Alan Ball

Alan Ball

出生 : 1957-05-13, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

略歴

Alan E. Ball is an American writer, director, actor and producer for film, theatre and television. He is particularly notable for writing American Beauty and True Blood and for creating Six Feet Under, work which earned him an Academy Award, an Emmy, and awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds. Ball was born in Marietta, Georgia, to Frank and Mary Ball, an aircraft inspector and a homemaker. His older sister, Mary Ann, was killed in a car accident when Ball was 13; he was in the passenger seat at the time. He attended high school in Marietta, and went on to attend the University of Georgia and Florida State University, from which he graduated in 1980 with a degree in theater arts. After college, he began work as a playwright at the General Nonsense Theater Company in Sarasota, Florida. Ball broke into television as a writer and story editor on the situation comedies Grace Under Fire and Cybill. Ball has written two films, American Beauty (1999) and Towelhead (2007), the latter of which he also produced and directed. He is also the creator, writer and executive producer of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under and True Blood. He was showrunner for True Blood for its first five seasons. In 2010 Ball began work on a television adaptation of the crime noir novel The Mystic Arts of Erasing All Signs of Death by Charlie Huston, to be titled All Signs of Death. In December 2010, after several months of pre-production, HBO cancelled production on All Signs of Death. He is also one of the executive producers of the Cinemax series Banshee. In January 2015, it was announced that Ball's period musical drama Virtuoso had had a pilot ordered by HBO. The pilot will be executively produced by Elton John. Confirmed actors to be starring in the show include Peter Macdissi, Iva Babic, Francois Civil, Lindsay Farris, Nico Mirallegro and Alex Lawther. For his work in television and film, Ball has received critical acclaim and numerous awards and nominations, including an Academy Award, an Emmy a Golden Globe, and awards from the Writers, Directors, and Producers Guilds.

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Alan Ball
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フランクおじさん
Director
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
フランクおじさん
Producer
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
フランクおじさん
Writer
In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekville, South Carolina for the family patriarch's funeral, they're unexpectedly joined by Frank's lover Walid.
5 Women Wearing the Same Dress
Writer
Based on the play by Alan Ball
Virtuoso
Writer
A group of aspiring musicians in 18th-century Vienna come from all over Europe to attend a prestigious musical academy.
Virtuoso
Director
A group of aspiring musicians in 18th-century Vienna come from all over Europe to attend a prestigious musical academy.
And the Oscar Goes To...
Self (archive footage)
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. Mayer, then head of MGM, led other prominent members of the industry in forming this professional honorary organization. Two years later the Academy began bestowing awards, which were nicknamed "Oscar," and quickly came to represent the pinnacle of cinematic achievement.
The American Tetralogy
Producer
Entirely made in California, the film brings together 30 American and European actors in an epic which crosses the mythical territories of that cinematic land from Zabriskie Point to Mulholland Drive. California is revisited through the movie memories incarnated by the very presence of famous actors and actresses. "The American Tetralogy" is a way of staging reality which questions the fictional nature of the movies.
Towelhead
Producer
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Towelhead
Screenplay
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Towelhead
Director
A young Arab-American girl struggles with her sexual obsession, a bigoted Army reservist, and her strict father during the Gulf War.
Six Feet Under: In Memoriam
Himself
A eulogy for the groundbreaking HBO series.
Anatomy of a Working Stiff
Himself
A behind the scenes look at the making of simulated corpses for the TV series "Six Feet Under".
American Beauty: Look Closer...
Self
A promotional short documentary on the making of the film American Beauty, directed by Sam Mendes and written by Alan Ball.
アメリカン・ビューティー
Co-Producer
40歳を過ぎた広告マンのレスター・バーナムと上昇志向たっぷりの妻キャロリン。彼らの家庭生活に潜む歪んだ真実が徐々に暴かれていく。妻は夫を憎み、娘のジェーンは父親を軽蔑している。そして会社の上司はレスターにリストラによる解雇を告げる。そんな毎日に嫌気が差したレスターは、人生の方向転換を図る。しかし、自由と幸せを求めるレスターを待ち受けていたのは、あまりにも高価な代償だった。
アメリカン・ビューティー
Screenplay
40歳を過ぎた広告マンのレスター・バーナムと上昇志向たっぷりの妻キャロリン。彼らの家庭生活に潜む歪んだ真実が徐々に暴かれていく。妻は夫を憎み、娘のジェーンは父親を軽蔑している。そして会社の上司はレスターにリストラによる解雇を告げる。そんな毎日に嫌気が差したレスターは、人生の方向転換を図る。しかし、自由と幸せを求めるレスターを待ち受けていたのは、あまりにも高価な代償だった。
アメリカン・ビューティー
Author
40歳を過ぎた広告マンのレスター・バーナムと上昇志向たっぷりの妻キャロリン。彼らの家庭生活に潜む歪んだ真実が徐々に暴かれていく。妻は夫を憎み、娘のジェーンは父親を軽蔑している。そして会社の上司はレスターにリストラによる解雇を告げる。そんな毎日に嫌気が差したレスターは、人生の方向転換を図る。しかし、自由と幸せを求めるレスターを待ち受けていたのは、あまりにも高価な代償だった。
All Signs of Death
Director
Centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own past.
All Signs of Death
Writer
Centers on an inveterate twenty-something slacker who stumbles into a career as a crime scene cleaner, only to find himself entangled with a murder mystery, a femme fatale and the loose ends of his own past.