Which directors make good actors? (1 Viewer)

[Gary->dee]

Quentin Tarrintino? Spike Lee? John Cassavetes? Alfred Hitchcock? Steven Soderbergh? George Lucas?(ever seen Beverly Hills Cop 3? He has a cameo.)

There's likey much more I'm forgetting but I think you get the gist. Which director(s) do you think is also actually a good actor?

 

[Dan Rudolph]

Mel Gibson

 

[Yee-Ming]

Peter Bogdanovich
Garry Marshall

(Not Oscar-calibre, but certainly good enough.)

Ron Howard is more of an actor-turned-director, so I hesitate to call him a director that can act (likewise Mel Gibson).

 

[Dan Rudolph]

If we aren't going to count actors who became directors, I thought M. Night Shylaman was pretty good in Signs.

 

[Gary->dee]

Mel's a good one, even though he was an actor first. I probably should have made it more clear that the person started as a director and eventually acted in a movie, not vice-versa.

Paul Mazursky and John Houston: 2 directors that IMO are damn good actors.

Oh and also Orson Welles!

 

[Nick Sievers]

I always thought Orson Welles had great charisma on screen.


I thought he was awful in Signs. I'm not sure if he is in The Village but I hope this isn't the start of a new trend in his films, speaking roles aren't for him.

 

[Kristian]

Sydney Pollack comes to mind. He was very good in Changing Lanes.

 

[george kaplan]

Woody Allen
Orson Welles
John Cassavettes
Mel Gibson
Ron Howard
Buster Keaton
Charlie Chaplin
Carl Reiner
Rob Reiner
Clint Eastwood
Harold Ramis
Jacques Tati
Mel Brooks
Otto Preminger
Terry Gilliam

 

[MarcusUdeh]

[c]David Cronenberg[/c]

 

[Shane Gralaw]

Steven Soderbergh was pretty funny in Schitzopolis.

 

[Steve Felix]

Martin Scorcese
Spike Jonze

 

[Brook K]

Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Takeshi Kitano
Erich Von Stroheim
Fritz Lang
Francois Truffaut

 

[Dan Rudolph]

If we count self-parodying cameos, I liked Gus van Sant in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

 

[Rob Stidham]

Werner Herzog was excellent in Julien Donkey-Boy.

 

[MarcusUdeh]

[c]David Lynch
David Fincher[/c]

 

[Henry Gale]

Sergio Leone in Once Upon A Time In America

 

[Michael Reuben]

He was even better in Tootsie and Eyes Wide Shut (replacing Harvey Keitel in the latter).

M.

 

[Patrick Sun]

Watching M.Night on the big screen is like watching paint dry on a wall.

 

[Ocean Phoenix]

I don't know about his other movies because I haven't seen any of them, but I liked his performance in Unbreakable.

 

[george kaplan]

Of course it's doubtful if any other director was a better extra than Hitch.