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Martin Ritt

American director

Laurence Olivier

British actor, director, writer, and producer

Edward Gordon Craig

British actor and director

Peter Brook

English producer-director

Peter Ustinov

English actor, director, writer, and humanitarian

Julian Fellowes

British actor, producer, novelist, and screenwriter

Noël Coward

English playwright, actor, and composer

Tony Richardson

British director and producer

John Gielgud

British actor and director

Thomas William Robertson

British playwright

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree

British actor and manager

Sir Frank Benson

British actor

Sir Charles Blake Cochran

British theatrical producer

Eugene Vakhtangov

Russian actor, director, and producer

Orson Welles

American actor, director, and writer

Otto Preminger

American filmmaker

Elia Kazan

American director and author

Arthur Penn

American director

Sydney Pollack

American director, producer, and actor

Mel Brooks

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