Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter C

Was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era. Known best for his progressive output in the 1

Was a Chinese film director of the pre-Communist era. Known best for his progressive output in the 1930s, Cai Chusheng would later become a victim to the persecutions of the Cultural Revolution.He would not cement his reputation as a leading leftist filmmaker until after the Japanese attack in 1932, when Cai, like many of his colleagues, shifted towards increasingly progressive or leftist filmmaking.[1] This shift can be seen in output after 1932, including the class-struggle dramas Dawn Over the Metropolis (1933), Song of the Fishermen (1934), and the proto-feminist New Women (1934), which starred Ruan Lingyu. Song of the Fishermen, for example, was a major box office success in Shanghai where it played for 87 days,[3] and it would also became the first Chinese film to win an international prize, doing so at the Moscow International Film Festival.[4]

Is a Brazilian screenwriter and film director.She is probably best known as the second wife of Briti

Is a Brazilian screenwriter and film director.She is probably best known as the second wife of British government minister Dr. John Reid, whom she married in 2002 [1]. She has a son Hal from a previous marriage, and has two stepsons with Dr Reid.

Was an American who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and later t

Was an American who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II and later the U.S. Department of State. He also became a political documentary filmmaker, authored many books and articles, and was an editor and publisher. Marzani served nearly three years in prison for concealing his Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) membership while in the OSS.

Is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards duri

Is an American actor, film director, producer, writer and comedian. He has won nine Emmy Awards during his career.Reiner was born in the Bronx, New York, the son of Bessie (née Mathias) and Irving Reiner, who was a watchmaker. His parents were Jewish immigrants from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. When he was sixteen, his older brother Charlie read in the New York Daily News about a free dramatic workshop being put on by the Works Progress Administration and told him about it. He had been working as a machinist fixing sewing machines. He credits Charlie with changing his career plans. Reiner was educated at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and served in the United States Army during World War II.

Was a Danish born film director of Swedish decent. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as

Was a Danish born film director of Swedish decent. He is regarded by many critics and filmmakers as one of the greatest directors in cinema.Dreyer was born illegitimate in Copenhagen, Denmark. His birth mother was an unmarried Swedish maid named Josefine Bernhardine Nilsson, and he was put up for adoption by his birth father, Jens Christian Torp, a farmer who was his mother's employer. He spent the first two years of his life in orphanages until his adoption by a typographer named Carl Theodor Dreyer, Sr., and his wife, Inger Marie (nee Olsen). His adoptive parents were strict Lutherans and his childhood was largely unhappy.

Was an Italian film producer with over 140 production credits, as well as the husband of Italian act

Was an Italian film producer with over 140 production credits, as well as the husband of Italian actress Sophia Loren.

An Argentine film director and screenplay writer.

An Argentine film director and screenplay writer.

Was a Brazilian film editor, director and screenwriter. His film A Morte Comanda o Cangaço was ente

Was a Brazilian film editor, director and screenwriter. His film A Morte Comanda o Cangaço was entered into the 11th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Is a Brazilian film director. He is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement.

Is a Brazilian film director. He is best known as a member of the Cinema Novo movement.

Was a Chilean film director and screenwriter involved in the production of the Cinema of Argentina.B

Was a Chilean film director and screenwriter involved in the production of the Cinema of Argentina.Between 1923 and his death in 1965 Borcosque was responsible for directing and screenwriting mostly simultaneuosly some 45 different feature films including the 1951 film El Alma de los niños.

A Silver Condor nominated Argentine film director, film producer and screenplay writer.He worked mai

A Silver Condor nominated Argentine film director, film producer and screenplay writer.He worked mainly in the Cinema of Argentina. He directed Besos en la Frente in 1996.

Was a major Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.Christensen directed some 54 dif

Was a major Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.Christensen directed some 54 different films between 1946 films Adán y la serpiente and El Angel Desnudo in which he famously worked with actressOlga Zubarry. He also wrote the scripts and produced many Argentine movies.

Is a Brazilian screenwriter and director of movies and TV. He is the creator of the Castelo Rá-Tim-

Is a Brazilian screenwriter and director of movies and TV. He is the creator of the Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum (Castle Rá-Tim-Bum) series of programs for children in the TV Cultura of São Paulo, which gave origin also to a successful movie picture with the same title. Castelo Rá-Tim-Bum was one of the most succeful children shows to ever air in Brazil. He directed in 2006 another successful film, O Ano em Que Meus Pais Sairam de Férias (The Year My Parents Went on Vacation), partly based on his childhood memories.

Was an English film director, winner of an Academy Award for his film version of the musical, Oliver

Was an English film director, winner of an Academy Award for his film version of the musical, Oliver! (1968). An illegitimate son of actor-producer Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and his mistress, May Pinney Reed, Carol Reed was born in Putney, London, and educated at The King's School, Canterbury

Is a French film director and screenwriter.[1] She is the sister of French actress Isabelle Huppert

Is a French film director and screenwriter.[1] She is the sister of French actress Isabelle Huppert and has directed 20 films since 1977.

Is a Romanian film director. He graduated from the UNATC in Bucharest in 2001.

Is a Romanian film director. He graduated from the UNATC in Bucharest in 2001.

Is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and

Is known as one of the greatest film directors of the Philippines. Brocka was openly homosexual and many of his films incorporated LGBT themes into their often dramatic storylines.In 1974 Brocka directed Weighed But Found Wanting, which told the story of a teenager growing up in a small town amid its petty and gross injustices. It was a box-office hit, and earned Brocka another best-director award, this time from the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences (FAMAS).

Was an Irish harpsichord maker, a fortepiano restorer and an amateur horologist.Gannon was born in D

Was an Irish harpsichord maker, a fortepiano restorer and an amateur horologist.Gannon was born in Dublin, Ireland, into a craftsmen family of carpenters, many of whom worked in the famous Guinness Brewery. His education, in two local schools, was rudimentary and at the age of fifteen he started working as an apprentice carpenter in the Brewery.

Is a French filmmaker and novelist. She started her career after studying acting at Yves Furet "Stud

Is a French filmmaker and novelist. She started her career after studying acting at Yves Furet "Studio d'Entraînement de l'Acteur" in Paris together with her sister, actress Marie-Hélène Breillat (born 2 June 1947) in 1967.

Is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed 15 films since 1982. Her film La répé

Is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed 15 films since 1982. Her film La répétition was entered into the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Was a successful Academy Award-winning American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century, kno

Was a successful Academy Award-winning American filmmaker in the first half of the 20th century, known for the flamboyance and showmanship of his movies.

Was an American film director and screenwriter. He was active during the silent era, then pursued a

Was an American film director and screenwriter. He was active during the silent era, then pursued a short-lived career in talkies.

Was a French silentfilm director best known for his silent films of the late 1910s and early 1920s.

Was a French silentfilm director best known for his silent films of the late 1910s and early 1920s.

Was a French film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 34 films between 1911 and 1932. He also di

Was a French film actor of the silent era. He appeared in 34 films between 1911 and 1932. He also directed seven films between 1930 and 1931, including the French-language version of Paramount on Parade (1930), and Magie moderne (1931), a French film about television released as Televisione in Italy, and five other versions in different five languages. This latter film was produced at the Paramount Pictures studio at Joinville-le-Pont, France.

Is an Academy Award-winning American film director, actor, producer, businessman, model, environment

Is an Academy Award-winning American film director, actor, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist and philanthropist.Redford was born in Santa Monica, California, the son of Martha W. (née Hart) and Charles Robert Redford, Sr., a milkman-turned-accountant from Pawtucket, Rhode Island.[2][3][4] He has a half-brother, William, from his father's re-marriage. Redford is of English and Scots-Irish ancestry.