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American television directors

  • Alfred HitchcockOn the 13th of August 1899, a boy named Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in the flat above his parents' greengrocer shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone.
  • Simon KinbergSimon David Kinberg arrived in Hammersmith, London, on the 2nd of August 1973. His parents were American citizens who moved him to Los Angeles when he was…
  • Martin ScorseseMartin Scorsese was born on the 17th of November 1942 in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens. He grew up in the Little Italy section of Manhattan where his…
  • Woody AllenAllan Stewart Konigsberg was born on the 30th of November 1935 at Mount Eden Hospital in Bronx, New York City. He grew up in Brooklyn's Midwood neighborhood…
  • Steven SpielbergSteven Allan Spielberg was born on the 18th of December 1946, in Cincinnati, Ohio. His mother Leah Adler ran a kosher dairy restaurant and played concert…
  • David LynchDavid Keith Lynch was born at St. Patrick's Hospital in Missoula, Montana, on the 20th of January 1946. His father worked as a USDA research scientist and…
  • Clint EastwoodClinton Eastwood Jr. arrived at Saint Francis Memorial Hospital in San Francisco on the 31st of May 1930. Nurses nicknamed him Samson because he weighed more…
  • Ralph BakshiRalph Bakshi was born on the 29th of October 1938, in Haifa, Mandatory Palestine. His family moved to the United States in 1939 and settled in the…
  • David FincherDavid Andrew Leo Fincher was born in Denver on the 28th of August 1962. His family moved to San Anselmo, California when he was two years old.
  • Snoop DoggCalvin Cordozar Broadus Jr. arrived in Long Beach, California on the 20th of October 1971. His biological father left the family three months after his…
  • Ron HowardRonald William Howard entered the world on the 1st of March 1954, in Duncan, Oklahoma. His father Rance Howard served three years in the United States Air…
  • Rian JohnsonRian Johnson was born on the 17th of December 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland. He grew up in Denver, Colorado until sixth grade before moving to San…
  • J. J. AbramsOn a day in 1982, Jeffrey Jacob Abrams composed the music for a horror movie called Nightbeast. He was only sixteen years old when he wrote that score.
  • Russo brothersAnthony J. Russo was born on the 3rd of February 1970 in Cleveland, Ohio. His brother Joseph Vincent Russo followed him into the world on the 18th of July…
  • Dean DevlinDon Devlin, a Jewish actor turned writer-producer who discovered Steven Spielberg, and Pilar Seurat, a Filipino actress, raised Dean Devlin in the…
  • Howard KazanjianHoward Kazanjian entered the world on the 26th of July 1942 in Los Angeles County. His father hailed from Tigranakert while his mother was born in Pasadena.
  • Charlie KaufmanCharles Stuart Kaufman was born on the 19th of November 1958 in New York City to a Jewish family. His parents were Helen and Myron Kaufman.
  • Donald GloverDonald McKinley Glover Jr. arrived at Edwards Air Force Base in California on the 25th of September 1983. His father worked as a postal worker stationed…
  • Dave FiloniDavid Filoni was born on the 7th of June 1974 in Mt. Lebanon, Pennsylvania. He grew up as a suburb of Pittsburgh with an Italian family background.
  • Patty JenkinsPatricia Lea Jenkins was born on the 24th of July 1971 in Victorville, California. Her father William T. Jenkins served as a U.S.
  • D. B. WeissDaniel Brett Weiss was born on the 23rd of April 1971 in Chicago, Illinois. His family background traces back to Jewish roots with ancestral lines extending…
  • David BenioffDavid Friedman entered the world on the 25th of September 1970, in New York City. He grew up as the youngest of three children in a Jewish family with…
  • Joss WhedonJoseph Hill Whedon was born on the 23rd of June 1964 in New York City. He grew up on the Upper West Side as part of a family deeply embedded in television…
  • Kelsey GrammerAllen Kelsey Grammer was born on the 21st of February 1955 in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. His mother Sally Cranmer worked as a dancer under the name…
  • The Duffer BrothersMatt Duffer and Ross Duffer were born on the 15th of February 1984 in Durham, North Carolina. They began making films in the third grade using a Hi8 video…
  • Irvin KershnerIrvin Kershner was born Isadore Kershner on the 29th of April 1923 in Philadelphia. His parents were Ukrainian-Jewish immigrants who filled his early years…
  • James MangoldJames Allen Mangold entered the world on the 16th of December 1963 within New York City. He grew up in Washingtonville, a small town located deep inside the…
  • John KortyJohn Korty was born on the 22nd of June 1936 in Lafayette, Indiana. He began making amateur films while still a teenager.
  • Jonathan TropperJonathan Tropper was born on the 19th of February 1970 in the Riverdale section of the Bronx. He grew up in a liberal observant Jewish home that shaped his…
  • Jon FavreauJonathan Kolia Favreau was born in Flushing, Queens, New York, on the 19th of October 1966. He grew up as the only child of Madeleine, an elementary school…
  • William DearWilliam Dear was born on the 30th of November 1943 in Toronto, Ontario. His professional journey began in the early 1970s when he directed industrial films…
  • Chris TerrioChris Terrio was born on the 31st of December 1976 in Staten Island. He grew up within a Catholic family that shaped his early worldview.
  • Michael Lindsay-HoggMichael Lindsay-Hogg was born on the 5th of May 1940 in New York City. His mother Geraldine Fitzgerald married Sir Edward William Lindsay-Hogg before his…