Poll: Directors playing major roles in other directors’ films

A poll by DoctorBuster

Results of 934 votes:

  1. 219

    Orson Welles in The Third Man (1949)

  2. 150

    George Clooney, Salma Hayek, and Quentin Tarantino in From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

  3. 107

    Jack Nicholson and John Huston in Chinatown (1974)

  4. 100

    Eli Roth in Inglourious Basterds (2009)

  5. 73

    Victor Sjöström in Wild Strawberries (1957)

  6. 57

    #11

  7. 55

    François Truffaut in Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

  8. 37

    Werner Herzog in Jack Reacher (2012)

  9. 33

    Martin Scorsese in Dreams (1990)

  10. 30

    Cecil B. DeMille and Gloria Swanson in Sunset Blvd. (1950)

  11. 25

    "Stalag 17" William Holden and Otto Preminger 1953 Paramount / MPTV

  12. 23

    David Cronenberg and Craig Sheffer in Nightbreed (1990)

  13. 19

    Fritz Lang in Contempt (1963)

  14. 6

    John Waters in Seed of Chucky (2004)

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