Michael Cristofer
Michael Cristofer (birth name: 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, both the Pulitzer Prize for drama and Tony Award for the Best play received.
Biography
Cristofer wrote numerous plays such as Americommedia (1972 ) Plot Counter Plot ( 1972), The Mandala (1975 ) and received in 1977 penned for his 1975 play The Shadow Box the Pulitzer Prize for drama and the Tony Award for best play. In the period following 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 ) published.
He also started 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 More Than Ever (1995).
Cristofer also worked as a screenwriter and wrote the screenplay of the film The Bonfire of the Vanities by Brian De Palma, for which he, however, received a nomination for the Razzie for the worst scenario. His other credits include the screenplays for the films Falling in Love Ulu Grosbard (1984 ), The Witches of Eastwick (1987 ) by George Miller, Breaking Up by Robert Greenwald (1997), Casanova Lasse Hallstrom ( 2005).
He was also director of the films Gia - price of beauty with Angelina Jolie (1998), Body Shots with Sean Patrick Flanery (1999) and Original Sin with Antonio Banderas and Angelina Jolie ( 2001).
In 2010, he was seen as a performer of Truxton Spangler in the TV series Rubicon, which was produced for the television AMC. Since 2012, he is seen as a supporting actor in the series Smash.
Filmography (selection)
External links and sources
- Michael Cristofer in the Notable Names Database (English)
- Michael Cristofer at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography ( Filmbug.com )
- Biography ( Video.de )