These actors worked with which director?

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That was a good one!

This one's probably too easy, but here goes...

Kevin Costner
Michael J. Fox
Keith Gordon
Rebecca Romijn-Stamos
John Lithgow
Kirk Douglas
Nicolas Cage
Jessica Harper
Sean Penn
Michael Caine
Geneviève Bujold
Josh Hartnett
William Katt
Melanie Griffith
Tom Smothers

Brian De Palma

James Caan
James Coburn
Michael Caine
George Segal
Diane Keaton
Dianne Wiest
Candice Bergan
Christopher Walken
F. Murray Abraham
Matthew McConaughey
Fred Gwynne
Anne Bancroft
Ann-Margret
Goldie Hawn
Julia Roberts
Stanley Tucci
James Mason
Richard Pryor
Robert Duvall
Peter Boyle
Alan Arkin
Ed Begley Jr.
Donald Sutherland
Roddy McDowall
Raquel Welch
Peter O'Toole

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I think there's at least one other poster out there who's just gonna nail this one... right to the wall!

Steve McQueen
Dustin Hoffman
Charlton Heston
Sally Struthers
Maximilian Schell
Joel McCrea
Robert Duvall
Stella Stevens
Del Henney
Jaime Sánchez
Isela Vega
Robert Preston
William Holden
Rutger Hauer
Susan George

I"m proably wrong, but... Sam Peckinpah?

Nailed it!

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Okay, so I was wrong in guessing which one of you would nail it...

But trust you, Holden Pike, to confirm it!

Bill Pullman
Johnny Depp
Eddie Murphy
Meryl Streep
Louis Jourdan
Mitch Pileggi
Courteney Cox
Cillian Murphy
Ernest Borgnine
John Saxon
Kristy Swanson
David Hess
Michael Murphy
Wendy Robie
Zakes Mokae

Wes Craven

Julianne Moore
Jeff Daniels
Joe Mantegna
F. Murray Abraham
Morgan Freeman
Robert Duvall
Liam Neeson
Albert Finney
Peter Falk
Peter Boyle
Eli Wallach
Dustin Hoffman
John Mahoney
Robert Redford
Daniel Stern
M.C. Gainey
Michael Gough
Ellen Burstyn
Mandy Patinkin
John Makovich
Peter O'Toole
Penelope Ann Miller
Christopher Plummer

Wow! This has taken me a while to figure out. So this is just a shot in the dark, but... Peter Yates?

By the way, that's 23 names, not 15. For some reason, I find that narrowing it down to 15 offers the perfect middle ground between "way too easy" and "freaking impossible".

More names should make it easier, not harder.

And yes, the answer was Peter Yates, the twice-Oscar-nominated director of Bullitt, The Hot Rock, The Friends of Eddie Coyle, Breaking Away, Eyewitness, Krull, The Dresser, Suspect, An Innocent Man and others.

OK, that's cool. I can understand that. I already asked the question in my Directors < Actor thread, so feel free to ignore it there.

However... I happen to like things rounded off to the nearest five. So I suggest a compromise. Would you settle for 20?

I'm guessing this is probably too easy, but here goes...

Eddie Murphy
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Ryan O'Neal
Diane Lane
Christoph Waltz
Ice-T
Powers Boothe
Michelle Rodriguez
John Candy
Ralph Macchio
Charles Bronson
Wes Studi
Deborah Van Valkenburgh
Mickey Rourke
Laurence Fishburne
Bruce Willis
Isabelle Adjani
John Hurt
Richard Bright
David Patrick Kelly

Walter Hill

Good call!

Arnold Schwarzenegger
Warren Oates
C. Thomas Howell
Candice Bergen
Nick Nolte
Vladek Sheybal
Gary Busey
Jennifer Grey
Willem Dafoe
James Earl Jones
Sean Connery
Rosanna Arquette
Ben Johnson
Robert Englund
Michelle Phillips
Brian Keith
Jan-Michael Vincent
James Fox
Cloris Leachman
John Huston

John MIlius

Too easy, right?

I'll do better...

Dirk Bogarde
Elizabeth Taylor
Alain Delon
David Warner
Glenda Jackson
Malcolm McDowell
Stanley Baker
Jane Fonda
Chaim Topol
Noël Coward
Viven Merchant
Dean Stockwell
Robert Mitchum
Sarah Miles
Alan Bates
Michael York
James Fox
Monica Vitti
Michael Redgrave
Richard Burton

Peter Collinson