One-time directors

  • Viking Eggeling imdb / Symphonie diagonale, 1924 imdb
  • Fernand Léger imdb / Ballet mécanique, 1924 imdb
  • Oleg Frelikh imdb / Prostitutka, 1927 imdb
  • Jean Godard imdb / Pour un soir..!, 1931 imdb
  • Mario Peixoto imdb / Limite, 1931 imdb
  • Robert Riskin imdb / When You're in Love, 1937 imdb
  • Graham Heid imdb / Wynken, Blynken & Nod, 1938 imdb
  • Oliver H. P. Garrett imdb / Careful, Soft Shoulder, 1942 imdb
  • William Saroyan imdb / The Good Job, 1942 not on imdb
  • Clive Brook imdb / On Approval, 1944 imdb
  • André Malraux imdb / L'Espoir, 1945 imdb
  • Boris Peskine imdb / L'Espoir, 1945 imdb
  • George S. Kaufman imdb / The Senator Was Indiscreet, 1947 imdb
  • Jean Genet imdb / Un Chant d'Amour, 1950 imdb
  • Peter Lorre imdb / Der Verlorene, 1951 imdb
  • John Parker imdb / Dementia, 1955 imdb
  • Park Nam-ok imdb / Minangin, 1963 imdb
  • Wallace Berman wikipedia / Untitled (AKA Aleph), 1955-56 not on imdb
  • Anthony Quinn imdb / The Buccaneer, 1958 imdb
  • Kevin McClory imdb / The Boy and the Bridge, 1959 imdb
  • Walter Matthau imdb / Gangster Story, 1960 imdb
  • Paul Frees imdb / The Beatniks, 1960 imdb
  • Marlon Brando imdb / One-Eyed Jacks, 1961 imdb
  • Timothy Carey imdb / The World's Greatest Sinner, 1962 imdb
  • Barbara Rubin imdb / Cocks and Cunts AKA Christmas on Earth, 1963 imdb
  • Forugh Farrokhzad imdb / Khaneh siah ast, 1963 imdb
  • Steve Cochran imdb / Tell Me in the Sunlight, 1965 imdb
  • Max Zihlmann imdb / Frühstück in Rom, 1965 imdb
  • Abrar Alvi imdb / Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, 1966 imdb
  • Yukio Mishima imdb / Yûkoku, 1966 imdb
  • Aleksandr Askoldov imdb / Komissar, 1970 imdb
  • Sergio Merolle imdb / Quanto costa morire, 1968 imdb
  • Ester Krumbachová imdb / Vrazda ing. Certa, 1970 imdb
  • Dalton Trumbo imdb / Johnny Got His Gun, 1971 imdb
  • Jack Lemmon imdb / Kotch, 1971 imdb
  • Anna Karina imdb / Vivre ensemble, 1973 imdb
  • Francesco Mazzei imdb / L'Arma, l'ora, il movente, 1973 imdb
  • James William Guercio imdb / Electra Glide in Blue, 1973 imdb
  • John Coney imdb / Space Is the Place, 1974 imdb
  • Eduardo Serra imdb / Um Aniversário, 1975 imdb
  • George Barry imdb / Death Bed: The Bed That Eats, 1977 imdb
  • Anne Bancroft imdb / Fatso, 1980 imdb
  • Gordon Willis imdb / Windows, 1980 imdb
  • Don Carmody imdb / The Surrogate, 1984 imdb
  • Stephen King imdb / Maximum Overdrive, 1986 imdb
  • J. Michael Muro imdb / Street Trash, 1987 imdb
  • Max von Sydow imdb / Ved vejen, 1988 imdb
  • Eddie Murphy imdb / Harlem Nights, 1989 imdb
  • Tom Stoppard imdb / Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, 1990 imdb
  • Hanif Kureishi imdb / London Kills Me, 1991 imdb
  • Hema Malini imdb / Dil Aashna Hai (...The Heart Knows), 1992 imdb
  • Leslie Harris imdb / Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., 1992 imdb
  • Yoshifumi Kondo imdb / Mimi wo sumaseba, 1995 imdb
  • Armin Mueller-Stahl imdb / Conversation with the Beast, 1996 imdb
  • Alan Rickman imdb / The Winter Guest, 1997 imdb
  • Gary Oldman imdb / Nil by Mouth, 1997 imdb
  • Aris Iliopulos imdb / I Woke Up Early the Day I Died, 1998 imdb
  • Pyotr Lutsik imdb / Okraina, 1998 imdb
  • Ice Cube imdb / The Players Club, 1998 imdb
  • Tim Roth imdb / The War Zone, 1999 imdb
Author Comments: 

This is a list with directors who shot just one movie. (It doesn't count if it's post-2000!)
Big thanks to all the contributions! I hope you can tell some more names, and perhaps add interesting links.

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