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| x Gary Lennon | .45 | ||
| x Pamela Pettler | Corpse Bride |
Pamela Pettler is a film writer.
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| x Blake Edwards | 10 |
Blake Edwards (July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, screenwriter and producer.
Edwards' career began in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon turned to writing radio scripts at Columbia Pictures. He used his writing skills...
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| A Fine Mess | |||
| A Shot in the Dark | |||
| Bring Your Smile Along | |||
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| x Kankuro Kudo | 69 |
Kankurō Kudō (宮藤官九郎; born 19 July 1970) is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company Otona Keikaku. He won the 'Best Screenplay' award at the 2002 Japanese Academy Awards for Go, which explores problems...
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| Dragon Princess | |||
| Drugstore girl | |||
| Ping Pong | |||
| Yaji and Kita: The Midnight Pilgrims | |||
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| x Depeche Mode |
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101 |
Depeche Mode ( /dɨˈpɛʃ/ də-PESH) are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981), Andy...
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| Devotional | |||
| One Night in Paris | |||
| Some Great Videos | |||
| Strange | |||
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| x Frank Miller |
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RoboCop 2 |
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American comic book artist, writer and film director best known for his dark, film noir-style comic book stories and graphic novels Ronin, Daredevil: Born Again, Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Sin City...
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| RoboCop 3 | |||
| The Spirit | |||
| x Zack Snyder |
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300 |
Zachary Edward "Zack" Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American actor, film director, screenwriter, and producer, best known for action/science fiction films. After making his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead, he gained wide...
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| Sucker Punch | |||
| x Kurt Johnstad | 300 |
Kurt Johnstad is a film writer.
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| Act of Valor | |||
| Man of Steel | |||
| x Franco Arcalli | 1900 | ||
| Last Tango in Paris | |||
| Once Upon a Time in America | |||
| x Bernardo Bertolucci | 1900 |
Bernardo Bertolucci (Italian pronunciation: [berˈnardo bertoˈluttʃi]; born March 16, 1941) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, whose films include The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, 1900, The Last Emperor, The Sheltering Sky and The...
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| La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo | |||
| Last Tango in Paris | |||
| The Last Emperor | |||
| The Triumph of Love | |||
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| x Giuseppe Bertolucci | 1900 | ||
| x Robert Zemeckis |
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1941 |
Robert Lee Zemeckis (born May 14, 1951) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future film series, as well as the Academy...
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| Back to the Future | |||
| Back to the Future Part II | |||
| Back to the Future Part III | |||
| I Wanna Hold Your Hand | |||
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| x Bob Gale | 1941 |
Michael Robert "Bob" Gale (born May 21, 1951) is an American screenwriter who co-wrote the science fiction film Back to the Future with writing partner Robert Zemeckis, and the screenplays for the film's two sequels. Gale also co-produced all three...
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| Back to the Future | |||
| Back to the Future Part II | |||
| Back to the Future Part III | |||
| I Wanna Hold Your Hand | |||
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| x Ernest Thompson |
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1969 |
Ernest Thompson (born Richard Ernest Thompson; November 6, 1949) is an American writer, actor, and director.
Thompson was born as Richard Ernest Thompson in Bellows Falls, Vermont. He spent his early years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine,...
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| The West Side Waltz | |||
| On Golden Pond | |||
| x Michael Radford |
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1984 |
Michael Radford (born 24 February 1946) is an English film director and screenwriter.
Radford was born on 24 February 1946, in New Delhi, India, to a British father and an Austrian Jewish mother. He was educated at Bedford School before attending...
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| White Mischief | |||
| The Merchant of Venice | |||
| Il Postino | |||
| Michel Petrucciani | |||
| x George Orwell |
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Animal Farm |
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), better known by his psuedonym George Orwell, was an English author. His work is marked by a profound conscientiousness of social injustice, an intense dislike of totalitarianism,...
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| x Wong Kar-wai |
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2046 |
Wong Kar-wai BBS (born 17 July 1958) is a Hong Kong Second Wave filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylised, emotionally resonant work, including Days of Being Wild (1990), Ashes of Time (1994),...
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| As Tears Go By | |||
| Ashes of Time | |||
| Chungking Express | |||
| Days of Being Wild | |||
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| x Lorne Michaels |
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¡Three Amigos! |
Lorne Michaels, CM (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American television producer, writer, and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it.
Michaels was...
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| x Steve Martin |
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¡Three Amigos! |
Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, author, playwright, producer, musician and composer. Martin came to public notice as a writer for the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, and later became a frequent...
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| A Simple Twist of Fate | |||
| Bowfinger | |||
| Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid | |||
| L.A. Story | |||
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| x Luis Mandoki | Voces inocentes |
Luis Mandoki (born in 1954 in Mexico City) is a Mexican film director working in Mexico and Hollywood.
Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and the London International Film...
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| ¿Quién es el señor López? | |||
| x Valerie Curtin |
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...And Justice for All |
Valerie Curtin (born March 31, 1945) is an American actress and screenwriter.
Curtin was born in New York City, the daughter of radio actor Joseph Curtin. She is a cousin of TV comedian/actress Jane Curtin (Saturday Night Live, Kate & Allie, Third...
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| Toys | |||
| Inside Moves | |||
| x Barry Levinson |
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...And Justice for All |
Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. His most notable films include Good Morning, Vietnam, Rain Man, Bugsy, Sleepers and Wag the Dog.
Levinson was born in...
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| Avalon | |||
| Diner | |||
| High Anxiety | |||
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| x Pedro Almodóvar |
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What Have I Done To Deserve This? |
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo almoˈðoβar kaβaˈʎeɾo]; born 25 September 1949) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of...
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| All About My Mother | |||
| Bad Education | |||
| Live Flesh | |||
| Dark Habits | |||
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| x Mick Garris |
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Hocus Pocus |
Mick Garris (born December 4, 1951) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California.
He is best known for his adaptations of Stephen King stories, such as directing the horror film Sleepwalkers starring Madchen Amick and...
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| Riding the Bullet | |||
| The Fly II | |||
| Homecoming | |||
| Quicksilver Highway | |||
| x Brad Bird |
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*batteries not included |
Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird (born September 24, 1957) is a critically acclaimed American director, voice actor, animator and screenwriter. He is best known for having written and directed Warner Bros.' The Iron Giant (1999), and Pixar's The...
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| Jack-Jack Attack | |||
| The Incredibles | |||
| The Iron Giant | |||
| Ratatouille | |||
| x S. S. Wilson | *batteries not included |
S. S. Wilson is a screenwriter of cult and mainstream science fiction, and is probably best known for writing (and occasionally directing), with writing partner Brent Maddock, the Tremors film and television series.
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| Short Circuit | |||
| Tremors | |||
| Tremors 4: The Legend Begins | |||
| Tremors 3: Back to Perfection | |||
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| x Hal Warren | "Manos": The Hands of Fate |
Harold P. Warren (October 23, 1923 – December 26, 1985), better known as Hal Warren, was an insurance and fertilizer salesman who lived in the El Paso, Texas area. He is best remembered for writing, directing and producing the 1966 movie Manos: The...
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| x Bharathiraja |
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16 Vayathinile |
P. Bharathiraja (Tamil: பி. பாரதிராஜா; born 17 July 1941) is a South Indian filmmaker who works mainly in the Tamil film industry. Bharathiraja displayed a story-teller's potential from an early age. He is known for his realistic and sensitive...
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| Karuththamma | |||
| Muthal Mariyathai | |||
| Aaradhana | |||
| x Aparna Sen | 15, Park Avenue |
Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta) (Bengali: অপর্ণা সেন Ôporna Shen; born 25 October 1945) is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian filmmaker, script writer, and actress. She is the winner of three National Film Awards and eight international film festival...
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| 36 Chowringee Lane | |||
| Mr. and Mrs. Iyer | |||
| Jewellery Box | |||
| The Japanese Wife | |||
| x Bob Williams | 20 Million Miles to Earth |
Bob Williams was an Australia rugby league player for the Eastern Suburbs club.
Williams, BobWilliams, Bob
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| x Christopher Knopf | 20 Million Miles to Earth | ||
| Emperor of the North | |||
| x Roald Dahl |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang |
Roald Dahl ( /ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl/, Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl dɑl]; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, poet, fighter pilot and screenwriter.
Born in Wales to Norwegian parents, he served in the British Royal Air...
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| Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory | |||
| The Night Digger | |||
| You Only Live Twice | |||
| x Michael Brandt | 2 Fast 2 Furious |
Michael Brandt is a film wirter, editor, producer and director.
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| Catch That Kid | |||
| Wanted | |||
| 3:10 to Yuma | |||
| Overdrive | |||
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| x Phil Karlson | 99 River Street |
Phil Karlson (July 2, 1908, Chicago, Illinois – December 12, 1985, Los Angeles, California) was a film director known for his no-nonsense film noirs. Karlson directed 99 River Street, Kansas City Confidential and Hell's Island all with actor John...
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| x John Payne | 99 River Street |
John Howard Payne (May 23, 1912 – December 6, 1989) was an American film actor who is mainly remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox musical films, and for his leading roles in Miracle on 34th Street and the NBC Western television series The...
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| x Philippe Djian |
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Philippe Djian (born June 6, 1949 in Paris) is a popular French author of Armenian descent.
Djian graduated from the ESJ Paris. After a period of wandering and odd jobs, he published a volume of short stories, 50 contre 1 (1981), and then the novels...
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| x Jean-Jacques Beineix |
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Betty Blue |
Jean-Jacques Beineix (born October 8, 1946) is a French film director.
In 1964, Jean-Jacques Beineix started his career as Jean Becker's assistant director on the famous French TV series, Les saintes chéries until the end of 1967. Then, in 1970 he...
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| Diva | |||
| IP5 | |||
| Mortal Transfer | |||
| x Andrew Kevin Walker |
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8mm |
Andrew Kevin Walker (born August 14, 1964) is an American BAFTA-nominated screenwriter. He is known for having written Seven (1995), for which he earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well as several other films,...
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| Seven | |||
| Sleepy Hollow | |||
| Hideaway | |||
| The Wolfman | |||
| x Ray Gaulden | 5 Card Stud | ||
| x Ludovic Kennedy | 10 Rillington Place |
Sir Ludovic Henry Coverley Kennedy (3 November 1919 – 18 October 2009) was a British journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author best known for re-examining cases such as the Lindbergh kidnapping and the murder convictions of Timothy Evans and...
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| x Clive Exton | Red Sonja |
Clive Exton (11 April 1930 – 16 August 2007) was a British television and film screenwriter, sometime playwright, and former actor. He is best known for his scripts of Agatha Christie’s Poirot, P. G. Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster, and Rosemary &...
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| Entertaining Mr Sloane | |||
| Isadora | |||
| Night Must Fall | |||
| 10 Rillington Place | |||
| x Selvaraghavan | 7G Rainbow Colony |
Selvaraghavan (Tamil: செல்வராகவன்) is an Indian film director who primarily works in Tamil cinema.
Selvaraghavan is the son of film director Kasthuri Raja, elder brother of actor Dhanush and has two sisters, who are both On 15 December 2006, he...
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| Kadhal Kondein | |||
| Pudhupettai | |||
| Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule | |||
| Amanush | |||
| x Kim Ki-duk | 3-Iron |
Kim Ki-duk (Hangul: 김기덕; born December 20, 1960) is a South Korean filmmaker noted for his idiosyncratic "art-house" cinematic works. His films have received many distinctions in the festival circuit. He is not related to the Kim Ki-duk who directed...
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| Address Unknown | |||
| Birdcage Inn | |||
| The Bow | |||
| Time | |||
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| x Elmore Leonard |
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3:10 to Yuma |
Elmore John Leonard Jr. (born October 11, 1925), better known as Elmore Leonard, is an American novelist and screenwriter. His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, but Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense...
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| Stick | |||
| The Tall T | |||
| 52 Pick-Up | |||
| The Big Bounce | |||
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| x Halsted Welles | 3:10 to Yuma |
Halsted Welles is a film writer.
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| The Hanging Tree | |||
| 3:10 to Yuma | |||
| x Earl Felton | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea |
Earl Felton was a writer.
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| Armored Car Robbery | |||
| The Narrow Margin | |||
| The Happy Time | |||
| Bad Guy | |||
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| x Arthur C. Clarke |
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2010: The Year We Make Contact |
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS, Sri Lankabhimanya, (16 December 1917 – 19 March 2008) was a British science fiction author, inventor, and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host...
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| 2001: A Space Odyssey | |||
| x Peter Hyams | 2010: The Year We Make Contact |
Peter Hyams (born July 26, 1943) is an American screenwriter, director and cinematographer, probably best known for directing the 1981 science fiction thriller Outland, Capricorn One, action/comedy Running Scared, 2010 (the sequel to Stanley Kubrick...
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| Capricorn One | |||
| Outland | |||
| Telefon | |||
| Narrow Margin | |||
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| x John Lafia | 10.5: Apocalypse |
John Lafia (born 1957) is an American film and television writer, director, and producer. He attended UCLA, where he received his Bachelors in Film. Lafia's first film was The Blue Iguana, which he wrote and directed. It was also screened out of...
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| 10.5 | |||
| Child's Play | |||
| Man's Best Friend | |||
| x Vera Mutafchieva | 681 AD: The Glory of Khan | ||
| x Rob Perez | 40 Days and 40 Nights |
Rob Perez is a film director and screenwriter.
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| Nobody | |||
| x Robert Eisele | 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story |
Robert Eisele is a film writer.
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| Hurricane Season | |||
| Lily in Winter | |||
| The Great Debaters | |||
| Vanishing Son IV | |||
| x Frank Zappa |
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200 Motels |
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique...
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| Uncle Meat | |||
| Video from Hell | |||
| x Howard Kaylan | 200 Motels |
Howard Kaylan (born Howard Kaplan; 22 June 1947) is an American rock and roll musician, best known as a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s band, The Turtles, and "Eddie" of 1970's rock band Flo & Eddie.
Kaylan was born in New York City and...
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| Dirty Duck | |||
| My Dinner with Jimi | |||
| x Mark Volman |
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200 Motels |
Mark Volman (born April 19, 1947) is an American rock and roll singer, best known as a founding member of the 1960s band The Turtles. Volman became a stand-out figure upon joining the Mothers of Invention under the tutelage of Frank Zappa. At times...
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| Dirty Duck | |||
| x Jeff Simmons | 200 Motels |
Jeff Simmons, born May 1949 in Seattle, Washington, is a rock musician and former member of Frank Zappa's Mothers of Invention. Simmons provided bass, guitar, and backing vocals for the group between 1970 and 1971. He left The Mothers just prior to...
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| x Hank Steinberg | 61* | ||
| x Frank Cottrell Boyce | 24 Hour Party People |
Frank Cottrell Boyce (born 23 September 1959) is a British screenwriter, novelist and occasional actor, known for his children's fiction and for his collaborations with film director Michael Winterbottom.
Cottrell Boyce was born in 1959 in Liverpool...
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| A Cock and Bull Story | |||
| Code 46 | |||
| Millions | |||
| Revengers Tragedy | |||
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| x Robert Moresco | 10th & Wolf |
Robert "Bobby" Moresco is a Hollywood screenwriter. His credits include 10th & Wolf and Crash, the latter of which he won an Academy Award for. He also was a producer of Crash and has acted in three films. He wrote scripts for the television series...
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| Crash | |||
| x David Benioff | 25th Hour |
David Benioff is an American novelist, screenwriter and television producer. He is the co-creator and showrunner of the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Born David Friedman in New York City, he changed his name to David Benioff, his mother's maiden name....
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| Troy | |||
| X-Men Origins: Wolverine | |||
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