Film writer

Blake Edwards (born July 26, 1922) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director. He began his career as an actor and script-writer, including seven screenplays for Richard Quine. Edwards created a character named "Quine" for an episode of the 1950s television anthology Four-Star Playhouse called "The Bomb" that he wrote and directed. His early career as a script-writer was...

Depeche Mode are an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981), Andrew Fletcher (keyboards) and Vince Clarke (keyboards, chief songwriter 1980–81). Vince Clarke left the band after the release of their 1981 debut album, and was replaced by Alan Wilder (lead keyboards) who was a band member from 1982 to 1995. Following Wilder's departure, Gahan,...

Zack Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director. Snyder started out as both director and cinematographer of music videos (for Morrissey) and commercials (Compuware, Audi, Budweiser, Jeep, Magnum). He has also portrayed sports icons such as Michael Jordan, Martina Navratilova, Troy Aikman and Antonio Margarito for clients Nike, Reebok and Gatorade and he completed a spot for Titleist and the PGA Tour featuring David Duval, Dan Marino and David Robinson, among others. Snyder's...

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Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian writer and Academy Award winning film director. Bernardo Bertolucci was born in the Italian city of Parma, in the region of Emilia Romagna. He was the second son of his father Attilio, who was a poet, a reputed art historian, anthologist and also a film critic. Having been raised in such an environment, Bertolucci began writing at the age of fifteen, and soon after received several prestigious literary prizes including the Premio...

Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award- and Golden Globe-winning 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-action/animated film Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988), though in the 1990s he diversified into more dramatic fare, including 1994's Forrest Gump, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Director. His films are...

Ernest Thompson (born November 6, 1949 as Richard Ernest Thompson, Bellows Falls, Vermont), is an American writer, actor, and director. He spent his early years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, moving to Maryland as a junior high school student. He attended the University of Maryland and Catholic University, graduating cum laude from American University in 1971. He is best known as the author of the play On Golden Pond, which he wrote at the age of twenty-eight. The play opened off...

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June, 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a radical English journalist, political essayist and novelist who wrote under the pseudonym George Orwell. His writing is marked by concise descriptions of social conditions and events and a contempt for all type of authority. He is most famous for two novel critical of totalitarianism, Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Animal Farm (which is a direct parody of Stalinism). Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903 to British parents in...

Lorne Michaels (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian-American Emmy-winning 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 Lorne David Lipowitz in Toronto, Ontario, the son of Florence (née Becker) and Henry Abraham Lipowitz, who was a furrier. Michaels began his career as a writer and broadcaster for CBC Radio. He moved to Los Angeles from Toronto in 1968...

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 School. While attending this last institution he directed his first short film Silent Music which won an award at the International Amateur Film Festival of Cannes Film Festival in 1976. Back in Mexico he directed short films and documentaries for...

Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. Levinson was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Vi (née Krichinsky) and Irvin Levinson, who worked in furniture and appliance business. After growing up in Baltimore and graduating from Forest Park Senior High School, Levinson attended American University in Washington, D.C. before moving to Los Angeles to work as an actor and writer. Levinson...