Secret Lives of Great Filmmakers

Introduction D. W. Griffith January 22, 1875–July 23, 1948 Cecil B. Demille August 12, 1881–January 21, 1959 Charlie Chaplin April 16, 1889–December 25, 1977 John Ford February 1, 1894–August 31, 1973 Howard Hawks May 30, 1896–December 26, 1977 Oscar Micheaux and Other Overlooked Directors from Hollywood’s Golden Age Frank Capra May 18, 1897–September 3, 1991 Alfred Hitchcock August 13, 1899–April 29, 1980 Luis Buñuel February 22, 1900–July 29, 1983 Walt Disney December 5, 1901–December 15, 1966 Louis B. Mayer and Other Legendary Producers Leni Riefenstahl August 22, 1902–September 8, 2003 Elia Kazan September 7, 1909–September 28, 2003 Akira Kurosawa March 23, 1910–September 6, 1998 Orson Welles May 6, 1915–October 10, 1985 Ingmar Bergman July 4, 1918–July 30, 2007 Ed Wood Jr. and Other Masters of Schlock Federico Fellini January 20, 1920–October 31, 1993 Robert Altman February 20, 1925–November 20, 2006 Sam Peckinpah February 21, 1925–December 28, 1984 Stanley Kubrick July 26, 1928–March 7, 1999 Sergio Leone January 3, 1929–April 30, 1989 Don Siegel and Other Masters of Genre Films Jean-Luc Godard December 3, 1930– François Truffaut February 6, 1932–October 21, 1984 Roman Polanski August 18, 1933– Woody Allen December 1, 1935– Francis Ford Coppola April 7, 1939– Brian De Palma September 11, 1940– Alice Guy-Blaché and Other Overlooked Women Directors Werner Herzog September 5, 1942– Martin Scorsese November 17, 1942– George Lucas May 14, 1944– David Lynch January 20, 1946– Oliver Stone September 15, 1946– Steven Spielberg December 18, 1946– Stephen King and Other People Who Had No Business Directing Movies Pedro Almodóvar September 24, 1949– The Coen Brothers Joel Coen November 29, 1954– Ethan Coen September 21, 1957– Spike Lee March 20, 1957– Quentin Tarantino March 27, 1963– Selected Bibliography Index About the Author