Randa Haines

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Randa Haines (born February 20, 1945 in Los Angeles , California ) is an award-winning American film director and film producer who directed several well-known films in the 1980s and 1990s, including God's Forgotten Children , The Doctor - An Ordinary Patient or Walter & Frank - a weird couple .

life and career

Randa Haines was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1945 but grew up in New York City. Because her love was theater, she attended the School of Visual Arts and took acting lessons from Lee Strasberg . She worked as a script girl before joining the American Film Institute's Directing Workshop for Women in 1975.

In the late 1970s she directed her first television film with the drama Under This Sky . Then at the beginning of the 1980s, she directed several popular US television series including Hill Street Blues , detective with witchcraft , CBS Afternoon Playhouse or Knots Landing . In 1984 she received critical acclaim and an Emmy nomination for Best Director for her drama Something about Amelia with Ted Danson and Glenn Close in the lead roles.

In 1986 she staged the film God's Forgotten Children about a deaf but self-confident woman, a sensitive and timeless portrait of society and thus successfully revealed the hidden world of deaf culture. The film, starring William Hurt and Marlee Matlin in the lead roles has received numerous international awards, including an Oscar in the category Best Actress for Marlee Matlin at the Academy Awards in 1987 and four other nominations in the categories of Best Picture , Best Adapted Screenplay , Best Actor and Best Supporting actress . In addition, Randa Haines won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1987 for outstanding artistic achievement .

In 1991 she directed the drama The Doctor again, with William Hurt in the lead role. In 1993 she and Walter & Frank - Ein schräges Paar realized a project by the then 21-year-old author Steve Conrad . The film had a well-known cast with the actors Robert Duvall , Richard Harris , Shirley MacLaine and Sandra Bullock . With the dance film Dance with Me with Vanessa Williams , Chayanne and Kris Kristofferson , Randa Haines directed her most personal film in 1998, which she also produced herself. The score for Dance with Me and for her other three films was written by the composer Michael Convertino .

In the 2000s, Haines returned to television as a director.

Since the mid-1990s, Randa Haines has also been active as a film producer several times, including for the cinema productions A Family Thing - Brothers Against Will or Antwone Fisher with Denzel Washington .

Awards

Filmography (selection)

Cinema director

TV director

  • 1979: Under This Sky
  • 1980: The Jilting of Granny Weatherall
  • 1981–1983: Hill Street Police Station (TV series, four episodes)
  • 1982: Detective Agency with Witchcraft (TV series, one episode)
  • 1982: CBS Afternoon Playhouse (TV series, one episode)
  • 1982: Under the California Sun (TV series, one episode)
  • 1984: Something About Amelia
  • 1985: Alfred Hitchcock shows (TV series) (pilot)
  • 2002: The Outsider
  • 2006: The Ron Clark Story

Producer

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biographical data of Randa Haines in: Contemporary North American Film Directors- A Wallflower Critical Guide , by Yoram Allon, Del Cullen, Hannah Patterson, Wallflower Press, 2002, p. 219
personal data
SURNAME Haines, Randa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California , USA