* 1948 – Régis Wargnier, French director and screenwriter

Bille August ( born 9 November 1948 ) is a Danish Academy Award winning film and television director.

Fuller taught at Black Mountain College in North Carolina during the summers of 1948 and 1949, serving as its Summer Institute director in 1949.

Christopher Haden-Guest, 5th Baron Haden-Guest ( born February 5, 1948 ), better known as Christopher Guest, is a British and American screenwriter, composer, musician, director, actor, and comedian.

David Llewelyn Wark " D. W ." Griffith ( January 22, 1875 – July 23, 1948 ) was a premier pioneering American film director.

* 1948 – Marleen Gorris, Dutch film director

* 1948 – Jed Johnson, American interior designer and film director ( d. 1996 )

Errol Mark Morris ( born February 5, 1948 ) is an American film director.

Debuting as a director with The Maltese Falcon ( 1941 ), John Huston followed with the major noirs Key Largo ( 1948 ) and The Asphalt Jungle ( 1950 ).

* 1948 – Christopher Guest, American film actor and director

* 1948 – Errol Morris, American film director

* 1948 – Mike Figgis, English director

* 1948 – Joe Roth, American director and producer, co-founded Morgan Creek Productions

* 1948 – Betty Thomas, American actor and director

* 1875 – D. W. Griffith, American film director ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Ben Burtt, American director, screenwriter, and sound designer

* 1874 – Fred Niblo, American film actor, director, producer ( d. 1948 )

* 1879 – Charles Bryant, British actor and film director ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Gillies MacKinnon, Scottish film director

* 1948 – John Carpenter, American film director

* 1948 – Gerald Casale, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and director ( Devo and Jihad Jerry & the Evildoers )

* 1885 – Jacques Feyder, Belgian actor, screenwriter, and director ( d. 1948 )

* 1948 – Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer, songwriter and film director

* 1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor / director ( b. 1896 )

* 1948 – Bille August, Danish film and television director

* 1932 – Billy Laughlin, American actor ( d. 1948 )

* August 7 – Billy T. James New Zealand comedian ( b. 1948 )

In 1948, Yankees ' scout Tom Greenwade came to Baxter Springs to watch Mantle's teammate, third baseman Billy Johnson.

* Billy Paultz ( born 1948 ), former ABA and NBA basketball player, nicknamed " The Whopper.

Films made in Gallup included Billy the Kid ( 1930 ), Pursued ( 1947 ), The Sea of Grass ( 1947 ), Four Faces West ( 1948 ), Only the Valiant ( 1951 ), Ace in the Hole ( 1951 ), Escape from Fort Bravo ( 1953 ), A Distant Trumpet ( 1964 ) and The Hallelujah Trail ( 1965 ).

While Dietrich arguably never fully regained her former screen glory, she continued performing in the movies, including appearances for such distinguished directors as Billy Wilder, Fritz Lang, Alfred Hitchcock and Orson Welles, in films that included A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ), Stage Fright ( 1950 ), Rancho Notorious ( 1952 ), Witness for the Prosecution ( 1957 ), and Touch of Evil ( 1958 ).

In 1948 Holloway toured for six months in Australia around Melbourne and in New Zealand supported by the band leader Billy Mayerl.

" For the next several years, she turned down virtually all film offers, the two exceptions being Billy Wilder's A Foreign Affair ( 1948 ), in which she played a congresswoman and rival of Marlene Dietrich, and as a homesteader's wife in the classic Western Shane ( 1953 ), which turned out to be the biggest box-office hit of her career.

Both George K. Spoor ( in 1948 ) and Broncho Billy Anderson ( in 1958 ) received Oscars, specifically Academy Honorary Awards, for their pioneering efforts with Essanay.

* Billy Herman ( 1948 )

Billy Graham served as the school's second president from 1948 to 1952.

* Dr. Billy Graham 1948 to 1952

Billy Strayhorn, New York, N. Y., between 1946 and 1948

In 1948 Billy Butlin acquired two hotels in The Bahamas and in the 1950s, Butlins began opening hotels in the UK: Saltdean, Brighton ( 1953 ), Blackpool ( 1955 ) and five in Cliftonville ( 1955 – 1956 ).

By 1948, Rice believed Graham might become another Dwight L. Moody or Billy Sunday, and Graham's evangelistic successes were regularly trumpeted in the pages of The Sword of the Lord.

He was very successful with Spurs, playing as a right-back in more than 250 cup and league games, and in 1948 made his England debut against Switzerland ; he went on to captain his country three times, all in games where the regular skipper Billy Wright was unavailable through injury.

* In 1948, Chic Young's work on the strip won him the National Cartoonists Society's Billy DeBeck Award for Cartoonist of the Year.

A second text, edited on different principles by F. Barron Freeman, was published in 1948, as Melville's Billy Budd ( Cambridge: Harvard University Press ).

* Billy Zoom ( born 1948 ), American guitarist and founding member of punk band X

William Robert " Billy " Laughlin ( July 5, 1932-August 31, 1948 ) was an American child actor.

One of Clarence Campbell's first acts of authority was in 1948, when he expelled players Billy Taylor and Don Gallinger from the NHL for betting on games.

One of his first acts of authority was in 1948, when he expelled players Billy Taylor and Don Gallinger from the NHL for betting on games.

DC Comics published the long-running series All-Star Western ( 1951 – 1961 ) and Western Comics ( 1948 – 1961 ), and Charlton Comics published Billy the Kid ( 1957 – 1983 ) and Cheyenne Kid ( 1957 – 1973 ).

Joint Promotions was represented in London by the Dale Martin promotion, which had incorporated in 1948, and involved Les Martin, and Jack, Johnny and Billy Dale, whose real last names were, in fact, Abby not Dale.