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Horton Foote (1916–2009)

Autor de To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition

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Sobre El Autor

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 mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Courtesy of the Pulitzer Prizes.

Series

Obras de Horton Foote

To Kill a Mockingbird 50th Anniversary Edition (1962) — Screenwriter — 661 copias
Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood (1999) 100 copias
The Young Man from Atlanta (1995) 97 copias
De ratones y hombres = Of mice and men (1992) — Screenwriter — 78 copias
The Trip to Bountiful: play (1954) 76 copias
Courtship, Valentine's Day, 1918: Three Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle (Foote, Horton) (1986) 69 copias
To Kill a Mockingbird: The Screenplay and Related Readings (1997) 52 copias
Three Screenplays: To Kill a Mockingbird, Tender Mercies and The Trip to Bountiful (Foote, Horton) (1989) 51 copias
Roots in a Parched Ground, Convicts, Lily Dale, The Widow Claire: Four Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle (1962) 48 copias
Beginnings: A Memoir (2001) 42 copias
Tender Mercies [1983 film] (1994) — Screenwriter — 32 copias
A Young Lady of Property: Six Short Plays by Horton Foote. (1955) 30 copias
The Trip to Bountiful [1985 film] (1985) — Screenwriter — 27 copias
The Chase [1966 film] (1966) — Original play — 24 copias
Horton Foote: Four New Plays (1993) 23 copias
Cousins and the Death of Papa: Two Plays from the Orphans' Home Cycle (1989) 23 copias
Last of the Thorntons (Sewanee Writers' Series) (2000) 21 copias
Getting Frankie Married -- And Afterwards, and Other Plays (Horton Foote Collected Works Volume III) (1999) 20 copias
Selected One Act Plays of Horton Foote (1989) 18 copias
1918. (1987) 15 copias
La jauría humana (1707) 15 copias
Bessie [2015 film] (2015) — Writer — 14 copias
The orphans' home cycle (1989) 14 copias
Horton Foote, Vol. II: Collected Plays (Contemporary American Playwrights) (1996) 13 copias
The Traveling Lady (1955) 13 copias
Dividing the Estate - Acting Edition (2010) 12 copias
To Kill a Mockingbird [1962 screenplay] (1964) 12 copias
Tomorrow (1996) 10 copias
The Carpetbagger's Children - Acting Edition (2002) 10 copias
Three Plays : Old Man, Tomorrow and Roots in a Parched Ground (Harvest Book, Hb 45) (1962) 10 copias
Three Plays: Dividing the Estate, The Trip to Bountiful, and The Young Man from Atlanta (2008) 10 copias
Collected plays (Contemporary playwrights series) (1996) 10 copias
Blind Date and the Actor (2007) 9 copias
Blind Date (1986) 9 copias
Lily Dale (1987) 8 copias
The Carpetbagger's Children & The Actor (2003) 7 copias
Talking Pictures (1996) 7 copias
Courtship - Acting Edition (1994) 7 copias
Harrison, Texas (1956) 7 copias
The Widow Claire (1987) 7 copias
Laura Dennis (1996) 7 copias
Horton Foote's "The Shape of the River" : The Lost Teleplay About Mark Twain (2003) 7 copias
Valentine's Day. (1987) 6 copias
The Roads to Home - Acting Edition (1982) 6 copias
The Trip to Bountiful [2014 TV movie] (2014) — Autor — 5 copias
The Death of Papa - Acting Edition (1979) 5 copias
The Midnight Caller. (1959) 4 copias
The Habitation of Dragons - Acting Edition (1993) 4 copias
Baby, the Rain Must Fall (1965) 4 copias
1918 [1985 film] — Screenwriter — 4 copias
Cousins. (1979) 3 copias
The Orphans' Home Cycle: The Story of a Childhood (2013) 3 copias
Vernon Early (2000) 3 copias
Convicts 3 copias
The tears of my sister ; The prisoner's song ; The one-armed man ; and, The land of the astronauts (1993) 3 copias
Genesis of an American Playwright (2004) 3 copias
The Old Friends (2015) 2 copias
Night Seasons (1996) 2 copias
The Screenplay of To Kill a Mockingbird With 'A Word from Harper Lee' (1964) 1 copia
On Valentine's Day [DVD] 1 copia
A Coffin In Egypt (2015) 1 copia
Tomorrow & Tomorrow & Tomorrow 1 copia
Tender mercies : screenplay 1 copia
Young Man From Atlanta [Souvenir Program] 1 copia
On Valentine's Day [movie] 1 copia
The Trip to Bountiful (Panel #1 Revise) - CD 1 copia
Courtship: Revised 1 copia
The Road to the Graveyard. (1988) 1 copia
Roots in Parched Ground: An Interview with Horton Foote 1 copia
Horton Foote's 1918 (Horton Foote Collection) 1 copia
Courtship [DVD] 1 copia
Four New Plays 1988-1993 1 copia
Roots In A Parched Ground 1 copia
Roots in a Parched Ground and Convicts and Lily Dale and The Window Claire 1 copia
The Tears of My Sister, the Prisoner's Song, the One-Armed Man, the Land of the Astronauts by Horton Foote… 1 copia
Three plays: [Old man, Tomorrow 1 copia
Courtship Valentines Day 1918 1 copia
Rare - Horton Foote YOUNG MAN FROM ATLANTA First Edition Fine Hardcover DJ Play South 1 copia
The Day Emily Married (2015) 1 copia
Tender mercies 1 copia
4 Plays from the Orphan's Home Cycle 1 copia
To kill a mocking bird : final screenplay 1 copia
The Best short plays, 1988-1989 1 copia
Only the heart, play in three acts (1944) 1 copia
The Trip to Bountiful 1 copia
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Best American Plays: Ninth Series, 1983-1992 (1993) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
A Portrait of Southern Writers: Photographs (2000) — Contribuidor — 13 copias
Faulkner, Modernism, and Film: Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha, 1978 (1979) — Contribuidor — 7 copias
The Best Plays Theater Yearbook 2007-2008 (2009) — Contribuidor — 5 copias

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