Best Director Ranker
Vote for the directors who shape the mood, pace, and visual language of great TV.
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael Katleman is an American director and producer. He has worked on Smallville, Tru Calling, and Gilmore Girls as well as many other programs.
Jon Cassar was born on April 27, 1958 in Malta. He is a producer and director.
Arvin Brown (born May 24, 1940) is an Americantheatre and television director and was the Artistic Director of the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Connecticut for 30 years. He was married to actress Joyce Ebert until h...
Iain B. MacDonald is an Irish and English director. He was born in Southend and co-created the Essex International Film Festival. Description above from the Wikipedia article Iain B. MacDonald, licensed under CC-BY-SA,...
Koichi Sakamoto is a Japanese-born stunt actor, director, and producer for films and television. He is best known for his work as director of numerous tokusatsu works, including Ultraman, Kamen Rider and Super Sentai fr...
Jennifer "Jen" Chambers Lynch is an American filmmaker and television director. She wrote 'The Secret Diary of Laura Palmer', a spin-off novel based on 'Twin Peaks', a TV series created by her father David Lynch.
Richard "Pepe" Benedict (born Riccardo Benedetto, January 8, 1920 – April 29, 1984) was an Italian-American television and film actor and director. He was born in Palermo, Italy. He appeared in dozens of television pro...
Jeannot Szwarc (November 21, 1939 - January 14, 2025) was a French film director. Szwarc was born in Paris. He began working as a director in US television during the 1960s, in particular on Ironside. He is also associa...
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Rod Holcomb is an American director and producer for film and television projects. He studied film at San Francisco State University, California.
British film and television director. Her directing credits range from Hill Street Blues to Star Trek: The Next Generation. She became the first woman to direct an episode of Star Trek, with the episode "Booby Trap". Sh...
Alf Kjellin (28 February 1920 - 5 April 1988) was a Swedish film actor and director, who also appeared on some television shows. Kjellin was well established as a film actor when he occasionally took on roles in televis...
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Larry Shaw is an American film and television director. He is currently a regular director on the ABC television series, Desperate Housewives, where he also serves as a co-execut...
Stephen Williams is a Canadian film and television director. Williams has directed several modern-day television programs, including working as a regular director on the ABC drama series Lost, where he was also a co-exe...
Anthony Hemingway is an assistant director and director.
Itsurou Kawasaki joined I.G Tatsunoko as animator and stayed there after the studio's renaming to Production I.G in 1993. During that time he rose from animator to director. Today he is still working at Production I.G b...
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John Fawcett is a Canadian film and television director, producer and writer, best known for the movie "Ginger Snaps" and as co-creator, executive producer and director of the television series "Orphan Black".
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Michael O'Herlihy (April 1, 1929 - June 16, 1997) was an Irish television producer and director who directed shows like Gunsmoke (1955), Maverick (1957), Star Trek (1965), Hawa...
Yoshihisa Matsumoto (松本 佳久, Matsumoto Yoshihisa, also credited as まつもとよしひさ, Matsumoto Yoshihisa) is a Japanese anime director and storyboarder.
Naoki Hishikawa (菱川 直樹, Hishikawa Naoki, April 29, 1963) is a Japanese anime director and storyboard artist. He has worked on many Sunrise projects.
Satoshi Saga (嵯峨 敏, Saga Satoshi) is a Japanese animator, character designer, storyboard artist and director.
Fred Toye is an American television director and producer, best known for his frequent collaboration with writer and producer J.J. Abrams. He holds a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.
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David M. Barrett is a producer and director. He began his career as a stuntman, progressed to stunt coordinator and second unit director.