Index of Directors

What follows is a selection of major directors whose work is represented in this book. The index includes only the titles that appear in this volume; it doesn’t pretend to offer a complete list of Michael Curtiz’s European work or John Ford’s silent features. What’s more, the index, like the book, ends in 1965.

The titles in each entry are in chronological order. Years are indicated in the reviews and are included here to distinguish between two films of the same title, whether they are remakes or have nothing to do with each other.

The prefix “co-” means a collaboration. “Seq” means a director was responsible for one sequence in a feature film. 

This index is meant to be a convenient, quick-reference guide and only deals with the individuals’ work as directors. It does not indicate the other functions they may have performed on a given film, whether as actor, writer, producer, composer, cinematographer, or editor.

 

Antonioni, Michelangelo: Story of a Love Affair; Love in the City (seq dir); Le Amiche; Il Grido; L’Avventura; La Notte; Eclipse; Red Desert

Bergman, Ingmar: Crisis (1946); Night Is My Future; Port of Call; The Devil’s Wanton; To Joy; Illicit Interlude; Secrets of Women; Summer with Monika; Sawdust and Tinsel; A Lesson in Love; Dreams (1955); Smiles of a Summer Night; The Seventh Seal; Wild Strawberries; Brink of Life; The Magician; The Virgin Spring; The Devil’s Eye; Through a Glass, Darkly; Winter Light; The Silence; All These Women

Boetticher, Budd (billed as Oscar Boetticher until 1951): One Mysterious Night; The Missing Juror; Escape in the Fog; Assigned to Danger; Behind Locked Doors; Killer Shark; Bullfighter and the Lady; The Cimarron Kid; Bronco Buster; Red Ball Express; Horizons West; City Beneath the Sea; Seminole; The Man from the Alamo; East of Sumatra; Wings of the Hawk; The Magnificent Matador; Seven Men from Now; The Tall T; Decision at Sundown; Buchanan Rides Alone; Westbound; Ride Lonesome; The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond; Comanche Station

Borzage, Frank: Lazybones; Seventh Heaven; Street Angel; Lucky Star; They Had to See Paris; Song o’ My Heart; Liliom (1930); Doctors’ Wives; Bad Girl; After Tomorrow; Young America; A Farewell to Arms (1932); Secrets; Man’s Castle; No Greater Glory; Little Man, What Now?; Flirtation Walk; Living on Velvet; Stranded; Shipmates Forever; Desire; Hearts Divided; Green Light; History Is Made at Night; Big City (1937); Mannequin (1937); Three Comrades; The Shining Hour; Disputed Passage; Strange Cargo; The Mortal Storm; Flight Command; Smilin’ Through (1941); The Vanishing Virginian; Seven Sweethearts; Stage Door Canteen; His Butler’s Sister; Till We Meet Again; The Spanish Main; I’ve Always Loved You; Magnificent Doll; That’s My Man; Moonrise; China Doll; The Big Fisherman

Buñuel, Luis: L’Age d’Or; The Great Madcap; Los Olvidados; Susana; A Woman Without Love; Mexican Bus Ride; El Bruto; Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; El; Wuthering Heights (1953); Illusion Travels by Streetcar; The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz; Diamond Hunters; Nazarin; La Fièvre Monte à El Pao; The Young One; Viridiana; The Exterminating Angel; Diary of a Chambermaid (1964); Simon of the Desert

Capra, Frank: The Strong Man; Long Pants; The Matinee Idol; The Way of the Strong; Submarine; The Younger Generation; Flight; Ladies of Leisure; Rain or Shine; Dirigible; The Miracle Woman; Platinum Blonde; Forbidden (1932); American Madness; The Bitter Tea of General Yen; Lady for a Day; It Happened One Night; Broadway Bill; Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; Lost Horizon (1937); You Can’t Take It With You; Mr. Smith Goes to Washington; Meet John Doe; Arsenic and Old Lace; It’s a Wonderful Life; State of the Union; Riding High (1950); Here Comes the Groom; A Hole in the Head; Pocketful of Miracles

Castle, William: Chance of a Lifetime; Klondike Kate; The Whistler; The Chance of a Lifetime; Klondike Kate; When Strangers Marry; The Mark of the Whistler; Crime Doctor’s Warning; Voice of the Whistler; Just Before Dawn; Mysterious Intruder; Crime Doctor’s Man Hunt; Crime Doctor’s Gamble; The Gentleman from Nowhere; Texas, Brooklyn and Heaven; Johnny Stool Pigeon; Undertow; It’s a Small World; The Fat Man; Hollywood Story; Cave of Outlaws; Fort Ti; Serpent of the Nile; Conquest of Cochise; Slaves of Babylon; Charge of the Lancers; The Battle of Rogue River; Jesse James vs. the Daltons; Drums of Tahiti; The Iron Glove; The Saracen Blade; The Law vs. Billy the Kid; Masterson of Kansas; The Americano; New Orleans Uncensored; The Gun That Won the West; The Houston Story; Macabre; House on Haunted Hill; The Tingler; 13 Ghosts; Homicidal; Mr. Sardonicus; Zotz!; The Night Walker; 13 Frightened Girls; The Old Dark House (1963); Strait-Jacket; I Saw What You Did

Clair, René: The Italian Straw Hat; Under the Roofs of Paris; Le Million; À Nous la Liberté; The Ghost Goes West; The Flame of New Orleans; I Married a Witch; Forever and a Day (seq dir); It Happened Tomorrow; And Then There Were None; Man About Town (1947); Beauties of the Night; Les Grandes Manoeuvres; Gates of Paris

Corman, Roger: Five Guns West; Apache Woman; Swamp Women; Day the World Ended; The Oklahoma Woman; Gunslinger; It Conquered the World; Not of This Earth (1957); Naked Paradise; Attack of the Crab Monsters; Rock All Night; Teenage Doll; Carnival Rock; Sorority Girl; The Saga of the Viking Women and Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent; War of the Satellites; She Gods of Shark Reef; Machine-Gun Kelly; Teenage Cave Man; I, Mobster; A Bucket of Blood; The Wasp Woman; Ski Troop Attack; House of Usher; The Little Shop of Horrors (1960); The Last Woman on Earth; Atlas; Creature From the Haunted Sea; Pit and the Pendulum; The Intruder (1962); Premature Burial; Tales of Terror; Tower of London (1962); The Raven (1963); The Terror; X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes; The Haunted Palace; The Young Racers; The Secret Invasion; The Masque of the Red Death; The Tomb of Ligeia

Cukor, George: The Virtuous Sin (codir); The Royal Family of Broadway (codir); Tarnished Lady; Girls About Town; One Hour With You (codir); What Price Hollywood?; A Bill of Divorcement (1932); Rockabye; Our Betters; Dinner at Eight; Little Women (1933); David Copperfield (1935); Sylvia Scarlett; Romeo and Juliet (1936); Camille; Holiday (1938); Zaza; The Women; Gone With the Wind (uncred codir); The Philadelphia Story; Susan and God; A Woman’s Face; Two-Faced Woman; Her Cardboard Lover; Keeper of the Flame; Gaslight (1944); Winged Victory; Desire Me (uncred codir; no dir credit); A Double Life; Edward, My Son; Adam’s Rib; Born Yesterday (1950); A Life of Her Own; The Model and the Marriage Broker; The Marrying Kind; Pat and Mike; The Actress; It Should Happen to You; A Star Is Born (1954); Bhowani Junction; Les Girls; Wild Is the Wind; Heller in Pink Tights; Song Without End (uncred codir); Let’s Make Love; The Chapman Report; My Fair Lady

Curtiz, Michael: Noah’s Ark; Mammy; Bright Lights (1930); River’s End; God’s Gift to Women; The Mad Genius; The Woman From Monte Carlo; Alias the Doctor; The Strange Love of Molly Louvain; Doctor X; Cabin in the Cotton; 20,000 Years in Sing Sing; The Mystery of the Wax Museum; The Keyhole; Man Killer; Goodbye Again (1933); The Kennel Murder Case; Female; Mandalay; Jimmy the Gent; The Key (1934); British Agent; Black Fury; The Case of the Curious Bride; Front Page Woman; Little Big Shot; Captain Blood; The Walking Dead; The Charge of the Light Brigade; Stolen Holiday; Mountain Justice; Kid Galahad (1937); The Perfect Specimen; Gold Is Where You Find It; The Adventures of Robin Hood (codir); Four’s a Crowd; Four Daughters; Angels with Dirty Faces; Dodge City; Daughters Courageous; The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex; Four Wives; Virginia City; The Sea Hawk (1940); Santa Fe Trail; The Sea Wolf; Dive Bomber; Captains of the Clouds; Yankee Doodle Dandy; Casablanca; Mission to Moscow; This Is the Army; Passage to Marseille; Janie; Roughly Speaking; Mildred Pierce; Night and Day; Life with Father; The Unsuspected; Romance on the High Seas; My Dream Is Yours; Flamingo Road; The Lady Takes a Sailor; Bright Leaf; Young Man with a Horn; The Breaking Point; Force of Arms; Jim Thorpe—All American; I’ll See You in My Dreams; The Story of Will Rogers; The Jazz Singer (1953); Trouble Along the Way; The Boy From Oklahoma; The Egyptian; White Christmas; We’re No Angels (1955); The Vagabond King (1956); The Scarlet Hour; The Best Things in Life Are Free; The Helen Morgan Story; King Creole; The Proud Rebel; The Hangman; The Man in the Net; The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn; A Breath of Scandal; Francis of Assisi; The Comancheros

DeMille, Cecil B.: The Squaw Man (1914; codir); The Virginian (1914); Carmen; The Cheat; Joan the Woman; The Whispering Chorus; Male and Female; Why Change Your Wife; The Affairs of Anatol; Manslaughter; The Ten Commandments (1923); The Road to Yesterday; The Volga Boatman; The King of Kings (1927); The Godless Girl; Dynamite (1929); Madam Satan; The Squaw Man; The Sign of the Cross; This Day and Age; Four Frightened People; Cleopatra (1934); The Crusades; The Plainsman (1936); The Buccaneer (1938); Union Pacific; North West Mounted Police; Reap the Wild Wind; The Story of Dr. Wassell; Unconquered; Samson and Delilah (1949); The Greatest Show on Earth; The Ten Commandments (1956)

De Sica, Vittorio: The Children Are Watching Us; Shoeshine; Bicycle Thieves; Miracle in Milan; Umberto D.; Indiscretion of an American Wife; Gold of Naples; The Roof; Two Women; Boccaccio ’70 (seq dir); The Condemned of Altona; Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow; Marriage Italian Style

Dieterle, William: The Last Flight; Her Majesty Love; Man Wanted; Jewel Robbery; The Crash; Six Hours to Live; Scarlet Dawn; Lawyer Man; Grand Slam; The Devil’s in Love; Fashions; Fog Over Frisco; Madame DuBarry; The Secret Bride; A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Dr. Socrates; The Story of Louis Pasteur; The White Angel; Satan Met a Lady; The Great O’Malley; Another Dawn; The Life of Emile Zola; Blockade; Juarez; The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939); Dr. Erlich’s Magic Bullet; A Dispatch from Reuters; The Devil and Daniel Webster; Tennessee Johnson; Syncopation; Kismet (1944); I’ll Be Seeing You; Love Letters; This Love of Ours; The Searching Wind; Portrait of Jennie; The Accused (1948); Rope of Sand; Paid in Full; Volcano; Dark City; September Affair; Peking Express; Boots Malone; Red Mountain; The Turning Point; Salome; Elephant Walk; Magic Fire; Omar Khayyam

Donen, Stanley: On the Town (codir); Royal Wedding; Singin’ In the Rain (codir); Love Is Better Than Ever; Fearless Fagan; Give a Girl a Break; Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Deep in My Heart; It’s Always Fair Weather (codir); Funny Face; The Pajama Game (codir); Kiss Them for Me; Indiscreet (1958); Damn Yankees (codir); Once More, With Feeling; Surprise Package; The Grass Is Greener; Charade

Dreyer, Carl Theodor: The Parson’s Widow; Leaves from Satan’s Book; Michael (1924); Master of the House; The Passion of Joan of Arc; Vampyr; Day of Wrath; Ordet; Gertrud

Edwards, Blake: Bring Your Smile Along; He Laughed Last; Mister Cory; This Happy Feeling; The Perfect Furlough; Operation Petticoat; High Time; Breakfast at Tiffany’s; Experiment in Terror; Days of Wine and Roses; The Pink Panther (1964); A Shot in the Dark; The Great Race

Eisenstein, Sergei M.: Battleship Potemkin; October; ¡Que Viva México!; Alexander Nevsky; Ivan the Terrible, Part One; Ivan the Terrible, Part Two

Fellini, Federico: Variety Lights (codir); The White Sheik; Love in the City (episode dir); I Vitelloni; La Strada; The Swindle (1955); Nights of Cabiria; La Dolce Vita; Boccaccio ’70 (seq dir); 8½; Juliet of the Spirits

Fleming, Victor: When the Clouds Roll By; The Mollycoddle; Mantrap; Hula; Renegades; The Wet Parade; The White Sister; Bombshell; Treasure Island (1934); Reckless; The Farmer Takes a Wife; Captains Courageous; Test Pilot; The Wizard of Oz (1939); Gone With the Wind; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941); Tortilla Flat; A Guy Named Joe; Adventure; Joan of Arc

Ford, John: Just Pals; Cameo Kirby (1923); The Iron Horse; Lightnin’; The Shamrock Handicap; 3 Bad Men; The Blue Eagle; Upstream; Mother Machree; Four Sons (1928); Hangman’s House; Riley the Cop; The Black Watch; Salute; Men Without Women; Born Reckless; Up the River; Seas Beneath; The Brat; Arrowsmith; Airmail; Flesh; Pilgrimage; Dr. Bull; The Lost Patrol; The World Moves On; Judge Priest; The Whole Town’s Talking; The Informer (1935); Steamboat ’Round the Bend; The Prisoner of Shark Island; Mary of Scotland; The Plough and the Stars; Wee Willie Winkie; The Hurricane (1937); Four Men and a Prayer; Submarine Patrol; Stagecoach (1939); Young Mr. Lincoln; Drums Along the Mohawk; The Grapes of Wrath; The Long Voyage Home; Tobacco Road; How Green Was My Valley; They Were Expendable; My Darling Clementine; The Fugitive (1947); Fort Apache; 3 Godfathers; She Wore a Yellow Ribbon; When Willie Comes Marching Home; Wagon Master; Rio Grande; The Quiet Man; What Price Glory (1952); The Sun Shines Bright; Mogambo; The Long Gray Line; Mister Roberts (codir); The Searchers; The Wings of Eagles; The Rising of the Moon; Gideon of Scotland Yard; The Last Hurrah; The Horse Soldiers; Sergeant Rutledge; Two Rode Together; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance; How the West Was Won (seq dir); Donovan’s Reef; Cheyenne Autumn; Young Cassidy (codir)

Fuller, Samuel: I Shot Jesse James; The Baron of Arizona; The Steel Helmet; Fixed Bayonets!; Park Row; Pickup On South Street; Hell and High Water; House of Bamboo; Run of the Arrow; Forty Guns; China Gate; Verboten!; The Crimson Kimono; Underworld U.S.A.; Merrill’s Marauders; Shock Corridor; The Naked Kiss

Griffith, D. W.: The Avenging Conscience; Judith of Bethulia; The Birth of a Nation; Intolerance; Hearts of the World; A Romance of Happy Valley; The Girl Who Stayed at Home; Broken Blossoms; True Heart Susie; The Love Flower; Way Down East (1920); Dream Street; Orphans of the Storm; America (1924); Isn’t Life Wonderful; Sally of the Sawdust; Battle of the Sexes (1928); Abraham Lincoln; The Struggle

Hawks, Howard: A Girl in Every Port (1928); Fazil; The Dawn Patrol (1930); The Criminal Code; The Crowd Roars (1932); Scarface (1932); Tiger Shark; Today We Live; Twentieth Century; Barbary Coast; Ceiling Zero; The Road to Glory; Come and Get It (codir); Bringing Up Baby; Indianapolis Speedway; Only Angels Have Wings; His Girl Friday; Sergeant York; Ball of Fire; Air Force; Corvette K-225; The Outlaw (uncred codir); To Have and Have Not; The Big Sleep (1946); Red River; A Song Is Born; I Was a Male War Bride; The Thing From Another World (uncred codir); The Big Sky; O. Henry’s Full House (episode dir); Monkey Business; Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; Land of the Pharaohs; Rio Bravo; Hatari!; Man’s Favorite Sport?; Red Line 7000

Hitchcock, Alfred: The Pleasure Garden; The Lodger (1926); Downhill; Easy Virtue (1927); The Ring (1927); The Farmer’s Wife; Champagne; The Manxman; Blackmail (1929); Juno and the Paycock; Murder!; The Skin Game (1931); Rich and Strange; Number Seventeen; Waltzes from Vienna; The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934); The 39 Steps (1935); The Secret Agent (1936); Sabotage; Young and Innocent; The Lady Vanishes (1938); Jamaica Inn; Rebecca; Foreign Correspondent; Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941); Suspicion; Saboteur; Shadow of a Doubt; Lifeboat; Spellbound (1945); Notorious; The Paradine Case; Rope; Under Capricorn; Stage Fright; Strangers on a Train; I Confess; Dial M for Murder; Rear Window; To Catch a Thief; The Trouble with Harry; The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956); The Wrong Man; Vertigo; North by Northwest; Psycho (1960); The Birds; Marnie

Huston, John: The Maltese Falcon (1941); In This Our Life; Across the Pacific; The Treasure of the Sierra Madre; Key Largo; We Were Strangers; The Asphalt Jungle; The Red Badge of Courage; The African Queen; Moulin Rouge (1952); Beat the Devil; Moby Dick (1956); Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison; The Barbarian and the Geisha; The Roots of Heaven; The Unforgiven (1960); The Misfits; Freud; The List of Adrian Messenger; The Night of the Iguana

Kazan, Elia: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; Sea of Grass; Boomerang! (1947); Gentleman’s Agreement; Pinky; Panic in the Streets; A Streetcar Named Desire; Viva Zapata!; Man on a Tightrope; On the Waterfront; East of Eden; Baby Doll; A Face in the Crowd; Wild River; Splendor in the Grass; America, America

Kramer, Stanley: Not As a Stranger; The Pride and the Passion; The Defiant Ones; On the Beach; Inherit the Wind; Judgment at Nuremberg; It’s a Mad Mad Mad Mad World; Ship of Fools

Kubrick, Stanley: Fear and Desire; Killer’s Kiss; The Killing; Paths of Glory; Spartacus; Lolita (1962); Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

Kurosawa, Akira: Sanshiro Sugata; The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail; The Most Beautiful; No Regrets for Our Youth; One Wonderful Sunday; Drunken Angel; The Quiet Duel; Stray Dog; Scandal (1950); Rashomon; The Idiot (1951); Ikiru; Seven Samurai; I Live in Fear; Throne of Blood; The Lower Depths (1957); The Hidden Fortress; The Bad Sleep Well; Yojimbo; Sanjuro; High and Low; Red Beard

La Cava, Gregory: Womanhandled; Running Wild (1927); His First Command; Smart Woman (1931); Symphony of Six Million; The Age of Consent (1932); The Half Naked Truth; Gabriel Over the White House; Bed of Roses; Gallant Lady; The Affairs of Cellini; What Every Woman Knows; Private Worlds; She Married Her Boss; My Man Godfrey (1936); Stage Door; 5th Ave. Girl; Primrose Path (1940); Unfinished Business; Lady in a Jam; Living in a Big Way

Lang, Fritz: The Spiders; Harakiri (1919); The Wandering Shadow; Four Around the Woman; Destiny (1921); Dr. Mabuse der Spieler (The Gambler); Dr. Mabuse, King of Crime; Die Nibelungen; Metropolis (1927); Spies; Woman in the Moon; M (1931); The Testament of Dr. Mabuse; Fury (1936); You Only Live Once; You and Me; The Return of Frank James; Western Union; Man Hunt (1941); Hangmen Also Die!; The Woman in the Window; Ministry of Fear; Scarlet Street; Cloak and Dagger (1946); Secret Beyond the Door; The House by the River; American Guerrilla in the Philippines; Rancho Notorious; Clash by Night; The Blue Gardenia; The Big Heat; Human Desire; Moonfleet; While the City Sleeps; Beyond a Reasonable Doubt; The Tiger of Eschnapur; The Indian Tomb; The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Mabuse

Lean, David: In Which We Serve (codir); This Happy Breed; Blithe Spirit; Brief Encounter; Great Expectations (1946); Oliver Twist (1948); The Passionate Friends; Madeleine (1950); Breaking the Sound Barrier; Hobson’s Choice; Summertime; The Bridge on the River Kwai; Lawrence of Arabia; Doctor Zhivago

LeRoy, Mervyn: Show Girl in Hollywood; Numbered Men; Top Speed; Little Caesar; Gentleman’s Fate; Broadminded; Five Star Final; Local Boy Makes Good; Tonight or Never; High Pressure; The Heart of New York; Two Seconds; Big City Blues; Three on a Match; I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang; Hard to Handle; Elmer, the Great; Gold Diggers of 1933; Tugboat Annie; The World Changes; Hi, Nellie!; Heat Lightning; Happiness Ahead; Sweet Adeline; Oil for the Lamps of China; Page Miss Glory; I Found Stella Parish; Anthony Adverse; Fools for Scandal; Waterloo Bridge (1940); Escape; Blossoms in the Dust; Unholy Partners; Johnny Eager; Random Harvest; Madame Curie; Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo; Without Reservations; Homecoming; Little Women (1949); Any Number Can Play; East Side, West Side; Quo Vadis; Lovely to Look At; Million Dollar Mermaid; Latin Lovers; Rose Marie; Strange Lady in Town; Mister Roberts; The Bad Seed; Toward the Unknown; No Time for Sergeants; Home Before Dark; The FBI Story; Wake Me When It’s Over; The Devil at 4 O’Clock; A Majority of One; Gypsy; Mary, Mary

Lubitsch, Ernst: I Don’t Want to Be a Man; The Doll; The Oyster Princess; Sumurun; Anne Boleyn; The Wildcat; The Marriage Circle; Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925); So This Is Paris (1926); The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg; Eternal Love; The Love Parade; Paramount on Parade (codir); Monte Carlo; Broken Lullaby; The Smiling Lieutenant; One Hour With You (codir); Trouble in Paradise; If I Had a Million (seq dir); Design for Living; The Merry Widow (1934); Angel (1937); Bluebeard’s Eighth Wife; Ninotchka; The Shop Around the Corner; That Uncertain Feeling; To Be or Not to Be (1942); Heaven Can Wait (1943); A Royal Scandal (1945; codir); Cluny Brown; That Lady in Ermine

Lumet, Sidney: 12 Angry Men (1957); Stage Struck (1958); That Kind of Woman; The Fugitive Kind; A View From the Bridge; Long Day’s Journey Into Night; Fail-Safe; The Pawnbroker; The Hill

Mankiewicz, Joseph L.: Dragonwyck; Somewhere in the Night; The Late George Apley; The Ghost and Mrs. Muir; Escape (1948); A Letter to Three Wives; House of Strangers; No Way Out (1950); All About Eve; People Will Talk (1951); 5 Fingers; Julius Caesar (1953); The Barefoot Contessa; Guys and Dolls; The Quiet American; Suddenly, Last Summer; Cleopatra (1963)

Mann, Anthony: Moonlight in Havana; Nobody’s Darling; Strangers in the Night; Dr. Broadway; The Great Flamarion; Two O’Clock Courage; Sing Your Way Home; Strange Impersonation; The Bamboo Blonde; Desperate; Railroaded!; T-Men; Raw Deal (1948); Reign of Terror; Border Incident; Side Street; Winchester ’73; The Furies; Devil’s Doorway; The Tall Target; Bend of the River; The Naked Spur; Thunder Bay; The Glenn Miller Story; The Far Country; Strategic Air Command; The Man From Laramie; The Last Frontier (1956); Serenade; Men in War; The Tin Star; God’s Little Acre; Man of the West; Cimarron (1960); El Cid; The Fall of the Roman Empire; The Heroes of Telemark

McCarey, Leo: Let’s Go Native; The Kid from Spain; Duck Soup; Six of a Kind; Belle of the Nineties; Ruggles of Red Gap; The Milky Way (1936); Make Way for Tomorrow; The Awful Truth; Love Affair; Once Upon a Honeymoon; Going My Way; The Bells of St. Mary’s; Good Sam; My Son John; An Affair to Remember; Rally ’Round the Flag, Boys!; Satan Never Sleeps

Micheaux, Oscar: Within Our Gates; The Symbol of the Unconquered; Body and Soul (1925); The Girl from Chicago; Murder in Harlem; Lying Lips

Milestone, Lewis: Two Arabian Knights; The Garden of Eden; The Racket (1928); All Quiet on the Western Front; The Front Page (1931); Rain (1932); Hallelujah I’m a Bum; The Captain Hates the Sea; Anything Goes (1936); The General Died at Dawn; Of Mice and Men (1939); Lucky Partners; My Life With Caroline; Edge of Darkness; The Purple Heart; A Walk in the Sun; The Strange Love of Martha Ivers; Arch of Triumph; No Minor Vices; The Red Pony; Halls of Montezuma; Kangaroo: The Australian Story; Les Miserables (1952); Melba; They Who Dare; The Widow; Pork Chop Hill; Ocean’s Eleven (1960); Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)

Minnelli, Vincente: Cabin in the Sky; I Dood It; Meet Me in St. Louis; The Clock; Yolanda and the Thief; Ziegfeld Follies; Undercurrent; The Pirate; Madame Bovary (1949); Father of the Bride (1950); Father’s Little Dividend; An American in Paris; The Bad and the Beautiful; The Story of Three Loves (seq dir); The Band Wagon (1953); The Long, Long Trailer; Brigadoon; The Cobweb; Kismet (1955); Lust for Life; Tea and Sympathy; Designing Woman; Gigi (1958); The Reluctant Debutante; Some Came Running; Home From the Hill; Bells Are Ringing; The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962); Two Weeks in Another Town; The Courtship of Eddie’s Father; Goodbye Charlie; The Sandpiper

Mizoguchi, Kenji: Osaka Elegy; Sisters of the Gion; The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum; Utamaro and His Five Women; The Life of Oharu; Ugetsu; A Geisha; Sansho the Bailiff; Princess Yang Kwei-Fei; Taira Clan Saga; Street of Shame

Murnau, F. W.: The Haunted Castle; Nosferatu; Phantom; The Finances of the Grand Duke; The Last Laugh; Tartuffe; Faust; Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans; City Girl; Tabu—A Story of the South Seas

Ophuls, Max (sometimes billed as Opuls): De Mayerling à Sarajevo; The Exile; Letter from an Unknown Woman; Caught; The Reckless Moment; La Ronde; Le Plaisir; The Earrings of Madame de . . .; Lola Montès

Ozu, Yasujiro: Tokyo Chorus; I Was Born, But . . .; Passing Fancy; A Story of Floating Weeds; Late Spring; Early Summer; Tokyo Story; Early Spring; Tokyo Twilight; Equinox Flower; Good Morning; Floating Weeds; Late Autumn; The End of Summer; An Autumn Afternoon

Powell, Michael: Something Always Happens; The Phantom Light; Crown v. Stevens; The Edge of the World; The Spy in Black; The Lion Has Wings; The Thief of Bagdad (1940; codir); Contraband (1940); 49th Parallel; ‘. . . . . one of our aircraft is missing’ (codir); [all of Powell’s films from here through 1957 were cowritten and codirected with Emeric Pressburger]: The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp; A Canterbury Tale; I Know Where I’m Going!; A Matter of Life and Death; Black Narcissus; The Red Shoes; The Small Back Room; The Wild Heart; The Elusive Pimpernel; Tales of Hoffman; Oh . . . Rosalinda!!; Pursuit of the Graf Spee; Night Ambush; Honeymoon (1959); Peeping Tom; The Queen’s Guards

Preminger, Otto: Danger—Love at Work; Margin for Error; They Got Me Covered; In the Meantime, Darling; Laura; A Royal Scandal (1945; codir); Fallen Angel (1945); Centennial Summer; Forever Amber; Daisy Kenyon; That Lady in Ermine (credited to Ernst Lubitsch); The Fan (1949); Whirlpool (1949); Where the Sidewalk Ends; The 13th Letter; Angel Face; The Moon Is Blue; River of No Return; Carmen Jones; The Man With the Golden Arm; The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell; Saint Joan; Bonjour Tristesse; Porgy and Bess; Anatomy of a Murder; Exodus; Advise & Consent; The Cardinal; In Harm’s Way; Bunny Lake Is Missing

Ray, Nicholas: They Live by Night; A Woman’s Secret; Knock on Any Door; In a Lonely Place; Born to Be Bad; Flying Leathernecks; On Dangerous Ground; The Lusty Men; Johnny Guitar; Run for Cover; Rebel Without a Cause; Hot Blood; Bigger Than Life; The True Story of Jesse James; Bitter Victory; Wind Across the Everglades; Party Girl (1958); The Savage Innocents; King of Kings (1961); 55 Days at Peking

Reed, Carol: The Stars Look Down; Girl in the News; Night Train to Munich; The Young Mr. Pitt; The Way Ahead; Odd Man Out; The Fallen Idol; The Third Man; Outcast of the Islands; The Man Between; A Kid for Two Farthings; Trapeze; The Key (1958); Our Man in Havana; The Running Man (1963); The Agony and the Ecstasy

Renoir, Jean: Whirlpool of Fate; Nana (1926); La Chienne; Boudu Saved From Drowning; Madame Bovary (1934); Toni; The Crime of Monsieur Lange; The Lower Depths (1936); Grand Illusion; La Marseillaise; La Bête Humaine; Rules of the Game; Swamp Water; This Land Is Mine; The Southerner; A Day in the Country; Diary of a Chambermaid (1946); The Woman on the Beach; The River (1951); The Golden Coach; Only the French Can; Paris Does Strange Things; Picnic on the Grass; Le Testament du Dr. Cordelier; The Elusive Corporal

Ritt, Martin: Edge of the City; No Down Payment; The Long Hot Summer; The Black Orchid; The Sound and the Fury; 5 Branded Women; Paris Blues; Hemingway’s Adventures of a Young Man; Hud; The Outrage; The Spy Who Came in from the Cold

Rossellini, Roberto: Open City; Paisan; Germany Year Zero; Stromboli; Francesco—Giullare di Dio; The Greatest Love; The Seven Deadly Sins (seq dir); Machine to Kill Bad People; Strangers (1954); Fear (1954); Il Generale Della Rovere

Siegel, Don (sometimes billed as Donald Siegel): The Verdict (1946); Night Unto Night; The Big Steal; The Duel at Silver Creek; No Time for Flowers; Count the Hours; China Venture; Riot in Cell Block 11; Private Hell 36; An Annapolis Story; Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956); Crime in the Streets; Baby Face Nelson; Spanish Affair; The Lineup; The Gun Runners; Hound-Dog Man; Edge of Eternity; Flaming Star; Hell Is for Heroes; The Killers (1964)

Sirk, Douglas (Detlef Sierck): La Habañera; Hitler’s Madman; A Scandel in Paris; Summer Storm; Thieves’ Holiday; Lured; Sleep My Love; Slightly French; Shockproof; Mystery Submarine (1950); The First Legion; Thunder on the Hill; The Lady Pays Off; Week-end With Father; No Room for the Groom; Has Anybody Seen My Gal?; Meet Me at the Fair; Take Me to Town; All I Desire; Taza, Son of Cochise; Magnificent Obsession (1954); Sign of the Pagan; Captain Lightfoot; All That Heaven Allows; There’s Always Tomorrow; Written on the Wind; Battle Hymn; Interlude (1957); The Tarnished Angels; A Time to Love and a Time to Die; Imitation of Life (1959)

Stevens, George: Bachelor Bait; Kentucky Kernels; The Nitwits; Alice Adams; Annie Oakley; Swing Time; Quality Street; A Damsel in Distress; Vivacious Lady; Gunga Din; Vigil in the Night; Penny Serenade; Woman of the Year; The Talk of the Town; The More the Merrier; I Remember Mama; A Place in the Sun; Something to Live For; Shane; Giant; The Diary of Anne Frank; The Greatest Story Ever Told

Sturges, Preston: The Great McGinty; Christmas in July; The Lady Eve; Sullivan’s Travels; The Palm Beach Story; Hail the Conquering Hero; The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek; The Great Moment; The Sin of Harold Diddlebock; Unfaithfully Yours (1948); The Beautiful Blonde From Bashful Bend; The French, They Are a Funny Race

Tashlin, Frank: The First Time; Son of Paleface; Marry Me Again; Susan Slept Here; Artists and Models; The Lieutenant Wore Skirts; The Girl Can’t Help It; Hollywood or Bust; Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?; Rock-a-Bye Baby; The Geisha Boy; Say One for Me; Cinderfella; Bachelor Flat; It’$ Only Money; The Man From the Diner’s Club; Who’s Minding the Store?; The Disorderly Orderly; The Alphabet Murders

Tourneur, Jacques: Nick Carter, Master Detective; Phantom Raiders; Cat People (1942); I Walked with a Zombie; The Leopard Man; Days of Glory; Experiment Perilous; Canyon Passage; Out of the Past; Berlin Express; Easy Living (1949); Stars in My Crown; The Flame and the Arrow; Circle of Danger; Anne of the Indies; Way of a Gaucho; Appointment in Honduras; Stranger on Horseback; Wichita; Great Day in the Morning; Nightfall (1957); Curse of the Demon; The Fearmakers; Timbuktu; The Comedy of Terrors; War-Gods of the Deep

Ulmer, Edgar G.: People on Sunday (assistant); Damaged Lives; The Black Cat; Green Fields; The Singing Blacksmith; The Light Ahead; Moon Over Harlem; Tomorrow We Live; Isle of Forgotten Sins; Jive Junction; Bluebeard; Strange Illusion; Club Havana; Detour; The Wife of Monte Cristo; Her Sister’s Secret; The Strange Woman; Carnegie Hall; Ruthless; Pirates of Capri; The Man From Planet X; St. Benny the Dip; Loves of Three Queens (uncred); Murder Is My Beat; The Naked Dawn; Daughter of Dr. Jekyll; Hannibal; Beyond the Time Barrier; The Amazing Transparent Man; Journey Beneath the Desert

Van Dyke II, W. S.: The Lady of the Dugout; White Shadows in the South Seas; The Pagan; Trader Horn; Guilty Hands; The Cuban Love Song; Tarzan the Ape Man; Night Court; The Prizefighter and the Lady; Penthouse; Eskimo; Manhattan Melodrama; The Thin Man; Hide-Out; Forsaking All Others; Naughty Marietta; I Live My Life; Rose-Marie (1936); San Francisco; His Brother’s Wife; The Devil Is a Sissy; Love on the Run; After the Thin Man; Personal Property; They Gave Him a Gun; Rosalie; Marie Antoinette (1938); Sweethearts; Stand Up and Fight; It’s a Wonderful World; Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever; Another Thin Man; I Take This Woman; I Love You Again; Bitter Sweet; Rage in Heaven; The Feminine Touch; Shadow of the Thin Man; Dr. Kildare’s Victory; I Married an Angel; Cairo; Journey for Margaret

Vidor, King: The Sky Pilot; Wild Oranges; The Big Parade; La Boheme; Bardelys the Magnificent; The Crowd; Show People; Hallelujah; Not So Dumb; Billy the Kid (1930); Street Scene; The Champ (1931); Bird of Paradise (1932); Cynara; The Stranger’s Return; Our Daily Bread; The Wedding Night; So Red the Rose; The Texas Rangers (1936); Stella Dallas; The Citadel; Northwest Passage; Comrade X; H. M. Pulham, Esq.; An American Romance; Duel in the Sun; On Our Merry Way; The Fountainhead; Beyond the Forest; Lightning Strikes Twice; Japanese War Bride; Ruby Gentry; Man Without a Star; War and Peace; Solomon and Sheba

Visconti, Luchino: Osessione; Bellissima; Senso; Of Life and Love (seq dir); White Nights (1957); Rocco and His Brothers; Boccaccio ’70 (seq dir); The Leopard

von Sternberg, Josef: The Last Command (1928); The Docks of New York; Thunderbolt; The Blue Angel (1930); Morocco; Dishonored; An American Tragedy; Shanghai Express; The Scarlet Empress; The Devil Is a Woman; Crime and Punishment; The King Steps Out; Sergeant Madden; The Shanghai Gesture; Macao; Anatahan; Jet Pilot

von Stroheim, Erich: Blind Husbands; Foolish Wives; Greed; The Merry Widow (1925); The Wedding March; Queen Kelly; Hello, Sister! (codir)

Welles, Orson: See Index of Stars

Wellman, William A.: The Boob; Wings; Beggars of Life; Chinatown Nights; The Man I Love; Maybe It’s Love; Other Men’s Women; The Public Enemy; Night Nurse; The Star Witness; Safe in Hell; The Hatchet Man; Love Is a Racket; The Purchase Price; The Conquerors; Frisco Jenny; Central Airport; Lilly Turner; Midnight Mary; Heroes for Sale; Wild Boys of the Road; College Coach; Looking for Trouble; Stingaree; The President Vanishes; The Call of the Wild; The Robin Hood of El Dorado; Small Town Girl (1936); A Star Is Born (1937); Nothing Sacred; Men with Wings; Beau Geste (1939); The Light That Failed; Reaching for the Sun; Roxie Hart; The Great Man’s Lady; Thunder Birds (1942); The Ox-Bow Incident; Lady of Burlesque; Buffalo Bill; This Man’s Navy; The Story of G.I. Joe; Gallant Journey; Magic Town; The Iron Curtain; Yellow Sky; Battleground; The Happy Years; The Next Voice You Hear; Across the Wide Missouri; It’s a Big Country (codir); Westward the Women; My Man and I; Island in the Sky (1953); The High and the Mighty; Track of the Cat; Blood Alley; Good-bye, My Lady; Darby’s Rangers; Lafayette Escadrille

Whale, James: Hell’s Angels; Journey’s End (1930); Waterloo Bridge (1931); Frankenstein; Impatient Maiden; The Old Dark House; The Invisible Man; By Candlelight; The Kiss Before the Mirror; One More River; Remember Last Night; Bride of Frankenstein; Show Boat (1936); The Road Back; The Great Garrick; Wives Under Suspicion; Sinners in Paradise; Port of Seven Seas; The Man in the Iron Mask (1939); Green Hell; They Dare Not Love

Wilder, Billy: Mauvaise Graine (codir); The Major and the Minor; Five Graves to Cairo; Double Indemnity; The Lost Weekend; The Emperor Waltz; A Foreign Affair; Sunset Blvd.; Ace in the Hole; Stalag 17; Sabrina (1954); The Seven Year Itch; The Spirit of St. Louis; Love in the Afternoon; Witness for the Prosecution; Some Like It Hot (1959); The Apartment; One, Two, Three; Irma La Douce; Kiss Me, Stupid

Wise, Robert: The Curse of the Cat People (codir); Mademoiselle Fifi, The Body Snatcher; A Game of Death; Criminal Court; Born to Kill; Mystery in Mexico; Blood on the Moon; The Set-Up; Two Flags West; Three Secrets; The House on Telegraph Hill; The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951); The Captive City; Something for the Birds; The Desert Rats; Destination Gobi; So Big; Executive Suite; Helen of Troy; Tribute to a Bad Man; Somebody Up There Likes Me; This Could Be the Night; Until They Sail; Run Silent, Run Deep; I Want to Live!; Odds Against Tomorrow; West Side Story (codir); Two for the Seesaw; The Haunting (1963); The Sound of Music

Wood, Edward D. Jr.: Glen or Glenda; Jail Bait (1954); Bride of the Monster; Plan 9 From Outer Space; Revenge of the Dead; The Sinister Urge

Wyler, William: The Love Trap; Hell’s Heroes; A House Divided; Tom Brown of Culver; Counsellor at Law; The Good Fairy; The Gay Deception; These Three; Dodsworth; Come and Get It (codir); Dead End; Jezebel; Wuthering Heights (1939); The Westerner; The Letter (1940); The Little Foxes; Mrs. Miniver; The Best Years of Our Lives; The Heiress; Detective Story; Carrie (1952); Roman Holiday; The Desperate Hours (1955); Friendly Persuasion; The Big Country; Ben-Hur (1959); The Children’s Hour; The Collector

Zinnemann, Fred: Kid Glove Killer; Eyes in the Night; The Seventh Cross; Little Mister Jim; My Brother Talks to Horses; The Search; Act of Violence; The Men; Teresa; High Noon; The Member of the Wedding; From Here to Eternity; Oklahoma!; A Hatful of Rain; The Nun’s Story; The Sundowners (1960); Behold a Pale Horse