Del Lord directed more than three dozen Stooge films ; Jules White directed dozens more, and his brother Jack White directed several under the pseudonym " Preston Black ".

The play has had dozens of productions all over the country and around the world, perhaps most notably in London in 1999, at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, with Helen Mirren and Anne-Marie Duff, directed by Howard Davies.

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After the success of Breaker Morant, Bruce Beresford was offered dozens of Hollywood scripts including Tender Mercies, which he later directed.

In the 1990s, he directed dozens of companies of Annie, and its sequel Annie Warbucks ; in 1997, he directed three additional companies of Annie in London, Australia and Amsterdam.

He played dozens of leading parts there and directed several plays.

His play Bright Ideas opened off-Broadway at the Manhattan Class Company, directed by John Rando, and has since been published by Dramatists Play Service, with dozens of productions across the U. S. Other scripts include Natural Selection ( 2006 Humana Festival ), For Better ( published by Samuel French ), The Dead Guy ( published by DPS ), Virtual Devotion, Cinderella Confidential, and Pecos Bill and the Ghost Stampede ( all published by Dramatic Publishing ).

He has directed dozens of commercials for brands such as Nike and Coca-Cola.

The Birth of a Nation ( originally called The Clansman ) is a 1915 silent drama film directed by D. W. Griffith and based on the novel and play The Clansman, both by Thomas Dixon, Jr. Griffith co-wrote the screenplay ( with Frank E. Woods ), and co-produced the film ( with Harry Aitken ).

It went on to become a silent movie of the same name, directed by Alfred Hitchcock and filmed in 1927.

* Aelita, a 1924 silent film directed by Yakov Protazanov based on Alexei Tolstoy's novel of the same name

Yasujirō Ozu directed Good Morning ( 1959 ) and Floating Weeds ( 1958 ), which was adapted from his earlier silent A Story of Floating Weeds ( 1934 ), and was shot by Rashomon / Sansho the Bailiff cinematographer Kazuo Miyagawa.

Over the next three years, Hawks directed his first eight films ( six silent, two " talkies ").

* Phantom ( 1922 film ), a silent movie directed by F. W. Murnau

In 1990 Charles Lane directed and starred in Sidewalk Stories, a low budget salute to sentimental silent comedies particularly Charlie Chaplin's The Kid.

The 2007 Australian film Dr Plonk, was a silent comedy directed by Rolf de Heer.

The 2011 French film The Artist, written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius, plays as a silent film and is set in Hollywood during the silent era.

The campaigns began with a series of adverts based on the 1986 French film Jean de Florette, directed by the British duo Anthea Benton and Vaughan Arnell, moving on to other genres including war movies, silent comedy and even surrealism.

Best known as the director of Dracula ( 1931 ), the cult classic Freaks ( 1932 ), and classic silent film collaborations with Lon Chaney, Browning directed many movies in a wide range of genres.

One of the earliest adaptations was a silent movie directed by Walter Lang, Alice Through a Looking Glass, in 1928.

* 1915: A silent film version was directed by Sidney Olcott and starred Mary Pickford.

Building on its later popularity in the nineteenth and early twentieth-century ethnic routines of the American vaudeville house, the style was explored extensively during the " golden era " of black and white, silent movies directed by figures Mack Sennett and Hal Roach and featuring such notables as Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, the Marx Brothers, the Keystone Kops, Gumball ( TV series ) the Three Stooges and El Chavo.

* Lady Audley's Secret ( aka Secrets of Society ) 1915 ( USA, black and white, silent, directed by Marshall Farnum )

* Lady Audley's Secret 1920 ( UK, black and white, silent, directed by Jack Denton )

The Last Laugh () is a German 1924 silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer.

He starred in two silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger and Downhill, both in 1927.

In 1917, the band made the first appearance of a jazz band in a motion picture, a silent movie entitled, The Good for Nothing ( 1917 ), directed by Carlyle Blackwell, who also played the lead role as Jack Burkshaw.

* Hua Mulan Joins the Army ( 1927 film ) – a Chinese silent film released by the Tianyi Film Company and directed by Li Pingqian.

Wings is a 1927 silent film about World War I fighter pilots, produced by Lucien Hubbard, directed by William A. Wellman and released by Paramount Pictures.

Although Ford had made many Westerns in the silent film era, he had never previously directed a sound Western.

Ford had not directed a western since the silent days, the most notable of which had been The Iron Horse ( 1924 ).

In comedy, several players are emerging in the image of the very popular Rouiched which is illustrated in several films such as Hassan Terro or Hassan Taxi, or actor Hadj Abderrahmane better known under the pseudonym of the Inspector Tahar in 1973 comedy The Holiday of The Inspector Tahar directed by Musa Haddad.

Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films in a career spanning 57 years.

Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru ( 1952 ), Seven Samurai ( 1954 ) and Yojimbo ( 1961 ).

Leslie S. Hiscott directed the first two films, with Henry Edwards taking over for the third.

The other Rutherford films ( all directed by George Pollock ) were Murder at the Gallop ( 1963 ), based on the 1953 Hercule Poirot novel After the Funeral ( In this film, she is identified as Miss JTV Marple, though there was no indication as to what the extra initials might stand for ); Murder Most Foul ( 1964 ), based on the 1952 Poirot novel Mrs McGinty's Dead ; and Murder Ahoy!

He directed the films Zapata: The Dream of a Hero, Like Water for Chocolate ( adapted from the novel written by his ex-wife Laura Esquivel ), A Walk in the Clouds with Keanu Reeves and Anthony Quinn, and the Hallmark Hall of Fame production A Painted House, adapted from the John Grisham novel of the same name.

It is somewhat unusual for directors to be credited co-editors, although the Coen Brothers and Robert Rodriguez have both directed and edited nearly all of their films.

In 1975, he directed six short films for the first season of NBC's Saturday Night Live:

While the TV show went into reruns, Mike Judge went on to make movies: he directed such films as Extract, Idiocracy, and Office Space, which found favor with moviegoers and later became cult classics.

After several small, studio and independent released films that included stand-outs Sisters, Phantom Of The Paradise, and Obsession, a small film based on a novel called Carrie was released directed by Brian De Palma.

In addition, Lancaster directed two films, The Kentuckian ( 1955 ) and The Midnight Man ( 1974 ).

In addition, John Frankenheimer directed five films with Lancaster: The Young Savages ( 1961 ), Birdman of Alcatraz ( 1962 ), Seven Days in May ( 1964 ), The Train ( 1964 ), and The Gypsy Moths ( 1969 ).

During the 1960s the political atmosphere began to gradually change, and attention was once again directed to Chaplin's films instead of his political views.

He is most widely known in Hollywood for having written, directed and starred in several improvisational " mockumentary " films that feature a repertory-like ensemble cast.

Though she later appeared in films Naked in New York ( 1993 ) and Getting In ( 1994 ), her first substantial speaking part in a film was in Quiz Show, directed by Robert Redford.

The magazine also was essential to the creation of the Nouvelle Vague, or New Wave, of French cinema, which centered on films directed by Cahiers authors such as Godard and Truffaut.

He produced and directed the Biograph film Judith of Bethulia ( 1914 ), one of the earliest feature films to be produced in the United States.

The films Primary and Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment ( both produced by Robert Drew ), Harlan County, USA ( directed by Barbara Kopple ), Dont Look Back ( D. A. Pennebaker ), Lonely Boy ( Wolf Koenig and Roman Kroitor ) are all frequently deemed cinéma vérité films.

According to Robert Evans, head of Paramount Pictures at the time, Coppola also did not initially want to direct the film because he feared it would glorify the Mafia and violence, and thus reflect poorly on his Sicilian and Italian heritage ; on the other hand, Evans specifically wanted an Italian-American to direct the film because his research had shown that previous films about the Mafia that were directed by non-Italians had fared dismally at the box office, and he wanted to, in his own words, " smell the spaghetti ".

Minor curiosities were some of the films of Solax directed by Herbert Blaché and his wife Alice Guy.

The distinguishing feature of some of their films was a deliberate attempt to use resolutely theatrical-type light comedy playing that was directed towards the audience.

The Nordisk company was set up there in 1906 by Ole Olsen, a fairground showman, and after a brief period imitating the successes of French and British film-makers, in 1907 he produced 67 films, most directed by Viggo Larsen, with sensational subjects like Den hvide Slavinde ( The White Slave ), Isbjørnenjagt ( Polar Bear Hunt ) and Løvejagten ( The Lion Hunt ).