Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter E

An Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has been living i

An Iranian filmmaker and literary figure with a career spanning half a century. He has been living in Sussex, United Kingdom, since 1975.He is the father of Iranian photojournalist Kaveh Golestan, and Lili Golestan,[1] translator and owner and artistic director of the Golestan Gallery in Tehran, Iran. His grandson, Mani Haghighi, is also a film director.

Is an acclaimed and influential Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter, considered o

Is an acclaimed and influential Filipino film director, film producer and screenwriter, considered one of the finest in the Cinema of the Philippines. Romero was named National Artist of the Philippines in 2003.His career spans three generations of filmmakers. His 1976 film "Ganito Kami Noon…Paano Kayo Ngayon?," set at the turn of the century during the revolution against the Spaniards and, later, the American colonizers, follows a naïve peasant through his leap of faith to become a member of an imagined community.

A writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing Vudú urbano.His family name goes back to his g

A writer and filmmaker. He is best known for writing Vudú urbano.His family name goes back to his great grandparents, Jewish immigrants from Kiev and Odessa at the end of the 19th century, his first name tells of his mother's infatuation with Edgar Allan Poe.After an adolescence mostly spent in neighbourhood cinemas showing double bills of old Hollywood films and reading an inordinate amount of fiction in Spanish, English and French (favourite authors - Stevenson, Conrad, some Henry James), he studied literature at Buenos Aires university, wrote for local and Spanish cinephile magazines and published an early essay on James which developed out of graduation work - El laberinto de la apariencia (The Labyrinth of Appearance, 1964), a book he later suppressed. He was barely twenty when he became acquainted with Borges, Bioy Casares and Silvina Ocampo, all writers of prestige whom he saw frequently during his years in Buenos Aires. In 1973 he won a literary prize with an essay on gossip as narrative device in James and Proust. In 1974 he published Borges y el cine, a book enlarged in every reprint (Spain, 1978 and 2002, and translations) which he also does not want reprinted now.

Was an Armenian Soviet film director and musician.1952-54 - worked in Yerevan watch factory. 1954-56

Was an Armenian Soviet film director and musician.1952-54 - worked in Yerevan watch factory. 1954-56 - studied in Plekhanov Moscow Institute of Economy. 1956-58 - studied in Yerevan Fine Arts and Theatre Institute, worked as a compere. 1964 - graduated fr

Was a French film director. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des su

Was a French film director. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicidés (1931), Remous (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence),[1] and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Menaces (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time.

Is an acclaimed Brazilian film director, screen writer, actor and film producer.He directed and wrot

Is an acclaimed Brazilian film director, screen writer, actor and film producer.He directed and wrote the script to the 1967 popular Brazilian film, El ABC del amor near the beginning of his career. The film was entered into the 17th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Was an Argentinian film director and screenwriter.All the films directed by Mignogna were written by

Was an Argentinian film director and screenwriter.All the films directed by Mignogna were written by himself. He frequently worked with the same actors, either as a screenwriter, director or both - Ricardo Darín (4 times), Norma Aleandro (4 times), Federico Luppi (3 times), Antonella Costa (2 times), Vando Villamil (2 times), Roberto Vallejos (2 times) and Inés Estévez (2 times). Because of Mignogna's untimely death in 2006 due to cancer, La señal - a film for which he had recently completed the writing of the script - he was not able to direct the movie. Its protagonist, Ricardo Darín, close friend and frequent collaborator, took over direction as a homage to Mignogna. The movie is dedicated to him.

Was an important Argentine film director of early Argentine cinema in the 1930s.Although his career

Was an important Argentine film director of early Argentine cinema in the 1930s.Although his career was relatively short compared to other directors of the period he directed some 18 films between 1930 and 1943 and played an important influence in tango films such as Así es el tango in 1937 working with popular actors of the period such as Tita Merello and Tito Lusiardo.

Was a Finnish film director. Laine was born Bovellán.Laine directed Aaltoska orkaniseeraa a comedy

Was a Finnish film director. Laine was born Bovellán.Laine directed Aaltoska orkaniseeraa a comedy in 1949.The Unknown Soldier, a film Laine directed in 1955 based on Väinö Linna's novel, was a big sensation in Finland. Laine also directed another film based on Väinö Linna's book, Under the North Star (1968), which also was a successful movie in Finland. 30 years later, in 1985, Rauni Mollberg directed a new version of The Unknown Soldier. It was based on Laine's film, but he used unknown actors and it was filmed in colour.

Was an American screenwriter and director, born in Chicago, Illinois.While in his junior year in Lak

Was an American screenwriter and director, born in Chicago, Illinois.While in his junior year in Lake View High School, he and several friends formed a small radio clique and obtained amateur licenses. In the early 1920s there was considerable prestige for amateur operators to have commercial radio licenses, and Bernds was in a good position to get into broadcasting when he graduated in 1923, a year when radio stations began popping up all over Chicago. He found employment — at age 20 — as chief operator at Chicago's WENR.

Along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese N

Along with Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Tsai Ming Liang, was one of the leading filmmakers of the Taiwanese New Wave and Taiwanese Cinema.[1] He won the Best Director Award at Cannes for his 2000 film Yi Yi ("A One and a Two").[2]While working in Seattle, Yang came across the Werner Herzog film Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972). This encounter rekindled Yang's passion for film and introduced him to a wide range of classics in world and European cinema. Yang was particularly inspired by the films of Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni (Antonioni's influence has shown up in some of Yang's later works).[citation needed] He married Taiwanese pop-singer and music legend Tsai Chin in May 1985.[citation needed] They divorced in August 1995, and he subsequently married concert pianist Kai-Li Peng.[citation needed]

A Japanese actor and film director. Born in Kasugai, Aichi, he was nominated for the Best Actor awar

A Japanese actor and film director. Born in Kasugai, Aichi, he was nominated for the Best Actor award at the 1990 Japanese Academy Awards for his performance in Sen no Rikyu.He made his directing debut in 2001, and has taken leading roles in front of the camera in the three films he has directed as of 2006.

Was the Japanese special effects director responsible for many Japanese science-fiction movies, incl

Was the Japanese special effects director responsible for many Japanese science-fiction movies, including the Godzilla series.The tremendous success of Godzilla led Toho to produce a series science fiction films, films introducing new monsters, and further films involving the Godzilla character itself. The most critically and popularly successful of these films were those involving the team of Tsuburaya, Honda and Tanaka, along with the fourth member of the Godzilla team, composer Akira Ifukube. Tsuburaya continued producing the special effects for non-kaiju films like The H-Man (1958), and The Last War (1961), and won another Japanese Movie Technique Award for his work in the 1957 science-fiction film The Mysterians.

Is one of the most renowned theatre directors in Lithuania. In 1978 Nekrošius graduated from Lunach

Is one of the most renowned theatre directors in Lithuania. In 1978 Nekrošius graduated from Lunacharsky Institute of Theatre Arts in Moscow. After returning to Lithuania Nekrošius has been working in the Vilnius State Youth Theatre from 1978 until 1979.

Was a Japanese film director.

Was a Japanese film director.

Is a two-time Academy Award nominated director, screenwriter, and actress. She achieved her greatest

Is a two-time Academy Award nominated director, screenwriter, and actress. She achieved her greatest fame, in the 1950s, from her improvisational comedy routines in partnership with Mike Nichol

Is a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies, satirizing the daily life of the country, are very

Is a Soviet/Russian film director whose comedies, satirizing the daily life of the country, are very famous throughout the former Soviet Union.

Is a French electronic musician, composer, arranger, performer, record producer and film producer. H

Is a French electronic musician, composer, arranger, performer, record producer and film producer. His passion for early electronic engines and primitive sounds from Analog synthesizer inspired his creativity mingling of rough masculine basses with an uptempo rhythm. He is the electro-sex (sometimes called sex-tronica) precursor and pioneer in France. This musical genre also features artists such as Peaches, Lesbians on Ecstasy, The Ssion, Robots in Disguise, Shunda K and Scream Club, all of whom Electrosexual has worked with.

Was a Soviet Russian film director. He studied at VGIK, and was married to film director Larisa Shep

Was a Soviet Russian film director. He studied at VGIK, and was married to film director Larisa Shepitko.

Is a film director of documentaries.Flipse studied at the Film Academy in Amsterdam, where she got h

Is a film director of documentaries.Flipse studied at the Film Academy in Amsterdam, where she got her degree in 1978. In 1982, she made her first documentary, Het Verschijnsel B, about bibliophily.She directed her first documentary for Scarabee Films in 1995; Broken Silence was about five young Chinese composers. The film won many international awards, including the Grand Prix of the Visions du Réel documentary film festival in Nyon, Switzerland, the Grand Prize Ethos Bacao (Romania), and the Best Discovery Documentary, Festival Du Nouveau Cinema in Montreal. It also was nominated for best feature-length documentary at the Dutch Film Festival.

An Argentine film director and writer, whose works are considered to be in the 'magic realism' genre

An Argentine film director and writer, whose works are considered to be in the 'magic realism' genre.Subiela is the father of actress, Guadalupe Subiela (who acted in her father's film, Pequeños Milagros). He has won and been nominated for awards at the Toronto, Montreal, Berlin, Istanbul and Havana film festivals, among others.

Was a Czechoslovakian film director who collaborated for 17 years with Ján Kadár and with him won

Was a Czechoslovakian film director who collaborated for 17 years with Ján Kadár and with him won the 1965 Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film with the film The Shop on Main Street.

Was a director, script writer and producer of French animation films. He emigrated to France in 1932

Was a director, script writer and producer of French animation films. He emigrated to France in 1932, in his youth. He then worked on sponsored films and he also made several shorts on his own. After the war, he became the first French author of a full-length animated film (Jeannot l'Intrépide). He was influenced by the classic style in Walt Disney's films. In 1948, he founds the Films Jean Image company. Later, in 1960, he dedicates himself to producing television cartoon series. Two of these series (Kiri le Clown and Joe) will become very popular.

Was a Czech film director. He was co-inventor of the multi-media show Laterna Magika, [1], which was

Was a Czech film director. He was co-inventor of the multi-media show Laterna Magika, [1], which was a star attraction at the Czechoslovakia pavilion at Expo 67. [2] [3] In 1968 he left to exile to Canada and died there.

Is a Swiss comedian, writer, director and actor.He is well known as Emil in Switzerland and Germany

Is a Swiss comedian, writer, director and actor.He is well known as Emil in Switzerland and Germany for his acts on television in the 1970s and 1980s.