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."
- 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 has appeared in the films Miller's Crossing, The Hudsucker Proxy, Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and Paris, je t'aime'.
- Bruce Campbell has appeared in the films The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo, Intolerable Cruelty and The Ladykillers.
- 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).
- 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, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, No Country for Old Men, A Serious Man, True Grit and Hail, Caesar!
- David Diliberto Assistant Editor, Associate Editor, Post-Production Supervisor and Associate Producer over the course of nine movies.
- 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?, Inside Llewyn Davis 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Frances McDormand appears in Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Fargo, The Man Who Wasn't There, Burn After Reading and Hail, Caesar!. She also appears in the Coen-written Crimewave. She is married to Joel Coen.
- 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.
- Producer Scott Rudin worked with the Coen Brothers in No Country for Old Men, for which it won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Rudin has also co-produced with the Coens True Grit and Inside Llewyn Davis.
- 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".
- 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.
- 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.
Recurring cast members
Joel and Ethan often cast certain actors more than once in their films. The Coens have most frequently worked with Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, John Goodman, Jon Polito, John Turturro and George Clooney.
Recurring crew members
| Person | Blood Simple (1984) | Raising Arizona (1987) | Miller's Crossing (1990) | Barton Fink (1991) | The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) | Fargo (1996) | The Big Lebowski (1998) | O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) | The Man Who Wasn't There (2001) | Intolerable Cruelty (2003) | The Ladykillers (2004) | No Country for Old Men (2007) | Burn After Reading (2008) | A Serious Man (2009) | True Grit (2010) | Inside Llewyn Davis (2013) | Hail, Caesar! (2016)' | The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) |
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| Skip Lievsay |  | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Peter Kurland | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| Carter Burwell | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ||
| Tom Johnston | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ||||
| Roger Deakins | | | | | | | | | | | | | ||||||
| Mary Zophres | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ||||
| Betsy Magruder | | | | | | | | | | | | |||||||
External links
- Joel Coen on IMDb
- Ethan Coen on IMDb
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