Directors That Put Themselves In Their Films

Submitted by Oedipus on Fri, 08/19/2005 - 09:46
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  1. Woody Allen
  2. Wes Anderson
  3. Dario Argento
  4. Roberto Benigni
  5. Larry Blamire
  6. Frank Borzage
  7. Mel Brooks
  8. Wes Craven
  9. Atom Egoyan
  10. Sergei M. Eisenstein
  11. Jean Eustache
  12. Rainer Fassbinder
  13. Abel Ferrara
  14. Larry Fessenden
  15. Vincent Gallo
  16. Jean-Luc Godard
  17. Jean-Jacques Grand-Jouan
  18. Hal Hartley
  19. Alfred Hitchcock
  20. Peter Jackson
  21. Spike Lee
  22. Guy Maddin
  23. Roman Polanski
  24. Sydney Pollack
  25. Sam Raimi
  26. George A. Romero
  27. Eli Roth
  28. Martin Scorsese
  29. M. Night Shyamalan
  30. Jerzy Skolimowski
  31. Kevin Smith
  32. Steven Spielberg
  33. Quentin Tarantino
  34. Erich von Stroheim
  35. Lars von Trier
  36. Orson Welles
  37. Edward D. Wood, Jr.
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buddy08/19/2005

What about Peter Jackson? He had a few appearances in Lord of the Rings.

shan200108/19/2005

Spike Lee is in every movie he's made.

ukaunz08/19/2005

Here's a list someone else has compiled... http://www.filmsite.org/directorcameos.html

pianoshootis08/19/2005

Off the top of my head...Laurence Olivier, Jean-Luc Godard, Vincent Gallo, Clint Eastwood, Roberto Benigni, Warren Beatty, Kevin Costner, Erich von Stroheim, Tim Robbins, George Clooney, Frank Borzage, Albert Brooks, Rainer Fassbinder, Dennis Hopper

buddy08/19/2005

Haha! That's right, Vincent Gallo famously put himself in one of his films, to much derision from, well, everyone else alive.

Cosgrove08/19/2005

Actually, Vincent Gallo has starred in both of the films he's directed ("Buffalo '66" and "The Brown Bunny").

buddy08/22/2005

I'd forgotten about that. His questionable reasons for shooting that famous scene in "Brown Bunny" eclipses anything else he's done, in my opinion.

Oedipus08/19/2005

I'll add more when I get the time. I just made this list from the top of my head so there is alot that I left out.

cramoukji08/22/2005

Hal Hartley appears in his non-epic non-commercial non-audience friendly movie "Flirt", in the third and last of that three-part movie alongside then-girlfriend and japanese catress Miho Nikaido.

Cosgrove08/25/2005

Larry Fessenden both directed and starred in "Habit". (Good movie, BTW.) Also, Abel Ferrara cast himself in "Driller Killer" and "Ms. 45".

flfrleta08/25/2005

Sydney Pollack put himself in Tootsie.

grandpa_chum08/29/2005

yeah, george clooney and marlon brando, although they are more like actors who directed themselves, but who's to say the difference.

P Pogo08/29/2005

Actors directing their pet projects:
Billy Bob Thornton / Sling Blade
Dennis Hopper / Easy Rider
Jack Nicholson / Goin' South, The Two Jakes
John Singleton / Shaft, Boyz in the Hood
John Turturro / Mac
Steve Buscemi / Trees Lounge
Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci / Big Night
Rob Reiner / This Is Spinal Tap
Billy Crystal / Mr. Saturday Night, Forget Paris

Several movies:
John Sayles
John Waters

Other:
John Mellencamp / Falling from Grace
Prince / Under the Cherry Moon
Mark Borchardt / Coven (Coh-ven, not like "oven")

Oedipus08/31/2005

I have another list for Actors who have directed at least one film so I'll add them there.