# Favorite Director/Actor Duos? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 19, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393 "2019-03-19T23:36:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MortSahlFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@MortSahlFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MortSahlFan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/1 "2019-03-19T23:36:26Z")
Vittorio De Sica and Marcello Mastroianni ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/2 "2019-03-20T00:16:51Z")
[Luc Besson/Jene Reno](https://www.imdb.com/search/title?roles=nm0000108,nm0000606). [Akira Kurosawa/Toshiro Mifune](https://www.imdb.com/list/ls059025844/). ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/3 "2019-03-20T00:38:01Z")
Jenna Jameson and Jay Grdina ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/4 "2019-03-20T00:52:47Z")
John Ford and John Wayne David Zucker and Leslie Nielsen ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/5 "2019-03-20T00:55:44Z")
Billy Wilder and Jack Lemmon John Ford and John Wayne. Edit: Ninja’d with the latter by **kunilou**. Edit2: Werner Herzog and Klaus Kinski. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/6 "2019-03-20T01:26:01Z")
Terry Gilliam/Katherine Helmond ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/7 "2019-03-20T01:32:01Z")
Coens / Clooney ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/8 "2019-03-20T01:39:28Z")
Scorsese & DeNiro & Pesci Coen Brothers & John Goodman Hitchcock & Cary Grant or Jimmy Stewart ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/9 "2019-03-20T02:08:40Z")
Clint Eastwood/Sergio Leone Sam Jackson/Quentin Tarantino ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/10 "2019-03-20T02:09:13Z")
Mel Brooks & Gene Wilder or Madeline Kahn or Cloris Leachman Tarantino & Samuel L. Jackson or Harvey Keitel William Wyler & Audrey Hepburn: \*Roman Holiday, The Children’s Hour & How to Steal a Million \* George Cukor & Katherine Hepburn Wes Anderson & Bill F\*cking Murray Tim Burton & Johnny Depp & Helena Bonham Carter Frank Capra & Jimmy Stewart of course Francis Ford Coppola & [del]Nick Cage[/del] (I joke) Robert Duvall Roger Corman & Vincent Price, I know it is all low budget schlock but it is great low budget schlock. John Ford & {John Wayne, Victor McLaglen & Maureen O’Hara together} or Henry Fonda or John Carradine Jim Henson & [del]Kermit the Frog[/del] & Frank Oz 🙂 Ivan Reitman & Bill F\*cking Murray Edgar Wright & {Simon Pegg & Nick Frost} ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/11 "2019-03-20T02:15:23Z")
Woody Allen and Diane Keaton Ingmar Bergman and Liv Ullman, Gunnar Bjornstrand, Harriet Andersson, Max von Sydow, Bibi Andersson, Ingrid Thulin, and Erland Josephson ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/12 "2019-03-20T02:25:35Z")
Richard Lester/The Beatles Jon Favreau/Robert Downey Jr. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/13 "2019-03-20T02:31:44Z")
QuentinTarantino and Samuel Jackson. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2019, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-director-actor-duos/831393/14 "2019-03-20T03:28:34Z")
Ching Siu-Tung and Jet Li Philippe de Broca and Jean-Paul Belmondo Hideo Gosha and Tatsuya Nakadai Tod Browning and Lon Chaney, Sr. Seijun Suzuki and Jô Shishido Paul Morrissey and Udo Kier Ishirô Honda and Haruo Nakajima