Brian De Palma

American film director and screenwriter

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Born 1940 · age 86United States

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Rank in United States
#247
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Age
86
Born 1940
Known for
Scarface
1983

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Updated 2026-06-09

He wanted to be the American Godard but became Hollywood's most unrepentant Hitchcock disciple instead — splitting audiences for fifty years with films that are either hypnotic genre exercises or exploitative trash, depending who's watching.

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Born September 11, 1940, De Palma broke through with early cult oddities like Greetings (1968) and Hi, Mom! (1970) before Stephen King's Carrie (1976) announced him as a young director who could make suspense sing. The next decade built his reputation as both craftsman and provocateur: Dressed to Kill (1980) lifted whole sequences from Hitchcock, Blow Out (1981) reworked Antonioni's Blowup, and Scarface (1983) — his remake of the 1932 Hawks original — became a cult monument despite its savagery. The Untouchables (1987) and Mission: Impossible (1996) brought him mainstream commercial wins, but…

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