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Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976), was an Italian theatre, opera and cinema director, as well as a screenwriter. Visconti was one of the fathers of ...
Date of birth: 2 November 1906
Date of death: 17 March 1976
Nationality: Italian
Occupation: Director
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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Maximilian Schell (8 December 1930 – 1 February 2014) was an Austrian-born Swiss film and stage actor, who also wrote, directed and produced some of his own films. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor ...
Date of birth: 8 December 1930
Date of death: 1 February 2014
Nationality: Austrian
Occupation: Actor
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 11" (180 cm)
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Fiona Shaw CBE (born Fiona Mary Wilson; 10 July 1958) is an Irish film and theatre actress. She is known for her roles as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–2010), Marnie Stonebrook ...
Date of birth: 10 July 1958
Nationality: Irish
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli KBE Grande Ufficiale OMRI (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the ...
Date of birth: 12 February 1923
Date of death: 15 June 2019
Nationality: Italian
Occupation: Director
Gender: Male
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Risë Stevens (June 11, 1913 – March 20, 2013) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano. Beginning in 1938, she sang for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than two decades during the 1940s ...
Date of birth: 11 June 1913
Date of death: 20 March 2013
Nationality: American
Occupation: Musician
Gender: Female
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Werner Herzog (born 5 September 1942) is a German film director, screenwriter, author, actor, and opera director. Herzog is a figure of the New German Cinema. His films often feature ambitious protagonists ...
Date of birth: 5 September 1942
Nationality: German
Occupation: Director
Gender: Male
Height: 6' 1" (185 cm)
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Andrei Arsenyevich Tarkovsky (Russian: Андрей Арсеньевич Тарковский, 4 April 1932 – 29 December 1986) was a Soviet and Russian filmmaker, theatre director, writer, and film theorist. He is widely ...
Date of birth: 4 April 1932
Date of death: 28 December 1986
Nationality: Russian
Occupation: Director
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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Sir Frederick William Mallandaine Ashton OM CH CBE (17 September 1904 – 18 August 1988) was a British ballet dancer and choreographer. He also worked as a director and choreographer in opera, film ...
Date of birth: 17 September 1904
Date of death: 18 August 1988
Nationality: British
Occupation: Choreographer
Gender: Male
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Dalia Ibelhauptaite (born 4 May 1967) is a Lithuanian opera, theatre, and film director, producer and playwright, whose work combines the traditions of Russian and Western theatre.
Date of birth: 4 May 1967
Nationality: Lithuanian
Occupation: Director
Gender: Female
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Phyllida Christian Lloyd, CBE (born 17 June 1957) is an English film director and producer, best known for Mamma Mia! (2008) and The Iron Lady (2011). Her theatre work includes directing productions at ...
Date of birth: 17 June 1957
Nationality: British
Occupation: Director
Gender: Female
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Sir Peter Reginald Frederick Hall, CBE (22 November 1930 – 11 September 2017), was an English theatre, opera and film director. His obituary in The Times declared him "the most important figure in British ...
Date of birth: 22 November 1930
Date of death: 11 September 2017
Nationality: British
Occupation: Director
Gender: Male
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Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director and writer of theater, opera and film. Since her stage adaptation of The Lion King debuted in 1997, 24 global productions have been seen by ...
Date of birth: 20 December 1952
Nationality: American
Occupation: Director
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)
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Deborah Warner CBE (born 12 May 1959) is a British director of theatre and opera known for her interpretations of the works of Shakespeare, Bertolt Brecht, Benjamin Britten, and Henrik Ibsen.
Date of birth: 12 May 1959
Nationality: English
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
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Anthony Minghella, CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 ...
Date of birth: 6 January 1954
Date of death: 18 March 2008
Nationality: British
Occupation: Director
Gender: Male
Height: 5' 8" (173 cm)
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Maaria Eira (real name Saskia D’Onofrio, née Suomalainen; 23 October 1924 – 19 June 1999) was a Finnish operatic soprano and film actress noted for her coloratura voice and stage presence.
Date of birth: 23 October 1924
Date of death: 19 June 1999
Nationality: Finnish
Occupation: Actress
Gender: Female
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Chris Harris (14 December 1942 – 30 April 2014) was an English actor, director and writer. He appeared in several UK TV series including Into the Labyrinth and Hey Look That's Me. He also built a su ...
Date of birth: 30 August 1942
Date of death: 30 April 2014
Nationality: British
Occupation: Actor
Gender: Male
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Dimitris Papaioannou (Greek: Δημήτρης Παπαϊωάννου; born 21 June 1964) is a Greek experimental theater stage director, choreographer and visual artist who drew media attention and acclaim with his creative ...
Date of birth: 21 June 1964
Nationality: Greek
Occupation: Designer
Gender: Male
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Gian Carlo Menotti (, July 7, 1911 – February 1, 2007) was an Italian-American composer and librettist. Although he often referred to himself as an American composer, he kept his Italian citizenship. He ...
Date of birth: 7 July 1911
Date of death: 1 February 2007
Nationality: Italian
Occupation: Composer
Gender: Male
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Rolando Villazón Mauleón (born 22 February 1972) is a Mexican tenor. He now lives in France, and in 2007 he became a French citizen.
Date of birth: 22 February 1972
Nationality: Mexican
Occupation: Opera singer
Gender: Male
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Bernhard-Viktor Christoph-Carl von Bülow (12 November 1923 – 22 August 2011), known as Vicco von Bülow or Loriot, was a German comedian, humorist, cartoonist, film director, actor and writer.
Date of birth: 12 November 1923
Date of death: 22 August 2011
Nationality: German
Occupation: Actor
Gender: Male
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