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Robert Wilson is a Actor, Director and Producer American born on 4 october 1941 at Waco (USA)

Robert Wilson

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Nationality USA
Birth 4 october 1941 (82 years) at Waco (USA)

Robert Wilson (born 4 October 1941) is an American experimental theater stage director and playwright who has been described by the media as "[America]'s — or even the world's — foremost vanguard 'theater artist'". Over the course of his wide-ranging career, he has also worked as a choreographer, performer, painter, sculptor, video artist, and sound and lighting designer. He is best known for his collaborations with Philip Glass on Einstein on the Beach, and with numerous other artists, including Heiner Müller, William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Lou Reed, Tom Waits, David Byrne, Laurie Anderson, Gavin Bryars, Darryl Pinckney, Rufus Wainwright, Marina Abramović and Lady Gaga.

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Filmography of Robert Wilson (6 films)

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Actor

Uncle Howard
Directed by Aaron Brookner
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry
Actors Howard Brookner, Madonna, Aaron Brookner, Jim Jarmusch, Sara Driver, Andy Warhol
Rating69% 3.4708453.4708453.4708453.4708453.470845
Director Howard Brookner died of AIDS in NYC in 1989 while in post-production on his breakthrough Hollywood movie. His body of work has been buried for 30 years in William S. Burroughs' bunker until his nephew Aaron Brookner unearths his story and the memory of everything he was.
Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars, 1h30
Directed by Howard Brookner
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Ingrid Andree

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational opera for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Filmmaker Howard Brookner follows the avant-garde theatre director as he confronts a hectic work schedule, funding difficulties and relentless international travel in attempt to complete his preparations.
Days of Heaven, 1h34
Directed by Terrence Malick
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Sam Shepard, Linda Manz, Robert J. Wilke, Stuart Margolin
Roles Le Comptable
Rating77% 3.897363.897363.897363.897363.89736
The story is set in 1916. Bill (Gere), a Chicago manual laborer, knocks down and kills a boss (Margolin) in the steel mill where he works. He flees to the Texas Panhandle with his girlfriend Abby (Adams) and younger sister Linda (Manz),
There's Always Vanilla, 1h33
Directed by George A. Romero
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Judith Ridley, Robert Wilson, Bill Hinzman, Russell Streiner
Roles Directeur de la chaîne TV
Rating51% 2.55382.55382.55382.55382.5538
There's Always Vanilla follows the life of Chris Bradley (Raymond Laine) a retired U.S. Army soldier who has become a drifter and makes money by various means, from pimping to guitar playing. Chris returns to his home city of Pittsburgh and visits his father who owns and operates a baby food factory. After an evening out with his father of drinking at a local bar, and visiting an old girlfriend named Terri Terrific (Johanna Lawrence), Mr. Bradley wants Chris to abandon his bohemian lifestyle and do what was agreed upon when he retired from the military; return to the family business, but Chris refuses.

Director

Dead Mary
Dead Mary (2007)
, 1h43
Directed by Robert Wilson
Origin Canada
Genres Horror
Actors Dominique Swain, Reagan Pasternak, Maggie Castle, Jefferson Brown
Rating44% 2.207322.207322.207322.207322.20732
A young woman and a group of her school friends embark on a holiday weekend at a lakeside cabin to reminisce about their college days, only to run afoul of an evil spirit.

Producer

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars, 1h30
Directed by Howard Brookner
Origin USA
Genres Documentary
Actors Robert Wilson, Philip Glass, Ingrid Andree
Roles Producer

Robert Wilson and the Civil Wars is an in-depth documentation of Robert Wilson’s ambitious attempt to stage an epic, twelve-hour, multinational opera for the 1984 Summer Olympics. Filmmaker Howard Brookner follows the avant-garde theatre director as he confronts a hectic work schedule, funding difficulties and relentless international travel in attempt to complete his preparations.