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  "name": "Classic Film Directors",
  "title": "Classic Film Directors",
  "description": "53 notable film directors with full name, birth name, birthdate, and birthplace, spanning international cinema history.",
  "category": "entertainment",
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  "updated": "2026-04",
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      "name": "Akira Kurosawa",
      "birthname": "Akira Kurosawa",
      "birthdate": "1910-03-23",
      "birthplace": "Tokyo,Japan"
    },
    {
      "name": "Alfred Hitchcock",
      "birthname": "Alfred Joseph Hitchcock",
      "birthdate": "1899-08-13",
      "birthplace": "Leytonstone, Essex, England"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ang Lee",
      "birthname": "Ang Lee",
      "birthdate": "1954-10-23",
      "birthplace": "Pingtung, Taiwan"
    },
    {
      "name": "Anurag Kashyap",
      "birthname": "Anurag Singh Kashyap",
      "birthdate": "1972-09-10",
      "birthplace": "Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India"
    },
    {
      "name": "Billy Wilder",
      "birthname": "Samuel Wilder",
      "birthdate": "1906-06-22",
      "birthplace": "Sucha, Galicia, Austria-Hungary "
    },
    {
      "name": "Brad Bird",
      "birthname": "Brad Bird",
      "birthdate": "1957-09-24",
      "birthplace": "Kalispell, Montana, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Chris Columbus",
      "birthname": "Chris Joseph Columbus",
      "birthdate": "1958-09-10",
      "birthplace": "Spangler, Pennsylvania, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Christopher Nolan",
      "birthname": "Christopher Edward Nolan",
      "birthdate": "1970-07-30",
      "birthplace": "Westminster, London, England"
    },
    {
      "name": "Clint Eastwood",
      "birthname": "Clinton Eastwood Jr.",
      "birthdate": "1930-05-31",
      "birthplace": "San Francisco, California, U.S."
    },
    {
      "name": "Damien Chazelle",
      "birthname": "Imtiaz Ali",
      "birthdate": "1985-01-19",
      "birthplace": "Providence, Rhode Island, United States"
    },
    {
      "name": "David Fincher",
      "birthname": "David Andrew Leo Fincher",
      "birthdate": "1962-08-28",
      "birthplace": "Denver, Colorado, United States"
    },
    {
      "name": "David Lynch",
      "birthname": "David Keith Lynch",
      "birthdate": "1946-01-20",
      "birthplace": "Missoula, Montana, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Dibakar Banerjee",
      "birthname": "Dibakar Banerjee",
      "birthdate": "1969-06-21",
      "birthplace": "New Delhi, India"
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    {
      "name": "Francis Ford Coppola",
      "birthname": "Francis Ford Coppola",
      "birthdate": "1937-04-07",
      "birthplace": "Detroit, Michigan, United States"
    },
    {
      "name": "Fritz Lang",
      "birthname": "Friedrich Christian Anton Lang",
      "birthdate": "1890-12-05",
      "birthplace": "Vienna, Austria-Hungaria"
    },
    {
      "name": "George Lucas",
      "birthname": "George Walton Lucas Jr.",
      "birthdate": "1944-05-14",
      "birthplace": "Modesto, California, U.S."
    },
    {
      "name": "Greg Robbins",
      "birthname": "Greg Robbins",
      "birthdate": "1959-07-06",
      "birthplace": "Los Angeles, California, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Guy Ritchie",
      "birthname": "Guy Ritchie",
      "birthdate": "1968-09-10",
      "birthplace": "Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England"
    },
    {
      "name": "Harmony Korine",
      "birthname": "Harmony Korine",
      "birthdate": "1973-01-04",
      "birthplace": "Bolinas, California, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Imtiaz Ali",
      "birthname": "Imtiaz Ali",
      "birthdate": "1971-06-16",
      "birthplace": "Jamshedpur, Jharkhan, India"
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    {
      "name": "J. J. Abrams",
      "birthname": "Jeffrey Jacob Abrams",
      "birthdate": "1966-06-27",
      "birthplace": "New York, U.S"
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    {
      "name": "James Cameron",
      "birthname": "James Francis Cameron",
      "birthdate": "1954-08-16",
      "birthplace": "Kapuskasing, Ontario, Canada"
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    {
      "name": "Jason Reitman",
      "birthname": "Jason Reitmans",
      "birthdate": "1977-10-09",
      "birthplace": "Montreal, Quebec, Canada"
    },
    {
      "name": "John Ford",
      "birthname": "John Martin Feeney",
      "birthdate": "1894-02-01",
      "birthplace": "Cape Elizabeth, Maine, United States"
    },
    {
      "name": "Jon Turteltaub",
      "birthname": "Jonathan Charles Turteltaub",
      "birthdate": "1963-08-08",
      "birthplace": "New York City, New York, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Justin Lin",
      "birthname": "Yi-Bin Lin",
      "birthdate": "1973-10-11",
      "birthplace": "Taipei, Taiwan"
    },
    {
      "name": "Karthik Subbaraj",
      "birthname": "Karthik Subbaraj",
      "birthdate": "1985-01-01",
      "birthplace": "Madurai, India"
    },
    {
      "name": "Lester James Peries",
      "birthname": "Lester James Peries",
      "birthdate": "1919-04-05",
      "birthplace": " Dehiwela, Colombo, Sri Lanka"
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    {
      "name": "Luc Besson",
      "birthname": "Luc Paul Maurice Besson",
      "birthdate": "1959-03-18",
      "birthplace": "Paris, France"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mani Ratnam",
      "birthname": "Gopala Ratnam Subramaniam",
      "birthdate": "1956-02-06",
      "birthplace": "Chennai, Tamil Nadu"
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    {
      "name": "Martin Scorsese",
      "birthname": "Martin Charles Scorsese",
      "birthdate": "1942-11-17",
      "birthplace": "New York City, New York, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Michael Bay",
      "birthname": "Michael Benjamin Bay",
      "birthdate": "1965-02-17",
      "birthplace": "Los Angeles, California, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Mira Nair",
      "birthname": "Mira Nair",
      "birthdate": "1957-10-15",
      "birthplace": "New York City, New York, United States"
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    {
      "name": "Orson Welles",
      "birthname": "George Orson Welles",
      "birthdate": "1915-05-06",
      "birthplace": " Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Park Chan-wook",
      "birthdate": "1963-08-23",
      "birthplace": "Seoul, South Korea"
    },
    {
      "name": "Quentin Tarantino",
      "birthname": "Quentin Jerome Tarantino",
      "birthdate": "1963-03-27",
      "birthplace": "Knoxville, Tennessee, U.S."
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    {
      "name": "Rajkumar Hirani",
      "birthname": "Rajkumar Hirani",
      "birthdate": "1962-11-20",
      "birthplace": "Nagpur, Maharashtra, India"
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    {
      "name": "Ram Gopal Verma",
      "birthname": "Penmetsa Ram Gopal Varma",
      "birthdate": "1962-03-07",
      "birthplace": "Hyderabad, Telangana"
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    {
      "name": "Rian Johnson",
      "birthname": "Rian Johnson",
      "birthdate": "1973-12-17",
      "birthplace": "Silver Spring, Maryland, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ridley Scott",
      "birthname": "Ridley Scott",
      "birthdate": "1937-11-30",
      "birthplace": "South Shields, County Durham, England"
    },
    {
      "name": "Rob Reiner",
      "birthname": "Robert Reiner",
      "birthdate": "1947-03-06",
      "birthplace": "New York, NY, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "Robert Aldrich",
      "birthname": "Robert Aldrich",
      "birthdate": "1918-08-09",
      "birthplace": "Cranston, Rhode Island, USA"
    },
    {
      "name": "S. S. Rajamouli",
      "birthname": "Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli",
      "birthdate": "1973-10-10",
      "birthplace": "Raichur, Karnataka, India"
    },
    {
      "name": "Sam Newfield",
      "birthname": "Same Newfield",
      "birthdate": "1899-12-06",
      "birthplace": "New York City, New York, USA"
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    {
      "name": "Sam Raimi",
      "birthname": "Sam Raimi",
      "birthdate": "1959-10-23",
      "birthplace": "Royal Oak, MI"
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    {
      "name": "Satyajit Ray",
      "birthname": "Satyajit Ray",
      "birthdate": "1921-05-02",
      "birthplace": "Calcutta, West Bengal"
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    {
      "name": "Stanley Kubrick",
      "birthname": "Stanley Kubrick",
      "birthdate": "1928-07-26",
      "birthplace": "307 Second Avenue, Manhattan, New York City"
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    {
      "name": "Stephen Spielberg",
      "birthname": "Steven Allan Spielberg",
      "birthdate": "1946-12-18",
      "birthplace": "Cincinatti, Ohio, USA"
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    {
      "name": "Thor Freudenthal",
      "birthname": "Thor Freudenthal",
      "birthdate": "1972-10-20",
      "birthplace": "Berlin, Germany"
    },
    {
      "name": "Tim Burton",
      "birthname": "Timothy Walter Burton",
      "birthdate": "1958-08-25",
      "birthplace": "Burbank, California, U.S"
    },
    {
      "name": "Wes Anderson",
      "birthname": "Wesley Wales Anderson",
      "birthdate": "1969-05-01",
      "birthplace": "Houston, Texas, United States"
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    {
      "name": "Woody Allen",
      "birthname": "Allen Stewart Konigsberg",
      "birthdate": "1935-12-01",
      "birthplace": "New York, NY, USA"
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    {
      "name": "Zack Snyder",
      "birthname": "Zachary Edward Snyder",
      "birthdate": "1966-03-01",
      "birthplace": "Green Bay, Wisconsin, United States"
    }
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