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Ben Affleck
Film Actor, Television Producer, Screenwriter / 1972 -
Ben Affleck is known for co-writing and acting in Good Will Hunting, starring in Armageddon, and directing, co-producing and acting in Argo.
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(1972-)
Film Actor, Television Producer, Screenwriter
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Woody Allen
Actor, Director, Screenwriter / 1935 -
Woody Allen is an American comedian, filmmaker and writer who directed and starred in two of his most famous films, Annie Hall and Manhattan.
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(1935-)
Actor, Director, Screenwriter
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Bernardo Bertolucci
Director / 1940 -
Bernardo Bertolucci is an Italian director best known for his controversial Last Tango in Paris and the academy award winning The Last Emperor.
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(1940-)
Director
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James L. Brooks
Director, Producer, Television Producer, Screenwriter / 1940 -
James L. Brooks is an American director, producer and screenwriter, best-known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda and Taxi.
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(1940-)
Director, Producer, Television Producer, Screenwriter
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Mel Brooks
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Comedian, Director, Producer, Television Producer, Screenwriter / 1926 -
Mel Brooks is an iconic filmmaker known for comedies like The Producers, Blazing Saddles and Young Frankenstein, among other works.
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(1926-)
Film Actor, Theater Actor, Television Actor, Comedian, Director, Producer, Television Producer, Screenwriter
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Jane Campion
Director, Screenwriter / 1954 -
Jane Campion is a New Zealand film director and writer who won an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for The Piano in 1993. She also directed Bright Star.
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(1954-)
Director, Screenwriter
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Ethan Coen
Director, Screenwriter / 1957 -
Screenwriter Ethan Coen and his brother have written numerous award-winning films including Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, Fargo, and No Country for Old Men.
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(1957-)
Director, Screenwriter
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Joel Coen
Director, Screenwriter / 1954 -
Director Joel Coen and his brother made their screen debut in 1984 with the first of many films dedicated to a filmmaking style that is notably eccentric.
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(1954-)
Director, Screenwriter
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Francis Ford Coppola
Director, Producer, Screenwriter / 1939 -
Director, producer and screenwriter Francis Ford Coppola is best known for creating The Godfather film series starring Marlon Brando and Al Pacino.
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(1939-)
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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Sofia Coppola
Actress, Director, Producer, Screenwriter / 1971 -
Sofia Coppola is a film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. She directed The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation, winning an Oscar for the latter.
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(1971-)
Actress, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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Cameron Crowe
Director, Journalist, Screenwriter / 1957 -
Director Cameron Crowe began writing for Rolling Stone at age 16, an experience that would later inspire his Oscar-winning screenplay Almost Famous.
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(1957-)
Director, Journalist, Screenwriter
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Matt Damon
Film Actor / 1970 -
Matt Damon is an American actor and Academy Award-winning screenwriter for his work on Good Will Hunting. He plays Jason Bourne in the hit film series.
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(1970-)
Film Actor
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I.A.L. Diamond
Screenwriter / 1920 - 1988
I.A.L. Diamond was a Romanian-born American screenwriter who worked extensively with director Bill Wilder.
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(1920-1988)
Screenwriter
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John Huston
Film Actor, Director / 1906 - 1987
American motion-picture director whose taut dramas, including The Maltese Falcon, were some of the most popular films from the 1940s on.
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(1906-1987)
Film Actor, Director
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William Ralph Inge
Playwright, Screenwriter / 1913 - 1973
William Inge was a playwright best known for his plays Come Back, Little Sheba; Picnic, for which he won a Pulitzer Prize; and Bus Stop.
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(1913-1973)
Playwright, Screenwriter
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John Irving
Educator, Author / 1942 -
Award-winning, bestselling American novelist John Irving is known for works like The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp.
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(1942-)
Educator, Author
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Peter Jackson
Director, Producer / 1961 -
New Zealand native Peter Jackson is best known as a director for his adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy, which has won 11 Oscars.
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(1961-)
Director, Producer
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Herman J. Mankiewicz
Journalist, Playwright, Screenwriter / 1897 - 1953
Herman J. Mankiewicz was a journalist and screenwriter who won an Academy Award for his work on the film Citizen Kane.
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(1897-1953)
Journalist, Playwright, Screenwriter
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Director, Producer, Screenwriter / 1909 - 1993
American producer, director and screenwriter Joseph L. Mankiewicz was known for creating memorable characters. He worked with many major Hollywood stars.
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(1909-1993)
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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Frances Marion
Screenwriter / 1888 - 1973
Screenwriter Frances Marion wrote more than 100 scripts during her career. She won Academy Awards for The Champ and The Big House.
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(1888-1973)
Screenwriter
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Larry McMurtry
Author, Screenwriter / 1936 -
Writer Larry McMurtry is noted for his novels set on the frontier, in contemporary small towns, and in increasingly urbanized and industrial areas of Texas.
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(1936-)
Author, Screenwriter
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John Osborne
Theater Actor, Producer, Playwright / 1929 - 1994
British playwright John Osborne's Look Back in Anger ushered in a new movement in British drama and made him known as the first of the "Angry Young Men."
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(1929-1994)
Theater Actor, Producer, Playwright
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Mario Puzo
Author, Screenwriter / 1920 - 1999
Mario Puzo became famous when he adapted his novel The Godfather into a screenplay for director Francis Ford Coppola in the 1960s.
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(1920-1999)
Author, Screenwriter
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Peter Shaffer
Playwright / 1926 -
Peter Shaffer is a British playwright, the author of several award-winning plays - some of which were adapted for the screen, including Five Finger Exercise.
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(1926-)
Playwright
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George Bernard Shaw
Author, Playwright / 1856 - 1950
Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw wrote more than 60 plays during his lifetime, which earned him a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925.
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(1856-1950)
Author, Playwright
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Sidney Sheldon
Author, Screenwriter / 1917 - 2007
Sidney Sheldon was a best-selling novelist who won Oscar, Tony and Emmy awards for his work on the stage and screen.
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(1917-2007)
Author, Screenwriter
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Oliver Stone
Director, Screenwriter / 1946 -
Oscar-winning screenwriter and director Oliver Stone is responsible for the hit films Platoon, Scarface, Born on the Fourth of July and Natural Born Killers.
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(1946-)
Director, Screenwriter
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Tom Stoppard
Author, Playwright, Screenwriter / 1937 -
Sir Tom Stoppard is a Czech-born British playwright whose famous works include Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1964) and Every Good Boy Deserves Favour (1978). He co-wrote the screenplay for the 1998 Academy Award winning film Shakespeare in Love.
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(1937-)
Author, Playwright, Screenwriter
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Preston Sturges
Director, Playwright, Screenwriter / 1898 - 1959
Preston Sturges is regarded as the first Hollywood figure to successfully move from screenwriting to directing his own scripts.
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(1898-1959)
Director, Playwright, Screenwriter
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Quentin Tarantino
Film Actor, Television Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter / 1963 -
Quentin Tarantino jolted onto the Hollywood scene with his screenplay for True Romance, before directing the early 1990s films Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
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(1963-)
Film Actor, Television Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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Emma Thompson
Actress / 1959 -
Academy Award–winning actress Emma Thompson starred in films like Howards End, Sense and Sensibility and Nanny McPhee.
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(1959-)
Actress
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Billy Bob Thornton
Film Actor, Director / 1955 -
Billy Bob Thornton is an actor who has appeared in such films as Monster's Ball and who wrote, directed, and starred in Sling Blade.
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(1955-)
Film Actor, Director
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Orson Welles
Film Actor, Director / 1915 - 1985
Orson Welles wrote, directed and starred in the film Citizen Kane, among others, which remains one of the most influential films ever made.
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(1915-1985)
Film Actor, Director
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Billy Wilder
Director, Producer / 1906 - 2002
Billy Wilder is best known for the many films he directed and produced, like Some Like It Hot.
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(1906-2002)
Director, Producer