UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television faculty

The list UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television faculty includes James Franco, Lainie Kazan, Andrea Bendewald, Ellen Geer and Dorothy Arzner. The list consists of 32 members.

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James Franco

American actor and filmmaker (born 1978)

Overview: James Edward Franco (born April 19, 1978) is an American actor and filmmaker. He has starred in numerous films, including Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy (2002–2007), Milk (2008), Eat Pray Love (2010) ...

Date of birth: 19 April 1978

Age: 46

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actor

Gender: Male

Height: 5' 10" (178 cm)

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Figures in sexual harassment scandals 71T

Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Male winners 32T

Stoner/stonette of the year awards 13T
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Lainie Kazan

American actress and singer (born 1940)

Overview: Lainie Kazan (born Lainie Levine; May 15, 1940) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for St. Elsewhere and the ...

Date of birth: 15 May 1940

Age: 84

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Singers from Brooklyn 169T

21st-century American Jews 7,864T

Pompeii Records artists 7T
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Andrea Bendewald

American actor

Overview: Andrea R. Bendewald (born March 4, 1970) is an American actress best known for her role as Maddy Piper on Suddenly Susan.

Date of birth: 4 March 1970

Age: 54

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 5" (165 cm)

Partner: Mitch Rouse (Married)

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American acting coaches 61T

Actresses from New York City 1,485T

21st-century American actresses 5,090T
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Ellen Geer

American actress and director

Overview: Ellen Ware Geer (born August 29, 1941) is an American actress, professor, and theatre director.

Date of birth: 29 August 1941

Age: 83

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Educators from New York City 297T

Screenwriters from New York (state) 1,175T

American women educators 1,517T
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Dorothy Arzner

Film director

Overview: Dorothy Emma Arzner (January 3, 1897 – October 1, 1979) was an American film director whose career in Hollywood spanned from the silent era of the 1920s into the early 1940s. From 1927 until her retirement ...

Date of birth: 3 January 1897

Date of death: 1 October 1979

Age: 82 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 4" (163 cm)

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Hollywood Walk of Fame 354T

Film directors from San Francisco 61T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T
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Dorothy Adams

American actor

Overview: Dorothy Adams (January 8, 1900 – March 16, 1988) was an American character actress of stage, film, and television.

Date of birth: 8 January 1900

Date of death: 16 March 1988

Age: 88 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Actresses from North Dakota 13T

20th-century American actresses 6,858T

American television actresses 7,677T
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Barbara Tarbuck

American actress

Overview: Barbara Tarbuck (January 15, 1942 – December 26, 2016) was an American film, television, and stage actress from Detroit, Michigan, best known for her role as "Lady Jane Jacks" in General Hospital.

Date of birth: 15 January 1942

Date of death: 26 December 2016

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Actress

Gender: Female

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Cooley High School alumni 22T

University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance alumni 270T

2016 deaths 9,448T
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Chuck Sheetz

Animation director

Overview: Charles Edward Sheetz (born December 31, 1960) is an American animation director and producer best known for his work on The Simpsons. He was the producer on What's New, Scooby-Doo?, and the director of ...

Date of birth: 1960

Age: 64

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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American animated film directors 538T

American animated film producers 290T

Animation directors 115T
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Deborah Nadoolman

American film costume designer

Overview: Deborah Nadoolman Landis (born May 26, 1952) is an American costume designer, author, and professor. She has worked on notable films such as Animal House, The Blues Brothers, Raiders of the Lost Ark and ...

Date of birth: 26 May 1952

Age: 72

Nationality: English

Occupation: Designer

Gender: Female

Partner: John Landis (Married)

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21st-century American Jews 7,670T

20th-century American Jews 4,542T

Women costume designers 166T
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Wes Kenney

Television producer and director

Overview: Harold Wesley Kenney, Jr. (January 3, 1926 – January 13, 2015) was an American television producer and director whose career extended from the medium's formative years in the early 1950s, into the 2000s ...

Date of birth: 3 January 1926

Date of death: 13 January 2015

Age: 89 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Producer

Gender: Male

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Screenwriters from California 1,055T

Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering alumni 48T

2015 deaths 9,624T
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George Huang

American filmmaker

Overview: George Huang is an American filmmaker. In addition to working on his own films, he also contributes work to other independent filmmakers, including Robert Rodríguez.

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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USC School of Cinematic Arts alumni 372T

American male screenwriters 3,908T

Year of birth missing (living people) 37,022T
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Michael Gordon

American theater and film director

Overview: Michael Gordon (born Irving Kunin Gordon; September 6, 1909 – April 29, 1993) was an American stage actor and stage and film director.

Date of birth: 6 September 1909

Date of death: 29 April 1993

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Director

Gender: Male

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Teshome Gabriel

American acaedmic

Overview: Teshome H. Gabriel (September 24, 1939 – June 14, 2010) was an Ethiopian-born American cinema scholar and professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television in Los Angeles. Gabriel was considered ...

Date of birth: 24 September 1939

Date of death: 14 June 2010

Age: 70 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Educator

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Ethiopian emigrants to the United States 39T

UCLA Film School alumni 321T

American people of Ethiopian descent 56T
14.

Emanuel Levy

American film critic and author

Overview: Emanuel Levy is an American film critic and professor who has taught at Columbia University, New School for Social Research, Wellesley College, Arizona State University and UCLA Film School. Levy currently ...

Date of birth: 4 February 1948

Age: 76

Nationality: American

Occupation: Writer

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American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

Variety (magazine) people 39T

Online Film Critics Society 11T
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Mehli Mehta

violinist, conductor (music)

Overview: Mehli Mehta (25 September 1908 – 19 October 2002) was an Indian conductor and violinist.

Date of birth: 25 September 1908

Date of death: 19 October 2002

Age: 94 (age at death)

Nationality: Indian

Occupation: Conductor

Gender: Male

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20th-century American male musicians 6,873T

20th-century male musicians 12,801T

Parsi people from Mumbai 198T
16.

Dee Caruso

American screenwriter and producer

Overview: Dee Caruso (April 7, 1929 – May 27, 2012) was an American television and film screenwriter and television producer, whose credits included Get Smart, The Monkees and The Smothers Brothers Show. Caruso ...

Date of birth: 7 April 1929

Date of death: 27 May 2012

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Screenwriter

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Screenwriters from California 1,055T

People from Brentwood, Los Angeles 101T

Writers from Los Angeles, California 831T
17.

Amy Winfrey

American animator and web series creator (born 1976)

Overview: Amy Winfrey (born May 1976) is an American animator, screenwriter, songwriter, director and voice actress. She is best known for creating the web series Making Fiends that was later picked up by Nickelodeon ...

Date of birth: May 1976

Age: 48

Nationality: American

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Female

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American women cartoonists 89T

American animated film directors 538T

Nickelodeon people 66T
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Peter Wollen

British filmmaker

Overview: Peter Wollen (29 June 1938 – 17 December 2019) was a film theorist and filmmaker. He studied English at Christ Church, Oxford. Both political journalist and film theorist, Wollen's Signs and Meaning in ...

Date of birth: 29 June 1938

Date of death: 17 December 2019

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: British

Occupation: Theorist

Gender: Male

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2019 deaths 9,204T

2019 deaths 6,613T

British experimental filmmakers 25T
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Lew Hunter

American screenwriter (1935–2023)

Overview: Lewis R. Hunter (July 18, 1935 – January 6, 2023) was an American screenwriter, author and educator and chairman Emeritus and Professor of Screenwriting at the UCLA Department of Film and Television.

Date of birth: 18 July 1935

Date of death: 6 January 2023

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: American

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Male

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American male television writers 1,879T

American male non-fiction writers 4,581T

People from Superior, Nebraska 9T
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Geoffrey Gilmore

Overview: Geoffrey Gilmore is the Director of the Tribeca Film Festival and a member of the UCLA Producers Program faculty.

Gender: Male

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Florida State University faculty 277T

University of California, Los Angeles faculty 1,065T