Roland Joffé - Director

Nationality: English. Born: London, 17 November 1945.

Neil Jordan - Director

Nationality: Irish. Born: Sligo County, Ireland, 25 February 1950.

Jean-Marie Gaston Kaboré - Director

Karel Kachyňa - Director

Ján Kadár - Director

Nelly Kaplan - Director

Raj Kapoor - Director

Nationality: Indian. Born: Ranbirraj Kapoor in Peshwar (now in Pakistan), 14 December 1942.

Lawrence Kasdan - Director

Nationality: American. Born: Miami Beach, Florida, 14 January 1949.

Philip Kaufman - Director

Interview with B. Krohn, in Cahiers du Cinéma, no.

Aki Kaurismaki - Director

Nationality: Finnish. Born: Orimattila, Finland, 4 April 1957.

Helmut Käutner - Director

Jerzy Kawalerowicz - Director

Elia Kazan - Director

Nationality: American. Born: Elia Kazanjoglou in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Turkey, 7 September 1909; moved with family to New York, 1913.

Buster Keaton - Director

Nationality: American. Born: Joseph Francis Keaton in Piqua, Kansas, 4 October 1895.

Abbas Kiarostami - Director

Nationality: Iranian. Born: Teheran, Iran, June 22, 1940.

Krzysztof Kieślowski - Director

Nationality: Polish. Born: Warsaw, 27 June 1941.

King Hu - Director

Nationality: Chinese. Born: Hu Chin-Ch'üan (as actor known as Chin Ch'üan; name in pinyin: Hun Jinquan) in Peking, 29 April 1931.

Keisuke Kinoshita - Director

Nationality: Japanese. Born: Hamamatsu City, Shizuoka Prefecture, 5 December 1912.

Teinosuke Kinugasa - Director

Nationality: Japanese. Born: Teinosuke Kogame in Mie Prefecture, 1 January 1896.

Alexander Kluge - Director

Nationality: German. Born: Halberstadt, 14 February 1932.

Masaki Kobayashi - Director

Nationality: Japanese. Born: Hokkaido, 4 February 1916.

Barbara Kopple - Director

Rosenthal, Alan, The Documentary Conscience: A Casebook in Film Making, University of California Press, 1980.

Alexander Korda - Director

Nationality: Hungarian/British. Born: Sándor László Kellner in Puszta Turpósztó, Hungary, 16 September 1893; adopted surname Korda, from journalistic pseudonym "Sursum Corda" (meaning "lift up your hearts"), 1910.

Zoltan Korda - Director

Nationality: Hungarian. Born: Zoltan Kellner, Turkeve, 3 June 1895; brother of directors Alexander and Vincent Korda; adopted the surname Korda after his older brother Alexander had done so.

Grigori Kozintsev - Director

Nationality: Russian. Born: Kiev, 22 March 1905.

Stanley Kramer - Director

Nationality: American. Born: Stanley Earl Kramer in New York, 29 September 1913.

Stanley Kubrick - Director

Nationality: American. Born: New York, 26 July 1928.

Lev Kuleshov - Director

Nationality: Soviet. Born: Lev Vladimirovich Kuleshov in Tambov, Russia, 14 January 1899.

Akira Kurosawa - Director

Nationality: Japanese. Born: Tokyo, 23 March 1910.

Diane Kurys - Director

Nationality: French. Born: Lyon, 3 December 1948, to Russian-Jewish immigrants.