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The Film Writer type includes people who have written film screenplays. People who have had fictional works that were adapted into films should have the type "film story contributor" instead (unless, of couse, they also wrote the screenplay as well, in which case they would arguably be both).

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    Blake Edwards (born July 26, 1922) is an Academy Award-winning American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Born William Blake Crump in Tulsa, Oklahoma, Edwards was the son of a stage director. He began his career as an actor and script-writer, including seven...
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    Kankurō Kudō (宮藤官九郎; born 19 July 1970) is a Japanese screenwriter, dramatist, director, actor and member of the theater company Otona Keikaku. He won the 'Best Screenplay' award at the 2002 Japanese Academy Awards for Go, which explores problems faced by people of...
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    Depeche Mode are an electronic music band formed in 1980, in Basildon, Essex, England. The group's original line-up was Dave Gahan (lead vocals), Martin Gore (keyboards, guitar, vocals, chief songwriter after 1981), Andrew Fletcher (keyboards) and Vince Clarke ...
  • Person, Film writer, Film actor, Film director, Film producer, Author, Comic Book Writer, Comic Book Penciler, Comic Book Creator, Film story contributor, Fictional Character Creator
    Frank Miller (born January 27, 1957) is an American writer, artist and film director best known for his film noir-style comic book stories. He is one of the most widely-recognized and popular creators in comics, and is one of the most influential comics creators of his...
  • Film writer, Person, Comic Book Colorist
    Lynn Varley is a colorist, formerly married to comic book writer/artist Frank Miller, whom she divorced in 2005. She provided the coloring for Miller's Ronin (1984), an experimental 6 issue series from DC Comics that proved that comics in unusual formats could be...
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    Zack Snyder (born March 1, 1966) is an American film director. Snyder started out as both director and cinematographer of music videos (for Morrissey) and commercials (Compuware, Audi, Budweiser, Jeep, Magnum). He has also portrayed sports icons such as Michael...
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    Michael Gordon may refer to:
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    Bernardo Bertolucci (born March 16, 1940) is an Italian writer and Academy Award winning film director. Bernardo Bertolucci was born in the Italian city of Parma, in the region of Emilia Romagna. He was the second son of his father Attilio, who was a poet, a reputed...
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    Robert Lee "Bob" Zemeckis (born May 14, 1952) is an Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning American film director, producer and screenwriter. Zemeckis first came to public attention in the 1980s as the director of the comedic time-travel Back to the Future films as...
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    Michael Robert "Bob" Gale (May 25, 1951, University City, Missouri, United States), is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter who co-wrote the science fiction film Back to the Future with writing partner Robert Zemeckis, and the screen plays for the film's two sequels...
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    Ernest Thompson (born November 6, 1949 as Richard Ernest Thompson, Bellows Falls, Vermont), is an American writer, actor, and director. He spent his early years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, moving to Maryland as a junior high school student. He attended...
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    Michael Radford (born February 24, 1946 in New Delhi, India to a British father and Austrian mother) is an English film director and screenwriter. Radford was educated at Bedford School before attending Worcester College, Oxford. After teaching for a few years, he...
  • Person, Film writer, Author, Deceased Person, Influence Node
    George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair (25 June, 1903 – 21 January 1950) who was an English writer and journalist well-noted as a novelist, critic, and commentator on politics and culture. George Orwell is one of the most admired English-language essayist...
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    Wong Kar-wai (; Cantonese Yale: Wòhng Gà Waih; born July 17, 1958) is an award winning Hong Kong film director, internationally renowned as an auteur for his visually unique, highly stylized film. Born in Shanghai, he moved to Hong Kong with his parents at the age of...
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    Lorne Michaels (born November 17, 1944) is a Canadian Emmy-winning television producer, writer and comedian best known for creating and producing Saturday Night Live and producing the various film and TV projects that spun off from it. Born Lorne David Lipowitz in...
  • Film actor, Film writer, Film producer, Musical Artist, Person, Author, TV Actor, Tagged Topic, Influence Node, Playwright
    Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American comedian, actor, writer, playwright, producer, musician and composer. Martin was born in Waco, Texas, the son of Mary Lee (née Stewart), a homemaker, and Glenn Vernon Martin, a real estate sales and...
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    Luis Mandoki (born in 1954 in Mexico City) is a film director of the Cinema of Mexico and Hollywood. Luis Mandoki studied Fine Arts in Mexico and at the San Francisco Art Institute, the London College of Printing, and the London International Film School. While...
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    Valerie Curtin is an American actress and Oscar-nominated screenwriter, born on March 31, 1945 in New York City. She was married to writer and director Barry Levinson from 1975-1982. Curtin began her writing career in the 1970s working on episodes of the popular...
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    Barry Levinson (born April 6, 1942 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, film director, actor, and producer of film and television. After growing up in Baltimore and graduating from Forest Park Senior High School, Levinson...
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    Pedro Almodóvar Caballero (born September 24, 1949 in Calzada de Calatrava, Spain) is a Spanish film director, screenwriter and producer. Almodóvar is arguably the most successful and internationally known Spanish filmmaker of his generation. His films, marked by...
  • Person, Film writer, Film director, Film producer, TV Writer, TV Director, TV Program Creator
    Mick Garris (born December 4, 1951) is an American filmmaker and screenwriter born in Santa Monica, California. He is best known for his adaptations of Stephen King stories, and is the creator of the Showtime series Masters of Horror. Garris won a 1986 Edgar Award for...
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    Phillip Bradley Bird, better known as Brad Bird (born on September 11, 1957), is the two-time Academy Award-winning American director of Disney/Pixar's critical and box office hits The Incredibles (2004) and Ratatouille (2007). He also wrote and directed the 1999...
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    Matthew Robbins may refer to:
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