Library: Performing Arts by Credo Reference: Modern Film

Directors

Woody Allen (1935 - ): Topic Page
Film actor, writer, and director, concerned with mortality, sexual inadequacies, show-business nostalgia, psychoanalysis, and urban living.
Robert Altman (1925 - 2006): Topic Page
He created complex, often loosely plotted movies marked by brilliant and often huge ensemble casting, sharply delineated characters, overlapping dialogue, and an edgy spontaneity.
Ingmar Bergman (1918 - 2007): Topic Page
Swedish director. Made films which are outstanding for their photographic artistry, haunting imagery, and subtle exploration of facial characteristics.
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1946 - 1982): Topic Page
German filmmaker. One of the most highly regarded and prolific directors of the post–World War II generation.
Federico Fellini (1920 - 1993): Topic Page
Italian film director and screenwriter. His work has been a major influence on modern cinema.
Werner Herzog (1942 - ): Topic Page
German director, screenwriter, and producer. One of the leading filmmakers in contemporary German cinema, the prolific Herzog is known for his vivid and poetic films.
David Keith Lynch (1946- )
From Chambers Film Factfinder
American, born in Missoula, Montana. The son of a research scientist, he studied painting before experimenting with film, making his directorial debut with the short film The Alphabet (1967).

Roman Polanski (1933 - ): Topic Page
Polish-French film director. Polanski has exhibited a taste for dramatic situations presented with a cool lack of sentimentality and marked by unexpected violence and a sense of irony, black humor, and isolation and dread.

Martin Scorsese (1942 - ): Topic Page
US director, screenwriter, and producer. One of the most influential figures in modern US cinema, he has made such contemporary classics as Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), GoodFellas (1990), and The Age of Innocence (1993).

New Wave

Jean-Luc Godard (1930 - ): Topic Page
French film director and scriptwriter, b. Paris. Godard is probably the most influential of the French New Wave directors.

Eric Rohmer (1920 - 2010): Topic Page
French film director, screenwriter, and critic. Part of the French New Wave, his films are often concerned with the psychology of self-deception.

Francois Truffaut (1932 - 1984): Topic Page
French film director; leader of French New Wave cinema; films include Jules et Jim (1961) and Baisers volés (1968).

Roger Vadim (1928 - 2000): Topic Page
French film and theatre director, actor, and writer. Credited with bringing continental film into mainstream cinema, and leading the way for the New Wave of French film-makers influential in the 1950s and 1960s.

Actors

Drew Barrymore (1975- )
US actor, director, and producer. She became well known for her role in Steven Spielberg's classic feel-good film ET the Extraterrestrial (1982) when she was only seven years old

Marlon Brando (1924-2004): Topic Page
Film and stage actor, born in Omaha, Nebraska, USA. A product of the New York Actors’ Studio, he made his debut in 1943, and appeared in several plays before achieving fame in A Streetcar Named Desire (1947).

Sean Connery (1930 - ): Topic Page
Film actor, born in Edinburgh, EC Scotland, UK. In 1963 he was cast in Dr No as Ian Fleming’s secret agent James Bond, a part he subsequently played on seven occasions.

Robert DeNiro (1943 - ): Topic Page
Actor and director; his many films include Taxi Driver (1976), The Deerhunter (1978), Midnight Run (1988), Awakenings (1990), Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994), and Sleepers (1996).

Robert Duvall (1931- )
Actor, born in San Diego, California, USA. He began as a stage actor and made his film debut in To Kill a Mockingbird (1963).

Clint Eastwood (1930 - ): Topic Page
Film actor and director, born in San Francisco, California, USA.

Jane Fonda (1937 - ): Topic Page
Best known as a film star, Jane Fonda has also worked as a political activist and since the 1980s has made a name for herself as a fitness expert.

Gene Hackman (1930- ):Topic Page
Film actor, born in San Bernardino, California, USA.

Dustin Hoffman (1937- ): Topic Page
Actor, born in Los Angeles, California, USA. A student at the Pasadena Playhouse, he pursued a career on stage and television in New York City, making his Broadway debut in 1961.

Jeremy Irons (1948- ): Topic Page
Actor, born in Cowes, Isle of Wight, S England, UK.

Shirley MacLaine (1934- ): Topic Page
Film actress and writer, born in Richmond, Virginia, USA, the sister of Warren Beatty.

Laurence Olivier (1907-1989): Topic Page
English actor, director, and producer.

Sean Penn (1960 - ): Topic Page
Actor, writer, producer, and director, born in Santa Monica, California, USA.

Robert Redford (1937 - ): Topic Page
Actor and director, born in Santa Barbara, California, USA.

Susan Sarandon (1946- ): Topic Page
Film actress, born in New York City, USA.

Martin Sheen (1940 - ): Topic Page
US actor. Known for his prolific output on stage, television, and film, he established his career in the early 1960s and went on to perform in a variety of roles in a career spanning nearly half a century.

Meryl Streep (1949- ): Topic Page
Actress, born in Summit, New Jersey, USA. She studied at Vassar College and Yale Drama School, making her New York stage debut in 1969, and her film debut in 1977

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