Brian De Palma
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Brian Russell De Palma (born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and writer. In a career spanning over 40 years, he is probably best known for his suspense and crime thriller films, including such box office successes as Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, The Untouchables, and Mission: Impossible. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, De Palma worked repeatedly with actors Jennifer Salt, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen (his wife from 1979 to 1983), Gary Sinise, John Lithgow, William Finley, Charles Durning, Gerrit Graham, cinematographers Stephen H. Burum and Vilmos Zsigmond (see List of noted film director and cinematographer collaborations), set designer Jack Fisk, and composers Bernard Herrmann and Pino Donaggio. De Palma is credited with fostering the careers of or outright discovering Robert De Niro, Jill Clayburgh, John C. Reilly, John Leguizamo, Andy Garcia and Margot Kidder. Description above from the Wikipedia article Brian De Palma, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Filmography
| Movie | Ennio | Self | 2022-02-17 |
| Movie | Spielberg | Self | 2017-10-05 |
| Movie | De Palma | Self | 2016-06-10 |
| Movie | The 'Scarface' Phenomenon | Self | 2011-09-06 |
| Movie | The Black Dahlia | Elizabeth's Screen Test Director (voice) (uncredited) | 2006-09-15 |
| Movie | Gangland: Bullets over Hollywood | 2005-12-02 | |
| Movie | Femme Fatale: Dream Within a Dream | Self | 2003-03-25 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Carlito's Way' | Self | 2003-09-02 |
| Movie | 'Obsession' Revisited | Self | 2001-06-26 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Dressed to Kill' | Self | 2001-08-28 |
| Movie | Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius | Self | 1999-10-13 |
| Movie | The Making of 'Scarface' | Self | 1998-03-31 |
| Movie | Ennio Morricone | Self | 1995-01-01 |
| Movie | Quentin Tarantino: Hollywood's Boy Wonder | Self | 1994-10-25 |
| Movie | Rotwang Must Go! | Famous American Movie Director | 1994-10-28 |
| Movie | Movies Are My Life | Self | 1988-04-17 |
| Movie | Greetings | Man smoking in front of draft office | 1968-12-15 |