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List of Jewish American film directors
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Film directors
- Jim Abrahams, parody director
- J.J. Abrams, writer and director
- Alexander Wraith, actor, writer and director
- Woody Allen (born 1935), see "Actors" above
- Judd Apatow (born 1968), screenwriter, film/TV producer[1]
- Alan Arkin (born 1934), Academy Award-nominated film actor, director[2][3]
- Jack Arnold, director
- Darren Aronofsky (born 1969), film director, screenwriter and producer[4]
- George Axelrod, director, producer and screenwriter
- Ralph Bakshi, Israeli-born animation film director, screenwriter, and animator.
- Bob Balaban, director and producer
- Richard Benjamin (born 1938), actor/film director[3]
- Andrew Bergman, director
- Edward Bernds, director of Three Stooges and Blondie films
- Curtis Bernhardt, German-born director and producer
- Peter Bogdanovich, director (Jewish mother)
- Zach Braff (born 1975), film/TV actor, director, screenwriter, and producer[5][6]
- Kevin Bright, director, screenwriter, and executive producer
- James L. Brooks, Oscar-winning director, writer, producer
- Mel Brooks, see "Actors" above
- Richard Brooks, director
- Edward Cahn, director of Our Gang from 1939–43
- William Castle, director
- Ethan & Joel Coen (AKA the Coen brothers), directors, screenwriters & producers
- Rob Cohen, director, producer
- Ricardo Cortez, director and actor; brother of Stanley Cortez
- David Cronenberg, film maker, director, screenwriter, and actor.
- George Cukor, Oscar-winning director.
- Michael Curtiz, Oscar-winning director.
- Paul Czinner, Hungarian-born director.
- Jules Dassin, director
- Larry David, see "Actors" above
- Andrew Davis, director
- Cecil B. DeMille, Academy Award-winning film director and producer[7]
- Maya Deren, director
- Henri Diamant-Berger, French-born director, producer and screenwriter
- Stanley Donen, film director and choreographer
- Richard Elfman, director
- Nora Ephron, film director, producer, screenwriter, novelist, journalist, author
- Douglas Fairbanks see "Actors" above
- Max Fleischer, animator, director, producer, inventor, and a major pioneer in the development of the animated cartoon; served as the head of Fleischer Studios
- Richard Fleischer, director; son of animator Max Fleischer
- Isaac Florentine, director
- Miloš Forman film director, screenwriter, actor and professor
- Carl Foreman, director, producer and screenwriter
- William Friedkin, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, producer
- Samuel Fuller, director
- Lee Grant (born 1927), see "Actors" above
- Christopher Guest (born 1948), see "Actors" above[8][9]
- Charles Guggenheim, Oscar-winning documentary director
- Todd Haynes, director
- Amy Heckerling, director and screenwriter
- Peter Hyams, director
- Garson Kanin, director, screenwriter and playwright
- Lawrence Kasdan, director
- Jeffrey Katzenberg (born 1950), film producer, director and co-founder of DreamWorks SKG[10]
- Philip Kaufman, director, screenwriter
- Tony Kaye, director of films, music videos and documentaries; directed the film American History X
- Irvin Kershner, film director
- Zalman King, director
- Harmony Korine, independent film director, screenwriter, producer
- Henry Koster, director
- Stanley Kramer, director[11]
- Stanley Kubrick, film director, screenwriter, producer, photographer of films
- John Landis (born 1950), movie actor, director, writer, and producer[12]
- Fritz Lang, film director, screenwriter, and producer
- Norman Lear, creator, head screenwriter and producer
- Mimi Leder, director
- Mervyn LeRoy, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, and producer
- Richard Lester, director
- Barry Levinson, Oscar-winning director
- Shuki Levy, singer-songwriter, composer, TV writer, director, and executive producer
- Jerry Lewis (born 1926), see "Actors" above[3]
- Anatole Litvak, Russian-born director
- Siegmund Lubin, director
- Ernst Lubitsch, director
- Sidney Lumet, director
- Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Oscar-winning director
- Tom Mankiewicz, director and screenwriter; son of Joseph L. Mankiewicz
- Daniel Mann, director
- Michael Mann, film director, screenwriter, producer[13]
- Stuart Margolin, director and actor
- Elaine May, see "Actors" above
- Paul Mazursky (born 1930), see "Actors" above[14]
- Albert and David Maysles, documentary filmmakers
- Sam Mendes, filmmaker, director, producer
- Nancy Meyers, director, screenwriter
- Lewis Milestone, Oscar-winning director
- Sam Newfield, TV & film director
- Mike Nichols (born 1931), Emmy, Grammy, Tony and Academy Award-winning film and stage director[3]
- Leonard Nimoy, film director, actor, writer, singer, songwriter, poet, and photographer
- Ken Olin (born 1954), see "Actors" above[15]
- Marcel Ophüls, director; son of director Max Ophüls
- Richard Oswald, German-born director and producer
- Alan J. Pakula, Oscar-winning director, producer
- Arthur Penn, director
- Leo Penn, director
- Abraham Polonsky, director
- Sydney Pollack, Oscar-winning director, actor, producer
- Otto Preminger, director
- Sam Raimi, director
- Harold Ramis, director, writer, producer, actor
- Irving Rapper (1898–1999), British-born film director[16]
- Brett Ratner, director
- Carl Reiner, see "Actors" above
- Rob Reiner (born 1947), see "Actors" above
- Ron Rifkin (born 1939), actor, director[15]
- Martin Ritt, director
- Jay Roach, director
- Jerome Robbins, Oscar-winning director, and choreographer and filmmaker
- Herbert Ross, director
- Robert Rossen, director, screenwriter
- Eli Roth (born 1972), film actor, director, producer and writer[17]
- Joe Roth, director, producer and executive
- Joel Schumacher, director (Jewish mother)
- Sam Seder (born 1966), see "Actors" above
- Adam Shankman, director, choreographer
- George Sidney (1916–2002), film director, known for MGM films[3]
- Don Siegel, director
- Bryan Singer, director and producer
- Robert Siodmak, German-born director
- Todd Solondz, director
- Barry Sonnenfeld, director[18]
- Steven Spielberg, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, producer
- Josef von Sternberg, Austrian-born director (The Blue Angel)
- Oliver Stone, Oscar-winning film director and screenwriter
- Paul Strand, documentary director
- Erich von Stroheim, see "Actors" above
- James Toback, director, screenwriter and producer
- Edgar G. Ulmer, director
- Chris Weitz and Paul Weitz, director brothers known for American Pie
- Billy Wilder, Oscar-winning director, screenwriter, and producer, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films
- Irwin Winkler, director
- Frederick Wiseman, documentary director
- William Wyler, Oscar-winning director
- Boaz Yakin, director
- Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born Oscar-winning director
- David Zucker & Jerry Zucker (born 1950), parody directors, producers[19]
- Edward Zwick, director, producer
- Terry Zwigoff, director
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- ↑ Katzenberg — www.jewishaz.com
- ↑ www.adherents.com. www.adherents.com (2005-07-28). Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ↑ Landis — www.thedigitalbits.com
- ↑ Xan Brooks. film.guardian.co.uk. film.guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ↑ Farber, Stephen (December 31, 2006). "A Night in Hollywood, a Day in Ukraine". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/movies/31farb.html?_r=1&ref=world&oref=slogin. Retrieved December 31, 2006.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 Elkin, Michael (December 21, 2006). "Jewish Jingle Belles?". The Jewish Exponent. http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/11643/. Retrieved December 22, 2006.
- ↑ "Irving Rapper, the Oscar-winning American-Jewish film director". Jewish Chronicle. February 10, 1961. p. 30.
- ↑ Fischer, Paul (September 2, 2003). "Eli Roth Has The Fever". Film Monthly. http://www.filmmonthly.com/Profiles/Articles/ERoth/ERoth.html. Retrieved January 7, 2007.
- ↑ tv.yahoo.com. tv.yahoo.com (1953-04-01). Retrieved on 2011-05-25.
- ↑ Zucker — www.jewishjournal.com
