Directors Who Can Also Act
Directors Who Can Also Act
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:21pm
Spike Lee
Woody Allen
David Lynch (For his voice alone...)
List some more!
AnnaK<3LMIP
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/20/07
#2re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:24pmMel Gibson
NathanLaneStalker
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/11/06
#2re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:25pm
Ron Howard
Jim Henson (R.I.P.)
Bob Saget
For some reason I can't think of any others...
#3re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:25pm
Paul Mazursky
Warren Beatty
Sydney Pollack
Kevin Smith
Alex Cox
#4re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:26pmRichard Attenborough
~Dirty Rotten Scoundrels~
~Curtains~
~A Tale of Two Cities ~
#5re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:34pm
Dorothy Lyman
Ted Wass
Jodie Foster
#6re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:38pmI feel like I've heard that Marian Seldes did some directing, but I can't recall.
#7re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:42pmPenny Marshall
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
#8re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:42pmAnd Garry Marshall, too.
professor
Stand-by Joined: 7/3/05
#9re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/22/07 at 11:53pm
Orson Welles
Laurence Olivier
Kenneth Branagh
#10re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:00amKevin Costner
Vita, dulcedo, et spes nostra
Salve, Salve Regina
Ad te clamamus exsules filii Eva
Ad te suspiramus, gementes et flentes
O clemens O pia
MargoChanning
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/5/04
#11re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:05am
Chaplin
Scorcese
Tarantino
Fosse
Eastwood
Rob Reiner
Carl Reiner
Mel Brooks
Otto Preminger
George C. Wolfe
George Abbott
Walter Bobbie
Eva LeGallienne
Katherine Cornell
Terry Gilliam and Terry Jones
Christopher Guest
Polanski
John Huston
Hitchcock (sort of)
#12re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:06am
Clint Eastwood
Ron Howard
Quentin Tarantino... just kidding
#13re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:06amJoe Mantello
-Kad
"I have also met him in person, and I find him to be quite funny actually. Arrogant and often misinformed, but still funny."
-bjh2114 (on Michael Riedel)
#14re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:25am
Sydney Pollack! I loved him on Will & Grace!
Updated On: 4/23/07 at 12:25 AM
#15re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 12:53amYes, Sydney Pollack has been having a more succuessful acting career lately than a directing career. Between Husbands and Wives, Will and Grace, Death Becomes Her, just to name a few, he's flourishing as a character actor.
#16re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 1:13amAcademy Award Winner, Robert Redford, Best Director
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#17re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 3:16am
Christopher Guest is amazing. Able to change his look, voice, and demeanor in every film. He's a f***ing chameleon!
Though he vowed never to direct anything again (Which is a total shame), Billy Bob Thornton's work directing himself in SLING BLADE was amazing.
Quentin Tarantino may not be the greatest actor of all time, but his voice is hilarious enough that some of his lines become unintentional classics. ("...but I ain't nevah seen a one-legged stripper.")
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#18re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 3:17amSame goes with David Lynch. Horrible horrible horrible actor but what a masterstroke it was to cast him as a deaf man, thus causing him to shout everything. ("COOPER! YOU REMIND ME OF A MEXICAN CHEE-WOW-WOW!")
Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#19re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:41amAww - I thought this was going to be about Broadway directors who started as actors, such as Jerry Zaks, Lonny Price, Gabriel Barre and Scott Ellis - not to mention Bob Fosse, Gower Champion and Tommy Tune.
#20re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 8:54amIda Lupino
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skingdom
Broadway Star Joined: 6/29/03
RadiGal2
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/8/07
#22re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 9:33am
Barbra Streisand
Kevin Costner
Peter Bogdanovich
Mamie
Broadway Legend Joined: 3/26/04
#23re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:19amI really enjoy the work of many of those already mentioned - but my heart will always be with Francois Truffaut.
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Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#24re: Directors Who Can Also Act
Posted: 4/23/07 at 10:51amDon't forget Garry Marshall....sooo hilarious in SOAP DISH and LOST IN AMERICA.
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