Planet of the Apes 1916 Irwin Allen, born in New York City, director, Land of the Giants, Poseidon Adventure 1916 Bert Haanstra, Holten Netherlands, director, Fanfare 1916 Howard Koch, producer/director, Frankenstein, Airplane II 1916 Josephine van Gasteren, Dutch actress/director, Bluejackets 1916 Gene Mitchell, museum director 1916 Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director, Joi-uchi 1916 Robert Parrish, Columbus, Georgia, director, Casino Royale 1915 Clay Warnick, born in Tacoma, Washington, choral director, Jimmie Rodgers Show 1915 Kon Ichikawa, Japan, director, Matatabi, Money Talks 1915 Guus [August] Oster, Dutch actor and director, Carre 1915 Terence Young, born in Shanghai, China, director, Dr. No, Thunderball 1915 Salah Abou Seif, director 1914 Elise Hoomans, Dutch director/actress, Jane Eyre 1914 Pietro Germi, Genoa Italy, actor and director, Divorce Italian Style 1914 Robert Wise, director, Day the Earth Stood Still, West Side Story 1914 J. Lee Thompson, British Director 1914 George Tabori, born in Budapest, Gyorgy Tabori, writer, theater director, worked for BBC in London, moved to United States, became screenwriter, translated works by Bertolt Brecht, Max Frisch 1914 Donald Stokes, born in Plymouth, England, born Donald Gresham Stokes, Baron Stokes, Lord Stokes, industrialist, life peer in the House of Lords, managing director of British Leyland Motor Corporation 1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co 1914 Morton DaCosta, born in Philadelphia, director, Island of Love, Music Man 1914 Martin Ritt, actor and director for Slugger's Wife, End of the Game 1914 Dutch Minister of war H Colijn named director of British Petroleum 1914 Marion Kettlewell, British director, WRNS 1913 Carlo Ponti, Milan Italy, married to Sophia Loren/director, 2 Women 1913 Mark Robson, Canadian Director 1913 James Broughton, American Director 1913 Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director, The Just-Nobel 1957 1913 Peter Glenville, actor stage/screen director, Hotel Paradiso, Becket 1913 Walter Schumann, New York City, choral director, Ford Show, composer, Rhenish 1913 Stanley E Kramer, New York City, producer/director, Inherit the Wind 1913 Stanley Kramer, Argentinian Director 1913 Allan David, actor, director andproducer, Cry of the Children 1913 Karl Guttmann, Austrian/Netherlands playwright/director, Albee/Pinter 1913 John Elliott Terry, managing director, National Film Finance Corp 1913 Nigel Patrick, London England, actor and director, Sapphire, Prize of Gold 1913 Bernard Charles Sendall, deputy director general, ITA 1913 Rene Clement, born in Bordeaux, France, director and writer, Is Paris Burning 1913 Rex Tucker, TV writer/director 1913 Josephine F "Fietje" van Anrooy, Dutch actress/director 1913 Oskar Danon, born in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, composer, conductor, earned Ph.D. musicology in Prague, Czechoslovakia, conductor, director for Belgrade Opera, chief conductor Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra 1912 Gordon Parks, Ft. Scott, Kansas, film director/author, Learning Tree 1912 Don[ald] Siegel, born in Chicago, Illinois, director, Escape from Alcatraz, Shootist 1912 Michelangelo Antonioni, born in Ferrara, Italy, Italian modernist film director, 'Blow-up', 'Red Desert' 1912 Alexander Mackendrick, Boston, director, Man in the White Suit, Mandy 1912 Max Croiset, playwright/director/actor, Dog of Flanders, Little Ark 1912 Daniel Mann, Brooklyn, director, Willard, Butterfield 8 1912 Ian Morrow, company director 1912 Joseph Anthony, Deuster, U.S. director/actor, Matchmaker, Tomorrow 1912 Richard Brooks, Philadelphia, director, Blackboard Jungle, In Cold Blood 1912 Georges Franju, born in France, director, Judex, L'homme sans visage 1912 Wilhelmus H L "Willem" Tollenaar, actor and director, Don Carlos 1912 Helmut Coing, German lawyer/director, Max-Planck-institute 1911 Jules Dassin, Middletown CT, director, Circle of Two, Never on Sunday 1911 Charles Walters, U.S., actor/choreographer/director, Easter parade 1911 Carl Dolmetsch, director, Haslemere Festival 1911 R. Nicholas Ray, born in Galesville WI, director, Rebel Without a Cause 1911 Oscar Carre, circus director, dies at 64 1911 Oscar Carre, circus director, dies at 64 1911 Harry Simeone, Newark, New Jersey, choral director, Kate Smith Show 1911 Giles Grangier, film director 1911 Frans Vroons, actor/tenor/director, Netherlands Opera 1911 Ronald Neame, director, 1st Monday in Oct, Poseidon Adventure 1911 Gunther Rennert, born in Essen, Germany, opera director and producer 1911 Robert Hamer, British Director 1911 John Sturges, U.S., director, Old Man and Sea, Magnificent 7 1910 Roy Rowland, film director 1910 Abraham L Polonsky, U.S. writer and director, Tell them Willie Boy is Here 1910 Charles Crichton, British director, Battle of Sexes 1910 Tomoyuki Tanaka, director, Godzilla 1910 Akira Kurosawa, born in Tokyo, Japan, director, 7 Samurai, Living 1910 Vincente Minnelli, born in Chicago, Illinois, director, American in Paris, Gigi 1910 Michael Kanin, born in Rochester, New York, director/writer/actor, Woman of the Year 1910 Elmar Klos, Czechoslovakian director, Adrift 1910 Willi Schmidt, Germany, director 1909 Nicolaas G Pierson, director Suriname/Dutch Bank, dies at 80 1909 Don Large, Canada, choral director, Wayne King 1909 Elia Kazan, Constaninople Turkey, director, Streetcar Named Desire 1909 Jean Lancaster, director, WRNS 1909 John Baur, museum director/author, American Paintings in 19th Century 1909 Mike Todd, Avrom Goldbogen, U.S. director, 80 days 1909 Jan Lewando, British director, Marks and Spencer 1909 John Arkell, director of administration, BBC 1909 Jan Veldkamp, Dutch geophysicist/director, KNMI 1909 Abner Biberman, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, director and actor, Imhook-Kodiak 1909 Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director, Warburg Institute 1909 George G F van Renesse, Dutch pianist/music director 1909 Joseph L Mankiewicz, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, film writer and director, Sleuth 1909 Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Director 1909 Joseph Walton Losey, Wisconsin, director, Damned, Accident 1908 Jacques Tatischeff, born in La Pecq, France, director, Traffic, Playtime 1908 Jacobus "Ko" van de Bosch, actor/cabaret performer/director, Nemo 1908 Edward Dmytryk, director, Carpetbaggers, Young Lions, Caine Mutiny 1908 David Lean, British director, Lawrence of Arabia 1908 Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater and hotel director 1908 David Lean, born in Croydon, England, director, Dr. Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter 1908 Helmut Kautner, German director, Der Hauptmann von Kopenick 1908 Robert Rossen director and writer, Hustler, All the King's Men, Mambo 1908 Tex Avery, cartoon director, What's up, Doc? 1908 George Pal, Hungarian/U.S. director, When Worlds Collide, Puppetoons 1908 Hans [Hendrik AJ] Tiemeijer, Dutch actor, director and writer, Fear 1907 Michael Blankfort, U.S., writer/producer/director 1907 Henri-Georges Clouzot, France, director, Le salaire de la peur 1907 Yves Allegret, French director, Dedee d'Anvers, Lesson Orgueilleux 1907 William Marshall, producer/director/actor/singer, Blackmail 1907 Robert Bresson, France, director, Pickpocket, Mouchette 1907 Fred Zinneman, born in Austria, director, From Here to Eternity, Julia 1907 Fred Zinnemann, American Director 1907 Cor Treslem, Cornelis L Melsert, actor and director, Willem van Oranje 1907 Sheldon Leonard, New York City, actor and director, Danny Thomas Show, Big Eddie 1907 Owain Jenkins, company director 1906 Carol Reed, motion picture director, 3rd Man 1906 John Walker, museum director 1906 Luchino Visconti, born in Milan, Italy, director, Damned, Death in Venice 1906 Wolfgang Staudte, German director, Die Morder sind unter uns 1906 Marcel Carne, French Director 1906 John Huston, born in Nevada, Missouri, director and writer, African Queen, Chinatown 1906 Billy Wilder, Vienna, director, Some Like It Hot, Apartment, Stalag 17 1906 Richard Whorf, actor and director, Yankee Doodle Dandy, Keeper of Flame 1906 Mary Ralton, director, British WRAC 1906 Roberto Rossellini, Rome, Italy, director, Open City 1905 Joseph Heifitz, film director 1905 Dalton Trumbo, U.S., writer/film director, Johnny Got His Gun 1905 Otto Preminger, Austria, director/producer, Laura, Exodus 1905 Michael Powell, English director/screen writer/producer, Red Shoes 1905 Hans Freudenthal, Dutch mathematician/director, OW&OC 1905 Dore Schary, producer/writer/director, Act 1, Boys Town, Big City 1905 Trenchard Cox, museum director 1905 Jack Longland, British director of education, Derbyshire 1905 Jan [Johannes] Teulings, Dutch actor and director, That Joyous Eve 1905 Jean Vigo, born in France, actor and director, Zero For Conduct, L'Atlante 1905 Grigorij M. Kosinzev, Russian director 1905 Grigori Kozintsev, born in Kiev, Ukraine, director, Hamlet, King Lear 1905 Charles de Keukeleire, Belgian director, Evil Eye 1904 Sergei Yutkevich, St. Petersburg Russia, director, Otello, Banya 1904 George Stevens, U.S. director, Alice Adams, Penny Serenade 1904 Philip H Burton, Welsh director/acting teacher, Richard Burton 1904 Maudet Christian-Jacques, film director 1904 Jan van Axel, Dutch director, Overschotje 1904 Edward Chodorov, playwright/director, Story of Louis Pasteur 1904 Emilio Fernandez, born in El Seco, Mexico, director, La Choca, Flor Silvestre 1904 Willy Forst, Austria actor and director, Vienna Blood 1904 Renaat Verheijen, Flemish actor and director, Innocent Heart 1904 John Farrow, born in Sydney, Australia, director/actor, Botany Bay, Wake Island 1903 John Ringling North, circus director, Ringling Bros 1903 Alf Sjoberg, Stockholm Sweden, director, Fadern, Oen, Domaren 1903 Willi Forst, Austrian actor and director, Im weissen Rossl 1903 Grigori V Aleksandrov, Russian director, Veselye Rebjata 1903 Johannes Linthorst Homan, director of the queen in Groningen 1903 Joris Diels, Flemish actor and director, Haagsche Comedy 1902 Anthony Asquith, British director, Carrington V C, Court martial, 1902 Gerard[us M] Rutten, director, Miraculous Life of Willem Parel 1902 Paul Guilfoyle, born in Jersey City, New Jersey, actor and director, Curiosity Kills 1902 Vittorio De Sica, Sora Italy, director/actor, 2 Women 1902 Billy Wyler, director, Ben Hur, Mrs. Miniver 1902 Carl-Heinz Schroth, born in Innsbruck, director, Reaching for the Stars 1902 David R Capriles, Curaeaos director of psychiatric, dies at 64 1902 Heinz Ruehmann, German actor and director, Der Hauptmann von Kopenick 1902 Hugo Haas, Brno Czechoslovakia, actor and director, 2 Smart People 1901 Hermann Abs, director, Deutsche Bank, Hitler's advisor 1901 Johan Fiolet, Dutch actor and director 1901 Harold Clurman, producer/director, Deadline at Dawn 1901 Roy Wilkins, civil rights director, NAACP 1901 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director, Tivoli 1901 Vittorio de Sica, Italian actor and director, Fietsendieven 1901 Paul Verhoeven, born in Unna, Germany, director, 4th Man, Basic Instinct 1901 Arthur Pierson, born in Oslo, Norway, actor and director, Hat Check Girl 1901 Mark Donskoy, born in Odessa, Russia, director, Heart of a Mother 1900 Marc Allegret, French director, Voyage ouch Congo 1900 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies, dies at 46 1900 Larry Kent, California, director, High Stakes 1900 Izak D du Plessis, South African writer and director, 3rd World 1900 Douglas Sirk, director, Zu Neuen Ufern, Boefje 1900 Jed Harris, producer/director, Billy Rose Show, Operation Mad Ball 1900 Luis Brunel, Calanda Spain, director, Tristana, Phantom of Liberty 1900 Madeleine Renaud, French actress/theater director, Plaisir 1900 Jean Negulesco, born in Craiova, Dolj, Romania, film director, screenwriter, directed The Mask of Dimitrios, Three Strangers, Academy award nominee for Johnny Belinda 1900 Dorothy Arnzer, director 1899 Gustaf Gruendgens, Duesseldorf Germany, actor and director, M 1899 Carlos Pellicer, Mexican museum director/poet, Teotihuacan 1899 Elliot Nugent, director, And so They were Married 1899 James Wong Howe, Chinese Director 1899 Kenneth MacKenna, Canterbury, New Hampshire, actor and director, Those We Love 1899 Alfred Hitchcock, born in London, director, Psycho, Birds, Rear Window 1899 Arthur Lubin, film director 1899 George Cukor, producer/director, Adam's Rib, Philadelphia Story 1899 Lev V Kuleshov, Russian director/theorist, Po Zakonu 1898 Joris Ivens, Nijmegen Netherlands, director, Rain 1898 Rene Clair, director, I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow 1898 Cruys Voorbergh, Dutch actor and director, Flying Dutchman 1898 Preston Sturges, Edmund P Biden, Chic, director, Sullivan's Travels 1898 G Kraus, director Santpoort, Insanity in Netherlands 1898 Sergei Eisenstein, Russia, director, Battleship Potemkin, 1898 Sergei M Eisenstein, Russian director, Alexandr Nevski, 1897 Emperor Karl Joseph I named Gustav Mahler director of Opera 1897 Rouben Mamoulian, movie director/author, Mark of Zorro, Applause 1897 Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director 1897 Frank Capra, Italy, director, Its a Wonderful Life, Arsenic and Old Lace 1897 Harold French, director, Encore, actor 1897 Gregory Ratoff, Petrograd Russia, actor and director, Corsican Brothers 1897 Jean Epstein, French director, Sa tate/Eau vive 1897 Alberto [de Almeida] Cavalcanti, Brazil, director, Nicholas Nickleby 1897 Dirk U Stikker, director, Heineken, Dutch foreign minister/NATO 1897 Dorothy Arzner, American Director 1896 Pavel G. Antokolski, Russian poet/director, Syn, 1896 Howard Hawks, Goshen, Indiana, director/producer, Rio Bravo, Scarface 1896 Hal Walker, Ottumwa, Iowa, director, I Married Joan 1896 William W. Wellman, Brookline Massachusetts, director, Star is Born 1896 Rex Ingram, Ireland, actor and director, Elmer Gantry, God's Little Acre 1896 Eva Le Gallienne, born in London, England, actress/director, Resurrection 1896 Dziga Vertiv, Denis A Kaufman, Russian director, Sjagai, Soviet! 1896 Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japans actor and director, Jujiro, Jigoku-mon 1895 David Butler, born in San Francisco, California, director, April in Paris, Calamity Jane 1895 Lewis Milestone, Russian Director 1895 John F Loudon, entrepreneur/colonial director, dies at 74 1895 Anton G J van de Velde, Flemish writer and director, God and the Worms 1895 Charles Lamont, born in San Francisco, California, director, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars 1895 Zoltan Korda, Hungarian/British director, Jungle Book, 4 Feathers 1895 Marcel Pagnol, French playwright/director, Marchands de Gloire 1895 King Vidor, director, War and Peace, Stella Dallas 1895 John Ford, Maine, director, Stagecoach, Air Mail, Quiet Man 1894 Jean Renoir, French director, Madame Bovary, Nana, Grand Illusion 1894 Ferdinand Sassen, Dutch philosopher/director 1894 Josef von Sternberg, Austrian director, Der blaue Engel 1894 James Morrison Steele Mackaye, U.S. actor/author/director, dies at 51 1894 Reginald Denham, London, Broadway director, Obsession, The Bad Seed 1893 Erwin Piscator, German stage director, Der Stellvertreter 1893 August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director, Uninhabited Island 1893 Charlie Chase, U.S. actor and director, Sons of Desert 1893 Roy Del Ruth, director, About Face, Babe Ruth Story, Star Show 1893 August Maes, Flemish actor and director, Shylock-Hamlet 1893 Kommer Kleijn, Dutch actor/radio play director, Paul Vlaanderen 1893 Simon Delmonte, actor and director, Boemeladvocaat 1893 Frank Borzage, born in Salt Lake City, director, 7th Heaven, Strange Cargo 1893 Karel Lotsy, Dutch insurance director and Olympic-chief d'equipe 1893 Vsevolod Pudovkin, Soviet film director/theorist, Mother, Deserter 1892 Elmer Rice, New York City, playwright/director/novelist, Pulitzer-Street Scene 1892 Ruth Stonehouse, born in Denver, Colorado, film director, silent era film actress, directed films 'The Winning Pair', 'Tacky Sue's Romance' 1892 Thomas Cook, English tour director (Thomas Cook and Son), dies at 83 1892 Raoul Walsh, born in New York City, director, Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry 1892 Hal Roach, early film director/producer, 1 Million BC 1891 Irving Pichel, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, actor and director, Mme Butterfly, Oliver Twist 1891 Peter H "Paul" Huf, actor and director, Great Netherlands Stage 1890 Fritz Lang, Germany, director, M, Metropolis 1890 Hans Gal, born in Brunn am Gebirge, Austria, pianist, composer, teacher, trained at New Vienna Conservatory, director, Mainz Conservatory 1890 Leslie Banks, English actor and director, Jamaica Inn, 48 Hours 1890 Edgar "E Livingstone" Kennedy, U.S. actor and director, My Old Dutch 1890 Marcel L'Herbier, French director/screenwriter, El Dorado 1890 Karl Freund, Czechoslovakian/Austrian cameraman/director 1889 Albert Plesman, aviation pioneer/founder/director, KLM 1889 Alfred E. Green, born in Perris, California, director, Copacabana, Jolson Story 1889 Jean Cocteau, born in France, writer/artist/director, Le Potamak, Orphee 1889 Cor Hermus, Dutch actor, director and writer, A Mother 1889 Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director, Keystone Kops 1889 Howard Lindsay, born in Waterford, New York, playwright, actor and director, State of Union 1889 Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director, Passion of Jeanne d'arc 1889 Albertus W. "Albert" van Dalsum, actor and director, Abandoned Child 1888 Irving Cummings Sr, New York City, silent screen star/director, Curly Top 1888 Jacques Feyder, Frederix, Belg/French actor and director, Anna Christie 1888 Marie Rambert, Warsaw, English ballet producer/director/teacher 1888 Frank Lloyd, Scotland, actor and director, Mutiny on Bounty, Oliver Twist 1888 Henry King, U.S., director, Jesse James, 12 O'Clock High 1888 Joseph Henabery, born in Omaha, Nebraska, director, Cobra 1887 John Cromwell, born in Toledo, Ohio, actor and director, Spitfire, Of Human Bondage 1887 Louis A van Gasteren, Dutch actor and director, Willem van Oranje 1887 Antonio Moreno, born in Madrid, Spain, actor and director, It, Careers 1887 Clive Brook, born in London, England, actor and director, List of Adrian Messenger 1887 Alan Gordon Cunningham, Irish/British general/director of Palestine, 1945-48 1887 Abraham I van Lier, Dutch actor and director (Gran Theatre), dies at 74 1886 Michael Curtiz, Hungarian Director 1886 Carter De Haven, born in Woodland Hills, California, Francis O'Callaghan, actor, director, writer, worked with Charlie Chaplin 1886 Piotr F Scharoff, Russian/Italian actor and director, Chechov 1886 Val Paul, born in Denver, Colorado, actor, director, silent film era star, appeared in 99 films 1913 - 1922 1886 Anton Portielje, Dutch radio host/zoo director, Artis 1885 Erich von Stroheim, early film director/actor, Grand Illusion 1885 Jozef M E Meeus, Belgian director H-Heart union 1885 Allan Dwan, Canadian Director 1884 Hector Abbas, actor and director, Rosa Lynd Company 1884 Harry Langdon, born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, comic/director, Strong Man 1884 Robert J. Flaherty, Director 1883 Max Linder, Caverne France, actor/comic/director, Max Prend un Bain 1883 Dirk Verbeek, Dutch actor and director, Hofstad Stage 1883 Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor and director, Erotikon 1883 Sam Wood, U.S., communist fighter/director, For Whom the Bell Tolls 1883 Victor Fleming, born in Pasadena, California, director, Wizard of Oz, Gone With Wind 1883 Jevgeni B Vachtangov, Armenian/Russian actor and director, Eric XIV 1883 [Hei]ko E Arnoldi, Dutch actor, 3 Drops of Water, theater director 1882 Louis B. Mayer, American Director 1882 Willem Benoy, Flemish actor and director, Pygmalion 1881 Milton Rosmer, Southport England, director, Murder in the Red Barn 1881 William Nigh, Berlin Wisconsin, director, Ape, Doomed to Die, Mr. Wong 1881 Lois Weber, 1st U.S. woman film director, What Do Men Want? 1881 Anton Wildgans, Austrian writer and director, Burg Theater 1880 Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director, Rotterdamsche Bank 1880 John Philip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band 1880 W Hupkes, engineer/director, Dutch Rail 1938 1880 Victor Schertzinger, composer and director, Uptown New York 1880 Oscar, Bachigaloupi, Tourniaire, actor and director, Pink Kate 1880 Grock, Adrien Wettach, Swiss clown/circus director 1879 King Baggot I, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director, Tumbleweeds 1879 Victor Seastrom, Silbodal Sweden, director, Wind, Under the Red Robe 1879 Hendrik G Cannegieter, meteorology/director, KNMI 1879 U.S. Geological Survey director authorized in Department of the Interior 1878 Eduard R. Verkade, Dutch actor, director and critic, Pygmalion 1877 Stanner E V Taylor, born in St. Louis, Missouri, director and writer, Lucky Jim, Ramona 1877 British high director/governor sir Bartle Frere arrives in Capetown 1876 Walter S. Adams, U.S. astronomer and director of Mount Wilson, 1923 - 1946 1875 D. W. Griffith, movie producer/director, Birth of a Nation 1875 D. W. Griffith, American Director 1874 Paul Wegener, German actor and director, Student of Prag 1874 Vsevolod Meyerhold, Russian theatrical director/actor, Houligan 1873 Max Reinhardt, Austria, theatrical director, Oedipus Rex 1873 Adolph Zukor, Hungary, movie producer/director/executive, Paramount 1872 Anna Bahr-von Mildenburg, Austrian soprano/director 1872 Tom Terriss, born in London, England, director, His Buddy's Wife, Sumuru 1872 Sergei Diaghilev, Gruzino Novgorod Russia, ballet director 1872 Edward G Craig, actor and director, On the art of theatre 1871 Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, actor and director, Ghost Hotel 1868 Henry W. Methorst, lawyer/director, Dutch Cent Bureau of Statistics 1867 Maggie Mitchell Walker, 1st woman bank director/philanthropist 1867 Willem C Royaards, Dutch theater director, Summer Games 1866 Harry Davenport, New York City, actor and director, Her Unborn Child, My Sin 1865 Benjamin Delmonte, theater director/actor, Black Haired Whore 1864 William F. A. Ellison, Irish clergyman/director, Armagh Observatory 1863 Hermann Bahr, Austria writer and director, New Men 1863 Konstantin S Stanislavski, Russia, director, Stanislavski Method 1862 William W. Campbell, U.S. astronomer and director Lick Observatory 1861 Edmond H H Allenby, English Field Marshal/high director, Egypt 1860 Lucien G Guitry, French actor/theatre director, l'Odeon 1856 Carel SW van Hogendorp, colonial director, dies at 68 1854 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch director, Lost and Found, Silvia Silombra 1854 Louis F M van Westerhoven, actor/singer/opera director, Youth 1853 Jean B A Kessler, director of oil on Dutch Indies 1853 Johnston Forbes-Robertson, English actor/theater director, Kathleen 1852 Barend Barendse, actor and director, Wandering Jew 1852 Teunis Stoel, actor and director, Small Theater, Rotterdam 1847 Ellen Alice Terry, Coventry Engl, actress/director, Imperial Theatre 1846 Oscar Carre, Dutch circus director 1841 Wilhelmus Kist, writer and director of Dutch (Official) Gazette, dies at 82 1838 Arnold A Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director, dies at 67 1837 David Capriles, director of psychiatry of Monte Christo, Curacao 1835 Hunter Holmes McGuire, Med Director Confederate Army 1827 Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/colonial director, dies at 54 1823 John P Kemble, English actor and director (Covent Garden), dies at 66 1821 John F Loudon, Dutch entrepreneur/colonial director. 1812 Abraham I van Lier, theater director, Gran Theatre-van Lier 1808 Thomas Cook, England, tour director, Thomas Cook and Son 1802 Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60 1788 Carel SW van Hogendorp, Dutch colonial director 1785 William J Hooker, English botanist/director, Kew Gardens 1779 John Burman, Dutch botanist/director (botanical gardens), dies at 71 1773 Harman W. Muntinghe, lawyer/Dutch colonial director 1771 Conrad E Ackermann, German actor/theater director, dies at 61 1771 Jacob Andries van Braam, colonial director, Suriname 1771 Arnold A. Buyskes, Dutch Vice-Admiral/colonial director 1758 Wilhelmus Kist, writer and director of Dutch Staatscourant 1757 John P Kemble, England, actor and director, Drury Lane, Covent Garden 1714 Cornelis Chastelein, colonial director, dies at 56 1707 John Burman, Dutch botanist/director botanical gardens 1692 John Commelin, director of Hortus Botanist (Amsterdam), dies at 62 1685 Gerard George Clifford, Dutch director of East India Company 1657 Cornelis Chastelein, Dutch colonial director 1629 John Commelin, director, Hortus Botanicus, Amsterdam 1619 John A van Riebeeck, colonial director/founder, Cape Colony |
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