Golden Age of Hollywood Book Club discussion

Was recently asked for an informal list of classic 'studio directors'; classic foreign directors and 'film school generation' directors with identifiable individual styles. Below is what I drew up.

Probably some obvious names neglected; feel free to call out any repairs needed; (excluding current/contemporary).

Max Ophuls
Kurosawa
Robert Bresson
Luis Bunuel
Powell & Pressburger
Chaplin
Ozu
Satyajit Ray
Sergei Eisenstein
Buster Keaton
Harold Lloyd
Jean Renoir
Fritz Lang
Ernst Lubitsch
Orson Welles
John Ford
Howard Hawks
Jean-Pierre Melville
David Lean
Truffaut
Godard
Fellini
Ingmar Bergman
Erich Von Stroheim
Tod Browning
Robert Flaherty
DW Griffith
Josef Von Sternberg
Kon Ichikawa
Hitchcock
Robert Wise
Kenji Mizoguchi
Michael Curtiz
Howard Hughes
Billy Wilder
David O. Selznick
Fred Zinneman
Richard Fleischer
Roger Corman
John Schlesinger
Victor Fleming
Anthony Mann
Budd Boetticher
Robert Mulligan
John Cassavettes
John Sturges
Preston Sturges
Sidney Lumet
Robert Altman
Robert Aldrich
Sidney Pollak
Roman Polanski
Edmund Dymytrk
Peter Yates
Franklin J. Schaffer
Richard Donner
John Huston
Sergio Leone
Michael Winner
Michael Ritchie
Don Siegel
George Stevens
William Wyler
Peter Hyams
Sam Peckinpah
John Frankenheimer
Blake Edwards
Sidney J. Furie
Stanley Donen
Carol Reed
Lina Wertmuller
Rainer-Maria Fassbinder
Val Lewton
FW Murnau
Joseph Loesey
Robert Siodmak
Louis Malle
George Roy Hill
Hal Roach
Hal Needham
John Milius
John Boorman
G.W. Pabst
Carl Dreyer
Jacques Tourneur
Jules Dassin
Wim Wenders
Jean Cocteau
Werner Herzog
Arthur Penn
Georges Clouzot
Rene Claire
Vittorio De Sica
William Wellman
Douglas Sirk
Nicholas Ray
Samuel Fuller
Frank Capra
Roberto Rossellini
Otto Preminger
George Cukor
Costa-Gavras
Bryan Forbes
Henry Hathaway
Vincent Minelli
Alexander Korda
Lindsay Anderson
Ken Russell
Anatole Litvak
Bernardo Bertolucci
Jack Conway
Edmund Goulding
Bob Rafelson
Elio Petri
Roger Vadim
Raoul Walsh
Delbert Mann

added by Magnus:

Frank Borzage
King Vidor
Henry King
Rouben Mamoulian
Leo McCarey
William Friedkin
W. S. Van Dyke
Paul Mazurky
Clarence Brown
Mike Nichols
Peter Bogdanovich
Delmer Daves
Lewis Milestone
Wiliam Dieterle
Claude Chabrol
Mikio Naruse
Jacques Tati
Anthony Asquith
Richard Attenborough
Eric Rohmer
Masaki Kobayashi
Claude Lelouch
Gillo Pontecorvo
Nicolas Roeg
Alain Resnais
Lucino Visconti
Richard Lester
Hal Ashby

What a fantastic list!!! I can't think of anyone you forgot but I bet someone will add just one more that slipped the mine.

Thx thx thx.

Adding:
~Bryan Forbes
~Henry Hathaway
~Vincent Minelli
~Stanley Donen
~Lindsay Anderson
~Ken Russell

Gotta be missing some of the studio contract directors too, like:

~Mitchell Leisen
~Jack Conway
~Edmund Goulding

...and some of the other guys who simply turned in their assignments on-time, under-budget, never made a big name but were the studio workhorses

But with them, I'm not sure they have any unique style of their own, so not sure whether to add them or not

What a fun idea. Hope you don't mind my two pennies' worth for your consideration...
Btw I may be wrong but weren't Hal Roach and Val Lewton producers rather than directors? Selznick was for sure, and Howard Hughes has perhaps one (or two) credits as director but mostly a producer

A few possible additons
Frank Borzage (made some wonderful autheurist silents)
King Vidor
Henry King
Rouben Mamoulian
Leo McCarey
William Friedkin
W. S. Van Dyke (usually thought of as journeyman, but what a journey)
Paul Mazurky
Woody Allen
Clint Eastwood (the last two might be contemporary but they have been active since the 60s)
Clarence Brown
Mike Nichols
Peter Bogdanovich
Hal Ashby
Delmer Daves
Lewis Milestone

And some international (i.e. non-US) ones (hopefully none you already have)
Wiliam Dieterle
Claude Chabrol
Mikio Naruse
Jacques Becker
Jacques Tati
Anthony Asquith
Ida Lupino
Michael Powell
Richard Attenborough
Philippe de Broca
Eric Rohmer
Masaki Kobayashi
Claude Sautet
Josef von Sternberg
Wolfgang Staudte
Helmut Käutner
Kurt Hoffmann
Claude Lelouch
Gillo Pontecorvo
Luis Garcia Berlanger
Carlos Saura
Nicolas Roeg
Alain Resnais
Lucino Visconti
Richard Lester

Thx Magnus. Some important contributions there. Some which I had in mind but just would not crystallize until you named them.

Producers: some producers like Hughes (it was the age of the producer in those days) I include because their vision --and their control --was so strong.

International: I thought about names like Pontecorvo, but ponder whether they had a style which can be traced from film to film?

Anyway this is much food for thought. Thanks agin.

Thanks again to you for starting this thread.
I hear you on the (age old) auteur question. And as you sad, Selznick and Roach make total sense in that context. Perhaps Hughes too. After all, he's the guy who brought RKO to its knees for good, his permanent contribution to film making ;)
Back in the days it was arguably the studio rather than a specific director or producer who had a style (MGM had more stars than the night sky, Paramount had the glamour, Warner Bros. the grit, etc).
As to Pontecorvo, he only made a handful of films. What they do have in common (other than a strong sence of social criticism) is their documentary realism. I think he often used non-professional actors, a bit like Ken Loach.