actors turning to directing

[by Devol]

my favourite "actor's first movie in the director's chair"(s):

Clint Eastwood - "Play Misty For Me"

Terry(s) Gilliam and Jones - "Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

Charles Laughton - "The Night of the Hunter"

EDIT:

and the inverse: (not their first turns at acting, but still worthy of mention)

Sidney Pollack in "Eyes Wide Shut" (otherwise, one my least fave Kubricks)

Roman Polanski in "The Tenant" (<<<<<< he kicked ass in that one!!!)

Sam Fuller's sagely awesomeness in "The State of Things"

Orson Welles in "Citizen Kane" (becoming actor and director pretty well at the same time?)

[MmzHrrdb]

Jean-Louis Trintignant - "Une journée bien remplie ou Neuf meurtres insolites dans une même journée par un seul homme dont ce n'est pas le métier"

Ulli Lommel - I've only seen "Tenderness of Wolves". His newer stuff is apparently crap.

[djross]

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[MmzHrrdb]

well I just saw Sean Penn's The Indian Runner and that was pretty good.

[TheDenizen]

Surprised no one mentioned Ron Howard yet.