Directors

Discover renowned celebrities who have made a mark as directors. Explore their influential works, the stories behind their creations, and the impact they have had on the film industry. From acclaimed auteurs to iconic stars who turned their talents behind the camera, our comprehensive list showcases the most influential directors of all time.

Spanish theater and opera director

Israeli theatre director

French theatre actor and director

Tito Capobianco

Argentine opera director

Firudin Safarov

Azerbaijani, Uzbek musician, director, music teacher

Artistic director, actor, screenwriter

Polish theatre director, theatre teacher, theatre figure.

Leontiy Dubovik

Ukrainian Soviet theater director and teacher

English actor and theatre director

Soviet theatre director, People's Artist of the Azerbaijan SSR

Soviet actor, theatre figure, director

Argentine actor, writer and theatre director

Izakin Grinshpun

Soviet theatre director

American-Canadian former artistic director of Canada's Stratford Festival.

Irina Zilberman

Ukrainian producer and theatre director

Theater director, playwright, stage designer and teacher

Polish theatre director, painter, graphic artist, stage designer

Chicano artist, writer, theater director and social activist

French theater and opera director, actor and librettist

Alexander Bryantsev

Russian actor, theatre director, teacher

Jacob Thomas Grein

English theatre figure.

English theater and opera director

Boris Borin-Schwartzman

Soviet theatre director

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

English actor, director, theater teacher and impresario

Ukrainian theatre director, theatre teacher, actor

German actor and theatre director.

Brazilian theatre director, writer and social activist

Eduards Smilgis

Latvian theater director

Nugzar Bagration-Georgian

Direct male descendant of the last Georgian king George XII

French theatre director, choreographer and puppeteer

Estonian and Soviet theatre actor and director

Wolfgang Langhoff

German theatre director, actor, writer

Dmitriy Aleksidze

Georgian Soviet theatre director

American opera director and producer

Mykolas Jatautis

Lithuanian Soviet actor and theater director

Angel Gutierrez

Spanish theatre director, actor, professor at GITIS

Boris Ravenskih

Soviet theatre director and teacher

Ukrainian Soviet actor, theater and film director, theater teacher

Armenian and Turkish director, entrepreneur, actor, theater figure

Patrice Chereau

French opera, film and theatre director, actor and producer

Ukrainian Soviet theatre actor and director

Marietta Alboni

Famous Italian opera singer-contralto

Ludwig Chronegk

Theater director and actor

Yanuariy Bortnik

Ukrainian Soviet theatre director

Irina Keruchenko

Russian theatre director

Alexey Granovskiy

Theatre director

American theatre director

Elijah Moshinsky

Australian opera, theatre and television director

Imants Krenbergs

Soviet and Latvian actor, theater and film director

British director and choreographer