Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter L

Was a Czech film director who filmed famous Czechoslovak musical comedies Starci na chmelu (The Hop

Was a Czech film director who filmed famous Czechoslovak musical comedies Starci na chmelu (The Hop Pickers) (1964) and Dáma na kolejích (Lady on the Tracks) (1966).

Is a Czech film and theater director, actor and scriptwriter.Smoljak tried to study at an art academ

Is a Czech film and theater director, actor and scriptwriter.Smoljak tried to study at an art academy but failed the admission process. He went on to study physics and mathematics, and later worked as journalist and scriptwriter. Together with Zdenek Sverák he founded the Theater of Jára Cimrman (Divadlo Járy Cimrmana, DJC in Prague), named after fictitious genius.

Was a Polish stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his protagonists. (His name can al

Was a Polish stop-motion animator who used insects and animals as his protagonists. (His name can also be spelled Starevitch, Starewich and Starewitch.)a long and strange story about a loving dog puppet who practically goes through Hell to get an orange to a girl dying of scurvy, selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the ten best animated films of all time[1]. La Voix du rossignol was awarded the Hugo Riesenfeld Medal for being the "most novel short subject motion picture in the USA during the year 1925".

Is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films since 1991. Her film À vendr

Is a French film director and screenwriter. She has directed ten films since 1991. Her film À vendre was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite considerable budgetary limitations that ha

Was a prominent Filipino film and stage director. Despite considerable budgetary limitations that hampered the post-war Filipino film industry, Avellana's films such as Anak Dalita and Badjao attained international acclaim. In 1976, Avellana was named by President Ferdinand Marcos as the very first National Artist of the Philippines for Film. While Avellana remains an important figure in Filipino cinema, his reputation as a film director has since been eclipsed by the next wave of Filipino film directors who emerged in the 1970s, such as Lino Brocka and Ishmael Bernal.

Is a Chinese-American conductor and currently holds the post as Music Director of the Singapore Symp

Is a Chinese-American conductor and currently holds the post as Music Director of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Principal Conductor of Copenhagen Philharmonic and Principal Guest Conductor of Denmark's Aalborg Symphony.

Was a Soviet Russian film director. She went to the Moscow Film school (VGIK) as a pupil of Alexande

Was a Soviet Russian film director. She went to the Moscow Film school (VGIK) as a pupil of Alexander Dovzhenko. She was a student of Dovzhenko's for 18 months until he died in 1956. Shepitko graduated from VGIK in 1963 with her prize winning diploma film

Is a Swedish film director.Hallstrom's mother was the Swedish writer Karin Lyberg (1907-2000). His m

Is a Swedish film director.Hallstrom's mother was the Swedish writer Karin Lyberg (1907-2000). His maternal grandfather, Ernst Lyberg, was the Swedish Minister of Finance in the first cabinet of Carl Gustaf Ekman (1926 - 1928) and leader of the Liberal Party of Sweden (1930 - 1933).

Lars Trier was born in Copenhagen, and raised by nudist communist parents. Trier notes that he was b

Lars Trier was born in Copenhagen, and raised by nudist communist parents. Trier notes that he was brought up in an atheist family, and that although his stepfather was Jewish, he was not religious. His parents did not allow much room in their household for "feelings, religion, or enjoyment," and also refused to make any rules for their children, with complex results for von Trier's personality and development. The young Lars found in cinema an outlet to the outside world through which he could learn about subjects otherwise forbidden from his study by his parents.

Is an Academy Award-nominated Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with t

Is an Academy Award-nominated Danish film director and screenwriter. He is closely associated with the Dogme 95 collective, although his own films have taken a variety of different approaches.Lars Trier was born in Copenhagen to Ulf and Inger Trier, who both worked for Denmark's social services. His parents considered themselves both communists and committed nudists,[1] and the young Lars endured several childhood holidays to nudist camps. They regarded the disciplining of children as hopelessly reactionary.

Was a noted early Danish film director, screenwriter and actor of the silent era in Denmark. His son

Was a noted early Danish film director, screenwriter and actor of the silent era in Denmark. His son, Lau Lauritzen Jr. also went on to become one of Denmark's leading directors in the 1940s and 1950s.

Is a French film director and screenwriter.[1] She has directed eleven films since 1983.

Is a French film director and screenwriter.[1] She has directed eleven films since 1983.

Was an English actor, director, and producer and the recipient of scores of awards. He is one of the

Was an English actor, director, and producer and the recipient of scores of awards. He is one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries John Gielgud, Peggy Ashcroft and Ralph Richardson. Olivier played a wide variety of roles on stage and screen from Greek tragedy, Shakespeare and Restoration comedy to modern American and British drama. He was the first artistic director of the National Theatre of Great Britain and its main stage is named in his honour

Is a French director, His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.On 25 May 2008, he received the P

Is a French director, His parents were schoolteachers in Ardilleux.On 25 May 2008, he received the Palme d'Or at the Festival de Cannes 2008, for the movie Entre les murs.

Is a French Director of Photography[1] who has made his career in both the fiction and documentary r

Is a French Director of Photography[1] who has made his career in both the fiction and documentary realms. Chalet filmed the 2006 Academy Award winning documentary “March of the Penguins”, which was also nominated for the BAFTA Best Photography award. In 2006, Chalet initiated legal action against the producers of the film, alleging that his royalty contract had been renegotiated under duress, and that he had not been credited for authorship. [2][3]

Is a Finnish film director. He has directed some 50 films including Tropic of Ice. He worked in Warr

Is a Finnish film director. He has directed some 50 films including Tropic of Ice. He worked in Warren Beatty's Reds as the second assistant director: Finland (as Lauri Torhonen) and in Gorky Park by Michael Apted also as the second assistant director: Finland (as Lauri Torhonen).

Is a Danish film director who graduated from The National Film School of Denmark with his Oscar-winn

Is a Danish film director who graduated from The National Film School of Denmark with his Oscar-winning diploma film Mellem Os (Between Us) in 2004. This film won 13 international film awards and became the most award winning film in the history of The National Film School of Denmark. Laurits directed several other films including the feature film Ambulance (2005), Forførerens Fald (2007), etc.

Is an American movie producer, director and screenwriter. Raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, where

Is an American movie producer, director and screenwriter. Raised in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he graduated from Morgantown High School in 1966, he went on to attend the University of Michigan as an education major.

An Iraqi-French film director, who currently lives in Paris, left Iraq in 1977.[2] He has a Masters

An Iraqi-French film director, who currently lives in Paris, left Iraq in 1977.[2] He has a Masters in fine art and has studied cinema at the Sorbonne University in Paris.[3] He worked from 1999-2004 at Dubai TV and has directed many documentary and feature films.

Leandro Manuel Emede is Head of Video Production at La Sterpaia, Oliviero Toscani's creative laborat

Leandro Manuel Emede is Head of Video Production at La Sterpaia, Oliviero Toscani's creative laboratory, a position he has held since 2006. In 2007, he directed WART: a video centered around a concept developed by Toscani, mixing War and Art. His latest movie is ANOREXIA Story of an image. A documentary about the famous Oliviero Toscani’s picture NO ANOREXIA presented in Locarno film Festival 2008.

Is a Polish-American film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter.In 2006, the Museum of Mod

Is a Polish-American film and theatre director, writer, poet, and painter.In 2006, the Museum of Modern Art in New York City hosted a complete (until then) retrospective of Majewski's work. This was their first ever full retrospective of a Polish filmmaker, and one of their only ever mid-career retrospectives. For that program, Majewski created the film eventually called Glass Lips, though initially it was known as Blood of a Poet.

Is a Special Director's Prize and Asian Film Awards winning and Golden Lion, Palme d'Or nominated So

Is a Special Director's Prize and Asian Film Awards winning and Golden Lion, Palme d'Or nominated South Korean film director, screenwriter and novelist. Through 2003-2004, Lee Chang-dong served as South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun's Minister of Culture

Was the Director-General of the World Health Organization for three years.He began his term as Direc

Was the Director-General of the World Health Organization for three years.He began his term as Director-General of WHO on 21 July 2003, having been elected two months before. He was the first Korean to lead an international agency.

Was an Academy Award nominated Austro-Hungarian-American director, actor, producer, and acting teach

Was an Academy Award nominated Austro-Hungarian-American director, actor, producer, and acting teacher. He was born Israel Strassberg in Budzanów, former Austro-Hungarian Empire (now Budaniv, Ukraine), to Ida and Baruch Meyer Strassberg. n 1931, Lee Stras

Was a Chinese film director, writer and actor. Between 1940 and 1978 he directed over 50 Hong Kong f

Was a Chinese film director, writer and actor. Between 1940 and 1978 he directed over 50 Hong Kong films. Three of his films were included in the Hong Kong Film Awards' list of "Best 100 Chinese Motion Pictures" in 2005: The Orphan (1960), Cold Nights (1955), and Feast of a Rich Family (1959), which he co-directed with Li Tie, Ng Wui and Lo Ji-Hung.[1]