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What are some great director-actor duos, where the actor is in a lot of the directors movies, and the partnership is a really good one?
Some that jump to mind for me
Tim Burton-Johnny Depp (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow)
Martin Scorsese-Robert De Niro (Mean Streets, Taxi Driver, Raging Bull, Goodfellas)
Martin Scorsese-Leonardo DiCaprio (Gangs of New York, The Aviator, and the soon-to-come/looking-good-so-far, The Departed)
David Fincher-Brad Pitt (Se7en, Fight Club) There's also another partnership between these two coming, called The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Pitt's best stuff was these two movies, so this looks promising.
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John Ford/John Wayne (Stagecoach; The Searchers; The Horse Soldiers; 3 Godfathers; Fort Apache; Rio Grande; She Wore A Yellow Ribbon; The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, etc.)
Akira Kurosawa/Toshiro Mifune (Rashomon; The Seven Samurai; Yojimbo; Sanjuro; The Hidden Fortress; High and Low; Red Beard; Throne of Blood; etc.)
Werner Herzog/Klaus Kinski (Aguirre, the Wrath of God; Nosferatu; Fitzcarraldo; Woyzeck; Cobra Verde; My Best Fiend)
Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood (A Fistful of Dollars; For a Few Dollars More; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)
Alfred Hitchcock/Grace Kelly/Jimmy Stewart/Cary Grant (Suspicion; Rope; To Catch a Thief; Rear Window; Vertigo; Notorious; North By Northwest; etc.)
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Wong Kar Wai - Tony Leung/Maggie Cheung (As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Chungking Express, Ashes of Time, Happy Together, In The Mood For Love, 2046)
Frank Capra - Jimmy Stewart (Mr Smith Goes To Washington, It's A Wonderful Life)
Francis Ford Coppola - Marlon Brando (Apocalypse Now, Godfather)
Wes Anderson - Owen Wilson (Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou)
PT Anderson - Phillip Seymour Hoffman (Punch-Drunk Love, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Hard Eight,
John Ford - Henry Fonda (The Grapes of Wrath, My Darling Clementine)
Oliver Stone - Charlie Sheen (Platoon, Wall Street)
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I agree with many of the already posted, +
Akira Kurosawa - Takashi Shimura (The Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Rashômon, Throne of Blood, Ikiru, etc)
Ingmar Bergman - Gunnar Björnstrand / Max von Sydow / Ingrid Thulin (Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Persona, The Silence, etc (give or take one or two of said actors))
Andrei Tarkovsky - Nikolai Grinko / Anatoliy Solonitsyn (Solaris, Stalker, Andrei Rubilev, The Mirror, etc)
Joel Coen - John Turturro (Barton Fink, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Miller's Crossing, the Big Lebowski)
John Cassavetes - Gena Rowlands (Love Streams, Faces, A Woman Under the Influence)
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Stanley Kubrick and Jack Nicholson. They only made one movie together, but Kubrick wanted Jack to star as Napoleon in an epic biopic. It would have been awesome.
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Napoleon wrote:
Ingmar Bergman - Gunnar Björnstrand / Max von Sydow / Ingrid Thulin (Wild Strawberries, The Seventh Seal, Persona, The Silence, etc (give or take one or two of said actors)
these, plus Liv Ullmann/Harriet Andersson/Erland Josephson
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They've already been named
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As a Bond fan, I really feel like adding the pairing of Sean Connery and Terence Young to the list. They were together for Dr. No, From Russia With Love and Thunderball, all excellent films with FRWL being the film that many consider the best of the series.
Spielberg - Harrison Ford (did anyone else mention them?)
edit: now that I think about it...I think they only did the one character together....
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Here's another one I just thought of, although I don't think it counts, because I've only seen one of these three movies, but its a cool little tidbit I've noticed on my occassional IMDB look-arounds.
Tim Robbins has directed three movies, Bob Roberts, Dead Man Walking, and Cradle Will Rock. Jack Black has appeared in all three. I'm not entirely sure why, but it's a cool bit of trivia.
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