HSU Adjunct and Honorary Professors

Charlie Chaplin, 1925, actor, director, producer, screenwriter

Orson Wells, 1941, actor, director, producer, screenwriter

DW Griffith, 1924, director, producer, screenwriter

Irving Thalberg, 1931, production executive

Anita Loos, 1932, screenwriter, playwright

Katherine Hepburn, 1938, actress

Ben Hecht, 1942, director, producer, screenwriter, playwright

Edith Head, 1949, costume designer

Gary Cooper, 1952, actor

Billy Wilder, 1955, director, screenwriter

Lucille Ball, 1959, actress, producer

Sam Peckinpah, 1965, director, screenwriter

Francis Ford Coppola, 1974, director, producer, screenwriter

Martin Scorsese, 1981, director, producer, screenwriter

Woody Allen, 1988, director, producer, actor, screenwriter

Michael Ovitz, 1994, agent

George Lucas, 1994, director, producer, screenwriter

Oliver Stone, 1997, director, producer, screenwriter

Meryl Streep, 2000, producer, actress

Tom Hanks, 2004, director, producer, actor, screenwriter

Steven Spielberg, 2005, director, producer, screenwriter

James Cameron, 2009, director, producer, screenwriter

Robert Downey Jr., 2012 director, producer, actor

George Clooney, 2018, director, producer, actor, screenwriter