| FORBES | Actor and director who was married to Nanette Newman for 58 years (6) |
| MENDES | Sam _, American Beauty director who was married to Kate Winslet (6) |
| ALLEN | American writer, actor and director who was born Allen Stewart Konigsberg (surname) (5) |
| JEROMEROBBINS | Oscar-winning American choreographer and director who was codirector of 1961's West Side Story (6,7) |
| ALISTAIRCOOKE | ____ broadcast his observations on American life, for the BBC, for 58 years |
| MINNELLI | American film/stage director who was married to Judy Garland from 1945-1951 (8) |
| ROBERT | Veteran actor and director who starred in The Sting and The Candidate, _ Redford (6) |
| STOLTZ | Eric, actor and director who starred in 1987's Some Kind Of Wonderful (6) |
| FRANCO | James, U.S. actor and director who played Harry Osborn in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man film trilogy (6) |
| VELVET | Soft plush-like textile; or, the first name of a character played by Elizabeth Taylor and later Nanette Newman (6) |
| RANDYS | Quaid and Newman, for two |
| EDWOOD | Movie director who was himself the subject of a 1994 movie |
| STYLER | Trudie, actress and director who married Sting in 1992 (6) |
| JOSEPH | 20th Century American animator and director who founded an animation studio with William Hanna (6,7) |
| EMERIC | Mr. Pressburger, film producer and director who died in 1988 (6) |
| WOODWARD | Joanne _, actress who was married to Paul Newman for 50 years (8) |
| BENAFFLECK | Actor and director who won an Oscar for his screenplay for Good Will Hunting (3,7) |
| NOELCLARKE | Actor and director who played Mickey Smith in BBC TV series Doctor Who (4,6) |
| COX | Brian, Scottish actor/director who was the first British actor to teach atthe Moscow Art Theatre sch |
| SYLVESTER | American actor and director who has played Rocky Balboa and John Rambo in films (9,8) |
