Filmmaker Famous Names Starting with Letter P

Is a founding father of Dutch language rock and roll. Koelewijn is also a successful producer and so

Is a founding father of Dutch language rock and roll. Koelewijn is also a successful producer and songwriter for other Dutch artists. His most famous song is Kom van dat dak af ('Come Off That Roof').

Is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with hi

Is an Australian film director. After exerting a strong influence on the Australian New Wave with his films Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Last Wave and Gallipoli, Weir directed a diverse group of U.S. and international films including the Academy Award nominees Witness, Dead Poets Society, The Truman Show and Master and Commander.

In cooperation with David Sproxton, a friend of his youth, he realized his dream of "making and taki

In cooperation with David Sproxton, a friend of his youth, he realized his dream of "making and taking an animated movie". Following Lord and Sproxton founded Aardman as a low-budget backyard studio, producing shorts and trailers for publicity. Later on, in the early eighties Nick Park joined the group. Lord, Park and Sproxton developed and finalized their style of detailed and lovingly designed clay animation characters from stop motion techniques (though directed by Stephen Johnson their claymation is shown in the music video Sledgehammer (1986)

Is a British film producer.Rogers is most well-known as producer of the Carry On series of British c

Is a British film producer.Rogers is most well-known as producer of the Carry On series of British comedy films, beginning with Carry On Sergeant in 1958. There were 31 films in all. Rogers has also been linked with a further instalment, Carry On London, which has been in pre-production for several years.

Is an award winning children's book writer and illustrator[1]. Sís attended the Academy of Applied

Is an award winning children's book writer and illustrator[1]. Sís attended the Academy of Applied Arts in Prague and the Royal College of Art in London. In addition to writing and illustrating books, Peter's editorial illustrations have appeared in Time, Newsweek, Esquire, and The Atlantic Monthly.In 1982,Sís was given permission to travel to the USA in order to make an animated film of Czechoslovakia's participation in the Olympics. When Czechoslovakia boycotted the Games, Sís decided not to return home[7]. He applied for asylum in America[3] and began working as an art teacher at the Otis Art Institute of Parson's School of Design in Los Angeles.[8]

Was a Danish film director. He directed 40 film between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred

Was a Danish film director. He directed 40 film between 1910 and 1927. His wife Asta Nielsen starred in 30 of his films. Also in his debut the famous movie Afgrunden (The Abyss) from 1910. They moved to Germany in 1911 where Gad worked until 1922.

Is a Finnish film historian and director. He currently works as a professor of film history in the U

Is a Finnish film historian and director. He currently works as a professor of film history in the University of Art and Design Helsinki. He has written around 20 books about film and worked as a presenter for numerous television and radio programs about film and other popular culture. Von Bagh has previously worked as the head of the Finnish Film Archive. He is the editor-in-chief of Filmihullu magazine and the festival director of Midnight Sun Film Festival. He has also directed the Bolognese film festival Il Cinema Ritrovato for nine years running.

Is a Czech writer and director.His most notable work is a black comedy, Tales of Common Insanity (Cz

Is a Czech writer and director.His most notable work is a black comedy, Tales of Common Insanity (Czech: Príbehy obycejného šílenství), which he personally directed at Dejvické divadlo. He received Alfréd Radok Award for Best Play. The play was later staged in other Czech theatres as well as in Poland, Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia and Germany. It was also published in English and translated to Russian. In 2005 Zelenka made the comedy into a film, released as Wrong Side Up, which won 2 movie festival awards in 2006 and was nominated for 6 other awards. His second most notable play is Teremin, inspired by the life of Russian inventor Léon Theremin.

Is a cinematographer and film director. Papamichael came to the United States at age six when his fa

Is a cinematographer and film director. Papamichael came to the United States at age six when his father went to work as a production designer for John Cassavetes. He studied photography and art at the University of Munich, graduating with a degree in Fine Arts in 1982. He learned cinematography on the job, starting with Dance of the Damned in 1988.

Was an American radio and television producer, announcer and voice-over artist.Besides his long asso

Was an American radio and television producer, announcer and voice-over artist.Besides his long association with WOR, Tonken was a narrator for Fox Movietone News in the 1950s and 1960s, and also was announcer for a 15-minute syndicated afternoon radio science fiction program, The Planet Man, which was in the tradition of older sci-fi radio shows such as Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon and Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. The show was produced by New York City-based Palladium Radio Productions in 1952 and aired through 1953. Seventy-eight episodes were produced, all but two of which are in existence today. Besides Tonken, only two other people were known to have participated: organist Jon Gart and voice artist Joseph Boland, who played the robot characters. The rest of the cast remains a mystery to this day.

Was married to Odette Joyeux until the end of her life. Founder of École Louis-Lumière (situated o

Was married to Odette Joyeux until the end of her life. Founder of École Louis-Lumière (situated on rue de Vaugirard), Philippe Agostini debuted as assistant to the chief operators Georges Périnal and Armand Thirard[1]. In the 1930s, he began a fruitful career as director of photography, working with directors with such differing styles as Robert Bresson, Marcel Carné, Max Ophüls, Claude Autant-Lara, Jean Grémillon, Yves Allégret, Jules Dassin and even Julien Duvivier. His career as a director was much less remarkable.

Was a French film director. He made his first film in 1959, a low-budget improvisational comedy Les

Was a French film director. He made his first film in 1959, a low-budget improvisational comedy Les Jeux de l'amour. At the 10th Berlin International Film Festival it won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Jury Prize.[1] de Broca did not have a real success, however, until directing Cartouche (1962). Cartouche was the first of a series of major box office hits by de Broca

Is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him aw

Is a French director, cinematographer, screenwriter, editor and producer. His movies have won him awards at the prestigious Cannes Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. He had a ten-year relationship with German singer and actress Nico between 1969 and 1979, with the actress appearing in seven of his films between 1972 and 1979. He is the father of actor Louis Garrel from a relationship with the actress Brigitte Sy.

Is a French film director, writer and composer. He sometimes is also actor, as in Comme un poisson h

Is a French film director, writer and composer. He sometimes is also actor, as in Comme un poisson hors de l'eau (1999).

Is a French film director, actor and screenwriter

Is a French film director, actor and screenwriter

Is a French film director. He studied movies at the INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du

Is a French film director. He studied movies at the INSAS (Institut National Supérieur des Arts du Spectacle) in Brussels and started his career as a moviemaker by shooting fictional films and documentaries. Grandrieux then worked as an experimental filmmaker in Belgium where he exhibited his video works at local museums. Since the eighties, he has been working in collaboration with the French Institut National de l’Audiovisuel (INA) where he has been inventing new cinematographic forms and formats that put into question central notions in film writing: for instance the notions of documentary,

Is a French film director.

Is a French film director.

Is a French artist and filmmaker, of Algerian heritage. France. Parreno's work primarily revolves ar

Is a French artist and filmmaker, of Algerian heritage. France. Parreno's work primarily revolves around the interrogation of the nature of an image, as well as the modes of its exhibition. He frequently draws on pre-existing material and then enriches it with his own, mostly narrative, ideas.[citation needed]

Is a French film director. He was born in France in 1966.[citation needed] He directed a very unusua

Is a French film director. He was born in France in 1966.[citation needed] He directed a very unusual adaptation of Moby-Dick: Capitaine Achab with Valérie Crunchant and Frédéric Bonpart in 2004. Philippe Ramos is one of the excellent young French fllm directors in the new “New Wave” of French cinema such as Yves Caumon, Jean-Paul Civeyrac, and François Ozon.[citation needed]

Is an openly gay screenwriter and director whose film Johan (1976) was selected for the Cannes Film

Is an openly gay screenwriter and director whose film Johan (1976) was selected for the Cannes Film Festival.[1]

Is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, humanist, social commentator, satirist and left

Is an Australian broadcaster, film producer, writer, humanist, social commentator, satirist and left-wing pundit

Is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. Her directing works are Daughters of Yemanja (1995) and

Is a Finnish film director and screenwriter. Her directing works are Daughters of Yemanja (1995) and Sand Bride (1998).Tikka was one of the screenwriters of The Last Border (1993) by Mika Kaurismäki.

Was a French film director. At the end of the Second World War he was forced to flee to South Americ

Was a French film director. At the end of the Second World War he was forced to flee to South America, where he later died.

Is a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of acclaimed short- and feature-leng

Is a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of acclaimed short- and feature-length films in the 1960s[1], many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He has won an Academy Award. Due to a legal dispute with a distribution company, none of these films are currently available. [2]

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1963 film Shéhérazade, which starred A

Is a French film director and screenwriter. He directed the 1963 film Shéhérazade, which starred Anna Karina.[1]