Actors Who Have Directed and Starred in Their Own Films
- Alan Alda in The Four Seasons, Sweet Liberty, A New Life and Betsy's Wedding
- Ben Affleck in The Town
- Warren Beatty in Heaven Can Wait, Reds, Dick Tracy and Bulworth
- Roberto Benigni in Life Is Beautiful, The Tiger and the Snow
- Matthew Broderick in Infinity
- Nicolas Cage in Sonny
- Kevin Costner in Dances with Wolves, Waterworld, The Postman and Open Range
- Billy Crystal in Mr. Saturday Night and Forget Paris
- Johnny Depp in The Brave
- Danny DeVito in Throw Momma from the Train, The War of the Roses, Hoffa, Matilda and Death to Smoochy
- Kirk Douglas in Scalawag and Posse
- Clint Eastwood in A Perfect World, Million Dollar Baby and Gran Torino, Absolute Power (film), Bronco Billy, The Eiger Sanction (film), Firefox (film), The Gauntlet (film), High Plains Drifter, The Outlaw Josey Wales, Pale Rider, Play Misty for Me, Space Cowboys, Sudden Impact, True Crime, Unforgiven
- Jodie Foster in Little Man Tate and The Beaver (film)
- Jonathan Frakes in Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection
- Mel Gibson in The Man Without a Face and Braveheart
- Crispin Glover in What is It?
- Kamal Haasan in Hey Ram and Virumaandi
- Tom Hanks in That Thing You Do and Larry Crowne
- Ed Harris in Pollock
- Charlton Heston in Antony and Cleopatra, Mother Lode and A Man for All Seasons
- Dennis Hopper in Easy Rider, The Last Movie, Out of the Blue
- Michael Jackson in Moonwalker
- Diana Lee Inosanto in The Sensei
- Tommy Lee Jones in The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
- Diane Keaton in Hanging Up
- Aamir Khan in Taare Zameen Par
- Walter Matthau in Gangster Story
- Cheran in Autograph, Thavamai Thavamirundhu and Mayakannadi
- Nikita Mikhalkov in At Home Among Strangers, A Slave of Love, An Unfinished Piece for a Player Piano, Burnt by the Sun, The Barber of Siberia, 12, Burnt by the Sun 2
- Bill Murray in Quick Change
- Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Jack Nicholson in Goin' South, The Terror (1963 film) and The Two Jakes
- Anthony Perkins in Psycho III
- Tyler Perry in all of his films so far except Daddy's Little Girls
- Prince in Under The Cherry Moon
- Robert Redford in The Horse Whisperer and Lions for Lambs
- Rob Reiner in This Is Spinal Tap, Misery, The Story of Us and Alex and Emma
- George C. Scott in Rage (1972)
- William Shatner in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier and Groom Lake
- Gary Sinise in Of Mice and Men
- Martin Sheen in Cadence
- Sylvester Stallone in Rocky II, Rocky III, Rocky IV and Rocky Balboa, Rambo (2008 film), The Expendables
- Ben Stiller in Reality Bites, The Cable Guy, Zoolander and Tropic Thunder
- Barbra Streisand in Yentl, The Prince of Tides and The Mirror Has Two Faces
- S. J. Suryah in New and Anbe Aaruyire
- Billy Bob Thornton in Sling Blade and Daddy and Them
- François Truffaut in Day for Night and The Wild Child
- Alejandro Jodorowsky in El Topo and The Holy Mountain
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