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Robert Altman was born on February 20th, 1925 in Kansas City, Missouri, to B.C. (an insurance salesman) and Helen Altman. He entered St. Peters Catholic school at the age six, and spent a short time at a Catholic high school. From there, he went to Rockhurst High School. It was then that he started exploring the art of exploring sound with the cheap tape recorders available at the time. He was then sent to Wentworth Military Academy in Lexington, Missouri where he attended through Junior College. In 1945, he enlisted in the US Army Air Forces and became a copilot of a B-24. After his discharge from the military, he became fascinated by movies and he and his first wife, LaVonne Elmer, moved to Hollywood, where Altman tried acting (appearing in the film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)), songwriting (he wrote a musical intended for Broadway, "The Rumors are Flying"), and screen-writing (he co-wrote the screenplay for the film Bodyguard (1948) and wrote the story (uncredited) for Christmas Eve (1947)), but he could not get a foot hold in Tinseltown. After a brief fling as publicity director with a company in the business of tattooing dogs, Altman finally gave up and returned to his hometown of Kansas City, where he decided he wanted to do some serious work in filmmaking. An old friend of his recommended him to a film production company in Kansas City, the Calvin Co., who hired him in 1950. After a few months of work in writing scripts and editing films, Altman began directing films at Calvin. It was here (while working on documentaries, employee training films, industrial and educational films and advertisements) that he learned much about film making. All in all, Altman pieced together sixty to sixty-five short films for Calvin on every subject imaginable, from football to car crashes, but he kept grasping for more challenging projects. He wrote the screenplay for the Kansas City-produced feature film Corn's-A-Poppin' (1955), he produced and directed several television commercials including one with the Eileen Ford Agency, he co-created and directed the TV series The Pulse of the City (1953) which ran for one season on the independent Dumont network, and he even had a formative crack at directing local community theater. His big-screen directorial debut came while still at Calvin with The Delinquents (1957) and, by 1956, he left the Calvin Co., and went to Hollywood to direct Alfred Hitchcock's TV show. From here, he went on to direct a large number of television shows, until he was offered the script for M*A*S*H (1970) in 1969. He was hardly the producer's first choice - more than fifteen other directors had already turned it down. This wasn't his first movie, but it was his first success. After that, he had his share of hits and misses, but The Player (1992) and, more recently, Gosford Park (2001) were particularly well-received.- Additional Crew
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Robert Altman was born on 23 February 1947 in Washington, District of Columbia, USA. He was an executive, known for Dishonored (2012), Prey (2017) and The Evil Within 2 (2017). He was married to Lynda Carter. He died on 4 February 2021 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.- Cinematographer
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Altman has served as a camera operator and director of photography on an impressive number of award-winning feature films and television series since the maverick days of American filmmaking in the 1970s.
The son of legendary filmmaker Robert Altman and Kathryn Reed, Robert Reed Altman grew up with a passion for film in his blood. Altman began his career serving as assistant camera on the films that would catapult the elder Altman into the pantheon of great American directors: Nashville (1975), Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson (1976), A Wedding (1978)_, _Popeye (1979)_, HealtH (1980), Come Back to the 5 & Dime Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), Streamers (1983), and Fool for Love (1985). Many of these films, now considered classics, also garnered critical praise, including numerous Academy Awards for Nashville (1975).
Following this succession of Hollywood hits, Altman shifted gears and gravitated to television, where he served as camera operator on the acclaimed TV series Alien Nation (1989), Tales of the City (1993), Melrose Place (1992), and Robert Altman's Gun (1997). Robert Reed Altman also served as second unit DP on the hit TV series The Wonder Years (1988).
In 2004, Altman made his mark as director of photography on director Robert Altman's and writer/cartoonist Garry Trudeau's Tanner on Tanner (2004). A hit at the Sundance Film Festival, the film was a follow-up to Altman and Trudeau's documentary-style Emmy-winning masterpiece Tanner '88 (1988). The new Tanner, a four-part series following the new adventures of frictional presidential nominee Tanner, was filmed to coincide with the Bush-Kerry elections.
In between his work for television, Robert Reed Altman continues to return to feature filmmaking as a camera operator or cinematographer. Other credits include "Looking for Trouble" (1996)_ for Roger Corman; several projects directed by Robert Altman, Kansas City (1996), The Gingerbread Man (1998), Cookie's Fortune (1999), Dr. T & the Women (2000); as well as the more recent films Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001), directed by Kevin Smith, and The Scorpion King (2002), starring Dwayne Johnson, AKA The Rock.- Born in February of 1966 in Elmhurst IL Robert has had acting and storytelling in his blood since he was born. Playing Joseph in a Christmas church play at the age of 5. He later did plays in grade school and took drama in high school. The turning point of his journey was when he lost some dear friends in an unforeseen accident and did not want any regrets. In 1993 he started taking classes at The Second City in Chicago. Auditioning to move on he found himself in The Second City Conservatory which he graduated from in 1996. Before graduating he started working with a wonderful on camera teacher in Chicago-Brenda Pickleman. She has appeared in movies Last Dance, US Marshalls and Groundhog Day. She prepared Robert and on his very first audition he landed the principle role in a commercial. Since then for 23 years he has been a member of SAG/AFTRA. Living part time in Los Angeles and Chicago, Robert has appeared in films Bon Appetite, Tangible, The Opera Lover, Motel 666 and DOW as well as many commercials.
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Robert Altman is known for Beni Kendimden Koru (2021) and Pepper (2014).- Director
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Robert E. Altman is known for The Cable Car and How it Works (1984).- Robert Henry Altman is known for 'In New York' (2020) and Pool Shark (2010).
- Robert Arthur Altman is known for Gone with the Wieners (2009).
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Robert Altman was born on 10 October 1944 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA. He is known for Hair, Let the Sun Shine In (2007). He died on 24 September 2021 in San Francisco, California, USA.- Producer
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- Director
- Robert Altman is known for Tangible (2012).