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Post by london777 on Apr 22, 2017 1:06:23 GMT
You need to define "actor" or this will soon get silly. I reckon half of listed directors will also have acting credits. Most of these will be small parts and quite a lot are just vanity cameos. If you do not eliminate these, the list will run to literally thousands. With small indie companies and many third world companies, it is almost the norm for the directors to take a part, either to set an example or to save money or to advertise themselves.
I know had I ever directed a movie, I would have wanted my mum to see me.
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Post by london777 on Apr 22, 2017 1:15:45 GMT
One guy you strangely omitted who takes leading roles and who writes most of the films he directs is Woody Allen.
Kenneth Lonergan is a writer/director and professional actor, but he has not yet made it big in the last category.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 1:21:30 GMT
A number of actors have one "vanity project" credit
Robert Mitchum gets a story credit on Thunder Road. Before entering films he had written the text for an oratorio (whatever that is) that was performed at the Hollywood Bowl. Around the same time he apparently wrote a play that was critiqued by no less than Eugene O'Neill; Mitchum said the playscript was covered in O'Neill's handwritten comments
Jack Nicholson co-wrote the script of the Monkees movie Head and the cult western Ride In The Whirlwind. He definitely showed some talent for it, don't know why he chose not to pursue it after he became a star.
Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen got story credit for Take Me Out To The Ball Game, while John Gilbert got same for Downstairs. I think Gilbert may have started in Hollywood as a writer.
Burt Lancaster co-wrote The Midnight Man.
Alec Guinness scripted The Horse's Mouth
Errol Flynn fancied himself a writer and got a script credit on The Adventures of Captain Fabian
Tough guy Leo Gordon wrote a number of TV western scripts as well as the WWII actioner Tobruk
I heard a podcast with character actor L.Q. Jones where he claimed to have written 20% of Battle Cry (1955), and that he went on to have a second career as a script polisher, especially for TV westerns. But he has only two official script credits.
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 22, 2017 1:31:21 GMT
Well, lemme see...
Carrie Fisher, who, in addition to her multiple credited works, was an in-demand, uncredited script doctor
Character actor James Gleason did the same (before the term was coined) in addition to credits for dialogue or story in the first decade of talkies
The Reiners, of course: Carl and son Rob
Steve Martin, nearly as prolific for writing as acting
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 1:45:23 GMT
Character actor James Gleason did the same (before the term was coined) in addition to credits for dialogue or story in the first decade of talkies If I remember my Halliwell, Robert Keith worked on some scripts in the early '30s, but did not act in films until the late '40s |
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Post by wmcclain on Apr 22, 2017 2:05:51 GMT
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Post by camimac on Apr 22, 2017 2:07:27 GMT
Sean Penn, Sylvester Stallone for a couple
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Post by Doghouse6 on Apr 22, 2017 2:30:35 GMT
Character actor James Gleason did the same (before the term was coined) in addition to credits for dialogue or story in the first decade of talkies If I remember my Halliwell, Robert Keith worked on some scripts in the early '30s, but did not act in films until the late '40s Neat! I don't recall having ever been aware of that. And I'd been seeing him in films for years before I learned he was Brian's father. Beyond the squareness of their faces and jaws, and perhaps some commonality of voice timbre, there isn't especially striking resemblance between the balding, diminutive and almost birdlike Robert and the burly, gravelly Brian, whose demeanor can be almost Wallace Beery-esque. Scrutinizing the two since, it's been fun to spot little similarities that become apparent here or there. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 2:48:43 GMT
If I remember my Halliwell, Robert Keith worked on some scripts in the early '30s, but did not act in films until the late '40s Neat! I don't recall having ever been aware of that. And I'd been seeing him in films for years before I learned he was Brian's father. Beyond the squareness of their faces and jaws, and perhaps some commonality of voice timbre, there isn't especially striking resemblance between the balding, diminutive and almost birdlike Robert and the burly, gravelly Brian, whose demeanor can be almost Wallace Beery-esque. Scrutinizing the two since, it's been fun to spot little similarities that become apparent here or there.    |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 3:01:47 GMT
Character actor John Crawford, notable for his invariably dubious toupees, as well as co-writing The Ballad Of Cable Hogue.  Hampton Fancher was a ubiquitous juvenile on '60s TV, but today is best-known for writing the first draft script for Blade Runner and receiving a co-writer credit -- but, he insists, no money.  Rovert Culp got some TV script credits in the '60s. I don't know if he ever wrote a feature. |
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Post by Fox in the Snow on Apr 22, 2017 4:22:18 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Apr 22, 2017 4:35:50 GMT
STEVE BUSCEMI - directed the wonderful LONESOME JIM.
JOHNNY DEPP - co-wrote and directed the underrated THE BRAVE.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 4:44:41 GMT
with a few exceptions I wouldn't consider these to be serious career writers - more like vanity projects, as you say, or one-offs, as I might say. And unless a writer has a serious career already in place, I don't put much stock into a "story by" credit. I didn't mean to imply everyone I listed was involved in a vanity project. I would use that term to describe Anthony Newley's Hieronymous Merkin or Richard Pryor's Jo Jo Dancer (Pryor has at least one other credit of course -- Blazing Saddles). Thunder Road was a very personal project for Mitchum; we can debate if it was "vanity". He co-produced, co-wrote the story, and co-wrote the theme song -- the music is based on a Norwegian folk song his Norwegian mother sang to him as a child. |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Apr 22, 2017 4:49:45 GMT
Nikita Mikhalkov Russian Director (27credits) Actor (48 credits) Writer (20 credits)... was destined for a distinguished artistic career, both his parents were poets, his father in particular was a popular, highly gifted & honoured Russian author. Mikhalkov first major starring role was in the 1964 film Walking the Streets of Moscow
Nikita Mikhalkov's most notable international success has been Utomlennye solntsem , Burnt by the Sun (1994) in which he acted directed and wrote, the excellent film won the Grand Prize at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and many other honours.
two other highly recommended films from many choices, are...
Svoy sredi chuzhikh, chuzhoy sredi svoikh , At Home Among Strangers, a Stranger Among His Own (1974) Mikhalkov directed acted and written by this was his debut feature as director.
Neokonchennaya pyesa dlya mekhanicheskogo pianino , Unfinished Piece for the Player Piano (1977) Mikhalkov directed acted and wrote adapting from an Anton Chekov play.
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Post by hi224 on Apr 22, 2017 5:13:30 GMT
Justin theroux, jay baruchel, dan fogelman possibly.
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Post by hi224 on Apr 22, 2017 5:24:34 GMT
Justin theroux, jay baruchel, dan fogelman possibly. Yes, to Theroux, and yes to Baruchel, though he's just getting started. No to Fogelman, because he's not an actor. But you've reminded me of another actor turned writer who's very substantial: Dan Futterman, who wrote Capote and Foxcatcher, among some television series, after a long and continuing career as an actor. Yeah I actually meant Futterman my bad from Birdcage. |
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Post by fangirl1975 on Apr 22, 2017 17:33:50 GMT
Clark Gregg has written some indies. His major writing credit is the Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer starring supernatural thriller What Lies Beneath.
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Post by mattgarth on Apr 22, 2017 17:47:36 GMT
And then there's Tom Tryon -- journeyman actor who got a big career break and the bad luck to be cast in the lead title role in the big-budget religious epic THE CARDINAL. Directed by bullying Otto Preminger, the actor had to work with him again two years later in IN HARM'S WAY. Both pictures were such a miserable working experience that it soured him on acting, and so Tom turned to writing and hit it big with his first novel 'The Other,' a best seller that was quickly optioned for a film to be directed by Robert Mulligan -- with Tryon doing the screenplay. Other novels and film versions followed.
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Post by telegonus on Apr 22, 2017 17:54:32 GMT
William D. Gordon, a fairly obscure mostly TV actor of the Fifties-Sixties period wrote a good number of script for TV shows of that era as well.
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Post by Richard Kimble on Apr 22, 2017 18:44:23 GMT
 Alan Caillou was the nom de plume of Alan Samuel Lyle-Smythe M.B.E., M.C. (9 November 1914 – 1 October 2006), an English born author, actor, screenwriter, soldier, policeman and professional hunter. Alan Lyle-Smythe was born in Surrey, England. Prior to World War II he served with the Palestine Police from 1936 to 1939, where he learned the Arabic language. He was awarded an MBE in June 1938. He married Aliza Sverdova in 1939, then studied acting from 1939–1941. In January 1940, Lyle-Smythe was commissioned in the Royal Army Service Corps. Due to his linguistic skills, he transferred to the Intelligence Corps and served in the Western Desert where he used the surname "Caillou" (the French word for 'stone') as an alias. He was captured in North Africa, imprisoned and threatened with execution in Italy, then escaped to join the British forces at Salerno. He was then posted to serve with the partisans in Yugoslavia. He wrote about his experiences in the book The World is Six Feet Square (1954). He was promoted to Captain and awarded the Military Cross in 1944. Following the war he returned to the Palestine Police from 1946 to 1947 then served as a Police Commissioner in British occupied Italian Somaliland from 1947 to 1952 where he was recommissioned a Captain. After work as a District Officer in Somalia and professional hunter, Lyle-Smythe travelled to Canada, where he worked as a hunter and then became an actor on Canadian television. He wrote his first novel, Rogue's Gambit, in 1955, first using the name of Caillou; one of his aliases during the war. Moving from Vancouver to Hollywood, he made an appearance as a contestant on 23 January 1958 edition of You Bet Your Life. This was followed by many appearances as an actor as well as a screenwriter in such shows as Daktari, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (including the screenwriting for "The Bow-Wow Affair" from 1965), Thriller, Daniel Boone, Quark, where he played "The Head", Centennial and How the West Was Won, as well as television movies such as Sole Survivor (1970), The Hound of the Baskervilles (1972, as Inspector Lestrade), and Goliath Awaits (1981). His cinema film credits included roles in Five Weeks in a Balloon (1962), Clarence, the Cross-Eyed Lion (1965), The Rare Breed (1966), The Devil's Brigade (1968), Hellfighters (1968), Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) (1972), Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo (1977), Beyond Evil (1980), The Sword and the Sorcerer (1982) and The Ice Pirates (1984). Caillou wrote a variety of 52 paperback thrillers under his own name and a nom de plume of Alex Webb with such heroes as Cabot Cain, Colonel Matthew Tobin, Mike Benasque, Ian Quayle and Josh Dekker as well as writing many magazine stories. He also wrote books under female names. Several of Caillou's novels were filmed, such as Rampage with Robert Mitchum in 1963 based on his big game hunting knowledge, Assault on Agathon with Nico Minardos as Cabot Cain for which Caillou did the screenplay as well, and The Cheetahs, filmed in 1989. |
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