Key Figures of Sixties Cinema

 
Psycho (1960)

Psycho (1960)

 
 
 

While this in no way is a comprehensive list of all important figures in 1960s cinema, this is a useful cheatsheet of some notable names across various professions in the industry. If you’re interested in the complete list of 1960s filmography, we have that too, listed alphabetically and chronologically.

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Directors

Robert Aldrich
Ken Annakin
Michelangelo Antonioni
Mario Bava
Ingmar Bergman
Robert Bresson
Richard Brooks
Luis Buñuel
William Castle
Claude Chabrol
René Clément
Francis Ford Coppola
Sergio Corbucci
Roger Corman
George Cukor
Philippe de Broca
Vittorio De Sica
Basil Dearden
Jacques Demy
Edward Dmytryk
Stanley Donen
Gordon Douglas
Blake Edwards
Federico Fellini
Terence Fisher
Richard Fleischer
Bryan Forbes
John Ford
Milos Forman
Freddie Francis
John Frankenheimer
Jun Fukuda
Samuel Fuller
Lewis Gilbert
Jean Girault
Jean-Luc Godard
Guy Hamilton
Henry Hathaway
Howard Hawks
George Roy Hill
Alfred Hitchcock
Ishirô Honda
André Hunebelle
John Huston
Norman Jewison
Elia Kazan
William Klein
Masaki Kobayashi
Stanley Kramer
Stanley Kubrick
Akira Kurosawa
Sergio Leone
Richard Lester
Henry Levin
Jerry Lewis
Joseph Losey
Sidney Lumet
Louis Malle
Anthony Mann
Daniel Mann
Andrew V. McLaglen
Jean-Pierre Melville
Vincente Minnelli
Mario Monicelli
Robert Mulligan
Ralph Nelson
Yasujirô Ozu
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Sam Peckinpah
Arthur Penn
Frank Perry
Elio Petri
Antonio Pietrangeli
Roman Polanski
Sydney Pollack
George Pollock
Gillo Pontecorvo
Otto Preminger
Richard Quine
Satyajit Ray
Carol Reed
Harald Reinl
Alain Resnais
Tony Richardson
Dino Risi
Martin Ritt
Mark Robson
Éric Rohmer
Ken Russell
John Schlesinger
Don Siegel
Robert Stevenson
John Sturges
Seijun Suzuki
David Swift
Andrei Tarkovsky
Frank Tashlin
Norman Taurog
Hiroshi Teshigahara
Gerald Thomas
J. Lee Thompson
François Truffaut
Agnès Varda
Henri Verneuil
Luchino Visconti
Charles Walters
Billy Wilder
Robert Wise
William Wyler
Terence Young