List of Jews in the performing arts

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Actors / Actresses

See: List of Jewish actors and actresses

Comedians

• Woody Allen, U.S. comedian
• Dave Attell, U.S. comedian
• David Baddiel, British comedian
• Roseanne Barr, U.S. comedienne
• Richard Belzer, U.S. actor and comedian
• Jack Benny, U.S. comedian
• Milton Berle, U.S. comedian
• David Brenner, U.S. comedian
• Mel Brooks, U.S. comedian
• Fanny Brice, U.S. comedienne
• Lewis Black, U.S. comedian
• Lenny Bruce, U.S. satirist
• George Burns, U.S. comedian
• Sid Caesar, U.S. comedian
• Bill Dana, U.S. Comedian
• Andrew "Dice" Clay, U.S. comedian
• David Cross, U.S. actor and comedian
• Billy Crystal, U.S. actor and comedian
• Rodney Dangerfield, U.S. comedian, born Jacob Cohen
• Fran Drescher, U.S. comedienne
• Marty Feldman, British comedian
• Larry Fine, U.S. actor and comedian, Larry of the Three Stooges
• Gilbert Gottfried, U.S. comedian
• Gary Gulman, U.S. standup comedian
• Buddy Hackett, U.S. comedian
• Jerome Howard, U.S. actor and comedian, Curly of the Three Stooges
• Moses Howard, U.S. actor and comedian, Moe of the Three Stooges
• Shmuel Howard, U.S. actor and comedian, Shemp of the Three Stooges
• Sid James, British comedian
• Andy Kaufman, U.S. comedian, actor, performance artist
• Alan King, U.S. Show business personality and comic
• Richard Lewis, U.S. comedian
• Jerry Lewis, U.S. actor and comedian
• Bill Maher, U.S. comedian (Jewish mother)
• Howie Mandel, Canadian comedian
• Chico Marx, U.S. vaudeville and film comic actor
• Groucho Marx, U.S. vaudeville and film comic actor
• Gummo Marx, U.S. vaudeville actor
• Harpo Marx, U.S. vaudeville and film comic actor
• Zeppo Marx, U.S. vaudeville and film comic actor
• Anne Meara, U.S. comedienne and actress (converted)
• Dave Osborne, U.S. comic
• Mandy Patinkin U.S. comic actor
• Kevin Pollak, U.S. actor and comedian
• Gilda Radner, U.S. comedienne
• Tony Randall, U.S. comedian, The Odd Couple
• Carl Reiner, U.S. comedian, writer, actor, director
• Don Rickles, U.S. comic, actor
• Joan Rivers, U.S. comedienne
• Rita Rudner, U.S. comedienne
• John Safran, Australian comedian
• Bob Saget, U.S. comedian, actor
• Mort Sahl, U.S. comedian
• Adam Sandler, U.S. comedian, actor
• Alexei Sayle, UK comedian, actor
• Jerry Seinfeld, U.S. comedian
• Peter Sellers, British actor (Jewish mother)
• Robert Schimmel, U.S. comedian
• Rob Schneider, U.S. comedian (Jewish father)
• Garry Shandling, U.S. comedian, actor
• Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian
• Sarah Silverman, U.S. comedian, actor
• Yakov Smirnov, U.S./Russian comedian
• Jon Stewart, U.S. comedian (born Jonathan Stuart Leibowitz)
• Jerry Stiller, U.S. radio comic, actor
• Soupy Sales, U.S. comedian
• Raymond Teller, U.S. comedian, magician, part of Penn and Teller duo (Jewish father)

Film and stage directors

• Jim Abrahams parody director
• Chantal Akerman, Belgian director and screen writer
• Ramzi Abed, U.S. director (Jewish mother)
• Alexandre Arcady, French director
• Darren Aronofsky, U.S. director
• Claude Berri, French director
• Peter Bogdanovich, U.S. director (Jewish mother)
• Mel Brooks, U.S. director
• Ethan Coen and Joel Coen, U.S. writer-producer-director team
• Nina Companeez, director; daughter of Jacques Companeez
• David Cronenberg, Canadian director
• George Cukor. U.S. director
• Jules Dassin, American director
• Cecil B. DeMille, American director (Jewish mother)
• Sergei Eisenstein, Soviet director (Jewish father)
• Aleksander Ford, Polish director
• Milos Forman, Czech-born U.S. director (Jewish father)
• John Frankenheimer, U.S. director (Jewish father)
• William Friedkin, U.S. director
• Samuel Fuller, U.S. director and screenwriter
• Bruce Geller, director, producer, screenwriter
• Roger Hanin, French actor and director
• Aleksander Hertz, Polish director and film pioneer
• Arthur Hiller, U.S. director
• Henry Jaglom, U.S. director
• Wanda Jakubowska, Polish director
• Spike Jonze, U.S. director (Jewish father)
• Lloyd Kaufman, U.S. director
• Harmony Korine, U.S. director, screenwriter (Jewish father)
• Henry Koster, German-born U.S. director
• Stanley Kramer, U.S. director
• Stanley Kubrick, U.S. director
• Diane Kurys, French director
• John Landis, U.S. director
• Fritz Lang, German director (Jewish mother)
• Mimi Leder, U.S. director
• Claude Lelouch, French director
• Barry Levinson, U.S. director
• Anatole Litvak, Russian-born French director
• Ernst Lubitsch,Europe-U.S. director
• Sidney Lumet, U.S. director
• Branko Lustig, U.S.-Croatian film director
• Paul Mazursky, U.S. director
• Jean-Pierre Melville, French director
• Sam Mendes, British director (Jewish mother)
• Lewis Milestone, Russian-born U.S. director
• Mike Nichols, German-born U.S. director
• Gérard Oury, French director
• Leo Penn, U.S. director and actor, father of actor Sean Penn
• Roman Polański, Polish/French director, screenwriter, producer and actor (Jewish father; Roman-Catholic mother of half Jewish descent)
• Sydney Pollack, U.S. director
• Abraham Polonsky, U.S. director
• Otto Preminger, Austrian-born U.S. director
• Emeric Pressburger, Hungarian-born British director
• Sam Raimi, U.S. director
• Carl Reiner, director and actor; father of Rob Reiner
• Rob Reiner, U.S. director
• Ivan Reitman, Czech-born Canadian director
• Albert S. Ruddy, Canadian director
• John Schlesinger, British director
• Joel Schumacher, U.S. director
• Susan Seidelman, U.S. director
• Joan Micklin Silver, U.S. director
• Barry Sonnenfeld, U.S. director
• Steven Spielberg, U.S. director
• Mauritz Stiller, Swedish film director
• Oliver Stone, U.S. director (Jewish father)
• François Truffaut, French director (Jewish biological father)
• Edgar G. Ulmer, German-born U.S. director
• Dziga Vertov, Soviet director
• Billy Wilder, Austrian-born U.S. director
• Michael Winner, British director
• William Wyler, French-born U.S. director
• Robert Zemeckis, U.S. director
• Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born U.S. director
• David Zucker & Jerry Zucker, U.S. parody directors

Motion picture production

• Jerry Bruckheimer, film producer
• Harry Cohn, film producer
• Michael Eisner (Paramount Pictures; Disney Studios)
• Robert Evans (Paramount Pictures)
• William Fox (Fox Film Corporation; 20th Century-Fox)
• David Geffen (Warner Brothers; DreamWorks SKG)
• William Goetz, president of Universal Studios
• Samuel Goldwyn, (the "G" in MGM)
• Edith Head, costume designer
• Jeffrey Katzenberg (Paramount Pictures; DreamWorks SKG)
• Leonard Katzman, television producer
• Sam Katzman, film producer
• Carl Laemmle (Universal Pictures)
• Carl Laemmle Jr (Universal Studios)
• Jesse L. Lasky (Famous Players-Lasky)
• Marcus Loew (MGM)
• Siegmund Lubin (Lubin Studios)
• Louis B. Mayer, (the "M" of MGM)
• Joe Pasternak, film producer
• Joseph Schenck (20th Century Pictures)
• Steven Spielberg (DreamWorks SKG)
• Irving Thalberg "the Last Tycoon"
• Mike Todd, film producer
• Jack Warner (Warner Brothers)
• Lew Wasserman (Universal Studios)
• Bob Weinstein (Miramax)
• Harvey Weinstein (Miramax)
• Saul Zaentz, film producer
• Adolph Zukor (Paramount Pictures)

Musicians

See: List of Jewish musicians

Dancers, Choreographers

• Paula Abdul, dancer choreographer singer (one Jewish parent)
• Eliot Feld, leading Amer. Dancer and choreographer
• Ron Field, director choreographer dancer
• Anna Halprin,
• Lincoln Kirstein, arts patron dance impresario
• Bella Lewitzky, dancer choreographer teacher
• Alicia Markova, English prima balerina
• Asaf Messerer, uncle of Plisetskaya choreographer and dancer
• Shulamit Messerer, prima balerina with the Bolshoi 1926-49
• Meredith Monk, dancer
• Arthur Murray, teacher dance instructor
• Valery Panov, dancer choreographer
• Maya Plisetskaya, Soviet dancer prima balerina in Bolshoi Theatre
• Ron Protas, inheritor of Martha Graham
• Jerome Robbins, choreographer
• Batsheva de Rotschild, founder of Bat Dor in Israel
• Anna Sokolow, dancer choreographer

Illusionists

• David Blaine, U.S. illusionist (Jewish mother)
• David Copperfield, U.S. illusionist
• Uri Geller, Israeli spoon bending magician
• Harry Houdini, U.S. illusionist
• Ricky Jay, U.S. magician
• Kio, real family name Renard, Russian-Soviet illusionist family: Emil Teodorovich (1894-1965), and his son Igor Emilevich[1] (born March 13th, 1944)