His father managed a construction company. Carl Reiner was on The Dick Van Dyke Show, which he created and also starred in.... Joseph Frank Keaton was born on October 4, 1895 in Piqua, Kansas, to Joe Keaton and Myra Keaton. After seven independent productions he had his first success with Sisters (1972) and his voyeuristic style. He was married to Nancy Hughes. Ang graduated from the National Taiwan College of Arts in 1975 and then came to the U.S. to receive a B.F.A. BAFTA Nominations: 5 During his late teen years, he went to Thomas Downey High School and was very much interested in drag racing. Jacques Audiard's family has always been involved in movie business. Golden Globe Nominations: 2. John Ford came to Hollywood following one of his brothers, an actor. Golden Globes: 0 Classics: The Shining, A Clockwork Orange, Full Metal Jacket, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stopped Worrying and Love the Bomb, Eyes Wide Shut, Paths of Glory, The Killing, SpartacusScore = 9. ... Jim Sheridan is a master story-teller, and an acclaimed film director. 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 ... Don Siegel was educated at Cambridge University, England. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World. David Owen Russell is an American film writer, director, and producer, known for a cinema of intense, tragi-comedic characters whose love of life can surpass dark circumstances faced in very specific worlds. BAFTA Awards: 0 The son of Elsie Ellen, a dressmaker, and William Leslie Parker, a house painter, Alan Parker was a London advertising copywriter in the 1960s and early 1970s with Collett Dickenson Pearce (CDP), an ad agency. He has been married to Brenda Rawn since June 30, 2004. ... Born Lester Anthony Minnelli in Chicago on February 28 1903, his father Vincent was a musical conductor of the Minnelli Brothers' Tent Theater. His father, Tony Tarantino, is an Italian-American actor and musician from New York, and his mother, Connie (McHugh), is a nurse from Tennessee. - Horror A student of London's International Film School, Michael Mann began his career in the late 70s, writing for TV shows like Starsky and Hutch (1975). He loved movies and his favorite actor was Robert Mitchum. He is a director and writer, known for Secrets & Lies (1996), Happy-Go-Lucky (2008) and Another Year (2010). The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring. His father was of Russian Jewish descent, and his maternal grandparents were Austrian Jewish immigrants. The last decade is where most of them belong. He had to compromise with his father and keep the account books for the family tailor business while he acted in cabarets and music halls at ... Jonathan Demme was born on February 22, 1944 in Baldwin, Long Island, New York, USA as Robert Jonathan Demme. - Fantasy Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace. Growing up, Darren was always artistic: he loved classic movies and, as a teenager, he even spent time doing graffiti art. His father, Carmine Coppola, was a composer and musician. Peter Weir was born on August 21, 1944 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia as Peter Lindsay Weir. Oscar Nominations: 14 He died... Alejandro González Iñárritu (ih-nyar-ee-too), born August 15th, 1963, is a Mexican film director.González Iñárritu is the first Mexican director to be nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and by the Directors Guild of America for Best Director.