Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Was a prominent Czechoslovak New Wave filmmaker.[1] He was best-known as the director of Valerie and

Was a prominent Czechoslovak New Wave filmmaker.[1] He was best-known as the director of Valerie and her Week of Wonders which was based on a novel by Vítezslav Nezval and released in 1970. It is a surrealist film about the sexual awakening of a young woman presented in a Gothic style.

Was an American entrepreneur and conglomerate organizer. Pritzker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the

Was an American entrepreneur and conglomerate organizer. Pritzker was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of Fanny Doppelt and Abram Nicholas Pritzker. His brother was Robert Pritzker. Trained as a lawyer, he early diversified the Chicago-based family busi

Is a Brazilian TV and film director, only child of André Matarazzo Filho, and wife actress, singer

Is a Brazilian TV and film director, only child of André Matarazzo Filho, and wife actress, singer and composer Maysa Matarazzo.He is the former husband of actress Ingra Liberato, divorced without issue, Fernanda Lauer, divorced, by whom he had two children Maria Fernanda Matarazzo and Jayme Matarazzo Filho, Conte Matarazzo, actress Daniela Escobar, whom he married in 1995 and divorced in 2003, by whom he had a son André Matarazzo, Conte Matarazzo, born in 1998, and is currently married in São José Chapel on March 10, 2007 to singer Tânia Mara.

Was a French film director and scriptwriter.

Was a French film director and scriptwriter.

Is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He is son of the director Jacques Becker.

Is a French film director, screenwriter and actor. He is son of the director Jacques Becker.

Was a French film director and songwriter.

Was a French film director and songwriter.

Was a French film director and producer.[1]

Was a French film director and producer.[1]

Was a French film director. His works include La Garçonne (1936) and The Letter (1929).

Was a French film director. His works include La Garçonne (1936) and The Letter (1929).

Was a French film director. He directed 45 films between 1928 and 1969.

Was a French film director. He directed 45 films between 1928 and 1969.

Was a film director and early film theoretician. After attending a school in Switzerland he studied

Was a film director and early film theoretician. After attending a school in Switzerland he studied medicine at Lyons, but he was devoted to literature and the cinema. Thanks to Blaise Cendrars, he was able to publish his first literary work in 1921, then with the help of Jean Benoît-Lévy, direct his first film Pasteur in 1922.

Was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair

Was a French filmmaker. During his short career, he completed numerous shorts, in addition to a pair of highly regarded features, of which the first, The Mother and the Whore, is considered a key work of post-Nouvelle Vague French cinema. [1][2][3]

Was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed more than thirty films between 1960 and 198

Was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed more than thirty films between 1960 and 1982. [1] [2]

Was a French film director. After directing a number of documentaries during the 1920s, many now los

Was a French film director. After directing a number of documentaries during the 1920s, many now lost, he had his first substantial success with the dramatic feature Maldone in 1928. Over the next quarter-century, he directed twenty more feature films, of which he is best known for five made between 1937 and 1944: L'Étrange M. Victor, Gueule d'amour (1937), Remorques (1941), Lumière d'été (1943), and Le Ciel est à vous (1944).

Was a French screenwriter and film director. He worked on 21 films between 1958 and 1985.[1]

Was a French screenwriter and film director. He worked on 21 films between 1958 and 1985.[1]

Is a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre. Ro

Is a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his films in the fantastique genre. Rollin is credited as having made the first French vampire film (Le Viol du vampire, 1968) as well as the first French gore film (Les Raisins de la mort, 197

Was a Romanian film director and screenwriter., he attended Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved t

Was a Romanian film director and screenwriter., he attended Carol I High School. In 1915, he moved to Vienna, and, in 1919, to Bucharest, where he worked as a painter, before becoming a stage decorator in Paris. In 1927 he came to New York City for an exhibition of his paintings, and subsequently settled there.

Was a film director, actor, translator, animator, critic and theorist. He was the son of mathematici

Was a film director, actor, translator, animator, critic and theorist. He was the son of mathematician and twice prime-minister of France, Paul Painlevé. In the Lycée Louis Le Grand, he was a poor and inattentive student who preferred to skip classes and go to the Jardin d'Acclimatation where he was assisting the guard in taking care of the animals. Painlevé later wrote: "In high school, my classmates hated me. They hated people in the margins

Was a French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and was a posth

Was a French film director, who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s and was a posthumous influence on the French New Wave of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

Is a French actor, film director and writer.

Is a French actor, film director and writer.

Is a filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, born in Eaubonne, After graduating in French literature,

Is a filmmaker, screenwriter and producer, born in Eaubonne, After graduating in French literature, he joined the French Navy in 1990 for two years on Aircraft-carrier Foch during the Lebanon war and was in charge of the ship’s Television production unit where he made his first reportages and documentaries for the Navy. In 1991 in Paris,

Was a French actor, director, and socialite. He became a star in the late 1950s when he was one of t

Was a French actor, director, and socialite. He became a star in the late 1950s when he was one of the most prolific actors of the French "nouvelle vague". He made films with such important nouvelle vague filmmakers as Claude Chabrol, Éric Rohmer, Jean-Luc Godard, Louis Malle, François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, and Jacques Rozier; and with other filmmakers such as Roger Vadim, Claude Lelouch and Luis Buñuel.

Is a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film Secret Things ("Choses Secrètes") and his 2006 f

Is a French filmmaker best known for his 2002 film Secret Things ("Choses Secrètes") and his 2006 film The Exterminating Angels ("Les Anges exterminateurs"). In 2002 he was arrested on charges of harassment, fined and given a suspended one-year prison sentence. The plaintiffs were three women who had performed sex acts in front of him during their auditions. This was to form the basis of the The Exterminating Angels movie.

Was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed eight films between 1978 and 2005. His film

Was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed eight films between 1978 and 2005. His film Les passagers was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Is a French-born Canadian filmmaker, and the husband to Governor General Michaëlle Jean, making him

Is a French-born Canadian filmmaker, and the husband to Governor General Michaëlle Jean, making him the Viceregal Consort of Canada. He is entitled to be styled His Excellency while his wife is in office.

Is a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associ

Is a French film director and screenwriter who was most active in the 1960s and 1970s. He was associated with two approaches to filmmaking: comedies which blended burlesque and melancholic elements, and poetic films based on texts by writers such as the French poet Francis Ponge.