Kenneth Branagh
Born: December 10th, 1960 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Education: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England.
Movies Directed: Hamlet, In the Bleak Midwinter (a.k.a. A Midwinter's
   Tale), Frankenstein, Much Ado About Nothing, Peter's Friends, Swan
   Song, Dead Again, and Henry V.
Movies Produced: Frankenstein, Much Ado About Nothing, and Peter's
   Friend.
Awards: British Academy Award for Best Director (Henry V), the
   New-York Film Critics Circle Award for First-Time Director
   (Henry V), and the Best Achievement in Direction Award (Henry V).
Coming Attractions: The Betty Schimmel Story (director) and
   Love's Labour's Lost (director).
Fun Facts: Because Kenneth Branagh was unhappy with the perceived
   conservatism of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he co-founded the
   Renaissance Theatre Company with David Parfitt.  The Company has
   Prince Charles as its royal patron.

Clint Eastwood
Born: May 31, 1930 in San Francisco, California..
Education: Dropped out of Los Angeles City College.
Movies Directed: True Crime, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,
   Absolute Power, The Bridges of Madison County, A Perfect World,
   Unforgiven, The Rookie, White Hunter, Black Heart, Bird, Heartbreak
   Ridge, Pale Rider, Sudden Impact, Firefox, Honkytonk Man, Bronco Billy,
   The Gauntlet, The Outlaw Josey Wales, The Eiger Sanction, Breezy, High
   Plains Drifter, and Play Misty for Me.
Movies Produced: True Crime, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil,
   Absolute Power, The Stars Fell on Henrietta, The Bridges of Madison
   County, A Perfect World, Unforgiven, White Hunter, Black Heart,
   Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser, Bird, Heartbreak Ridge, Pale
   Rider, Tightrope, Sudden Impact, Firefox, and Honkytonk Man.
Awards: Two Golden Globe Awards for Best Director (Bird and
   Unforgiven), Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Film
   and Best Director (Unforgiven), National Society of Film Critics Award
   for Best Director (Unforgiven), Sho West Award for Director of the
   Year (Unforgiven), Directors Guild of America Award for Theatrical
   Direction (Unforgiven), Academy Award for Best Picture and Best
   Director (Unforgiven), the Producers Guild of America David O.
   Selznick Theatrical Lifetime Achievement Award, and numerous
   other awards.
Coming Attractions: Space Cowboys (director and producer).
Fun Facts: Besides being an actor, producer, and director, Clint
   Eastwood has many other business interests as well, including a line
   of sportswear called Tehama Clint and an alcoholic beverage called
   Pale Rider Ale.
 

Stanley Kubrick
Born: July 26th, 1928 in the Bronx, New York.
Died: March 7, 1999.
Movies Directed: Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Barry
   Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove,
   Lolita, Spartacus, Paths of Glory, The Killing, Killer's Kiss, Fear and
   Desire, The Seafarers, World Assembly of Youth, Flying Padre, and Day of
   the Flight.
Movies Produced: Eyes Wide Shut, Full Metal Jacket, The Shining, Barry
   Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Dr. Strangelove,
   Killer's Kiss, Fear and Desire, and Day of the Fight.
Awards: Among some of Kubrick's awards are the British Academy
   Award for Best British Film (Dr. Strangelove), the New-York Film
   Critics Circle Award for Best Direction (Dr. Strangelove), the Academy
   Award for Best Visual Effects (2001: A Space Odyssey), the New-York
   Film Critics Circle Award for Direction and Film (A Clockwork Orange),
   the British Academy Award for Direction (Barry Lyndon), the D.W.
   Griffith Award from the Director's Guild of America, and the Golden
   Lion Award at the 54th Venice International Film Festival.
Fun Facts: 2001: A Space Odyssey became Kubrick's crowning
   achievement and quickly emerged as a landmark in motion picture
   history.  It grew in status to become recognized as one of the greatest
   and most thought-provoking movies ever released.

Steven Speilberg
Born: December 18th, 1947 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Education: California State University.
Movies Directed: Saving Private Ryan, The Lost World: Jurassic Park,
   Amistad, Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, Schindler's List, Jurassic Park,
   Hook, Always, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Empire of the Sun,
   The Color Purple, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Twilight Zone:
   The Movie, E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Raiders of the Lost Ark, 1941, Close
   Encounters of the Third Kind, Jaws, The Sugarland Express, Savage (TV
   movie), Something Evil (TV movie), Duel (TV movie), Amblin',
   Firelight, Battle Squad, Escape to Nowhere, The Last Gun and more.
Movies Produced: Saving Private Ryan, The Mask of Zorro, Deep Impact,
   The Last Days, Men in Black, Amistad, Twister, Casper, The Flinstones,
   I'm Mad, Schindler's List, Trail Mix-Up, Arachnophobia, Gremlins II:
   The New Batch, Joe Versus the Volcano, Roller Coaster Rabbit, Always,
   Back to the Future (I, II, and III), Dad, Tummy Trouble, Who Framed
   Roger Rabbit, The Land Before Time, Empire of the Sun, Innerspace,
   An American Tail, The Money Pit, The Color Purple, Twilight Zone:
   The Movie, E.T.the Extra Terrestrial, and a myriad of others.
Awards: Academy Award for Best Director (Schindler's List), two British
   Academy Awards for Best Director (Schindler's List), the New-York
   Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film (Schindler's List), two Golden
   Globe Awards for Best Director (Schindler's List and Saving Private
   Ryan), and the Academy Award for Best Director (Saving Private Ryan).
Coming Attractions: Minority Report (directed), Jurassic Park 3 (director
   and producer), Memoirs of a Geisha (director and producer), and
   The Martian Chronicles (producer).
Fun Facts: Steven Spielberg is the executive producer of cartoons such as
   Pinky and the Brain, Animaniacs, and Tiny Toon Adventures.  He also
   produced several TV movies.  Spielberg has worked with about every
   movie genre there is.