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".

* Royce D. Applegate appears in "Raising Arizona", "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "Intolerable Cruelty"

* Michael Badalucco appears in "Miller's Crossing", "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Man Who Wasn't There".

* Harry Bugin appears in "Barton Fink", "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "The Big Lebowski".

* Carter Burwell has provided music for all the Coens' feature films (credited only for additional music for the bluegrass-themed "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" and "No Country for Old Men".

*Steve Buscemi appears in "Miller's Crossing", "Barton Fink", "The Hudsucker Proxy", "Fargo", "The Big Lebowski", "Paris je t'aime" and the Coen-produced "Romance and Cigarettes". He also appears in the Coen Brothers radio play "Sawbones".

* 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).

* Bruce Campbell appears in "The Hudsucker Proxy", "Intolerable Cruelty" and "The Ladykillers". Footage of Campbell also appears in "Fargo". He is also frequently appears in Sam Raimi's films, including "Crimewave", which was written by the Coens.

* Blake Clark appears in "Intolerable Cruelty" and "The Ladykillers".

* George Clooney appears in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "Intolerable Cruelty" and "Burn After Reading".

* Booth Colman appears in "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Intolerable Cruelty".

* Tricia Cooke was an assistant editor (and later co-editor) on "Miller's Crossing", "Barton Fink", "The Hudsucker Proxy", "Fargo (1996)", "The Big Lebowski", "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Man Who Wasn't There". She is married to Ethan Coen.

* Roger Deakins has been cinematographer on nearly all the Coens' films. He first collaborated with them on "Barton Fink". He served as cinematographer on "The Hudsucker Proxy", "Fargo", "The Big Lebowski", "The Man Who Wasn't There", "Intolerable Cruelty", "The Ladykillers" and "No Country for Old Men".

* Charles Durning appears in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

* James Gandolfini appears in "The Man Who Wasn't There" and the Coen-produced "Romance & Cigarettes".

* John Goodman appears in "Raising Arizona", "Barton Fink", "The Hudsucker Proxy" (as a newsreel announcer, credited under the alias Karl Mundt), "The Big Lebowski", "Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?" and the Coen Brothers radio play "Sawbones".

* Marcia Gay Harden appears in "Miller's Crossing" and the Coen Brothers radio play "Sawbones".

* Philip Seymour Hoffman appears in "The Big Lebowski" and the Coen Brothers radio play "Sawbones".

* Holly Hunter appears in "Blood Simple" (voice only, uncredited), "Raising Arizona" and "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

* George Ivesdn appears in "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Intolerable Cruelty" and also appears as Mortimer Young in the DVD introductions to "Blood Simple" and "The Big Lebowski"

* Richard Jenkins appears in "The Man Who Wasn't There", "Intolerable Cruelty" and "Burn After Reading".

* Warren Keith appears in "Raising Arizona", "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski".

* Peter Kurland has worked in the production sound department of all the Coen Brothers' 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" and "Burn After Reading".

* Jennifer Jason Leigh appears in "The Hudsucker Proxy" and has an uncredited role as the voice of the little person in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"(as a female inmate) in "The Man Who Wasn't There".

* 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" and "No Country for Old Men".

* John Mahoney appears in "Barton Fink" and "The Hudsucker Proxy".

* John McConnell appears in "Miller's Crossing", "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and "The Ladykillers".

* Frances McDormand appears in "Blood Simple", "Raising Arizona", "Miller's Crossing", "Fargo", "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Burn After Reading". 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".

* William Preston Robertson has been a voice actor on "Blood Simple", "Raising Arizona", "Miller's Crossing" and "Barton Fink". He is usually credited with a grand credit like "and the Amazing Voice of William Preston Robertson" ("Raising Arizona").

* Stephen Root appears in "O Brother, Where Art Thou?", "The Ladykillers" and "No Country for Old Men".

* Tony Shalhoub appears in "Barton Fink" and "The Man Who Wasn't There".

*J.K. Simmons appears in "The Ladykillers" and "Burn After Reading".

* Brooke Smith appears in "The Man Who Wasn't There" and the Coen Brothers radio play "Sawbones".

* 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".

* Peter Stormare appears in "Fargo" and "The Big Lebowski". He is also cast in the 2009 project "Hail Caesar".

* Billy Bob Thornton appears in "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Intolerable Cruelty". He also appeared in "Bad Santa", produced by the Coens.

* Mario Todisco appears in "Miller's Crossing" and "The Hudsucker Proxy"

* 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.

* M. Emmet Walsh appears in "Blood Simple" and "Raising Arizona".

* 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?" and "Burn After Reading".

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, and John Turturro.

External links

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