American filmmakers
Willy Conley is a Deaf American playwright, filmmaker, performer, visual artist, and educator whose work places American Sign Language (ASL) and visual expression at the center of theatre. Rather than adding ASL to a conventional spoken-word script, he builds meaning through signing, movement, images, space, rhythm, projected media, and
Animation
William Hanna, often called Bill Hanna, was an animator, director, and producer who co-founded Hanna-Barbera Productions with Joseph Barbera. His name appears on so many classic cartoons because he and Barbera first made Tom and Jerry at MGM, then built a studio that became one of television animation’
Modern art
William Dunlap (1938–2021) was the Mississippi-born American painter, writer, broadcaster, and arts advocate most often meant when a museum label, gallery listing, or auction record refers to “William Dunlap.” He is known for layered paintings of Southern places, animals, roads, signs, handwritten phrases, and improbable narratives that combine
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American writers
Walt Curtis was a Portland poet, novelist, diarist, and countercultural literary figure whose writing drew on daily city life with unusual candor. Gus Van Sant adapted Curtis’s Mala Noche into the 1985 film, but the film is only one part of Curtis’s work in poetry, prose, journals, and
American filmmakers
Victor Adamson was an American director, producer, actor, and cinematographer best known for low-budget Westerns made from the silent era into the early sound period. He often worked under the professional name Denver Dixon, so credits under both names usually refer to the same person. That alias, along with
American writers
Vahe Berberian is an Armenian-American writer, actor, director, and visual artist whose work includes theater, books, screen projects, and painting. He is widely known for Armenian-language stage performances and sharply observed solo work that finds humor and feeling in family life, diaspora experience, language, and changing traditions. If
American actors
Tony Curtis was a major American film actor who became one of Hollywood’s most recognizable stars of the 1950s and 1960s. Born Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, he moved from studio-made matinee-idol roles into sharp comedy, tough drama, and historical spectacle. He died on September 29,
American filmmakers
Tim Burton is an American director, writer, producer, and visual artist known for darkly comic fantasy films about outsiders, monsters, and people who do not fit ordinary social rules. His work combines a distinct visual style with stories that often treat the strange or misunderstood character as the emotional center.
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American filmmakers
Terry Gilliam is the American-born animator, writer, and director who became Monty Python’s only non-British member and went on to make films marked by fantasy, bureaucracy, dark comedy, and densely imagined worlds. For a first film, choose *Time Bandits* for playful fantasy, *12 Monkeys* for a relatively
American filmmakers
Sofia Coppola is an American writer-director whose films use style, music, and quiet observation to explore loneliness, desire, fame, and confinement. She is an important contemporary filmmaker because her work has a distinct voice beyond her family name: intimate, visually precise stories about people who are surrounded by comfort