Coen Brothers

Joel David Coen (born November 29, 1954) and Ethan Jesse Coen (born September 21, 1957), known together professionally as the Coen brothers, are American filmmakers. For more than twenty years, the pair have written and directed numerous successful films, ranging from screwball comedies (O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, The Hudsucker Proxy) to hardboiled thrillers (Miller's Crossing, Blood Simple, The Man Who Wasn't There, No Country ... more

Also known as:

  • Joel and Ethan Coen,
  • The Two-Headed Director,
  • Roderick Jaynes
top ↑

Similar topics in Freebase

  • Claude Lelouch

    Claude Lelouch

    Claude Lelouch (born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Born in the 9th arrondissement of Paris to a Jewish family of Algerian origin, Lelouch won the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1966 for Un homme et une femme (A Man and a Woman),...
  • Govind Nihalani

    Govind Nihalani

    Govind Nihalani (born 19 August 1940) is one of Indian cinema's foremost directors, cinematographer, and also a screenwriter and film producer. He has been directing Hindi films since the late seventies, and worked in the television medium. Nihalani was born on 1940 August 19 in Karachi (now in...
  • Ethan Coen

    Ethan Coen

    Ethan Coen is a film director and film writer.
  • Stanley Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick

    Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999) was an American director, writer, producer, and photographer of films, who lived in England during most of the last 40 years of his career. Kubrick was noted for the scrupulous care with which he chose his subjects, his slow method of working, the...
  • Peter Sollett

    Peter Sollett

    Peter Sollett (born 1976 in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, New York) is an American film director and screenwriter known for his feature films Raising Victor Vargas (2002) and Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008). Sollett's first feature was Five Feet High and Rising, a 26-minute short film about the...
  • Robert Rodriguez

    Robert Rodriguez

    Robert Anthony Rodríguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker, writer, producer, cinematographer, editor and musician. He shoots and produces many of his films in his native Texas and Mexico. He has directed such films as Desperado, From Dusk Till Dawn, The Faculty, Spy Kids, Sin City and...
  • Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Tarantino

    Quentin Jerome Tarantino (born March 27, 1963) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematographer and actor. He rose to fame in the early 1990s as an independent filmmaker whose films used nonlinear storylines and aestheticization of violence. His films include Reservoir Dogs ...
  • Robert Downey Sr.

    Robert John Downey Sr. (born Robert John Elias, Jr. in 1937) is an American actor, writer, film director and father of actor Robert Downey Jr. He is known as the director and writer of the cult classic feature film Putney Swope, a biting satire on the New York Madison Avenue advertising world....
  • Erik Blomberg

    Erik Blomberg (18 September 1913 – 12 October 1996) was a Finnish cinematographer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He was married to actress Mirjami Kuosmanen.
  • T. Rajendar

    Vijaya Thesingu Rajendar (Tamil: விஜயா T. ராஜேதர்) is based in in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India and is a Tamil film actor and director who also composes film scores, screenwriter and playback singer. He is also a politician in Tamil Nadu. He is the father of Tamil actor T. R. Silambarasan. T. Rajendar...

These people have edited this topic:

Edit this topic
Edit and Show details

Add or delete facts, download data in JSON or RDF formats, and explore topic metadata.

Freebase Logo
What is Freebase?

Freebase is a huge collection of facts, built by people like you. Freebase connects facts in ways other sites can't, giving you new ways to explore millions of subjects.
You can help improve it!

Freebase Attribution

Freebase data is free for use under the CC-BY license.

The original description for Coen Brothers was automatically generated from Wikipedia.org licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
[1]
Learn more about Freebase licensing and attribution