Michael Reuben

Eastwood is almost in a class by himself. He was an actor for many, many years, and he learned the art of directing by working with some of the best (Unforgiven has a dedication to Don Siegel and Sergio Leone). I don't think he really fits the profile, along with all of the others in Ted Todorov's list.

M.

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chung_sotheby

How about Cameron Crowe? I thought he brought an amazing amount of heft and gravity to his performance in Minority Report

I always liked Roman Polanski's acting in Chinatown. I thought he was at once hilarious and frightening. He has a lot more acting credits that I ever thought he would.

Mathieu Kassovitz was great in Amelie, among others, and The Crimson Rivers is one of the great action movies of the last five years

I thought Lawrence Kasden was hilarious in As Good as it Gets

Vin Diesel also started out as a director, just before he got a little too involved with the whole "diesel" lifestyle

James Toback is a serviceable actor, for the most part.

I think Richard Linklater has a natural nack for acting, although he tends to get a little marble mouthed sometimes.

Jim Jarmusch is great, acting and directing

All I can think of now.....

george kaplan

Well I didn't get that impression. But even so, many of them were directors at the same time, if not earlier, than they were actors (in films). That's certainly true for Welles, Tati, Brooks and others on that list.

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RyanAn

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Kevin Smith is bringing back the silent sight gags... His stick in Chasing Amy was great.

Ryan

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