Art Linson
{{short description|American film director}}
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{{Infobox person
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|occupation = Film producer, screenwriter
|birth_place = Chicago, Illinois, United States
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|spouse = Fiona Lewis
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Art Linson is an American producer, screenwriter, and author.{{cite web|url=http://movies.nytimes.com/person/99859/Art-Linson|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080525130206/http://movies.nytimes.com/person/99859/Art-Linson|url-status=dead|archive-date=2008-05-25|website=The New York Times|title=Art Linson|accessdate=June 20, 2021}}
Life and career
Art Linson has produced movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Into the Wild, and Melvin and Howard.
Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner. Yellowstone premiered on June 20, 2018, on the Paramount Network. Yellowstone has become the most popular scripted series in television. Linson is an executive producer on the tv series 1883 and 1923.
He is the author of two books, A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood (1998) and What Just Happened?: Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line, the last of which was made into a major motion picture starring Robert De Niro and directed by Barry Levinson.
Linson is married to British actress and writer Fiona Lewis.
Filmography
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.
=Film=
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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Credit ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Notes ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | {{abbr|Ref.|Reference}} | ||||
| 1975 | Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins | |||
| 1976 | Car Wash | |||
| 1978 | American Hot Wax | |||
| rowspan=2| 1980 | Where the Buffalo Roam | |||
| Melvin and Howard | ||||
| 1982 | Fast Times at Ridgemont High | |||
| 1984 | The Wild Life | |||
| 1987 | The Untouchables | |||
| 1988 | Scrooged | |||
| rowspan=2| 1989 | Casualties of War | |||
| We're No Angels | ||||
| 1990 | Dick Tracy | Executive producer | ||
| 1992 | Singles | Executive producer | ||
| rowspan=2| 1993 | Point of No Return | |||
| This Boy's Life | ||||
| 1995 | Heat | |||
| 1997 | The Edge | |||
| 1998 | Great Expectations | |||
| rowspan=2| 1999 | Pushing Tin | |||
| Fight Club | ||||
| 2000 | Sunset Strip | |||
| 2001 | Heist | |||
| rowspan=2| 2004 | Spartan | |||
| Imaginary Heroes | ||||
| 2005 | Lords of Dogtown | Executive producer | ||
| 2006 | The Black Dahlia | |||
| 2007 | Into the Wild | |||
| 2008 | What Just Happened | |||
| 2010 | The Runaways | |||
| 2016 | The Comedian | |||
| 2018 | The Outsider | |||
| {{N/A}} | Arrive Alive |
;As writer
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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film | |
| 1978 | American Hot Wax |
| 2008 | What Just Happened |
| 2016 | The Comedian |
;As director
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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film | |
| 1980 | Where the Buffalo Roam |
| 1984 | The Wild Life |
;Thanks
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! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Year ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Film ! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Role | ||
| 1995 | The Crossing Guard | Special thanks |
=Television=
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| 1993 | The Untouchables | Executive producer | |
| 2012 | Outlaw Country | Executive producer | Television film |
| 2008−14 | Sons of Anarchy | Executive producer | |
| 2014 | The Money | Executive producer | Television film |
| 2018− | Yellowstone | Executive producer | |
| 2022 | 1883: The Road West | Executive producer | Television special |
| 2021−22 | 1883 | Executive producer | |
| 2022− | 1923 | Executive producer | |
| {{TableTBA}} | 6666 | Executive producer |
References
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External links
- {{IMDb name|0513165}}
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Category:Film producers from Illinois
Category:Film directors from Illinois