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The Film Writer type includes people who have written film screenplays. People who have had fictional works that were adapted into films should have the type "film story contributor" instead (unless, of couse, they also wrote the screenplay as well, in which case they would arguably be both).
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| x Gary Lennon | .45 | ||
| x Pamela Pettler | Corpse Bride | ||
| Monster House | |||
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| x Blake Edwards |
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William Blake Crump (born July 26, 1922), better known as Blake Edwards, is an Academy Award–winning American film director, screenwriter, and producer.
Born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director. He began his career as an...
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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 | |||
| Mayonaka no Yaji-san Kita-san | |||
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| x Depeche Mode |
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101 |
Depeche Mode (IPA: [dəˈpɛʃ], də-PESH) are an English electronic band who 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),...
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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 writer, artist 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 and 300. He...
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| RoboCop 3 | |||
| Sin City | |||
| 300 | |||
| The Spirit | |||
| x Zack Snyder |
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300 |
Zack Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. After making his feature film debut with the 2004 remake Dawn of the Dead, he gained wide recognition with the 2007 box office hit 300, adapted from writer-artist...
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| x Kurt Johnstad | 300 | ||
| x Franco Arcalli | 1900 | ||
| Last Tango in Paris | |||
| x Bernardo Bertolucci |
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1900 |
Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian film director and screenwriter, probably best known for such films as The Conformist, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor and The Dreamers.
Bertolucci was born in the Italian city of Parma,...
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| La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo | |||
| Last Tango in Paris | |||
| Once Upon a Time in the West | |||
| Stealing Beauty | |||
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| x Giuseppe Bertolucci | 1900 | ||
| x Robert Zemeckis |
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1941 |
Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) 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 films as well as the live...
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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 |
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1941 |
Michael Robert "Bob" Gale (born May 25, 1951) is an Academy Award-nominated American screenwriter who co-wrote the science fiction film Back to the Future with writing partner Robert Zemeckis, and the screen plays for the film's two sequels. Gale...
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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 in Bellows Falls, Vermont. He spent his early years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, moving to Maryland as a...
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| The West Side Waltz | |||
| x Michael Radford |
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1984 |
Michael Radford (born February 24, 1946 in New Delhi, India to a British father and Austrian-Jewish mother) is an English film director and screenwriter.
Radford was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford. After...
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| White Mischief | |||
| The Merchant of Venice | |||
| x George Orwell |
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1984 |
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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| Animal Farm | |||
| 1984 | |||
| Animal Farm | |||
| x Wong Kar-wai |
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2046 |
Wong Kar-wai BBS (traditional Chinese: 王家衛; pinyin: Wáng Jiāwèi; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; born 17 July 1958) is an award-winning Hong Kong filmmaker, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized films. Wong...
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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 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 born...
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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, writer, playwright, producer, musician, and composer. He was raised in Southern California in a Baptist family, where his early influences were working at Disneyland...
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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 |
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¿Quién es el señor López? |
Luis Mandoki (born in 1954 in Mexico City) is a film director of the Cinema of 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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| Voces inocentes | |||
| x Valerie Curtin |
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...And Justice for All |
Valerie Curtin (born March 31, 1945) is an American actress and Oscar-nominated 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 ...
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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 films include Bugsy, The Natural and Rain Man.
Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Vi (née Krichinsky)...
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| Avalon | |||
| Diner | |||
| High Anxiety | |||
| Silent Movie | |||
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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 1949, is an Academy Award winning Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer.
Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish...
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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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*batteries not included |
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, and is the creator of the Showtime series Masters of Horror. Garris won a...
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| Hocus Pocus | |||
| Riding the Bullet | |||
| The Fly II | |||
| x Brad Bird |
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*batteries not included |
Phillip Bradley "Brad" Bird (born September 11, 1957) is a two-time Academy Award-winning American director and screenwriter. His best known works are Disney/Pixar's The Incredibles 2004, for which he directed and wrote the script, and Ratatouille ...
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| Jack-Jack Attack | |||
| The Incredibles | |||
| The Iron Giant | |||
| x Matthew Robbins | *batteries not included |
Matthew Robbins may refer to:
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| Corvette Summer | |||
| Mimic | |||
| The Sugarland Express | |||
| Electronic Labyrinth THX 1138:4EB | |||
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| x Brent Maddock | *batteries not included | ||
| Short Circuit | |||
| Tremors 4: The Legend Begins | |||
| Tremors 2: Aftershocks | |||
| Tremors | |||
| x S. S. Wilson | *batteries not included |
S.S. Wilson is a writer 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.
As writer...
As producer...
As director....
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| Short Circuit | |||
| Tremors | |||
| Tremors 4: The Legend Begins | |||
| Tremors 3: Back to Perfection | |||
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| x Hal Warren |
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"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 |
K. Bharathiraja (born 17 July 1941 in Theni, Tamil Nadu, India), is a critically acclaimed South Indian filmmaker.
He displayed a story-teller's potential from an early age. Bharathiraja is known for his realistic and sensitive portrayal of village...
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| Karuththamma | |||
| Muthal Mariyathai | |||
| Aaradhana | |||
| x Aparna Sen |
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15, Park Avenue |
Aparna Sen (née Dasgupta) (Bengali: অপর্ণা সেন Ôporna Shen) (October 25, 1945 - ) is a critically acclaimed Indian filmmaker, script writer, and actress. She is the winner of three National Film Awards and eight international film festival awards....
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| 36 Chowringee Lane | |||
| Mr. and Mrs. Iyer | |||
| Jewellery Box | |||
| 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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| Accused of Murder | |||
| x Christopher Knopf | 20 Million Miles to Earth | ||
| Emperor of the North | |||
| x Roald Dahl |
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36 Hours |
Roald Dahl (English pronunciation: /ˈroʊ.ɑːl ˈdɑːl/, Norwegian: [ˈɾuːɑl dɑl]; 13 September 1916 – 23 November 1990) was a British novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter.
Born in Llandaff, Wales, to Norwegian parents, Dahl served in the Royal...
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| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | |||
| Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | |||
| Fantastic Mr. Fox | |||
| James and the Giant Peach | |||
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| x Derek Haas | 2 Fast 2 Furious | ||
| Catch That Kid | |||
| x Michael Brandt | 2 Fast 2 Furious | ||
| Catch That Kid | |||
| x Phil Karlson | 99 River Street |
Phil Karlson (July 2, 1908 - December 12, 1985) was a Chicago-born film director known for his no-nonsense film noir. Karlson directed 99 River Street, Kansas City Confidential and Hell's Island all with actor John Payne in the early 1950s. Other...
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| x John Payne |
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99 River Street |
John Payne (May 28, 1912 - December 6, 1989) was an American film actor who is mainly remembered as a singer in 20th Century Fox musical films, as well as his leading role in Miracle on 34th Street.
Payne was born in Roanoke, Virginia. His mother,...
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| x Robert Smith | 99 River Street |
Robert Smith or Bob Smith may refer to:
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| Girls Town | |||
| Invasion U.S.A. | |||
| The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms | |||
| The Big Wheel | |||
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| x George Zuckerman | 99 River Street | ||
| Border Incident | |||
| Whispering City | |||
| Written on the Wind | |||
| x Philippe Djian |
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37°2 le matin |
Philippe Djian (born 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 Bleu...
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| x Jean-Jacques Beineix | 37°2 le matin |
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 | |||
| x Andrew Kevin Walker | 8mm |
Andrew Kevin Walker (born August 14, 1964) is an American BAFTA-nominated screenwriter. He is known for having written the Academy Award-nominated film Seven, for which he earned a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Original Screenplay, as well...
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| Event Horizon | |||
| Seven | |||
| Sleepy Hollow | |||
| Hideaway | |||
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| x Ray Gaulden | 5 Card Stud | ||
| x Ludovic Kennedy |
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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 | 10 Rillington Place |
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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| Red Sonja | |||
| Entertaining Mr Sloane | |||
| Isadora | |||
| Night Must Fall | |||
| x Selvaraghavan | 7G Rainbow Colony |
Selvaraghavan is a film director from South India.
He is the son of film director Kasthuri Raja, elder brother of actor Dhanush and has two sisters, who are both doctors. On December 15th, 2006, he married actress Sonia Agarwal, with whom he has...
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| Kadhal Kondein | |||
| Pudhupettai | |||
| Aadavari Matalaku Ardhalu Verule | |||
| x Kim Ki-duk |
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3-Iron |
Kim Ki-duk is a 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 Yonggary in the 1960s.
Kim Ki-duk was born...
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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) is an American novelist and screenwriter.
His earliest published novels in the 1950s were westerns, and Leonard went on to specialize in crime fiction and suspense thrillers, several of which have...
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| Hombre | |||
| Jackie Brown | |||
| Out of Sight | |||
| Stick | |||
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| x Halsted Welles | 3:10 to Yuma | ||
| The Hanging Tree | |||
| x Earl Felton | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea | ||
| Armored Car Robbery | |||
| The Narrow Margin | |||
| x Arthur C. Clarke |
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2010: The Year We Make Contact |
Sir Arthur Charles Clarke was a British science-fiction author and inventor, most famous for his novel 2001: A Space Odyssey, and for collaborating with director Stanley Kubrick on the film of the same name. Clarke is the last surviving member of...
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| 2001: A Space Odyssey | |||
| x Peter Hyams |
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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 1984 sci-fi adventure 2010 (the sequel to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey), Capricorn One, the comic book...
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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 Scott Silver | 8 Mile | ||
| x Vera Mutafchieva | 681 AD: The Glory of Khan | ||
| x Rob Perez | 40 Days and 40 Nights | ||
| x Robert Eisele | 3: The Dale Earnhardt Story |
Robert Eisele is a film writer.
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| Hurricane Season | |||
| x Frank Zappa |
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200 Motels |
Frank Vincent Zappa (December 21, 1940 – December 4, 1993) was an American composer, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, electronic, orchestral, and musique concrète...
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| Uncle Meat | |||
| Video from Hell | |||
| x Tony Palmer | 200 Motels |
This article is about the American football player. For the film director see Tony Palmer
Tony Palmer (born February 23, 1983 in Midwest City, Oklahoma) is an American football guard in the National Football League who is currently a free agent. The...
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