Matt Salinger

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Matthew Robert Salinger (born February 13, 1960 in Windsor , Vermont ) is an American actor , film producer and literary administrator of his father JD Salinger .

Life

Matt Salinger is the son of the American writer JD Salinger and his second wife Claire Douglas, his sister Margaret Salinger was born in 1955 in the same marriage, which divorced in 1966. Matt Salinger has been married to Betsy Jane-Becker since 1985 and they have two children.

Salinger attended Phillips Academy and graduated from Columbia University with a BA in Art History (1983). In 1984 he made his film debut in the movie comedy The Revenge of the Eggheads . In 1990 he got the title role in Captain America , but the film flopped and Salinger's film career stalled. This was followed by minor supporting roles in the films Behind the Horizon , Under the Tuscan Sun and Learning to Drive - Driving Lessons for Life . He also appeared in several episodes of the series Picket Fences - Tatort Gartenzaun and 24 .

In addition to his acting career, Salinger worked as a film producer on the independent films Nothing but Trouble with Women , Plan B and Let the Devil Wear Black . In 2000, he produced the play The Syringa Tree off-Broadway , which won several awards.

His sister published the family autobiography Dream Catcher in 2000 , from which he distanced himself in a statement in the New York Observer because of the criticism of the father it contained .

After the death of his father in 2010, he reduced his acting activities and has since taken care of the literary estate of JD Salinger together with the Salinger widow Colleen O'Neill. In January 2019, he granted an interview to the British newspaper The Guardian and made hints about the size of the estate and approximate information that more works will appear by 2030.

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a producer

  • 1994: Fortunes of War (also actor)
  • 1996: Nothing but Trouble with Women (Mojave Moon)
  • 1999: Black Devil ( Let the Devil Wear Black , also actor)
  • 2001: Plan B
  • 2007: See you later, Max! (Love Comes Lately)

literature

  • Margaret A. Salinger: Dream Catcher. A memoir . Washington Square Press, New York 2000. ISBN 0-671-04282-3
  • Joyce Maynard : At Home in the World . Picador, 1998

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bruce Weber: One Women Portrays the Many Faces of Apartheid , Theater Review, NYT, December 22, 2001
  2. ↑ Dinitia Smith: Salinger's Daughter's Truths as Mesmerizing as His Fiction , in: NYT, August 30, 2000
  3. ↑ Janet Malcolm: Justice to JD Salinger , in: The New York Review of Books , June 21, 2001
  4. ↑ Alison Flood: JD Salinger's unseen writings to be published, family confirms , The Guardian, February 1, 2019
  5. ↑ Wieland Freund : From the great writer's safe , in: Die Welt, February 4, 2019, p. 22
personal data
SURNAME Salinger, Matt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Salinger, Matthew Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH Windsor (Vermont)