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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 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

2004 Larry Buchanan, American Director

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 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

2002 Charles Guggenheim, American Director

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, 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 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 Rene Clement, film director, dies at 83

1996 Krzysztof Kieslowski, film director, dies of heart attack at 54

1996 Lucio Fulci, filem director, dies at 68

1996 Sylvia Williams, museum director/curator, dies at 60

1996 Gene Mitchell, museum director, dies on 70th birthday

1996 Marcel Carne, French Director

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 Russ Karel, director, dies at 45

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, theatre Director, dies at 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, Czech/US 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 Igor Aleinikov, Russian director (tractors, air crash), dies at 32

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, Czech director (Shop on Main Street), dies at 83

1993 Jean Negulesco, director (3 Coins in a Fountain), 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, Czech 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, Fren director (L'Amerique Insolite), dies at 70

1993 Adm 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/US 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, PR 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, Brit/US 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, Engl director (Life and Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84

1990 Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players assn exec 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 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 Tati[scheff], French actor and director (Parade), dies at 74

1982 Jacques Tati[scheff], French mime/director, 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 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 Allan Dwan, Canadian Director

1981 Adm 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 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, actor and director (Rules of the Game), dies at 84

1979 Jean Renoir, French writer and director (Human Beast), dies at 84

1979 Dorothy Arzner, American Director

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 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 Director Ingmar Bergman leaves Sweden due to taxation

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 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 exec 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 M. Night Shyamalan, American Director

1970 Kevin Smith, director, Chasing Amy, Mallrats, Clerks

1970 Christopher Nolan, British Director

1970 Paul Thomas Anderson, American Director

1970 Morgan Spurlock, 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, Russ/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 Adm 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 exec 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 Director David Lean's "Dr. Zhivago," premieres

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 [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

1964 Guillermo del Toro, Mexican 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, theatre director

1963 John Farrow, actor and director (Botany Bay), dies at 58

1963 Robert Hamer, British Director

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 Stephen Sommers, American Director

1962 Gen 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 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 John Singleton, born in Los Angeles, California, director, Boyz n The Hood

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

1958 Nick Park, British 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

1957 Louis B. Mayer, American Director

1957 Mira Nair, Indian Director

1956 Dolf de Vries, Dutch musical/director/arranger, Josephine

1956 Hart Bochner, born in Los Angeles, California, actor and director, Rich and Famous

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

1956 Danny Boyle, English Director

1956 Peter Farrelly, American 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 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

1955 Bill Condon, American Director

1955 Roland Emmerich, German Director

1954 Alex Cox, director, Repo Man

1954 Ang Lee, director, Ice Storm, Wedding Banquet, Sense and Sensibility

1954 Dirk Verbeek, actor and director (Hofstad Stage), dies at 70

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 Emir Kusturica, Serbian Director

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 Matthew Bright, American Director

1952 Kathryn Bigelow, American 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 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, Melbourne Aust, 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

1950 Zhang Yimou, Chinese Director

1949 Russ Karel, director

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/Country Planning Assn

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 Gen 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 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