List of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television alumni

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This is a list of alumni of the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television.

• Shane Acker, filmmaker, 9
• Ana Lily Amirpour, filmmaker, A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night
• Corey Allen, actor, film director, writer, television director, and producer, Rebel Without a Cause
• Allison Anders, filmmaker, Gas, Food, Lodging
• MK Asante, author, Buck: A Memoir, filmmaker, The Black Candle, executive producer, While Black with MK Asante
• Jacoba Atlas, television executive, senior producer at NBC News and TBS, vice president at CNN and PBS
• Danilo Bach, writer, Beverly Hills Cop
• Carroll Ballard, director, Fly Away Home
• Beth Behrs, actress, 2 Broke Girls
• Harve Bennett, producer, Star Trek
• Corbin Bernsen, actor, Psych, L.A. Law
• Jeff Berry, historian and author^[1]
• Bruce Bilson, director, Get Smart
• Dustin Lance Black, screenwriter, J. Edgar, Milk
• Jack Black, actor, Kung Fu Panda, School of Rock
• Shane Black, director, Iron Man 3
• Thomas Bliss, producer
• Roger Blonder, short film animation
• Carol Burnett, comedian
• Charles Burnett, filmmaker, To Sleep with Anger
• Stephen H. Burum, cinematographer, Mission: Impossible
• Sheila Callaghan, writer/producer, Shameless
• Patricia Cardoso, filmmaker, Real Women Have Curves
• Nancy Cartwright, actress, The Simpsons
• Migdia Chinea, writer, The Incredible Hulk
• Bert Convy, host, Tattletales, Super Password
• Francis Ford Coppola, filmmaker, The Godfather franchise
• Alex Cox, filmmaker, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Steve Cuden, screenwriter, Jekyll & Hyde musical
• Dean Cundey, cinematographer, Apollo 13
• Julie Dash, filmmaker, Daughters of the Dust
• Jonathan Dayton, director, Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks
• James Dean, actor, Rebel Without a Cause
• Joyce DeWitt, actress, Three's Company
• Jesse Draper, actress, talk show host, The Valley Girl Show
• Moctesuma Esparza, producer, Gettysburg
• Jamaa Fanaka, filmmaker, Penitentiary
• Valerie Faris, director, Little Miss Sunshine, Ruby Sparks
• Teshome Gabriel, cinema scholar and professor at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television, expert on cinema in Africa and the developing world
• Sacha Gervasi, filmmaker, Hitchcock
• Alex Gibney, filmmaker, Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief
• Geoffrey Gilmore, director, Tribeca Film Festival
• Maria Giese, director, activist for women directors, [When Saturday Comes], [DGA ACLU EEOC investigation for women directors]
• Joanna Gleason, actress, The Wedding Planner
• Dan Gordon, screenwriter, The Hurricane
• Christopher Gorham, actor, Covert Affairs
• Kristin Hanggi, Broadway director, Rock of Ages
• Catherine Hardwicke, director, Twilight
• Mariska Hargitay, actress, Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
• Marielle Heller, director, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, The Diary of a Teenage Girl
• Felicia D. Henderson, writer/producer, Fringe, Gossip Girl
• Jim Herzfeld, screenwriter, Meet the Fockers
• Colin Higgins, screenwriter, The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
• Michael Hitchcock, actor/writer, Glee
• Todd Holland, showrunner, Malcolm in the Middle
• Randall Jahnson, screenwriter, The Doors
• Anne-Marie Johnson, actress, What's Happening Now!!^[2]
• Laeta Kalogridis, writer/producer, Terminator Genisys
• Judy Kaye, Broadway actress
• Gil Kenan, director, Poltergeist
• Russ Kingston, actor, film editor
• David Koepp, screenwriter, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, War of the Worlds
• Scott Kosar, writer, The Machinist
• Neil Landau, writer, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead
• Deborah Nadoolman Landis, costume designer, Coming to America, Michael Jackson's "Thriller"
• Janet Leahy, executive producer, Mad Men
• Justin Lin filmmaker, Fast & Furious 6
• Erica Lindbeck (2014), voice actress
• Russell Mael, singer-songwriter, Sparks
• Ray Manzarek, keyboardist, The Doors
• Courtney Marsh, filmmaker, Chau, Beyond the Lines
• Steve Martin, actor/writer, It's Complicated, L.A. Story
• Jim Morrison, lead singer and lyricist, The Doors
• Gregory Nava, filmmaker, American Family
• Victor Nuñez, filmmaker, Ulee's Gold
• Alexander Payne, filmmaker, Nebraska, The Descendants
• Nasim Pedrad, comedian, Saturday Night Live
• Robert Roy Pool, writer, Armageddon
• Doug Pray, filmmaker, Levitated Mass
• Gina Prince-Bythewood, filmmaker, Beyond the Lights, The Secret Lives of Bees
• John Rando, Broadway director, On the Town
• Rob Reiner, actor/writer/producer, New Girl, Flipped, The Bucket List
• Tim Robbins, actor, The Brink, Mystic River, The Shawshank Redemption
• Scott Rosenberg, producer/writer, Zoo, October Road, Con Air
• Eric Roth, writer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Pietro Scalia, editor, Black Hawk Down, Gladiator, Good Will Hunting
• Paul Schrader, writer, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver
• Tom Shadyac, filmmaker, Bruce Almighty, Evan Almighty
• Chuck Sheetz, animation director, The Simpsons
• Brad Silberling, filmmaker, Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events
• David Silverman producer, The Simpsons
• Tom Skerritt, actor, Ted, Picket Fences, Top Gun
• Penelope Spheeris, director, Wayne's World
• Ben Stiller, actor/writer/director, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Zoolander
• Michael Stuhlbarg, actor, Boardwalk Empire
• Joel Surnow, writer, 24
• Jorma Taccone, writer, Saturday Night Live
• George Takei, actor, Star Trek
• Ham Tran, director, The Anniversary (2003 film)
• Gore Verbinski, director, Rango, Pirates of the Caribbean
• David S. Ward, writer, Sleepless in Seattle, The Sting
• Aron Warner, producer, Shrek franchise
• Mitch Watson, showrunner in animation, Emmy Award winner for “All Hail King Julian”.
• Kevin Weisman, actor, Alias
• Marianne Wibberley, writer, National Treasure franchise
• Gregory Widen, writer, Highlander
• Cress Williams, actor, Prison Break
• Hoyt Yeatman, visual effects, Jack the Giant Slayer
• Daphne Zuniga, actress, One Tree Hill, Melrose Place
• Chih-yen Yee, writer/director, Blue Gate Crossing^{[3][circular reference]}
• Ayn Carrillo Gailey, writer,

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