Robert Altman was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for such films as M*A*S*H (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Long Goodbye (1973), California Split (1974), Nashville (1975), 3 Women (1977), A Wedding (1978), Popeye (1980), Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982), Secret Honor (1984), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Gosford Park (2001), The Company (2003), and A Prairie Home Companion (2006).
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 | Bodyguard | |||
| 1957 | The Delinquents | |||
| The James Dean Story | ||||
| 1968 | Countdown | |||
| 1969 | That Cold Day in the Park | |||
| 1970 | M*A*S*H | |||
| Brewster McCloud | ||||
| 1971 | McCabe & Mrs. Miller | |||
| 1972 | Images | |||
| 1973 | The Long Goodbye | |||
| 1974 | Thieves Like Us | |||
| California Split | ||||
| 1975 | Nashville | |||
| 1976 | Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson | |||
| 1977 | 3 Women | |||
| 1978 | A Wedding | |||
| 1979 | Quintet | |||
| A Perfect Couple | ||||
| 1980 | HealtH | |||
| Popeye | ||||
| 1982 | Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | |||
| 1983 | Streamers | |||
| 1984 | Secret Honor | |||
| 1985 | Fool for Love | |||
| 1986 | O.C. and Stiggs | |||
| 1987 | Beyond Therapy | |||
| 1990 | Vincent & Theo | |||
| 1992 | The Player | |||
| 1993 | Short Cuts | |||
| 1994 | Prêt-à-Porter | |||
| 1996 | Kansas City | |||
| 1998 | The Gingerbread Man | |||
| 1999 | Cookie's Fortune | |||
| 2000 | Dr. T & the Women | |||
| 2001 | Gosford Park | |||
| 2003 | The Company | |||
| 2006 | A Prairie Home Companion | |||
Producer only
Executive producer
Acting roles
| Year | Title | Role | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 | The Secret Life of Walter Mitty | Man Drinking | Uncredited | |
| 1948 | Bodyguard | |||
| 1970 | Events | Bob | ||
| 1973 | The Long Goodbye | Ambulance Driver | Uncredited | |
| 1981 | Endless Love | Hotel Manager |
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Editor | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Honeymoon for Harriet | ||||
| 1952 | The Sound of Bells | ||||
| King Basketball | |||||
| 1954 | The Dirty Look | ||||
| 1955 | The Perfect Crime | ||||
| Corn's-A-Poppin | |||||
| 1956 | The Magic Bond | ||||
| 1964 | The Party | ||||
| 1965 | The Katherine Reed Story | ||||
| 1967 | Pot au feu | Player | |||
| 1987 | Les Boréades | Segment of Aria | |||
Producer
Documentary short
| Year | Title | Director | Writer | Editor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1951 | Modern Football | |||
| 1953 | The Last Mile | |||
| How To Run a Filling Station | ||||
| Modern Baseball | ||||
| 1954 | Better Football | |||
| The Builders |
| Year | Title | width=65 | Director | width=65 | Writer | width=65 | Producer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1953 | Pulse of the City | Episode "The Case of Capt. Denning" | ||||||
| 1957–58 | Alfred Hitchcock Presents | Episodes "The Young One" and "Together" | ||||||
| 1958 | M Squad | Episode "Lover's Lane Killing" | ||||||
| 1959 | Hawaiian Eye | Episode "Three Tickets to Lani" | ||||||
| 1958–59 | The Millionaire | 13 episodes | ||||||
| Whirlybirds | 20 episodes | |||||||
| 1959–60 | Sugarfoot | 2 episodes | ||||||
| 1959–60 | Troubleshooters | 14 episodes | ||||||
| U.S. Marshal | 15 episodes | |||||||
| 1960 | The Gale Storm Show | Episode "It's Magic" | ||||||
| Bronco | Episode "The Mustangers" | |||||||
| Maverick | Episode "Bolt from the Blue" | |||||||
| 1960–61 | The Roaring 20's | 9 episodes | ||||||
| Bonanza | 8 episodes | |||||||
| 1961 | Lawman | Episode "The Robbery" | ||||||
| Surfside 6 | Episode "Thieves Among Honor" | |||||||
| Peter Gunn | Episode "The Murder Bond" | |||||||
| Route 66 | Episode "Some of the People, Some of the Time" | |||||||
| 1961–62 | Bus Stop | 8 episodes | ||||||
| 1962 | Cain's Hundred | Episode "The Left Side of Canada" | ||||||
| Kraft Television Theatre | 3 episodes | |||||||
| The Gallant Men | Episode "Pilot" | |||||||
| 1962–63 | Combat! | 10 episodes | ||||||
| 1963–64 | Kraft Suspense Theatre | 3 episodes | ||||||
| 1965 | The Long, Hot Summer | Episode "The Long, Hot Summer" | ||||||
| 1968 | Premiere | Episode "Walk in the Sky" | ||||||
| 1977 | Saturday Night Live | Episode "Sissy Spacek/Richard Baskin" (Segment "Sissy's Role") | ||||||
| 1988 | Tanner '88 | Miniseries | ||||||
| 1993–97 | Great Performances | 3 episodes | ||||||
| 1993 | Gun | Episode "All the President's Women" | ||||||
| 2004 | Tanner on Tanner | 4 episodes | ||||||
| Year | Title | Director | Producer |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1964 | Nightmare in Chicago | ||
| 1982 | Rattlesnake in a Cooler | ||
| Precious Blood | |||
| 1985 | The Laundromat | ||
| 1987 | Basements | ||
| 1988 | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | ||
| Year | Title | Artist |
|---|---|---|
| 1966 | "Girl Talk" | Bobby Troup |
| "The Party" | Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass | |
| "Speak Low" | Lili St. Cyr | |
| "Ebb Tide" |
| Year | Title and description | |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | Death, Where is Thy Sting-a-ling-ling?, retitled from The Chicken and the Hawk | [1] [2] [3] |
| 1970s | The Extra, a film about Hollywood bit players starring Lily Tomlin | [4] |
| 92 in the Shade | [5] | |
| North Dallas Forty | [6] | |
| A film adaptation of Kurt Vonnegut's novel Breakfast of Champions written by Alan Rudolph starring Burt Lancaster | [7] | |
| Ragtime | [8] [9] | |
| The Y.I.G. Epoxy, a film adaptation of Robert Grossbach's novel Easy and Hard Ways Out written by Alan Rudolph starring Peter Falk, Sterling Hayden and Henry Gibson | [10] | |
| 1980s | Vicksburg, a drama set during the American Civil War | [11] |
| A film adaptation of James McLure's one-act play Lone Star starring Sigourney Weaver | [12] [13] | |
| A film adaptation of Marsha Norman's play The Holdup | [14] | |
| A film adaptation of Jim Leonard, Jr.'s two-act play The Diviners starring William Hurt | [15] | |
| A film adaptation of Thomas Berger's novel The Feud written by Jim Leonard, Jr. | [16] | |
| Biarritz, a film set in a European hotel for wealthy vacationers written by Robert Harders starring Jon Voight | [17] | |
| A film adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's novel Across the River and Into the Trees written by Robert Harders starring Roy Scheider and Julie Christie | [18] [19] | |
| Heat | [20] | |
| Nashville 12, a sequel to Nashville written by Robert Harders set twelve years later | ||
| Rossini! Rossini! | [21] | |
| 1990s | A film adaptation of Tony Kushner's two-part play Angels in America | [22] [23] |
| Cork, a film written by Harry Belafonte about subject of blackface and minstrel shows set in the era of Amos 'n' Andy | [24] [25] [26] | |
| Mata Hari, a biopic written by David Williamson based on the life of Danish entertainer Mata Hari | ||
| The Singing Detective starring Dustin Hoffman | [27] | |
| Stamp and Deliver, a "modern-day postal Western" | [28] | |
| More Short Cuts, a sequel to Short Cuts written by Anne Rapp | [29] | |
| 2000s | A film adaptation of Artie Shaw's unpublished autobiography The Education of Albie Snow starring Johnny Depp | [30] [31] |
| Voltage, a film adaptation of Robert Grossbach's novel A Shortage of Engineers starring Liv Tyler, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Steve Buscemi, Joaquin Phoenix, William H. Macy, Tony Shalhoub, Harry Belafonte, Elliott Gould and Taye Diggs | [32] [33] [34] | |
| Gambit | [35] | |
| The Widow Claire, a "period romance" set during World War II starring Winona Rider, Jake Gyllenhaal and Matthew McConaughey | [36] | |
| Paint, a film set in the New York art gallery scene starring Salma Hayek, James Franco and Glenn Close | [37] [38] | |
| An Unfinished Life | [39] | |
| A film adaptation of Aesop's fable "The Tortoise and the Hare" written by Andrew Davies | ||
| It's Always Now, a sequel to The Long Goodbye based on an unpublished Raymond Chandler story | [40] | |
| A fictionalized film version based on S. R. Bindler's 1997 documentary Hands on a Hardbody written by Stephen Harrigan starring Hilary Swank, Meryl Streep, Billy Bob Thornton, Jack Black, Jack White, Chris Rock, Dwayne Johnson, Lily Tomlin and Tommy Lee Jones | [41] [42] |
| Year | Title | Author | Venue | City | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1952 | Hope Is the Thing with Feathers | Richard Harrity | Resident Theatre of the Jewish Community Center | Kansas City | |
| 1981 | 2 By South | Frank South | Los Angeles Actors' Theater | Los Angeles | Double bill of two plays, Rattlesnake in a Cooler and Precious Blood |
| St. Clement's Theater | New York City | ||||
| 1982 | Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean | Ed Graczyk | Martin Beck Theater | ||
| 1983 | The Rake's Progress | Igor Stravinsky with a libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman | University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance | Ann Arbor | |
| 1987 | Opéra de Lille | Lille | |||
| 1992 | McTeague | William Bolcom with a libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman | Lyric Opera of Chicago | Chicago | World premiere |
| 2004 | A Wedding | ||||
| 2006 | Resurrection Blues | Arthur Miller | Old Vic Theatre | London | West End premiere |