Not content to create only the music and lyrics, Noel Coward also wrote the book and directed Sail Away ( Capitol WAO 1643 ; ;

In that same year Lerner also wrote the Oscar-winning original screenplay for An American in Paris, produced by Arthur Freed and directed by Vincente Minnelli.

Raimi wrote, directed and edited, while fellow Michigander Rob Tapert was producer.

John and Roy Boulting also wrote and directed a series of successful satires, including Private's Progress ( 1956 ) and I'm All Right, Jack ( 1959 ).

Both wrote, directed and appeared in their movies.

In 2000, Benedict wrote and directed his first screenplay, Cahoots.

Hopkins later directed a film version of the stage play, to which he also wrote the musical score.

The Conversation, which Coppola directed, produced and wrote, was released that same year, winning the Palme d ' Or at the 1974 Cannes Film Festival.

Poetry and cruelty of life were harmonically combined in the works that Vittorio De Sica wrote and directed together with screenwriter Cesare Zavattini: among them, Shoeshine ( 1946 ), The Bicycle Thief ( 1948 ) and Miracle in Milan ( 1951 ).

* Chicago based writer, Greg Allen, wrote and directed K., based on The Trial.

François Truffaut wrote and directed a film adaptation of the novel in 1966.

In 1986, Jarmusch wrote and directed Down by Law, starring musicians John Lurie and Tom Waits, and Italian comic actor Roberto Benigni ( his introduction to American audiences ) as three convicts who escape from a New Orleans jailhouse.

Cocteau's films, most of which he both wrote and directed, were particularly important in introducing the avant-garde into French cinema and influenced to a certain degree the upcoming French New Wave genre.

In 1965, Lewis directed and ( along with Bill Richmond ) wrote the comedy film The Family Jewels about a young heiress who must choose among six uncles, one of whom is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.

Douglas Jardine always defended his tactics and in the book he wrote about the tour, In Quest of the Ashes, described allegations that the England bowlers directed their attack with the intention of causing physical harm as stupid and patently untruthful.

The film is a collaboration between Hayao Miyazaki, who wrote the screenplay, and his son Gorō, who directed the film.

In the light of criticism directed against them and their universe of sweetness and light, it is important to understand that they believed sincerely in what they wrote.

John Alan Simon wrote, produced and directed a film adaptation of Radio Free Albemuth.

His career began in the late 1980s, when he wrote and directed My Best Friend's Birthday.

Rodriguez wrote and directed the film Planet Terror for the collaboration with Quentin Tarantino in their double feature Grindhouse ( released in 2007 ).

Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.

Peckinpah wrote and directed a pilot called Trouble at Tres Cruzes, which was aired in March 1959 before the actual series was made in 1960.

Following that dogma in 1998, he conceived, wrote and directed ( and also had a small acting role in ) the first of the Dogme movies, The Celebration ( Festen ).

In 2003, he directed the apocalyptic science fiction love story It's All About Love, a movie he wrote, directed and produced himself over a period of five years.

In 1964 Marx starred in " Time for Elizabeth ", episode of Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre, a truncated version of a play that Groucho Marx and Norman Krasna wrote in 1948.

He wrote the screenplay with the help of Welles ( who produced the film ), and starred in the film with Dolores del Río.

Instead, Riefenstahl met Luis Trenker who had starred in Fanck's films, who wrote to the director about her.

In 1982, Palin wrote and starred in The Missionary, co-starring Maggie Smith.

Rocca has 3 music videos to his credentials and wrote / rapped / starred in the " James Bond Spoof-Secret Agent OO Soul-with Billy Dee Williams ".

Rube Goldberg wrote a feature film featuring his machines and sculptures called Soup to Nuts, which was released in 1930 and starred Ted Healy and The Three Stooges.

* The Rev W. Awdry wrote about GER Class C53 called Toby the Tram Engine, which starred his The Railway Series with his faithful coach, Henrietta.

Besson was married to Anne Parillaud, who starred in Nikita, a film he wrote and directed.

American actress Molly Lyons wrote and starred in a one-woman show titled " A Most Notorious Woman ", detailing the life of Granuaile.

In 1976, he created and wrote the innovative literacy programme On the Move which starred Bob Hoskins and Donald Gee.

Simon also wrote and starred in the film One-Trick Pony ( 1980 ) and co-wrote the Broadway musical The Capeman ( 1998 ) with the poet Derek Walcott.

It was paired with the motion picture of the same name, which Simon wrote and starred in.

He played music producer Tony Lacey in the 1977 Woody Allen film Annie Hall, and wrote and starred in 1980's One Trick Pony as Jonah Levin, a journeyman rock and roller.

They wrote situation comedies such as The Army Game and Bootsie and Snudge for British television, and the BBC radio show Round the Horne, which starred Kenneth Horne and Kenneth Williams.

However, his own creative projects – such as the film Splitting Heirs ( 1993 ), a comedy he wrote, starred in and executive-produced – were mostly unsuccessful with critics and audiences.

In the mid-1970s Nimoy wrote and starred in a one-man play called Vincent based on the play Van Gogh by Phillip Stephens.

Castellaneta has also released a comedy CD, I Am Not Homer, and wrote and starred in a one-person show titled Where Did Vincent van Gogh?

Palin and Jones both wrote and starred in multiple roles.

Actor / comedian Paul Hogan wrote the screenplay and starred in the title role in his first film, Crocodile Dundee ( 1986 ), about a down-to-earth hunter who travelled from the Australian Outback to New York City.

The film also starred Joanne Dru, Walter Brennan, Coleen Gray, Harry Carey, John Ireland, Hank Worden, Noah Beery Jr. and Harry Carey, Jr. Borden Chase wrote the script with Charles Schnee, based on Chase's original story ( which was first serialized in The Saturday Evening Post in 1946 as " Blazing Guns on the Chisholm Trail ").

In 1977, Sykes wrote and starred in another television special, Eric Sykes Shows a Few of Our Favourite Things, with Hattie Jacques, Irene Handl, Jimmy Edwards and Peter Cook.

In 1981 Sykes wrote, directed and starred in the offbeat comedy If You Go Down in the Woods Today for Thames, with a cast including Roy Kinnear, Fulton Mackay and George Sewell.

Byrne also wrote, directed, and starred in True Stories, a musical collage of discordant Americana released in 1986, as well as producing most of the film's music.

DeLaria is also known for her touring " musical comedy about perverts ," Dos Lesbos ( 1987 – 1989 ) as well as Girl Friday, a comedy she conceived, wrote, directed and starred in, and which won the 1989 Golden Gull for Best Comedy Group in Provincetown, Massachusetts.