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Post by spiderwort on Nov 16, 2017 4:40:51 GMT
I swear I did a thread like this once, but I've looked and looked and looked and can't find it. Please forgive if this is a repeat (likely to be). A few of the greats: Elia Kazan, Ingmar Bergman, Vittorio De Sica, John Ford, and Mike NicholsThen some less prominent ones (many of whom ended up directing television), but interesting just to ponder (for me anyway): Don TaylorGregory RatoffRichard WhorfRichard ThorpeDavid ButlerThere are so many more, I know, so feel free to add any others you wish (and if anyone can find my other thread, please post it here!). |
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 16, 2017 4:48:22 GMT
Robert Redford and Clint Eastwood – better directors than actors?
Brando directed One-Eyed Jacks.
Laughton directed Night of the Hunter.
Gene Kelly directed a few, including Guide for the Married Man.
Raoul Walsh played John Wilkes Booth in Birth of a Nation.
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 16, 2017 6:34:41 GMT
Dick Powell:
SPLIT SECOND
THE ENEMY BELOW
(his two best)
(also)
THE CONQUEROR
YOU CAN'T RUN AWAY FROM IT
THE HUNTERS
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Post by teleadm on Nov 16, 2017 18:47:49 GMT
Maybe not the most well known... Jerome Courtland, acting in movies since the mid 1940s, turned to directing in the late 1960's, though mostly TV productions and serials, he did direct the Disney cinema movie Run, Cougar, Run 1972. Occasionally also doing acting jobs. Don Taylor, acting in movies since the mid 1940s, begun directing in the mid 1950s, in the beginning mostly for TV, but later also movies for cinemas, beginning with Everything's Ducky 1961. later movies include Ride the Wild Surf 1964, Damien: Omen II 1978 and The Final Countdown 1980. Occasionally also doing acting jobs. Alf Kjellin (Hollywood renamed him Christopher Kent for awhile), acting in movies since the late 1930s, begun directing in the mid 1950's though in America he mostly directed TV episodes beginning in the mid 1960s, such as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Dr. Kildare, The Man from UNCLE, Gunsmoke, Hawaii Five-O, The Waltons and Dynasty. Occasionally also doing acting jobs.  Jerome Courtland  Don Talor  Alf Kjellin |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 16, 2017 19:26:38 GMT
After that, the first Hollywood actress turned director that I'm aware is Karen Arthur, who made a couple of features in the mid-seventies, Elaine May directed A New Leaf (1971): Kazan's actress wife Barbara Loden directed a low budget film called Wanda around 1970 Not an actress, but Stephanie Rothman directed some Corman-produced cheapies as early as 1967 ( It's A Bikini World) and the later cult classic Terminal Island (1974). |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 16, 2017 19:28:59 GMT
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 16, 2017 19:30:36 GMT
Sam Peckinpah as a meter reader in Invasion of The Body Snatchers |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 16, 2017 19:32:27 GMT
William Conrad, Joseph Pevney, and John Garfield in Body and Soul Pevney on the set of Star Trek |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 16, 2017 19:37:00 GMT
Norman Foster, Janet Gaynor, Louise Dresser, and Will Rogers in State Fair Foster is credited with directing Journey Into Fear, but how much of that is his and how much is Orson's is anybody's guess. Whoever directed, it's a mess. Foster's best film is probably Rachel And The Stranger. |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 16, 2017 19:40:27 GMT
From left: Bobby Jordan, Norman Abbott (Bud's nephew), Gabriel Dell and Huntz Hall in 1943's Keep 'Em Slugging. Norman would become a television director, helming many series episodes at his uncle's home studio Universal.  |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 16, 2017 19:46:32 GMT
Gordon Douglas was featured in the "Boy Friends" series of shorts for producer Hal Roach. Here he is in The Knockout (1932):   Roach appointed Douglas to direct shorts for the studio:  Douglas would go on to features, becoming virtually the house director for Frank Sinatra in the '60s (allegedly due to his willingness to shoot only one or two takes of a scene, as Sinatra preferred). He's best remembered for Them and his masterpiece, the classic western Rio Conchos.    |
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 16, 2017 19:48:01 GMT
Jack Nicholson
Frank Sinatra (None But the Brave )
Ron Howard
Ben Affleck
Casey Affleck
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 16, 2017 19:50:36 GMT
The trailer for Blues In The Night (1941):   Whorf later directed many TV episodes of shows like The Beverly Hillbillies and My Three Sons.   |
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Post by Richard Kimble on Nov 16, 2017 19:53:11 GMT
Liverpool-born Leslie Fenton with Ralph Bellamy in John Ford's Air Mail (1932). Fenton would later direct the Alan Ladd vehicles Saigon and Whispering Smith.  |
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Post by politicidal on Nov 16, 2017 20:08:38 GMT
John Cassavetes
George Clooney
Joel Edgerton (and writer too!)
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Post by spiderwort on Nov 16, 2017 21:20:18 GMT
Elaine May directed A New Leaf (1971): Kazan's actress wife Barbara Loden directed a low budget film called Wanda around 1970 Not an actress, but Stephanie Rothman directed some Corman-produced cheapies as early as 1967 ( It's A Bikini World) and the later cult classic Terminal Island (1974). Of course, I should have thought immediately of Elaine May! She's probably the one who really broke the mainstream Hollywood barrier for women directors after Lupino quit directing in the late sixties, though her career as a director was not the easiest, as you note. Didn't know all that about A New Leaf, btw, but I'm not surprised. And yes, thanks so much for mentioning Barbara Loden - don't know how I could forget the wife of my favorite director. Sadly, because of her early passing, we'll never know if she could have had a sustained directing career in the Hollywood studio system (not to minimize her accomplishment at all; just addressing the difficulties of making it for women directors in Hollywood). Thanks so much for the reminders and clarifications. And while we're on the topic of actresses turned directors, Penny Marshall is another obvious choice. EDITED TO ADD, Richard Kimble : I just scrolled through your other posts and thanks so much for those great pictures and all that info. I was really surprised to learn about Blake Edwards, Peckinpah, and Gordon Douglas. Enlightening, to say the least. |
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 16, 2017 21:51:06 GMT
And I see that Burt Lancaster directed The Kentuckian.
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Post by mattgarth on Nov 16, 2017 21:54:42 GMT
And Kirk Douglas directed a version of 'Treasure Island' entitled SCALAWAG.
(also the Western POSSE)
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Post by bravomailer on Nov 16, 2017 22:00:53 GMT
John Wayne
Jerry Lewis
Bill Murray (Quick Change)
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Post by northern on Nov 16, 2017 22:41:26 GMT
I swear I did a thread like this once, but I've looked and looked and looked and can't find it. Please forgive if this is a repeat (likely to be). A few of the greats: Elia Kazan, Ingmar Bergman, Vittorio De Sica, John Ford, and Mike NicholsThen some less prominent ones (many of whom ended up directing television), but interesting just to ponder (for me anyway): Don TaylorGregory RatoffRichard WhorfRichard ThorpeDavid ButlerThere are so many more, I know, so feel free to add any others you wish (and if anyone can find my other thread, please post it here!). Warren Beatty. |
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