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Film writer

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  • Screenwriter
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... more

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Gary Lennon   Topic .45    
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Shane Acker   Topic 9    
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Pamela Pettler   Topic 9    
Film writer Corpse Bride
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Blake Edwards   Topic 10  
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...
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Film director A Shot in the Dark
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Kankuro Kudo   Topic 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 faced by people of Korean-heritage living in Japan. He acted in the hugely popular tear-jerker, Crying Out Love, In the Center of the World, and is also guitarist in the Japanese Comedy Rock Band Group Tamashi.
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Depeche Mode Film writer 101  
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Frank Miller Frank Miller Topic RoboCop 2  
Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. He is one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, and is one of the most influential comics creators of his generation. Setting out to become an artist, he eventually received his first published work in The Twilight Zone for Gold Key Comics in 1978. This was followed by various pencilling work for anthology titles from DC Comics and...
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Film writer The Spirit
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Zack Snyder   Topic 300  
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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Kurt Johnstad   Topic 300    
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Michael Gordon   Topic 300  
Michael Gordon may refer to:
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Franco Arcalli   Topic 1900    
Film writer Last Tango in Paris
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Bernardo Bertolucci The Last Emperor, 1987 Topic 1900  
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...
Film director La Tragedia di un uomo ridicolo
Film writer Last Tango in Paris
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Giuseppe Bertolucci   Topic 1900    
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Robert Zemeckis   Topic 1941  
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...
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Film writer Back to the Future Part II
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Bob Gale   Topic 1941  
Michael Robert "Bob" Gale (May 25, 1951, University City, Missouri, United States), is an Academy Award-nominated 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 also coproduced all three films. He is married and although he considers himself a St. Louisan at heart, he currently lives in the Los Angeles area. As a teen, he created his own comic books ("The Green Vomit") using...
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Film writer Back to the Future Part II
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Film director I Wanna Hold Your Hand
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Ernest Thompson   Topic 1969  
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...
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Michael Radford   Topic 1984  
Michael Radford (born February 24, 1946 in New Delhi, India to a British father and Austrian mother) is an English film director and screenwriter. Radford was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford. After teaching for a few years, he went to the National Film and Television School, becoming a student there in its inaugural year. Between 1976 and 1982 Radford worked as a documentary film maker making films mostly for the BBC. These included films on the following...
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George Orwell GeoreOrwell.jpg Topic 1984  
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Wong Kar-wai Cover of Wong Kar Wai DVD collection box set Topic 2046  
Wong Kar-wai (; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; born July 17, 1958) is an award winning Hong Kong film director, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized film. Born in Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of five. Coming from the Mainland and speaking only Mandarin and Shanghainese, he had a difficult period of adjustment to Cantonese speaking Hong Kong, spending hours in movie theatres with his mother. After graduating from Hong Kong...
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Lorne Michaels   Topic ¡Three Amigos!  
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...
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Steve Martin Film actor ¡Three Amigos!  
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Luis Mandoki   Topic ¿Quién es el señor López?  
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Valerie Curtin Video cover of Unfaithfully Yours (1984) Topic ...And Justice for All  
Valerie Curtin is an American actress and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, born on March 31, 1945 in New York City. She was married to writer and director Barry Levinson from 1975-1982. Curtin began her writing career in the 1970s working on episodes of the popular television sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Curtin and her then-husband Barry Levinson were nominated for an Academy Award (in the category of Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) for "...And Justice for All" ...
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Barry Levinson   Topic ...And Justice for All  
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...
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Pedro Almodóvar Pedro almodovar and penelop Topic What Have I Done To Deserve This?  
Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by complex narratives, employ the codes of melodrama and use elements of pop culture, popular songs, irreverent humor, strong colors and glossy décor. Desire, passion, family and identity are among Almodóvar’s most prevalent themes. His...
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