A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Wichita Falls, Texas, USA
Born:
June 3, 1936
Died:
March 25, 2021
Larry Jeff McMurtry (1936-2021) was an American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter whose work is predominantly set in either the old West or in contemporary Texas. He is known for his 1985 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Lonesome Dove, a historical saga that follows ex-Texas Rangers as they drive their cattle from the Rio Grande to a new home in the frontier of Montana, and for co-writing the adapted screenplay for Brokeback Mountain. Lonesome Dove was adapted into a television miniseries, his novels Horseman, Pass By (1962), The Last Picture Show (1966), and Terms of Endearment (1975) were adapted into films. Films adapted from McMurtry's works earned 34 Oscar nominations (13 wins).
Author:
1996 The Evening Star
Executive Producer:
1996 The Evening Star
2005 Brokeback Mountain
2020 Joe Bell
Novel:
1963 Hud
1971 The Last Picture Show
1974 Lovin' Molly
1983 Terms of Endearment
1990 Texasville
1996 The Evening Star
2005 Brokeback Mountain
2020 Joe Bell
???? Terms of Endearment
Screenplay:
1963 Hud
1971 The Last Picture Show
1974 Lovin' Molly
1983 Terms of Endearment
1990 Texasville
1992 Falling from Grace
1996 The Evening Star
2005 Brokeback Mountain
2020 Joe Bell
???? Terms of Endearment
Teleplay:
1963 Hud
1971 The Last Picture Show
1974 Lovin' Molly
1983 Terms of Endearment
1990 Texasville
1992 Falling from Grace
1992 Memphis
1996 The Evening Star
2002 Johnson County War
2005 Brokeback Mountain
2020 Joe Bell
???? Terms of Endearment
Writer:
1963 Hud
1971 The Last Picture Show
1974 Lovin' Molly
1983 Terms of Endearment
1990 Montana
1990 Texasville
1992 Falling from Grace
1992 Memphis
1995 Buffalo Girls
1996 The Evening Star
2002 Johnson County War
2005 Brokeback Mountain
2020 Joe Bell
???? Terms of Endearment
Creator:
1995 Streets of Laredo
Executive Producer:
1995 Streets of Laredo
Novel:
1989 Lonesome Dove
1995 Streets of Laredo
1996 Dead Man's Walk
Producer:
1989 Lonesome Dove
1995 Streets of Laredo
1996 Dead Man's Walk
2008 Comanche Moon
Story:
1988 The Murder of Mary Phagan
1989 Lonesome Dove
1995 Streets of Laredo
1996 Dead Man's Walk
2008 Comanche Moon
Teleplay:
1988 The Murder of Mary Phagan
1989 Lonesome Dove
1995 Streets of Laredo
1996 Dead Man's Walk
2008 Comanche Moon
Writer:
1988 The Murder of Mary Phagan
1989 Lonesome Dove
1995 Streets of Laredo
1996 Dead Man's Walk
2008 Comanche Moon
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.