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Joan Tewkesbury is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Continuity American born on 8 april 1936 at Redlands (USA)
Joan Tewkesbury (born April 8, 1936) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She had a long association with Robert Altman, having written two of his most acclaimed films, Nashville (1975) and Thieves Like Us (1974). She has directed features, television movies, and television series.
Tewkesbury was born in Redlands, California, the daughter of Frances M. (née Stevenson), a registered nurse, and Walter S. Tewkesbury, an office machine repairman. She has lived in Tesuque, New Mexico since 2003.
One of her early television acting roles was in a guest appearance on the short-lived NBC drama, It's a Man's World.
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Joan Tewkesbury (born April 8, 1936) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, producer and actress. She had a long association with Robert Altman, having written two of his most acclaimed films, Nashville (1975) and Thieves Like Us (1974). She has directed features, television movies, and television series.
Tewkesbury was born in Redlands, California, the daughter of Frances M. (née Stevenson), a registered nurse, and Walter S. Tewkesbury, an office machine repairman. She has lived in Tesuque, New Mexico since 2003.
One of her early television acting roles was in a guest appearance on the short-lived NBC drama, It's a Man's World.
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The Player (1992)
, 2h4Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films about films, Musical films
Actors Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward, Whoopi Goldberg, Peter Gallagher, Brion James
Roles Joan Tewkesbury
Rating74%
Griffin Mill (Tim Robbins) is a Hollywood studio executive dating story editor Bonnie Sherow (Cynthia Stevenson). He hears story pitches from screenwriters and decides which have the potential to be made into films, green-lighting only 12 out of 50,000 submissions every year. His job is threatened when up-and-coming story executive Larry Levy (Peter Gallagher) begins working at the studio. Mill has also been receiving death threat postcards, assumed to be from a screenwriter whose pitch he rejected.
Nashville (1975)
, 2h39Directed by Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Barbara Baxley, Geraldine Chaplin, Scott Glenn
Roles Tom's Lover / Kenny's Mother (uncredited) (voice)
Rating75%
The overarching plot takes place over five days leading up to a political rally for Replacement Party candidate Hal Phillip Walker, who is never seen throughout the entire movie. The story follows 24 characters roaming around Nashville, in search of some sort of goal through their own (often overlapping) story arcs.
Thieves Like Us (1974)
, 2h3Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Mob film, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher, Tom Skerritt
Roles Lady in Train Station
Rating68%
Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks.
McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
, 2hDirected by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, Michael Murphy, William Devane, Shelley Duvall
Roles Townsperson
Rating75%
In 1902 Washington, a gambler named John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives mysteriously and mumbling to himself in the town of Presbyterian Church (named after its only substantial building, a tall but mostly unused [in the film] chapel), in the north-west United States. McCabe quickly takes a dominant position over the town's simple-minded and lethargic miners, thanks to his aggressive personality and rumors that he is a gunfighter.
Man's Favorite Sport? (1964)
, 2hDirected by Howard Hawks
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about animals, Seafaring films, Transport films
Actors Rock Hudson, Paula Prentiss, Maria Perschy, Edy Williams, Norman Alden, John McGiver
Roles Woman in Elevator (uncredited)
Rating70%
Roger Willoughby is a well-known fishing expert who works as a salesman for Abercrombie & Fitch Co. Abigail Page is a brash and flighty public relations woman. Page is determined to secure Willoughby's participation in a prestigious fishing tournament, only to discover that Willoughby is a phony—he's never fished in his life.
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Scattering Dad (1997)
Directed by Joan Tewkesbury
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Olympia Dukakis, Andy Griffith, Lucinda Jenney, Michelle Burke, August Schellenberg
Rating52%
An agorophobic woman who hasn't left her home in 20 years receives a visit from the spirit of her deceased husband who reminds her of a promise she made to scatter his ashes at his favorite vacation spot. With her daughters unavailable, she sets off to fulfill the promise herself.
Wild Texas Wind (1991)
, 1h36Directed by Joan Tewkesbury
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Dolly Parton, Gary Busey, Dennis Letts, Willie Nelson
Rating56%
The story centers around singer Thiola Rayfield (Parton) and her band Big T and the Texas Wheelers. The plot follows the band's climb to success and Thiola's tumultuous relationship with their violently abusive, alcoholic manager Justice Parker (Busey). In the midst of the chaos, a murder occurs, leaving authorities with a trio of suspects and a mystery to solve.
Sudie and Simpson (1990)
, 1h35Directed by Joan Tewkesbury
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Films about racism
Actors Louis Gossett Jr., Sara Gilbert, John M. Jackson, Frances Fisher
Rating68%
Old Boyfriends (1979)
, 1h43Directed by Joan Tewkesbury
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Talia Shire, Richard Jordan, Keith Carradine, John Belushi, John Houseman, P. J. Soles
Rating57%
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Scriptwriter
Scattering Dad (1997)
Directed by Joan Tewkesbury
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Olympia Dukakis, Andy Griffith, Lucinda Jenney, Michelle Burke, August Schellenberg
Roles Teleplay
Rating52%
An agorophobic woman who hasn't left her home in 20 years receives a visit from the spirit of her deceased husband who reminds her of a promise she made to scatter his ashes at his favorite vacation spot. With her daughters unavailable, she sets off to fulfill the promise herself.
A Night in Heaven (1983)
, 1h23Directed by John G. Avildsen
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films
Actors Christopher Atkins, Lesley Ann Warren, Robert Logan, Carrie Snodgress, Deney Terrio, Deborah Rush
Roles Writer
Rating42%
Outspoken and overconfident Rick Monroe is a jock and a popular guy in college in Titusville, Florida. At the end of his final report for his class, Rick cracks a joke and his prim and proper speech professor, Faye Hanlon, is not amused. After chiding him for his joke, she decides to fail him and make him take the course over again.
Nashville (1975)
, 2h39Directed by Robert Altman, Alan Rudolph
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Films about disabilities, Sign-language films, American Sign Language films, Films about language and translation
Actors Ned Beatty, Ronee Blakley, Keith Carradine, Barbara Baxley, Geraldine Chaplin, Scott Glenn
Rating75%
The overarching plot takes place over five days leading up to a political rally for Replacement Party candidate Hal Phillip Walker, who is never seen throughout the entire movie. The story follows 24 characters roaming around Nashville, in search of some sort of goal through their own (often overlapping) story arcs.
Thieves Like Us (1974)
, 2h3Directed by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Mob film, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Keith Carradine, Shelley Duvall, John Schuck, Bert Remsen, Louise Fletcher, Tom Skerritt
Rating68%
Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks.
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)
, 2hDirected by Robert Altman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Action, Western
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, René Auberjonois, Michael Murphy, William Devane, Shelley Duvall
Roles Continuity
Rating75%
In 1902 Washington, a gambler named John McCabe (Warren Beatty) arrives mysteriously and mumbling to himself in the town of Presbyterian Church (named after its only substantial building, a tall but mostly unused [in the film] chapel), in the north-west United States. McCabe quickly takes a dominant position over the town's simple-minded and lethargic miners, thanks to his aggressive personality and rumors that he is a gunfighter.