biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1925– )
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| biography:
| Film director, born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA. After serving in World War 2 as a pilot, he took up writing for radio and magazines, then produced industrial films. His first feature film was The Delinquents (1957). He gained instant recognition for M*A*S*H (1970), and went on to direct and/or produce a series of highly individualistic films, noted especially for their simultaneous layers of dialogue. Impatient with Hollywood's conservative and commercial approach to film-making, he moved to Europe, although he returned to America to make such films as Nashville (1975), The Player (1991, BAFTA), Short Cuts (1993),Kansas City (1996), Cookie's Fortune (1998), Dr T and the Women (2000). Gosford Park (2001, Golden Globe Best Director) is his first British film. |
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