Cronenberg has collaborated with composer Howard Shore on all of his films since The Brood ( 1979 ), ( see List of noted film director and composer collaborations ) with the exception of The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), which was scored by Michael Kamen.

In 1920 the short-lived company Minerva Films was founded in London by the actor Leslie Howard ( also producer and director ) and his friend and story editor Adrian Brunel.

* Howard Hawks, film director ( 1896 – 1977 )

Howard Winchester Hawks ( May 30, 1896December 26, 1977 ) was an American film director, producer and screenwriter of the classic Hollywood era.

" After the public's response to Bacall's debut performance in To Have and Have Not at the urging of director Howard Hawks production partner Charles K. Feldman, scenes were re-written to heighten the ' insolent ' quality that had intrigued critics and audiences in that film.

* 1926 – Howard Caine, American film and television director ( d. 1993 )

* 1954 – Ron Howard, American actor and director

* 1896 – Howard Hawks, American director ( d. 1977 )

In 2005, he re-teamed with A Beautiful Mind director Ron Howard for Cinderella Man.

* April 5 – Howard Hughes, American aviation pioneer, film director, and eccentric ( b. 1905 )

* May 30 – Howard Hawks, American director ( d. 1977 )

The film was directed by Clint Eastwood, since originally slated director Ron Howard declined due to scheduling conflicts.

Bosom Buddies and a guest appearance on a 1982 episode of Happy Days (" A Case of Revenge ," where he played a disgruntled former classmate of The Fonz ) prompted director Ron Howard to contact Hanks.

An obsessive cinema-goer, seeing up to 400 movies a year in his youth, Bogdanovich showcased the work of American directors such as Orson Welles and John Ford -- whom he later wrote a book about, based on the notes he had produced for the MoMA retrospective of the director -- and Howard Hawks.

* Land of the Pharaohs, with audio interview excepts of director Howard Hawks

That year, director Howard Hawks encountered Lombard at a party and became enamored with her, thinking her right for his latest project.

Many prominent individuals opposed the construction of the dam at that time because of the damage it would do to Seneca lands, including Pennsylvania Congressman John P. Saylor of Johnstown, and Howard Zahniser, executive director of The Wilderness Society and native of Tionesta — a small settlement located along the Allegheny River several miles downstream from Warren.

John Howard Carpenter ( born January 16, 1948 ) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor and composer.

In 1968, O ' Brien was appointed by Vice President Hubert Humphrey to serve as the national director of Humphrey's presidential campaign and, separately, by Howard Hughes, to serve as Hughes ' public-policy lobbyist in Washington.

Forging a collaboration with Scorsese, the two paired again for a biopic of the eccentric and obsessive American film director and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes in The Aviator ( 2004 ).

According to Howard Sherman, the executive director of the American Theatre Wing:

Ronald William " Ron " Howard ( born March 1, 1954 ) is an American film director, producer and former child actor.

Howard was born in Duncan, Oklahoma, the son of Jean Speegle Howard, an actress, and Rance Howard, a director, writer and actor.

Hawks then had his first experience as a film director at the age of twenty-one when he and cinematographer Charles Rosher spent the day filming a tricky double exposure dream sequence with Pickford.

The company was named Associated Producers and was a joint venture between Hawks, Allan Dwan, Marshall Neilan and director Allen Holubar, with a distribution deal through First National.

Although Hawks signed a new one-year contract with Famous-Players in the fall of 1924, he broke his contract to become a story editor for Thalberg at MGM with the promise that Thalberg would make him a director in a year.

Hawks completed initial shooting of the film in early 1941, but due to perfectionism and battles with the Hollywood Production Code, Hughes continued to re-shoot and re-edit the film until it was finally released in 1943, with Hawks uncredited as director.

His brothers were director / writer Kenneth Neil Hawks and film producer William Bettingger Hawks.

Hawks was versatile as a director, filming comedies, dramas, gangster films, science fiction, film noir, and Westerns.

Hawks also defined a good director as " someone who doesn't annoy you ".

Critic Leonard Maltin labeled Hawks " the greatest American director who is not a household name ," noting that, while his work may not be as well known as Ford, Welles, or DeMille, he is no less a talented filmmaker.

Hawks then hired screenwriter Dudley Nichols, most famous for working with director John Ford, to work on the script.

Wayne teamed up with director Howard Hawks to tell the story his way.

Friedkin credits his decision to direct the movie to a discussion with film director Howard Hawks, whose daughter was living with Friedkin at the time.

In 1944, the American film director Howard Hawks directed Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Hoagy Carmichael and Walter Brennan in the film To Have and Have Not.

* Athole Shearer ( 1900 – 1985 ), actress, wife of director Howard Hawks

In 1939, Cohn pressured director Howard Hawks to use Hayworth for a small but important role as a man-trap in the aviation drama Only Angels Have Wings, in which she played opposite Cary Grant and Jean Arthur.

Divorced, in 1928 she married again, this time to noted film director Howard Hawks ( 1896 – 1977 ).

In August 1979 Macias ' nephew from Mongomo and former director of the infamous Black Beach prison, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, led a successful coup d ' état ; Macias was arrested, tried, and executed.

In Scorsese on Scorsese, edited by David M. Thompson and Ian Christie, the director talks about how much of the film arose from his feeling that movies are like dreams, or like taking dope and that he tried to induce the feeling of being almost awake.

* Otto the Director ( Rita Moreno ): A hapless auteur dressed as an old-style Hollywood film director, Otto tried in vain to make her actors say a line correctly as printed on an oversized cue card held by Marcello ( Morgan Freeman ), her terrified ( but very loyal ) assistant.

* Nick Mancuso as Tom Breaker, the sleazy CIA director and Strannix's former boss who tried to kill Strannix when he went rogue.

The director tried to buy his love with movie roles and expensive gifts ; Kaufmann managed to destroy four Lamborghinis in a year.

After the Spanish film development lab discovered that telephone lines, helicopters and cars were visible in the footage, they tried to incinerate it, telling Bakshi's first assistant director, " if that kind of sloppy cinematography got out, no one from Hollywood would ever come back to Spain to shoot again.

Bolt's work for director David Lean garnered him particular acclaim and recognition, and Bolt tried his hand at directing with the unsuccessful Lady Caroline Lamb ( 1972 ).

Starting out as a comedy writer, then a film director ( he wrote and produced the 1967 film Divorce American Style and directed the 1971 film Cold Turkey, both starring Dick Van Dyke ), Lear tried to sell a concept for a sitcom about a blue-collar American family to ABC.

Madonna tried to buy the rights from director Stephen Jon Lewicki for $ 5, 000.

Laurents ' screenplay allegedly was unsatisfactory, and newly hired director David Lean tried to improve it with associate producer Norman Spencer and writers Donald Ogden Stewart and S. N.

As the music director of the Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan cultivated warm, blended beauty of tone, which has sometimes been criticized as too uniformly applied ; by contrast, in Bernstein's only appearance with the Berlin Philharmonic in 1979 – in the Mahler's Symphony No. 9 – he tried to get the orchestra to produce an " ugly " tone in a certain passage in which he believed it suited the expressive meaning of the music ( the first horn player refused, and finally agreed to let an understudy play instead of himself ).

When Debbie Reynolds was cast instead, MacLaine publicly accused her of agreeing to accept a lower salary in order to land the role, and director Charles Walters, who preferred MacLaine, tried to persuade Reynolds to turn down the part.

In 2006, Dietrich Wildung, the director of Berlin's Egyptian Museum, while trying a different lighting at Altes Museum – where the bust was then displayed – observed wrinkles on Nefertiti's neck and bags under her eyes, suggesting the sculptor had tried to depict signs of aging.

After the incident the regional director for Victory ROC tried to fire Heydenreycher, but the team threatened to resign if he did.

Kenji Kamiyama, the director of the Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex television series, considers Oshii his mentor, and states that he tried to copy Oshii's entire style when creating the Stand Alone Complex series, believing that audiences would be tricked into thinking Oshii had directed the series.

The director tried to help and sustained heavy arm injuries.

On the DVD commentaries, the director and the creators revealed that they tried to use a song of The Pixies, but could not afford the rights.

In 1932 he tried to demonstrate his credentials as a reliable and efficient director by filming a remake of Mater dolorosa which he completed within 18 days and within budget.

Beckman tried to find a new manager and left Shockley as a director with limited powers.

She tried to opt out of filming, before director Monty Banks persuaded her otherwise, landing her the lucrative Hollywood deal.

He noted that a director tried to get him to express wonderment by shouting " Picard controls the sky, man!

Apart from Captain Kirk, the episode introduced two other regular characters to the show: James Doohan, a friend of director James Goldstone, was cast as the Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott ( the name chosen after Doohan had tried various accents, and had decided that an engineer ought to be Scottish ) and George Takei was cast as Ship's Physicist Sulu, who would become the helmsman in the regular series.

Dinklage was chosen by director Andrew Adamson for the role of Trumpkin in Prince Caspian ( 2008 ), although film critic Bill Gibron described his role as a " cutesy stereotype he has tried to avoid.

The production team tried to find another director, even phoning Jose Ferrer, who could not undertake the job.

On seeing Brooks as a circus performer in the 1928 Howard Hawks ' film A Girl in Every Port, director G. W. Pabst tried to get her on loan from Paramount Pictures.