Ron Shelton
Ron Shelton ( born September 15, 1945 in Whittier, California) is an American screenwriter, director and film producer.
Life
Ron Shelton played in his early years in college basketball and later as a professional baseball.
He has been the political thriller Under Fire of 1983, a successful screenwriter, and since his work to Bull Durham from 1988 also served as director and producer.
Shelton specializes in sports comedies and had some great success with it. He made films about baseball ( Bull Durham, Homerun ), basketball ( White Men Can not Jump ), Golf ( Tin Cup ), boxing ( Knocked Out - A powerful friendship). Experts see him because of the very successful White Men Can not Jump the single white director who made a film that can be assigned to the New Black Cinema.
His other films thrillers Dark Blue and Hollywood are cops. Most recently, he wrote the screenplay for Bad Boys II ( 2003). He then joined again until 2010 with the staging of a series of the documentary series 30 for 30 in appearance. 2011 was the TV movie Hound Dogs, for which he also wrote the screenplay.
Ron Shelton is married to actress Lolita Davidovich.