Biography
Alan J. Pakula (1928-1998) graduated in dramatic arts from Yale University. He started his film career at Warner Brothers, then at the beginning of the fifties he became an assistant producer at Paramount. He eventually worked his way up to producer, and he and director Robert Mulligan founded their own production company. Together they created the popular and critical favourite To Kill a Mockingbird based on Harper Lee?s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. His directorial debut came with The Sterile Cuckoo (1969). The thriller Klute (1971) launched a free-floating series of films connected by their critical portrayal of the interconnection between the spheres of power and crime. The peak point of Pakula?s film work proved to be Sophie?s Choice (1982), an adaptation of William Styron?s novel of growing up and nightmarish Nazi trauma. Other well-known titles include the thriller Presumed Innocent (1990) with Harrison Ford and The Pelican Brief (1993) with Julia Roberts. In The Devil?s Own (1997) he pitted an IRA gunman against a fair-minded New York cop.
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Director
Movies | |
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1997 |
The Devil's Own |
1993 |
The Pelican Brief |
1992 |
Consenting Adults |
1990 |
Presumed Innocent |
1989 |
See You in the Morning |
1987 |
Orphans |
1986 |
Dream Lover |
1982 |
Sophie's Choice |
1981 |
Rollover |
1979 |
Starting Over |
1978 |
Comes a Horseman |
1976 |
All the President's Men |
1974 |
The Parallax View |
1973 |
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing |
1971 |
Klute |
1969 |
The Sterile Cuckoo |
Producer
Movies | |
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1993 |
The Pelican Brief |
1992 |
Consenting Adults |
1989 |
See You in the Morning |
1987 |
Orphans |
1986 |
Dream Lover |
1982 |
Sophie's Choice |
1979 |
Starting Over |
1974 |
The Parallax View |
1973 |
Love and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing |
1971 |
Klute |
1969 |
The Sterile Cuckoo |
1968 |
The Stalking Moon |
1967 |
Up the Down Staircase |
1965 |
Baby the Rain Must Fall |
Inside Daisy Clover |
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1963 |
Love with the Proper Stranger |
1962 |
To Kill a Mockingbird |
1957 |
Fear Strikes Out |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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1993 |
The Pelican Brief |
1990 |
Presumed Innocent |
1989 |
See You in the Morning |
1982 |
Sophie's Choice |
Actor
Documentaries | |
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2019 |
Alan Pakula: Going for Truth - a.f. |
The Directors (series) - a.f. |
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Alan J. Pakula - a.f. (S03E08) |
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2017 |
John G. Avildsen: King of the Underdogs - a.f. |
1998 |
Fearful Symmetry |
1985 |
George Stevens: A Filmmaker's Journey |
Guest
Shows | |
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1977 |
The 49th Annual Academy Awards |
1963 |
The 35th Annual Academy Awards |
Fans
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