Horton Foote (1916–2009)
Auteur van To Kill a Mockingbird [filmopname]
Over de Auteur
Horton Foote was born in Wharton, Texas on March 14, 1916. He studied acting at the Pasadena Playhouse in California for two years before going to New York and joining Mary Hunter's American Actors Company. While there, he wrote a one-act play called Wharton Dance. After that, he continued to toon meer pursue acting and appeared in a few other plays, but primarily focused on writing. After World War II, he moved to Washington D. C. to run the King Smith School with Vincent Donehue. While he was there, he opened the King Smith Theater to all races, the first integrated audiences in the nation's capital. In addition to plays, he wrote for television and film. He was one of the writers for The Gabby Hayes Show on NBC. He wrote numerous plays including The Chase, The Carpetbagger's Children, and The Orphans' Home. He wrote numerous screenplays for movies including Baby, the Rain Must Fall and The Trip to Bountiful. He won the Pulitzer Prize for The Young Man from Atlanta and two Academy Awards for To Kill a Mockingbird and Tender Mercies. He died on March 4, 2009 at the age of 92. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
Fotografie: Courtesy of the Pulitzer Prizes.
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Werken van Horton Foote
Courtship, Valentine's Day, 1918: Three Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle (Foote, Horton) (1986) 69 exemplaren
Three Screenplays: To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies and The Trip to Bountiful (Foote, Horton) (1989) 51 exemplaren
Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, The Widow Claire: Four Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle (1962) 48 exemplaren
Getting Frankie Married -- And Afterwards, and Other Plays (Horton Foote Collected Works Volume III) (1999) 20 exemplaren
Three Plays : Old Man, Tomorrow and Roots in a Parched Ground (Harvest Book, Hb 45) (1962) 10 exemplaren
Three Plays: Dividing the Estate, The Trip to Bountiful, and The Young Man from Atlanta (2008) 10 exemplaren
1918 [1985 film] — Screenwriter — 4 exemplaren
Convicts 3 exemplaren
The tears of my sister ; The prisoner's song ; The one-armed man ; and, The land of the astronauts (1993) 3 exemplaren
On Valentine's Day [DVD] 1 exemplaar
Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow 1 exemplaar
Tender mercies : screenplay 1 exemplaar
Young Man From Atlanta [Souvenir Program] 1 exemplaar
On Valentine's Day [movie] 1 exemplaar
The Trip to Bountiful (Panel #1 Revise) - CD 1 exemplaar
Courtship: Revised 1 exemplaar
Horton Foote's 1918 (Horton Foote Collection) 1 exemplaar
Courtship [DVD] 1 exemplaar
Four New Plays 1988-1993 1 exemplaar
Roots In A Parched Ground 1 exemplaar
The Tears of My Sister, the Prisoner's Song, the One-Armed Man, the Land of the Astronauts by Horton Foote… 1 exemplaar
Three plays: [Old man, Tomorrow 1 exemplaar
Courtship Valentines Day 1918 1 exemplaar
Tender mercies 1 exemplaar
4 Plays from the Orphan's Home Cycle 1 exemplaar
To kill a mocking bird : final screenplay 1 exemplaar
The Best short plays, 1988-1989 1 exemplaar
The Trip to Bountiful 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Foote, Albert Horton, Jr.
- Geboortedatum
- 1916-03-14
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2009-03-04
- Graflocatie
- Wharton City Cemetery, Wharton, Texas
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Wharton, Texas, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Hartford, Connecticut, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Wharton, Texas, USA
Harford, Connecticut, USA - Opleiding
- Pasadena Playhouse School of Theatre
Tamara Darkarhovna School of Theatre - Beroepen
- playwright
screenwriter
actor
teacher - Relaties
- Foote, Daisy (daughter)
Foote, Shelby (cousin)
Masterson, Peter (cousin) - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters ( [1998])
Fellowship of Southern Writers (charter member)
Writers Guild of America
Authors Guild
Dramatists Guild
Texas Institute of Letters - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (2000)
National Medal of Arts (2000)
Cleanth Brooks Medal for Lifetime Achievement (2003)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature ∙ 1995)
William Inge Award for Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre (1989)
Laurel Award for Screen Writing Achievement (1993) (toon alle 11)
Evelyn Burkey Award (1989)
Career Achievement Award, Heartland Film Festival (1995)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal for Drama for lifetime achievement (1998)
Lifetime Achievement Award, Writer's Guild of America (1999)
Master American Dramatist Award, PEN American Center (2000) - Agent
- Barbara Hogenson Agency, Inc.
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