Favorite Director/Actor Duos?

Vittorio De Sica and Marcello Mastroianni

Scorsese/De Niro


PTA/Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Oh my god, I love direcor/actor pairings. I'll probalby list a few but off the top of my head right now...

Argento/Nicolodi

even though they've only done two together:
Gilroy/Gyllenhaal

Raimi/Campbell

Edwards/Sellers

Tarantino/Jackson

Winding Refn/Mikkelsen

Winding Refn/Gosling

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Toshiro Mifune/Akira Kurosawa


Kurt Russel/John Carpenter


Robert De Niro/Martin Scorsese

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Some more personal fav pairs:

Jensen/Mikkelsen

Villeneuve/Gyllenhaal

John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands

Herzog/Kinski


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Alfred Hitchcock & James Stewart

Rear Window (1954)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Vertigo (1958)

Hitchcock & Cary Grant

Notorious (1946)
To Catch a Thief (1955)
North by Northwest (1959)

I'd probably have to give the edge to Hitchcock/Stewart, although Grant in North by Northwest is one of my favorite films.

~Doc

One of the longest collaborations was between the great John Ford and John Wayne (some 2 dozen films).

Tidbit: It was surprising to me to learn that John Ford has won more directing Academy Awards than anyone else: 4 (6 total Oscars). And none of the 4 were westerns. His last Oscar, for The Quiet Man, was one of the most enjoyable films ever made.

~Doc

Steven Spielberg and Richard Dreyfuss:

Jaws (1975)
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)
Always (1989)

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Alain Delon/Jean-Pierre Melville

I know this will sound weird

Tarantino and Zoe Bell




Now the not so weird

Richard Linklater and Ethan Hawke

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Tarantino and Samuel L Jackson

Tommy Wiseau/Greg Sistero

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Some less commonly mentioned.but I think important.

Kenji Mizoguchi & Kinuyo Tanaka

Andrei Tarkovsky & Anatoly Solonitsyn

Both directors know for their visual style/atmosphere yet I think the importance of certain performers can't be overlooked, actors who were strong physical performers able to bring a lot of character to their movements and via facial expression as well as being good talkers when needed. Personally I think Tarkosky's latter films would have benefited from Solonitsm if the latter hadn't sadly died before he could be cast.

These days in the action film industry, Scott Adkins and Jesse V. Johnson



Pitfighter
Savage Dog
Accident Man
The Debt Collector
Triple Threat
Avengement (upcoming)


Scott Adkins and Isaac Florentine



Special Forces
Undisputed II: Last Man Standing
The Shepherd: Border Patrol
Ninja
Undisputed III: Redemption
Ninja: Shadow of a Tear
Close Range
Seized (upcoming)

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