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| x Joshua John Miller | The Mao Game |
Joshua John Miller (born December 26, 1974) is an American actor, screenwriter, novelist, and filmmaker.
Miller was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of Irish-American actor and playwright Jason Miller (best know for his role as Father Damien...
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| x Gregory Poirier | Gossip |
Gregory Stephen Poirier (born 19 May 1961) is an American screenwriter, director, and producer.
Poirier was born in Kula, Maui, Hawaii. He attended the Maui Academy of Performing Arts. Poirier wrote the John Singleton film Rosewood, for which he won...
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| x Chris Morris |
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My Wrongs 8245 - 8249 and 117 |
Christopher Morris (born 5 September 1965 in Bristol) is an English comedian, writer, director, actor and former radio DJ.
Morris began his career in radio before moving into television. He found fame in the nineties fronting the spoof current...
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| x H. G. Wells |
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War of the Worlds |
Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English author, best known for his work in the science fiction genre. He was also a prolific writer in many genres, including contemporary novels, history, politics and social...
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| x Peter Hedges |
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
Peter Hedges (born July 6, 1962) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director.
Hedges grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa, and attended Valley High School, where he was involved in the theater department, including the improv group and the...
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| x Raymond Chandler |
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The Falcon Takes Over |
Raymond Thornton Chandler (July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959) was an Anglo-American novelist and screenwriter who had an immense stylistic influence upon the modern private detective story, especially in the style of the writing and the attitudes now...
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| x Patricia Highsmith |
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Strangers on a Train |
Patricia Highsmith (January 19, 1921 - February 4, 1995) was an American novelist and short-story writer most widely known for her psychological thrillers, which have led to more than two dozen film adaptations. Her first novel, Strangers on a Train...
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| x Rachel Field | And Now Tomorrow |
Rachel Lyman Field (September 19, 1894 – March 15, 1942) was an American novelist, poet, and author of children's fiction. She is best known for her Newbery Medal–winning novel for young adults, Hitty, Her First Hundred Years, published in 1929....
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| x Ethel Lina White | The Unseen |
Ethel Lina White (1876-1944) was a British crime writer, best known for her novel, The Wheel Spins (1936), on which the Alfred Hitchcock film, The Lady Vanishes (1938), was based.
Born in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire in 1876, White started writing as...
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| x John le Carré |
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The Looking-Glass War |
John le Carré is the pseudonym of David John Moore Cornwell, a British author of espionage novels. During the 1950s and the 1960s, Cornwell worked for MI5 and MI6, before leaving to work as a writer upon the success of The Spy Who Came In from the...
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| x Philip K. Dick |
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A Scanner Darkly |
Philip Kindred Dick (December 16, 1928 – March 2, 1982) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist whose published work during his lifetime was almost entirely in the science fiction genre. Dick explored sociological, political and...
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| x Frank Herbert |
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Dune |
Franklin Patrick Herbert, Jr. (October 8, 1920 – February 11, 1986) was a critically acclaimed and commercially successful American science fiction author. Although a short story author, he is best known for his novels, most notably Dune and its...
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| x Ron Harvey | Fist of Fear, Touch of Death | ||
| x Anton Chekhov |
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Vanya on 42nd Street |
Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (Russian: Антон Павлович Чехов, pronounced [ɐnˈton ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕɛxəf]; 29 January [O.S. 17 January] 1860 – 15 July [O.S. 2 July] 1904) was a Russian short-story writer, playwright and physician, considered to be one of the...
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| x Lewis Padgett | The Last Mimzy |
Lewis Padgett was the joint pseudonym of the science fiction authors and spouses Henry Kuttner and C. L. Moore, taken from their mothers' maiden names. They also used the pseudonyms Lawrence O'Donnell and C. H. Liddell, as well as collaborating...
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| x Tadhg O'Higgins |
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How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate | |
| x Graham Jones |
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How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate |
Graham Jones (born 25 November 1973) is an Irish writer, film director and painter.
His first book Talking Pictures was published by the British Film Institute in 1996 and his first novel Traveller Wedding published electronically in 2009.
In 1997...
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| x L. Ron Hubbard |
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Battlefield Earth |
Lafayette Ronald Hubbard (March 13, 1911 – January 24, 1986) was an American science fiction author who developed a self-help system called Dianetics, which was first published in 1950. Over the next three decades, Hubbard developed his self-help...
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| x Denys Arcand |
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Jesus of Montreal |
Georges-Henri Denys Arcand, CC, CQ (June 25, 1941) is an Academy Award-winning Canadian film director, screenwriter and producer.
Arcand was born in Deschambault, Quebec, Canada. He grew up in a devoutly Roman Catholic home in a village about 25...
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| x Ethan Coen |
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Ethan Coen is a film director and film writer.
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| x Richard O'Brien |
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The Rocky Horror Picture Show |
Richard Timothy Smith (born 25 March 1942) better known under his stage name Richard O'Brien, is an English writer, actor, television presenter and theatre performer. He is perhaps best known for writing the cult musical The Rocky Horror Show and...
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| x Stephen King |
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The Mist |
Stephen Edwin King (born September 21, 1947) is an American writer of contemporary horror and suspense fiction; he has also written sci-fi and fantasy novels. More than 350 million copies of King's novels and short story collections have been sold,...
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| x Jonathan Nolan |
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Memento |
Jonathan "Jonah" Nolan (born 1976) is an Academy Award-nominated author who was born in London and raised in the Chicago area. His most famous work is the short story "Memento Mori", which was used by his brother, director Christopher Nolan, as the...
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| x Bram Stoker |
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Dracula |
Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula. During his lifetime, he was better known as the personal assistant of actor Henry Irving and...
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| Shadow Builder | |||
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| x Hamilton Deane | Dracula | ||
| x Irene Mecchi | The Lion King |
Irene Mecchi is an American writer for television, movies, newspapers, and Broadway. Originally from San Francisco, she started her work with Disney in March 1992, when she wrote Recycle Rex, an animated short film which won the 1994 Environmental...
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| x Jonathan Roberts | The Lion King |
Jonathan Roberts (born 1956 Boston, Massachusetts) is an American author, screenwriter, and television producer. His credits as a writer include The Lion King, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jack Frost and Monsters, Inc.
He is a native of Boston,...
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| x Srdjan Dragojevic | Rane | ||
| x Doron Nesher | Late Summer Blues | ||
| x William F. Nolan |
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Logan's Run |
William Francis Nolan (born March 6, 1928) is an American author, who is best known for writing stories in the science fiction, fantasy and horror genres. He is best known for coauthoring the novel Logan's Run, with George Clayton Johnson. He co...
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| x George Clayton Johnson |
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Logan's Run |
George Clayton Johnson (born July 10, 1929 in Cheyenne, Wyoming) is a science fiction writer most famous for co-writing the novel Logan's Run with William F. Nolan (basis for the 1976 film). He is also known for his work in television, writing...
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| x George Lucas |
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Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope |
George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film producer, screenwriter, director and founder/chairman of Lucasfilm Ltd. He is best known for being the creator of the epic sci-fi franchise Star Wars and joint creator of the...
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| x Angela Pell | Snow Cake | ||
| x Silvia Ballestra |
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La guerra degli Antò | |
| x Anthony Burgess |
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A Clockwork Orange |
John Burgess Wilson (pseudonym Anthony Burgess) (25 February 1917 – 22 November 1993) was an English author, poet, playwright, composer, linguist, translator and critic.
His dystopian satire A Clockwork Orange, is by far his most famous novel, and...
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| x Milcho Manchevski | Pred doždot | ||
| x Robert Altman |
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3 Women |
Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his...
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| x Tim Kring |
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Richard Timothy "Tim" Kring (born July 9, 1957) is an American screenwriter and television producer, best known for his creation of the telelvision series Strange World, Crossing Jordan, and Heroes.
He graduated from the University of Southern...
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| x J. K. Rowling |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
Joanne "Jo" Murray, OBE (née Rowling; born 31 July 1965), better known under the pen name J. K. Rowling (pronounced /ˈroʊlɪŋ/, ROH-ling), is a British author best known as the creator of the Harry Potter fantasy series, the idea for which was...
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| Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince | |||
| Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix | |||
| Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows | |||
| x Louisa May Alcott |
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Little Women |
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) was an American novelist. She is best known for the novel Little Women, set in the Alcott family home, Orchard House in Concord, Massachusetts and published in 1868. This novel is loosely based...
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| x Tommy Wiseau |
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The Room |
Tommy Wiseau (born October 3, 1968, but this date is in dispute) is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and actor. He is the founder of the film production company Wiseau Films. Wiseau is best known for his cult film The Room, but is also...
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| x Alain Chabat | La Cité de la peur | ||
| x Chantal Lauby | La Cité de la peur | ||
| x Dominique Farrugia | La Cité de la peur | ||
| x Gary K. Wolf | Who Framed Roger Rabbit | ||
| x Susan Cooper | The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising |
Susan Mary Cooper (born 23 May 1935) is a British author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume fantasy saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology (Arthurian and folkloric...
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| x Simon Birrell | El Último Deseo | ||
| x Hagar Wilde | Bringing up Baby |
Hagar Wilde (July 7, 1905 – September 25, 1971) was a writer for Hollywood films and television shows in the late thirties till the late fifties. Her work includes co-writing the screenplay for Bringing Up Baby (for which she had also written the...
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| x John L. Balderston |
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Dracula |
John L. Balderston (October 22, 1889 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - March 8, 1954 Los Angeles, California) was an American playwright and screenwriter best known for his horror and fantasy scripts.
Balderston began his career as a journalist. He...
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| x Victoria Foyt |
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BabyFever | |
| Going Shopping | |||
| x Tom Tykwer |
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Run Lola Run |
Tom Tykwer (born 23 May 1965) is a German film director, screenwriter and composer. He is best known internationally for directing Run Lola Run (1998), Heaven (2002), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006) and The International (2009).
Tykwer was...
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| x Kim Ji-Woon |
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A Tale of Two Sisters |
Kim Ji-woon (born May 27, 1964) is a South Korean filmmaker and screenwriter. Kim Ji-woon has an impressive history of successfully tackling a wide range of film genres and universal, garnering a cult following among Asian films fans all over the...
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| x Ian La Frenais | Across the Universe |
Ian La Frenais, OBE, (born 7 January 1937), is in partnership with Dick Clement, one of the most influential television writers in Britain. Their fame rests primarily on four series, The Likely Lads, Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge...
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| x Dick Clement | Across the Universe |
Dick Clement, OBE (born 5 September 1937) is an English writer.
Born in Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, England, Clement is, in partnership with Ian La Frenais, one of the most successful television writers in Britain.
Generally, Clement and La Frenais...
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| x Julie Taymor |
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Across the Universe |
Julie Taymor (born December 15, 1952) is an American director of theater, opera and film. Taymor's work has received many accolades from critics, and she has earned two Tony Awards out of four nominations, the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding...
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| x Albert Leon | Feel the Noise | ||
| x Mario Puzo |
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The Godfather |
Mario Gianluigi Puzo (October 15, 1920 – July 2, 1999) was a two time Academy Award-winning Italian American author and screenwriter, known for his novels about the Mafia, especially The Godfather (1969), which he later co-adapted into a film with...
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| x Seth Rogen |
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Superbad |
Seth Rogen (born April 15, 1982) is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and film producer. Rogen began his career doing stand-up comedy for four years during his teens, coming in second place in the Vancouver Amateur Comedy Contest when he was...
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| x Evan Goldberg | Superbad |
Evan Goldberg (born 1982) is a Canadian comedy television and film writer and producer from Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Goldberg attended Point Grey Secondary School in Vancouver, British Columbia and then McGill University in Montreal,...
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| x George Bernard Shaw |
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My Fair Lady |
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright. Although his first profitable writing was music and literary criticism, in which capacity he wrote many highly articulate pieces of journalism, his main talent was for...
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