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Robert Harling is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Executive Producer American born on 1951 at Natchitoches (USA)

Robert Harling

Robert Harling
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Nationality USA
Birth 1951 (73 years) at Natchitoches (USA)

Robert Harling (born in 1951) is an American writer, producer and film director.

Biography

Early life
He was born in 1951 in Natchitoches, Louisiana. He graduated from Northwestern State University in his hometown and obtained a law degree from Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana. While in law school, he sang in a band which performed in New Orleans on weekends.


Career
He moved to New York City in 1978 and worked at Kentucky Fried Chicken and sold tickets on Broadway to support himself. He auditioned for acting jobs and shot television commercials about flashlights.

After the death of his younger sister, Susan, due to diabetes, he wrote a short story and adapted it into a play, Steel Magnolias, which is still played worldwide to this day. It has been translated in seventeen languages, including Japanese, Chinese, French, Swedish, Spanish, Italian. Shortly after, he went on to adapt the screenplay for the film version of the play that was produced in 1989 starring Sally Field and Julia Roberts. He played a small role in the film as a minister.

He went on to write more screenplays, Soapdish (1991), The First Wives Club (1996), and Laws of Attraction (2004), as well as an uncredited script doctor on a number of films. More recently he served as writer and producer of the TV show GCB which ran briefly on ABC-TV. He also wrote and directed the sequel to Terms of Endearment titled The Evening Star (1996).

He is currently adapting Soapdish into a musical.


Personal life
He is Presbyterian He owns the Oak Lawn mansion in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Best films

The First Wives Club (1996)
(Scriptwriter)
Steel Magnolias (1989)
(Theatre Play)

Usually with

Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Robert Harling (7 films)

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Actor

Steel Magnolias, 1h57
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts
Roles Minister
Rating72% 3.649293.649293.649293.649293.64929
Annelle Dupuy (Daryl Hannah), a reserved and ditzy beauty school graduate, is hired by Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) to work in her home-based beauty salon in northwestern Louisiana. At the same time in another part of the neighbourhood, M'Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field) and her daughter, Shelby (Julia Roberts), are preparing for Shelby's wedding day, which is taking place later that day. They arrive, along with Clairee Belcher (Olympia Dukakis), the cheerful widow of the late former mayor, to have their hair done. Suddenly, Shelby, who has type one diabetes, falls into a hypoglycemic state but recovers quickly with the help of her mother's persistence and quick thinking. M'Lynn explains that Shelby was recently informed by doctors that she isn't able to have children.

Director

The Evening Star, 2h9
Directed by Robert Harling
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Ben Johnson, Scott Wolf
Rating59% 2.950342.950342.950342.950342.95034
Years have passed since the death of her daughter. Aurora Greenway is still her usual strong, willful self, but all is not well with the three grandchildren she raised after Emma's death, particularly eldest boy Tommy, who is serving time in jail on a drug charge.

Scriptwriter

Steel Magnolias
Directed by Kenny Leon
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Queen Latifah, Alfre Woodard, Phylicia Rashād, Jill Scott, Adepero Oduye, Condola Rashād
Roles Writer
Rating54% 2.7200152.7200152.7200152.7200152.720015
Un groupe d'amis très proches passent une grande partie de leur temps à se retrouver dans une paroisse située en Louisiane.
Laws of Attraction, 1h27
Directed by Peter Howitt
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Action, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films
Actors Julianne Moore, Parker Posey, Michael Sheen, Frances Fisher, Nora Dunn, Pierce Brosnan
Rating58% 2.9001152.9001152.9001152.9001152.900115
High-powered divorce attorneys Audrey Woods (Julianne Moore) and Daniel Rafferty (Pierce Brosnan) have seen love go wrong in many scenarios—so, how good could their own chances be? As two of the top divorce lawyers in New York, Audrey and Daniel are a study in opposites. She practises law strictly by the book; he seems to win by the seat of his pants, or by "cheap theatrics," as Audrey says in one scene.
The Evening Star, 2h9
Directed by Robert Harling
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Actors Shirley MacLaine, Bill Paxton, Juliette Lewis, Miranda Richardson, Ben Johnson, Scott Wolf
Roles Ecrivain
Rating59% 2.950342.950342.950342.950342.95034
Years have passed since the death of her daughter. Aurora Greenway is still her usual strong, willful self, but all is not well with the three grandchildren she raised after Emma's death, particularly eldest boy Tommy, who is serving time in jail on a drug charge.
The First Wives Club, 1h43
Directed by Hugh Wilson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Political films, Buddy films
Actors Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, Bette Midler, Stephen Collins, Dan Hedaya, Victor Garber
Rating64% 3.2020753.2020753.2020753.2020753.202075
At Middlebury College in 1969, four young friends, Elise Elliot (Goldie Hawn), Brenda Morelli (Bette Midler), Annie MacDuggan (Diane Keaton), and Cynthia Swann (Stockard Channing), are graduating. As graduation gifts, valedictorian Cynthia presents the girls with matching Bulgari pearl necklaces. As the graduates take a commemorative picture of the four of them (presumably for the last time), Cynthia makes Annie, Brenda and Elise promise that they will always be there for each other throughout the remainder of their lives.
Soapdish
Soapdish (1991)
, 1h33
Directed by Michael Hoffman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about television, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film
Actors Sally Field, Kevin Kline, Robert Downey Jr., Whoopi Goldberg, Elisabeth Shue, Teri Hatcher
Roles Writer
Rating65% 3.2975653.2975653.2975653.2975653.297565
Celeste Talbert (Sally Field), the longtime star of the daytime drama The Sun Also Sets, is targeted by her ambitious co-star Montana Moorehead (Cathy Moriarty); Montana connives to supplant Celeste as the show's star by promising sexual favors to its producer, David Seton Barnes (Robert Downey, Jr.). To make the audience hate Celeste's character, Montana and David come up with a last-minute plot change in which she will accidentally kill a young, destitute deaf-mute, played by the newly-cast Lori Craven (Elisabeth Shue). Despite the strong objections of Head Writer Rose Schwartz (Whoopie Goldberg) and Celeste herself, the scene plays out, but is interrupted by Celeste's recognition of Lori as her real-life niece. Network honcho Edmund Edwards (Garry Marshall) sees potential in the relationship and makes Lori a regular cast member.
Steel Magnolias, 1h57
Directed by Herbert Ross
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Feminist films, Théâtre, Political films, Films based on plays, Buddy films
Actors Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts
Roles Theatre Play
Rating72% 3.649293.649293.649293.649293.64929
Annelle Dupuy (Daryl Hannah), a reserved and ditzy beauty school graduate, is hired by Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) to work in her home-based beauty salon in northwestern Louisiana. At the same time in another part of the neighbourhood, M'Lynn Eatenton (Sally Field) and her daughter, Shelby (Julia Roberts), are preparing for Shelby's wedding day, which is taking place later that day. They arrive, along with Clairee Belcher (Olympia Dukakis), the cheerful widow of the late former mayor, to have their hair done. Suddenly, Shelby, who has type one diabetes, falls into a hypoglycemic state but recovers quickly with the help of her mother's persistence and quick thinking. M'Lynn explains that Shelby was recently informed by doctors that she isn't able to have children.

Producer

A Smile Like Yours, 1h38
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Greg Kinnear, Lauren Holly, Joan Cusack, Jay Thomas, Jill Hennessy, Christopher McDonald
Roles Executive Producer
Rating48% 2.4015052.4015052.4015052.4015052.401505
Danny et Jennifer Robertson, un couple trentenaire, essaient, en vain, de faire un enfant. Ils effectuent des examens médicaux et apprennent que Danny serait stérile. Ils vont aller de déconvenues en surprises lorsque, dans le même laps de temps, Danny apprend que Jennifer connaissait son infertilité depuis longtemps et qu’une nouvelle venue se prend de passion pour lui…