Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award. His films "MASH" (1970), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971) and "Nashville" (1975) have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.
"Fly too high and you will burn, go too low and you won't breathe." Daedalus weaves a tale of ambition and caution through an ancient myth, set in a nation below sea level. Shot in just seven consecutive days during the summer of 2023, it concludes the first volume of Bliss, a playlist of sounds and shapes. As the master craftsman gifts his son wings and wisdom, the film delves into the perilous dance between striving for greatness and the suffocating pull of stagnancy. This chaotic exploration bridges the warnings and epiphanic thoughts of 20th-century thinkers with the responses of today's dreamers.
Release Date:2024-07-17
Character:Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
Vote Count:1
A look at the making of Popeye(1980) featuring interviews with Robert Altman, Stephen Altman, and Robin Williams
Release Date:2020-12-01
Character:Self (archive footage)
BBC Arena's documentary on the Dames of British Theatre and film featuring Maggie Smith, Elieen Atkins, Judi Dench and Joan Plowright on screen together for the first time as they reminisce over a long summer weekend in a house Joan once shared with Sir Laurence Olivier.
Release Date:2018-05-02
Character:Self (archive footage)
Vote Count:52
Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema left an indelible mark, not merely on the evolution of his art form, but also on the western zeitgeist. With its use of rare interviews, representative film clips, archival images, and musings from his family and most recognizable collaborators, Altman is a dynamic and heartfelt mediation on an artist whose expression, passion and appetite knew few bounds.
Release Date:2014-08-01
Character:Self (archive footage)
Vote Count:34
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
Release Date:2014-02-01
Character:Self (archive footage)
Vote Count:52
Using the words and ideas of great filmmakers, from archival interviews with Alfred Hitchcock and Robert Bresson to new interviews with Mike Leigh, David Lynch, and Jonas Mekas, Oscar-winning filmmaker Chuck Workman shows what these filmmakers and others do that can't be expressed in words - but only in cinema.
Release Date:2013-09-06
Character:Self
Vote Count:21
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.
Release Date:2006-06-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:296
A documentary on the director’s career, featuring interviews with friends, collaborators, and filmmakers.
Release Date:2005-09-03
Character:Self
Vote Count:9
On May 8th, 1945, writer, director Norman Corwin broadcast ON A NOTE OF TRIUMPH, an unforgettable homage to the end of war in Europe. This film shines a light on a lost work of genius, and examines it's haunting resonance to today's current events.
Release Date:2005-08-19
Vote Count:5
A discussion of how the world has changed since Tanner ‘88.
Release Date:2004-11-23
Character:Self
A look at the subjects of Tanner ‘88 and Tanner on Tanner.
Release Date:2004-11-23
Character:Self
A look at the inspiration behind Tanner on Tanner.
Release Date:2004-11-23
Character:Self
A look at the blending of fact and fiction in Tanner ‘88 and Tanner on Tanner.
Release Date:2004-11-23
Character:Self
A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.
Release Date:2004-11-23
Character:Self
A behind the scenes look at the shooting of a scene for Tanner on Tanner.
Release Date:2004-11-23
Character:Self
Director Robert Altman and writer Garry Trudeau discuss their collaboration on Tanner ‘88 in a conversation recorded in June 2004.
Release Date:2004-10-05
Character:Self
Sixteen years ago, Jack Tanner's bid for the White House ended at the 1988 Democratic convention. Now the former congressman is the subject of a documentary film directed by his daughter Alex focusing on the toll paid by failed contenders.
Release Date:2004-10-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Looking for Sophia is a documentary about Loren's remarkable life and career, featuring rare newsreel footage, highlights from her films, and insights from her friends and colleagues.
Release Date:2004-09-17
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
A documentary on the Z Channel, one of the first pay cable stations in the US, and its programming chief, Jerry Harvey. Debuting in 1974, the LA-based channel's eclectic slate of movies became a prime example of the untapped power of cable television.
Release Date:2004-05-16
Character:Self
Vote Count:36
Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
Release Date:2004-04-15
Vote Count:1
Ensemble drama centered around a group of ballet dancers, with a focus on one young dancer who's poised to become a principal performer.
Release Date:2003-12-25
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:106
A made for DVD extras documentary about the making of Robert Altman’s film Images.
Release Date:2003-09-16
Character:Self
A documentary examining the decade of the 1970s as a turning point in American cinema. Some of today's best filmmakers interview the influential directors of that time.
Release Date:2003-04-25
Character:Self
Vote Count:40
A documentary giving film fans a behind-the-scenes look at the making this Robert Altman film about a murder at an English country estate. Includes interviews with the cast and crew, who relate some of their experiences with making the film, as well as giving their views on all the work that went into it.
Release Date:2002-06-18
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
Interview with director Robert Altman about "Rashomon."
Release Date:2002-03-26
Character:Self
Robert Altman interviewed during the making of GOSFORD PARK (2001), as well as members of the cast and crew. Also, revealing behind the scenes footage and information about his career leading up to this feature.
Release Date:2002-02-03
Character:Himself
Interviews with Robert Altman and Elliott Gould about The Long Goodbye (1973)
Release Date:2002-01-01
Character:Self
Vote Count:3
In 1930s England, a group of pretentious rich and famous gather together for a weekend of relaxation at a hunting resort. But when a murder occurs, each one of these interesting characters becomes a suspect.
Release Date:2001-11-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1118
History vs. Hollywood is a television show on the History Channel in the United States. On the show, experts are interviewed on the historical accuracy of a film that is based on a historical event. For example the movie The Last Samurai was featured in one episode in which military historian Geoffrey Wawro, professor of history at the University of North Texas, and director of the university's Barsanti center for military-history, compared the movie with the actual events. On the show the expert guests discuss the factual accuracy of the film as well as the everyday objects that a person of the particular time period would have seen. In some episodes an expert or the host will go on a journey to the actual historical sites depicted in the film, or interview someone who witnessed the event firsthand. In each of the more than dozen episodes both expert guests and filmmakers will discuss the historical accuracy of the film dramatized. The series was first released in 1999, and had been produced on a semi-regular basis continuing through at least 2005. The program was conceived and created by producer Steven Jack who also directed a majority of the episodes. Although the hour long programs were made for television most episodes were shot on 35mm film which heightened its authentic looking recreations and aided in earning critical praise for its efforts to both entertain and educate.
Release Date:2001-01-22
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:3
A successful Texas gynecologist finds himself amid a bevy of women and their problems – his wife’s breakdown, his daughter's fake marriage, his other daughter’s conspiracy theories, and his secretary’s crush. Craving time for himself, he finds solace in a kind outsider.
Release Date:2000-09-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:328
A provocative and in-depth look at the making of a classic movie, providing viewers with great movies. And the stories behind them.
Release Date:2000-08-12
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
Passed over at work and numbed after she witnesses a colleague's murder, security guard Trixie Zurbo takes a relatively easy job at a lakefront casino, working undercover keeping an eye out for pickpockets. Trixie meets an assortment of colorful regulars: Kirk Stans, the casino's lounge act who drinks too much and is a dead-on mimic; Ruby Pearli , a glamorous, young and knowledgeable barfly; and Dex Lang, a raffish ladies' man who pays attention to Trixie in a way that's hard for her to ignore.
Release Date:2000-06-28
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:21
A behind the scenes look at the making of the movie M*A*S*H. The documentary reveals all of the chaos, politics, and conflict that was going on behind the scenes during production of the movie through new interviews done with director Robert Altman as well as Richard Zanuck, who was head of production for 20th Century Fox at the time, and others.
Release Date:2000-01-08
Character:Self
Vote Count:5
Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.
Release Date:2000-01-07
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:1
A look at the life and career of acclaimed independent filmmaker Robert Altman...on his own words. The genius director who shook the cinema industry with countless films examines some of his most important works, along with friends and regular collaborators.
Release Date:2000-01-01
Character:Self
This documentary is a fascinating look at the cinematic genius of Alfred Hitchcock. Briefly covering much of his early British works, the film primarily focuses on his American classics, such as "Shadow of a Doubt", "Notorious", "Rear Window", "Vertigo", "Psycho" and "The Birds". The movie also covers his television years and neatly examines the Hitchcock signature touches, from his inevitable brief cameo to his famous MacGuffin.
Release Date:1999-10-13
Character:Self
Vote Count:5
Conflict arises in the small town of Holly Springs when an old woman's death causes a variety of reactions among family and friends.
Release Date:1999-03-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:177
Documentary biography series featuring profiles of various famous film directors.
Release Date:1999-01-01
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:8
About battles in the computer world of Seattle.
Release Date:1998-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A successful Savannah defense attorney gets romantically involved with a sexy, mysterious waitress troubled by psychopaths and dark family secrets.
Release Date:1998-01-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:159
Lucky Mann is a builder equally handy at repairs and seduction. The latest housewife to succumb to his charms is Marianne, unhappily married to corporate exec Jeffrey. When Jeffrey becomes enraptured by Lucky’s wife Phyllis, the four get caught in a love quadrangle that reignites their marriages.
Release Date:1997-12-26
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:34
Follows a gun and the different hands it falls into and the different characters that use it.
Release Date:1997-04-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Gun is an American television anthology series which aired on ABC on Saturday night from April 12, to May 31, 1997 at 10:00 p.m Eastern time. The series lasted six episodes, each directed by a well-known director, before being cancelled. Each episode involves the same semi-automatic pistol as an important part of the plot. The characters each episode are completely different and appeared unrelated to those who appeared in other episodes. The series was produced by Robert Altman and attracted numerous recognizable stars including Fred Ward, Kathy Baker, Carrie Fisher, Daryl Hannah, Randy Quaid, and Martin Sheen, as well as James Gandolfini in his first television appearance. The theme song was a cover of The Beatles' "Happiness Is a Warm Gun", performed by U2.
Release Date:1997-04-12
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Episode Count:6
Vote Count:3
A recreation of 1934 Kansas City jazz jam session created by Robert Altman.
Release Date:1997-01-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:6
A documentary looking at the life and career of film director Frank Capra. Hosted by Ron Howard.
Release Date:1997-01-01
Character:Self
Vote Count:6
A pair of kidnappings expose the complex power dynamics within the corrupt and unpredictable workings of 1930s Kansas City.
Release Date:1996-08-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:82
Paul Joyce’s documentary profile of Robert Altman, with contributions from Altman, Elliott Gould, Shelley Duvall, assistant director Alan Rudolph and screenwriter Joan Tewkesbury. Originally broadcast on July 17th 1996 in Channel Four’s Cinefile series.
Release Date:1996-07-17
Character:Self
Based on the first centenary of the largest exporter of films in the world, that is Hollywood, is the story told by its protagonists, actors and writers and other people who made life in this business, interspersing images of famous movies.
Release Date:1995-06-05
Character:Self
Vote Count:6
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
Release Date:1994-12-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:220
Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Release Date:1994-09-07
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:52
Intimate Portrait is a biographical television series on the Lifetime Television cable network focusing on different celebrities, which includes interviews with each subject. Among the people profiled were Grace Kelly, Natalie Wood, Carly Simon, Jackie Kennedy, Katharine Hepburn, Carol Burnett, Tanya Tucker, and Marla Maples.
Release Date:1993-11-14
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:5
A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.
Release Date:1993-09-25
Character:Self
Vote Count:1
Many loosely connected characters cross paths in this film, based on the stories of Raymond Carver. Waitress Doreen Piggot accidentally runs into a boy with her car. Soon after walking away, the child lapses into a coma. While at the hospital, the boy's grandfather tells his son, Howard, about his past affairs. Meanwhile, a baker starts harassing the family when they fail to pick up the boy's birthday cake.
Release Date:1993-09-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:604
A documentary insight behind the scenes of Roberts Altman's Short Cuts.
Release Date:1993-03-26
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
The famous rhythm and blues revue featuring such standards as the title song, "After You've Gone" and "In a Sentimental Mood," to name just a few, and sung by R&B legends Ruth Brown, Linda Hopkins and Carrie Smith.
Release Date:1993-02-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Release Date:1992-04-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:836
Behind-the-scenes documentary about a fundraiser which was staged for Robert Altman's film "The Player" (1992).
Release Date:1992-01-01
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
Release Date:1990-12-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:61
A documentary focusing on seventeen maverick directors who were not afraid to break the rules of filmmaking to advance their art. Among the classic directors profiled are D.W. Griffith, Josef von Sternberg, Erich Von Stroheim, and Preston Sturges up until more current filmmakers like David Lynch, Robert Altman, and Martin Scorsese..
Release Date:1990-09-07
Character:Self
Vote Count:2
Made originally as a four-hour miniseries for television and cut back for theatrical release, Vincent & Theo is about the mysterious, near-mystical interaction between Vincent (Tim Roth) and his brother Theo (Paul Rhys). Theo, an art dealer in Paris, tried for years without success to sell Vincent's art, and died not quite six months after his brother shot himself to death in a wheat field in Auvers-sur-Oise.
Release Date:1990-04-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1
A full-length adaptation, originally staged as a play, of the court-martial segment from the novel "The Caine Mutiny".
Release Date:1988-05-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:11
In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics.
Release Date:1988-02-15
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Episode Count:12
Vote Count:6
Ten short pieces directed by ten different directors, including Ken Russell, Jean-Luc Godard, Robert Altman, Bruce Beresford, and Nicolas Roeg. Each short uses an aria as soundtrack/sound, and is an interpretation of the particular aria.
Release Date:1987-09-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:37
O.C. and Stiggs aren't your average unhappy teenagers. They not only despise their suburban surroundings, but they also plot against it. They seek revenge against the upper-middle-class Schwab family, who embody all they detest: excess.
Release Date:1987-07-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:15
Basements is the title for the omnibus film that brings together two plays by Harold Pinter – The Dumb Waiter and The Room – each, once again, set in a single location.
Release Date:1987-05-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:7
Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during their second date. However, Bruce's bisexual, live-in lover does not want to share Bruce and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep him to himself.
Release Date:1987-02-27
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:28
A woman is waiting in a motel for her boyfriend, when an old flame turns up and tries to take her back to the life she is trying to leave behind.
Release Date:1985-12-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:43
Two lonely women coincide at midnight in a laundromat, where they reveal their secrets.
Release Date:1985-04-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
In his New Jersey study, Richard Nixon retraces the missteps of his political career, attempting to absolve himself of responsibility for Watergate and lambasting President Gerald Ford's decision to pardon him. His monologue explores his personal life and describes his upbringing and his mother. A tape recorder, a gun and whiskey are his only companions during his entire monologue, which is tinged with the vitriol and paranoia that puzzled the public during his presidency.
Release Date:1984-09-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:43
Four young recruits about to be sent to Vietnam confront their prejudicial feelings toward one another when it's learned one of them is gay.
Release Date:1983-09-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:28
On the 20th anniversary of his death, the members of a James Dean fanclub gather at a five-and-dime for a reunion.
Release Date:1982-11-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:70
A documentary overview of the career of silent cinema pioneer Edwin S. Porter.
Release Date:1982-10-09
Character:Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
Vote Count:7
A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other.
Release Date:1982-03-09
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
A one act play about a young doctor who ditches his safe middle-class existence to become a cowboy out West. His cowboy fantasy eventually breaks down.
Release Date:1982-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
As their romance unfolds, Jade and David's growing love for one another becomes the scorn of Jade's father. However, when Jade's grades begin to drop, her father forbids the young couple from seeing each other for 30 days. Driven insane with frustration and desire, David attempts to reverse the decision, with catastrophic results.
Release Date:1981-07-17
Character:Hotel Manager
Vote Count:226
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
Release Date:1980-12-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:633
At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses, underhanded tricks, backroom corruption and bizarre personal behavior threaten to undermine the entire affair.
Release Date:1980-09-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
Two 12-year-olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
Release Date:1979-08-17
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:14
An uptight bachelor tries his luck with a computer dating service and gets matched up with his polar opposite.
Release Date:1979-04-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:16
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
Release Date:1979-02-09
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:68
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.
Release Date:1978-08-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:48
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and eventually terrorizing him and his wife.
Release Date:1978-02-10
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:32
The South Bank Show is a television arts magazine show that was produced by ITV between 1978 and 2010. A new series began on Sky Arts from 27 May 2012. Presented by Melvyn Bragg, the show aims to bring both high art and popular culture to a mass audience.
Release Date:1978-01-14
Character:Self
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:7
Two co-workers, one a vain woman and the other an awkward teenager, share an increasingly bizarre relationship after becoming roommates.
Release Date:1977-04-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:294
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped pussycat.
Release Date:1977-02-10
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:56
The lives of a group of Hollywood neurotics intersect over the Christmas holidays. Foremost among them, a songwriter visits Los Angeles to work on a singer's album. The gig, unbeknownst to him, is being bankrolled by his estranged father, a dairy magnate, who hopes to reunite with his son. When the songwriter meets an eccentric housewife who fancies herself a modern-day Garbo, his world of illusions comes crashing down.
Release Date:1976-11-12
Department:Production
Job:Producer
Vote Count:18
Buffalo Bill plans to put on his own Wild West sideshow, and Chief Sitting Bull has agreed to appear in it. However, Sitting Bull has his own hidden agenda, involving the President and General Custer.
Release Date:1976-06-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:89
A late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels. The show's comedy sketches, which parody contemporary culture and politics, are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members. Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest, who usually delivers an opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast, and features performances by a musical guest.
Release Date:1975-10-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:434
The intersecting stories of twenty-four characters—from country star to wannabe to reporter to waitress—connect to the music business in Nashville, Tennessee.
Release Date:1975-06-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:404
Carefree single guy Charlie Waters rooms with two lovely prostitutes, Barbara Miller and Susan Peters, and lives to gamble. Along with his glum betting buddy, Bill Denny, Charlie sets out on a gambling streak in search of the ever-elusive big payday. While Charlie and Bill have some lucky moments, they also have to contend with serious setbacks that threaten to derail their hedonistic betting binge.
Release Date:1974-08-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:122
Three criminals escape from prison and embark on a robbery spree across USA. Along the way, one of them falls in love while they plan a final heist before going their separate ways.
Release Date:1974-02-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:75
In 1970s Hollywood, Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Release Date:1973-03-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Ambulance Driver (uncredited)
Vote Count:650
While holidaying in Ireland, a pregnant children's author finds her mental state becoming increasingly unstable, resulting in paranoia, hallucinations, and visions of a doppelgänger.
Release Date:1972-12-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:140
A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.
Release Date:1971-06-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:403
Brewster is an owlish, intellectual boy who lives in a fallout shelter of the Houston Astrodome. He has a dream: to take flight within the confines of the stadium. Brewster tells those he trusts of his dream, but displays a unique way of treating others who do not fit within his plans.
Release Date:1970-12-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:86
The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
Release Date:1970-02-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1043
Sexuality without pretense gives the wallop to Events. A dramatic street story of young runaway flower-kids in the Greenwich Village of 1968, it raises ethical questions while the screen explodes with erotica."EVENTS is without question, the most far-out sexually experimental film made in the sixties or seventies."--Bruce Williamson, Playboy
Release Date:1970-01-01
Character:Bob
Vote Count:6
Frances Austen, a young, wealthy spinster, invites a mute teenager into her apartment after finding him freezing in the park next to where she lives. Despite her best efforts, their lack of communication only increases her sense of loneliness, as her possessiveness spirals into frightening new realms.
Release Date:1969-06-08
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:57
Release Date:1968-07-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
The Dick Cavett Show has been the title of several talk shows hosted by Dick Cavett on various television networks.
Release Date:1968-06-06
Character:Self - Guest
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:20
Desperate to land a man on the moon before Russia does, NASA hastily preps a would-be spaceman for a mission that would leave him alone in a lunar shelter for a year.
Release Date:1967-08-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:50
A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him captive, demanding a ransom for his safe release. However there is no one - wife, Mafia associates or mother - willing to part with the $200,000 ransom. Demonico is dismayed that no one appears unduly concerned about his fate and joins forces with the kidnappers to plot his revenge, blackmailing his once nearest and dearest into parting with $3,000,000 in hush money.
Release Date:1967-05-17
Department:Directing
Job:Second Unit Director
Vote Count:7
Robert Altman recounts the life of his wife Kathryn Reed, using the format of a documentary, with funny reenactments played by Reed's friends and family.
Release Date:1965-09-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Character:Himself
Short humorous snippets of marijuana use.
Release Date:1964-12-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The story of a serial killer known as "Georgie Porgie." The Chicago turnpike is threatened over a three-day period as the police try to catch him by blocking the whole area.
Release Date:1964-04-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:5
A "home movie" by Robert Altman shot at his house in Mandeville Canyon.
Release Date:1963-12-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
20 years after a Second World War court-martial, a vet pulls a gun on the ruthless attorney who defended him, when the cynical mouthpiece, who doesn't even remember his former client, refuses to see him. So the shaken gunman recounts the story of accidentally fragging his commanding officer.
Release Date:1963-12-12
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
Kraft Suspense Theatre is an American anthology series that was telecast from 1963 to 1965 on NBC. Sponsored by Kraft Foods, it was seen three weeks out of every four and was pre-empted for Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall specials once monthly. Como's production company, Roncom Films, also produced Kraft Suspense Theatre. Writer, editor, critic and radio playwright Anthony Boucher served as consultant on the series. Later syndicated under the title Crisis, it was one of the few suspense series telecast in color at the time. While most of NBC's shows were in color then, all-color network line-ups did not become the norm until the 1966-67 season.
Release Date:1963-10-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:3
The Gallant Men is a 1962–1963 ABC television series which depicted an infantry company of American soldiers fighting their way through Italy in World War II.
Release Date:1962-10-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
Release Date:1962-10-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:103
Bus Stop is a 26-episode American drama which aired on ABC from October 1, 1961, until March 25, 1962, starring Marilyn Maxwell as Grace Sherwood, the owner of a bus station and diner in the fictitious town of Sunrise in the Colorado Rockies. The program was adapted from William Inge's play, Bus Stop, and Inge was a script consultant for the series, which followed the lives of travelers passing through the bus station and the diner. Maxwell's co-stars were Richard Anderson as District Attorney Glenn Wagner, Rhodes Reason as Sheriff Will Mayberry, Joan Freeman as waitress Elma Gahrigner, Bernard Kates as Ralph the coroner, and Buddy Ebsen as Virge Blessing.
Release Date:1961-10-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
A former underworld lawyer goes to work for the Federal Government, determined to bring 100 top criminals to justice.
Release Date:1961-09-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:3
Kraft Mystery Theatre is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from June 17, 1961 to September 25, 1963.
Release Date:1961-06-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:2
The adventures of a newspaper reporter covering the world of cops and gangsters in 1920s Chicago.
Release Date:1960-10-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
Route 66 is an American TV series in which two young men traveled across America in a Chevrolet Corvette sports car. The show ran weekly on Fridays on CBS from October 7, 1960 to March 20, 1964. It starred Martin Milner as Tod Stiles and, for the first two and a half seasons, George Maharis as Buz Murdock. Maharis was ill for much of the third season, during which time Tod was shown traveling on his own. Tod met Lincoln Case, played by Glenn Corbett, late in the third season, and traveled with him until the end of the fourth and final season. Among the series more notable aspects were the featured Corvette convertible, and the program's instrumental theme song, which became a major pop hit.
Release Date:1960-10-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:16
Surfside 6 was an ABC television series which aired from 1960 to 1962. The show centered on a Miami Beach detective agency set on a houseboat and featured Troy Donahue as Sandy Winfield II; Van Williams as Kenny Madison; and Lee Patterson as Dave Thorne. Diane McBain co-starred as socialite Daphne Dutton, whose yacht was berthed next to their houseboat. Margarita Sierra also had a supporting role as Cha Cha O'Brien, an entertainer who worked at The Boom Boom Room, a popular Miami Beach hangout at the Fontainebleau Hotel, directly across the street from Surfside 6. Surfside 6 was in fact a real address in Miami Beach, where an unrelated houseboat was moored at the time; it can also be seen in the sweeping aerial establishing shot of the Fontainebleu in 1964's Goldfinger.
Release Date:1960-10-06
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
Private Eyes Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele are based out of Hawaiian Village Resort where they work both hotel security and are hired by others to look into various matters. They're helped by their trusty right-hand man Kazuo Kim who runs a taxi company and is always eager to help them.
Release Date:1959-10-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:9
The Troubleshooters is an American 26-segment half-hour adventure series starring Keenan Wynn as Kodiak and Bob Mathias as Frank Dugan. The show aired on NBC Television from September 11, 1959, to April 10, 1960. Based on events at international construction sites, the program was directed by Robert Altman early in his career. It was the first TV series offered by United Artists. It starred Chet Allen as Slats, Roland "Bob" Harris as Jim, Bob Fortier as Scotty, and stunt actor Carey Loftin as Skinner. Forrest Compton also appeared in two episodes as Davis.
Release Date:1959-09-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:8
United States Marshal (renamed from Sheriff of Cochise) is a crime drama set in Tuscon, Arizona about a U.S. Marshal fighting crime. After "U.S. Marshal" ended its run in 1960, both it and its predecessor series "The Sheriff of Cochise" were syndicated under the unified title "The Man from Cochise". This series was created when the title character of the 1956-58 TV series The Sheriff of Cochise (1956), a role also played by John Bromfield, accepted the position of U.S. Marshal based in Yuma, AZ.
Release Date:1958-10-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Lawman is an American western television series originally telecast on ABC from 1958 to 1962 starring John Russell as Marshal Dan Troop and featuring Peter Brown as Deputy Marshal Johnny McKay. The series was set in Laramie, Wyoming during 1879 and the 1880s. Warner Bros. already had several western series on the air at the time, having launched Cheyenne with Clint Walker as early as 1955. The studio continued the trend in 1957 with the additions of Maverick with James Garner and Jack Kelly, Colt .45 with Wayde Preston, and Sugarfoot with Will Hutchins. One year later, Warner Bros. added Lawman and Bronco with Ty Hardin. Prior to the beginning of production, Russell and Brown and producer Jules Schermer made a pact to maintain the quality of the series so that it would not be seen as "just another western." At the start of season two, Russell and Brown were joined by Peggie Castle as Lily Merrill, the owner of the Birdcage Saloon, and a love interest for Dan.
Release Date:1958-10-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:9
Bronco is a Western series on ABC from 1958 through 1962. It was shown by the BBC in the United Kingdom. The program starred Ty Hardin as Bronco Layne, a former Confederate officer who wandered the Old West, meeting such well-known individuals as Wild Bill Hickok, Billy the Kid, Jesse James, Theodore Roosevelt, Belle Starr, Cole Younger, and John Wesley Hardin.
Release Date:1958-09-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:6
The Maverick boys - Bret, Bart, Beau and Brent - are a clan of well-dressed dandies, gamblers who'd much rather make their money playing cards than messing up their fine clothing with actual work. Sly and clever, none of the Mavericks are much for acts of derring do, but they can be courageous when the situation calls for it. Most often, however, they live by their wits and considerable charm.
Release Date:1957-09-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:36
Lt. Frank Ballinger is a no-nonsense plain clothes cop in the elite M Squad Division. The Squad's task is to root out organised crime and corruption in America's Second City, Chicago.
Release Date:1957-09-20
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:6
Sugarfoot is an American western television series that aired on ABC from 1957 to 1961. The series stars Will Hutchins as Tom Brewster, an Easterner who comes to the Oklahoma Territory to become a lawyer. Jack Elam is cast in occasional episodes as sidekick Toothy Thompson. Brewster was a correspondence-school student whose apparent lack of cowboy skills earned him the nickname "Sugarfoot", a designation even below that of a tenderfoot.
Release Date:1957-09-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:5
Released two years after James Dean's death, this documentary chronicles his short life and career via black-and-white still photographs, interviews with the aunt and uncle who raised him, his paternal grandparents, a New York City cabdriver friend, the owner of his favorite Los Angeles restaurant, outtakes from East of Eden, footage of the opening night of Giant, and Dean's ironic PSA for safe driving.
Release Date:1957-08-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:22
A frustrated young man, separated from his younger girlfriend, gets involved in a juvenile gang.
Release Date:1957-03-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:9
Whirlybirds is a syndicated American drama/adventure television series, which aired for 111 episodes — broadcast from February 4, 1957, through January 18, 1960. It was produced by Desilu Studios . The show centered around Chuck Martin (Kenneth Tobey) and Pete (P.T.) Moore (Craig Hill), owners of 'Whirlybirds, Inc', who flew their helicopter (N975B) between Longwood Field and anywhere where they could be of help to someone in trouble.
Release Date:1957-01-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:14
Vote Count:4
The Gale Storm Show is an American sitcom starring Gale Storm. The series premiered on September 29, 1956, and ran until 1960 for 143 half-hour black-and-white episodes, initially on CBS and in its last year on ABC. The Gale Storm Show was co-produced by Independent Television Corporation and Hal Roach Studios. The series was aired under the title Oh, Susanna in syndication.
Release Date:1956-09-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
A popcorn company hopes to boost sales with a live TV program featuring Western swing music, but the hustler hired to assemble the production is secretly in the employ of the company’s competitor, and is also trying to sabotage it.
Release Date:1956-01-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Veterans of Foreign Wars as a fraternal and social organization, with emphasis on their projects that benefit community life and cohesion.
Release Date:1956-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A promotional film for Ford's Model Agency, directed by Robert Altman, as a potential television pilot.
Release Date:1956-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
In this short National Safety Council film, the perfect crime is presented as excess speed. Accidents at high speed often results in deaths and are rarely investigated like the robbery of a corner grocery shown at the beginning of the film. The film ends with a plea to support the costs of new modern roads.
Release Date:1955-12-31
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:1
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Release Date:1955-10-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:224
An anthology series that explored the ways sudden and unexpected wealth changed life for better or for worse. It told the stories of people who were given one million dollars from a benefactor who insisted they never know him, with one exception.
Release Date:1955-01-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:3
The Dirty Look is a 1954 comedy-short film, directed by Robert Altman, with Leonard Belove and William Frawley. Duration 24 minutes. This 1954 film was used by the Gulf Oil Company as a training film on keeping your Gulf Oil filling station clean.
Release Date:1954-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Release Date:1953-03-19
Character:Self
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:65
Omnibus is an American, commercially sponsored, educational television series.
Release Date:1952-11-09
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
1952 Robert Altman short film
Release Date:1952-01-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Robert Altman's first film was this 26-minute short, which has a football coach explaining how to play the sport. This is basically an educational short where the viewer learns about the various rules of the sport as the narrator explains them while we see reenactments.
Release Date:1951-01-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:2
A cop on suspension is framed for murder when he noses in on a murder investigation.
Release Date:1948-09-04
Department:Writing
Job:Story
Vote Count:27
Walter Mitty, a daydreaming writer with an overprotective mother, likes to imagine that he is a hero who experiences fantastic adventures. His dream becomes reality when he accidentally meets a mysterious woman who hands him a little black book. According to her, it contains the locations of the Dutch crown jewels hidden since World War II. Soon, Mitty finds himself in the middle of a confusing conspiracy, where he has difficulty differentiating between fact and fiction.
Release Date:1947-09-01
Character:Man Drinking (uncredited)
Vote Count:128