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Directors in British and Irish Cinema

Organisations

Aardman Animations

Production Company

Bamforth and Co.

Production Company

Individuals

Acres, Birt (1854-1918)

Pioneer, Cinematographer

Akomfrah, John (1957-)

Director, Writer

Aldrich, Robert (1918-1983)

Director, Producer, Writer

Amber Collective (1969-)

Film collective

Anderson, Lindsay (1923-1994)

Director, Producer, Writer, Critic

Anderson, Michael (1920-)

Director, Producer, Actor

Annakin, Ken (1914-2009)

Director, Writer, Producer

Apted, Michael (1941-)

Director, Producer, Presenter

Arliss, Leslie (1901-1987)

Director, Writer

Asquith, Anthony (1902-1968)

Director, Producer, Actor

Attenborough, Lord Richard (1923-)

Director, Actor, Producer

Baker, Roy Ward (1916-2010)

Director, Producer, Writer

Barker, Will (1867-1951)

Director, Producer, Cinematographer

Baxter, John (1896-1975)

Director

Bird, Antonia (1959-2013)

Producer, Director

Black Audio Film Collective (1982-98)

Film Collective

Blackton, J. Stuart (1875-1941)

Director, Producer, Animator

Blakeley, John E. (1888-1958)

Director, Producer, Writer

Bond, Ralph (1904-1989)

Director, Producer, Actor

Boorman, John (1933-)

Director, Producer, Actor

Booth, W.R. (1869-1938)

Director, Animator

Boulting, John (1913-1985)

Director, Producer, Writer

Boulting, Roy (1913-2001)

Director, Producer, Writer

Box, Muriel (1905-1991)

Director, Writer

Boyle, Danny (1956-)

Director, Producer, Writer

Branagh, Kenneth (1960-)

Actor, Director, Producer

Brook, Peter (1925-)

Director, Writer

Broomfield, Nick (1948-)

Director, Producer, Writer

Brownlow, Kevin (1938-)

Director, Writer, Historian

Brunel, Adrian (1892-1958)

Director, Actor, Writer

Cammell, Donald (1934-1996)

Director, Writer, Editor

Cardiff, Jack (1914-2009)

Director, Cinematographer, Writer

Carstairs, John Paddy (1910-1970)

Director, Producer, Writer

Cavalcanti, Alberto (1897-1982)

Director, Actor, Sound

Chadha, Gurinder (1960-)

Director, Producer, Presenter

Chaplin, Charles (1889-1977)

Actor, Director, Music

Chelsom, Peter (1956-)

Director, Actor

Clarke, Alan (1935-1990)

Director, Writer, Producer

Clayton, Jack (1921-1995)

Director, Actor, Producer

Collings, Esmé (1859-1936)

Cinematographer, Director

Collinson, Peter (1936-1980)

Director, Producer, Writer

Comerford, Joe (1947-)

Director, Editor, Producer

Comfort, Lance (1908-1966)

Director, Producer, Writer

Cornelius, Henry (1913-1958)

Director, Producer, Writer

Coward, Noël (1899-1973)

Playwright, Actor, Director, Composer

Craigie, Jill (1911-1999)

Director

Crichton, Charles (1910-1999)

Director, Producer, Writer, Editor

Cricks, George (1861-1936)

Executive

Cutts, Graham (1885-1958)

Director, Producer

Davies, Terence (1945-)

Director, Writer

Dean, Basil (1888-1978)

Director, Producer, Writer

Dearden, Basil (1911-1971)

Director, Producer, Writer

Dickinson, Thorold (1903-1984)

Director, Producer, Writer, Editor

Dmytryk, Edward (1908-1999)

Director, Editor, Producer

Donner, Clive (1926-2010)

Director, Producer, Editor

Douglas, Bill (1934-1991)

Director, Actor, Writer

Dunbar, Geoff (1944-)

Director, Animator

Dunning, George (1920-1979)

Director, Producer, Animator

Dupont, E.A. (1891-1956)

Director, Writer

Dwoskin, Stephen (1939-2012)

Director, Actor, Cinematographer

Dyer, Anson (1876-1962)

Director, Writer, Animator

Edwards, Henry (1883-1952)

Director, Producer, Actor

Elvey, Maurice (1887-1967)

Director, Producer, Writer

Emlyn, Endaf (1944-)

Director, Writer, Producer, Actor, Musician

Endfield, Cy (1914-95)

Director, Writer, Producer

Evans, Fred (1889-1951)

Actor, Director

Evans, Joe (1891-1967)

Director, Actor, Writer

Figgis, Mike (1948-)

Director, Writer, Composer, Actor

Fisher, Terence (1904-1980)

Director, Writer, Editor

Fitzhamon, Lewin (1869-1961)

Director, Actor

Flaherty, Robert (1884-1951)

Director, Producer, Writer

Forbes, Bryan (1926-2013)

Actor, Director, Writer

Forde, Walter (1898-1984)

Director, Actor

Forsyth, Bill (1946-)

Director, Actor, Writer

Francis, Freddie (1917-2007)

Director, Cinematographer, Producer

Francis, Karl (1942- )

Director, Producer, Writer

Frears, Stephen (1941-)

Director, Actor, Producer

Frend, Charles (1909-1977)

Director, Writer, Editor

Friese-Greene, William (1855-1921)

Inventor

Gidal, Peter (1946-)

Director, Actor, Cinematographer

Gilbert, Lewis (1920-)

Director, Producer, Writer

Gilliam, Terry (1940-)

Director, Writer, Animator, Actor

Gilliat, Sidney (1908-1994)

Director, Writer, Producer

Godfrey, Bob (1921-2013)

Director, Producer, Animator

Gold, Jack (1930-)

Director, Producer, Writer

Green, Guy (1913-2005)

Director, Cinematographer, Writer

Greenaway, Peter (1942-)

Director, Writer, Editor

Greene, David (1921-2003)

Director, Writer, Actor

Grierson, John (1898-1972)

Producer, Director, Executive

Grigsby, Michael (1936-)

Director, Producer

Guest, Val (1911-2006)

Director, Producer, Writer

Haggar, William (1851-1925)

Director

Halas, John (1912-1995) and Batchelor, Joy (1914-1991)

Animators

Hamer, Robert (1911-63)

Director, Writer, Editor

Hamilton, Guy (1922-)

Director

Hare, David (1947-)

Writer, Director

Hepworth, Cecil (1874-1953)

Director, Producer

Hitchcock, Alfred (1899-1980)

Director, Writer, Art Director, Actor

Hodges, Mike (1932-)

Director, Writer, Producer

Holt, Seth (1924-1971)

Director, Producer, Editor

Hudson, Hugh (1936-)

Director, Producer, Writer

Huston, John (1906-1987)

Director, Writer, Actor

Hytner, Nicholas (1956-)

Director, Producer

Ivory, James (1928-)

Director, Writer, Producer

Jackson, Pat (1916-2011)

Director, Writer

Jarman, Derek (1942-1994)

Director, Writer, Art Designer, Editor, Cinematographer

Jennings, Humphrey (1907-1950)

Director, Writer

Joffé, Roland (1945-)

Director, Producer

Jones, Terry (1942-)

Actor, Director, Writer, Presenter

Jordan, Neil (1950-)

Director, Writer, Producer

Julien, Isaac (1960-)

Director

Keiller, Patrick (1950-)

Director, Writer, Cinematographer

Korda, Alexander (1893-1956)

Director, Producer, Executive Producer

Korda, Zoltán (1895-1961)

Director, Producer

Kubrick, Stanley (1928-1999)

Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer

Kötting, Andrew (1958-)

Director, Writer, Performer

Launder, Frank (1906-1997)

Director, Script, Producer

Le Grice, Malcolm (1940-)

Director, Writer, Producer

Leacock, Philip (1917-1990)

Director, Producer

Lean, David (1908-1991)

Director, Writer, Editor

Lee Thompson, J. (1914-2002)

Director, Writer, Producer

Lee, Jack (1913-2002)

Director, Producer, Writer

Leeds Animation Workshop (1976-)

Film Collective

Leigh, Mike (1943-)

Director, Writer

Leland, David (1947-)

Director, Writer, Actor

Lester, Richard (1932-)

Director, Producer

Loach, Ken (1936-)

Director, Writer

Losey, Joseph (1909-1984)

Director, Writer, Producer

Lye, Len (1901-1980)

Director, Animator

MacKinnon, Gillies (1948-)

Director

Mackendrick, Alexander (1912-1993)

Director, Writer

Mackenzie, John (1932-2011)

Director, Producer

Macpherson, Kenneth (1903-1971)

Director, Writer, Producer, Critic

Mander, Kay (1915-)

Director, Producer, Editor, Writer

Massingham, Richard (1898-1953)

Director, Producer, Writer, Actor

McLaren, Norman (1914-1987)

Animator, Director, Writer

Meadows, Shane (1973-)

Director, Producer, Actor

Menzies, William Cameron (1896-1957)

Designer, Director, Script

Minghella, Anthony (1954-2008)

Writer, Director, Producer

Montagu, Ivor (1904-1984)

Director, Writer, Producer, Critic

Mulvey, Laura (1941-)

Director, Producer, Actor

Neame, Ronald (1911-2010)

Cinematographer, Director, Writer

Newall, Guy (1885-1937)

Director, Actor

O'Sullivan, Thaddeus (1947-)

Director, Cinematographer

Olivier, Laurence (1907-1989)

Actor, Producer, Director

Ové, Horace (1939-)

Director, Producer, Writer

Parker, Alan (1944-)

Director, Producer, Writer

Paul, Fred (1880-1967)

Director, Actor, Writer

Paul, R.W. (1869-1943)

Director, Producer

Pearson, George (1875-1973)

Director, Producer, Writer

Petit, Chris (1949-)

Director, Writer, Actor

Polanski, Roman (1933-)

Director, Actor, Writer

Poliakoff, Stephen (1952-)

Writer, Director

Potter, Sally (1949-)

Director, Actor, Editor

Powell, Michael (1905-1990)

Director, Writer, Producer

Prasad, Udayan (1953-)

Director

Pressburger, Emeric (1902-1988)

Director, Writer, Producer

Quay, Brothers (1947-)

Directors, Writers, Designers, Animators

Ramsay, Lynne (1969-)

Director, Cinematographer, Writer

Reed, Carol (1906-1976)

Director, Producer, Writer

Reeves, Michael (1944-1969)

Director, Writer

Reisz, Karel (1926-2002)

Director, Producer, Writer

Richardson, Tony (1928-1991)

Director, Producer, Writer

Rilla, Wolf (1920-2005)

Director, Writer, Producer

Ritchie, Guy (1968-)

Director, Writer

Robinson, Bruce (1946-)

Director, Writer, Actor

Roeg, Nicolas (1928-)

Director, Cinematographer, Writer

Rotha, Paul (1907-1984)

Director, Editor, Producer

Russell, Ken (1927-2011)

Director, Producer, Writer, Actor

Saville, Victor (1896-1979)

Director, Producer

Schlesinger, John (1926-2003)

Director, Producer, Writer

Scott, Ridley (1937-)

Director

Sewell, Vernon (1903-2001)

Director, Producer, Writer

Sheridan, Jim (1949-)

Director, Writer, Producer

Sinyor, Gary (1962-)

Director, Producer, Writer

Skolimowski, Jerzy (1938-)

Director, Actor, Producer

Smith, F. Percy (1880-1945)

Director, Producer, Photography

Smith, G.A. (1864-1959)

Director

Stein, Paul (1892-1951)

Director

Studdy, G.E. (1878-1948)

Cartoonist, Animator

Summers, Walter (1896-1973)

Director, Writer

Temple, Julien (1953-)

Director, Writer

Tennyson, Pen (1912-1941)

Director

Thomas, Gerald (1920-1993)

Director, Producer, Editor

Thomas, Ralph (1915-2001)

Director, Writer, Producer

Tourneur, Jacques (1904-1977)

Director

Toye, Wendy (1917-2010)

Director, Producer, Actor

Urban, Charles (1867-1942)

Producer, Distributor

Varnel, Marcel (1892-1947)

Director

Varnel, Max (1925-1996)

Director, Producer, Writer

Vas, Robert (1931-1978)

Director

Vorhaus, Bernard (1904-2000)

Director, Writer, Producer

Wallace, Edgar (1875-1932)

Director, Writer

Watt, Harry (1906-1987)

Director, Writer, Producer

Wilcox, Herbert (1890-1977)

Director, Producer, Writer

Williams, Richard (1933-)

Director, Producer, Animator

Williamson, James (1855-1933)

Director, Producer, Cinematographer

Winner, Michael (1935-2012)

Director, Producer, Writer

Winterbottom, Michael (1961-)

Director

Wollen, Peter (1938-)

Director, Producer, Presenter

Wright, Basil (1907-1987)

Producer, Director, Writer

Yates, Peter (1928-2011)

Director, Producer, Writer

Young, Terence (1915-1994)

Director, Producer, Writer