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So I recently watched Monkey man where Dev patel directed his own movie so I was looking for some similar suggestions where the actor was simultaneously acting and directing.
Suggestions can also include movies where actor gave major contributions in directing.
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Kenneth Branagh has directed himself several times, including Henry V, Much Ado About Nothing, and The Orient Express.
And of course Orson Welles famously did it many times.
Braveheart
Gibson won best director and best picture too
He also starred in and directed Man Without a Face
One of my favourite films.
That Thing You Do! (1996) by Tom Hanks
Matilda (1996) directed by Danny DeVito
The Town (2010) - Ben Affleck
Every Ben Affleck directed movie besides Gone Baby Gone actually, which is just him directing his brother.
Many Clint Eastwood movies, ‘Gran Torino’ being my favourite example
A Bronx Tale (1993) Robert De Niro
I Love You, Daddy (2017) Louis C.K.
Three Kings (1999) Spike Jonze
Tombstone
“Unofficially” don’t confuse OP when he starts looking for the director in the cast haha.
It fits the second part of his question.
American Me by Edward James Olmos
Life is beautiful (1997)
The Gift (2015)
Joel Edgerton starred, wrote, and directed
Unforgiven - Clint Eastwood
Isn't M. Knight Shyamalan in all of the movies he writes and directs?
Baadasssss! directed by Mario Van Peebles, who plays his father Melvin directing his classic exploitation movie Sweet Sweetback's Baad Asssss Song (Mario as a child is also a character in the movie).
Kevin Costner: Dances with Wolves, The Postman, Open Range, and Horizon: An American Saga
Warren Beatty: Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Dick Tracy, Bulworth, and Rules Don't Apply
Kenneth Branagh: Henry V, Dead Again, Much Ado About Nothing, Peter's Friends, Hamlet, Love's Labours Lost Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, and his Hercule Poirot movies.
Thunder Road
Annie Hall
All Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton
Marlon Brando - One Eyed Jacks 1961 - he sacked Stanley Kubrick
Sylvester stallone directed himself in Paradise Alley , four rocky films, one Rambo film and one Expendables film.
Braveheart
Bradley Cooper A Star is Born
Clint Eastwood -- The Outlaw Josey Wales.
Gran Torino
Unforgiven
Ong Bak 2
Police Story ( 1 & 2)
Braveheart
Pedicab Driver
Eastern Condors
Seth Rogen: This is the End (2013)
How has nobody said A Quiet Place with John Krasinski
Here's an interesting one I heard some years back. I didn't see it below.
Upon finishing shooting American History X, the director Tony Kaye apparently completely abandoned the project and Ed Norton took over and worked with the post team--edit on down--to complete the film. He essentially directed what you see.
Lead or near lead.
Keenan Ivory Wayans - I’m Gonna Get You Sucka
Spike Lee - School Daze
Eddie Murphy - Harlem Knights
Rocky - Sylvester Stallone
Orson Welles in Citizen Kane.
Quentin Tarantino in Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Django Unchained.
Martin Scorsese in Gangs Of New York.
Kevin Smith in The Jersey Trilogy and related movies.
Robert DeNiro in A Bronx Tale.
Spike Lee in Do The Right Thing and other movies.
Eddie Murphy in Harlem Nights.
Ben Affleck in The Town and Air and some others I can't think of atm.
George Clooney in The Ides Of March, The Monuments Men, Good Night And Good Luck.
Spike Jonze in Three Kings.
John Krasinski in A Quiet Place.
Clint Eastwood in The Unforgiven and other movies.
Kevin Costner in Dances With Wolves.
Cha Cha Real Smooth, Shithouse
Dances with Wolves (1990) -- Kevin Costner directs and stars
The Prince of Tides (1991) -- Barbra Streisand directs and stars
Every Cassavetes film
Tropic Thunder (Director's Cut) [2008]
Off the top of my head...
Mel Gibson in Braveheart.
Sylvester Stallone in the Rocky Sequels and The Expendables.
Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born and Maestro.
Ben Affleck in Argo, Live By Night and the Town.
George Clooney in The Monuments Men and The Ides of March.
Ben Stiller in Tropic Thunder and The Secret Life of Waler Mitty.
Viggo Mortensen in Falling.
Edward Norton in Motherless Brooklyn.
Denzel in Fences and Antwone Fisher.
Seth MacFarlane in Ted and A Million Ways To Die in the West.
Tommy Lee Jones in The Sunset Limited.
CLINT EASTWOOD
Whip It (2009) - Drew Barrymore directed and played a part in it. I think she did a fine job as a director.
Don Jon - Joseph Gordon Leavitt
The Disaster Artist - James Franco