Thriller Directors

Wolfgang Petersen


Wolfgang was born on the 14th of March 1941. He is a German director and is most know for the thriller films Troy, In the Line of Fire, The Perfect Storm and many more. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Director and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Das Boot.

From a young age Wolfgang was always interested in directing and began directing plays at Hamburg's Ernst Deutsch Theater in the 60's. He studied theatre in Berlin and then went on to attend the Film and Television Academy, also in Berlin. His first film productions were during his work on the German Crime Scene TV series Tatort.


Wolgang's Filmography

• One or the Other of Us (1974)
• Die Konsequenz (1977)
• Das Boot (1981)
• The NeverEnding Story (1984)
• Enemy Mine (1985)
• Shattered (1991)
• In the Line of Fire (1993)
• Outbreak (1995)
• Red Corner (1997)
• Air Force One (1997)
• The Perfect Storm (2000)
• Troy (2004)
• Poseidon (2006)

Stephen Spielberg

Stephen Spielberg KBE was born on 18th December 1946. As well as being an American director, Spielberg is a screenwriter and film producer. Spielberg is mainly a science-fiction fanatic but has directed and been involved with many different genre films. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Schindler's list and Saving Private Ryan. Three of his films (Jaws, E.T and Jurassic Park) broke box office records at their times.

From Spielberg's teens, he created and directed his own amateur adventure films. At the age of 13 he won an award for a 40 minute war film entitled "Escape to Nowhere". In 1963, he wrote and directed his first independant science fiction adventure called "Firelight" which was shown in his local cinema.

Stephen's Thriller Filmography

• Duel (1971)
• Jaws (1975)
• Jurassic Park (1993)
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997)