Brilliant Director ROBERT ALTMAN Dead At 81

By Wind(up)bird November 21, 2006 5:53 PM

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Brilliant film director Robert Altman has died. ?He was 81. ?Altman directed such classics as Short Cuts, Nashville, MASH, The Player, Gosford Park, Macabe and Mr. Miller, and most recently, A Prairie Home Companion. Click on for the NY Times obit (with trailer links from Altman's film history).

Robert Altman (1925-2006)
NY Times Obituary

Films of Robert Altman as director, producer or writer include:

"Christmas Eve," 1947
"Bodyguard," 1948
"The Delinquents," 1957
"The James Dean Story," 1957
"Nightmare in Chicago," 1964
"Countdown," 1968
"That Cold Day in the Park," 1969
"M-A-S-H," 1970
"Brewster McCloud," 1970
"Events," 1970
"McCabe and Mrs. Miller," 1971
"Images," 1972
"The Long Goodbye," 1973
"Thieves Like Us," 1974
"California Split," 1974
"Nashville," 1975
"Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson," 1976
"Welcome to L.A.," 1977
"The Late Show," 1977
"Three Women," 1977
"A Wedding," 1978
"Remember My Name," 1978
"Quintet," 1979
"A Perfect Couple," 1979
"Rich Kids," 1979
"Health," 1980
"Popeye," 1980
"Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean," 1982
"Streamers," 1983
"Secret Honor," 1984
"Fool for Love," 1985
"Beyond Therapy," 1987
"O.C. and Stiggs," 1987
"Aria" (one segment, "Les Boreades,") 1987
"Vincent & Theo," 1990
"The Player," 1992
"Short Cuts," 1993
"Pret-a-Porter" ("Ready to Wear,") 1994
"Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," 1994
"Jazz '34," 1996
"Kansas City," 1996
"The Gingerbread Man," 1998
"Cookie's Fortune," 1999
"Dr. T. and the Women," 2000
"Gosford Park," 2001
"The Company," 2003
"Tanner on Tanner," 2004
"A Prairie Home Companion," 2006

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