List of people and films from Classical Hollywood cinema

List of selected important figures in the era
Many of the filmmakers listed below performed multiple duties on various film productions through their careers. They are here listed by the category they are most readily recognized as. If they are recognized in more than one category on the same level, they are listed in all of them.
Directors
The following is a list of directors associated with classical Hollywood. Some of them also had careers in other countries (e.g., Hitchcock and Renoir), and some also had careers either before (e.g., Griffith) and/or after (e.g., Huston) the classical era.
* Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
* George Abbott
* Robert Aldrich
* Irving Allen
* Irwin Allen
* Lewis Allen
* Michael Anderson
* Ken Annakin
* Jack Arnold
* Tex Avery
* Dorothy Arzner
* Lloyd Bacon
* Federico Fellini
* Leslie Fenton
* José Ferrer
* Mel Ferrer
* Dave Fleischer
* Max Fleischer
* Richard Fleischer
* Victor Fleming
* Paul Henreid
* Alfred Hitchcock
* Norman Z. McLeod
* Gus Meins
* George Melford
* Lothar Mendes
* Lewis Milestone
* S. Sylvan Simon
* Robert Siodmak
* Douglas Sirk
* Victor Sjöström
* John M. Stahl
* Malcolm St. Clair
* George Stevens
* Fred Allen (film editor)
* Oscar Apfel (screenwriter)
* Harold Arlen (songwriter)
* Buddy Baker (composer)
* George Barnes (cinematographer)
* Saul Bass (title designer)
* George Bassman (composer)
* Cecil Beaton (costume designer)
* James Warner Bellah (screenwriter)
* Irving Berlin (composer)
* Leonard Bernstein (composer)
* Walter Bernstein (screenwriter)
* Elmer Bernstein (composer)
* Alvah Bessie (screenwriter)
* Herbert Biberman (screenwriter)
* Preston Blair (animator)
* Margaret Booth (film editor)
* Scott Bradley (composer)
* Irving Brecher (screenwriter)
* Richard Brooks (screenwriter)
* Nacio Herb Brown (songwriter)
* Karl Brown (cinematographer)
* George Bruns (composer)
* Hugo Butler (screenwriter)
* Yakima Canutt (stuntman)
* Jack Cardiff (cinematographer)
* William Castle (screenwriter)
* Raymond Chandler (screenwriter)
* Charlie Chaplin (composer)
* Saul Chaplin (composer)
* Art Cohn (screenwriter)
* Lester Cole (screenwriter)
* Aaron Copland (composer)
* Norman Corwin (screenwriter)
* Alexander Courage (composer)
* Danny Dare (choreographer)
* Owen Davis (screenwriter)
* Richard Day (art director)
* Adolph Deutsch (composer)
* Frank De Vol (composer)
* Vernon Duke (songwriter)
* Roger Edens (composer)
* Hanns Eisler (composer)
* Philip G. Epstein (screenwriter)
* Julius J. Epstein (screenwriter)
* Ray Evans (songwriter)
* Manny Farber (film critic)
* George James Hopkins (art director)
* James Wong Howe (cinematographer)
* Ian McLellan Hunter (screenwriter)
* John Huston (screenwriter)
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* Rudolf Ising (animator)
* Ub Iwerks (animator)
* Nunnally Johnson (screenwriter)
* Ollie Johnston (animator)
* Garson Kanin (screenwriter, director)
* Jerome Kern (songwriter)
* Ward Kimball (animator)
* Vincent Korda (art director)
* Erich Wolfgang Korngold (composer)
* Max Steiner (composer)
Silent era
* The Mothering Heart (1913)
* The Birth of a Nation (1915)
* Intolerance (1916)
* Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
* The Immigrant (1917)
* The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
* Wild and Woolly (1917)
* Broken Blossoms (1919)
* Pollyanna (1920)
* The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
* Within Our Gates (1920)
* Way Down East (1920)
* Orphans of the Storm (1921)
* The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
* The Kid (1921)
* A Woman of Paris (1921)
* The Covered Wagon (1923)
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
* ' (1923)
* Greed (1924)
* Sherlock Jr. (1924)
* The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
* Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
* The Big Parade (1925)
* The Gold Rush (1925)
* Little Annie Rooney (1925)
* The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
* Flesh and the Devil (1926)
* Sparrows (1926)
* The Black Pirate (1926)
* The Canadian (1926)
* The General (1926)
* 7th Heaven (1927)
* It (1927)
* The Unknown (1927)
* Wings (1927)
* The Circus (1928)
* The Wind (1928)
* City Lights (1931)
* Tabu (1931)
* Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1935)
* Modern Times (1936)
Sound era
* A Few Moments with Eddie Cantor (1923)
* My Old Kentucky Home (1926)
* The Jazz Singer (1927)
* Lights of New York (1928)
* Interference (1928)
* In Old Arizona (1928)
* Steamboat Willie (1928)
* King of Jazz (1930)
* The Wrecking Crew (1968)
* Cactus Flower (1969)
* ' (1969)
Selected international films made during the Golden Age
* The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920, Germany)
* Nosferatu (1922, Germany)
* Häxan (1922, Sweden/Denmark)
* Die Nibelungen (1924, Germany)
* Battleship Potemkin (1925, U.S.S.R.)
* The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926, Germany)
* Metropolis (1927, Germany)
* Napoléon (1927, France)
* The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928, France)
* Un Chien Andalou (1929, France/Spain)
* ' (1929, Germany)
* L'Age d'Or (1930, France)
* Limite (1931, Brazil)
* M (1931, Germany)
* Vampyr (1932, Germany/France)
* Les Misérables (1934, France)
* L'Atalante (1934, France)
* The 39 Steps (1935, U.K.)
* Grand Illusion (1937, France)
* The Rules of the Game (1939, France)
* The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums (1939, Japan)
* Forty Thousand Horsemen (1940, Australia)
* María Candelaria (1943, Mexico)
* Day of Wrath (1943, Denmark)
* Ivan the Terrible (1944-1958, U.S.S.R.)
* Rome, Open City (1945, Italy)
* Brief Encounter (1945, U.K.)
* Children of Paradise (1945, France)
* Paisan (1946, Italy)
* A Matter of Life and Death (1946, U.K.)
* Shoeshine (1946, Italy)
* The Overlanders (1946, Australia/U.K.)
* Beauty and the Beast (1946, France)
* Neecha Nagar (1946, India)
* The Pearl (1947, Mexico)
* Quai des Orfèvres (1947, France)
* Black Narcissus (1947, U.K.)
* Bicycle Thieves (1948, Italy)
* Hamlet (1948, U.K.)
* Drunken Angel (1948, Japan)
* The Red Shoes (1948, U.K.)
* Spring in a Small Town (1948, China)
* Late Spring (1949, Japan)
* Stray Dog (1949, Japan)
* Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, U.K.)
* Stromboli (1950, Italy)
* Rashomon (1950, Japan)
* Orpheus (1950, France)
* Los Olvidados (1950, Mexico)
* Genghis Khan (1950, Philippines)
* Víctimas del Pecado (1951, Mexico)
* Miracle in Milan (1951, Italy)
* Umberto D. (1952, Italy)
* Ikiru (1952, Japan)
* Él (1953, Mexico)
* Ugetsu (1953, Japan)
* The Wages of Fear (1953, France)
* Tokyo Story (1953, Japan)
* Sansho the Bailiff (1954, Japan)
* Robinson Crusoe (1954, Mexico)
* Godzilla (1954, Japan)
* Seven Samurai (1954, Japan)
* The Crucified Lovers (1954, Japan)
* Journey to Italy (1954, Italy)
* La Strada (1954, Italy)
* The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955, Mexico)
* Ordet (1955, Denmark)
* A Generation (1955, Poland)
* Journey to the Beginning of Time (1955, Czechoslovakia)
* Les Diaboliques (1955, France)
* The Apu Trilogy (1955-1959, India)
* Bob le flambeur (1956, France)
* A Man Escaped (1956, France)
* The Burmese Harp (1956, Japan)
* Floating Clouds (1955, Japan)
* ' (1956, Poland)
* Pyaasa (1957, India)
* The Seventh Seal (1957, Sweden)
* Wild Strawberries (1957, Sweden)
* The Cranes Are Flying (1957, U.S.S.R.)
* A King in New York (1957, U.K.)
* Mother India (1957, India)
* The Snow Queen (1957, U.S.S.R.)
* Nights of Cabiria (1957, Italy)
* Cairo Station (1958, Egypt)
* Mon Oncle (1958, France)
* Jalsaghar (1958, India)
* Ashes and Diamonds (1958, Poland)
* Madhumati (1958, India)
* Invention for Destruction (1958, Czechoslovakia)
* The Day Shall Dawn (1959, Pakistan)
* Hiroshima mon amour (1959, France)
* The 400 Blows (1959, France)
* Black Orpheus (1959, Brazil/France)
* Room at the Top (1959, U.K.)
* Fires on the Plain (1959, Japan)
* Nazarín (1959, Mexico)
* Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959, India)
* Look Back in Anger (1959, U.K.)
* The Soldiers of Pancho Villa (1959, Mexico)
* Ballad of a Soldier (1959, U.S.S.R.)
* Pickpocket (1959, France)
* The Human Condition (1959-1961, Japan)
* Breathless (1960, France)
* Two Women (1960, Italy)
* The Housemaid (1960, South Korea)
* Sons and Lovers (1960, U.K.)
* The Sundowners (1960, Australia/U.K.)
* La Dolce Vita (1960, Italy)
* Obaltan (1960, South Korea)
* L'Avventura (1960, Italy)
* Meghe Dhaka Tara (1960, India)
* Mughal-e-Azam (1960, India)
* La Notte (1961, Italy)
* Viridiana (1961, Mexio/Spain)
* Surogat (1961, Yugoslavia)
* Yojimbo (1961, Japan)
* A Taste of Honey (1961, U.K.)
* Gunga Jumna (1961, India)
* The Exterminating Angel (1962, Mexico)
* L'Eclisse (1962, Italy)
* Ivan's Childhood (1962, U.S.S.R.)
* Jules and Jim (1962, France)
* An Autumn Afternoon (1962, Japan)
* Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962, France)
* Sanjuro (1962, Japan)
* O Pagador de Promessas (1962, Brazil)
* 8½ (1963, Italy/France)
* Tom Jones (1963, U.K.)
* This Sporting Life (1963, U.K.)
* Billy Liar (1963, U.K.)
* Mahanagar (1963, India)
* Gamperaliya (1963, Sri Lanka)
* Black God, White Devil (1964, Brazil)
* Gertrud (1964, Denmark)
* Red Desert (1964, Italy)
* Charulata (1964, India)
* A Fistful of Dollars (1964, Italy/West Germany/Spain)
* I Am Cuba (1964, Cuba/U.S.S.R.)
* The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964, France/West Germany)
* Dry Summer (1964, Turkey)
* Simon of the Desert (1965, Mexico)
* Pierrot le Fou (1965, France)
* For a Few Dollars More (1965, Italy/West Germany/Spain)
* Loves of a Blonde (1965, Czechoslovakia)
* Subarnarekha (1965, India)
* La muerte de un burócrata (1966, Cuba)
* Persona (1966, Sweden)
* Black Girl (1966, Senegal/France)
* The Battle of Algiers (1966, Algeria/Italy)
* Blow-Up (1966, U.K./Italy)
* A Man for All Seasons (1966, U.K.)
* A Man and a Woman (1966, France)
* Andrei Rublev (1966, U.S.S.R.)
* Au Hasard Balthazar (1966, France)
* Closely Watched Trains (1966, Czechoslovakia)
* War and Peace (1966-1967, U.S.S.R.)
* Three Days and a Child (1967, Israel)
* Le Samouraï (1967, France/Italy)
* Jules Verne's Rocket to the Moon (1967, U.K.)
* Playtime (1967, France/Italy)
* Mouchette (1967, France)
* Belle de Jour (1967, France)
* Once Upon a Time in the West (1968, Italy)
* Romeo and Julie (1968, U.K./Italy)
* Mandabi (1968, Senegal/France)
* ' (1968, U.K.)
* Memories of Underdevelopment (1968, Cuba)
* Kes (1969, U.K.)
* Army of Shadows (1969, France)
* The Damned (1969, U.K.)
* Fellini Satyricon (1969, Italy)
* Z (1969, Algeria/France)

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