Bernard Gotfryd · Public domain

Peter Bogdanovich worked his way from film critic to filmmaker, apprenticing under Roger Corman before The Last Picture Show (1971) established him as a defining director of the New Hollywood era, earning him Academy Award nominations for both directing and writing. He followed it with What's Up, Doc? and Paper Moon, and later returned to acting, appearing in The Sopranos and in Orson Welles's long-unfinished final film, The Other Side of the Wind, which he also helped complete. He also wrote extensively, publishing in-depth interviews with Hitchcock, Hawks and Welles, and won a Grammy Award for directing a documentary on Tom Petty.