David Leland ( born 20 April 1947 in Cambridge, England ) is a director, screenwriter and actor who came to international fame with his directorial debut Wish You Were Here in 1987.

On 23 October 2011, Variety reported that Elwes will make his directorial debut with an independent film, Elvis & Nixon.

Bowie in 2009 with his son Duncan Jones at the premiere of Jones ' directorial debut Moon ( film ) | Moon

Carpenter refused to cast Bronson on the grounds that he was too old, and because he worried that he could lose directorial control over the picture with an experienced actor.

Gracen made her directorial debut with a documentary short feature called The Damn Deal.

Following their first season, he made his Broadway directorial debut with Antonia by Hungarian playwright Melchior Lengyel, then returned to Rochester, where C. F.

In 1931, he made his solo directorial debut with Tarnished Lady starring Tallulah Bankhead.

He made his directorial debut with the film Albino Alligator ( 1996 ).

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.

His first directorial credit is for the television version of Lupin III in 1971 ; he was co-director ( with Takahata ) of the second half of the first television series, and director of two episodes of the second series.

Some directors still balk at the use of " pan and scan " versions of their movies because they feel it compromises the directorial vision with which their movies were created.

As per the rules of the Dogme manifesto, he did not take a directorial credit and IMDb has the film listed with no director.

Wenders began his career during the New German Cinema era of the late 1960s, making his feature directorial debut with Summer in the City ( 1970 ).

Silent film star Charley Chase also shared directorial responsibilities with Lord and White, with more than pleasing results.

As a result, when the time came to make his solo directorial debut with The Colossus of Rhodes ( Il Colosso di Rodi, 1961 ), Leone was well-equipped to produce low-budget films which looked like larger budget Hollywood movies.

A longtime fan of Shakespeare, he made his directorial debut with Looking for Richard, a quasi-documentary on the play Richard III.

The film was highly acclaimed with critics, such as Jay Cocks in Time, Andrew Sarris in the Village Voice, and Archer Winsten in the New York Post all praising the film, as well as Eastwood's directorial skills and performance.

Eastwood's 30th directorial outing came with Invictus, a film based on the story of the South African team at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, with Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela, Matt Damon as rugby team captain François Pienaar and Grant L. Roberts as Ruben Kruger.

Bogdanovich turned back to writing as his directorial career sagged, beginning with The Killing of the Unicorn: Dorothy Stratten ( 1960 – 1980 ), a memoir published in 1984.

She made her directorial debut in 2007 with Then She Found Me.

Her big-screen directorial debut came with the film Then She Found Me, in which she also starred, with Colin Firth and Matthew Broderick.

( This ballet had originally debuted, in 1912, under different directorial auspices, with sets by Piotr Lambine.

Upon its release, the feature received mixed reviews ; The Los Angeles Times wrote that Hawke's directorial debut " has brought Nicolette Burdette's play to the screen with fluid grace and a perfect blend of dreaminess and grit ", while The Boston Globe stated that his direction is not apparent in Chelsea Walls.

Soon after that film's 1969 release, Argento began working on his directorial debut, the giallo film The Bird with the Crystal Plumage, which was released in 1970 and was a major hit in Italy.

Schneider's directorial debut, the comedy Big Stan, was released in some overseas markets during the fall of 2008, with a U. S. release in early 2009.

Khan's next release will be Yash Chopra's final directorial venture Jab Tak Hai Jaan, opposite Katrina Kaif and Anushka Sharma which is set for release in 13 November 2012.

Karan Johar's directorial debut, Kuch Kuch Hota Hai, starring Shahrukh Khan and Kajol, was her next release.

According to Tarantino's audio commentary on the DVD release, he was happy with the way it turned out as, apart from changing the nonlinear narrative he wrote to a more conventional linear structure, it was largely faithful to his original screenplay and, although he initially opposed director Tony Scott's decision to change the ending ( which Scott maintained was of his own volition, not the studio's, saying " I just fell in love with these two characters and didn ’ t want to see them die ") he realized when seeing the completed film that Scott's happy ending was more appropriate to the film as he had directed it, whereas the originally scripted ending would have been more suited to Tarantino's directorial style.

Her first release, however, was Shyam Benegal's directorial debut Ankur ( 1974 ).

Upon release, the film met with mixed reviews from film critics and received polarizing reactions to Karan Johar's " larger-than-life " directorial style.

The high-charting release, as well as an increase in sales for other Bluth-directed titles, has sparked interest for a return to his as-yet unconfirmed 12th directorial feature.

Tees Maar Khan, her next directorial release, received mostly negative reviews but was a semi hit at the box office.

" The Power Is On " was also used in Drew Barrymore's directorial debut motion picture Whip It, but does not appear on the soundtrack release.

Apatow's next directorial effort, the Knocked Up spin-off This Is Forty, has been set by Universal Pictures for a December 21, 2012 release and features Graham Parker & The Rumour.

Although the US release lists him as artistic director and Corey Yuen as director, the opening credits of the European release grant him directorial credit and list Yuen as action director.

In 2008, around the release of his American directorial debut Midnight Meat Train, Ryuhei Kitamura began mentioning a possible American remake of Versus.

" " Thomas Lee " was chosen as a directorial pseudonym for release, as the name Alan Smithee had become too well known as a badge of a film being disowned by its makers.

The Blob ( 1972 ) ( directorial debut )

Way of the Dragon (, released in the United States as Return of the Dragon ) is a 1972 Hong Kong martial arts action comedy film written, produced and directed by Bruce Lee his directorial debut, and starring Lee and Chuck Norris.

Raft turned down the lead in John Huston's directorial debut The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), due to its being a cleaned up version of the pre-Production Code The Maltese Falcon ( 1931 ), his contract stipulating that he did not have to appear in remakes.

Forman co-starred alongside actor Edward Norton in the actor's directorial debut, Keeping the Faith ( 2000 ), as the wise friend to Norton's conflicted priest.

Against expectations, the film went on to become the highest-grossing film to date ( it was surpassed in 2010 by Cameron's directorial follow-up, Avatar ), grossing more than US $ 1. 843 billion in box-office receipts worldwide, and transformed DiCaprio into a commercial movie superstar, resulting in fan worship among teenage girls and young women in general that became known as " Leo-Mania.

Von Sydow has since won the Australian Film Institute's Best Actor Award for his title role in Father ( 1989 ), the Guldbagge Best Director Award for his only directorial foray, Katinka ( Ved vejen, 1988 ), based on a novel by Herman Bang, and the Best Actor Award at the Tokyo International Film Festival for The Silent Touch ( Dotknięcie ręki, 1993 ).

* Parts of the 1996 TV film, The Christmas Tree ( film ), Sally Field's TV directorial debut, were shot in the Braddock Carnegie Library.

He made his directorial debut a year later with the 2002 biographical thriller Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and has since directed Good Night, and Good Luck ( 2005 ), Leatherheads ( 2008 ), and The Ides of March ( 2011 ).

He made his directorial feature debut with Chelsea Walls ( 2002 ), an independent drama about five struggling artists living in the famed Chelsea Hotel in New York City.

Pommer first approached Fritz Lang to direct this film, but Lang was committed to work on Die Spinnen ( The Spiders ), so Pommer gave directorial duties to Robert Wiene.

McKimson's first directorial work, Daffy Doodles ( at least his first released directorial work, though it was for the most part a Frank Tashlin cartoon ; he cut his actual directorial teeth on a Seaman Hook wartime cartoon for military audiences in 1944 ), wherein Daffy draws moustaches on all the pre-drawn ( and even some natural ) faces in his sight, was released in early April 1946.

She was married to James Rennie ( actor ) ( 1890 – 1965 ), a Canadian-born actor who was her co-star in Remodeling Her Husband ( filmed in 1920, it was directed by Dorothy's older sister, Lillian, in her only directorial outing ).

She also starred as the lead in her father's final directorial film, The Dead ( 1987 ), an adaptation of a James Joyce story.

Her first directorial credit was Bastard Out of Carolina ( 1996 ), followed by Agnes Browne ( 1999 ), in which she both directed and starred, and then Riding the Bus with My Sister ( 2005 ).

One of the first films about a fan being disturbingly obsessed with their idol was Clint Eastwood's directorial debut film, Play Misty for Me ( 1971 ), about a California disc jockey pursued by a disturbed female listener ( Jessica Walter ).

The following year, Wertmüller made her directorial debut with The Lizards ( I Basilischi ), a film whose subject matter ( the lives of impoverished people in southern Italy ) would become a recurring motif in her later work.

Anthony Minghella's biggest directorial success was The English Patient ( 1996 ), winning nine Academy Awards.

At the turn of the century, three major international British successes were the romantic comedies Bridget Jones's Diary ( 2001 ), sequel Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason ( 2004 ), and Richard Curtis's directorial debut Love Actually ( 2003 ).