List of Frequent Coen Brothers Collaborators

List Of Frequent Coen Brothers Collaborators

The Coen brothers, a sibling duo of filmmakers, are known for their frequent collaborations with various actors and film crew members. Though they write and direct as a team, for many of their films they split the credits, with Joel Coen as director and Ethan Coen as producer, and the two credited jointly as writers. Additionally, they both edit their films under the pseudonym Roderick Jaynes.

The Coens' most frequent collaborators are listed here.

• J. Todd Anderson has storyboarded every Coen movie from Raising Arizona to No Country for Old Men. He also appears in Fargo as "Victim in field."
• Royce D. Applegate appears in Raising Arizona, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and Intolerable Cruelty
• Michael Badalucco appears in Miller's Crossing, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Man Who Wasn't There.
• Ben Barenholtz was executive producer on Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink, and is listed as a presenter in the opening credits of Blood Simple.
• Jeff Bridges appears in The Big Lebowski and True Grit.
• Josh Brolin appears in No Country for Old Men and True Grit.
• Harry Bugin appears in Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy and The Big Lebowski.
• Carter Burwell has provided music for all the Coens' feature films (credited only for additional music for O Brother, Where Art Thou?) His debut as a film-score composer was the Coens' first feature, Blood Simple. He has also composed the scores for Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, and A Serious Man.
• Steve Buscemi appears in Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, Paris, je t'aime and the Coen-produced Romance and Cigarettes. He also appears in the Coen Brothers radio play Sawbones.
• John Cameron is an associate producer, production manager and assistant director. He has worked on The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. He also worked on Crimewave (written by the Coens) and Bad Santa (executive produced by the Coens).
• Bruce Campbell appears in The Hudsucker Proxy, Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers. Footage of Campbell also appears in Fargo. He frequently appears in Sam Raimi's films, including Crimewave, which was written by the Coens.
• Blake Clark appears in Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.
• George Clooney appears in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Intolerable Cruelty and Burn After Reading.
• Booth Colman appears in The Man Who Wasn't There and Intolerable Cruelty.
• Tricia Cooke was an assistant editor (and later co-editor) on Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Man Who Wasn't There. She is married to Ethan Coen.
• Roger Deakins first collaborated with the Coens' on Barton Fink. He served as cinematographer on The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man and True Grit.
• David Diliberto Assistant Editor, Associate Editor, Post-Production Supervisor and Associate Producer over the course of nine movies.
• Charles Durning appears in The Hudsucker Proxy and O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• James Gandolfini appears in The Man Who Wasn't There and the Coen-produced Romance & Cigarettes.
• Dennis Gassner has served as production designer for Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There and The Ladykillers.
• John Goodman appears in Raising Arizona, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy (as a newsreel announcer, credited as Karl Mundt), The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and the Coen Bros. radio play Sawbones. He is set to appear in the Coen's upcoming film Inside Llewyn Davis.
• Marcia Gay Harden appears in Miller's Crossing and the Coen Bros. radio play Sawbones.
• Nancy Haigh worked as set decorator on Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man and True Grit.
• Rick Heinrichs was production designer on Fargo and The Big Lebowski.
• Philip Seymour Hoffman appears in The Big Lebowski and the Coen Bros. radio play Sawbones.
• Holly Hunter appears in Blood Simple (voice only, uncredited), Raising Arizona and O Brother, Where Art Thou?
• Richard Jenkins appears in The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty and Burn After Reading.
• Warren Keith appears in Raising Arizona, Fargo, The Big Lebowski and A Serious Man.
• Olek Krupa appears in Miller's Crossing and Burn After Reading.
• Peter Kurland has worked in the production sound department of all the Coen's feature films. He has worked as the boom operator on Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, and The Big Lebowski. He has been the production sound mixer on O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers,No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man, and True Grit.
• Jennifer Jason Leigh appears in The Hudsucker Proxy and has an uncredited role as the voice of the little person in O Brother, Where Art Thou?(as a female inmate) in The Man Who Wasn't There.
• Michael Lerner appears in Barton Fink and A Serious Man.
• Skip Lievsay has served as sound editor on all the Coen Brothers' feature films. He has worked on Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men and Burn After Reading.
• John Mahoney appears in Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy.
• Elizabeth Marvel appears in Burn After Reading and True Grit
• John McConnell appears in Miller's Crossing, O Brother, Where Art Thou? and The Ladykillers.
• Frances McDormand appears in Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There and Burn After Reading. She also appears in the Coen-written Crimewave. She is married to Joel Coen.
• Steve Park appears in Fargo and A Serious Man
• Jon Polito appears in Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski and The Man Who Wasn't There.
• Sam Raimi appears in Miller's Crossing and The Hudsucker Proxy, the latter of which he also co-wrote. He directed Crimewave, written by the Coens, and made a cameo appearance with Joel Coen in the John Landis film Spies Like Us. Joel Coen served as editor on Raimi's The Evil Dead.
• Stephen Root appears in O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Ladykillers and No Country for Old Men .
• Leon Russom appears in The Big Lebowski and True Grit.
• Tony Shalhoub appears in Barton Fink and The Man Who Wasn't There.
• J. K. Simmons appears in The Ladykillers and Burn After Reading. Voices the Ross family lawyer, J. Noble Daggett, in True Grit (not credited).
• Brooke Smith appears in The Man Who Wasn't There and the Coen Brothers radio play Sawbones.
• Barry Sonnenfeld was the cinematographer on the Coens' early feature films, Blood Simple, Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing. He was executive producer on The Ladykillers and had an uncredited role in Barton Fink as "page calling for Barton Fink".
• Peter Stormare appears in Fargo and The Big Lebowski. He is also cast in the 2009 project Hail Caesar.
• Billy Bob Thornton appears in The Man Who Wasn't There and Intolerable Cruelty. He also appeared in Bad Santa, produced by the Coens.
• John Turturro appears in Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Big Lebowski and O Brother, Where Art Thou? The Coens served as executive producers of Romance & Cigarettes which Turturro directed.
• M. Emmet Walsh appears in Blood Simple and Raising Arizona.
• Working Title Films is a United Kingdom-based film production company headed by Tim Bevan and Eric Fellner. They have served as executive producers on The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Burn After Reading and A Serious Man.
• Mary Zophres has been the Coens' costume designer since the mid '90s. She has worked on Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading, A Serious Man and True Grit.