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Born November 28, 1938 • Waukesha • Wisconsin
Died April 16, 2001 (aged 62) • New York City • New York
Notable Works “A Simple Wish” • “An Almost Perfect Affair” • “Cops & Robbersons” • “Diggstown” • “Downhill Racer” • “Fletch Lives” • “Fletch” • “Prime Cut” • “Semi-Tough” • “Smile” • “The Bad News Bears” • “The Candidate” • “The Couch Trip” • “The Fantasticks” • “The Golden Child” • “The Island” • “The Scout” • “The Survivors” • “Wildcats”

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David Maysles
American documentary filmmaker
Jesse Lasky
American producer
Judith Malina
American theater director and actress
James Ivory
American director
Joel Coen
American filmmaker
Ethan Coen
American filmmaker
Michael Cimino
American director
Harold Ramis
American actor, writer, and director
Robert Eggers
American filmmaker
Master of suspense
Alfred Hitchcock
English-born American director
Steven Spielberg
Steven Spielberg
American film director and producer
Woody Allen
Woody Allen
American actor and director
Orson Welles
Orson Welles
American actor, director, and writer
Martin Scorsese
Martin Scorsese
American director
Filming of The Bad and the Beautiful
Vincente Minnelli
American director
Huston, John; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Huston
American director, writer, and actor
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Frank Capra
American film director
Michael Curtiz
Michael Curtiz
Hungarian-American director, actor, and writer
William Wyler
William Wyler
American director
filming of Rio Bravo
Howard Hawks
American director