page_title: List of directors who appear in their own films
section_title: Actors who have directed and starred in their own films
hierarchical_section_title: List of directors who appear in their own films / Actors who have directed and starred in their own films
caption_attribution_description: Charlie Chaplin The Tramp debuted in 1914 -- pre-1923 The Tramp was released on April 11, 1915 through Essanay Studios.
context_page_description: Several film directors have appeared in their own films, sometimes with an uncredited cameo, in a small walk-on role, or sometimes in a more major role. The following lists directors who have appeared in their own films.
context_section_description: Woody Allen in Take the Money and Run, Bananas, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask), Sleeper, Love and Death, Annie Hall, Manhattan, Stardust Memories, A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy, Zelig, Broadway Danny Rose, Hannah and Her Sisters, New York Stories, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Shadows and Fog, Husbands and Wives, Manhattan Murder Mystery, Don't Drink the Water, Mighty Aphrodite, Everyone Says I Love You, Deconstructing Harry, Small Time Crooks, The Curse of the Jade Scorpion, Hollywood Ending, Scoop and To Rome with Love
  Alan Alda in The Four Seasons, Sweet Liberty, A New Life and Betsy's Wedding
  Cüneyt Arkın in all the films he directed
  Ben Affleck in The Town, Argo, and Live by Night
  Bobcat Goldthwait in Shakes the Clown and World's Greatest Dad
  Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Dick Tracy and Bulworth
  Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful, The Tiger and the Snow
  Matthew Broderick in Infinity
  Nicolas Cage in Sonny
  Charlie Chaplin starred in almost every film he directed
  Cheran in Autograph, Thavamai Thavamirundhu and Mayakannadi
  George Clooney in Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Good Night, and Good Luck, Leatherheads, The Ides of March and The Monuments Men
  Bradley Cooper in A Star is Born 
  Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, The Postman and Open Range
  Billy Crystal in Mr. Saturday Night and Forget Paris
  Johnny Depp in The Brave
  Danny DeVito in Throw Momma from the Train, The War of the Roses, Hoffa, Matilda and Death to Smoochy
  Kirk Douglas in Scalawag and Posse
  Robert Duvall in The Apostle
  Clint Eastwood in A Perfect World, Million Dollar Baby, Gran Torino, Absolute Power, Bronco Billy, The Eiger Sanction, Firefox, The Gauntlet, High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Play Misty for Me, Space Cowboys, Sudden Impact, True Crime, Unforgiven, The Bridges of Madison County
  Ralph Fiennes in Coriolanus
  Jodie Foster in Little Man Tate and The Beaver
  John Krasinski in A Quiet Place
  Jonathan Frakes in Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection
  Mel Gibson in The Man Without a Face and Braveheart
  Crispin Glover in What is It?
  Kamal Haasan in Hey Ram and Virumaandi
  Tom Hanks in That Thing You Do and Larry Crowne
  Ayhan Işık in Örgün
  Ed Harris in Pollock and Appaloosa
  Charlton Heston in Antony and Cleopatra, Mother Lode and A Man for All Seasons
  Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider, The Last Movie, Out of the Blue
  Michael Jackson in Moonwalker
  Alejandro Jodorowsky in El Topo and The Holy Mountain
  Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon
  Ida Lupino in The Bigamist
  Diana Lee Inosanto in The Sensei
  Tommy Lee Jones in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  Buster Keaton starred in all but three of the films he directed
  Diane Keaton in Hanging Up
  Aamir Khan in Taare Zameen Par
  Eric Allan Kramer and Leigh-Allyn Baker in Good Luck Charlie
  Seth MacFarlane in Ted and A Million Ways to Die in the West
  Walter Matthau in Gangster Story
  Coco Martin in Ang Panday (2017). Director role credited as Rodel Nacianceno, Martin's real name.
  Melanie Martinez in K-12
  Balachandra Menon in all the films he directed
  Nikita Mikhalkov in At Home Among Strangers, A Slave of Love, An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano, Burnt by the Sun, The Barber of Siberia, 12, Burnt by the Sun 2
  Bill Murray in Quick Change
  Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
  Jack Nicholson in Goin' South, The Terror and The Two Jakes
  Anthony Perkins in Psycho III, Lucky Stiff
  Tyler Perry in all of his films so far except Daddy's Little Girls
  Irving Pichel in Santa Fe and Martin Luther
  Prince in Under The Cherry Moon
  Gregory Ratoff in Abdullah the Great
  Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer and Lions for Lambs
  Rob Reiner in This Is Spinal Tap, Misery, The Story of Us and Alex and Emma
  George C. Scott in Rage (1972)
  William Shatner in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Groom Lake
  Frank Sinatra in None but the Brave
  Gary Sinise in Of Mice and Men
  Martin Sheen in Cadence
  Sylvester Stallone in Paradise Alley, Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV and Rocky Balboa, Rambo and The Expendables
  Ben Sti
caption: Charles Chaplin starred in almost every film he directed.
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