He finished his career by directing 30 episodes ( in seasons two and three ) of the NBC sitcom Blossom.

Actor Ben Stiller ventured into directing, producing, and writing comedy throughout his career.

At the same time, the system's commercial regimentation and focus on glamorous escapism discouraged daring and ambition beyond a certain degree, a prime example being the brief but still legendary directing career of the iconoclastic Erich von Stroheim in the late teens and the ‘ 20s.

Within four days after the Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, Capra quit his highly successful directing career in Hollywood and enlisted as a major in the United States Army.

According to Friedman, " these two rejections were devastating to the man who had made a career of demonstrating American ideals in film ", along with his directing award-winning documentary films for the Army.

A string of commercial failures followed and, while Whale would make one final short film in 1950, by 1941 his film directing career was over.

He also developed an interest in acting as a career while in college but began thinking seriously about directing when he was in the Air Force.

Frankenheimer began his directing career in live television at CBS.

Beyond The Sea was a lifelong dream project for Spacey, who took on co-writing, directing, co-producing and starring duties in the biography / musical about Darin's life, career, and relationship with actress Sandra Dee.

For some years, Purushottam worked as a college professor in Belgaum in Northern Karnataka and as a school teacher before embarking on his career in writing, multiple fields of acting, directing, and composing music in the world of movies.

Janet Maslin of The New York Times wrote that the film marked the highest point of Eastwood's directing career, and the film has since been cited as one of his most underrated directorial achievements.

From the very early days of his career Eastwood was frustrated by directors ' insistence that scenes be re-shot multiple times and perfected, and when he began directing in 1970, he made a conscious attempt to avoid any aspects of directing he had been indifferent to as an actor.

On a VH1 special about the 100 greatest child stars, many of the interviewees considered Ron Howard to be the most successful child star of all time, considering his two major television acting roles and his directing career.

In his later career, he took up stage directing, notably in the Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, and Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell, in which he also starred.

Nijinsky and Diaghilev became lovers for a time, and Diaghilev was heavily involved in directing and managing Nijinsky's career.

After this last film, Lean began his directing career, after editing more than two dozen features by 1942.

Browning, famed at the time for his collaborations with Lon Chaney and for directing Bela Lugosi in Dracula ( 1931 ), had trouble finding work afterward, and this effectively brought his career to an early close.

He had a lengthy and prolific Hollywood career, with directing credits on over 100 films in many film genres.

Gary started his career screenwriting and directing, and thereafter continued to work in the film industry in various capacities.

), was a considerable setback to Ferrer's directing career.

Highlights of his directing career include In the Heat of the Night ( 1967 ), The Thomas Crown Affair ( 1968 ), Fiddler on the Roof ( 1971 ), Jesus Christ Superstar ( 1973 ), Moonstruck ( 1987 ), Other People's Money ( 1991 ), The Hurricane ( 1999 ) and The Statement ( 2003 ).

Jewison has addressed important social and political issues throughout his directing and producing career, often making controversial or complicated subjects accessible to mainstream audiences.

He ended his directing career with the 1970 film The Only Game in Town with Warren Beatty and Elizabeth Taylor.

His artistry in directing and use of cinematography and suspense in several of his films has often been compared to the work of Alfred Hitchcock.

In addition to acting and occasionally directing, Campbell has become a writer, starting with an autobiography, If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor published on August 24, 2002.

Best known for directing The Silence of the Lambs, which won him the Academy Award for Best Director, he has also directed the acclaimed movies Philadelphia, Rachel Getting Married, the Talking Heads concert movie Stop Making Sense and a trilogy of Neil Young documentary / concert movies.

He has also dabbled in the art of directing, starting with 1996's For Better or Worse and 1999's Just Looking.

He has received two People's Choice Awards, and in 1999 his directorial skills were recognized with a nomination for a Directors Guild of America award for directing an episode of Frasier.

Since 2010, Dunst's work has included directing the short film Bastard which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2010, and was later featured at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival.

Since then, radio communication has been used extensively in directing the pilgrimage and addressing the pilgrims.

# Decides that the United States of America, by directing or authorizing over Rights of Nicaraguan territory, and by the acts imputable to the United States referred to in subparagraph ( 4 ) hereof, has acted, against the Republic of Nicaragua, in breach of its obligation under customary international law not to violate the sovereignty of another State ;

Rodríguez not only has the unusual credits of producing, directing and writing his films, he also frequently serves as editor, director of photography, camera operator, steadicam operator, composer, production designer, visual effects supervisor, and sound editor on his films.

When large parts of Uppsala burned down in 1702, Gustavianum, which contained the university library and its many valuable manuscripts, escaped the fire ; local lore has it that the aging Rudbeck stood on the roof directing the work of fighting the fire.

The Yemeni government has accused Iran of directing and financing the insurgency.

In addition to directing many of his own star vehicles, Eastwood has also directed films in which he did not appear, such as Mystic River ( 2003 ) and Letters from Iwo Jima ( 2006 ), for which he received Academy Award nominations, and Changeling ( 2008 ).

In addition to directing some television work, Bogdanovich has returned to acting with a recurring guest role on the cable television series The Sopranos, playing Dr. Melfi's psychotherapist.

Will Friedwald has compared Ella Fitzgerald to Chuck Jones directing his Roadrunner cartoon — each uses predetermined formulas in innovative ways.

* Wins: Harold Prince has won 21 Tony Awards, more than anyone else, including eight for directing, eight for producing, two as producer of a year's Best Musical, and three special Tony Awards.

Sosibius is appointed by Ptolemy IV as his Chief Minister and immediately has a great influence over the young king, directing all of the affairs of state.

He has received two Oscars: one in 1981 for directing Ordinary People, and one for Lifetime Achievement in 2002.

However, since the directing award was for " directing " rather than " best director ", it honored the director in association with only a single film — thus Janet Gaynor has two Frank Borzage films listed after her Best Actress nomination, but only one of them earned Borzage a directing nomination.

Only one person has won the award without directing another film before or after winning: Jerome Robbins ( who shared the award with co-director Robert Wise, for West Side Story ).

British pop singer Lily Allen has written the score and lyrics, and Stephen Daldry will be directing, joined by his co-worker Peter Darling, who will serve as choreographer.

From the circumstance that the Breviarium has prefixed to it a royal rescript ( commonitorium ) directing that copies of it, certified under the hand of Anianus, should be received exclusively as law throughout the kingdom of the Visigoths, the compilation of the code has been attributed to Anianus by many writers, and it is frequently designated the Breviary of Anianus ( Breviarium Aniani ).