Nelson Pereira dos Santos - Director

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

Maurice Pialat - Director

Lupu Pick - Director

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

Edwin S. Porter - Director

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

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

Tony Richardson - Director

"The Films of Luis Buñuel," in Sight and Sound (London), January/March 1954.

Leni Riefenstahl - Director

Marlon Riggs - Director

"Boyz N Hollywood," in High Performance, vol. 14, no.