This is a list of films that are based on books aboutfilms and television.
This is a list of films that are based on books aboutfilms and television.
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Permanent Midnight | 1998 | David Veloz | USA | Permanent Midnight | Jerry Stahl | 1995 | Memoir | Jerry Stahl |
| Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mommie Dearest | 1981 | Frank Perry | USA | Mommie Dearest | Christina Crawford | 1978 | Memoir | Joan Crawford |
| Frances | 1982 | Graeme Clifford | USA | Shadowland | William Arnold | 198? | "Fictional biography" | Frances Farmer |
| Summer of Aviya | 1988 | Eli Cohen | Israel | Summer of Aviya | Gila Almagor | 197? | Novel/ Memoir | Gila Almagor (simulacrum) |
| The Aviator | 2004 | Martin Scorsese | USA | Howard Hughes: The Secret Life | Charles Higham | 1993 | Biography | Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner |
| The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | 2004 | Stephen Hopkins | UK & USA | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Roger Lewis | 1995 | Biography | Britt Ekland |
| Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows ** | 2001 | Robert Allan Ackerman | Canada & USA | Me and My Shadows: A Family Memoir | Lorna Luft | 1998 | Memoir | Judy Garland |
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Swimming to Cambodia | 1987 | Jonathan Demme | USA | Swimming to Cambodia [2] | Spalding Gray | 1985 | Monologue/ Memoir | Spalding Gray |
| 2 | Auto Focus | 2002 | Paul Schrader | USA | The Murder of Bob Crane: Who Killed the Star of Hogan's Heroes? | Robert Graysmith | 1993 [1] | Biography | Bob Crane |
| 3 | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | 2004 | Stephen Hopkins | UK & USA | The Life and Death of Peter Sellers | Roger Lewis | 1995 | Biography | Peter Sellers |
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Stunt Man | 1980 | Richard Rush | USA | The Stunt Man | Paul Brodeur | 1970 [1] | Novel | - |
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Frost/Nixon | 2008 | Ron Howard | USA | Frost/Nixon [3] | Peter Morgan | 2006 | Play | David Frost |
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Winchell * | 1998 | Paul Mazursky | USA | Winchell: His Life and Times | Herman Klurfeld | 1976 [1] | Non-fiction | Walter Winchell |
| # | Film | Date | Director | Country | Source work | Author | Date | Type | Basis |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Last Picture Show [4] | 1971 | Peter Bogdanovich | USA | The Last Picture Show | Larry McMurtry | 1966 | Novel | - |
Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton, who wrote primarily as K. M. Peyton, was a British author of fiction for children and young adults in the 1960s and 1970s.
Czechoslovakia 1968 is a 1969 short documentary film about the "Prague Spring", the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The film was produced by the United States Information Agency (USIA) under the direction of Robert M. Fresco and Denis Sanders and features the graphic design of Norman Gollin.
Band of Brothers is a 2001 American war drama miniseries based on historian Stephen E. Ambrose's 1992 non-fiction book of the same name. It was created by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks, who also served as executive producers, and who had collaborated on the 1998 World War II film Saving Private Ryan. Episodes first aired on HBO starting on September 9, 2001. Critically acclaimed, the series won the Emmy and Golden Globe awards for best miniseries.
V is an American science fiction franchise created by American writer, producer and director Kenneth Johnson about a genocidal invading alien race known as the "Visitors"—reptilian humanoids disguised as human beings—trying to take over Earth, and the human reaction to this, including the Resistance group attempting to stop them, while others collaborate with the aliens for power and personal wealth.
James Albert Michener was an American writer. He wrote more than 40 books, most of which were long, fictional family sagas covering the lives of many generations, set in particular geographic locales and incorporating detailed history. Many of his works were bestsellers and were chosen by the Book of the Month Club. He was also known for the meticulous research that went into his books.
Larry Jeff McMurtry was an American novelist, essayist, and screenwriter whose work was predominantly set in either the Old West or contemporary Texas. His novels included Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975), which were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations. He was also a prominent book collector and bookseller.
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Alex North was an American composer best known for his many film scores, including A Streetcar Named Desire, Viva Zapata!, Spartacus, Cleopatra, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? He received fifteen Academy Award nominations for his work as a composer; while he did not win for any of his nominations, he received an Honorary Academy Award in 1986, the first for a composer.
Eric Clifford Ambler OBE was an English author of thrillers, in particular spy novels, who introduced a new realism to the genre. Also working as a screenwriter, Ambler used the pseudonym Eliot Reed for books co-written with Charles Rodda.
James Brendan Patterson is an American author. Among his works are the Alex Cross, Michael Bennett, Women's Murder Club, Maximum Ride, Daniel X, NYPD Red, Witch & Wizard, Private and Middle School series, as well as many stand-alone thrillers, non-fiction, and romance novels. Patterson's books have sold more than 425 million copies, and he was the first person to sell one million e-books. In 2016, Patterson topped Forbes's list of highest-paid authors for the third consecutive year, with an income of $95 million. His total income over a decade is estimated at $700 million.
Bryan Neathway Brown AM is an Australian actor. He has performed in over eighty film and television projects since the late 1970s, both in his native Australia and abroad. Notable films include Breaker Morant (1980), Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984), F/X (1986), Tai-Pan (1986), Cocktail (1988), Gorillas in the Mist (1988), F/X2 (1991), Along Came Polly (2004), Australia (2008), Kill Me Three Times (2014) and Gods of Egypt (2016). He was nominated for a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award for his performance in the television miniseries The Thorn Birds (1983).
William Benedict Nicholson, OBE, FRSL is a British screenwriter, playwright, and novelist who has been nominated twice for an Oscar.
The Complete Directory to Prime Time Network and Cable TV Shows, 1946–Present is a trade paperback reference work by the American television historians Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh, first published by Ballantine Books in 1979.
The Pacific is a 2010 American war drama miniseries produced by HBO, Playtone, and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010.
Julia Garner is an American actress. She is best known for her starring role as Ruth Langmore in the Netflix crime drama series Ozark (2017–2022), for which she received critical acclaim and won three Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress.
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