WSean Anders is an American film director and screenwriter.
WFilip Michał Bajon is a Polish film director and screenwriter.
WJan Jaroslav Strejček, better known by his stage name Jan Bor, was a Czech director and playwright. He was a pupil of Max Reinhardt. His drama became the basis of Jiří Pauer's libretto for the opera Zuzana Vojířová (1958).
WGiuseppe Capotondi is an Italian director of feature films, music videos and commercials signed to Oil Factory in the United States and Factory Films in the United Kingdom. Before signing with Factory Films, he worked with Battlecruiser and Soixan7e Quin5e.
WJohn Paddy Carstairs was a British film director (1933–62) and television director (1962–64), usually of light-hearted subject matter. He was also a comic novelist and painter.
WRahul Chahal is a Canadian music video director and Music Composer associated with Punjabi-language music videos. He is owner of video-directing company called "TDOT FILMS". He has directed over 100 videos and worked with artists such as Sidhu Moose Wala, Garry Sandhu, Jassie Gill, Prem Dhillon, Happy Raikoti, R-Nait, Gurj Sidhu, Sajjan Adeeb, Jazim Sharma and The Landers.
WKevin Jon Davies is a British television and video director primarily associated with documentaries and spin-off videos associated with Doctor Who, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Blake's 7. He also worked on the BAFTA award-winning animation sequences of the 1981 Hitchhiker's Guide television adaptation.
WKirankumar R Devmani is an Indian film director, screenwriter, book author and former Ayurvedic doctor from Ahmedabad. He has received acclaim for his social-issue based films.
WKaren Beth Disher is an American film director and storyboard artist in films, TV, cartoons and video games. She was an artist at Blue Sky Studios, an in-house studio at 20th Century Fox Animation.
WUrs Egger was a Swiss film and television director.
WEbrahim Forouzesh is an Iranian film director, and a former manager of the cinema department at the Institute for the Intellectual Development of Children and Young Adults (1971-1978) where he oversaw the production of many films, shorts, features and animations. He has collaborated with Ali Akbar Sadeghi and Abbas Kiarostami. His second movie The Jar (خمره) won the Golden Leopard for the best Movie at Locarno Film Festival.
WLluis Antón González is an Asturian actor, writer, and director.
WAte de Jong is a Dutch film director. He is best known as the producer of The Discovery of Heaven (2001), nominated for a Golden Calf award, and Het Bombardement (2012).
WKenji Kodama is a Japanese anime director, and storyboard artist. He is best known for being one of the main directors on the long-running anime Case Closed, as well as the City Hunter series and Lupin III Part III.
WJanusz Kondratiuk was a Polish director and writer. He was born in Kazakhstan. He died in Łoś, aged 76.
WYuri Kordonsky is a Russian-born theatre actor and director, now a United States citizen and a professor of directing at the Yale School of Drama in New Haven, Connecticut. His theatrical career has been mainly in Russia, United States, Hungary, Luxembourg, as well as Romania, where he has been associated with the Bulandra Theatre, National Theatre of Bucharest, Radu Stanca National Theatre", and Timișoara State German Theatre. As of March 2012, at least six of his productions were in the active repertory of the Bulandra.
WLadj Ly is a French film director and screenwriter. He won a Jury Prize in Cannes Film Festival for Les Misérables in 2019. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Film.
WTom McNamara was an American film director, screenwriter and cartoonist from the 1910s to the 1940s. He is perhaps best known for his involvement as a director of several Our Gang shorts for the Hal Roach studio, and as the creator of the comic strip Us Boys in William Randolph Hearst's New York Journal.
WJavad Molania is an Iranian actor, director, presenter, photographer and painter. He is best known for his adaptations of European plays.
WIra Harry Morgan was an American cinematographer. He successfully transitioned from silent movies to sound films. He filmed famed animal-trainer Frank Buck’s film Tiger Fangs (1943).
WFrank Timothy Pacelli was an American television director and producer.
WNick Palumbo is an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
WJoaquim Pinto is a Portuguese film director from Porto. His movie What Now? Remind Me was the Portuguese submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 2014.
WMervi Pohjanheimo is a Finnish and television director and producer. She has directed and produced TV entertainment shows for a Finnish television network called Oy Mainos-TV-Reklam Ab, later MTV3, since the late 1970s.
WPaul Rachman is an American film director who directed the highly praised 2006 documentary on punk music American Hardcore (film)|American Hardcore, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics. He is also one of the founders of the Slamdance Film Festival. He started his career as a music video director with low-budget videos for hardcore punk bands Gang Green and the Bad Brains. He was later signed to Los Angeles–based Propaganda Films, where he directed music videos for bands Sepultura, Alice in Chains, Temple of the Dog, The Replacements, Kiss, Pantera, Joan Jett, and Roger Waters, among many others. He made his feature film debut with the low-budget film noir Four Dogs Playing Poker, starring Forest Whitaker, Tim Curry and Balthazar Getty, released by Warner Home Video. He lives in New York City.
WSidney Percy Roberson (1937–2016), known as Sid Roberson, was a bodybuilder, personal trainer, actor, director, photographer and advertising executive. He placed 3rd as Mr Universe in 1963; trained the gangster Reggie Kray; was the lead in a campaign for Strongbow cider; directed advertising for Hamlet cigars, the Labour Party and W. H. Smith; and directed television including The Sweeney and The Fast Show.
WHerval Abreu Pais, better known by his stage name Herval Rossano, was a Brazilian TV actor and director from Campos dos Goytacazes. He directed both the original 1976 version and the 2004 remake of Isaura the Slave.
WAriel Rotter is a film director and screenplay writer.
WSteven Rumbelow, was a director in the entertainment industry for more than four decades. He began in theatre at the Bristol Old Vic, subsequently becoming the youngest director for the Royal Shakespeare Company in London before forming Triple Action Theatre and then later starting on films. His career has been a melange between media productions and theatre ever since. Rumbelow operated his own production company in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Renegade Motion Pictures, with his wife, Rachel, until his sudden death from sepsis on 27 February 2016.
WPierre Salvadori is a French film director from Santo-Pietro-di-Venaco, known for works on romantic comedies such as Hors de prix (2006).
WAli Samadi Ahadi is an Iranian-German filmmaker and scriptwriter who has directed Lost Children, Salami Aleikum, The Green Wave, etc.
WMarko Škop is a Slovak film director.
WMatt Sloan, is an American voice actor, director, writer, and YouTuber from Madison, Wisconsin. He and his friend Aaron Yonda are notable as the co-creators of the web series Chad Vader: Day Shift Manager, in which he voices the title character. Additionally, he appears in season one as the main antagonist, Clint. He later appeared in the first few episodes of the second series as Champion J. Pepper, Clint’s father. Since Chad Vader, he has gone on to voice Darth Vader in various Star Wars media as the sound double for James Earl Jones.
WBen Sombogaart is a Dutch film and TV director.
WAlan Splet was a sound designer and sound editor known for his collaborations with director David Lynch on Eraserhead, The Elephant Man, Dune, and Blue Velvet.
WPercy Stow was a British director of short films. He was also the co-founder of Clarendon Film Company. He was born in Islington, London, England. He was previously associated with Cecil Hepworth from 1901-1903, where he specialized in trick films.
WPiotr Szulkin was a Polish film director and writer. He directed over thirty films, both Polish and international productions. He was a recipient of "Best Science Fiction Film Director" at Eurocon in 1984. During the latter part of his career, he was also a professor at the National Film School in Łódź.
WRobert Thalheim is a German stage and film director and screenwriter.
WGovinda Van Maele is a Luxembourg film director in Sri Lankan‑Belgian origin.
WAndrej Andreevich Zolotov is a Russian screenwriter and music and art critic born in 1937, who has written over 30 documentaries about Russian musicians, composers and conductors. Today he is the vice president of the Russian Academy of Arts. The main belt asteroid 8142 Zolotov is named after him.