Directors and their ¨favourite¨ actors.
by FinClair | created - 09 Apr 2012 | updated - 25 Jun 2012 | PublicIt is wonderful how some directors and actors collaborate longer time. This list is dedicated to them.
1. Adam McKay
Producer | The Other Guys
Adam McKay (born April 17, 1968) is an American screenwriter, director, comedian, and actor. McKay has a comedy partnership with Will Ferrell, with whom he co-wrote the films Anchorman, Talladega Nights, and The Other Guys. Ferrell and McKay also founded their comedy website Funny or Die through ...
Will Ferrel ==> 4 movies (5th announced) John C. Reilly ==> 2 movies
2. Martin Scorsese
Producer | Killers of the Flower Moon
Martin Charles Scorsese was born on November 17, 1942 in Queens, New York City, to Catherine Scorsese (née Cappa) and Charles Scorsese, who both worked in Manhattan's garment district, and whose families both came from Palermo, Sicily. He was raised in the neighborhood of Little Italy, which later ...
Robert De Niro ==> 8 movies! Joe Pesci ==> 3 movies Leonardo DiCaprio ==> 4 movies Harvey Keitel ==> 3 movies
3. Christopher Nolan
Writer | Tenet
Best known for his cerebral, often nonlinear, storytelling, acclaimed Academy Award winner writer/director/producer Sir Christopher Nolan CBE was born in London, England. Over the course of more than 25 years of filmmaking, Nolan has gone from low-budget independent films to working on some of the ...
Christian Bale ==> 3 movies (4th coming) Michael Caine ==> 3 movies (4th coming)
4. Terry Gilliam
Writer | Brazil
Terry Gilliam was born near Medicine Lake, Minnesota. When he was 12 his family moved to Los Angeles where he became a fan of MAD magazine. In his early twenties he was often stopped by the police who suspected him of being a drug addict and Gilliam had to explain that he worked in advertising. In ...
Jonathan Pryce ==> 3 movies
And other members of Monty Python group.
5. Tony Scott
Producer | Domino
Tony Scott was a British-born film director and producer. He was the youngest of three brothers, one of whom is fellow film director Ridley Scott. He was born in North Shields, Northumberland, England to parents Jean and Colonel Francis Percy Scott. As a result of his father's career in the British...
Denzel Washington ==> 5 movies Val Kilmer ==> 3 movies
6. Robert Zemeckis
Writer | Back to the Future
A whiz-kid with special effects, Robert is from the Spielberg camp of film-making (Steven Spielberg produced many of his films). Usually working with writing partner Bob Gale, Robert's earlier films show he has a talent for zany comedy (Romancing the Stone (1984), 1941 (1979)) and special effect ...
Tom Hanks ==> 3 movies Various actors and actresses from ¨Back to Future¨ trilogy.
7. Dennis Dugan
Actor | Happy Gilmore
Dennis Barton Dugan is an American film director, actor, comedian and screenwriter from Wheaton, Illinois who directed several films featuring Adam Sandler including Happy Gilmore, Big Daddy, Jack & Jill, Grown Ups, I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry and You Don't Mess With the Zohan. He also ...
Adam Sandler ==> 7 movies Rob Schneider ==> 6 movies Chris Rock ==> 3 movies Steve Buscemi ==> 3 movies
8. Robert Rodriguez
Producer | El mariachi
Robert Anthony Rodriguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, USA, to Rebecca (Villegas), a nurse, and Cecilio G. Rodríguez, a salesman. His family is of Mexican descent.
Of all the people to be amazed by the images of John Carpenter's 1981 sci-fi parable, Escape from New York (1981), none ...
Salma Hayek ==> 7 movies Danny Trejo ==> 9 movies!! (10th coming) Antonio Banderas ==> 7 movies Steve Buscemi ==> 3 movies Quentin Tarantino ==> 3 movies
9. Quentin Tarantino
Writer | Reservoir Dogs
Quentin Jerome Tarantino was born in Knoxville, Tennessee. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. Quentin moved with his mother to Torrance, California, when he was four years old.
In January of...
Tim Roth ==> 3 movies Uma Thurman ==> 3 movies Samuel L. Jackson ==> 3 movies (filming 4th) Michael Madsen ==> 3 movies
10. Renny Harlin
Producer | Driven
Born in 15 March 1959 as Renny Lauri Mauritz Harjola, he is the most successful Finnish film director in the history of Hollywood.
Harlin started his career in film business in the beginning of 1980s when he was directing commercials and company films for companies like Shell. Later he worked as a ...
Samuel L. Jackson ==> 3 movies
11. Akira Kurosawa
Writer | Kakushi-toride no san-akunin
After training as a painter (he storyboards his films as full-scale paintings), Kurosawa entered the film industry in 1936 as an assistant director, eventually making his directorial debut with Sanshiro Sugata (1943). Within a few years, Kurosawa had achieved sufficient stature to allow him greater...
Toshiro Mifune ==> 16 movies Takashi Shimura ==> 19 movies Tatsuya Nakadai ==> 6 movies Akira Terao ==> 3 movies Chishû Ryû ==> 3 movies I suggest that these 5 are most famous. However there is many others too.
12. Paul Verhoeven
Director | RoboCop
Paul Verhoeven graduated from the University of Leiden, with a degree in math and physics. He entered the Royal Netherlands Navy, where he began his film career by making documentaries for the Navy and later for TV. In 1969, he directed the popular Dutch TV series, Floris (1969), about a medieval ...
Rutger Hauer ==> 4 movies
13. Guy Ritchie
Director | Sherlock Holmes
Guy Ritchie was born in Hatfield, Hertfordshire, UK on September 10, 1968. After watching Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) as a child, Guy realized that what he wanted to do was make films. He never attended film school, saying that the work of film school graduates was boring and ...
Jason Statham ==> 3 movies Mark Strong ==> 3 movies
14. Sidney Lumet
Director | 12 Angry Men
Sidney Lumet was a master of cinema, best known for his technical knowledge and his skill at getting first-rate performances from his actors -- and for shooting most of his films in his beloved New York. He made over 40 movies, often complex and emotional, but seldom overly sentimental. Although ...
Sean Connery ==> 5 movies Jack Warden ==> 5 movies Henry Fonda ==> 3 movies
15. David Lynch
Writer | Twin Peaks
Born in precisely the kind of small-town American setting so familiar from his films, David Lynch spent his childhood being shunted from one state to another as his research scientist father kept getting relocated. He attended various art schools, married Peggy Lynch and then fathered future ...
Jack Nance ==> 6 movies (+ 1 tv-series) Kyle Maclachan ==> 3 movies (and 1 tv-series) Laura Dern ==> 3 movies Harry Dean Stanton ==> 4 movies Michael J. Anderson ==> 2 movies (and 1 tv-series) Freddie Jones ==> 3 movies
16. Sam Raimi
Director | Spider-Man
Highly inventive U.S. film director/producer/writer/actor Sam Raimi first came to the attention of film fans with the savage, yet darkly humorous, low-budget horror film, The Evil Dead (1981). From his childhood, Raimi was a fan of the cinema and, before he was ten-years-old, he was out making ...
Bruce Cambell ==> 11 movies (many short but iconic roles) Ted Raimi ==> 11 movies (is younger brother of Sam Raimi and he appears also on many titles produced by Sam Raimi) J.K. Simmons ==> 5 movies Rosemary Harris ==> 4 movies Various actors from ¨Spider Man¨ trilogy
17. Wes Anderson
Director | Fantastic Mr. Fox
Wesley Wales Anderson was born in Houston, Texas. His mother, Texas Ann (Burroughs), is an archaeologist turned real estate agent, and his father, Melver Leonard Anderson, worked in advertising and PR. He has two brothers, Eric and Mel. Anderson's parents divorced when he was a young child, an ...
Bill Murray ==> 6 movies Eric Chase Anderson ==> 4 movies (Wes Andersons kidbrother) Jason Schwartzman ==> 4 movies and 1 short. Owen Wilson ==> 5 movies Luke Wilson ==> 3 movies Anjelica Huston ==> 3 movies
18. Frank Darabont
Writer | The Shawshank Redemption
Three-time Oscar nominee Frank Darabont was born in a refugee camp in 1959 in Montbeliard, France, the son of Hungarian parents who had fled Budapest during the failed 1956 Hungarian revolution. Brought to America as an infant, he settled with his family in Los Angeles and attended Hollywood High ...
Jeffrey DeMunn ==> 4 movies + 1 tv series Laurie Holden ==> 2 movies + 1 tv series
19. Tim Burton
Producer | Edward Scissorhands
Timothy Walter Burton was born in Burbank, California, to Jean Rae (Erickson), who owned a cat-themed gift shop, and William Reed Burton, who worked for the Burbank Park and Recreation Department. He spent most of his childhood as a recluse, drawing cartoons, and watching old movies (he was ...
Johnny Depp ==> 8 movies! Helena Bonham Carter ==> 7 movies Michael Keaton ==> 3 movies
20. Gore Verbinski
Director | Rango
Gore Verbinski, one of American cinema's most inventive directors who was a punk-rock guitarist as a teenager and had to sell his guitar to buy his first camera, is now the director of Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006) which made the industry record for highest opening weekend of ...
Johnny Depp ==> 4 movies (filming 5th) Many actors from trilogy of ¨Pirates of the Caribbean
21. Werner Herzog
Director | Fitzcarraldo
Director. Writer. Producer. Actor. Poet. He studied history, literature and theatre for some time, but didn't finish it and founded instead his own film production company in 1963. Later in his life, Herzog also staged several operas in Bayreuth, Germany, and at the Milan Scala in Italy. Herzog has...
Klaus Kinski ==> 5 movies (their collaboration was feisty but highly prosperious)
22. Jean-Luc Godard
Director | Bande à part
Jean-Luc Godard was born in Paris on December 3, 1930, the second of four children in a bourgeois Franco-Swiss family. His father was a doctor who owned a private clinic, and his mother came from a preeminent family of Swiss bankers. During World War II Godard became a naturalized citizen of ...
Anna Karina ==> 7 movies (his first ex-wife) Anne Wiazemsky ==> 3 movies (his second ex-wife) Jean-Paul Belmondo ==> 4 movies Jean-Pierre Léaud ==> 5 movies at least (many times uncredided)
23. Federico Fellini
Writer | Le notti di Cabiria
The women who both attracted and frightened him and an Italy dominated in his youth by Mussolini and Pope Pius XII - inspired the dreams that Fellini started recording in notebooks in the 1960s. Life and dreams were raw material for his films. His native Rimini and characters like Saraghina (the ...
Giulietta Masina ==> 7 movies (they lived happily together for almost 50 years. After Masina became widow she joined him in death within a next year.
24. John Landis
Director | The Blues Brothers
John Landis began his career in the mail room of 20th Century-Fox. A high-school dropout, 18-year-old Landis made his way to Yugoslavia to work as a production assistant on Kelly's Heroes (1970). Remaining in Europe, Landis found work as an actor, extra and stuntman in many of the Spanish/Italian "...
Dan Aykroyd ==> 7 movies Eddie Murphy ==> 3 movies Frank Oz ==> 5 movies
25. Mel Brooks
Actor | Spaceballs
Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...
Gene Wilder ==> 3 movies (all classics) Dom DeLuise ==> 6 movies Dick Van Patten ==> 3 movies
26. Aki Kaurismäki
Producer | Le Havre
Aki Kaurismäki did a wide variety of jobs including postman, dish-washer and film critic, before forming a production and distribution company, Villealfa (in homage to Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville (1965)) with his older brother Mika Kaurismäki, also a film-maker. Both Aki and Mika are prolific ...
Kati Outinen ==> 9 movies Matti Pellonpää ==> 10 movies + 1 short Jean-Pierre Léaud ==> 3 movies (acts in Kaurismäki's french movies)
27. Ridley Scott
Producer | The Martian
Described by film producer Michael Deeley as "the very best eye in the business", director Ridley Scott was born on November 30, 1937 in South Shields, Tyne and Wear. His father was an officer in the Royal Engineers and the family followed him as his career posted him throughout the United Kingdom ...
Russel Crowe ==> 5 movies
28. Danny Boyle
Director | 127 Hours
Daniel Francis Boyle is a British filmmaker, producer and writer from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester. He is known for directing 28 Days Later, 127 Hours, Trainspotting, T2 Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, Millions, Shallow Grave, The Beach, Yesterday, and Steve Jobs. He won many awards for ...
Ewan McGregor ==> 3 movies
29. James Cameron
Writer | Avatar: The Way of Water
James Francis Cameron was born on August 16, 1954 in Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada. He moved to the United States in 1971. The son of an engineer, he majored in physics at California State University before switching to English, and eventually dropping out. He then drove a truck to support his ...
Arnold Schwarzenegger ==> 3 movies Bill Paxton ==> 3 movies Lance Henriksen ==> 3 movies Michael Biehn ==> 3 movies
30. Jules Dassin
Director | Du rififi chez les hommes
Jules Dassin was an Academy Award-nominated director, screenwriter and actor best known for his films Rififi (1955), Never on Sunday (1960), and Topkapi (1964).
He was born Julius Samuel Dassin on 18 December 1911, in Middletown, Connecticut, USA. He was one of eight children of Russian-Jewish ...
Melina Mercouri ==> 10 movies!
31. Joe Wright
Director | Pride & Prejudice
Joe Wright is an English film director. He is best known for Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012), and Darkest Hour (2017).
Wright always had an interest in the arts, especially painting. He would also make films on his Super 8 camera as well as spend time in the evenings...
Keira Knightly ==> 3 movies
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