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Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) [1] is an American writer and director for film and television. Ball wrote the screenplay for American Beauty, for which he earned an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
Alan Ball is an American writer, director, and producer who is known for writing the acclaimed film American Beauty and creating the HBO series True Blood starring Anna Paquin. He also wrote the films Towelhead and Uncle Frank.
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Alan Ball is an American writer, director, and producer who is known for writing the acclaimed film American Beauty and creating the HBO series True Blood starring Anna Paquin. He also wrote the films Towelhead and Uncle Frank.
- May 13, 1957
The Oscar and Emmy winner behind American Beauty, Six Feet Under and True Blood brings his most personal project to the screen: the road movie Uncle Frank (out Wednesday, Nov. 25 on Amazon Prime ...
Dec 8, 2020 · Uncle Frank was penned by Alan Ball, the Oscar-winning writer of 1999 suburban psycho-thriller American Beauty. Ball subsequently achieved television royalty with the HBO black comedy Six Feet Under and vampire drama True Blood. But Uncle Frank —Ball’s directorial debut, is by far his most personal effort.
Nov 27, 2020 · Alan Ball: ‘I wonder if American Beauty would get made now’ The seasoned showrunner and writer of the 1999 Kevin Spacey-starring classic has a new film about growing up gay in the south.
Alan E. Ball cut his writing teeth as a playwright before shaking our screens with the Oscar-winning indie powerhouse American Beauty and the multiple Emmy-nominated TV series Six Feet Under and True Blood.
