The Mentor Hall of Fame Actors, Comedians, Producers and Directors, Moguls (Stage, Screen and TV)

Virtually anyone can benefit from having a mentor. And most well-known, accomplished and successful people can identify people in their lives who acted as mentors. The following list of mentor pairs was compiled by Rey Carr from a variety of sources including autobiographies, biographies, newspaper articles, personal interviews, and diligent historical research. If you know of mentor pairs that ought to be added, we have provided an opportunity for you to submit the names and details: Add a Mentor Pair.

ACTORS, COMEDIANS, ENTERTAINERS, PERFORMERS, PRODUCERS, DIRECTORS, MOGULS (MOVIES AND TV)

Jack Lemmon, Jason Robards, Robert Carrelli (Chatsworth High drama teacher), John Graham Spacey (uncle) mentors to Kevin Spacey Frank Shuster (comedian) mentor to Lorne Michaels (executive producer, SNL) Uta Hagen mentor to Jack Lemmon Barbara Stanwick mentor to Linda Evans Gary David Goldberg mentor to Michael J. Fox Jay Sliverheels (Canadian and Mohawk actor) mentor to Micheal Horse (aboriginal actor) Carroll O'Connor mentor to Larry Hagman Robert Altman mentor to Tim Robbins, Tom Skerritt, Alan Rudolph Charlie Feldman mentor to Warren Beatty Warren Beatty mentor to Diane Keaton Bob Fosse mentor to Melanie Griffith Mel Gibson mentor to Heath Ledger Tom Sharpin mentor to Russell Crowe Madonna mentor to Gwyneth Paltrow Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle mentor to Buster Keaton Buster Keaton and Red Skelton mentors to Lucille Ball Lucille Ball mentor to Carole Cook Gilda Radner mentor to Catherine O'Hara The population of Mentor, Wisconsin in 2006 was 586 Rob Reiner mentor to John Cusack Beau Bridges mentor to Jeff Bridges Michael Landon and Patty Duke Astin mentors to Melissa Gilbert John Wayne mentor to James Arness Philip Burton (schoolteacher) mentor to Richard Burton Marion Ross mentor to Henry Winkler Jonathan Winters mentor to Robin Williams Lee Strasberg mentor to Ellen Burstyn, Martin Landau, Steve McQueen Ann Jillian mentored by her mother, Margaret Susan Lucci (Erica Kane on "All My Children">)mentored by Ruth Warrick (Phoebe Tyler Wallingford on "All My Children" Bio) Martin Sheen mentored by Rev. Alfred Drapp (teacher at Holy Trinity School) John Houseman mentor to Rene Auberjonois Roman Polanski mentor to Nastassja Kinski Joe Weider mentor to Arnold Schwarzenegger Ingmar Bergman mentor to Woody Allen James Dean mentor to Dennis Hopper Gene Kelly mentor to Carol Haney Joanne Woodward mentor to Dylan McDermott and Allison Janney Elia Kazan mentor to Rod Steiger David Mamet (screenwriter, director) mentor to William Macy Louis B. Mayer (creator of MGM Studios) mentor to Irving Thalberg (producer) Darryl Zanuck (former head 20th Century Fox studios) mentor to Robert Evans (actor, former head of Paramount Studios, autobiography: The Kid Stays in the Picture) Mauritz Stiller (movie maker) mentor to Greta Garbo Richard Burton mentor to Sir Anthony Hopkins Donald Crouch (literature professor) mentor to James Earl Jones Lawrence Tierney mentor to Scott Brady John Houseman (director) mentor to René Auberjonois (actor) and Kevin Kline George Cukor (director) mentor to Ruth Hussey (actress) who said the most important advice she learned from her mentor was "Keep your emotions near the surface so that you can call on them when you need to." Sir Derek Jacobi (actor) mentor to Kenneth Branagh (actor, director, producer) Sir John Gielgud mentor to Sir Alec Guiness Sir Alec Guinness (British actor) mentor to Timothy Findley (Canadian novelist, Bio) Alfred Lunt (actor) mentor to Montgomery Clift Spencer Tracy mentor to Robert Stack (actor and national skeet shooting champion) and Elizabeth Taylor Audrey Hepburn mentor to Elizabeth Taylor Mentor Williams is an actor and composer Adam Farrar mentor to Leonardo DiCaprio Anne Jackson (actress) mentored by her sister, Katherine Bill Cosby mentor to Sinbad Milton Berle mentor to Don Rickles and Alan King Sid Caesar mentor to Neil Simon Stanley Sander mentor to Adam Sandler Larrry Harmon (TV-producer) mentor to Bozo the Clown Jules Stein (former chairman of MCA) and Lew Wasserman mentors to Brian Grazer (Academy Award winning producer) told him, "All you really own are the ideas adn the confidence to write them down." Johnny Carson mentor to Garry Shandling and Jay Leno Del Close (actor, comic) mentor to Bill Murray, John Candy, Mike Meyers, and John Belushi Peter Lassally (TV-producer) mentor to David Letterman David Letterman mentor to Rob Burnett (producer) Robinson Stone (acting teacher) mentor to Denzel Washington Sue Carol (actor and agent) mentor to Alan Ladd (actor) Stella Adler (acting coach) mentor to Marlon Brando and Robert De Niro John Ford (motion picture director) mentor to John Wayne and Budd Boetticher (director) Joel Schumacher (director) mentor to Colin Farrell (actor) Constantin Costa-Garvas (director) mentor to Peter Kassovitz Erwin Piscator mentor to Walter Matthau Mentor Headlands State Beach Park is on Lake Erie near Cleveland Cecil Pickett (drama coach) mentor to Brent Spiner (actor and Data on Star Trek: The Next Generation) Elizabeth Sterling Haynes (drama and education visionary, Bio) mentor to Leona Paterson (pioneer in speech arts, actress, Canadian professor) Herbert Brodkin (TV producer) mentor to William Shatner (Canadian actor) ->When an optimist is asked to think of a Canadian actor, they typically reply: "Christopher Plummer." When a pessimist is asked the same question, they typically reply: "William Shatner." Mentor Kaçi is a Yugoslavian film editor Robin Phillips mentor to Albert Hamilton Schultz (Canadian actor and artisitic director) Len Cariou (Canadian actor) played Alexander Graham Bell in the Canadian TV series, Mentors David Walker (TV producer) mentor to Ian Morrison (Friends of Canadian Broadcasting) Aaron Spelling (TV producer) mentor to Darren Star (producer) Lorne Michaels (TV producer) mentor to Conan O'Brien (TV talk show host) Rex Ingram (director) mentor to Michael Powell (director) Ernst Lubitsch mentor to Billy Wilder James L. Brooks (writer, director) and Billy Wilder mentors to Cameron Crowe (writer, director) John Cassavetes, Michael Powell, Jacques Ledoux and Billy Wilder mentors to Martin Scorsese Martin Scorsese (writer-director) mentor to Katherine Lindberg (writer-director) Ramon Mentor worked as a sound technician for the movie, Inside Francois Truffaut (writer-director) mentor to Claude Miller (writer-director) Milos Foreman (director) mentor to Michael Weller (playwright) Peter Bogdanovich (filmaker) mentor to Cybill Shepherd John Barrymore mentor to John Carradine Pauline Kael (film critic) mentor to Paul Schrader (actor, director, writer) Jean Cocteau (French writer-director) mentor to Jean Marais (French actor) Roger Corman (director) mentor to Joe Dante (director) Emile de Antonio (independent filmmaker) mentor to Ron Mann (independent and documentary filmmaker) Don Siegel (film director) and Segio Leone (film director) mentors to Clint Eastwood Graeme Ferguson (co-inventor of Imax) mentor to Toni Myers (Canadian writer/director) Martin Ritt (film director) mentor to John Alonzo (cameraman) Stanley Kubrick mentor to Steven Spielberg, Baz Luhrman, and Tom Cruise Francois Truffaut (director) mentor to David Newman and Robert Benton (screenwriters) Pedro Almodovar (director) mentor to Cecila Roth Steve Ross mentor to Steven Spielberg Steven Spielberg (motion picture director) mentor to Robert Zemeckis (motion picture director) His father, Francis Ford Coppola (motion picture director, vineyard developer), and Joseph Campbell are mentors to George Lucas (motion picture director) Chang Cheh (Chinese filmmaker) mentor to John Woo (Yusen Wu) (filmmaker) David Cronenberg (motion picture director) mentor to Atom Egoyan (motion picture director) Francois Truffaut mentor to Claude Miller (director) Guy Maddin (Canadian film maker) mentor to Noam Gonick (Canadian film maker) D.W. Griffith mentor to Lillian Gish (Bio) Alf Sjoberg (Swedish filmmaker) mentor to Ingmar Bergman (film director) John Sayles (producer, director) mentor to Karyn Kusama (director) James T. Aubrey (former president of CBS-TV) mentor to Keefe Brasselle (actor) Michael Ovitz mentor to Jay Moloney (late Hollywood superagent) Barry Diller mentor to Edgar Bronfman and Michael Eisner Michael Eisner mentor to Jeffrey Katzenberg (DreamWorks co-founder) William Cameron Menzies (set designer) mentor to Richard Sylbert (Oscar-winning set designer)< Mentor Karate for Kids is in Painesville, Ohio on Mentor Avenue Frank Loesser (composer of broadway shows such as Guys and Dolls and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying among others) mentor to Stanley (Stan) Edwin Daniels (Canadian screenwriter who wrote TV-shows such as The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Taxi among others) Mentor C. Huebner was a storyboard artist and illustrator for motion pictures and an artist. His father, son and grandson are all named Mentor. Maurice Noble (cartoonist creator of Daffy Duck and Bugs Bunny) mentor to Don Hall (Disney artist) Harry Williams (circus owner and performer) mentor to Gunther Gebel-Williams (animal trainer and performer) William Leonard Hunt (The Great Farini - Canadian high wire walker, botanist, painter, inventor of the parachute) mentor to Lulu (trapeze artist)