Watch unlimited films online for $6.99.
Try MUBI for FREE.
 
All Topics  »

Greatest Director/Actor Collaborations

Simon Hue

over 3 years ago

Which director and actor relationships are you most thankful for?

Von Sternberg & Dietrich?
Mizoguchi & Tanaka?
Ford & Wayne?
Hitchcock & Stewart?
A. Mann & Stewart?
Sirk & Hudson?
Cassavetes & Rowlands?
Herzog & Kinski?
Tsai & Lee Kang-sheng?
Denis & Colin?

Michael Brooke

over 3 years ago

Blier & Depardieu
Pialat & Depardieu
Leone & Eastwood
Woo & Chow (Yun-Fat)
Verhoeven & Hauer
Borowczyk & Branice
Tarkovsky & Solonitsin
Antonioni & Vitti

Tom Wilson

over 3 years ago

Bergman-von Sydow/Ullmann
Kurosawa-Shimura/Mifune
David Lean-Alec Guinness
The Coens-John Goodman
Billy Wilder-Jack Lemmon
Mel Brooks-Gene Wilder
Burton-Depp
Blake Edwards-Peter Sellers
Woody Allen-Diane Keaton
Scorsese-DeNiro

Filmy

over 3 years ago

David Fincher – Brad Pitt
Fellini – Marcello
Godard – Belmondo
Kurosawa – Mifune
Coppola – Brando
Godard – Karina

Chris Logan

over 3 years ago

Kurosawa – Mifune
Mann – Stewart
Hitchcock – Stewart
Scorcese – DeNiro

No surprises, but I can’t sleep. And I demand that everyone know my middlebrow opinions!

Filmy

over 3 years ago

I missed Coppola – Al Pacino

Maziar Dehghan​i

over 3 years ago

Bergman-Liv Ullman, Max von Sydow, Bibi Anderson, Ingrid Thulin, Erland Josephson

Samurai Panda Poetry

over 3 years ago

How about Eastwood – Eastwood?
And definitely P.T. Anderson – Phillip Seymour Hoffman.

Shinich​i

over 3 years ago

Kurosawa-Mifune

Done.

Shinich​i

over 3 years ago

Maybe Nakadai-Okamoto

Walter Steiner

over 3 years ago

Herzog and Bruno S.

Logan Zillmer

over 3 years ago

Wes Anderson – Bill Murray

pialat

over 3 years ago

Pialat – Sandrine Bonnaire
Herzog – Bruno S.
Truffaut – Léaud
Desplechin – Amalric
Coppola – Tim Roth
Ch. Akerman – Delphine Seyrig, Aurore Clément

Matthia​s Galvin

over 3 years ago

Alain Delon and Jean-Pierre Melville.
Lino Ventura and Jean-Pierre Melville.
Renoir and Renoir.

Tom Wilson

over 3 years ago

Did Coppola and Roth do anything together before Youth Without Youth?

Edouard Hill

over 3 years ago

I second Truffaut – Léaud

technicolornightmare

over 3 years ago

Lucky Mckee – Angela Bettis

pialat

over 3 years ago

Coppola and Roth only were together in Youth Without Youth, but their connection in this film is really great. We can see Dominic Matei like the Coppola’s more personal character in his filmography, and Roth personify him of a spectacular way.

Tom Wilson

over 3 years ago

Thanks, Pialat! I guess there needn’t be a long-term relationship between director and actor; sometimes, one film is all it takes for lightning to strike.

Bob Stutsman

over 3 years ago

Predictable, but here goes:

Kazan-Brando
Cukor-K. Hepburn
Rafelson-Nicholson
Schlesinger/Richardson-Courtenay (cheating a bit here as both directors are great with this actor)
W. Allen-W. Allen – doesn’t Allen actually invent himself in those movies of his he stars in as well?

Marko

over 3 years ago

Ozu and Ryu.

Bradley Gardner

over 3 years ago

Whoa! no one got Wai-Leung

Bob Stutsman

over 3 years ago

How could I have forgotten Zhang Yimou-Gong Li?

Britt Parrott

over 3 years ago

Lumet – Pacino

Adam Lee

over 3 years ago

Almodavar – Maura
Nolan – Bale
Cronenburg – Viggo

Musycks

over 3 years ago

Gabin and Renoir
Gabin and Carne
Huston and Bogart
Hawks and Grant
Antonioni and Vitti
Ford and Wayne
Godard and Karenina
Scorcese and De Niro
Kazan and Brando
and…..
Woody Allen and Woody Allen!

Bob Furem

over 3 years ago

Ozu and Hara

Aaron White

over 3 years ago

Scorsese – De Niro, Pesci, Keitel, DiCaprio
Kurosawa – Mifune
Bergman – von Sydow, Ullmann
Hitchcock – Stewart, Grant
Coppla/Lumet – Pacino
Anderson – Hoffman
Altman – actors

Adempti​on

over 3 years ago

I second these:

Ozu – Hara
Almodavar – Maura
Kurosawa – Mifune
Kar-Wai – Leung

And:

Kaurismäki – Pellonpää

Nessa L.

over 3 years ago

Chabrol – Huppert
Bunuel – Deneuve
Godard – Karina
Kieslowski – Jacob