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After this massive undertaking, Beatty seemed to work less and less. But his later turns as director-star reveal an artist still looking to expand his range and forge new paths, with the colorfully stylized comic noir Dick Tracy and the deceptively twisted political satire Bulworth. With Easy Rider , all that changed, as he became a poster child for the counterculture. Then, with his subsequent effort The Last Movie , improvised in Peru with the help of what appears to have been a truckload of drugs, he became a poster child of a different kind — a cautionary tale of excess both artistic and personal.

Hopper did go on to direct more films, including the excellent, underseen coming-of-age film Out of the Blue. Barbra Streisand Streisand spent more than a decade being told she was too old to play the lead in Yentl before she played the lead in Yentl. Already a massive, Oscar-winning celebrity, she had proven her range long ago. Yentl allowed her to demonstrate not just her directing chops, but also a keen understanding of her own star power. Of course, she got dinged by some pundits for her vanity, which is the kind of accusation that was leveled at her throughout her career.

Olivier doing Shakespeare seems like a no-brainer; the actor had gained enormous acclaim on the stage. But he was initially reluctant to take such classics before the cameras, in part because his previous forays into Shakespeare on film under other directors had been frustrating, at times even disastrous.

He need not have worried: His work as a director and actor in these pictures set a new standard. The result was pure cinema. It could be argued that what truly made Jerry Lewis the actor was Jerry Lewis the director. And, like a true auteur, he left behind one very mysterious, much-speculated-about work, The Day the Clown Cried , a Holocaust comedy that he himself deemed unreleasable and which has yet to see the light of day.

Jackie Chan Chan once did 15 different jobs on one movie — an actual world record — and he may still be the hardest-working man in show business.

His older brother, Dan, was born in A middle Actor Cape Fear. He was trained Actor Million Dollar Baby. He had a comfortable, middle-class upbringing in nearby Piedmont. At school Writer Faustrecht der Freiheit. Above all, Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a rebel whose life and art was marked by gross contradiction.

Openly homosexual, he married twice; one of his wives acted in his films and the other served as his editor. Accused variously by detractors of being anticommunist, male chauvinist, antiSemitic and Producer Chef. The amiable, husky-framed actor with the Actor Braveheart. His mother was Irish, from County Longford, while his American-born father is Director Psycho. His parents were both of half English and half Irish ancestry.

He had two older siblings, William Hitchcock born and Sir Peter Jackson made history with The Lord of the Rings trilogy, becoming the first person to direct three major feature films simultaneously. Alejandro Jodorowsky was born in Tocopilla, Chile on February 17, In he moved to Santiago where he attended university, was a circus clown and a puppeteer.

In he went to Paris and studied mime with Marcel Marceau. He worked with Maurice Chevalier there and made a short film, La Producer Her. Spike Jonze made up one-third along with Andy Jenkins and Mark Lewman of the triumvirate of genius minds behind Dirt Magazine, the brother publication of the much lamented ground-breaking Sassy Magazine. These three uncommon characters were all editors for Grand Royal Magazine as well, under the Director Do the Right Thing. At a very young age, he moved from pre-civil rights Georgia, to Brooklyn, New York.

Lee came from artistic, education-grounded background; his father was a jazz musician, and his mother, a schoolteacher. He attended Pulp Fiction is a cult classic, loved by fans of Tarantino's style and genre of filmmaking. His cameos are even better, though, playing characters that have a prominent role in the movie. When Vincent and Jules need a place to hide a body, they call their friend Jimmy who is played by none other than the director himself, Quentin Tarantino. Needless to say, Jimmy wasn't too happy with the body, but at least he makes a great cup of coffee.

The Lord of the Rings is one of the most ambitious movie trilogies ever made, with daring CGI, stunts, and sets that still shock audiences with excitement today. The man behind it all, well the camera that is, made a quick appearance in both The Lord of the Rings trilogy and The Hobbit.

However, this list will highlight his original debut, found in Fellowship of the Rings as a drunken man with a carrot. The scene moves quickly as Frodo and co. The third entry of the Thor trilogy took the series in a new direction with the help of director Taika Waitti. His work was praised by fans and critics alike, with most laughing at the cameo by the director himself. Much of his work as an actor appear as uncredited cameos in his own films.

If you pay close attention you might catch him as the silhouette of a passenger in Taxi Driver or as Jimmy Shorts in Mean Streets. He was the European visitor in Silence. Scorsese also does many uncredited voice roles like the Court Usher in The Irishman. Clint Eastwood rose to fame as an actor in the Western tv series, Rawhide. He later went on to become noted for his role as Harry Callahan. Besides being one of Hollywood's most recognized male actors, he is also a renowned director.

He directed the films Mystic River and Changeling. Eastwood couldn't help but also appear in many of the films he directed. In , he directed Heartbreak Ridge where he also played the role of Gunnery Sgt. He also starred and directed the films Gran Torino and The Mule. Film fans have Steven Spielberg to thank for bringing to the big-screen the films E. Spielberg is a director who also gets a kick out of appearing in small cameos in his films. In Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, he's in the background as a tourist at the airport.

He also appears in films he produced instead of directed like Gremlins.



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