Stage To Screen
By: Dan Bayer
A list of plays that have been adapted into films.
Some have flourished, some have floundered.
Some got rewritten, some got hacked to bits, and some managed to survive the transfer intact.
I’m pretty much only familiar with plays of the Western world, so if anyone knows of any plays from Asia, Africa, or South America – or anything else I may have missed – please let me know. I want this list to be comprehensive!
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01Charles Byrant
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02Charles Bryant
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03Augusto Genina
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04F.W. Murnau
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05Clarence Brown
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06Edward H. Griffith
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07Sidney Franklin
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08Dudley Murphy
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09William Dieterle
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10Richard Thorpe
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11Frank Capra
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12Anthony Asquith
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13Thorold Dickinson
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14Sam Wood
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15William Wyler
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16Gabriel Pascal
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17Herman Shumlin
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18Alfred Santell
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19Laurence Olivier
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20David Lean
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21Dudley Nichols
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22Laurence Olivier
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23George Stevens
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24William Wyler
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25Orson Welles
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26Alfred Hitchcock
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27George Cukor
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28Irving Rapper
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29Elia Kazan
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30Anthony Asquith
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31Chester Erskine
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32Irving Reis
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33Anthony Asquith
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34Orson Welles
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35Joshua Logan
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36Laurence Olivier
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37Daniel Mann
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38David Lean
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39Joshua Logan
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40Sidney Lumet
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41Otto Preminger
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42Franz Peter Wirth
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43Morton DaCosta
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44Richard Quine
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45Richard Brooks
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46Delbert Mann
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47George Stevens
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48Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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49Delbert Mann
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50Sidney Lumet
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51Stanley Kramer
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52William Wyler
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53Peter Glenville
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54Sidney Lumet
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55Sidney Lumet
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56Arthur Penn
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57Richard Brooks
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58Joseph Strick
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59John Huston
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60Mike Nichols
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61Gene Saks
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62Peter Brook
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63Robert Aldrich
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64Gene Saks
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65Anthony Harvey
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66Gene Saks
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67Howard Morris
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68George Stevens
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69Herbert Ross
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70Arthur Hiller
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71Milton Katselas
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72Tony Richardson
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73John Frankenheimer
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74Brian G. Hutton
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75Billy Wilder
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76Tom O'Horgan
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77Christopher Miles
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78Herbert Ross
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79Sidney Lumet
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80Herbert Ross
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81Herbert Ross
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82Robert Moore
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83Derek Jarman
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84Mark Rydell
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85Robert Altman
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86Sidney Lumet
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87Lewis Gilbert
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88Robert Altman
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89Miloš Forman
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90Robert Altman
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91
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92Frank Lloyd
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93Ernst Lubitsch
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94George Cukor
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95Paul Czinner
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96George Cukor
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97Gregory La Cava
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98Rouben Mamoulian
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99John Cromwell
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100George Cukor
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101William Keighley
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102Frank Capra
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103David Lean
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104Henry Koster
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105Max Ophüls
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106Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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107Guy Hamilton
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108Pierre Billon
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109George Seaton
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110Robert Aldrich
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111Joseph Anthony
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112Daniel Mann
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113Tyrone Guthrie
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114Billy Wilder
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115Delbert Mann
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116Daniel Petrie
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117Walter Lang
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118Jules Dassin
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119John Guillermin
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120Clive Donner
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121Peter Glenville
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122Fred Coe
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123Fred Zinnemann
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124Robert Ellis Miller
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125Paul Bogart
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126Sidney Lumet
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127Franco Zeffirelli
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128Terence Young
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129William Friedkin
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130Ulu Grosbard
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131Pier Paolo Pasolini
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132William Friedkin
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133Martin Ritt
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134Andrei Konchalovsky
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135Peter Brook
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136Mihalis Kakogiannis
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137Herbert Ross
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138Joseph L. Mankiewicz
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139Andrew Sinclair
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140Harold Pinter
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141Guy Green
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142Joseph Losey
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143Arthur Hiller
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144Mihalis Kakogiannis
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145Édouard Molinaro
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146Robert Mulligan
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147David Lynch
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148Louis de Funès
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149Peter Yates
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150Norman Jewison
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151Gérard Depardieu
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152Norman Jewison
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153Volker Schlöndorff
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154Peter Masterson
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155Edward Zwick
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156Gene Saks
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157Randa Haines
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158Bruce Beresford
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159Tom Moore
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160Robert Altman
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161Martin Ritt
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162Mike Nichols
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163Joan Micklin Silver
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164Oliver Stone
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165Paul Bogart
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166Satyajit Ray
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167Lewis Gilbert
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168Herbert Ross
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169Tom Stoppard
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170Derek Jarman
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171Garry Marshall
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172Norman Jewison
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173Lewis Gilbert
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174Rob Reiner
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175Danièle Huillet
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176James Foley
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177Peter Bogdanovich
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178Norman René
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179Martha Coolidge
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180David Cronenberg
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181Kenneth Branagh
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182Fred Schepisi
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183Roman Polanski
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184David Mamet
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185Nancy Meckler
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186Christopher Ashley
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187Tom Noonan
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188Michael Corrente
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189Nicholas Hytner
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190Herb Gardner
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191Jay Sandrich
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192Jerry Zaks
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193Trevor Nunn
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194David Hare
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195Neil LaBute
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196Joe Mantello
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197Pat O'Connor
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198Francis Veber
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199Anthony Drazan
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200Mihalis Kakogiannis
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201Julie Taymor
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202Kenneth Branagh
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203Mike Nichols
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204Moisés Kaufman
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205Neil LaBute
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206Mike Nichols
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207Mike Nichols
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208Carlo Gabriel Nero
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209Tom Cairns
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210Craig Lucas
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211Stuart Gordon
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212Chris Terrio
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213John Madden
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214Nicholas Hytner
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215William Friedkin
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216Jay Rosenblatt
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217Ron Howard
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218Tyler Perry
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219John Cameron Mitchell
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220David Cronenberg
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221Roman Polanski
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222Ralph Fiennes
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223George Clooney
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224William Friedkin
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225François Ozon
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226Terence Davies
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227Tony Richardson
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228Bryan Forbes
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229Jean Renoir
