actors who became directors

Into the Wild (2007)


The Pledge (2001)
The Indian Runner (1991)
The Crossing Guard (1995)
September 11 (2002)

The Brave (1997)

Leatherheads (2008)


Good Night, and Good Luck (2005)
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2002)

Braveheart (1995)


The Passion of the Christ (2004)
Apocalypto (2006)
The Man Without a Face (1993)

Dances with Wolves (1990)


Waterworld (1995)
The Postman (1997)
Open Range (2003)

A River Runs Through It (1992)


The Horse Whisperer (1998)
Quiz Show (1994)
The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)
Lions for Lambs (2007)
Ordinary People (1980)
The Conspirator (2010)
The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

Home for the Holidays (1995)
Little Man Tate (1991)
The Beaver (2011)

Gone Baby Gone (2007)


The Town (2010)
I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her on a Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three-Picture Deal at Disney (1993)

The Good Shepherd (2006)


A Bronx Tale (1993)

Zoolander (2001)


The Cable Guy (1996)
Tropic Thunder (2008)
Reality Bites (1994)
Elvis Stories (1989)

Untitled Bosnian War Love Story (2011)

Million Dollar Baby (2004)


Mystic River (2003)
Gran Torino (2008)
Changeling (2008)
Unforgiven (1992)
Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)
Invictus (2009)
Space Cowboys (2000)
The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
A Perfect World (1993)
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997)
The Outlaw Josey Wales (1976)
Absolute Power (1997)
Pale Rider (1985)
Hereafter (2010)
High Plains Drifter (1973)
Sudden Impact (1983)
Blood Work (2002)
True Crime (1999)
Play Misty for Me (1971)
Firefox (1982)
The Rookie (1990)
Heartbreak Ridge (1986)
The Gauntlet (1977)
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
White Hunter, Black Heart (1990)
Bird (1988)
Bronco Billy (1980)
Honkytonk Man (1982)
Breezy (1973)
J. Edgar (2012)

The Expendables (2010)


Rocky II (1979)
Rocky Balboa (2006)
Rocky IV (1985)
Rocky III (1982)
Rambo (2008)
Staying Alive (1983)
Rambo V: The Savage Hunt (2011)
Paradise Alley (1978)
The Expendables II (2012)

The Hottest State (2006)


Chelsea Walls (2001)

Welcome (2007)
Bastard (2010)

Death to Smoochy (2002)


Matilda (1996)
Duplex (2003
The War of the Roses (1989)
Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
Hoffa (1992)

Whip It (2009)

Garden State (2004)

That Thing You Do! (1996)
Larry Crowne (2011)

Crazy in Alabama (1999)


Summer Rain (2006)

Jack Goes Boating (2010)

Sympathy for Delicious (2010)

Keeping the Faith (2000)


Motherless Brooklyn (2013)

New York, I Love You (2009)
Eve (2008)

Loverboy (2005)

Coriolanus (2010)

Sonny (2002)

To Kill a Child (2003)

Nil by Mouth (1997)

Interview (2007)


Lonesome Jim (2005)
Animal Factory (2000)
Trees Lounge (1996)

The Two Jakes (1990)
Goin' South (1978)
Drive, He Said (1971)

Slipstream (2007)


August (1996)

The Merry Gentleman (2008)

Appaloosa (2008)


Pollock (2000)

Looking for Richard (1996)
Chinese Coffee (2000)
Wilde Salome (2011)

Beyond the Sea (2004)


Albino Alligator (1996)

Rabbit Without Ears (2007)


Barefoot (2005)
Rabbit Without Ears 2 (2009)
Der Eisbär (1998)
Kokowääh (2011)

Everything Is Illuminated (2005)

Sling Blade (1996)


All the Pretty Horses (2000)
Daddy and Them (2001)

I'm Still Here (2010)

Quick Change (1990)

Straight Time (1978)

Christmas in Connecticut (1992)

Run Fatboy Run (2007)

Trust (2010)

The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)


Yentl (1983)
The Prince of Tides (1991)

Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

Agnes Browne (1999)

Bopha! (1993)

Tyrannosaur (2011)


Dog Altogether (2007)

The Winter Guest (1997)

Maybe Baby (2000)