John Paul Cusack is an American actor. Cusack began acting in films during the 1980s, starring in coming-of-age dramedies such as Sixteen Candles (1984), The Sure Thing (1985), Stand by Me (1986), and Say Anything... (1989). He then started appearing in independent films such as Eight Men Out (1988), The Grifters (1990), True Colors (1991), and Money for Nothing (1993). Cusack began appearing as a leading man in such films as Bullets Over Broadway (1994), Grosse Pointe Blank (1997), The Thin Red Line (1998), Being John Malkovich (1999), High Fidelity (2000), America's Sweethearts (2001), Max (2002), and Runaway Jury (2003). He also starred in films such as The Ice Harvest (2005), The Contract (2006), 1408 (2007), War, Inc. (2008), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), The Raven (2012), The Frozen Ground (2013), and Dragon Blade (2015).
Paul Lawrence Smith was an American-Israeli actor and director. Burly, bearded and imposing, he appeared in feature films and occasionally on television since the 1960s, generally playing "heavies" and bad guys. His most notable roles include Hamidou, the vicious prison guard in Midnight Express (1978), Bluto in Robert Altman's Popeye (1980), Gideon in the ABC miniseries Masada (1981), Glossu "Beast" Rabban in David Lynch's Dune (1984) and Falkon in Red Sonja (1985). He was most frequently credited as Paul Smith or Paul L. Smith, but was also billed as P. L. Smith and Paul Lawrence Smith.
Richard Dembo was a French director and screenwriter.
Menahem Golan was an Israeli filmmaker, best known for co-owning The Cannon Group with his cousin Yoram Globus. His filmmaking career 200 productions in over forty years, across multiple Israel, the United States, and Europe.
Lemon Popsicle is a 1978 teen comedy-drama film co-written and directed by Boaz Davidson. The success of the film led to a series of sequels. The cult film follows a group of three teenage boys in late-1950s Tel Aviv.
Yoram Globus is an Israeli–American film producer, cinema owner, and distributor. He has been involved in over 300 full-length motion pictures and he is most known for his association with The Cannon Group, Inc., an American film production company, which he co-owned with his cousin Menahem Golan.
Assaf "Assi" Dayan was an Israeli film director, actor, screenwriter, and producer.
Bourekas films were a genre of Israeli-made comic melodrama films popular in Israel in the 1960s and 1970s.
Mohammad Bakri is a Palestinian actor and film director.
Misha Segal is an Israeli music producer and film composer. He studied music, film, and philosophy at Tel Aviv University and apprenticed under Dieter Schöhnbach in Germany. Segal also studied composition and conducting at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, after which point he attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston. Segal has stated that he has been influenced by jazz, Elton John and The Beatles.
Neal Israel is an American actor, screenwriter, film and television producer, and director best known for his comedic work in the 1980s for films such as Police Academy, Real Genius, and Bachelor Party.
Atalia is a 1984 Israeli drama directed by Akiva Tevet. It was adapted from a story by Yitzhak Ben Ner and mostly shot on location at Kibbutz Yakum.
Jonathan Sagall is a Canadian-born Israeli actor, director, producer and screenwriter.
Uri Barbash is an Israeli film director, member of the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences.
The Little Drummer Girl is a 1984 American spy drama film directed by George Roy Hill and adapted from the 1983 novel of the same name by John le Carré. It starred Diane Keaton, Yorgo Voyagis, Klaus Kinski and Thorley Walters. The film received divided reviews among critics.
Eran Riklis is an Israeli filmmaker. His films include Cup Final (1991), The Syrian Bride (2004), Lemon Tree (2008) and Dancing Arabs (2014).
Sadat is a 1983 American two-part, four-hour made-for-television biographical film based on the life and death of the late 3rd President of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, starring Louis Gossett Jr. as Sadat and Madolyn Smith as Sadat's wife, Jehan. It was distributed by Columbia Pictures Television through Operation Prime Time. Gossett's performance earned him a nomination for an Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Yosef Shiloach was an Israeli actor.
Michal Bat-Adam is an Israeli film director, producer, screenwriter, actress, and musician. Her films deal with complex and conflicted relationships, especially relationships within families. She also explores the line between sanity and mental illness. Many of these movies contain autobiographical elements.
