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

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
That Animal Rescue Show (2020)
Another Day at the Office (2019)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
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)
Producer

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Shouting Down Midnight (2022)
That Animal Rescue Show (2020)
Another Day at the Office (2019)
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)
Last Night at the Alamo (1983)
Producer

The Pushback
Writer

Apollo 10½: A Space Age Childhood (2022)
Another Day at the Office (2019)
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2019)
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)
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)
Before Sunrise Man in Shonen Knife T-Shirt Playing Foosball (1995)
Slacker Should Have Stayed at Bus Station (1990)
Actor

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

Movie Night Extravaganza (2021)
Behind the Scenes (2017)
Archive footage

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

Tape (2001)
Camera and Electrical Department

Never Leave Nevada (1990)
Additional Crew

Room (2005)

Videos

Awards

Did You Know

Trivia

Father of Lorelei Linklater, Alina Linklater, & Charlotte Linklater.

[on Greece as the setting for Before Midnight (2013)] To place Jesse and Celine's issues of the day in a much bigger context, you realize there's nothing new here, this is completely eternal. Issues go on between partners, men and women, families. I...

Trademark

Frequently writes and/or directs movies starring children or teenagers, e.g., Dazed and Confused (1993), School of Rock (2003), Bad News Bears (2005), Boyhood (2014) and Everybody Wants Some!! (2016).