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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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).
Zack Snyder Pets
Zack Snyder is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, and cinematographer. He made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name. Since then, he has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including 300 (2007) and Watchmen (2009), as well as the Superman film that started the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel (2013), and its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017).
Ralph Fiennes Pets
Ralph Fiennes is an English actor, film producer, and director. A Shakespeare interpreter, he first achieved success onstage at the Royal National Theatre. He made his film debut playing Heathcliff in Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights (1992).
Paul Anderson Pets
Paul Anderson is a British actor, writer, and director. Anderson’s breakout role as Arthur Shelby in the hit BBC series “Peaky Blinders” earned him critical acclaim and a legion of fans. The show, which is set in post-World War I Birmingham, follows the story of the Shelby crime family as they navigate the dangerous underworld of gangsters and violence.
Josh Duhamel Pets
Josh Duhamel is an accomplished actor, director, and producer. He first rose to fame with his breakout role as Leo du Pres on the long-running soap opera “All My Children,” and has since gone on to star in numerous films and television shows. One of Josh’s most notable roles came in the “Transformers” film series, where he played the character of Captain William Lennox alongside Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox.
Troy Kotsur Pets
Troy Kotsur is an American actor and director, known for his roles in Sue Thomas: F.B.Eye and CODA. Kotsur, who is deaf, also directed No Ordinary Hero: The SuperDeafy Movie. In addition to his television and film roles, Kotsur also appeared in the Deaf West Theatre production of Big River.