begetter

After all, some of them have undoubtedly outclassed their begetters.

In his later years, however, Capra cast himself as the sole begetter of any film he had directed.

I don’t mean simply that the character Mr. Hawke plays — an initially enigmatic, eventually pathetic, finally endearing musician named Tucker Crowe — is the begetter of a begetter.

Yeah, I’m aware that Code is put on by Recode, a Verge sibling under the great Vox Media begetter.

In Boris Johnson's biography, he promotes the more liberal side of Churchill as the "begetter of some of the most progressive legislation for 200 years".