Joan Tewkesbury
Birthday: 1936-04-08
Place of Birth: Redlands, California, USA
Biography: Joan Tewkesbury (born April 8, 1936) is an American film and television director, screenwriter, playwright, author, producer, choreographer and actress. She had a long association with the celebrated director Robert Altman, writing the screenplays for Thieves Like Us (1974), and Nashville (1975), widely regarded as "Altman's masterpiece", and which earned her a nomination for the BAFTA Award for Best Screenplay. She has directed numerous hours of episodic television, including for Disney, HBO, CBS, TNT, and NBC. Description above from the Wikipedia article Joan Tewkesbury, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
Thieves Like Us
Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of t...
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McCabe & Mrs. Miller
A gambler and a prostitute become thriving business partners in a remote Old West mining town until ...
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The Player
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but ...
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Robert Altman: Giggle And Give In
Paul Joyce’s documentary profile of Robert Altman, with contributions from Altman, Elliott Gould, Sh...
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Way Out on a Limb
Documentary with several of director Robert Altman's longtime collaborators, as they discuss making ...
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Peter Pan
In this magical tale about the boy who refuses to grow up, Peter Pan and his mischievous fairy sidek...
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Man's Favorite Sport?
Roger Willoughby is a renowned fishing expert, who, unbeknownst to his friends, co-workers, or boss,...
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Peter Pan
This SECOND live broadcast aired a year after the success of the first. Utilizing much of the same c...
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Peter Pan
This musical version of the tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up aired live on television on March 7...
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Calling the Shots
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share ...
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Nashville
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitr...
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The Making of 'Nashville'
Retrospective documentary on the making of Robert Altman's Nashville (1975)....
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Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and grip...
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Altman on His Own Terms
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. T...
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Breakdown: 1975
In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art....
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