Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter D

A prolific producer, recording engineer and record label owner who has contributed to hundreds of mu

A prolific producer, recording engineer and record label owner who has contributed to hundreds of musical recordings in the underground hip-hop and electronic genres. His recording studio is known as The Echo Chamber, currently located in Downtown Los Angeles.Together with Hive and Shaggy, he founded the Celestial Recordings record label in 1998. Their early records included Phoenix Orion's critically acclaimed Zimulated Experiencez album and the Celestial Squadron compilation. They went on to release records by NYC's freestyle phenom Supernatural, featuring a Daddy Kev-produced B-side "Seven Minutes of Understanding" (1999).

Is a French author and filmmaker of Chinese ancestry.His first book, the semi-autobiographical Balza

Is a French author and filmmaker of Chinese ancestry.His first book, the semi-autobiographical Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse chinoise (Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress) (2000), was made into a movie, in 2002, which he himself adapted and directed. It recounts the story of a pair of friends who become good friends with a local seamstress while spending time in a countryside village, where they have been sent for 're-education' during the Cultural Revolution (see Down to the Countryside Movement). They steal a suitcase filled with classic Western novels from another man being reeducated, and decide to enrich the seamstress' life by exposing her to great literature. These novels also serve to sustain the two companions during this difficult time. The story principally deals with the cultural universality of great literature and its redeeming power. The novel has been translated into twenty-five languages, and finally into his mother tongue after the movie adaptation.

Is a Dutch photographer.Dana Lixenberg originally went to New York to become an au pair and then dis

Is a Dutch photographer.Dana Lixenberg originally went to New York to become an au pair and then discovered photography at a night school class. She decided to study photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy and the London College of Printing, returning to live and work in New York in 1990.

an Argentine film and television director.Although mainly based in work for TV he has directed film

an Argentine film and television director.Although mainly based in work for TV he has directed films such as Cohen vs. Rosi (1998) and Un Amor en Moisés Ville (2001)

A film director, screenplay writer, and producer.According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes f

A film director, screenplay writer, and producer.According to film critic Joel Poblete, who writes for Mabuse, a cinema magazine, Daniel Burman is one of the members of the so-called "New Argentina Cinema" which began c. 1998.Film critic Anthony Kaufman, writing for indieWIRE, an online community of independent filmmakers and aficionados, said Burman's A Chrysanthemum Burst in Cincoesquinas (1998) has been cited as the beginning of the "New Argentine Cinema" wave.He holds both Argentine and Polish citizenship, like his films' character, Ariel. He studied law before changing to audiovisual media production.

Is a Brazilian film producer, director and actor and screenwriter. He starred in the film Os Cafajes

Is a Brazilian film producer, director and actor and screenwriter. He starred in the film Os Cafajestes, which was entered into the 12th Berlin International Film Festival.[1]

Is a neoromantic composer, conductor and woodwind instrumentalist. He is a self-described champion o

Is a neoromantic composer, conductor and woodwind instrumentalist. He is a self-described champion of the bass oboe and heckelphone, and a practitioner of the "Elastic scoring" orchestration techniques first conceived by Percy Grainger.

Is a Brazilian award-winning film director for his short film You, Me and Him (in Portuguese Café c

Is a Brazilian award-winning film director for his short film You, Me and Him (in Portuguese Café com Leite)[1] in 2007.

Was a French born Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.Moving to Buenos Aires at

Was a French born Argentine film director, screenwriter and film producer.Moving to Buenos Aires at a young age, Tinayre directed some 23 films between 1934 and 1974, directing films such as the 1947 thriller A sangre fría (In Cold Blood) which starred actors such as Amelia Bence and Tito Alonso. He was also an acclaimed screenwriter and producer simultaneously contributing in these areas to the films he directed in Argentine cinema.

An Argentine director and film writer and a licensed psychologist. Her brother is Argentine musician

An Argentine director and film writer and a licensed psychologist. Her brother is Argentine musician Andy Chango. Her sister is Laura Fejerman. She has worked together with Inés París for 11 years.

Is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and editor.Thomas, whose birthname is Daniela Gontijo Alv

Is a Brazilian film director, screenwriter and editor.Thomas, whose birthname is Daniela Gontijo Alves Pinto, is the daughter of the famous cartoonist Ziraldo Alves Pinto and the sister of Golden Globe Award-nominated film score composer Antonio Pinto. In 1994 she co-directed her first feature film, Terra Estrangeira, alongside Walter Salles. In 2007, also with Salles, she directed Linha de Passe, the film which gave Sandra Corveloni a Best Actress Award at the Cannes Film Festival.

Was a Soviet scriptwriter and film director.

Was a Soviet scriptwriter and film director.

Is an award winning Israeli film director, screenwriter and film editor living in the Netherlands si

Is an award winning Israeli film director, screenwriter and film editor living in the Netherlands since at least 1980.He graduated from the Netherlands Film and Television Academy (NFTVA) in 1981. His 1987 short film Ei (Egg (film)) won the Best International Fantasy Film Award.[1]

A jatt Punjabi wrestler and film actor from Amritsar, Punjab, India.[1] He is the current president

A jatt Punjabi wrestler and film actor from Amritsar, Punjab, India.[1] He is the current president of All India Jat Mahasabha.He was a well-known wrestler before he started acting in Hindi films in 1962.[2]From an Indian Wrestling Champion to the World Championship, Dara Singh has competed against some of the greatest names in wrestling history including Lou Thesz. He has defeated some of the former world champion wrestlers including the great Stanislaus Zbyszko.

An Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor.[1]As an Iranian New Wave cinema icon,

An Iranian director, screenwriter, producer, and film editor.[1]As an Iranian New Wave cinema icon, Mehrjui is regarded to be one of the intellectual directors of Iranian cinema.[citation needed] Most of his films are inspired by literature and adopted based on Iranian and foreign novels and plays.Dariush Mehrjui made his debut in 1966 with Diamond 33. His second featured film, Gaav, brought him national and international recognition.[2] Gaav, a compelling symbolic drama, is about a simple villager and his nearly mythical attachment to his cow. The story of the film was from renowned Iranian literary figure Gholamhossein Sa’edi. The film's score was composed by musician Hormoz Farhat

Is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropist. Geffen is no

Is an American record executive, film producer, theatrical producer and philanthropist. Geffen is noted for creating Asylum Records in 1970 (which merged with Elektra Records in 1972 to form Elektra/Asylum Records), and Geffen Records in 1980, along with his later role as one of the three founders of Dreamworks SKG in 1994.

Was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.He directed and wrote for Argentine films between 19

Was an Argentine film director and screenwriter.He directed and wrote for Argentine films between 1958 and 1982 directing films such as Así o de otra manera (1964), Breve cielo (1969), Con alma y vida (1970) and El Agujero en la pared (1982).

Is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, cartoonist, composer, video and performanc

Is an American director, screenwriter, producer, painter, cartoonist, composer, video and performance artist. Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, for The Elephant Man (1980),[1] Blue Velvet (1986),[2] and Mulholland Drive (2001).[

Was an Academy Award-winning English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epic

Was an Academy Award-winning English film director and producer, best remembered for big-screen epics such as Brief Encounter, Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Doctor Zhivago and A Passage to India. Widely acclaimed and winning the praise of directors such as Steven Spielberg[1], Martin Scorsese[citation needed], Stanley Kubrick[2], and George Lucas[citation needed], Lean was voted 9th greatest film director of all time in the BFI "Directors Top Directors" poll 2002.

Is one of the most successful and influential producers in the entertainment industry, both in movie

Is one of the most successful and influential producers in the entertainment industry, both in movies and, mostly, television, responsible for shows such as Roots, The Thorn Birds, North & South, L.A. Confidential, and Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory. He also produced numerous documentaries and documentary series like Biography (TV series--1961-63), The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich (TV), Appointment with Destiny (TV series), This is Elvis, Imagine: John Lennon, and others.

Was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.Merrick was known for his love of pub

Was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.Merrick was known for his love of publicity stunts. One of his most famous promoted the poorly-reviewed 1961 musical Subways Are For Sleeping. Merrick found seven New Yorkers who had the same names as the city's seven leading theater critics: Howard Taubman, Walter Kerr, John Chapman, John McClain, Richard Watts, Jr., Norman Nadel, and Robert Coleman. Merrick invited the seven namesakes to the musical and secured their permission to use their names and pictures in an advertisement alongside quotes such as "One of the few great musical comedies of the last thirty years" and "A fabulous musical. I love it."

Was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1964 and 1988. He was

Was a Brazilian film director and screenwriter. He directed nine films between 1964 and 1988. He was a member of the jury at the 20th Berlin International Film Festival in 1970.[1]

Was one of the iconic Hollywood producers of the Golden Age.David O. Selznick's real name was simply

Was one of the iconic Hollywood producers of the Golden Age.David O. Selznick's real name was simply David Selznick. It is sometimes claimed that the "O" stands for Oliver, but, in fact, the initial was an invention of his. The book Memo from David O. Selznick starts with this autobiographical memoir:

Was one of the iconic Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic

Was one of the iconic Hollywood producers of the Golden Age. He is best known for producing the epic blockbuster Gone with the Wind (1939) which earned him an Oscar for Best Picture. Not only did Gone with the Wind gross the highest amount of money at the box office of any film ever (adjusted for inflation), but it also won seven additional Oscars and two special awards. Selznick also won the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award that same year.

Was an American film director who achieved iconic status following the release of his 1969 Western e

Was an American film director who achieved iconic status following the release of his 1969 Western epic The Wild Bunch. He became one of the major filmmakers of the 1970s with his innovative and explicit depiction of action and violence, as well as his revisionist approach to the Western genre.