Richard Linklater

Producer | Director | Writer

Self-taught writer-director Richard Stuart Linklater was born in Houston, Texas, to Diane Margaret ...

Born: July 30, 1960

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Filmography

Known For

Waking Life Director (2001)
Before Midnight Producer (2013)
Boyhood Producer (2014)
Known For

A Scanner Darkly Director (2006)
Director

Last Flag Flying (2017)
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Boyhood (2014)
Before Midnight (2013)
Up to Speed (2012)
Bernie (2011)
Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Inning by Inning: A Portrait of a Coach (2008)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Fast Food Nation (2006)
Bad News Bears (2005)
$5.15/Hr. (2004)
Before Sunset (2004)
School of Rock (2003)
Live from Shiva's Dance Floor (2003)
Tape (2001)
Waking Life (2001)
The Newton Boys (1998)
SubUrbia (1996)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (1991)
Slacker (1990)
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
Director

Woodshock (1985)
Writer

Last Flag Flying (2017)
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Boyhood (2014)
Making a Scene (2013)
Before Midnight (2013)
Up to Speed (2012)
Bernie (2011)
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Fast Food Nation (2006)
$5.15/Hr. (2004)
Before Sunset (2004)
Waking Life (2001)
The Newton Boys (1998)
Before Sunrise (1995)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Slacker (1990)
Writer

It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
Producer

School of Rock (2016-2018)
Last Flag Flying (2017)
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
I Dream Too Much (2015)
Boyhood (2014)
Before Midnight (2013)
Up to Speed (2012)
Bernie (2011)
Me and Orson Welles (2008)
Bad News Bears (2005)
$5.15/Hr. (2004)
Dazed and Confused (1993)
Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (1991)
Slacker (1990)
It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
Producer

Last Night at the Alamo (1983)
Actor

Blaze Oilman (2018)
RSO [Registered Sex Offender] Principal Mallard (2008)
The Hottest State John Wayne Enthusiast (2006)
Chelsea Walls Crony 2 (2001)
Spy Kids Cool Spy (2001)
Waking Life Pinball Playing Man / Man on Back of Boat (2001)
Scotch and Milk Cab Passenger (1998)
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America Tour Bus Driver (1996)
The Underneath Ember Doorman (1995)
Slacker Should Have Stayed at Bus Station (1990)
Actor

It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
Cinematographer

Waking Life (2001)
Cinematographer

It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
Woodshock (1985)
Editor

Heads I Win/Tails You Lose (1991)
Editor

It's Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books (1988)
Archive footage

Unknown Movies (2017)
Ebert Presents: At the Movies (2011)
Camera and Electrical Department

Tape (2001)
Camera and Electrical Department

Never Leave Nevada (1990)
Miscellaneous Crew

Room (2005)

Awards

Did You Know

Although the preference of dialogue over action in many of his movies, particularly the Before Trilogy, may lead some to believe that his movies are improvised by the actors, Linklater has often said that this is far from the truth: he rehearses his...

Quotes

We get a lot of cautionary tales about the dangers of getting exactly what you want in life. You know, if you take out the striving and the incompleteness, then where are you?

Trademark

His films often take place within a single day

Nickname

Rick

Star Sign

Leo

Personal Details

Born

Richard Stuart Linklater
July 30, 1960
Houston, Texas, USA

Height:

5' 9" (1.75 m)

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