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Art Linson
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Art Linson (b. 1942 in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter. His directorial debut was the 1980 comedy, Where the Buffalo Roam, which was loosely based on stories by Hunter S. Thompson and starred Bill Murray as the writer. He also directed 1984's The Wild Life.
Linson has produced many films including Car Wash, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fight Club, Melvin and Howard and the Brian De Palma films, The Untouchables, Casualties of War and The Black Dahlia. He has worked with Michael Mann, David Mamet and Cameron Crowe.
His writing credits include the film American Hot Wax and two books, What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line (ISBN 1-58234-240-7), which is being developed into a film, and A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood (ISBN 0-8021-3551-X).
- Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (1975)
- Car Wash (1976)
- American Hot Wax (1978)
- Where the Buffalo Roam (1980)
- Melvin and Howard (1980)
- Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
- The Wild Life (1984)
- The Untouchables (1987)
- Scrooged (1988)
- Casualties of War (1989)
- We're No Angels (1989)
- Dick Tracy (1990)
- Singles (1992)
- Point of No Return (1993)
- This Boy's Life (1993)
- Heat (1995)
- The Edge (1997)
- Great Expectations
- Pushing Tin (1999)
- Fight Club (1999)
- Sunset Strip (2000)
- Heist (2001)
- Spartan (2004)
- Imaginary Heroes (2004)
- Lords of Dogtown (2005)
- The Black Dahlia (2006)
- Into the Wild (2007)
- What Just Happened? (2007)
- The Untouchables: Capone Rising (2008)
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