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."

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

• Fríða Aradóttir was hair stylist on Barton Fink and A Serious Man.

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

• Ben Barenholtz was executive producer on 'Miller's Crossing and Barton Fink, and is listed as a presenter in the opening credits of Blood Simple.

• Jean Ann Black worked variously as makeup artist, designer and/or supervisor on Blood Simple, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading and A Serious Man.

• Katherine Borowitz, who is married to frequent Coen actor John Turturro, appears in The Man Who Wasn't There, the Coen-produced Romance & Cigarettes (written and directed by Turturro) and A Serious Man.

• Jeff Bridges appears in The Big Lebowski and True Grit.

• Josh Brolin appears in No Country for Old Men and True Grit.

• 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, No Country for Old Men, Burn After Reading and A Serious Man.

• 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 frequently appears in Sam Raimi's films, including Crimewave, which was written by the Coens.

• Jean Marie Carroll was sound recordist on Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy.

• 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.

• Marko A. Costanzo was foley artist on Barton Fink, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, The Man Who Wasn't There, Intolerable Cruelty, The Ladykillers, A Serious Man and True Grit.

• Tricia Cooke was an assistant editor (and later co-editor) on Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo (film), 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, No Country for Old Men and A Serious Man.

• David Diliberto Assistant Editor, Associate Editor, Post-Production Supervisor and Associate Producer over the course of nine movies. Nicknamed "Big Dave". James Gandolfini's character in The Man Who Wasn't There was named after him.

• 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.

• Dennis Gassner has served as production designer for many of the Coens' films: 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 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.

• 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.

• Rick Heinrichs was production designer on Fargo and The Big Lebowski.

• I.M. Hobson appears in Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy.

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

• Richard Hornung was costume designer for Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy.

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

• Donna Isaacson was casting director for Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy.

• George Ives 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, The Big Lebowski and A Serious Man.

• Olek Krupa appears in Miller's Crossing and Burn After Reading.

• 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 , Burn After Reading and the upcoming True Grit.

• Alma Kutruff was production office coordinator for Blood Simple, and worked as production manager on Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy.

• 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.

• Michael Lerner appears in Barton Fink and A Serious Man.

• 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.

• John S. Lyons was casting director on Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink, The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo and The Big Lebowski.

• John Mahoney appears in Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy.

• Elizabeth Marvel appears in Burn After Reading and will appear in True Grit

• 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.

• Jane Musky was production designer on Blood Simple and Raising Arizona.

• Steve Park appears in Fargo and A Serious Man

• Graham Place was co-producer ofMiller's Crossing, Barton Fink and The Hudsucker Proxy.

• 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.

• Deborah Reinisch was assistant director on Blood Simple and Raising Arizona.

• William Preston Robertson has been a voice actor on Blood Simple, Raising Arizona, Miller's Crossing, Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski. 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.

• Leon Russom appears in The Big Lebowski and True Grit.

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

• Mark Silverman was associate producer on Blood Simple and co-produced Raising Arizona and Miller's Crossing.

• J.K. Simmons appears in The Ladykillers and Burn After Reading. Voices the Ross family lawyer, J. Noble Daggett, in True Grit (not credited).

• 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?, 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, and John Turturro.

Actor	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)	Paris, je t'aime (2006)	No Country For Old Men (2007)	Burn After Reading (2008)	A Serious Man (2009)	True Grit (2010)
Frances McDormand	N	N	N			N			N					N
Steve Buscemi			N	N	N	N	N					N
John Goodman		N		N	N		N	N
Jon Polito			N	N	N		N		N
John Turturro			N	N			N	N
Bruce Campbell					N	N				N	N
Warren Keith		N				N	N								N
Holly Hunter	N	N						N
Michael Badalucco			N					N	N
George Clooney								N		N				N
Stephen Root								N			N		N
Richard Jenkins									N	N				N
J. K. Simmons											N			N		N
M. Emmet Walsh	N	N
John Mahoney				N	N
Tony Shalhoub				N					N
Charles Durning					N			N
Peter Stormare						N	N
Billy Bob Thornton									N	N
Michael Lerner				N											N
Steve Park						N									N
Jeff Bridges							N									N
Josh Brolin													N			N

External links

• Joel Coen at the Internet Movie Database
• Ethan Coen at the Internet Movie Database

Coen brothers 1980s Blood Simple (1984) Raising Arizona (1987) 1990s Miller's Crossing (1990) Barton Fink (1991) The Hudsucker Proxy (1994) Fargo (1996) The Big Lebowski (1998) 2000s 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) 2010s True Grit (2010) Shorts World Cinema (2007) Other films Crimewave (1985) The Naked Man (1998) Down from the Mountain (2000) Bad Santa (2003) Romance & Cigarettes (2006) Suburbicon (2010) Gambit (2012) Collaborators Carter Burwell Roger Deakins List of frequent Coen Brothers collaborators