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Biography
John Sayles. Writer: Lone Star. A bright child, John Sayles began reading novels before age 9. A Williams College grad in 1972, he shunned a corporate career to work various blue-collar jobs, moving to east Boston to take a factory job. He wrote stories and submitted them to various magazines, and the Atlantic Monthly gave him the idea of publishing them in a novel--thus "Pride of the Bimbos" (1975) was...
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Director
14 credits
Go for Sisters(2013)
Director
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Amigo(2010)
Director
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Honeydripper(2007)
Director
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Silver City(2004)
Director
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Casa de los babys(2003)
Director
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Sunshine State(2002)
Director
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Limbo(1999)
Director
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Men with Guns(1997)
Director
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The Secret of Roan Inish(1994)
Director
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Passion Fish(1992)
Director
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Eight Men Out(1988)
Director
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Matewan(1987)
Director
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The Brother from Another Planet(1984)
Director
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Baby It's You(1983)
Director
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Writer
14 credits
Sonora, the Devil's Highway(2018)
Writer
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The Spiderwick Chronicles(2008)
Writer
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Lone Star(1996)
Creator
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Men of War(1994)
Writer
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Breaking In(1989)
Writer
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Wild Thing(1987)
Writer
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The Clan of the Cave Bear(1986)
Writer
FilmEnormous Changes at the Last Minute(1983)
Writer
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The Challenge(1982)
Writer
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The Howling(1981)
Writer
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Battle Beyond the Stars(1980)
Writer
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Alligator(1980)
Writer
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The Lady in Red(1979)
Writer
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Piranha(1978)
Writer
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Actor
15 credits
Texas Red(2021)
Governor Johnson
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MOVIE MAN(2021)
Self
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...But Film is My Mistress(2010)
Self
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Great Directors(2009)
Self
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Edge of Outside(2006)
Self
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American Storytellers(2003)
Self
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Gridlock'd(1997)
Cop #1
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Straight Talk(1992)
Guy Girardi
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City of Hope(1991)
Carl
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Little Vegas(1990)
Mike
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La fine della notte(1989)
Wayne
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Untama giru(1989)
US High Commissioner
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Hard Choices(1984)
Don
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Lianna(1983)
Jerry
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Return of the Secaucus Seven(1979)
Howie
Film
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