List of film director and actor collaborations explained

Some film directors and actors have collaborated together numerous times and have become noteworthy for their partnerships. Note: In some instances, the body of work is too extensive to list all the films on which they worked together.

List of collaborations

DirectorActorFilms
(1971), Sleeper (1973), Love and Death (1975), Annie Hall (1977), Interiors (1978), Manhattan (1979), Radio Days (1987), Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Labyrinth of Passion (1982), Matador (1986), Law of Desire (1987), Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990), The Skin I Live In (2011), I'm So Excited (2013), Pain and Glory (2019)
Live Flesh (1997), All About My Mother (1999), Volver (2006), Broken Embraces (2009), I'm So Excited (2013), Pain and Glory (2019)
Brewster McCloud (1970), MASH (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Images (1972), The Player (1992)
The Long Goodbye (1973), Nashville (1975), A Perfect Couple (1979), Health (1980)
Hard Eight (1996), Boogie Nights (1997), Magnolia (1999), Punch-Drunk Love (2002), The Master (2012)
10 different films from 1998 to the present.
|Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)|-| |Bottle Rocket (1996), Rushmore (1998), The Royal Tenenbaums (2001), The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), The Darjeeling Limited (2007), Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009), The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), The French Dispatch (2021)|-| | | Il Grido (1957), L'Avventura (1960), La Notte (1961), L'Eclisse (1962), Red Desert (1964), The Mystery of Oberwald (1980)| |-| rowspan="3" | | | Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), The Seventh Seal (1957), Wild Strawberries (1957), Brink of Life (1958), The Magician (1958), Persona (1966), The Passion of Anna (1969), Scenes from a Marriage (1973) (incomplete)| rowspan="3" | |-| |12 different films between 1957 and 1971.|-| |10 different films between 1966 and 2003.|-| | | Seven Men from Now (1956), Decision at Sundown (1957), The Tall T (1957), Buchanan Rides Alone (1958), Ride Lonesome (1959), Westbound (1959), Comanche Station (1960)| |-| | | 10 different films between 1919 and 1929.| |-| rowspan="3" | | | Edward Scissorhands (1990), Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Dark Shadows (2012)| rowspan="3" | |-|Michael Keaton|Beetlejuice (1988), Batman (1989), Batman Returns (1992), Dumbo (2019), Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)|-|Helena Bonham Carter|Planet of the Apes (2001), Big Fish (2003), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Corpse Bride (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Alice in Wonderland (2010), Dark Shadows (2012)|-| rowspan="2" | | | The Terminator (1984), Aliens (1986), True Lies (1994), Titanic (1997), Ghosts of the Abyss (2003, cameo)| |-| | The Terminator (1984), (1991), True Lies (1994), (1996)| |-| | | Boy Meets Girl (1984), Mauvais Sang (1986), Mister Lonely (2007), Tokyo! (2008), Holy Motors (2012)| |-| | | Elvis (1979, TV), Escape from New York (1981), The Thing (1982), Big Trouble in Little China (1986), Escape from L.A. (1996)| |-|rowspan="2"| | |Shadows (1958, uncredited), Too Late Blues (1961), Faces (1968), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976), Opening Night (1977), Love Streams (1984)|rowspan="2"| |-| |Shadows (1958, uncredited), Faces (1968), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971), A Woman Under the Influence (1974), Opening Night (1977), Gloria (1980), Love Streams (1984)|-| | |18 different films between 1959 and 1978.| |-| | |Blood Simple (1984), Raising Arizona (1987), Miller's Crossing (1990, uncredited), Barton Fink (1991), Fargo (1996), The Man Who Wasn't There (2001), Burn After Reading (2008), Hail, Caesar! (2016), The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021) ||-|rowspan="3"| | | The Rain People (1969), The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Conversation (1974, uncredited), Apocalypse Now (1979)|rowspan="3"| |-| | rowspan="2" |The Godfather (1972), The Godfather Part II (1974), The Godfather Part III (1990)|-| |-| | |The Virgin Suicides (1999), Marie Antoinette (2006), The Bling Ring (2013, cameo as herself), The Beguiled (2017)||-| | | Fruitvale Station (2013), Creed (2015), Black Panther (2018), Black Panther: Wakanda Forever (2022), Wrong Answer (2024), Sinners (2025)||-| | |A History of Violence (2005), Eastern Promises (2007), A Dangerous Method (2011), Crimes of the Future (2022)||-| rowspan="2" || |Mimic (1997), Hellboy (2004), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Crimson Peak (2015), The Shape of Water (2017)||-| |Cronos (1992), Blade II (2002), Hellboy (2004), Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008), Pacific Rim (2013), Nightmare Alley (2021), Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio (2022) ||-| | |Unforgiven (1992), Million Dollar Baby (2004), Invictus (2009)|[1] [2] |-| rowspan="2" |Federico Fellini|Marcello Mastroianni|La Dolce Vita (1960), 8½ (1963), Roma (1972), La città delle donne (1980), Ginger e Fred (1986), Intervista (1987)|[3] |-|Giulietta Masina|Luci del varietà (1950), Lo sceicco bianco (1952), La strada (1954), Il bidone (1955), Le notti di Cabiria (1957), Juliet of the Spirits (1965), Ginger e Fred (1986)|[4] |-| | |Bridesmaids (2011), The Heat (2013), Ghostbusters (2016)||-| | |Seven (1995), Fight Club (1999), The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)||-|rowspan="3"| | |27 different films between 1917 and 1936.|rowspan="3"||-| | Fort Apache (1948), 3 Godfathers (1948, uncredited), She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949), Rio Grande (1950), Cheyenne Autumn (1964)|-| | 21 different collaborations between 1939 and 1964. |-| | | Training Day (2001), The Equalizer (2014), The Magnificent Seven (2016), The Equalizer 2 (2018), The Equalizer 3 (2023)||-| | |A Woman Is a Woman (1961), Vivre sa vie (1962), Le petit soldat (1963), Bande à part (1964), Alphaville (1965), Pierrot le Fou (1965), Made in U.S.A. (1966), The Oldest Profession (1967, segment: "Anticipation"), ||-| | | The Bourne Supremacy (2004), The Bourne Ultimatum (2007), Green Zone (2010), Jason Bourne (2016)||-| | | The Birth of a Nation (1915), Intolerance (1916), True Heart Susie (1919), Broken Blossoms (1919), Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1921) (incomplete)||-|rowspan="2"| | | Suspicion (1941), Notorious (1946), To Catch a Thief (1955), North by Northwest (1959)|rowspan="2"||-| | Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958)|-| | | Bringing Up Baby (1938), Only Angels Have Wings (1939), His Girl Friday (1940), I Was a Male War Bride (1949), Monkey Business (1952)||-| | |Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972), Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979), Woyzeck (1979), Fitzcarraldo (1982), Cobra Verde (1987)||-| | |Walking and Talking (1996), Lovely & Amazing (2001), Friends with Money (2006)| |-| rowspan="2" | | |Days of Being Wild (1990), Ashes of Time (1994), In the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 (2004), | rowspan="2" | |-| |Chungking Express (1994), Ashes of Time (1994), Happy Together (1997), In the Mood for Love (2000), 2046 (2004), The Grandmaster (2013) |-| | |16 different films between 1948 and 1965.||-| | | Mo' Better Blues (1990), Malcolm X (1992), He Got Game (1998), Inside Man (2006), High and Low (2025)||-| | |Before Sunrise (1995), The Newton Boys (1998), Waking Life (2001, cameo), Before Sunset (2004), Before Midnight (2013), Boyhood (2014)||-| | | Winchester '73 (1950), Bend of the River (1952), The Glenn Miller Story (1953), The Naked Spur (1953), Thunder Bay (1953), The Far Country (1954), The Man from Laramie (1955), Strategic Air Command (1955)||-| | |Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004), Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby (2006), Step Brothers (2008), The Other Guys (2010), Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)||-|Christopher McQuarrie|Tom Cruise|Jack Reacher (2012), Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation (2015), Mission Impossible: Fallout (2018), Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning (2023)||-| | |Hunger (2008), Shame (2011), 12 Years a Slave (2013)||-| | |Mud (2012), Midnight Special (2016), Loving (2016), The Bikeriders (2023)||-| rowspan="5" | | | Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Interstellar (2014), Dunkirk (2017, uncredited voice), Tenet (2020)| rowspan="5" | |-| |Batman Begins (2005), The Prestige (2006), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012)|-|Cillian Murphy|Batman Begins (2005), Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Dunkirk (2017), Oppenheimer (2023)|-|Tom Hardy|Inception (2010), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Dunkirk (2017)|-|Gary Oldman|Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008), The Dark Knight Rises (2012), Oppenheimer (2023)|-|rowspan="2" | | |Late Spring (1949), Early Summer (1951), Tokyo Story (1953), Tokyo Twilight (1957), Late Autumn (1960), The End of Summer (1961)||-| | 52 different films between 1928 and 1962||-| | | 14 different films from 1977 to the present.||-| | |Wendy and Lucy (2008), Meek's Cutoff (2010), Certain Women (2016), Showing Up (2022)||-| | | Silver Linings Playbook (2012), American Hustle (2013), Joy (2015)||-| rowspan="2" |Russo brothers|Tom Holland| (2018), (2019), Cherry (2021)||-|Chris Evans|Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014), Captain America: Civil War (2016), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), (2019), The Gray Man (2022)||-| rowspan="2" || | 11 different films from 1973 to the present.||-| | Gangs of New York (2002), The Aviator (2004), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Audition (2015), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)||-| | | Gladiator (2000), A Good Year (2006), American Gangster (2007), Body of Lies (2008), Robin Hood (2010)||-|M. Night Shyamalan|Bruce Willis|The Sixth Sense (1999), Unbreakable (2000), Glass (2019), Split (2016, uncredited cameo)||-| | | Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999), Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), Jersey Girl (2004), Clerks II (2006), Jay and Silent Bob Reboot (2019), Clerks III (2022)|[5] |-|rowspan="3"| | |Out of Sight (1998), Ocean's Eleven (2001), Solaris (2002), Ocean's Twelve (2004), The Good German (2006), Ocean's Thirteen (2007)|rowspan="3"|[6] |-| | Ocean's Eleven (2001), Ocean's Twelve (2004), Ocean's Thirteen (2007), Che (2008), The Informant! (2009), Contagion (2011), Behind the Candelabra (2013), Unsane (2018, Cameo)|-| |Haywire (2011), Magic Mike (2012), Side Effects (2013), Logan Lucky (2017), Magic Mike's Last Dance (2023)|-| | | Saving Private Ryan (1998), Catch Me If You Can (2002), The Terminal (2004), A Timeless Call (2008, short, cameo only), Bridge of Spies (2015), The Post (2017)||-|Chad Stahelski|Keanu Reeves|John Wick (2014), John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017), John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum (2019), (2023)||-|rowspan="2"| | | Pulp Fiction (1994), Jackie Brown (1997), (2004), Inglourious Basterds (2009, voice, uncredited), Django Unchained (2012), The Hateful Eight (2015)|rowspan="2"||-| | Pulp Fiction (1994), (2003), (2004)|-| | |The 400 Blows (1959), Antoine and Colette (1962, short), Stolen Kisses (1968), Bed and Board (1970), Two English Girls (1971), Day for Night (1973), Love on the Run (1979) ||-| rowspan="2" |Denis Villeneuve|Dave Bautista|Blade Runner 2049 (2017), Dune (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024)| rowspan="2" |[7] |-|Josh Brolin |Sicario (2015), Dune (2021), Dune: Part Two (2024)|-| | | The Blue Angel (1930), Morocco (1930), Dishonored (1931), Shanghai Express (1932), Blonde Venus (1932), The Scarlet Empress (1934), The Devil is a Woman (1935)||-| | |Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997-2003), Firefly (2001-02), Serenity (2005), Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog (2008)||-| | |A Better Tomorrow (1986), A Better Tomorrow II (1987), The Killer (1989), Once a Thief (1991), Hard Boiled (1992)||-| | |Spaced (1999-2001), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Hot Fuzz (2007), Grindhouse (Don't fake trailer), The World's End (2013) ||-| | |Pride & Prejudice (2005), Atonement (2007), Anna Karenina (2012)||-| | | Fong Sai-yuk (1993), Fong Sai-yuk II (1993), The Bodyguard from Beijing (1994), The New Legend of Shaolin (1994), My Father Is a Hero (1995)| [8] [9] |}

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Morgan Freeman & Clint Eastwood from Celebrity Collaborations. E! Online. en-US. 2019-09-09.
  2. Web site: Morgan Freeman and Clint Eastwood, together again for "Invictus". Germain. David. 2009-12-09. The Seattle Times. en-US. 2019-09-09.
  3. News: Ein Nachruf auf Marcello Mastroianni: Der Mann, der alle Männer war. Kilb. Andreas. 1995-12-29. Die Zeit. 2019-10-04. de-DE. 0044-2070.
  4. Web site: The Flick Chick: Partners in Crime: Fellini & Masina. Desmond. Norma. 2014-02-13. The Flick Chick. 2019-10-04.
  5. Web site: Ben Affleck & Kevin Smith from Celebrity Collaborations. E! Online. en-US. 2019-09-09.
  6. Web site: Matt Damon & Steven Soderbergh from Celebrity Collaborations. E! Online. en-US. 2019-09-09.
  7. Web site: Actors/Actresses Denis Villeneuve Has Worked With . 2024-10-29 . IMDb . en-US.
  8. https://amp.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/13/corey-yuen-martial-arts-director-and-jet-li-collaborator-died-in-2022-film-federation-confirms
  9. https://variety.com/2024/film/news/corey-yuen-dead-hong-kong-director-action-choreographer-1236104907/amp/

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