It’s easy to become attached to your costars in Hollywood – especially when they’re not human. These creative directors know that having a little help from their furry or feathered friends makes all the difference in the world when it comes to creating their masterpieces.
Directors
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David Morrissey Pets
David Morrissey is an English actor and filmmaker. Described by the British Film Institute as “one of the most versatile English actors of his generation”, he is noted for the meticulous preparation and research he undertakes for his roles. Morrissey has directed short films and the television dramas Sweet Revenge (2001) and Passer By (2004).
Spike Lee Pets
Spike Lee is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and professor. His production company, 40 Acres and a Mule Filmworks, has produced more than 35 films since 1983. He made his directorial debut with She’s Gotta Have It (1986).
Ron Howard Pets
Ron Howard is an American filmmaker and actor. He first came to prominence as a child actor, guest-starring in several television series, including an episode of The Twilight Zone. He gained national attention for playing young Opie Taylor, the son of Sheriff Andy Taylor (played by Andy Griffith) in the sitcom The Andy Griffith Show from 1960 through 1968.
Ben Falcone Pets
Ben Falcone is an American filmmaker, comedian, and actor. He is married to actress Melissa McCarthy, with whom he has two children. He had co-starring roles in What to Expect When You’re Expecting and Enough Said.
Anthony Hopkins Pets
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins CBE is a Welsh actor, film director, and film producer. He has received many accolades, including two Academy Awards for Best Actor, four BAFTAs, two Emmys, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and a British Academy Television Award.
Clint Eastwood Pets
Clint Eastwood is an American actor, film director, producer, and composer. After achieving success in the Western TV series Rawhide, he rose to international fame with his role as the “Man with No Name” in Sergio Leone’s “Dollars Trilogy” of Spaghetti Westerns during the mid-1960s and as antihero cop Harry Callahan in the five Dirty Harry films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, among others, have made Eastwood an enduring cultural icon of masculinity.
Peter Jackson Pets
Sir Peter Robert Jackson ONZ KNZM is a New Zealand film director, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known as the director, writer, and producer of the Lord of the Rings trilogy (2001–03) and the Hobbit trilogy (2012–14), both of which are adapted from the novels of the same name by J. R. R.
Dustin Hoffman Pets
Dustin Hoffman is an American actor and filmmaker. He is known for his versatile portrayals of antiheroes and emotionally vulnerable characters. Actor Robert De Niro described him as “an actor with the everyman’s face who embodied the heartbreakingly human”.
David Lynch Pets
David Lynch is an American filmmaker, painter, visual artist, musician, and writer. A recipient of an Academy Honorary Award in 2019, Lynch has received three Academy Award nominations for Best Director, and the César Award for Best Foreign Film twice, as well as the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival and a Golden Lion award for lifetime achievement at the Venice Film Festival. In 2007, a panel of critics convened by The Guardian announced that ‘after all the discussion, no one could fault the conclusion that David Lynch is the most important film-maker of the current era’, while AllMovie called him “the Renaissance man of modern American filmmaking”.
Jon Favreau Pets
Jon Favreau is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. As an actor, Favreau has appeared in the films Rudy (1993), PCU (1994), Swingers (1996), Very Bad Things (1998), Deep Impact (1998), The Replacements (2000), Daredevil (2003), The Break-Up (2006), Four Christmases (2008), Couples Retreat (2009), I Love You, Man (2009), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), Chef (2014), and films created by Marvel Studios. He has also directed the films Elf (2003), Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), Cowboys & Aliens (2011), Chef (2014), The Jungle Book (2016), and The Lion King (2019).