Personnalités qui méritent une rétrospective

1. Rowland Brown

Rowland Brown was born on November 6, 1897 in Akron, Ohio, USA. He was a writer and director, known for Angels with Dirty Faces (1938), Blood Money (1933) and Hell's Highway (1932). He was married to Karen van Ryan and Marie Helis. He died on May 6, 1963 in Costa Mesa, California, USA.

2. Howard Vernon

Actor | Le silence de la mer

Swiss-born actor Howard Vernon (né Mario Lippert) would make his infamous claim to fame as a stock lead player for the lowgrade, campy horror features of notorious director Jesús Franco, starring as Dr. Orloff, Dracula, and other terrorizers, most of them produced in Spain or France. Born in 1914 ...

3. Sadao Yamanaka

Writer | Kuchibue o fuku bushi

The director and screenwriter Sadao Yamanaka (1909-1938) is a key figure in the development of early Japanese cinema. Although he made 27 films over a six-year period, only three of them survived in nearly complete form: Sazen Tange and the Pot Worth a Million Ryo (1935), Humanity and Paper Balloons...

Selon l'encyclopédie vivante Rintarô, ce cinéaste est aussi important que Yasujirō Ozu.

Seulement trois de ses films sont parvenus jusqu'à nous, conséquence de la seconde guerre mondiale.

4. Doris Wishman

Director | Satan Was a Lady

Doris Wishman was born on June 1, 1912 in New York City, New York, USA. She was a director and producer, known for Satan Was a Lady (2001), Nude on the Moon (1961) and Keyholes Are for Peeping (1972). She was married to Louis Silverman and Jack Abrahms. She died on August 10, 2002 in Miami, Florida...

5. Mario Bava

Cinematographer | Ecologia del delitto

Italian director Mario Bava was born on July 31, 1914 in the coastal northern Italian town of Sanremo. His father, Eugenio Bava (1886-1966), was a cinematographer in the early days of the Italian film industry. Bava was trained as a painter, and when he eventually followed his father into film ...

Cela fait plus de vingt ans que j'attends désespérément une rétrospective à Bxl du plus grand maître de la couleur. Non seulement il n'y a jamais de rétrospective, mais, de surcroît, ses films sont rarement, et même pour la plupart jamais projetés.

6. Budd Boetticher

Director | Bullfighter and the Lady

Brilliant, distinguished American director, particularly of Westerns, whose simple, bleak style disguises a complex artistic temperament. The adopted son of a wealthy hardware retailer, Boetticher attended Culver Military Academy and Ohio State University, where he excelled in football and boxing.

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Réalisateur de nombreux solides westerns traditionnels de séries B en couleurs, de la fin des années 1950.

Son acteur récurent est Randolph Scott.

La plupart de ses tournages, comprenant de nombreux décors réels intelligemment filmés, duraient moins de deux semaines. Ses films durent généralement moins de 80 minutes.

Les quatre sommets de sa carrière seraient le néo-classique "Sept homme à abattre"/"Seven Men From Now" (1956), "L'homme de l'Arizona"/"The Tall T" (1957), "La chevauchée de la vengeance"/"Ride Lonesome" (1959) et "Comanche Station" (1960), tous avec Randolph Scott. Il y a aussi notamment "À feu et à sang"/Cimarron Kid" (1952), "Le déserteur de Fort Alamo"/"The Man from the Alamo" (1953), l'ironique "L'aventurier du Texas"/ Buchanan Rides Alone" (1958) avec Randolph Scott et "La chute d'un caïd"/"The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond" (1960 ; biographie d'un gangster des années 1920.)

Ils ne sont jamais projetés en Belgique. Ils sont pourtant reconnus en France depuis leur sortie. Et bien cotés par les cinéphiles de tous pays.

Ses westerns ont fait la transition entre les westerns classiques et ceux de Sam Peckinpah et Sergio Leone. Budd Boetticher a contribué à lancer la carrière d'acteurs comme Lee Marvin ou Warren Oates.

« Le chaînon manquant entre le classicisme de Hawks et la modernité d'un Monte Hellman. » (Nathalie Dray)

Un peu dans la même veine, il y aurait aussi "Rio Conchos" (1964) de Gordon Douglas.

7. Roy Ward Baker

Director | A Night to Remember

Roy Ward Baker's first job in films was as a teaboy at the Gainsborough Studios in London, England, but within three years he was working as an assistant director. During World War II, he worked in the Army Kinematograph Unit under Eric Ambler, a writer and film producer, who, after the war, gave ...

Tout bon réalisateur de deuxième division (notamment "Don't Bother to Knock/Troublez-moi ce soir" en 1952, "A Night to Remember/Atlantique, latitude 41°" en 1958, "Quatermass and the Pit/Les monstres de l'espace" en 1967, "Dr. Jeckyll et sister Hyde" en 1971.)

8. Dino Risi

Director | Il sorpasso

Dino Risi became a movie director by chance. In 1940 he met Alberto Lattuada at a friend's boutique. Lattuada told him they needed an assistant director for the movie Piccolo mondo antico (1941). Risi accepted just for fun, not for work. Later, he became a psychiatrist and wrote some articles for a...

9. Massimo Dallamano

Cinematographer | Per un pugno di dollari

Massimo Dallamano was born on April 17, 1917 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. He was a cinematographer and writer, known for A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Tierra mágica (1959) and What Have You Done to Solange? (1972). He died on November 14, 1976 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

10. Ted Post

Director | Magnum Force

Ted Post first began thinking about a career in show business in 1938, when he was working as a weekend usher at the Loew's Pitkin Theater in Brooklyn, New York, and getting so caught up in the movies that he would sometimes forget to escort the patrons to their seats. He received some acting ...

11. Samuel Z. Arkoff

Dressed to Kill

By the early 1950s, future movie mogul Samuel Z. Arkoff was a brash 30-ish lawyer scratching out a living by representing his in-laws and the Hollywood fringe, which included many of now infamous director/angora-clad transvestite Edward D. Wood Jr.'s social circle. As a shark, Arkoff was physically...

12. Dino De Laurentiis

Producer | Le notti di Cabiria

Dino De Laurentiis left home at age 17 to enrol in film school, supporting himself as an actor, extra, propman, or any other job he could get in the film industry. His persistence paid off, and by the time he reached his 20th birthday he already had one produced film under his belt. After serving ...

13. Arne Mattsson

Director | Hon dansade en sommar

Arne Mattsson was born on December 2, 1919 in Uppsala, Uppsala län, Sweden. He was a director and writer, known for One Summer of Happiness (1951), För min heta ungdoms skull (1952) and Hemsöborna (1955). He was married to Elsa Prawitz. He died on June 28, 1995 in Sweden.

14. Michael Anderson

Director | Logan's Run

London-born Michael Anderson began his career in films as an office boy at Elstree studios. By 1938, he had progressed up the ladder to become assistant director for distinguished film makers Noël Coward, David Lean and Anthony Asquith. Shortly after, during wartime with the Royal Signals Corps (...

15. Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent

Writer | Juzgado permanente

Joaquín Luis Romero Marchent was born on August 26, 1921 in Madrid, Madrid, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Juzgado permanente (1954), Cut-Throats Nine (1972) and El juego del adulterio (1973). He was married to Ángela Caballero. He died on August 16, 2012 in Madrid, Spain.

16. Carlo Lizzani

Director | Banditi a Milano

Carlo Lizzani was born on April 3, 1922 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for The Violent Four (1968), Chronicle of Poor Lovers (1954) and Celluloide (1996). He was married to Edith Bieber. He died on October 5, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

17. Damiano Damiani

Writer | Il giorno della civetta

Damiano Damiani was born on July 23, 1922 in Pasiano di Pordenone, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy. He was a writer and director, known for Mafia (1968), The Reunion (1963) and Confessions of a Police Captain (1971). He died on March 7, 2013 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

18. Alex Gordon

Producer | The Atomic Submarine

Alex Gordon and his equally movie-crazy brother Richard Gordon haunted English movie theaters as boys before emigrating to New York in 1947. Richard remained East Coast-based as he forged a career as a film distributor and producer, while Alex set down roots in Hollywood, where he got in on the ...

19. Irvin Kershner

Director | Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back

Irvin Kershner was born on April 29, 1923 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. A graduate of the University of Southern California film school, Kershner began his career in 1950, producing documentaries for the United States Information Service in the Middle East. He later turned to television, directing...

Ancien prof de cinéma de Georges Lucas. Après avoir réalisé le giallo de John Carpenter, il reprendra avec panache "Star Wars", "James Bond" et "Robocop".

20. Yannick Bellon

Director | La femme de Jean

Yannick Bellon was born on April 6, 1924 in Biarritz, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. She was a director and writer, known for La femme de Jean (1974), Somewhere, Someone (1972) and The Cheat (1984). She was married to Henri Magnan. She died on June 2, 2019 in Paris, France.

21. Terry Southern

Writer | Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Terry Southern began writing satirical, outrageous fiction at the age of 12, when he took it upon himself to rewrite various Edgar Allan Poe stories "because they didn't go far enough". After serving as a lieutenant in the army in World War II, he began writing short stories in earnest while ...

22. Leopoldo Torre Nilsson

Director | Los siete locos

After ten years as assistant director to his father 'Leopoldo Torre Rios' he co-directed two films with him. His first personal work was "Graciela (1956)", an adoption from the novel 'Nada' of 'Carmen Laforet' which was made out of reach of the censorship of 'General Perón'. Later on Torre Nilsson ...

23. Dick Randall

Sound_department | Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes

Dick Randall was a jolly and colorful film producer who specialized in blithely trashy low-budget exploitation pictures. Randall was born as Irving Reuben on March 3, 1926, in the Catskill Mountains, New York. He started his show-business career as a writer: he penned gags for Milton Berle and ...

24. Roger Corman

Actor | The Silence of the Lambs

Roger William Corman was born April 5, 1926, in Detroit, Michigan. Initially following in his father's footsteps, Corman studied engineering at Stanford University but while in school, he began to lose interest in the profession and developed a growing passion for film. Upon graduation, he worked a...

25. Valerio Zurlini

Writer | Cronaca familiare

Valerio Zurlini was born on March 19, 1926. During his law studies in Rome, he started working in the theatre. In 1943, he joined the Italian resistance. Zurlini became a member of the Italian Communist Party. He filmed short documentaries in the immediate post-war period and in 1954 directed his ...

26. Herschell Gordon Lewis

Director | This Stuff'll Kill Ya!

Only one film-maker can claim the title "Godfather of Gore." That peculiar but apt identification seems to be the exclusive property of Herschell Gordon Lewis. With an unusual background that included teaching English Literature to college students, producing and directing television commercials, ...

27. Norman Jewison

Director | Jesus Christ Superstar

Norman Jewison was an award-winning, internationally acclaimed filmmaker who produced and directed some of the world's most memorable, entertaining and socially important films, exploring controversial and complicated subjects and giving them a universal accessibility. Some of his most well-known ...

28. Jacques Rozier

Director | Maine Ocean

Jacques Rozier was born on November 10, 1926 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Maine Ocean (1986), Adieu Philippine (1962) and Fifi Martingale (2001). He was married to Michèle O'Glor and Lydia Feld. He died on May 31, 2023 in Théoule-sur-Mer, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

29. Maurice Ronet

Actor | Ascenseur pour l'échafaud

Maurice Ronet was born on April 13, 1927 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Elevator to the Gallows (1958), The Fire Within (1963) and Purple Noon (1960). He was married to Maria Pacôme. He died on March 14, 1983 in Paris, France.

30. Lucio Fulci

Writer | Lo squartatore di New York

Lucio Fulci, born in Rome in 1927, remains as controversial in death as he was in life. A gifted craftsman with a sharp tongue and a wicked sense of dark humor, Fulci achieved some measure of notoriety for his gore epics of the late 1970s and early 1980s, but respect was long in coming.

Abandoning ...

31. Harry H. Novak

Producer | Inspirations

Legendary exploitation cinema producer and distributor Harry H. Novak was born on January 12, 1928, in Chicago, IL. He got a job with RKO Pictures distributing movie posters and press books to theaters while still in his teens. Following a tour of duty in the Army during World War II, Novak went ...

32. John Mackenzie

Director | The Long Good Friday

A solid and reliable filmmaker with frequent flairs of brilliance, Mackenzie gave up a career in acting because of a desire to control what he was doing. He assisted Ken Loach on his classic early TV plays such as The Wednesday Play: Cathy Come Home (1966), which inspired him and gave him the best ...

33. Bernard Evein

Set_decorator | Les quatre cents coups

Bernard Evein was born on January 5, 1929 in Saint-Nazaire, Loire-Atlantique, France. He was a production designer and art director, known for The 400 Blows (1959), The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962). He was married to Jacqueline Moreau. He died on August 8, 2006 ...

34. Andy Milligan

Director | The Degenerates

Andy Milligan was born in St. Paul, Minnesota in 1929. He was a self-taught film maker, playwright, script writer and costume designer. He grew up mostly in Minnesota, but he and his family moved around the country a lot. His father, Andrew Milligan Sr. (1894-1985) was a captain in the U.S. Army ...

35. Jean-Pierre Mocky

Director | Litan

As an actor he became popular as Albert de Morcerf in a version of The Count of Monte Cristo (1954), fame and adulation followed with his Francois in Head Against the Wall (1959). As a director he became famous with anarcho-pictures, brilliant cynic comedies. His preferred actors in all decades were...

36. Monte Hellman

Director | Iguana

Monte Hellman was born on July 12, 1929, in New York City, where his parents were visiting, but he grew up in Los Angeles. He studied drama at Stanford University--on an NBC scholarship--and film at UCLA. After a few years directing in summer theater, Hellman hooked up with legendary "B" movie ...

37. Jean Delire

Director | Plus jamais seuls

Jean Delire was born on March 24, 1930 in Châtelet, Belgium. Jean was a director and cinematographer, known for Plus jamais seuls (1969), Les contes fantastiques (1966) and Trois étranges histoires (1968). Jean died on April 1, 2000 in Brussels, Belgium.

38. Richard C. Sarafian

Director | Vanishing Point

Richard C. Sarafian was born on April 28, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and actor, known for Vanishing Point (1971), Bugsy (1991) and Blue Streak (1999). He was married to Helen Joan Altman. He died on September 18, 2013 in Santa Monica, California, USA.

39. Jesús Franco

Writer | Der Teufel kam aus Akasava

He was only six years old when he started composing music under the protection of his brother Enrique. After the Spanish Civil War he was able to continue his studies at the Real Conservatorio de Madrid, where he finished piano and harmony. Being a Bachelor of Law and an easy-read novel writer (...

40. Frank Perry

Director | Mommie Dearest

Frank Perry was born on August 21, 1930 in New York City, New York, USA. He was a director and producer, known for Mommie Dearest (1981), David and Lisa (1962) and Last Summer (1969). He was married to Virginia Brush Ford, Barbara Goldsmith and Eleanor Perry. He died on August 29, 1995 in New York ...

41. Erwin C. Dietrich

Producer | Schwarzer Nerz auf zarter Haut

Erwin C. Dietrich was the most successful and influential movie "entrepreneur" in Switzerland for decades. Already in his teenage years he was interested in movies and observed all happenings in Hollywood from his home in St. Gallen. He quit his dream of becoming an actor rather early on and ...

42. Nelly Kaplan

Writer | Charles et Lucie

Nelly Kaplan was born on April 11, 1931 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was a writer and director, known for Charles and Lucie (1979), Papa, the Lil' Boats (1971) and A Very Curious Girl (1969). She died on November 12, 2020 in Geneva, Canton de Genève, Switzerland.

43. Rino Di Silvestro

Writer | Le deportate della sezione speciale SS

Rino Di Silvestro was an Italian writer/director who specialized in extremely raw, graphic and, in the opinion of many critics, offensive low-budget exploitation fare. He was born in 1932 and hailed from a family of Sicilian landowners. He established his own avant-garde theatre company and ...

44. John Flynn

Director | Lock Up

John Flynn was a very fine, efficient and sadly underrated director who excelled at making mean'n'lean crime pictures. His movies are distinguished by tight plots, a hard, no-nonsense tone, and a taut, streamlined and fiercely economical directorial style. John was born on March 14, 1932 in Chicago...

45. Mike Hodges

Director | Flash Gordon

Mike Hodges was born on July 29, 1932 in Bristol, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for Flash Gordon (1980), Get Carter (1971) and Black Rainbow (1989). He was married to Carol Laws and Jean Alexandrov. He died on December 17, 2022 in Dorset, England, UK.

46. Derek Ford

Writer | The Urge to Kill

Derek Ford (born 6 September 1932 in Tilbury, Essex - died 19 May 1995) was a British film director and writer, most famous for exploitation films such as The Swappers (1970), Keep It Up, Jack (1974) and Diversions (1976), which was also filmed in a hardcore version.

Ford began as a writer in ...

47. Michele Lupo

Director | Occhio alla penna

Michele Lupo was born on December 4, 1932 in Corleone, Sicily, Italy. He was a director and assistant director, known for Buddy Goes West (1981), The Master Touch (1972) and Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963). He died on June 27, 1989 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

48. Jack Hill

Writer | Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told

Jack Hill, sometimes referred to as a legendary cult-film director, grew up around movies--his father was a set designer for Warner Brothers since 1925, and later for Walt Disney Studios, where he eventually designed the Disneyland Castle. Jack went to the University of California to study film, ...

49. Bob Rafelson

Producer | Five Easy Pieces

Bob Rafelson was an American film director, writer and producer. He is regarded as one of the founders of the New Hollywood movement in the 1970s. Among his best-known films are Five Easy Pieces (1970), The King of Marvin Gardens (1972), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981). He was also one of...

50. Michael Winner

Director | Death Wish

Winner was an only child, born in Hampstead, London, England, to Helen (née Zlota) and George Joseph Winner (1910-1975), a company director. His family was Jewish; his mother was Polish and his father of Russian extraction. Following his father's death, Winner's mother gambled recklessly and sold ...

51. Aldo Maccione

Actor | Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie

Aldo Maccione was born on November 27, 1935 in Turin, Italy. He is an actor, known for Mais où est donc passée la 7ème compagnie (1973), Un ufficiale non si arrende mai, nemmeno di fronte all'evidenza. Firmato Colonnello Buttiglione (1973) and Tais-toi quand tu parles! (1981).

À quand une intégrale en sa présence avec tous ses films italiens, pour la plupart inédits dans nos contrées ?

52. Joël Séria

Director | Mais ne nous délivrez pas du mal

Joël Séria was born on April 13, 1936 in Angers, France. He is a director and writer, known for Don't Deliver Us from Evil (1971), Comme la lune (1977) and Mumu (2010).

53. Larry Cohen

Writer | God Told Me To

Larry Cohen was born July 15, 1936, in New York, New York, and spent time in Kingston, a small town north of New York City. At a young age, his family moved to the Riverdale section of the Bronx, and he eventually majored in film at the historic City College of New York, from which he graduated in ...

54. Stephanie Rothman

Writer | Terminal Island

Writer/director Stephanie Rothman was one of the few female filmmakers who specialized in low-budget drive-in exploitation fare in the '60s and '70s. Her movies are distinguished by gutsy, strong-willed and sympathetic women main characters and a radical libertarian feminist point of view. ...

55. Jean-Pierre Lajournade

Writer | La fin des Pyrénées

Jean-Pierre Lajournade was born on April 19, 1937 in Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France. He was a writer and director, known for La fin des Pyrénées (1970), Le joueur de quilles (1968) and Assommons les pauvres (1969). He was married to Fiammetta Ortega and Jacqueline Wester. He died ...

Il joue le rôle principal de "Bartleby" (1970) de Jean-Pierre Bastid, adapté, à mi-chemin entre Kafka et anarcho-situationisme, de l'écrivain Hermann Melville ("Moby Dick").

Jean-Pierre Lajournade fut un cinéaste d'une dizaine de films de bonne réputation entre 1967 et '70. Mort en '76 à l'âge de 39 ans. Après avoir étudié à l'IDHEC avec Bastid, il entre en 1962 à l'ORTF qu'il quitte en 1968 pour réaliser des films d'auteur. Il consacre ses dernières années à l'écriture sur le cinéma, semble-t-il.

Un personnage oublié qui mérite d'être redécouvert.

56. Serge Leroy

Director | Le 4ème pouvoir

Serge Leroy was born on May 14, 1937 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le 4ème pouvoir (1985), Taxi de nuit (1993) and La traque (1975). He died on May 27, 1993 in Paris, France.

57. Nobuhiko Ôbayashi

Director | Hausu

Nobuhiko Ôbayashi was born on January 9, 1938 in Onomichi, Hiroshima Prefecture, Japan. He was a director and editor, known for House (1977), Turning Point (1994) and The Discarnates (1988). He was married to Kyôko Ôbayashi. He died on April 10, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.

58. Leiji Matsumoto

Writer | Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years

Leiji Matsumoto was born on January 25, 1938 in Fukuoka, Japan. He was a writer and director, known for Captain Harlock and the Queen of a Thousand Years (1985), Space Battleship Yamato (1974) and Farewell to Space Battleship Yamato: Warriors of Love (1978). He was married to Miyako Maki. He died ...

59. Jean-François Adam

Production_manager | Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux

Jean-François Adam was born on February 14, 1938 in Paris, France. He was an actor and assistant director, known for Vivre sa vie (1962), Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) and Retour à la bien-aimée (1979). He died on October 14, 1980 in Paris, France.

60. Silvano Agosti

Editor | Uova di garofano

Silvano Agosti was born on March 23, 1938 in Brescia, Lombardy, Italy. He is an editor and director, known for Uova di garofano (1991), Quartiere (1987) and Fit to Be Untied (1975).

61. Masao Adachi

Writer | Sain

Masao Adachi was born on May 13, 1939 in Fukuoka, Japan. He is a writer and director, known for Sain (1963), Yûheisha - terorisuto (2007) and Datai (1966).

62. Bob Clark

Director | A Christmas Story

Bob Clark was born on August 5, 1939 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a director and writer, known for A Christmas Story (1983), Baby Geniuses (1999) and Porky's (1981). He died on April 4, 2007 in Pacific Palisades, California, USA.

63. Christian Gion

Director | J'ai rencontré le Père Noël

Born in Tarbes Christian Gion, made his debuts as dircetor in 1967. Later he was one of the most popluar directors of french comedies they are only entertainment. His biggest and loveliest succes is The Pawn (1978) in which Henri Guybet as a pawn of a school find his love with Claude Jade as young ...

64. Andrzej Zulawski

Writer | Possession

Born in Lvov, Ukraine; then he moved with his father Miroslaw Zulawski to Czechoslovakia and later to Poland. In the late 1950s, he studied cinema in France. In the 1960s, he was an assistant of the famous Polish film director Andrzej Wajda. His feature debut The Third Part of the Night (1971) was ...

65. Jacques Davila

Director | La campagne de Cicéron

Jacques Davila was born on December 25, 1941 in Oran, Algeria. He was a director and writer, known for La campagne de Cicéron (1990), Certaines nouvelles (1980) and Qui trop embrasse... (1986). He died on October 14, 1991 in Paris, France.

66. Walter Hill

Writer | 48 Hrs.

Hill was born in Long Beach, California and educated at Mexico City College and Michigan State University. He worked in oil drilling and construction in the 60s before becoming a 2nd assistant director in 1967. He has written and co-written screenplays, including several uncredited works. He has ...

67. Philippe Théaudière

Cinematographer | Les week-ends maléfiques du Comte Zaroff

Philippe Théaudière was born on June 9, 1942 in Dijon, Côte-d'Or, France. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Seven Women for Satan (1976). He died on December 29, 2016 in Paris, France.

Directeur de la photographie de la crème française des seventies.

68. Colo Tavernier

Writer | Une affaire de femmes

Colo Tavernier was born on July 30, 1942 in Guilford, Surrey, England, UK. She was a writer, known for Story of Women (1988), A Sunday in the Country (1984) and Beatrice (1987). She was married to Bertrand Tavernier. She died on June 12, 2020 in Paris, France.

69. Salvatore Samperi

Director | Malizia

Salvatore Samperi was born on July 26, 1943 in Padua, Veneto, Italy. He was a director and writer, known for Malicious (1973), Ernesto (1979) and Smell of Flesh (1974). He was married to Francesca Bardella. He died on March 5, 2009 in Trevignano Romano, Lazio, Italy.

70. Jacques Nolot

Actor | La chatte à deux têtes

Jacques Nolot was born on 31 August 1943 in Marcillac, France and is a well known stage and character actor whose first feature film L'arrière pays (1998) won the First Film Special Distinction Award at the Montreal World Film Festival and a FIPRESCI Special Mention Award at the Venice Film ...

71. Jan de Bont

Director | Speed

Jan de Bont was one of 17 children born into a Roman Catholic Dutch family in Eindhoven on 22 October 1943. Credited with being creative and having a good mentality for camera techniques, he became a popular cinematographer. He worked on a huge number of films before finding himself on the ...

72. Arturo Ripstein

Director | Principio y fin

Arturo Ripstein began his career as assistant director (unbilled) of Luis Buñuel in Ángel exterminador, El (1962). His father, Alfredo Ripstein, Jr. produced his first film, a western written by Gabriel García Márquez titled Tiempo de morir (1965). Ripstein filmography is very praised in Mexico and...

73. Elizabeth Hartman

Actress | A Patch of Blue

A slender, striking, red-haired, freckle-faced American leading lady, Mary Elizabeth Hartman was born in Boardman, Ohio on December 23, 1943, as the middle of three children born to building contractor Bill C. Hartman (May 7, 1914, Ohio - October 26, 1964, Youngstown, Ohio) and housewife Claire ...

74. Eloy de la Iglesia

Writer | Los novios búlgaros

Spanish movies director. He studied cinema in Paris at the IDHEC. He began working in cinema in 1966, though he became famous in the years of the spanish transition to the democracy with provoking films. Drugs, delinquence, terrorism and generational problems are the common subjects in his films.

75. James Toback

Writer | Bugsy

James Toback, screenwriter and the director of nine films, was born on November 23, 1944 in New York City to a successful garment manufacturer. A 1966 graduate of Harvard College, Toback later taught creative writing at City College of New York in the early 1970s. He suffered from a gambling ...

76. Mimsy Farmer

Actress | More

Mimsy Farmer first began acting at age 16, when a press agent noticed her and offered her work in the film, Gidget Goes Hawaiian (1961), an unbilled bit with one line as a girl in the lobby. Her first billed film was a featured part in Spencer's Mountain (1963), starring Henry Fonda, Maureen O'Hara...

77. Jean-Marie Degèsves

Director | Du bout des lèvres

Jean-Marie Degèsves was born on May 16, 1945 in Huy, Belgium. He was a director and actor, known for Du bout des lèvres (1976), Salt on the Skin (1985) and L'homme au petit chien (1979). He died in 1999.

78. René Féret

Producer | Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart

René Féret, a true filmmaker from the North of France, the region in which he shot all his films. Born in 1945 in La Bassée, he spent his childhood in the small town of Annequin, where the parish priest, a confirmed film buff, awakened his taste for cinema. Féret was first a theater actor (he later...

79. Willard Huyck

Writer | Howard the Duck

Willard Huyck was born on September 8, 1945 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Howard the Duck (1986), American Graffiti (1973) and Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984). He was previously married to Gloria Katz.

80. Bigas Luna

Writer | Jamón Jamón

Bigas Luna was born on March 19, 1946 in Barcelona, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. He was a writer and director, known for Jamón, Jamón (1992), Caniche (1979) and Anguish (1987). He was married to Celia Orós. He died on April 6, 2013 in La Riera de Gaià, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain.

81. Serge Bard

Director | Détruisez-vous

Serge Bard is known for Destroy Yourselves (1968), Fun and Games for Everyone (1968) and Ici et maintenant (1968).

82. Arnold Schwarzenegger

Actor | Terminator 2: Judgment Day

With an almost unpronounceable surname and a thick Austrian accent, who would have ever believed that a brash, quick talking bodybuilder from a small European village would become one of Hollywood's biggest stars, marry into the prestigious Kennedy family, amass a fortune via shrewd investments and...

83. Monica Swinn

Actress | Frauengefängnis

Monica Swinn was born Monika Swuine on September 19, 1948 in Charleroi, Belgium. A graduate of both the IAD - Institut des Arts de Diffusion and the Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Swinn initially started acting on stage in Brussels. Monica's first few films were experimental shorts. Best known for ...

84. Gérard Frot-Coutaz

Writer | Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée

Gérard Frot-Coutaz was born on September 18, 1951 in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, France. He was a writer and assistant director, known for Good Weather, But Stormy Late This Afternoon (1986), Après après-demain (1990) and Archipel des amours (1983). He died on March 12, 1992 in ...

85. Hervé Le Roux

Director | On appelle ça... le printemps

Hervé Le Roux was born on August 21, 1956 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for They Call This... Spring (2001), Grand bonheur (1993) and A quoi pense madame Manet (sur son canapé bleu) (2017). He died on July 26, 2017 in Poitiers, Vienne, France.

86. Lilli Carati

Actress | Senza buccia

Lilli Carati was born on September 23, 1956 in Varese, Lombardy, Italy. She was an actress, known for Skin Deep (1979), A Lustful Mind (1986) and L'alcova (1985). She died on October 20, 2014 in Besano, Lombardy, Italy.

87. Shin'ya Tsukamoto

Actor | Tetsuo

Shin'ya Tsukamoto was born on January 1, 1960 in Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor and director, known for Tetsuo: The Iron Man (1989), Vital (2004) and Tokyo Fist (1995).

88. Takashi Miike

Director | Jûsan-nin no shikaku

Takashi Miike was born in the small town of Yao on the outskirts of Osaka, Japan. His main interest growing up was motorbikes, and for a while he harbored ambitions to race professionally. At the age of 18 he went to study at the film school in Yokohama founded by renowned director Shôhei Imamura, ...

89. Hiroyuki Sanada

Actor | Tasogare Seibei

Hiroyuki Sanada was born on October 12, 1960 in Tokyo. He made his film debut when he was 5 in Rokyoku komori-uta (1965) (Shin'ichi Chiba played the lead role.) His father died when he was 11. He joined Japan Action Club, organized & run by Sonny Chiba, when he was 12. He 1st became famous as an ...

90. Jean-Claude Van Damme

Actor | Double Impact

Van Damme was born Jean-Claude Camille François Van Varenberg in Berchem-Sainte-Agathe, Brussels, Belgium, to Eliana and Eugène Van Varenberg, an accountant. "The Muscles from Brussels" started martial arts at the age of eleven. His father introduced him to martial arts when he saw his son was ...

Un des ultimes aventuriers du cinéma populaire qui restera comme celui qui a introduit à Hollywood les plus grands cinéastes de Hong Kong pour donner naissance à des films génialement mutants, ainsi que l'interprète de "Universal Soldier", véritables allégories des débordements monstrueux de l'impérialisme ricain.

On lui a lourdement fait payer ses choix audacieux par la suite en le mettant au rancart dans des productions fauchées tournées dans des usines bulgares.

91. Sion Sono

Director | Ai no mukidashi

Shion Sono is a Japanese director, writer and poet. Born in Aichi Perfecture in 1961 he started his career working as a poet before taking his first steps in film directing. As a student he shot a series of short films in Super 8 and managed to make his first feature films in the late 80s and early...

92. Hitoshi Matsumoto

Writer | Dai-Nihonjin

Hitoshi Matsumoto and his childhood friend Masatoshi Hamada teamed up as comedy duo Downtown. When they had their own TV shows in late 80s, they became phenomenal pop culture among young Japanese people. Unlike other comedy duos in Japan, they are still together, and they dominate prime time TV ...

93. Satoshi Kon

Writer | Tôkyô goddofâzâzu

Satoshi Kon was born in 1963. He studied at the Musashino College of the Arts. He began his career as a Manga artist. He then moved to animation and worked as a background artist on many films (including Roujin Z (1991) by 'Katsuhiro Otomo'). Then, in 1995, he wrote an episode of the anthology film ...

94. Laurent Achard

Director | Le dernier des fous

Laurent Achard was born on April 17, 1964 in France. He was a director and writer, known for Le dernier des fous (2006), More Than Yesterday (1998) and La peur, petit chasseur (2004). He died on March 25, 2024 in Paris, France.

95. Maggie Cheung

Actress | Fa yeung nin wah

Maggie Cheung was born on September 20, 1964, in Hong Kong, and moved at the age of eight with her family to England. After finishing secondary school, she returned to Hong Kong, where she began modeling and appearing in commercials. In 1983 she participated in the Ms. Hong Kong pageant, winning ...

96. Sandrine Bonnaire

Actress | La cérémonie

Sandrine Bonnaire was born on May 31, 1967 in Gannat, Allier, France. She is an actress and director, known for La Cérémonie (1995), To Our Loves (1983) and Vagabond (1985). She was previously married to Guillaume Laurant.

97. Naomi Watts

Actress | Mulholland Dr.

Naomi Ellen Watts was born on September 28, 1968 in Shoreham, England to Myfanwy Edwards "Miv" (Roberts), an antiques dealer and costume/set designer, and Peter Watts (Peter Anthony Watts), Pink Floyd's road manager. Her maternal grandfather was Welsh. Her father died when she was seven and she ...

98. Lumi Cavazos

Actress | Como agua para chocolate

Born Luz Maria Cavazos in the northern Mexican city of Monterrey, she moved with her family to Guadalajara when she was 7 years old. At the age of 15 she was bitten by the acting bug, which led her to join a theater group while still finishing her high school years. At 19 she moved to Mexico City ...

99. Peter Strickland

Director | Katalin Varga

Peter Strickland was born in 1973 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK. He is a director and writer, known for Katalin Varga (2009), In Fabric (2018) and Berberian Sound Studio (2012).

100. Mia Hansen-Løve

Director | L'avenir

Cinema came into Mia Hansen-Løve's life when she was seventeen, as Olivier Assayas made her start as an actress in Late August, Early September (1998). Two years later, he gave her the part of "Aline" in his Les Destinées (2000). Their artistic collaboration was coupled by a union in real ...