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Item: Cinema -> Category: Culture -> Author: DF -> Revision: 25/07/2008
Directors first half of the twentieth century

Buster Keaton (1895)

 

He was one of the major players in the American silent movies. His arrival in the film took place in 1917 and since then his career has grown so brilliant.

 

His expressiveness him win a major film career. In 1923 he set up his own company which conducted its own short films. Emphasizes his film The driver of the general.

 

Marx Brothers (1887)

 

Harpo, Chico and Groucho were components of this group comical which took over from the great comedians who had seen the birth silent movies.

 

It was the most famous comic actors of the 40s and went down in history for his performances in films such as a night at the opera (1935) or goose soup (1933).

 

Charlie Chaplin (1898)

 

He emigrated from the city of London to the United States where he triumphed in several companies up to create, as did Búster Keaton, one of their own. It is the most famous dumb actor of all time.

 

The difficult moments of his life of a child lands in English can be seen in his films, which makes a complaint of the major classes of the time.

 

After the arrival of sound movies continued filming several silent films includes: the Great Dictator (1940), which denounces the fascist regimes.

 

John Ford (1894)

 

Director American who passed into history as one of those who made the most important period classic Hollywood. He directed films silent film but would sound movies that show all his qualities.

 

Its popularity purchased through its westerns (films of the American west) such as La Diligencia, Rio Grande, Fort Apache and The Grapes of Wrath.

 

Alfred Hitchcock (1899)

 

English director creator of one of the best films of suspen is in the history of cinema. Among his hobbies was to appear as an extra in all his filmsSome of his films are With Psychosis and North by Northwest.

 

Billy Wilder (1906)

 

Samuel Wilder was a director of the American Austrian roots. He was one of the best builders of frames, as well as single at the time of writing witty and funny dialogues.

 

He was known for his acid and corrosive comedies. He also created large numbers of scripts comic classic Hollywood films. Among its major highlights films With skirts and with the crazy, Apartment and Sabrina.

 

 




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