Puffin's list
by rainmark | created - 06 Feb 2013 | updated - 28 Jan 2019 | Public
1. Stephen Frears
Director | Dangerous Liaisons
Stephen started off in a career in the legal profession before switching to work as an assistant stage manager at London's Royal Court which led to work as an assistant director on films by Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson He directed his first short in 1967 and his feature debut, Gumshoe, in 1971....
2. Tom Hooper
Director | Cats
Tom Hooper was educated at one of England's most prestigious schools, Westminster. His first film, Runaway Dog, was made when he was 13 years old and shot on a Clockwork 16mm Bolex camera, using 100 feet of film. At age 18, he wrote, directed and produced the short film Painted Faces (1992), which ...
3. Otto Bathurst
Director | Robin Hood
Otto Bathurst was born in June 1971 in Hammersmith, London, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Robin Hood (2018), Peaky Blinders (2013) and Black Mirror (2011).
4. Mick Jackson
Director | Volcano
Mick Jackson was born on October 4, 1943 in Aveley, Essex, England, UK. He is a director and producer, known for Volcano (1997), The Bodyguard (1992) and Temple Grandin (2010).
5. Peter Kosminsky
Director | Britz
Born in London, Kosminsky attended Oxford University as a chemistry major. He spent much of his time at the university in theater, where he was a lighting designer for the Dramatic Society and where he ultimately produced a successful touring production of Twelfth Night, co-starring fellow student ...
6. Philippa Lowthorpe
Director | The Third Day
Philippa Lowthorpe is a three times Bafta winning TV and Film Director.
She became the first woman to win a Bafta for Best Director at the Bafta Television Awards in 2013. She was awarded her second directing BAFTA in 2018 for Three Girls, the highly acclaimed and multi award-winning TV Series which...
7. Paul Greengrass
Director | United 93
Paul Greengrass started his filmmaking career with a super 8 camera he found in his art room in secondary school. Those short movies were animation horror films he made using old dolls, artist dummies, and the general art room clutter.
After studying in Cambridge University he got into Granada ...
8. David Frankel
Director | The Devil Wears Prada
David Frankel was born on April 2, 1959 in New York City, New York, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The Devil Wears Prada (2006), One Chance (2013) and Band of Brothers (2001).
9. Simon Cellan Jones
Director | The Family Plan
Simon Cellan Jones is known for The Family Plan (2023), Arthur the King (2024) and Our Friends in the North (1996).
10. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Director | Das Leben der Anderen
As the son of a Lufthansa manager, Henckel von Donnersmarck spent his childhood and school years in New York, Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and Brussels, where he passed his international high school diploma in 1991. He then spent two years studying in Leningrad (Saint Petersburg) with the following ...
11. Tomas Alfredson
Director | Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Tomas Alfredson was born on April 1, 1965 in Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden. He is a director, known for Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011), Let the Right One In (2008) and The Snowman (2017). He is married to Charlotte Alfredson. They have one child. He was previously married to Cissi Elwin.
12. David Leland
Writer | Wish You Were Here
David Hugh Leland (20th April 1941-24th December 2023) was a British theatre, film and television writer, director, and actor whose career spanned over five decades.
Leland initially trained as an actor at the Central Speech of School and Drama and appeared in multiple credits before moving into ...
13. Jeremy Lovering
Director | In Fear
Jeremy Lovering is known for In Fear (2013), Hot Fuzz (2007) and Last Night in Soho (2021).
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