#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $400: Quentin Tarantino wrote dialogue for this Denzel-Hackman submarine movie; the Silver Surfer art argument scene, just maybe Crimson Tide |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $800: JCR (John C. Reilly) & PSH (Philip Seymour Hoffman) had associations with PTA (this director) going back to "Hard Eight" Paul Thomas Anderson |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $1200: Everything about this sci-fi epic that Francis Ford Coppola began writing in 1983 & premiered at Cannes in 2024 is big Megalopolis |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $1600: The TV series "Queen Sugar" is from this auteur who also directed "Selma" Ava DuVernay |
#9152, aired 2024-07-23 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $2000: TV's "Sense8", which followed 8 psychically connected people, was from the "Matrix" siblings with this last name Wachowski |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $400: Steven Spielberg showed up for a second or 2 in this John Landis comedy playing a Cook County tax assessor The Blues Brothers |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $800: This Munich-born documentary & film legend played Keg Jeggings on "Parks & Rec" & voiced Shrimply Pibbles on "Rick & Morty" Herzog |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $1200: This director of "Her" donned a dress in "Bad Grandpa .5", playing the elderly Gloria Spike Jonze |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $1600: This director of "Out of Africa" went in front of the screen for Stanley Kubrick in "Eyes Wide Shut" (Sydney) Pollack |
#9062, aired 2024-03-19 | DIRECTORS ACTING $2000: Viggo Mortensen starred in "Eastern Promises" from this horror master, who then acted in Viggo's directorial debut "Falling" Cronenberg |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $400: "Citizen Kane"
(1941) (Orson) Welles |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $800: "Play Misty for Me"
(1971) Clint Eastwood |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $1200: "The Virgin Suicides"
(1999) Sofia Coppola |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $1600: "Eraserhead"
(1978) (David) Lynch |
#8991, aired 2023-12-11 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $2000: "The 400 Blows"
(1959) Francois Truffaut |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Alfred Hitchcock, "The Master of" this tense feeling, defined it as when the audience knows more than the characters suspense |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: In the '80s this sitcom actress made a successful move to directing with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" & "Big" Penny Marshall |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1200: You'll find illustrations from "Ed Wood" & "Sweeney Todd" among the 1000+ in the book "The Art of" this director Tim Burton |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1600: This director of the miniseries "Small Axe" & the film "12 Years a Slave" is not the same guy as the movie star who married Ali MacGraw Steve McQueen |
#8986, aired 2023-12-04 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: Long before "Spider-Man", he first made his name with "The Evil Dead" when he was just 22 Sam Raimi |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $400: Born while her dad was making "The Godfather", she's won an Oscar for screenwriting & been named best director at Cannes Sofia Coppola |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $800: 7 months after he died in 2009, Molly Ringwald & Anthony Michael Hall were part of a tribute to him at the Oscars (John) Hughes |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $1200: He & Joe Robert Cole wrote the scripts for "Black Panther" & its sequel, & he directed both films, too Ryan Coogler |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $1600: Born in Austria, he learned English while rooming with Peter Lorre, so it's lucky the people in "Some Like It Hot" don't talk like I am Billy Wilder |
#8922, aired 2023-07-25 | WRITER-DIRECTORS $2000: Lorelei Linklater aged from 9 to 21 over the 12-year shoot of this film from her father, Richard Boyhood |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $400: Dan Fogler plays Francis Ford Coppola in "The Offer", a streaming show about the making of this film The Godfather |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $800: "Austin Powers" director Jay Roach plays himself when this hit man-turned-actor lands a big audition Barry |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $1200: Gary Merrill, who played a stage director in "All About Eve", married this star before the film came out Bette Davis |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $1600: He won acclaim as washed-up low-budget movie director Sam Sylvia on "GLOW" (Marc) Maron |
#8725, aired 2022-10-21 | MOVIE & TV DIRECTORS $2000: Ralph Fiennes struggles to direct an actor to say, "Would that it were so simple" in this Coen Brothers movie about making an epic Hail, Caesar! |
#8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $400: Nora Ephron wrote screenplays like "When Harry Met Sally" before directing this 1993 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan rom-com Sleepless in Seattle |
#8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $800: Barbra Streisand directed & starred in this film about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training Yentl |
#8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1200: In a female first, in 2010 she won the directing Oscar for "The Hurt Locker" Kathryn Bigelow |
#8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1600: Patty Jenkins directed Charlize Theron to an Oscar for this film Monster |
#8438, aired 2021-07-07 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $2000: Emerald Fennell directed this promising young woman who sought vengeance in the 2020 film "Promising Young Woman" Carey Mulligan |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS $400: "Hunger Games: Mockingjay" director Francis Lawrence won a Grammy for directing her "Bad Romance" video Lady Gaga |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS $800: "Eight Days A Week", a documentary about The Beatles, earned this "Apollo 13" director his first Grammy Ron Howard |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS $1200: This actress was Grammy-worthy for directing "Quincy", a film about her father, a music legend Rashida Jones |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS $1600: Spike Jonze won for directing this Oscar winner dancing in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" video Christopher Walken |
#8412, aired 2021-06-01 | GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS $2000: Peter Bogdanovich, director of "The Last Picture Show", won for "Runnin' Down a Dream", about this singer & his backing band Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers) |
#8062, aired 2019-10-01 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: Before directing movies like "SE7EN", David Fincher directed this singer's videos for "Vogue" & "Express Yourself" Madonna |
#8062, aired 2019-10-01 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: Known for his political dramas, this filmmaker has also interviewed Vladimir Putin for television Oliver Stone |
#8062, aired 2019-10-01 | FILM DIRECTORS $1200: He was born in Pondicherry, India & named Manoj, which he shortened to M. M. Night Shyamalan |
#8062, aired 2019-10-01 | FILM DIRECTORS $1600: This alliterative director got Oscar nominations for two 2000 films, getting the green light with "Traffic" Steven Soderbergh |
#8062, aired 2019-10-01 | FILM DIRECTORS $2000: Known for classic westerns like "She Wore a Yellow Ribbon", he also gave us "Mister Roberts" & "The Quiet Man" John Ford |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: His career as an actor-director has been largely a "rocky" one but also includes "The Expendables" (Sylvester) Stallone |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $800: Clint Eastwood transports cartel drugs in this 2018 film he also directed The Mule |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1200: He directed "Tropic Thunder"; Steve Coogan directed the film within that film (Ben) Stiller |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1600: As Variety would say, he toplined & helmed 2014's "A Million Ways to Die in the West" Seth MacFarlane |
#8052, aired 2019-09-17 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $2000: "You should lay off those candy bars", Marlene Dietrich tells this great film auteur in "Touch of Evil" (Orson) Welles |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: John Wayne spends years looking for his niece in this western often called director John Ford's masterpiece The Searchers |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: Perhaps tired of his old office job, in 2018 he branched out as the director of "A Quiet Place" (John) Krasinski |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: Tim Burton cast this mother of his children as Mrs. Lovett in "Sweeney Todd" Helena Bonham Carter |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: This actress/filmmaker got an Oscar nomination for her direction of the 2017 film "Lady Bird" (Greta) Gerwig |
#7959, aired 2019-03-28 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: This alliterative Italian won Best Director for his work on "The Last Emperor" (Bernardo) Bertolucci |
#7921, aired 2019-02-04 | DURABLE DIRECTORS $400: Just before the premier of his last film, "The Dead" starring daughter Anjelica, this director died at 81 John Huston |
#7921, aired 2019-02-04 | DURABLE DIRECTORS $800: "Lavender Hill Mob" director Charles Crichton got an Oscar nom at 78 for this John Cleese/Kevin Kline comedy A Fish Called Wanda |
#7921, aired 2019-02-04 | DURABLE DIRECTORS $1200: 38 years after making "Alien", this British director was still at it with "Alien: Covenant" Ridley Scott |
#7921, aired 2019-02-04 | DURABLE DIRECTORS $1600: "American Sniper" is the top-grossing movie directed by an octogenarian, this man who's also an actor Clint Eastwood |
#7921, aired 2019-02-04 | DURABLE DIRECTORS $2000: Critics were "Breathless" with anticipation in 2014 for this French octogenarian's 3D film "Goodbye to Language" Jean-Luc Godard |
#7418, aired 2016-12-07 | DIRECTORS ON FILM $400: He had a "Close Encounter" with "The Blues Brothers" as a Cook County assessor's office clerk Spielberg |
#7418, aired 2016-12-07 | DIRECTORS ON FILM $1600: Long after "The Maltese Falcon", this director played the sinister Noah Cross in 1974's "Chinatown" John Huston |
#7418, aired 2016-12-07 | DIRECTORS ON FILM $2000: He was "Gung Ho" to play Steve in "American Graffiti" Ron Howard |
#7153, aired 2015-10-21 | DIRECTORS BY FILM $400: 1946:
"It's a Wonderful Life" (Frank) Capra |
#7153, aired 2015-10-21 | DIRECTORS BY FILM $800: 1998:
"Saving Private Ryan" Spielberg |
#7153, aired 2015-10-21 | DIRECTORS BY FILM $1200: 1966:
"The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" (Sergio) Leone |
#7153, aired 2015-10-21 | DIRECTORS BY FILM $1600: 2014:
"Gone Girl" (David) Fincher |
#7153, aired 2015-10-21 | DIRECTORS BY FILM $2000: 1994:
"The Shawshank Redemption " Frank Darabont |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTORS $400: "Rashomon"
(1950) Kurosawa |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTORS $800: "Birdman"
(2014) (Alejandro) Iñárritu |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTORS $1200: "For a Few Dollars More"
(1965) (Sergio) Leone |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTORS $1600: "Fanny and Alexander"
(1982) (Ingmar) Bergman |
#7115, aired 2015-07-17 | INTERNATIONAL FILM DIRECTORS $2000: "Satyricon"
(1969) Fellini |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | FBI DIRECTORS $400: "Catch Me If You Can" (Steven) Spielberg |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $400: This brother of John Foster Dulles resigned as C.I.A. director in 1961 after the Bay of Pigs failure Allen Dulles |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $500 (Daily Double): Appointed by Gerald Ford, he's the only man to serve as both C.I.A. director & U.S. president George H.W. Bush |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | FBI DIRECTORS $800: "American Hustle" David O. Russell |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $800: Once President Clinton's Chief of Staff, he served as Secretary of Defense & C.I.A. director in the Obama administration Leon Panetta |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | FBI DIRECTORS $1200: "The Silence of the Lambs" Jonathan Demme |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $1200: This general resigned as director in 2012 after a little bit of hanky panky came to light in the press David Petraeus |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | FBI DIRECTORS $1600: "Face/Off" John Woo |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | FBI DIRECTORS $2000: "Dog Day Afternoon" (Sidney) Lumet |
#6931, aired 2014-11-03 | C.I.A. DIRECTORS $2000: An Air Force base on California's Central Coast is named for this general & 1940s C.I.A. director Hoyt Vandenberg |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: "Reservoir Dogs" Tarantino |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: "There Will Be Blood" Paul Thomas Anderson |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1200: "Point Break" (an outlier in the category) (Kathryn) Bigelow |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1600: "Meet Me in St. Louis" Vincente Minnelli |
#6833, aired 2014-05-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: "The Tree of Life" Terrence Malick |
#6693, aired 2013-10-23 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $400: For the 2009 Oscars, she was in competition against ex-husband James Cameron for Best Director; she won Kathryn Bigelow |
#6693, aired 2013-10-23 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $800: British director Gurinder Chadha had a cameo in the wedding scene in this 2002 girls' soccer film Bend It Like Beckham |
#6693, aired 2013-10-23 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1200: This sister of Francis Ford Coppola & aunt of Sofia also directed "One Night Stand", starring Ally Sheedy Talia Shire |
#6693, aired 2013-10-23 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1600: This first film directed by Barbra Streisand was based on a story by Isaac Bashevis Singer Yentl |
#6693, aired 2013-10-23 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $2000: In 2013 this New Zealander directed the Sundance Channel's 7-part miniseries "Top of the Lake" Jane Campion |
#6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $400: The epic "A Passage to India" David Lean |
#6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $800: 1990's "La Voce Della Luna" (Federico) Fellini |
#6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $1200: A gangster saga, not a spaghetti western: "Once Upon a Time in America" Sergio Leone |
#6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $2000: Filmed in the '40s about a fellow Russian, "Ivan the Terrible: part two" (Sergei) Eisenstein |
#6549, aired 2013-02-21 | DIRECTORS' BIG SCREEN FAREWELLS $2,600 (Daily Double): His second & last talkie, 1931's "The Struggle" (D.W.) Griffith |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE 1980s $400: Oliver Stone, for a Vietnam movie
(1986) Platoon |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE 1980s $800: Oliver Stone, for a Vietnam movie
(1989) Born on the Fourth of July |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE 1980s $1200: Robert Redford
(1980) Ordinary People |
#6417, aired 2012-07-10 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE 1980s $1600: Warren Beatty
(1981) Reds |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: "Tropic Thunder"
(2008) Ben Stiller |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: "The Great Dictator"
(1940) Charlie Chaplin |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $600: "Antwone Fisher"
(2002) Denzel Washington |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $800: "Hamlet"
(1996) Kenneth Branagh |
#6353, aired 2012-04-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1000: "One-Eyed Jacks"
(1961) Marlon Brando |
#6333, aired 2012-03-14 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $400: In 2010, Kathryn Bigelow finally broke the male hold on the directing Oscar, winning for this film The Hurt Locker |
#6333, aired 2012-03-14 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $800: With films like "Marie Antoinette" & "Lost in Translation", directing must run in the family for this woman Sofia Coppola |
#6333, aired 2012-03-14 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1200: Charlize Theron wowed the critics by playing against type as a serial killer in this 2003 film directed by Patty Jenkins Monster |
#6254, aired 2011-11-24 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Don't keep us in suspense; name this director whose profile is seen here Alfred Hitchcock |
#6254, aired 2011-11-24 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: From 1969's "Take the Money and Run" through 2011, he has released a new film in all but 4 years Woody Allen |
#6254, aired 2011-11-24 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1200: He goes for the macabre, directing "Corpse Bride" & "Sweeney Todd" Tim Burton |
#6254, aired 2011-11-24 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1600: This New Zealand-born woman directed 2009's "Bright Star", about poet John Keats Jane Campion |
#6254, aired 2011-11-24 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: This director shot 99 takes of the opening scene in "The Social Network" David Fincher |
#6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $400: "Lawrence of Arabia" David Lean |
#6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $800: "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
#6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $1200: "The Graduate" Mike Nichols |
#6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $1600: "Tom Jones"--Vanessa Redgrave's husband Tony Richardson |
#6012, aired 2010-11-02 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS OF THE '60s $2000: "West Side Story" & "The Sound of Music" (2 in one decade!) Robert Wise |
#5976, aired 2010-09-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: He not only co-wrote, directed & starred in 1973's "Sleeper", he also composed the score Woody Allen |
#5976, aired 2010-09-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: "This is" the 1984 mock rocumentary that was Rob Reiner's feature film directing debut This is Spinal Tap |
#5976, aired 2010-09-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1200: He directed wife Gena Rowlands to 2 Oscar nominations: for "A Woman Under the Influence" & "Gloria" John Cassavetes |
#5976, aired 2010-09-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1600: After seeing "Eraserhead", executive producer Mel Brooks tapped this man to direct "The Elephant Man" (David) Lynch |
#5976, aired 2010-09-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: This Finnish-born director hit it big with "Die Hard 2" & "Cliffhanger"; then came "Cutthroat Island" Renny Harlin |
#5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $400: Bob Fosse won an Oscar for this 1972 Liza Minnelli film Cabaret |
#5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $800: "Revenge of" in 1978 was the fifth in this series of comedies directed by Blake Edwards The Pink Panther |
#5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $1200: Near the commencement of his career, he directed "The Graduate" (Mike) Nichols |
#5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $1600: His Westerns include "Wagon Master" & "Fort Apache" John Ford |
#5916, aired 2010-05-10 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $2000: Clark Gable was happy to see him come in & finish directing "Gone with the Wind" Victor Fleming |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $400: "Sixteen Candles"
(1984) John Hughes |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $800: "The 40-Year-Old Virgin"
(2005) Judd Apatow |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $1200: "American Beauty"
(1999) Sam Mendes |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $1600: "The Maltese Falcon"
(1941) Huston |
#5912, aired 2010-05-04 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $2000: "Mondo Trasho"
(1969) John Waters |
#5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $400: "The Ten Commandments"
(1956) De Mille |
#5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $800: "Family Plot"
(1976) Alfred Hitchcock |
#5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $1200: "A Prairie Home Companion"
(2006) Robert Altman |
#5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $1600: "Curly Sue"
(1991) John Hughes |
#5761, aired 2009-10-05 | DIRECTORS' LAST FEATURE FILMS $2000: "The Dead"
(1987) John Huston |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $200: Edsel II has been a director of this, his family company, since 1988 Ford |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | NOT BORED OF DIRECTORS $400: This director can't bore "Lord of the Rings" fans, even with the 4-hr. 10-min. DVD version of "The Return of the King" Peter Jackson |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $400: Former Georgia Senator Sam Nunn is on the board of this soda company Coca-Cola |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | NOT BORED OF DIRECTORS $800: We didn't tire of this director's Westerns even by 1964's "Cheyenne Autumn" John Ford |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $800: Drinking & driving do mix: Andrew Taylor, CEO of Enterprise Rent-A-Car, is a director of this hyphenated beer company Anheuser-Busch |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): It sounds odd that James Firestone joined this Ohio company's board in 2007 Goodyear |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | BOARD OF DIRECTORS $1000: The chief of medicine at Mass. General is on this company's board, so he can keep an eye on the Lipitor & Xanax Pfizer |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | NOT BORED OF DIRECTORS $1200: His films fascinate, from "Mean Streets" to the mean streets in "Gangs of New York" (Martin) Scorsese |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | NOT BORED OF DIRECTORS $1600: We weren't bored by his 1997 film "Lost Highway"--confused, sure, but not bored David Lynch |
#5536, aired 2008-10-06 | NOT BORED OF DIRECTORS $2000: Audiences weren't bored by William Wyler's 5th Oscar nomination, for this Greer Garson film; good thing, as he got 7 more Mrs. Miniver |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: This "Sicko" director's prescription is to give free health care to every American for life Michael Moore |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: He went from directing the Aaron Burr "got milk" ad to a little film called "Transformers" Michael Bay |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1200: After directing "Thank You for Smoking", Jason Reitman didn't suffer from a sophomore jinx with this feature Juno |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1600: These brothers escaped "The Matrix" & raced to release their new movie "Speed Racer" the Wachowski Brothers |
#5456, aired 2008-05-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: His first try at a "King Kong" remake was stopped, as "Mighty Joe Young" & "Godzilla" were being produced Peter Jackson |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Dawson on "Dawson's Creek" idolized this man who directed "The Sugarland Express" in his mid-20s Steven Spielberg |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: (Hi, I'm Joel Schumacher.) Directing movies based on this author's "The Client" & "A Time to Kill" was like getting paid to go to law school John Grisham |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1200: His career includes directing "Paper Moon", writing the book "Who the Devil Made It" & acting in "The Sopranos" Peter Bogdanovich |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2000: This director of "Casablanca", a classic film about refugees, had himself left his homeland of Hungary Michael Curtiz |
#4841, aired 2005-10-03 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $3,000 (Daily Double): This "Philadelphia Story" director was patriotically named for Admiral George Dewey George Cukor |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $400: "Citizen Kane"
(1941) (Orson) Welles |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $800: "Play Misty for Me"
(1971) Clint Eastwood |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $1200: "sex, lies, and videotape"
(1989) Steven Soderbergh |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $1600: "Eraserhead"
(1978) (David) Lynch |
#4713, aired 2005-02-16 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $2000: "The 400 Blows"
(1959) Truffaut |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: He was nominated for a 1994 Oscar for directing "Pulp Fiction" (Quentin) Tarantino |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Producers told him he could direct "Taxi Driver" only if he got Robert De Niro to play the lead (Martin) Scorsese |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: This director cast his son Kyle in a bit role as a bass player in a blues band in "The Bridges of Madison County" (Clint) Eastwood |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: This quirky Californian directed "Batman" & "Batman Returns" (Tim) Burton |
#4693, aired 2005-01-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: In 1977 he directed his first film, "Grand Theft Auto", from a script he co-wrote with his father Rance Ron Howard |
#4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $400: This star of "Misery" & "Dolores Claiborne" has directed episodes of "NYPD Blue" & "Six Feet Under" Kathy Bates |
#4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $800: (Hi, I'm Harry Connick, Jr.) I co-starred in 1991's "Little Man Tate"; this actress' debut as a director Jodie Foster |
#4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $1200: Sally Field was one of the directors of this 12-part space series on HBO From the Earth to the Moon |
#4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $1600: She credits Gillian Armstrong as her inspiration; Armstrong directed her in "Mrs. Soffel" Diane Keaton |
#4197, aired 2002-11-26 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $2000: This 2000 Richard Gere-Winona Ryder drama was directed by "The Last Emperor"'s Joan Chen Autumn in New York |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: He made his Hollywood debut with "Rosemary's Baby" the same year he married Sharon Tate Roman Polanski |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: He passed away in 1999 just months before the release of his final film, "Eyes Wide Shut" Stanley Kubrick |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | FILM DIRECTORS $1200: Last name of Jonathan, who directed "Philadelphia" & nephew Ted, who directed "Blow" Demme |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | FILM DIRECTORS $1600: Czech out "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" & "The People vs. Larry Flynt"; he directed both Miloš Forman |
#4030, aired 2002-02-22 | FILM DIRECTORS $2000: This director of "He Got Game" has the real first name of Shelton Spike Lee |
#3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $400: "Annie Hall" Woody Allen |
#3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $800: "The Godfather Part II" Coppola |
#3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $1200: "The Apartment" Billy Wilder |
#3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $1600: "Traffic" Steven Soderbergh |
#3994, aired 2002-01-03 | OSCAR-WINNING DIRECTORS $2000: "Rain Man" Barry Levinson |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | DIRECTORS $200: "E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial" Steven Spielberg |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | DIRECTORS $400: "Fargo" Joel Coen |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | DIRECTORS $600: "Paper Moon" Peter Bogdanovich |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | DIRECTORS $800: "The Apostle" Robert Duvall |
#3897, aired 2001-07-10 | DIRECTORS $1000: "Dead Man Walking" Tim Robbins |
#3818, aired 2001-03-21 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $100: "Beautiful" starring Minnie Driver marked the big screen directorial debut of this "Norma Rae" star Sally Field |
#3818, aired 2001-03-21 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $200: She directed, co-produced & starred in "The Mirror Has Two Faces" Barbra Streisand |
#3818, aired 2001-03-21 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $300: Films like "Big" & "The Preacher's Wife" have put her in a league of her own Penny Marshall |
#3818, aired 2001-03-21 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $400: In 1999 she directed & starred in "Agnes Browne", about a mother of 7, who tries to make ends meet in 1960s Dublin Anjelica Huston |
#3818, aired 2001-03-21 | ACTRESS-DIRECTORS $500: A no-nonsense officer in "Hill Street Blues", she's since directed "Private Parts" & "Doctor Dolittle" Betty Thomas |
#3643, aired 2000-06-07 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $200: "Yentl"
(1983) Barbra Streisand |
#3643, aired 2000-06-07 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $400: "What's Up, Tiger Lily?"
(1966) Woody Allen |
#3643, aired 2000-06-07 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $600: "Diner"
(1982) Barry Levinson |
#3643, aired 2000-06-07 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $800: "Sixteen Candles"
(1984) John Hughes |
#3643, aired 2000-06-07 | DIRECTORS' FIRST FEATURES $1000: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
(1966) Mike Nichols |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $100: "Hello Princess!" directed by & starring Roberto Benigni, this film was re-released in 1999 & dubbed in English Life is Beautiful |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: This actor considered running for president after directing himself in 1998's "Bulworth" Warren Beatty |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: Replacing Kubrick as the director of 1961's "One-Eyed Jacks" was an offer this actor could not refuse Marlon Brando |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: This director was back on screen playing a TV reporter in his 1999 film "Summer of Sam" Spike Lee |
#3590, aired 2000-03-24 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: As a divorce attorney, director Danny DeVito narrated this 1989 comedy The War of the Roses |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $100: In 1997 this star of "Private Benjamin" made her directing debut with the TV movie "Hope" Goldie Hawn |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: This "Annie Hall" actress went behind the cameras for the 1995 family drama "Unstrung Heroes" Diane Keaton |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: This actor directed an animal onscreen & off in 1998's "The Horse Whisperer" Robert Redford |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500 (Daily Double): Like Olivier, this actor made his debut as a film director with Shakespeare's "Henry V" Kenneth Branagh |
#3425, aired 1999-06-25 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: You might say director Charles Laughton had a "love-hate" relationship with this 1955 Robert Mitchum film The Night of the Hunter |
#3324, aired 1999-02-04 | DIRECTORS $200: Mel Brooks' film "High Anxiety" spoofed this director's films, including, of course, "Vertigo" Alfred Hitchcock |
#3324, aired 1999-02-04 | DIRECTORS $400: This director claimed he called his 1971 film "Bananas" "Because there are no bananas in it" Woody Allen |
#3324, aired 1999-02-04 | DIRECTORS $600: "I like to use cities as characters", said this "Meet Me In St. Louis" director, Liza's dad Vincente Minnelli |
#3324, aired 1999-02-04 | DIRECTORS $800: He directed his good friend John Wayne in many films; the last was "Donovan's Reef", in 1963 John Ford |
#3324, aired 1999-02-04 | DIRECTORS $1000: He said, "My wife has taught me the meaning of uxoriousness" when he won an Oscar for "The English Patient" Anthony Minghella |
#3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DIRECTORS $200: His son Tony wrote the last film he directed, "The Dead"; his daughter Anjelica starred in it John Huston |
#3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DIRECTORS $400: Dennis Weaver is terrorized by a truck in "Duel", a 1971 TV movie this wunderkind directed in his 20s Steven Spielberg |
#3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DIRECTORS $800: This actor directed himself & wife Trish Van Devere in the 1974 film "The Savage Is Loose" George C. Scott |
#3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DIRECTORS $1000: David Lean co-directed the WWII film "In Which We Serve" with this "Blithe Spirit" playwright Noel Coward |
#3223, aired 1998-09-16 | DIRECTORS $1,500 (Daily Double): The first American film Alfred Hitchcock directed was this 1940 classic, seen here:
"You thought you could be Mrs. DeWinter, live in her house, walk in her steps, take the things that were hers, but she's too strong for you, you can't fight her..." Rebecca |
#3100, aired 1998-02-06 | DIRECTORS $200: Biographer Donald Spoto says that as a schoolboy, this "Vertigo" director was nicknamed "Cocky" Alfred Hitchcock |
#3100, aired 1998-02-06 | DIRECTORS $400: In his late teens this director, seen here, taught English in Saigon Oliver Stone |
#3100, aired 1998-02-06 | DIRECTORS $600: Elia Kazan directed both this 1947 play, that made Marlon Brando a star, & the 1951 film A Streetcar Named Desire |
#3100, aired 1998-02-06 | DIRECTORS $800: The 1985 action film "Runaway Train" was based on a screenplay by this great Japanese director Akira Kurosawa |
#3100, aired 1998-02-06 | DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): This Englishman won a 1957 Oscar for directing the epic film seen here: ("The Bridge On The River Kwai") David Lean |
#3090, aired 1998-01-23 | FILM DIRECTORS $100: Before "Men in Black", Barry Sonnenfeld directed 2 movies about this altogether ooky family The Addams Family |
#3090, aired 1998-01-23 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: Antoine Doinel is the hero of this late French director's autobiographical film "The 400 Blows" François Truffaut |
#3090, aired 1998-01-23 | FILM DIRECTORS $300: The recent film from Mira Nair, the director of "Salaam Bombay!", takes its title from this Hindu love manual the Kama Sutra |
#3090, aired 1998-01-23 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: Vittorio De Sica directed a classic 1948 film about Antonio, who steals one of these vehicles a bicycle |
#3090, aired 1998-01-23 | FILM DIRECTORS $500: This Japanese crime organization attacked Juzo Itami after he made a 1992 film satirizing them the yakuza |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $100: When his 1972 film "Beware! The Blob" was reissued, it was subtitled "The Movie J.R. Shot" Larry Hagman |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: He directed himself, dad Lloyd & brother Jeff in the TV movie "The Thanksgiving Promise" Beau Bridges |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: "A Bronx Tale", the first film directed by this "Taxi Driver" star, earned critical praise, not Bronx cheers Robert De Niro |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: This daughter of director John made her own directing debut with the TV movie "Bastard Out of Carolina" Anjelica Huston |
#3088, aired 1998-01-21 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: Peter Ustinov directed the 1962 film version of this Herman Melville novel & played Captain Vere in it Billy Budd |
#3008, aired 1997-10-01 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $200: Robert Zemeckis directed this 1988 Disney hit, undoubtely the biggest bunny film of the decade Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
#3008, aired 1997-10-01 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $400: He wrote of the nearly 20 years it took to bring "Gandhi" to the screen in his 1982 book "In Search of Gandhi" Sir Richard Attenborough |
#3008, aired 1997-10-01 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $600: He won 1967's Best Director Oscar for "The Graduate", which was only his second film Mike Nichols |
#3008, aired 1997-10-01 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $800: This jury drama was the first feature Sidney Lumet directed; Henry Fonda, its producer & star, hired him 12 Angry Men |
#3008, aired 1997-10-01 | DIRECTORS & THEIR FILMS $1000: This star of TV's "Jake And The Fatman" directed the 1965 Joey Heatherton thriller "My Blood Runs Cold" William Conrad |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: "Roman" was this director's 1984 autobiograpy Roman Polanski |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: The Swedish Film Institute honors excellence in filmmaking with an annual prize named for this director Ingmar Bergman |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: In "Platoon" Charlie Sheen's character Chris was based on this man, who directed the film Oliver Stone |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: Through 1996 he starred in all of the films he directed with the exception of "Breezy" & "Bird" Clint Eastwood |
#3005, aired 1997-09-26 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $2,300 (Daily Double): Director seen here: Alfred Hitchcock |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $100: 2 years after a riding accident left him paralyzed, he directed the HBO drama "In the Gloaming" Christopher Reeve |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: "Star Trek"'s Mr. Spock, he showed his comedy side with his direction of "Three Men and a Baby" (Leonard) Nimoy |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $300: He cast Debbie Reynolds as his "mother" in a 1996 film Albert Brooks |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: In 1990 he directed himself in the title role of "Dick Tracy" Warren Beatty |
#2994, aired 1997-09-11 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $500: Forest Whitaker of "The Crying Game" made his directorial debut with this Whitney Houston film about 4 friends Waiting to Exhale |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: He wore a kilt & danced the Highland Fling when his film "Braveheart" premiered in Stirling, Scotland Mel Gibson |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: Before directing "The Brady Bunch Movie", Betty Thomas played officer Lucy Bates on this TV cop series "Hill Street Blues" |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $600: Penny Marshall's real first name is Carole; she was named for this film star of the 1930s Carole Lombard |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $800: He made his directing debut with the 1996 film "Losing Chase", which starred his wife, Kyra Sedgwick Kevin Bacon |
#2979, aired 1997-07-10 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1000: This bald director who appeared in "Stalag 17" was the father of Gypsy Rose Lee's son Eric Otto Preminger |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: "Fisher King" director Terry Gilliam created this British comedy troupe's surreal animations Monte Python (Flying Circus) |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: Before "Dead Man Walking" this actor made his directing debut with 1992's "Bob Roberts" Tim Robbins |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: Last name of the brothers responsible for "Fargo", Ethan produces & Joel directs Coen |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: Before directing "It's a Wonderful Life", he wrote "Our Gang" comedies for Hal Roach Frank Capra |
#2939, aired 1997-05-15 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: This Italian directed Liv Tyler in 1996's "Stealing Beauty" & John Lone in 1987's "The Last Emperor" (Bernardo) Bertolucci |
#2933, aired 1997-05-07 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: He hasn't directed a feature film since 1977's "Star Wars" George Lucas |
#2933, aired 1997-05-07 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: His 1983 film "Fanny and Alexander" was edited from a larger television miniseries Ingmar Bergman |
#2933, aired 1997-05-07 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: He directed John Wayne in many westerns, including "The Searchers" & "Fort Apache" John Ford |
#2933, aired 1997-05-07 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: This director's "Scream" pokes fun at horror films of the '80s, including his own Freddy Krueger movies Wes Craven |
#2933, aired 1997-05-07 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: This French director appears as a passerby who points out Belmondo to the police in his 1959 film "Breathless" Jean-Luc Godard |
#2912, aired 1997-04-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: Jonathan Frid of TV's "Dark Shadows" starred in this "Platoon" director's first film, "Seizure", in 1974 Oliver Stone |
#2912, aired 1997-04-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: As a child, this "Big" director performed with her mother's tap dance troupe on the "Original Amateur Hour" Penny Marshall |
#2912, aired 1997-04-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: He earned his first Oscar nomination for his first film, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Mike Nichols |
#2912, aired 1997-04-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: This playwright directed the 1990 film adaptation of his own play "Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead" Tom Stoppard |
#2912, aired 1997-04-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: This Italian, father of actress Isabella, directed the acclaimed Neorealist film "Open City" Roberto Rossellini |
#2885, aired 1997-02-28 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $200: Penny Marshall made her directing debut on this sitcom; she starred on it, too "Laverne And Shirley" |
#2885, aired 1997-02-28 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $400: Oscar winner Kathy Bates directed a 1996 episode of this detective series subtitled "Life On The Street" "Homicide" |
#2885, aired 1997-02-28 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $600: This sister of Francis Ford Coppola directed her first feature film, "One Night Stand", in 1994 Talia Shire |
#2885, aired 1997-02-28 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1000: She was the 1st woman nominated for a Best Director Oscar, for 1976's "Seven Beauties" Lina Wertmuller |
#2885, aired 1997-02-28 | WOMEN DIRECTORS $1,400 (Daily Double): Nick Nolte & Amy Irving earned Oscar nominations for films directed by & co-starring this woman Barbra Streisand |
#2830, aired 1996-12-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: Some say he got the nickname Woody by always bringing the stick for neighborhood stickball games Woody Allen |
#2830, aired 1996-12-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: In 1993 he was given permission to build a replica of Auschwitz near the actual site & film there Steven Spielberg |
#2830, aired 1996-12-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: Charlie Sheen starred in 2 of his most lauded films: "Platoon" & "Wall Street" Oliver Stone |
#2830, aired 1996-12-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): This director who died in 1987 choreographed 3 of the 5 features he directed Bob Fosse |
#2830, aired 1996-12-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: This director of "Short Cuts" learned his trade making industrial films in Kansas City Robert Altman |
#2828, aired 1996-12-11 | FOREIGN FILM DIRECTORS $200: Marcello Mastroianni starred in several of his films, including "La Dolce Vita" & "8 1/2" (Federico) Fellini |
#2828, aired 1996-12-11 | FOREIGN FILM DIRECTORS $400 (Daily Double): The wartime life of this director of "Chinatown" partly inspired Jerzy Kosinski's novel "The Painted Bird" Roman Polanski |
#2828, aired 1996-12-11 | FOREIGN FILM DIRECTORS $400: 14 years passed between the releases of his last 2 films: "Ryan's Daughter" & "A Passage to India" Sir David Lean |
#2828, aired 1996-12-11 | FOREIGN FILM DIRECTORS $800: Shinobu Hashimoto co-wrote the scripts for his "Rashomon" & "Seven Samurai" Akira Kurosawa |
#2828, aired 1996-12-11 | FOREIGN FILM DIRECTORS $1000: Jane Campion, director of "The Piano", grew up in Waikanae in this country New Zealand |
#2808, aired 1996-11-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: The last film he directed was "A Matter of Time" in 1976; it starred his daughter Liza Vincente Minnelli |
#2808, aired 1996-11-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: In 1996 he released "Natural Born Killers: The Director's Cut" on video with previously unseen footage Oliver Stone |
#2808, aired 1996-11-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: The name of this "Home Alone" & "Mrs. Doubtfire" director may remind you of a famous explorer Chris Columbus |
#2808, aired 1996-11-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: His 1985 film "Ran" is a Japanese version of "King Lear" Akira Kurosawa |
#2808, aired 1996-11-13 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: He's noted for such off-beat comedies as "Pink Flamingos", "Polyester" & "Serial Mom" John Waters |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: This director played the title role in the 1953 cross-dressing classic "Glen or Glenda?" Ed Wood |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: "She's Gotta Have It", his first feature, had a budget of $175,000 Spike Lee |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: With "The Seventh Seal" he established the religious themes that characterize much of his work Ingmar Bergman |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: This director of "Forrest Gump" also directed all 3 "Back to the Future" features Robert Zemeckis |
#2791, aired 1996-10-21 | FILM DIRECTORS $1,700 (Daily Double): This man won his first of 3 Best Director Oscars for the film seen here: Frank Capra |
#2746, aired 1996-07-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: This "Master of Suspense" was knighted in 1980 Hitchcock |
#2746, aired 1996-07-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: This director of "The Birth of a Nation" was the son of a Confederate army officer D.W. Griffith |
#2746, aired 1996-07-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: His wife, Giulietta Masina, starred in several of his films, including "La Strada" Fellini |
#2746, aired 1996-07-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: "Flying Padre" was one of the short films this director of "The Shining" made early in his career Stanley Kubrick |
#2746, aired 1996-07-08 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: "M", a portrait of a child murderer starring Peter Lorre, was this "Metropolis" director's first sound picture Fritz Lang |
#2480, aired 1995-05-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $100: He directed "Rocky II", "Rocky III" & "Rocky IV" Stallone |
#2480, aired 1995-05-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: This director of "The Godfather" won an Oscar for co-writing "Patton" (Francis Ford) Coppola |
#2480, aired 1995-05-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $300: "Rosemary's Baby" was the first movie he directed in the U.S. Polanski |
#2480, aired 1995-05-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: This sitcom actress made her movie directorial debut with the 1986 film "Jumpin' Jack Flash" Penny Marshall |
#2480, aired 1995-05-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $500: Among this director's wives were Brigitte Bardot & Jane Fonda Roger Vadim |
#2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: "Mr. Saturday Night" was the first film he directed; he starred in it, too Billy Crystal |
#2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: As an actor, this silent film director sometimes used the stage name Lawrence Griffith D.W. Griffith |
#2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FILM DIRECTORS $600: Billy Wilder & Otto Preminger were born in this Austrian city in 1906 Vienna |
#2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FILM DIRECTORS $800: This director of "All That Jazz" played a college student in the 1953 film "The Affairs of Dobie Gillis" Bob Fosse |
#2235, aired 1994-04-29 | FILM DIRECTORS $1000: This French director was Jane Fonda's first husband Roger Vadim |
#2169, aired 1994-01-27 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $100: In 1984 this "E.T." director formed a production company & named it for his 1969 short "Amblin'" Steven Spielberg |
#2169, aired 1994-01-27 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: This director's then wife Marcia served as editor on his 1977 film "Star Wars" George Lucas |
#2169, aired 1994-01-27 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $300: He appeared in "The Birds" as a man in front of a pet shop with white terriers Alfred Hitchcock |
#2169, aired 1994-01-27 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: This Swede's first English-language film was "The Touch" in 1971 Ingmar Bergman |
#2169, aired 1994-01-27 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $500: He could have titled his 1971 autobiography "It's A Wonderful Life" instead of "The Name Above the Title" Frank Capra |
#2085, aired 1993-10-01 | DIRECTORS ON FILM $100: He not only was "The Outlaw Josey Wales", he was the director, too Clint Eastwood |
#2085, aired 1993-10-01 | DIRECTORS ON FILM $200: When you watch his direction of himself & Jack Nicholson, he hopes you "Hoffa" good time Danny DeVito |
#2085, aired 1993-10-01 | DIRECTORS ON FILM $300: He's seen in John Landis' "The Blues Brothers" & Landis is seen in his "1941" Steven Spielberg |
#2085, aired 1993-10-01 | DIRECTORS ON FILM $400: He was Mookie the delivery boy in "Do the Right Thing" Spike Lee |
#2085, aired 1993-10-01 | DIRECTORS ON FILM $500: 1 of the 2 directors who play the 2 main husbands in "Husbands and Wives" (1 of) Sydney Pollack (or Woody Allen) |
#1965, aired 1993-03-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $100: Many moviegoers were stunned when she wasn't nominated for an Oscar for directing "The Prince of Tides" Barbra Streisand |
#1965, aired 1993-03-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: Luis Bunuel began directing films in this European country, not in his native Spain France |
#1965, aired 1993-03-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $300: Joseph Losey left the U.S. after being blacklisted for refusing to testify for this committee the House Un-American Activities Committee (House Committee on Un-American Activities) |
#1965, aired 1993-03-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: He directed "Drive, He Said" in 1971, the same year he starred in "Carnal Knowledge" Jack Nicholson |
#1965, aired 1993-03-05 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $500: "The Film Encyclopedia" says Max von Sydow was this fellow Swede's "on-screen alter ego" (Ingmar) Bergman |
#1884, aired 1992-11-12 | SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: Most of his profits from "The Birth of a Nation" were lost when he made "Intolerance" D.W. Griffith |
#1884, aired 1992-11-12 | SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: He directed his last film, "A Countess from Hong Kong", in 1967, over 50 years after his first film Charlie Chaplin |
#1884, aired 1992-11-12 | SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: Although best known for his sound films, William Wellman directed this first "Best Picture" winner Wings |
#1884, aired 1992-11-12 | SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: As an actor, this Vienna-born director was billed as "the man you love to hate" Erich von Stroheim |
#1884, aired 1992-11-12 | SILENT MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: He remade his first Hollywood film, "The Squaw Man", twice Cecil B. DeMille |
#1773, aired 1992-04-22 | DIRECTORS $200: Of 5, 10 or 15, the age of Gregory Scott, who was signed to a Hollywood directing contract in 1991 5 |
#1773, aired 1992-04-22 | DIRECTORS $400: Barbet Schroeder received an Oscar nomination for directing this film about Claus von Bulow Reversal of Fortune |
#1773, aired 1992-04-22 | DIRECTORS $600: The character of Harry in "When Harry Met Sally" was based in part on this man who directed the film Rob Reiner |
#1773, aired 1992-04-22 | DIRECTORS $800: In his native Sweden, his film "Cries and Whispers" is known as "Viskingar och rop" Ingmar Bergman |
#1773, aired 1992-04-22 | DIRECTORS $1000: This director of "La Strada" designed a special poster for 1991's Montreal World Film Festival (Federico) Fellini |
#1637, aired 1991-10-15 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: His late composer-father, Carmine, worked with him on the "Godfather" films Francis Ford Coppola |
#1637, aired 1991-10-15 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: He's been called "The Father of Italy's Spaghetti Westerns" Sergio Leone |
#1637, aired 1991-10-15 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: His wife, Julie Andrews, accompanied him when his star was unveiled on Hollywood's Walk of Fame Blake Edwards |
#1637, aired 1991-10-15 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: His cavalry films John Wayne starred in include "Fort Apache" & "Rio Grande" John Ford |
#1637, aired 1991-10-15 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: This director of "Goodfellas" called himself "a failed priest who fell in love with the movies" (Martin) Scorsese |
#1583, aired 1991-06-19 | FILM DIRECTORS $100: He began his directing career when he co-directed & starred in "Heaven Can Wait" in 1978 Warren Beatty |
#1583, aired 1991-06-19 | FILM DIRECTORS $200: When he won his "Cabaret" Oscar he became the 1st director to win an Oscar, a Tony & an Emmy Bob Fosse |
#1583, aired 1991-06-19 | FILM DIRECTORS $300: Tim Burton based this sharp title character on a sketch he'd drawn in school Edward Scissorhands |
#1583, aired 1991-06-19 | FILM DIRECTORS $400: His jazz musician father has scored all his commercial films, starting with "She's Gotta Have It" Spike Lee |
#1583, aired 1991-06-19 | FILM DIRECTORS $500: "Big" director whose "Awakenings" in 1990 marked her debut in drama Penny Marshall |
#1539, aired 1991-04-18 | ACTORS AS DIRECTORS $200: He directed himself as a cavalryman-turned-Sioux who's given the name Dances with Wolves Kevin Costner |
#1539, aired 1991-04-18 | ACTORS AS DIRECTORS $400: He worked at directing himself & his brother Charlie Sheen in the title roles in "Men at Work" Emilio Estevez |
#1539, aired 1991-04-18 | ACTORS AS DIRECTORS $600: This actor took over as director of "One-Eyed Jacks" when Stanley Kubrick left to make "Spartacus" Marlon Brando |
#1539, aired 1991-04-18 | ACTORS AS DIRECTORS $800: After wrestling with "Gator", his directorial debut, he got good reviews for "Sharky's Machine" Burt Reynolds |
#1539, aired 1991-04-18 | ACTORS AS DIRECTORS $1000: He directed himself playing a director in "White Hunter, Black Heart" Clint Eastwood |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: While living in County Galway, John Huston became an avid hunter of these; tally ho! foxes |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Early in his career this "Master of Suspense" directed a musical about Johann Strauss Alfred Hitchcock |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: This director of "Per un pugno di dollari", also known as "A Fistful of Dollars", was a silent film director's son (Sergio) Leone |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: David Lean's first film as a director was "In Which We Serve", he co-directed it with this urbane playwright Noel Coward |
#1488, aired 1991-02-06 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: Truffaut, Antonioni & this "Paper Moon" director were all film critics before directing films Bogdanovich |
#1380, aired 1990-09-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: Alfred Hitchcock directed "The 39 Steps" & "The Lady Vanishes" in this, his native country England |
#1380, aired 1990-09-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Montreal-born actor who starred in all 5 "Star Trek" movies & directed "Star Trek 5" as well William Shatner |
#1380, aired 1990-09-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: He won Oscars for directing "Bridge on the River Kwai" & "Lawrence of Arabia" David Lean |
#1380, aired 1990-09-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: James Cameron directed this 1989 underwater thriller that his ex-wife Gale Anne Hurd produced The Abyss |
#1380, aired 1990-09-07 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: Italian director who made "Blow Up" in the U.K. & "Zabriskie Point" in the U.S. Antonioni |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | DIRECTORS $100: This director said he followed the format of "Anna Karenina" in writing "Hannah and Her Sisters" Woody Allen |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | DIRECTORS $200: This late director-choreographer married Mary-Ann Niles, Joan McCracken & Gwen Verdon Bob Fosse |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | DIRECTORS $300: Italian who directed "Once Upon a Time in the West" and "Once Upon a Time in America" Sergio Leone |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | DIRECTORS $400: He directed Joanne Woodward in "Rachel, Rachel" on film & "The Shadow Box" on TV Paul Newman |
#1336, aired 1990-05-28 | DIRECTORS $500: Norman Jewison, Arthur Hiller & Mack Sennett were all born in this country Canada |
#1305, aired 1990-04-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: Born Arthur Stanley Jefferson, this skinny half of a comedy team directed several of their films Stan Laurel |
#1305, aired 1990-04-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: This director plays Cliff Stern, a documentary filmmaker in "Crimes & Misdemeanors" Woody Allen |
#1305, aired 1990-04-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: He directed "Body Heat", then changed temperatures with "The Big Chill" Lawrence Kasdan |
#1305, aired 1990-04-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: "Casualties of War" was an exploration of Vietnam's horror by this maker of horror films like "Carrie" Brian De Palma |
#1305, aired 1990-04-13 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: He directed "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" & won an Oscar for "The Sting" George Roy Hill |
#1240, aired 1990-01-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: Yo! He directed "Staying Alive", the sequel to "Saturday Night Fever" Sylvester Stallone |
#1240, aired 1990-01-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: John Ford said he played one of the Ku Klux Klan members in this D.W. Griffith film Birth of a Nation |
#1240, aired 1990-01-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: First name shared by French directors Chabrol & Lelouch Claude |
#1240, aired 1990-01-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: This bald director played the cold-blooded camp commandant in "Stalag 17" Otto Preminger |
#1240, aired 1990-01-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: This comedienne directed the 1978 film "Rabbit Test" about the world's 1st pregnant man Joan Rivers |
#1212, aired 1989-12-05 | DIRECTORS $200: George Roy Hill directed "The World of Henry Orient" & "The World According to" him Garp |
#1212, aired 1989-12-05 | DIRECTORS $400: She married "Fiddler on the Roof" lyricist Sheldon Harnick, not her comedy partner Mike Nichols Elaine May |
#1212, aired 1989-12-05 | DIRECTORS $800: Satyajit Ray is one of this country's most famous directors India |
#1212, aired 1989-12-05 | DIRECTORS $1000: This actress had trouble with Bogey in "High Sierra" before she directed "The Trouble with Angels" Ida Lupino |
#1179, aired 1989-10-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: In "North by Northwest", this director made a cameo appearance as a man who misses a bus Alfred Hitchcock |
#1179, aired 1989-10-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: This director's Oscar for "2001: A Space Odyssey" was for special effects, not for directing or writing Stanley Kubrick |
#1179, aired 1989-10-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: In "Star Trek III: The Search for Spock", this actor was easy to find; he was in the director's chair Leonard Nimoy |
#1179, aired 1989-10-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): Robert Redford won his directing Oscar for this 1980 film Ordinary People |
#1179, aired 1989-10-19 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: He not only directed the "Pink Panther" films, he co-wrote them as well Blake Edwards |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $200: The 1st film he directed was "Psycho III", & he was "showered" with praise for his acting, too Anthony Perkins |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $400: Actor-playwright whose 1st film as a director, "Far North", starred his girlfriend, Jessica Lange Sam Shepard |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $600: Many of the films he directed starred his wife, Gena Rowlands John Cassavetes |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $800: He directed himself in the national tour of "Camelot" in 1986, 19 years after starring in the film Richard Harris |
#1158, aired 1989-09-20 | ACTOR-DIRECTORS $1000: The 1st film Richard Benjamin directed was this '82 Peter O'Toole comedy about the early days of TV "My Favorite Year" |
#1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: William Wyler lost most of his hearing while shooting documentary films during this war World War II |
#1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: French film director Louis Malle is married to this star of "Murphy Brown" Candice Bergen |
#1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: She directed a 1987 film called "Heaven" about life after death before she became "The Good Mother" Diane Keaton |
#1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: He was z director of "Z" Costa-Gavras |
#1073, aired 1989-04-12 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1000: Silent film director whose notorious 1922 murder was the subject of the best seller "A Cast of Killers" William Desmond Taylor |
#972, aired 1988-11-22 | FOREIGN DIRECTORS $200: Before he became famous, Louis Malle made underwater films with this fellow Frenchman Jacques Cousteau |
#972, aired 1988-11-22 | FOREIGN DIRECTORS $400: Leni Riefenstahl, an actress & dancer, directed powerful propaganda films for this ruler Hitler |
#972, aired 1988-11-22 | FOREIGN DIRECTORS $600: It's the nationality of Lina Wertmuller, noted for films such as "Seven Beauties" Italian |
#972, aired 1988-11-22 | FOREIGN DIRECTORS $800: His gory 1971 film of "Macbeth" made some viewers feel "Repulsion" Polanski |
#972, aired 1988-11-22 | FOREIGN DIRECTORS $1000: Spaniard whose film "The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" won an Oscar in 1973 (Luis) Buñuel |
#884, aired 1988-06-09 | DIRECTORS $200: He predicted his own untimely death in the semi-autobiographical musical "All That Jazz" Bob Fosse |
#884, aired 1988-06-09 | DIRECTORS $400: He used to play Potsie on "Happy Days" but now directs episodes of "Hooperman" & "'Slap' Maxwell" Anson Williams |
#884, aired 1988-06-09 | DIRECTORS $600: He directed plays off-Broadway & in summer stock before making "The Last Picture Show" Peter Bogdanovich |
#884, aired 1988-06-09 | DIRECTORS $800: His father, a Lutheran pastor, was chaplain to Sweden's royal family Ingmar Bergman |
#884, aired 1988-06-09 | DIRECTORS $1000: British director John Boorman said the incidents in this 1987 WWII film actually happened to him as a boy Hope and Glory |
#864, aired 1988-05-12 | DIRECTORS' REAL NAMES $200: Samuel Wilder Billy Wilder |
#864, aired 1988-05-12 | DIRECTORS' REAL NAMES $400: William Berkeley Enos, who was most famous for his choreography Busby Berkeley |
#864, aired 1988-05-12 | DIRECTORS' REAL NAMES $600: Epic director whose famous middle initial stood for "Blount", not Bible Cecil B. DeMille |
#864, aired 1988-05-12 | DIRECTORS' REAL NAMES $800: Born Elaine Berlin, she directed her own daughter Jeannie Berlin in "The Heartbreak Kid" Elaine May |
#864, aired 1988-05-12 | DIRECTORS' REAL NAMES $1000: Sean Aloysius O'Fearna directed "How Green Was My Valley" under this name John Ford |
#654, aired 1987-06-11 | DIRECTORS $200: "Little Shop of Horrors" director Frank Oz is best known as the voice of this porcine Muppet Miss Piggy |
#654, aired 1987-06-11 | DIRECTORS $400: This prankster once gave Tippi Hedren's daughter a doll made to look like her mother in a toy coffin Alfred Hitchcock |
#654, aired 1987-06-11 | DIRECTORS $600: Yilmaz Guney, accused of murder, directed his award-winning Turkish film "Yol" from this odd location in prison |
#654, aired 1987-06-11 | DIRECTORS $800: The Oct. 27, 1986 cover of Time called this "True Stories" director "Rock's Renaissance Man" David Byrne |
#654, aired 1987-06-11 | DIRECTORS $1000: Born Michael Igor Peschkowsky in Germany, his 1st film was "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Mike Nichols |
#581, aired 1987-03-02 | DIRECTORS $200: An Oscar winner for the short "Wrestling Swordfish", his life was musicalized in "Mack & Mabel" Mack Sennett |
#581, aired 1987-03-02 | DIRECTORS $500 (Daily Double): [audio clue - music]
5 years after he wrote "King Rat", James Clavell directed the film featuring this theme To Sir With Love |
#581, aired 1987-03-02 | DIRECTORS $600: He was knighted at Universal Studios shortly before his death in 1980 Alfred Hitchcock |
#581, aired 1987-03-02 | DIRECTORS $800: Surprisingly, he was only on the verge of suicide once, while filming "Smiles of A Summer Night" Ingmar Bergman |
#581, aired 1987-03-02 | DIRECTORS $1000: Few knew that this director of westerns who died in 1985 was born Henri de Fiennes, a Belgian marquis Henry Hathaway |
#517, aired 1986-12-02 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $100: Superstar producer-director who calls his production company "Amblin Entertainment" Steven Spielberg |
#517, aired 1986-12-02 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: When he won an Oscar for directing "Annie Hall", he was 3000 miles away, playing a clarinet Woody Allen |
#517, aired 1986-12-02 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $300: He directed "None But the Brave" in 1965, & he did it his way Frank Sinatra |
#517, aired 1986-12-02 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: Silent film pioneer generally considered to have defined the technique of film making (David Wark) Griffith |
#517, aired 1986-12-02 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $500: He directed 4 rock 'n' rollers in "A Hard Day's Night" & 4 musketeers in "The 3 Musketeers" (Richard) Lester |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $200: "2,000-Year-Old Man" who spawned a "Young Frankenstein" Mel Brooks |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $400: He perfected the "art" of grisly slo-mo deaths in "Straw Dogs" & "The Wild Bunch" (Sam) Peckinpah |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $600: He knew Judy Garland as a "Babe on Broadway" when he was Busby Berkeley's apprentice Vincente Minnelli |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $800: He was the conductor of "A Streetcar Named Desire" on stage & screen Elia Kazan |
#273, aired 1985-09-25 | MOVIE DIRECTORS $1,000 (Daily Double): He wrote the music for many of his films, including the following
"Smile, though your heart is aching / Smile, even though it’s breaking / When there are clouds in the sky / you’ll get by" Charlie Chaplin |