LISTS

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Jim Abrahams	Film Director	10-May-1944		Airplane!
Olivier Assayas	Film Director	25-Jan-1955		Clean
Roger Avary	Screenwriter	23-Aug-1965		Co-Author, Pulp Fiction
George Axelrod	Screenwriter	9-Jun-1922	21-Jun-2003	The Seven Year Itch
Alan Ball	Screenwriter	13-May-1957		American Beauty
Jacques Becker	Film Director	15-Sep-1906	21-Feb-1960	Le Trou
Robert Benchley	Author	15-Sep-1889	21-Nov-1945	Humorist and screenwriter
Robert Benton	Film Director	29-Sep-1932		Kramer vs. Kramer
Andrew Bergman	Screenwriter	20-Feb-1945		Striptease
Bertrand Blier	Film Director	14-Mar-1939		Going Places
Robert Bolt	Playwright	15-Aug-1924	20-Feb-1995	A Man for All Seasons
Charles Brackett	Screenwriter	26-Nov-1892	9-Mar-1969	Billy Wilder's collaborator
Irving Brecher	Screenwriter	17-Jan-1914	17-Nov-2008	Meet Me in St. Louis
Richard Brooks	Film Director	18-May-1912	11-Mar-1992	In Cold Blood
W. R. Burnett	Novelist	25-Nov-1899	25-Apr-1982	Little Caesar
James Cameron	Film Director	16-Aug-1954		Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar
John Paddy Carstairs	Film Director	11-May-1910	12-Dec-1970	The Saint in London
André Cayatte	Film Director	3-Feb-1909	6-Feb-1989	Verdict
Larry Charles	Screenwriter	1-Dec-1956		Seinfeld writer, also directed Borat
Paddy Chayefsky	Playwright	29-Jan-1923	1-Aug-1981	Network
Jay Cocks	Screenwriter	12-Jan-1944		Screenwriter, Gangs of New York
Larry Cohen	Film Director	15-Jul-1938		The Stuff
Lester Cole	Screenwriter	19-Jun-1904	15-Aug-1985	Born Free
Betty Comden	Songwriter	3-May-1915	23-Nov-2006	Singin' in the Rain
Michael Cristofer	Playwright	22-Jan-1945		The Shadow Box
Frank Darabont	Film Director	28-Jan-1959		The Shawshank Redemption
Delmer Daves	Film Director	24-Jul-1904	17-Aug-1977	Destination Tokyo
Joan Didion	Author	5-Dec-1934		Slouching Toward Bethlehem
John Gregory Dunne	Novelist	25-May-1932	30-Dec-2003	True Confessions
Marguerite Duras	Novelist	4-Apr-1914	3-Mar-1996	Hiroshima mon Amour
Blake Edwards	Film Director	26-Jul-1922	15-Dec-2010	The Pink Panther
Joe Eszterhas	Screenwriter	23-Nov-1944		Showgirls, Basic Instinct
David M. Evans	Film Director	20-Oct-1962		The Sandlot
John Fante	Author	8-Apr-1909	8-May-1983	Bukowski's idol
Asghar Farhadi	Film Director	1972		A Separation
John Farrow	Screenwriter	10-Feb-1904	28-Jan-1963	Around the World in Eighty Days
Horton Foote	Playwright	14-Mar-1916	4-Mar-2009	To Kill a Mockingbird
Melvin Frank	Screenwriter	13-Aug-1913	13-Oct-1988	A Touch of Class
Samuel Fuller	Film Director	12-Aug-1912	30-Oct-1997	Pickup on South Street
Terry George	Film Director	20-Dec-1952		Hotel Rwanda
Ricky Gervais	Actor	25-Jun-1961		The Office
Sidney Gilliat	Film Director	15-Feb-1908	31-May-1994	Green for Danger
Frank D. Gilroy	Playwright	13-Oct-1925		The Subject Was Roses
Tony Gilroy	Screenwriter	11-Sep-1956		The Bourne Legacy
Charles B. Griffith	Screenwriter	23-Sep-1930	28-Sep-2007	Little Shop of Horrors
John Guare	Playwright	5-Feb-1938		Six Degrees of Separation
Paul Haggis	Screenwriter	10-Mar-1953		Crash
Sam Hamm	Screenwriter	19-Nov-1955		Never Cry Wolf, Batman
Oscar Hammerstein II	Musician	12-Jul-1895	23-Aug-1960	Rodgers and Hammerstein
David Hare	Playwright	5-Jun-1947		Racing Demon
David Hayter	Actor	6-Feb-1969		Voice of Solid Snake
Ben Hecht	Screenwriter	28-Feb-1894	18-Apr-1964	The Front Page
Brian Helgeland	Screenwriter	17-Jan-1961		A Knight's Tale
Lillian Hellman	Playwright	20-Jun-1905	30-Jun-1984	Little Foxes
Michael Hitchcock	Actor	28-Jul-1958		MadTV
Agnieszka Holland	Film Director	28-Nov-1948		Europa, Europa
Sidney Coe Howard	Playwright	26-Jun-1891	23-Aug-1939	They Knew What They Wanted
John Hughes	Film Director	18-Feb-1950	6-Aug-2009	Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Evan Hunter	Novelist	15-Oct-1926	7-Jul-2005	The Blackboard Jungle
Armando Iannucci	Screenwriter	28-Nov-1963		The Thick of It
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	Novelist	7-May-1927		Heat and Dust
Nunnally Johnson	Screenwriter	5-Dec-1897	25-Mar-1977	The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit
Jerry Juhl	Screenwriter	27-Jul-1938	27-Sep-2005	Head writer, The Muppet Show
Garson Kanin	Screenwriter	24-Nov-1912	13-Mar-1999	It Should Happen to You
Charlie Kaufman	Screenwriter	20-Sep-1958		Being John Malkovich, Adaptation
Philip Kaufman	Film Director	23-Oct-1936		The Right Stuff
Richard Kelly	Screenwriter	28-Mar-1975		Donnie Darko
Burt Kennedy	Film Director	3-Sep-1922	15-Feb-2001	Support Your Local Sheriff
William Kennedy	Novelist	16-Jan-1928		Ironweed and The Cotton Club
Roland Kibbee	Screenwriter	15-Feb-1914	5-Aug-1984	A Night in Casablanca
Steve Kloves	Screenwriter	18-Mar-1960		Screenwriter, Harry Potter films
David Koepp	Screenwriter	9-Jun-1963		Screenwriter, Jurassic Park
Norman Krasna	Playwright	7-Nov-1909	1-Nov-1984	The Devil and Miss Jones
Richard LaGravenese	Screenwriter	30-Oct-1959		Screenwriter, The Fisher King
Frank Launder	Film Director	28-Jan-1906	23-Feb-1997	The Belles of St. Trinian's
Arthur Laurents	Playwright	14-Jul-1918	5-May-2011	West Side Story
John Howard Lawson	Playwright	25-Sep-1894	11-Aug-1977	One of the Hollywood Ten
Charles Lederer	Screenwriter	31-Dec-1911	5-Mar-1976	His Girl Friday
Sergio Leone	Film Director	3-Jan-1929	30-Apr-1989	Writer/director of spaghetti westerns
Jeremy Leven	Film Director	1941		Don Juan DeMarco
Anita Loos	Novelist	26-Apr-1893	18-Aug-1981	Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Jonathan Lynn	Screenwriter	3-Apr-1943		Yes, Minister
Ranald MacDougall	Screenwriter	10-Mar-1915	12-Dec-1973	We're No Angels
Albert Maltz	Playwright	28-Oct-1908	26-Apr-1985	One of the Hollywood Ten
Abby Mann	Screenwriter	1-Dec-1927	25-Mar-2008	Judgment at Nuremberg
Michael Mann	Film Director	5-Feb-1943		Manhunter
Elaine May	Comic	21-Apr-1932		Wrote and directed Ishtar
Thomas McGuane	Novelist	11-Dec-1939		The Sporting Club
Don McKellar	Actor	17-Aug-1963		Last Night
Nancy Meyers	Film Director	8-Dec-1949		What Women Want
David Mills	Screenwriter	20-Nov-1961	30-Mar-2010	Writer for The Wire
Mario Monicelli	Film Director	15-May-1915	29-Nov-2010	Big Deal on Madonna Street
Ryan Murphy	Screenwriter	9-Nov-1965		Creator, Glee
Andrew Niccol	Screenwriter	10-Jun-1964		Gattaca
Dan O'Bannon	Screenwriter	30-Sep-1946	17-Dec-2009	Alien, Total Recall
Clifford Odets	Playwright	18-Jul-1906	14-Aug-1963	Sweet Smell of Success
Marcel Pagnol	Screenwriter	28-Feb-1895	18-Apr-1974	Jean de Florette
Norman Panama	Screenwriter	21-Apr-1914	13-Jan-2003	The Court Jester
Alexander Payne	Film Director	10-Feb-1961		About Schmidt
S. J. Perelman	Author	1-Feb-1904	17-Oct-1979	New Yorker humorist
Daniel Petrie, Jr.	Screenwriter	1952		Toy Soldiers
Manuel Puig	Novelist	28-Dec-1932	22-Jul-1990	Kiss of the Spider Woman
Bob Rafelson	Film Director	21-Feb-1933		Five Easy Pieces
Terence Rattigan	Playwright	10-Jun-1911	30-Nov-1977	Separate Tables
Satyajit Ray	Film Director	2-May-1921	23-Apr-1992	Pather Panchali
Phil Alden Robinson	Film Director	1-Mar-1950		Field of Dreams
Gene Roddenberry	Screenwriter	19-Aug-1921	24-Oct-1991	Creator of Star Trek
Don Roos	Screenwriter	14-Apr-1955		The Opposite of Sex
Robert Rossen	Screenwriter	16-Mar-1908	18-Feb-1966	The Hustler
Russell Rouse	Screenwriter	20-Nov-1913	2-Oct-1987	Pillow Talk
Richard Sale	Screenwriter	17-Dec-1911	4-Mar-1993	A Ticket to Tomahawk
Herbert Sargent	Screenwriter	15-Jul-1923	6-May-2005	SNL writer
Dore Schary	Film/TV Producer	31-Aug-1905	7-Jul-1980	President of MGM, 1951-56
Budd Schulberg	Novelist	27-Mar-1914	5-Aug-2009	What Makes Sammy Run?
Josh Schwartz	Screenwriter	6-Aug-1976		Creator, The O.C.
Ettore Scola	Screenwriter	10-May-1931		A Special Day
George Seaton	Screenwriter	17-Apr-1911	28-Jul-1979	Miracle on 34th Street
Erich Segal	Novelist	16-Jun-1937	17-Jan-2010	Love Story
Jorge Semprún	Novelist	10-Dec-1923	7-Jun-2011	Screenplay for Z
Anthony Shaffer	Screenwriter	15-May-1926	6-Nov-2001	The Wicker Man, Sleuth
Sidney Sheldon	Author	11-Feb-1917	30-Jan-2007	Annie Get Your Gun
Ron Shelton	Film Director	15-Sep-1945		White Men Can't Jump
M. Night Shyamalan	Film Director	6-Aug-1970		The Sixth Sense
Stephen Sommers	Screenwriter	20-Mar-1962		The Mummy
Terry Southern	Novelist	1-May-1924	29-Oct-1995	Dr. Strangelove
Aaron Spelling	Film/TV Producer	22-Apr-1923	23-Jun-2006	Beverly Hills 90210
Jerry Stahl	Author	28-Sep-1953		Permanent Midnight
Sylvester Stallone	Actor	6-Jul-1946		Rocky, Rambo
Darren Star	Film/TV Producer	c. 1961		Creator of Beverly Hills 90210 franchise
Donald Ogden Stewart	Author	30-Nov-1894	2-Aug-1980	The Philadelphia Story
Nicholas Stoller	Screenwriter	19-Mar-1976		Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Preston Sturges	Screenwriter	29-Aug-1898	6-Aug-1959	Sullivan's Travels
Eric Sykes	Actor	4-May-1923	4-Jul-2012	The Plank
Quentin Tarantino	Film Director	27-Mar-1963		Pulp Fiction
Bertrand Tavernier	Film Director	25-Apr-1941		'Round Midnight
Billy Bob Thornton	Actor	4-Aug-1955		Sling Blade
Robert Towne	Screenwriter	23-Nov-1934		Personal Best
Lamar Trotti	Screenwriter	18-Oct-1900	28-Aug-1952	Young Mr. Lincoln
Dalton Trumbo	Author	9-Dec-1905	10-Sep-1976	Johnny Got His Gun
Francis Veber	Screenwriter	28-Jul-1937		The Dinner Game
Peter Viertel	Novelist	16-Nov-1920	4-Nov-2007	White Hunter, Black Heart
Jerry Wald	Film/TV Producer	16-Sep-1911	13-Jul-1962	Peyton Place
Irving Wallace	Author	19-Mar-1916	29-Jun-1990	The Book of Lists
Randall Wallace	Screenwriter	28-Jul-1949		The Man in the Iron Mask
David S. Ward	Film Director	25-Oct-1945		The Sting
Nathanael West	Author	17-Oct-1903	22-Dec-1940	The Day of the Locust
Mike White	Screenwriter	28-Jun-1970		Writer of School of Rock
Billy Wilder	Film Director	22-Jun-1906	27-Mar-2002	Sunset Blvd.
Kevin Williamson	Screenwriter	14-Mar-1965		Scream
Boaz Yakin	Screenwriter	20-Jun-1966		Remember the Titans
Jack Yellen	Songwriter	6-Jul-1892	17-Apr-1991	Happy Days Are Here Again
Philip Yordan	Screenwriter	1-Apr-1914	24-Mar-2003	The Battle of the Bulge
Steven Zaillian	Screenwriter	30-Jan-1953		Schindler's List

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