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Religious Affiliation of Other Film Directors:

Aside from film directors named on other lists on this website (on such lists as "The Film 100: The 100 Most Influential People in the History of Film"), below are other directors. This page is in no way comprehensive. We have not yet made any effort to collect information about film directors generally. We have focused on specific lists of directors. Nearly all of the individuals below were extracted to this page from the online famous people database NNDB.com under by searching the occupation of "director," along with the information from the "Religion" field of their entry. These religious affiliations should be read cautiously, and may only be preliminary and perfunctory, as much of the data in NNDB.com is compiled through automated and academically non-stringent methods. The database is a useful resource, but is known to have errors.

Darren Aronofsky	Jewish
Hal Ashby	Latter-day Saint
Bob Balaban	Jewish
Peter Bogdanovich	Jewish; Vegan
Mel Brooks	Jewish
Abel Ferrara	Catholic
Amy Heckerling	Jewish; Scientology
Arthur Hiller	Jewish
Lloyd Kaufman	Jewish
Henry Koster	Jewish
Neil LaBute	Latter-day Saint
John Landis	Jewish
Robert Z. Leonard	Jewish
Mike Leigh	Jewish
Anatole Litvak	Jewish
Garry Marshall	Catholic
Paul Mazursky	Jewish
Bill Melendez	Catholic
Jonathan Miller	Jewish
Michael Moore	Catholic
Irvin Kershner	Buddhist
Emeric Pressburger	Jewish
Jeremy Leven	Jewish
Otto Preminger	Jewish
Martin Ritt	Jewish
Stuart Rosenberg	Jewish
Ken Russell	Catholic
Joel Schumacher	Jewish
Bryan Singer	Jewish
Kevin Smith	Catholic
Barry Sonnenfeld	Jewish
Guillermo del Toro	other
Jon Turteltaub	Jewish
Wayne Wang	Christian
Jerry Zucker	Jewish
Tim Burton	nominal Protestant background
Rob Cohen	Buddhist

Webpage created 28 June 2005. Last modified 21 November 2005.