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Michael Collins (film)

Michael Collins (1996) is Neil Jordan's biographical war drama starring Liam Neeson as the Irish revolutionary, with Aidan Quinn, Alan Rickman, and Julia Roberts. It won the 1996 Venice Golden Lion, earned two Oscar nominations, and sparked controversy over its de Valera and Bloody Sunday portrayals.

Michael Curtiz

Michael Curtiz, born Mihály Kertész in Budapest, was a Hungarian-born director of Casablanca, The Adventures of Robin Hood, and White Christmas who won an Oscar for Casablanca.

Michael Disco

Michael Disco (born 1963) is an American film producer and executive, President of Film and Television at AGBO, formerly New Line Cinema EVP of Production and founder of The Disco Factory; credits include Game Night, San Andreas, and The Flash.

Michael Dorn

Michael Dorn (born 1952, Luling, Texas) is an American actor best known as the Klingon Worf in Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, four films, and Picard, plus voice roles like Battle Beast in Invincible.

Michael Dougherty

Michael Dougherty is the American filmmaker behind Trick 'r Treat, Krampus, and Godzilla: King of the Monsters, creator of the Halloween character Sam, and co-writer of X-Men 2 and Superman Returns. Distinct from composer Michael Daugherty.

Michael Dunn (actor)

Michael Dunn (Gary Neil Miller, 1934–1973), American actor and singer with dwarfism (chondrodystrophy); Tony-nominated for Ballad of the Sad Café, Oscar-nominated for Ship of Fools, and Dr. Miguelito Loveless on The Wild Wild West.

Michael Fassbender filmography

Michael Fassbender filmography: the German-Irish actor's screen credits from 300 (2006) through Hunger, Shame, 12 Years a Slave, Steve Jobs, the X-Men Magneto role, and his 2020s return with The Killer, Black Bag, and Hope.

Michael G. Wilson

Michael G. Wilson, born 1942, is an American producer, screenwriter, and attorney, stepson of Cubby Broccoli, who co-produced the James Bond films with Barbara Broccoli from GoldenEye to No Time To Die before ceding creative control to Amazon MGM in 2025.

Michael Gordon (film director)

Michael Gordon (Irving Kunin Gordon, 1909–1993), American film director of Cyrano de Bergerac (1950) and Pillow Talk (1959); blacklisted in the 1950s, he returned to direct Doris Day–Rock Hudson comedies.

Michael Jackson's Ghosts

Michael Jackson's Ghosts, also titled Ghosts, is a 1996 39-minute horror-fantasy short film directed by Stan Winston, written with Stephen King and Mick Garris, self-funded at $15 million, with Jackson playing five roles.

Michael Jackson's This Is It

Michael Jackson's This Is It is a 2009 American documentary-music film directed by Kenny Ortega, built from rehearsal footage for Jackson's fifty planned comeback concerts at London's O2 Arena.

Michael Landon Jr.

Michael Landon Jr. (born 1964, Encino, California), American director-producer, son of actor Michael Landon; creator of Hallmark's When Calls the Heart and director of Love Comes Softly and The Last Sin Eater.

Michael Madana Kama Rajan (மைக்கேல் மதன காம ராஜன்)

Michael Madana Kama Rajan (மைக்கேல் மதன காம ராஜன்) is a 1990 Indian Tamil-language comedy directed by Singeetam Srinivasa Rao, with Kamal Haasan playing four quadruplets separated at birth.

Michael Moore

Michael Moore (Michael Francis Moore), born 1954, is an American documentary filmmaker from Flint, Michigan, known for Roger & Me, Bowling for Columbine, and Fahrenheit 9/11, the highest-grossing documentary.

Michael Powell

Michael Powell (1905–1990), English film director born near Canterbury, partnered with Emeric Pressburger as The Archers. Known for The Red Shoes, Black Narcissus, A Matter of Life and Death, and the 1960 Peeping Tom; reputation revived by Scorsese and the BFI.

Michael Winner

Michael Winner (1935-2013), English film director, producer and screenwriter of Death Wish (1974) and its sequels with Charles Bronson; also the Sunday Times restaurant critic behind Winner's Dinners and the 'Calm down, dear' esure ads.

Michael Winslow

Michael Winslow, the Man of 10,000 Sound Effects, is an American actor, comedian, and beatboxer born 1958 in Spokane, Washington, famous as Larvell Jones in all seven Police Academy films, the radar technician in Spaceballs, and the voice of Stripe in Gremlins.

Michael Winterbottom

Michael Winterbottom (born 1961, Blackburn) is a prolific British film director of 24 Hour Party People, In This World and The Trip, known for genre-hopping, documentary-fiction hybrid filmmaking.

Michael Wright (actor)

Michael Wright (1956–2026) was an American actor known for Eddie King Jr. in The Five Heartbeats, Elias Taylor in V, and Omar White on Oz; he also appeared in The Wanderers, Streamers, and Sugar Hill.

Michael-Leon Wooley

Michael-Leon Wooley (born 1971, Fairfax, Virginia) is an American actor and singer with a deep bass voice, known as Louis in The Princess and the Frog, Audrey II on Broadway, Dex DeShawn in Cyberpunk 2077, and Darkseid in Injustice 2.

Michel Hazanavicius

Michel Hazanavicius (born 1967, Paris) is a French director, screenwriter, and editor of OSS 117 spoofs and The Artist, which won him the 2012 Oscar for Best Director. Also directed The Search, Redoubtable, and the animated The Most Precious of Cargoes.

Michel Legrand

Michel Legrand (1932-2019), French composer, jazz pianist, and conductor; wrote 200+ film scores, won three Oscars for The Windmills of Your Mind, Summer of '42, and Yentl, and with Jacques Demy created The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.

Michele Bennett (film producer)

Michele Rosemary Bennett, Australian film and TV producer, founder of Cherub Pictures and Pariah Productions; produced Chopper (2000), The Magician, Drift, Judy & Punch, and the series Mr Inbetween, NCIS: Sydney, and Queen of Oz.

Michele Civetta

Michele Civetta is an Emmy-nominated New York City-born American film director, screenwriter, and producer known for Agony (2019), The Gateway (2021), and Friendly Fire (2006), made with Sean Lennon.

Michu Meszaros

Mihaly "Michu" Meszaros (Mészáros Mihály, 1939–2016) was a 33-inch-tall Hungarian circus performer with Ringling Bros. who wore the full-body ALF costume in walking scenes on the NBC sitcom ALF, uncredited.

Mick Blue

Mick Blue (Michael Omelko, born 1976, Graz) is an Austrian adult film performer and director active since 2000, three-time consecutive AVN Male Performer of the Year (2015-2017), BAM Visions co-founder, race car driver, and SAG-AFTRA mainstream actor on General Hospital.

Mickey (1918 film)

Mickey (1918 film), silent comedy-drama starring Mabel Normand, the only film of her Mabel Normand Feature Film Co., directed by F. Richard Jones and James Young, produced by Mack Sennett; released 11 August 1918, it was 1918's highest-grossing feature and survives on 16mm.

Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway

Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway is Disney's trackless 2.5D dark ride through a Mickey Mouse cartoon short, opened March 4, 2020 at Hollywood Studios and January 27, 2023 at Disneyland, replacing The Great Movie Ride.

Mickey 17

Mickey 17 is a 2025 science-fiction film written and directed by Bong Joon Ho, starring Robert Pattinson as an expendable laborer who is killed and reprinted.

Mickey Blue Eyes

Mickey Blue Eyes is a 1999 romantic comedy directed by Kelly Makin, starring Hugh Grant as an English art auctioneer drawn into his fiancée's mob family.