One film director is Ron Cobb.
Alien is a 1979 British-American science-fiction horror film directed by Ridley Scott , and starring Sigourney Weaver , Tom Skerritt , Veronica Cartwright , Harry Dean Stanton , John Hurt , Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto . Ron Cobb ( born 1937 ) is an American cartoonist , artist , writer , film designer , and film director .