Michael Cristofer
Michael Cristofer , actually Michael Ivan Procaccino , (born January 22, 1945 in Trenton , New Jersey ) is an American film director , screenwriter and playwright whose play The Shadow Box in 1977 received both the Pulitzer Prize for Theater and the Tony Award for the Best Play Received.
Life
Michael Cristofer has written numerous plays such as Americommedia (1972), Plot Counter Plot (1972), The Mandala (1975) and received the Pulitzer Prize for Theater and the Tony Award for Best Play in 1977 for his play The Shadow Box , written in 1975 . The stage works Ice (1976), Black Angel (1978), The Lady and the Clarinet (1980), Love Me or Leave Me (1989), Execution of the Caregiver (1993) and Amazing Grace (1998) were subsequently released .
In addition, he began in the mid- 1970s with roles as a film actor and had roles in The Crazy World of Julius Vrooder (1974), An Enemy of the People (1978), The Dragonfly and Die Hard - Now Even More (1995).
Cristofer also worked as a screenwriter and wrote the screenplay for the film Purgatory of the Vanities by Brian De Palma , for which he received a nomination for the Golden Raspberry for the worst screenplay. His other works include the screenplays for the films Der Liebe addicted by Ulu Grosbard (1984), The Witches of Eastwick (1987) by George Miller , Breaking Up by Robert Greenwald (1997), Casanova by Lasse Hallström (2005).
He has also directed the films Gia Beauty Prize with Angelina Jolie (1998), Body Shots with Sean Patrick Flanery (1999) and Original Sin with Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie (2001).
In 2010 he starred as Truxton Spangler in the TV series Rubicon , which was produced for the TV channel AMC . Since 2012 he can be seen as a supporting actor in the series Smash .
Filmography (selection)
Director
- 1998: Gia - Beauty Prize (Gia)
- 1999: Body Shots
- 2001: Original Sin
Screenwriter
- 1980: Malibu terminus (The Shadow Box)
- 1984: Falling in Love (Falling in Love)
- 1987: The Witches of Eastwick (The Witches of Eastwick)
- 1990: Bonfire of the Vanities (The Bonfire of the Vanities)
- 1993: Mr. Jones
- 1997: Breaking Up
- 2005: Casanova
- 2009: Georgia O'Keeffe
- 2016: Chuck - The Real Rocky (Chuck)
actor
- 1978: An Enemy of the People
- 1984: Die Libelle (The Little Drummer Girl)
- 1995: Die Hard: With a Vengeance
- 2010: Rubicon (TV series)
- 2012: Suits (TV series)
- since 2012: Smash (TV series)
- 2015-2019: Mr. Robot (TV series)
Web links
- Michael Cristofer in nndb (English)
- Michael Cristofer in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Biography (Filmbug.com)
- Biography (Video.de)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cristofer, Michael |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Procaccino, Michael Ivan (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer, actor, and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 22, 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Trenton , New Jersey, United States |