Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter J

Is a Dutch film director, film critic and screenwriter who primarily makes documentaries. He studied

Is a Dutch film director, film critic and screenwriter who primarily makes documentaries. He studied political science and literature at the University of Leiden, and was a member of the editorial staff of the film magazine Skrien. He has also worked on a number of Dutch television programs and has written film critique for various Dutch newspapers and magazines.

Is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He has directed 12 films, and is working on his new film

Is a Dutch film director and screenwriter. He has directed 12 films, and is working on his new film (release date early 2011) The Girl and Death, in which Dutch actress Sylvia Hoeks will play the lead role.He made his debut as a film director in 1974 with ‘Mariken van Nieumegen’. The film was selected for the official Cannes competition in 1975. No Dutch film has been rewarded with this honour since. With this film, Stellings cinematographic position was set worldwide. Yet Stelling is an autodidact; he didn’t study at any film school.

Is a Filipino motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. In 2009, his debut film, Engkwentr

Is a Filipino motion picture director, producer and screenwriter. In 2009, his debut film, Engkwentro won him the Venice Film Festival's Horizons Prize and Lion of the Future Award for Debut Film. Accepting the two awards at just 22 years old, Diokno is the youngest winner at Venice Biennale, which is the world's oldest film festival.

Was an Austrian-American film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, a

Was an Austrian-American film director. He is one of the earliest examples of 'auteur' filmmakers, and practised many other skills while making his films including cinematographer, writer, and editor. Sternberg's style has had a vast influence on later directors, particularly during the film noir movement. His mastery of mise-en-scene, lighting and soft lens is unrivaled, and his collaboration with sultry actress Marlene Dietrich is internationally celebrated.

Was an American Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer.Mankiewicz moved with his

Was an American Academy Award-winning director, screenwriter, and producer.Mankiewicz moved with his family to New York City where he graduated in 1924 from Stuyvesant High School. In 1928, he obtained a bachelor's degree from Columbia University. For a time he worked in Berlin, Germany, as a foreign correspondent for the Chicago Tribune newspaper before being lured into the motion picture business.

Was an American film and television director.He made his debut in vaudeville as a boy soprano in 192

Was an American film and television director.He made his debut in vaudeville as a boy soprano in 1924. Although he hated vaudeville, he loved the theatre and developed a career as a stage actor, appearing in such plays as Home of the Brave, The World We Make, Key Largo, Golden Boy and Nature Son. A short career as a film actor followed, his most notable appearance being in the classic 1947 boxing film Body and Soul, in which he played the role of Shorty Pulaski. Subsequently Pevney became a prolific film and television director, with a directing career that spanned over 80 productions from 1950 to 1984. Among those were films including Female on the Beach (1955) with Joan Crawford and Jeff Chandler, Tammy and the Bachelor (1957) with Debbie Reynolds and Leslie Nielsen, the James Cagney vehicle Man of a Thousand Faces (1957), and Westerns such as The Plunderers (1960).

Is the founder and musical director of the South African choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.Joseph

Is the founder and musical director of the South African choral group Ladysmith Black Mambazo.Joseph was born in the town of Ladysmith (eMnambithi district) in the KwaZulu-Natal region of South Africa. His parents, Jonathan Mluwane Shabalala and Nomandla Elina Shabalala, raised Joseph and his six siblings on a white-owned farm called Tugela.

An Argentine film editor.[1] He is sometimes credited as: Juan C. Macías.Some of the films he has e

An Argentine film editor.[1] He is sometimes credited as: Juan C. Macías.Some of the films he has edited have been critically well received: The Official Story (1985), Old Gringo (1989), and Kamchatka (2002).

Is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate (1994), which he co-dir

Is a Cuban film director and screenwriter. His film Strawberry and Chocolate (1994), which he co-directed with Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, won a Silver Berlin Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, and was also nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He has collaborated with director and close friend Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and actors Jorge Perugorría, Vladimir Cruz and Mirta Ibarra in several films.

An Academy Award-nominated and two-time Daytime Emmy Award winning director.Campanella started study

An Academy Award-nominated and two-time Daytime Emmy Award winning director.Campanella started studying engineering, but dropped out in 1980 after four years at university. He would later remark that the decisive factor for this decision was watching All That Jazz on the very day he was going to apply for a fifth year. His debut as director was in 1979, with the short Prioridad nacional. Campanella traveled to the United States and entered the Tisch School of the Arts. Four years later, in 1984, his second film, Victoria 392, which marked the first of five collaborations with actor friend Eduardo Blanco, as well as his first collaboration with screenwriter Fernando Castets, with whom he co-directed and co-wrote the film.

An Argentine film director and screenwriter.He started his professional career as an actor, Puppetee

An Argentine film director and screenwriter.He started his professional career as an actor, Puppeteer and stage photographer in the 1960s then switched to film studies at the Association of Short Film Directors.He turned director and screenwriter in 1968 and has directed acclaimed films such as Bajo Bandera (1997), Un Argentino en New York (1998) and Apasionados (2002).His films starring actor Miguel Ángel Solá have won a number of Silver Condor awards such as Asesinato en el senado de la nación (1984) and Bajo Bandera (1997).

Is Cuba's Premier Animation Director.[citation needed].Since 1963 he has published sketches and cart

Is Cuba's Premier Animation Director.[citation needed].Since 1963 he has published sketches and cartoons for Cuban magazines and newspapers. He was the creator, in 1970, of Elpidio Valdés, a cartoon character (and series) with more than sixty shorts and two feature length movies. His international fame arrived with Vampires in Havana, an adult-oriented comedy feature that gathered a cult following abroad.

Is a Finnish film director and producer known for his UFO documentaries. His most notable documentar

Is a Finnish film director and producer known for his UFO documentaries. His most notable documentary is Mankind's Last Exodus, released in 1998 and sold in over 120 countries.

Are French filmmakers. The brothers, residents of the United States since 1989, were in New York Cit

Are French filmmakers. The brothers, residents of the United States since 1989, were in New York City at the time of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Jules captured footage of American Airlines Flight 11 hitting the North tower of the World Trade Center. Jules is married to Jacqueline Longa, with two children. [1]

Was an American film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist, and subsequently moved t

Was an American film director. He was a subject of the Hollywood blacklist, and subsequently moved to France where he revived his career.

Taymor was born in Newton, Massachusetts, of Jewish heritage, daughter of Elizabeth (née Bernstei

Taymor was born in Newton, Massachusetts, of Jewish heritage, daughter of Elizabeth (née Bernstein), a political science teacher, and Melvin Lester Taymor, a gynecologist. Taymor's interest in theatre took root early in her life. At the age of seven, she was already drawing her sister into stagings of children's stories for her parents. By the age of nine,

Was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960. He created a w

Was a French film director. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930-1960. He created a world of dark images born of a strange imagination. After the Second World War, he gave a pessimistic representation of French society, showing it as being dominated by hypocrisy, narrow clericalism, meanness and women's slyness. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are Pépé le Moko, Panique and Voici le temps des assassins. Notwithstanding his being celebrated for his darkness, he enjoyed great success with his Don Camillo films, starring Fernandel.

Was a French actress. A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky, she fi

Was a French actress. A member of the same loose group of student radicals as Anne Wiazemsky, she first appeared in Jean-Luc Godard's Two or Three Things I Know About Her, and would go on to appear in many of Godard's subsequent films, including La Chinoise, Week End, Le Gai Savoir, and Vladimir et Rosa. She later became a muse for the French New Wave director Jacques Rivette, starring in Out 1 and Celine and Julie Go Boating. In the 1980s she also went into writing and directing. She died of cancer.

Was an Argentine film director.Irigoyen began directing in 1923. His first film was De Nuestras Pamp

Was an Argentine film director.Irigoyen began directing in 1923. His first film was De Nuestras Pampas. He directed films such as the 1942 film Academia El Tango Argentino.His last film Su íntimo secreto was directed in 1948. He died in Buenos Aires in 1967.

Was an Argentine screenwriter and film director known as one of the most prolific screenwriters and

Was an Argentine screenwriter and film director known as one of the most prolific screenwriters and film directors in the history of the Cinema of Argentina.He wrote the scripts for over 100 films between 1942 and his death. He directed 25 films between 1951 and 1979.

Was a prolific Argentine film director whose career in the Cinema of Argentina as a movie director s

Was a prolific Argentine film director whose career in the Cinema of Argentina as a movie director spanned six decades.He directed some 60 films between 1938 and 1986, such as Alma de bohemio in 1949.

Is a Polish film director and screenplay writer.His film debut was Vabank (1981), a comedy describin

Is a Polish film director and screenplay writer.His film debut was Vabank (1981), a comedy describing a story of two Polish gangsters of the 1930s. The film was a striking success, as was the science-fiction comedy Seksmisja of 1984. Often seen as either a golden child or enfant terrible of the Polish cinema, Machulski quickly became one of the most popular Polish directors

Was a Japanese director. He was born in Manchuria. He has directed dozens of films, perhaps best kno

Was a Japanese director. He was born in Manchuria. He has directed dozens of films, perhaps best known for his contributions to the Godzilla film series in the 1970s. He died on December 3, 2000, due to cancer.

A Japanese film director born in Sakai City, Japan. He made his directorial debut in 1989 with Dotsu

A Japanese film director born in Sakai City, Japan. He made his directorial debut in 1989 with Dotsuitarunen and followed it up with another boxing film, Tekken in 1990. Other films include Kao (2000 film) (released on video in the USA as Face).

A Japanese film director.

A Japanese film director.