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

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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.

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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.

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Kristian

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

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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

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MarcusUdeh

[c]David Cronenberg[/c]

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Shane Gralaw

Steven Soderbergh was pretty funny in Schitzopolis.