spiderwort
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Post by spiderwort on Mar 7, 2017 16:04:21 GMT
Among my favorites:
Sidney Lumet Martin Ritt Arthur Penn Delbert Mann John Frankenheimer
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Post by rateater on Mar 7, 2017 16:11:31 GMT
richard donner
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 7, 2017 16:24:02 GMT
Most directors since the '50s started in television.
Even Kubrick worked in TV:
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Post by fangirl1975 on Mar 7, 2017 20:45:30 GMT
Mel Brooks started out on the writing staff of Sid Cesar's Your Show Of Shows.
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Post by poelzig on Mar 8, 2017 0:39:02 GMT
Stephen Spielberg
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Post by gunshotwound on Mar 8, 2017 0:54:41 GMT
Sydney Pollack Gordon Hessler Lamont Johnson William Friedkin
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Post by mattgarth on Mar 10, 2017 16:11:38 GMT
Adding Robert Mulligan
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Post by Richard Kimble on Mar 10, 2017 17:14:05 GMT
Sydney Pollack Gordon Hessler Lamont Johnson William Friedkin I am a big fan of Lamont Johnson, gunshot. I always hoped his feature career would be more successful than it was. But, as in the end with Delbert Mann, television pretty much became his home. That said, it's without question that he directed some of the most important and beautiful tv movies ever made, among them My Sweet Charlie, That Certain Summer, Fear on Trial, and The Execution of Private Slovik. What a legacy he left. Johnson was sort of the TV Martin Ritt. Actors in his films were invariably understated, yet still effective. Ironically, Johnson himself was an overactor, as his guest shot as a drunken ex-trail guide on The Big Valley will attest.
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Post by poelzig on Mar 11, 2017 8:11:54 GMT
John Dahl Joss Whedon Robert Altman Spike Jonz David Fincher Michael Bay Jonathon Frakes Gore Verbinski Antoine Fuqua Mccheese
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Post by petrolino on Mar 11, 2017 15:13:03 GMT
I find this topic interesting too, spiderwort. In addition to the many Americans who worked in television in the 1950s and 1960s, you can add Canadians like Norman Jewison and Arthur Hiller. With the recent passing of both Hiller and Robert Ellis Miller, it's great to see guys like Jewison (now 90), Richard Donner (86) and William Friedkin (81) still standing from the Golden Age, so many are gone.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Mar 11, 2017 17:35:39 GMT
Ted Post Jeannot Szwarc Dan Curtis (mostly tv but he did one or two theatrical films like Burnt Offerings).
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 22, 2017 18:57:57 GMT
Sorry for bumping an old thread, but Henri Safran was originally a director of live TV plays for Australian public television in the early 1960s, and mainly stayed as a TV director, but also directed some feature films, the best of which is probably Storm Boy (1976), a classic children's film.
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Post by Staccato on May 22, 2017 20:50:55 GMT
John Badham Stuart Rosenberg Robert Aldrich Sam Peckinpah
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on May 24, 2017 23:22:01 GMT
Carl Schultz was originally a TV director, later became a director of several well-received films.
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Post by BATouttaheck on May 25, 2017 10:30:58 GMT
Ron Howard
His direction for television was interspersed with his film directing BUT in one sense he certainly "got his start" there.
As a long time kid actor he watched carefully and learned the behind the camera aspects of his craft.
About being a director he had this to say: "It was always my dream to be a director. A lot of it had to do with controlling my own destiny, because as a young actor you feel at everyone's disposal. But I wanted to become a leader in the business."
He must be doing something right:
He directed eight different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Don Ameche, Dianne Wiest, Ed Harris, Kathleen Quinlan, Russell Crowe, Jennifer Connelly, Paul Giamatti and Frank Langella.
Ameche and Connelly won Oscars for their performances in one of Howard's movies.
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 1, 2017 16:04:17 GMT
Peter Maxwell was mainly a TV director, doing episodes of various popular series like "The Adventures of Robin Hood", "Danger Man", "A Country Practice" and many others.
But he also did some films, including one of my favourite British "second features", a 1962 film called Dilemma, a refreshingly simple yet compelling crime drama.
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Post by sostie on Aug 2, 2017 9:51:08 GMT
Ken Loach Mike Leigh JJ Abrams Stephen Frears
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Post by london777 on Aug 2, 2017 13:48:14 GMT
Most directors since the '50s started in television. With respect, spiderwort, this is a bit like your "American directors not born in the USA" thread. As the majority of directors started in TV for obvious reasons (less financial risk if they cannot cut the mustard), a more interesting topic would be which directors came from other professions or pursuits (and I do not mean film school, screenwriting, acting, cameraman or other pursuits which are already integral to film-making). One noted director was an established stills photographer but I have forgotten who. Can anyone jog my memory? For example, Tom Ford, was a fashion designer (not primarily, or not at all, working for the film industry). But still the visual arts, I suppose. Can anyone think of someone who used to do an honest day's work (plumber, school bus driver, agricultural laborer, etc) before directing a movie?
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Aug 2, 2017 13:53:58 GMT
Lasse Hallström. He directed some programs for Swedish television (including some mini-series and TV films), as well as music videos for ABBA.
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Post by sostie on Aug 2, 2017 14:11:23 GMT
Most directors since the '50s started in television. One noted director was an established stills photographer but I have forgotten who. Can anyone jog my memory? Anton Corbijn? Wasn't Tarantino a video store clerk before directing?
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