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Charles Bukowski

Highest Rated: 76% Barfly (1987)

Lowest Rated: 60% Tales of Ordinary Madness (1981)

Birthday: Aug 16, 1920

Birthplace: Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany

An author and poet fascinated with the dark underbelly of the American dream, Charles Bukowski is renowned for his blunt, scrappy work. He had a rough working-class childhood in Los Angeles and found a series of mundane jobs as a young adult. When Bukowski started writing in earnest during the 1950s, it was mostly in the form of poetry that dwelt on the subjects of women, alcohol and daily drudgery. In 1971, Bukowski's first novel, Post Office, was published by Black Sparrow Press, introducing readers to his thinly veiled alcoholic alter ego Henry Chinaski, who would carry most of his subsequent novels, including Factotum (1975) and Ham on Rye (1982). Embraced as a rebellious literary crank in his later years, Bukowski had his moment of widest appeal in 1987 when his autobiographical script "Barfly" became a lauded movie starring Mickey Rourke as Chinaski. Bukowski died in 1994 of leukemia, with his posthumous reputation only growing larger and heightened by the well-received documentary "Bukowski: Born into This" (2003) and the 2005 indie adaptation of Factotum, starring Matt Dillon as Chinaski.

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76% 82% Barfly
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60% 70% Tales of Ordinary Madness
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Love He Said
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Bukowski at Bellevue
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74% Poetry in Motion
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No Score Yet No Score Yet Love He Said Unknown (Voice) - 2018
No Score Yet No Score Yet Bukowski at Bellevue Unknown (Character),
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- 1995
76% 82% Barfly Screenwriter $116.6K 1987
No Score Yet 74% Poetry in Motion Unknown (Character) - 1982
60% 70% Tales of Ordinary Madness Writer - 1981