Did you know that so many of our favorite actors are directors as well? May be all are not as glorious and successful as Charlie Chaplin or Clint Eastwood but some of these Hollywood actors who also directed films deserves a pat on their shoulders.
Let’s see how many of these movies have you seen which are directed by these legendary actors.
Actor turned Director Popular films directed
(Note: many of the actors have directed more films than mentioned here but i have listed only the popular ones)
Kirk Douglas Scalawag (1973), Posse (1975)
Richard Burton Doctor Faustus (1967)
Diane Keaton Unstrung heroes (1995)
Billy Bob Thornton Sling Blade (1996)
Danny DeVito Throw Momma from the train (1987)
John Wayne The Alamo (1960), The Green Berets (1968)
Liv Ullmann Sofie (1992), Faithless (2000)
Barbra Streisand Yentl (1983), The prince of tides (1991)
Paul Newman The glass Menagerie (1987)
Bill Murray Quick Change (1990)
Alec Baldwin Shortcut to Happiness (2003)
Ed Harris Pollock (2000), Appaloosa (2008)
Denzel Washington The great Debaters (2007)
Ethan Hawke Chelsea Walls (2001), The Hottest state (2006)
Forest Whitaker Waiting to Exhale (1995), Hope Floats (1998)
Sylvester Stallone Rambo (2008),The expendables (2010)
Jodie Foster Little man Tate (1991),The beaver (2011)
Ben Stiller The Cable guy (1996), Zoolander (2001)
Ralph Fiennes Coriolanus (2011), The invisible woman (2013)
Jack Nicholson Goin’ South (1978), The Two Jakes (1990)
Morgan Freeman Bopha! (1993)
Drew Barrymore Whip It (2009)
Antonio Banderas Crazy in Alabama (1999), Summer Rain (2006)
Nicolas Cage Sonny (2002)
Angelina Jolie In the land of blood and honey (2011)
Anthony Hopkins Dylan Thomas: Return Journey (1990)
Dustin Hoffman Quartet (2012)
Keanu Reeves Man of tai Chi (2013)
Tom Hanks That thing you do! (1996)
Johnny Depp The Brave (1997)
Robert De Nero A Bronx Tale (1993), The Good Shepherd (2006)
Al Pacino Chinese coffee (2000), Salomé (2013)
Kevin Costner Dances with wolves (1990), The postman (1997)
Mel Gibson Braveheart (1995), Apocalypto (2006)
Sean Penn The pledge (2001), Into the wild (2007)
George Clooney The ides of March (2011)
Ben Affleck Argo (2012), Gone baby gone (2007)