Nelson Pereira dos Santos - Director
Nationality: Brazilian. Born: São Paolo, 1928.
Wolfgang Petersen - Director
Nationality: German. Born: Emden, Germany, 14 March 1941.
Elio Petri - Director
Nationality: Italian. Born: Eraclio Petri in Rome, 29 January 1929.
Dadasaheb Phalke - Director
Nationality: Indian. Born: Dhundiraj Govind Phalke in Trymbakeshwar, near Nasik, 30 April 1870.
Maurice Pialat - Director
Nationality: French. Born: Puy de Dôme, 31 August 1925.
Lupu Pick - Director
Nationality: Romanian. Also known as "Lupu-Pick." Born: Iasi (Jassy), 2 January 1886.
Roman Polanski - Director
Nationality: Polish. Born: Paris, 18 August 1933.
Sydney Pollack - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Lafayette, Indiana, 1 July 1934.
Abraham Polonsky - Director
Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 5 December 1910.
Gillo Pontecorvo - Director
Nationality: Italian. Born: Gilberto Pontecorvo in Pisa, 19 November 1919.
Edwin S. Porter - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Edwin Stratton Porter in Connellsville, Pennsylvania, 21 April 1869.
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger - Director
POWELL. Nationality: British.
Otto Preminger - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Vienna, 5 December 1905, became U.S.
Emeric Pressburger - Director
Yakov Protazanov - Director
Nationality: Russian. Born: Yakov Alexandrovitch Protazanov in Moscow, 4 February 1881.
Vsevolod Pudovkin - Director
Nationality: Russian. Born: Vsevolod Illarionovitch Pudovkin in Penza, 16 February 1893.
Bob Rafelson - Director
Nationality: American. Born: New York City, 1933.
Sam Raimi - Director
Nationality: American. Born: 23 October 1959, Franklin, Michigan.
Yvonne Rainer - Director
Nationality: American. Born: San Francisco, 1934.
Man Ray - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Emanuel Rabinovitch, Philadelphia, PA, 27 August 1890.
Nicholas Ray - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Raymond Nicholas Kienzle in Galesville, Wisconsin, 7 August 1911.
Satyajit Ray - Director
Nationality: Indian. Born: Calcutta, 2 May 1921.
Carol Reed - Director
Nationality: British. Born: Putney, London, 30 December 1906, son of actor Herbert Beerbohn Tree.
Rob Reiner - Director
Nationality: American. Born: 6 March 1945.
Karel Reisz - Director
Nationality: Czechoslovakian/British. Born: Ostrava, Czechoslovakia, 21 July 1926.
Jean Renoir - Director
Nationality: French/American. Born: Paris, 15 September 1894, son of painter Auguste Renoir, became citizen of United States (naturalized) in 1946, retained French citizenship.
Alain Resnais - Director
Nationality: French. Born: Vannes, Brittany, 3 June 1922.
Tony Richardson - Director
Nationality: British. Born: Cecil Antonio Richardson in Shipley, West Yorkshire, 5 June 1928.
Leni Riefenstahl - Director
Nationality: German. Born: Helene Berta Amalie Riefenstahl in Berlin, 22 August 1902.
Marlon Riggs - Director
Nationality: American. Born: Marlon Troy Riggs, Fort Worth, Texas, 1957.