Biography - Born 03/14/1916

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and two-time Oscar-winner Horton Foote was originally an actor who began writing plays as a member of the American Actors Theatre in order to assure himself good parts. However, when critics praised his playwriting over his acting, he eventually took the hint and de...

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Filmography

• Of Mice and Men (1992)
• Convicts (1991)
• On Valentine's Day (1986)
• 1918 (1985)
• Trip to Bountiful (1985)

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Awards

• In 1999, received Writers Guild of America (East) Ian McLellan Hunter Award.
• In 1997, received Humanitas Award for 90 minute in "William Faulkner's'Old Man'".
• In 1996/97, received Emmy for Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries or Special in "William Faulkner's 'Old Man'".
• In 1995, received Pulitzer Prize in Drama in "The Young Man From Atlanta".

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