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Horton Foote is a Actor, Scriptwriter and Producer American born on 14 march 1916 at Texas (USA)

Horton Foote

Horton Foote
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Nationality USA
Birth 14 march 1916 at Texas (USA)
Death 4 march 2009 (at 92 years) at Hartford (USA)
Awards Primetime Emmy Award, Writers Guild of America Award, Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Horton Foote est un scénariste, producteur et acteur américain né le 14 mars 1916 à Wharton, Texas (États-Unis) et mort le 4 mars 2009 à Hartford, Connecticut.

Biography

Horton Foote est né au Texas en 1916. Il se fait connaitre au cours de la décennie 1950, alors qu'il écrit pour la télévision alors naissante des téléthéâtres transmis en direct.

Au cours des années 1960, Foote écrit le scénario du film Du silence et des ombres, que réalise Robert Mulligan d'après le roman de Harper Lee Ne tirez pas sur l'oiseau moqueur. Le film, aujourd'hui considéré comme un classique du cinéma américain, reçoit huit nominations aux Oscars et Horton Foote lui-même obtient celui du meilleur scénario adapté. Mulligan et Foote collaborent à nouveau sur Le Sillage de la violence, adaptation d'une pièce initialement écrite par Foote pour la télévision. Il est également un des scénaristes de Que vienne la nuit de Otto Preminger.

Il consacre ensuite plusieurs années à la rédaction d'un cycle de neuf pièces intitulé The Orphean's Home évoquant différents moments de la vie de son père. Il revient au cinéma en 1982 en écrivant la comédie dramatique Tendre Bonheur. Le film, réalisé par Bruce Beresford, permet à Foote de recevoir un deuxième Oscar, cette fois-ci pour un scénario original.

Best films

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
(Scriptwriter)
Tender Mercies (1983)
(Ecrivain)
The Trip to Bountiful (1985)
(Ecrivain)

Usually with

Robert Duvall
Robert Duvall
(5 films)
Ken Burns
Ken Burns
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Horton Foote (13 films)

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Actor

The Civil War
Directed by Ken Burns
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films
Actors Sam Waterston, Julie Harris, Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Garrison Keillor, Arthur Miller
Roles Jefferson Davis
Rating89% 4.498834.498834.498834.498834.49883
"La guerre de sécession" est un film documentaire réalisé par l'Américain Ken Burns sur la guerre de Sécession. Le documentaire dure 11 heures, découpé en neuf épisodes. Episode 1 : La cause Episode 2 : L'impasse sanglante Episode 3 : Libres, à jamais Episode 4 : Un meurtre, tout simplement Episode 5 : L’enfer des combats Episode 6 : La vallée de l'ombre de la mort Episode 7 : Terre sanctifiée Episode 8 : La guerre, c'est l'enfer Episode 9 : Les meilleurs anges de notre nature

Scriptwriter

Bessie
Bessie (2015)
, 2h12
Directed by Dee Rees
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Biography, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Le blues
Actors Queen Latifah, Mo'Nique, Mike Epps, Tika Sumpter, Michael K.Williams, Charles Dutton
Roles Story
Rating66% 3.346673.346673.346673.346673.34667
Bessie Smith est une jeune chanteuse de Chattanooga, dans le Tennessee. À la mort de leurs parents, William et Laura, elle et ses frères et sœurs deviennent orphelins. Leur sœur aînée, Viola, va les élever. Viola est sévère avec eux et l'enfance de Bessie est malheureuse. Elle et son frère Clarence cherchent à travailler pour des spectacles de vaudeville locaux. Ses ambitions scéniques sont frustrées par les producteurs qui ne veulent pas en vedette des femmes noires à la peau foncée dans leurs spectacles. Bessie se faufile dans le train de l'interprète Ma Rainey et lui demande de se joindre à son spectacle. Ma Rainey prend Bessie sous son aile et l'aide à développer ses capacités jusqu'à ce que la popularité de Bessie provoque la séparation des deux femmes. Bessie laisse aussi Clarence pour lancer sa propre carrière.
Main Street, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Orlando Bloom, Colin Firth, Andrew McCarthy, Ellen Burstyn, Amber Tamblyn, Patricia Clarkson
Rating48% 2.400352.400352.400352.400352.40035
Each of the colorful citizens of a close-knit North Carolina community—from a once-wealthy tobacco heiress to the city's mayor to a local police officer—will search for ways to reinvent themselves, their relationships and the very heart of their neighborhood.
Of Mice and Men, 1h46
Directed by Gary Sinise
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Western
Themes L'adolescence, Films about children, Films about the labor movement, Teen movie
Actors John Malkovich, Gary Sinise, Ray Walston, Casey Siemaszko, Sherilyn Fenn, John Terry
Rating73% 3.6990853.6990853.6990853.6990853.699085
During the Great Depression, the quick-witted George Milton (Gary Sinise) looks after his physically strong companion, Lennie Small (John Malkovich), who is also mentally disabled. The two are fleeing from their previous employment as workmen in Weed, California. Other farmers chase them after Lennie was accused of attempted rape when he touched and held onto a young woman (Moira Harris) and her pretty red dress, prompted by his love of stroking soft things. George and Lennie escape, hop on board a train, and obtain work passes from a new town. A bus was supposed to transport them to a new ranch for work, but the bus driver drops the two off 10 miles beforehand. While walking down the road to the ranch, George gets aggravated by Lennie's incessant questioning about where they are going, since he easily forgot three times. George then catches Lennie petting a dead mouse he accidentally killed while stroking it too hard since he never knows his own muscular strength. Despite Lennie's pleas to keep the dead mouse and his claims that he did not kill it, George takes it away and throws it, causing Lennie to cry. George, showing sympathy, tells him he will probably get him a puppy.
Convicts
Convicts (1991)
, 1h33
Directed by Peter Masterson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Robert Duvall, Lukas Haas, James Earl Jones, Starletta DuPois, Calvin Levels, Carlin Glynn
Roles Writer
Rating57% 2.8521152.8521152.8521152.8521152.852115
1902, Texas. Horace, un adolescent de 13 ans, part travailler à la ferme du vieux Soll afin de gagner l'argent dont il aura besoin pour acheter une sépulture décente à son père décédé...
The Trip to Bountiful, 1h48
Directed by Peter Masterson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay, Kevin Cooney
Roles Ecrivain
Rating73% 3.697413.697413.697413.697413.69741
The film, set in the post-WWII 1940s, tells the story of an elderly woman, Carrie Watts (Page), who wants to return to her home, the small, rural agriculture based town (which was of course destroyed by the Depression and the Dust Bowl), where she grew up on the eve of the Great Depression, but she's frequently stopped from leaving Houston, Texas by her daughter-in-law and her overprotective son who will not let her travel alone. Her son and daughter-in-law both know that the town has long since disappeared, due to the Depression. Long-term out-migration was caused by the draw-down of all the town's able-bodied men to the wartime draft calls and by the demand for industrial workers in the war production plants of the big cities.
Tender Mercies, 1h32
Directed by Bruce Beresford
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about alcoholism, Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Films about drugs, Films about religion, Musical films
Actors Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin, Lenny Von Dohlen
Roles Ecrivain
Rating72% 3.646093.646093.646093.646093.64609
Mac Sledge (Robert Duvall), a washed up, alcoholic country singer, awakens at a run-down Texas roadside motel and gas station after a night of heavy drinking. He meets the owner, a young widow named Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), and offers to work in exchange for a room. Rosa Lee, whose husband was killed in the Vietnam War, is raising her young son, Sonny (Allan Hubbard), on her own. She agrees to let Mac stay under the condition that he does not drink while working. The two begin to develop feelings for one another, mostly during quiet evenings sitting alone and sharing bits of their life stories.
Tomorrow
Tomorrow (1972)
, 1h43
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Robert Duvall, Peter Masterson
Rating74% 3.7418053.7418053.7418053.7418053.741805
An isolated and lonely farmer in rural Mississippi takes in a pregnant drifter who has been abandoned by the father of her child.
Hurry Sundown, 2h26
Directed by Otto Preminger, John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Faye Dunaway, Diahann Carroll, Beah Richards, John Phillip Law
Rating58% 2.90672.90672.90672.90672.9067
In 1946, bigoted, draft-dodging Henry Warren and his wife Julie Ann, owners of a Northern canning plant, are determined to purchase a large tract of uncultivated farmland in rural Georgia. Two plots remain beyond their grasp, one owned by Henry's cousin Rad McDowell and his wife Lou, the other by black farmer Reeve Scott, whose mother Rose had been Julie's mammy. Neither man is interested in selling his land, and they form a partnership to strengthen their claim to it, which infuriates Henry.
The Chase
The Chase (1966)
, 2h13
Directed by Arthur Penn
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Marlon Brando, Jane Fonda, Robert Redford, E. G. Marshall, Angie Dickinson, Janice Rule
Roles Theatre Play
Rating70% 3.549293.549293.549293.549293.54929
In a small Texas town where banker Val Rogers (E.G. Marshall) wields a great deal of influence, word comes that native son Bubber Reeves (Robert Redford) and another man have escaped from prison.
Baby, the Rain Must Fall, 1h40
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Lee Remick, Steve McQueen, Don Murray, Paul Fix, Josephine Hutchinson, Ruth White
Roles Theatre Play
Rating62% 3.148353.148353.148353.148353.14835
Georgette Thomas and her six-year-old daughter Margaret Rose travel to a small southern Texas town to meet her irresponsible rockabilly singer/guitarist husband, Henry Thomas, when he is released from prison after serving time for stabbing a man during a drunken brawl.
To Kill a Mockingbird, 2h9
Directed by Robert Mulligan
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Crime
Themes Films about families, Films about racism
Actors Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, John Megna, Phillip Alford, Robert Duvall, Alice Ghostley
Rating82% 4.148764.148764.148764.148764.14876
The film's young protagonists, Jean Louise "Scout" Finch (Mary Badham) and her brother Jeremy Atticus "Jem" Finch (Phillip Alford), live in the fictional town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the 1930s. The story covers three years, during which Scout and Jem undergo changes in their lives. They begin as innocent children, who spend their days happily playing games with each other and spying on Arthur "Boo" Radley (Robert Duvall), who has not been seen for many years by anybody as a result of never leaving his house and about whom many rumors circulate. Their widowed father, Atticus (Gregory Peck), is a town lawyer and has a strong belief that all people are to be treated fairly, to turn the other cheek, and to stand for what you believe. He also allows his children to call him by his first name. Early in the film, the children see their father accept hickory nuts, and other produce, from Mr. Cunningham (Crahan Denton) for legal work because the client has no money. Through their father's work as a lawyer, Scout and Jem begin to learn of the racism and evil in their town, aggravated by poverty; they mature quickly as they are exposed to it.
Storm Fear
Storm Fear (1955)
, 1h29
Directed by Cornel Wilde
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Cornel Wilde, Jean Wallace, Dan Duryea, Lee Grant, Dennis Weaver, Steven Hill
Roles Writer
Rating62% 3.1465653.1465653.1465653.1465653.146565
After being badly wounded during a heist, bankrobber Charlie Blake (Wilde) takes refuge in a remote New England farm house owned by his older brother Fred (Duryea). Fred reluctantly harbors the fugitive and his two gang members. Time passes and Charlie's men are anxious to move on, but he needs rest to recover. He is also still in love with Freds wife Elizabeth (Wallace) with whom he once had an affair. More trouble ensues when it is revealed that the Elizabeth's son was fathered by Charlie, not her husband.

Producer

The Trip to Bountiful, 1h48
Directed by Peter Masterson
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Geraldine Page, John Heard, Carlin Glynn, Richard Bradford, Rebecca De Mornay, Kevin Cooney
Roles Producer
Rating73% 3.697413.697413.697413.697413.69741
The film, set in the post-WWII 1940s, tells the story of an elderly woman, Carrie Watts (Page), who wants to return to her home, the small, rural agriculture based town (which was of course destroyed by the Depression and the Dust Bowl), where she grew up on the eve of the Great Depression, but she's frequently stopped from leaving Houston, Texas by her daughter-in-law and her overprotective son who will not let her travel alone. Her son and daughter-in-law both know that the town has long since disappeared, due to the Depression. Long-term out-migration was caused by the draw-down of all the town's able-bodied men to the wartime draft calls and by the demand for industrial workers in the war production plants of the big cities.