Alan Ball
Former playwright-turned-filmmaker Alan Ball left behind the rather anonymous and distressing world of sitcom writing to make his breakthrough as the screenwriter of the Academy Award-winning film "American Beauty" (1999). Prior to that success, Ball penned off-Broadway productions, including "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress," before cutting his teeth on sitcoms like "Grace Under Fire" (ABC, 1993-98) and "Cybill" (CBS, 1994-98). Because of his fascination with dysfunctional families, he created "Six Feet Under" (HBO, 2001-05), a darkly comic drama about a family that runs a funeral home in Los Angeles after the untimely death of their patriarch (Richard Jenkins). With its morbidly funny take on mortality and those who deal with it on a daily basis, "Six Feet Under" quickly became a flagship series for HBO, while earning numerous awards and nominations. For his part, Ball established himself as one of the pre-eminent talents on television and on the big screen, earning a reputation for unflinching drama tinged with a dark sense of humor.
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Alan Ball
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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77% |
|
Uncle Frank |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
- | 2020 |
69% |
|
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Executive Producer | - | 2017 |
49% |
|
Towelhead |
Director, Screenwriter, Producer |
$371.4K | 2007 |
87% |
|
American Beauty | Writer | $130.1M | 1999 |
96% |
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Yellow Submarine | Animator | $992.3K | 1968 |
TV
Credit | ||||
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24% | 83% | Here and Now |
Executive Producer, Director, Writer |
2018 |
90% | 92% | Banshee | Executive Producer | 2013-2016 |
68% | 72% | True Blood |
Creator, Executive Producer, Writer |
2008-2014 |
81% | 96% | Six Feet Under |
Director, Executive Producer, Writer |
2001-2005 |
33% | No Score Yet | Oh Grow Up |
Executive Producer, Writer |
1999 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Cybill | Writer | 1995-1998 |