Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is an Academy Award-winning English cinematographer, director and photographer.His career spans the

Is an Academy Award-winning English cinematographer, director and photographer.His career spans the development of cinema, from silent film, through early experiments in Technicolor (and, less successfully, Smell-o-vision), to filmmaking in the 21st century. He is best known for his influential cinematography for directors such as Powell, Huston and Hitchcock.

Was a British film director who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen.His last featur

Was a British film director who specialised in bringing literary works to the screen.His last feature film, the British-made The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987), featured a superb performance by Maggie Smith as a spinster who struggles with the emptiness of her life; it won Clayton critical plaudits for the first time in many years. He reteamed with Smith in 1992 for a television film Memento Mori, based on the novel by Muriel Spark, for which he also co-wrote the screenplay.

Was an American film director, producer and writer, two time winner of the Emmy Award.

Was an American film director, producer and writer, two time winner of the Emmy Award.

Was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1951 and 1968. His film L

Was a Finnish film director and screenwriter. He directed 15 films between 1951 and 1968. His film Little Presents was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Was a petroleum millionaire who became a television producer and later diversified by investing in b

Was a petroleum millionaire who became a television producer and later diversified by investing in broadcast stations and resort properties. He is best known for producing The Lone Ranger, Sergeant Preston of the Yukon, and Lassie television series in the

Was a French film director who started making films in post-World War II France and specialised in l

Was a French film director who started making films in post-World War II France and specialised in literary adaptations.[1] She was the first commercially successful woman director of post-war France.[2]

Is a French film director, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director.

Is a French film director, the son of Michel Audiard, also a notable screenwriter and film director. He won twice both the César Award for Best Film and the BAFTA Award for Best Film not in the English Language, in 2005 for The Beat That My Heart Skipped and in 2010 for A Prophet. He also won the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival.

He was cremated in Sidmouth, with a tribute by Mesens. Assistant Director to Luis Buñuel on L'Âge

He was cremated in Sidmouth, with a tribute by Mesens. Assistant Director to Luis Buñuel on L'Âge d'or, he appeared in more than 30 movies, using several alternate names: Jacques) Borel, J.B. Brunius, Jacques-Bernard Brunius, Jacques Brunius, Brunius, J.B.Brunius. He acted in many of the early, more political, movies of his friend Jean Renoir. He married to French-English actress Cecile Chevreau in 1951. Their son Richard was born in 1956.

Was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films. His film Goha won the Jury Prize

Was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 21 films. His film Goha won the Jury Prize at the 1958 Cannes Film Festival.[2] His 1962 film La poupée was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.[3]

Was a French screenwriter and film director. Becker was born in Paris. During the 1930s he worked as

Was a French screenwriter and film director. Becker was born in Paris. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir. Part of the Comité de libération du cinéma français, during the German occupation of France in World War II, the Naz

Was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He directed

Was a French film director best known for his silent films from 1915 to the late 1930s. He directed well over 80 films between 1915 and 1948 and in the 1940s released numerous films in the United States and Italy.

Was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterest

Was one of the most approachable filmmakers to appear in the wake of the French New Wave. Uninterested in the formal experimentation of Alain Resnais, or the political agitation of Jean-Luc Godard, Demy instead created a self-contained fantasy world close

Was a French film director. His 1970 film Borsalino was entered into the 20th Berlin International F

Was a French film director. His 1970 film Borsalino was entered into the 20th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in h

Is a French film director. He has a habit of giving lead roles to inexperienced young actresses in his films on family life and women. Some actresses to break through are Fanny Bastien, Sandrine Bonnaire, Judith Godrèche, Marianne Denicourt and Charlotte Gainsbourg[1] and Juliette Binoche.

Was a French film director and screenwriter. Along with Marcel Ichac, he co-directed the film Stars

Was a French film director and screenwriter. Along with Marcel Ichac, he co-directed the film Stars at Noon, which entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.[1] He has directed 20 films since 1970.

Is a French film director, screenwriter and producer.[1] He has directed 20 films since 1970.

Was a Belgian screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA,

Was a Belgian screenwriter and film director who worked principally in France, but also in the USA, Britain and Germany. He was a leading director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. He adopted French nationality in 1928.

Is a French screenwriter. He has written for 22 films since 1985. He wrote and directed the film Fre

Is a French screenwriter. He has written for 22 films since 1985. He wrote and directed the film French California, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Was a French writer, scriptwriter and lyric writer. Jacques Lanzmann had various occupations through

Was a French writer, scriptwriter and lyric writer. Jacques Lanzmann had various occupations through his life. At the age of twelve he was a farm worker, from 1948 to 1955 he was an artist, and during the years 1952 and 1953 was also a miner in Chile. He then entered the literary world in 1954 with La glace est rompue (The ice is broken).

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed seven films since 1993. His film Nos vie

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He has directed seven films since 1993. His film Nos vies heureuses was entered into the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Is a French film director and screenwriter who works in collaboration with partner Olivier Ducastel.

Is a French film director and screenwriter who works in collaboration with partner Olivier Ducastel. To date, they have completed five films together. After spending his adolescence in Nice, Martineau moved to Paris to study at the Ecole Normale Supérieure. After graduating, he took up a teaching post at the facility.

Was a French Director of Photography born in Istanbul, Turkey. Natteau was married twice, first in 1

Was a French Director of Photography born in Istanbul, Turkey. Natteau was married twice, first in 1942 to Geneviève Langevin, his high-school sweetheart with whom he had a daughter, Catherine. The couple divorced in 1953. In 1961, while working on Le Comte de Monte Cristo, he met actress Yvonne Furneaux who starred as “Emma” in La Dolce Vita (Federico Fellini). They lived between London, Paris, and Rome in the 1960s as they continued to pursue their film careers.

Is a French actor and film director. His film La chatte à deux têtes was screened in the Un Certai

Is a French actor and film director. His film La chatte à deux têtes was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Is a French actor and filmmaker.[1] He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his

Is a French actor and filmmaker.[1] He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's. He was given his first juvenile film roles by Italian director Valerio Zurlini. He also gave over 400 performances of L'Année du bac on the Paris stage.

Is a French film director. With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is one of the more experimental of

Is a French film director. With Jean-Luc Godard, Jacques Rivette is one of the more experimental of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) directors.[1] In common with many of his peers, he has a background in film criticism, where he expressed his admiration for popular American cinema, especially genre directors such as Robert Aldrich, Howard Hawks and Frank Tashlin.