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Stephen Hunter is a Actor and Novel American born on 25 march 1946 at Kansas City (USA)

Stephen Hunter

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Nationality USA
Birth 25 march 1946 (78 years) at Kansas City (USA)

Stephen Hunter (born March 25, 1946) is an American novelist, essayist, and Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic.

Biography

Après des études supérieures à l'Université Northwestern et l'obtention de son diplôme en 1968, il passe deux années dans les Forces armées des États-Unis avant d'entreprendre en 1971 une carrière de journaliste au Baltimore Sun où, en 1982, il devient critique de cinéma. En 1997, il quitte ce journal pour le Washington Post. En 2003, il reçoit le prix Pulizer de la critique . Le recueil Violent Screen: A Critic's 13 Years on the Front Lines of Movie Mayhem (1995) réunit une bonne partie de ses critiques.

Parmi les romans policiers de Stephen Hunter, Shooter (Point of Impact, 1993), « considéré comme son chef-d'œuvre »est le premier volet des aventures de son héros, Bob Lee Swagger, un ancien sniper de la guerre du Viêt Nam. Earl Swagger, un autre personnage récurrent de Hunter, est le père de Bob Lee. Leurs récits les mettent en vedette se caractérisent par une succession de péripéties mouvementées au cours desquelles foisonnent les tireurs d'élite, espions, et baroudeurs en tout genre.

Sales Blancs (Dirty White Boys, 1994) est le récit d'une poursuite, l'un des thèmes favoris de l'auteur, alors que trois criminels s'évadent d'un pénitencier de l'Oklahoma.

Stephen Hunter a également signé la novélisation de Target, le film réalisé en 1985 par Arthur Penn, avec Gene Hackman et Matt Dillon.

Usually with

Peter Jackson
Peter Jackson
(2 films)
Fran Walsh
Fran Walsh
(2 films)
Andy Serkis
Andy Serkis
(2 films)
Alan Alda
Alan Alda
(1 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Stephen Hunter (8 films)

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies, 2h24
Directed by Andy Serkis, Peter Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Middle-earth films, Films about dragons, Children's films
Actors Dean O'Gorman, Lee Pace, Martin Freeman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Luke Evans, Orlando Bloom
Roles Bombur
Rating73% 3.6989753.6989753.6989753.6989753.698975
Bilbo and the Dwarves watch from the Lonely Mountain as the dragon Smaug sets Laketown ablaze, and its people flee. Bard the Bowman breaks out of prison, and eventually kills Smaug with the black arrow brought to him by his son Bain. Smaug's falling body crushes the fleeing Master of Laketown, who was escaping Laketown on a boat laden with the town's gold. Bard reluctantly becomes the new leader of the Laketown people as they seek refuge in the ruins of Dale, while Legolas travels to investigate Mount Gundabad with Tauriel. Thorin, now struck with "dragon sickness" over the vast treasure in the mountain, searches obsessively for the Arkenstone, which Bilbo had previously found but kept hidden. Thorin, hearing that people have come to Dale, orders the entrance of the Lonely Mountain sealed off.
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug, 2h41
Directed by Peter Jackson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Science fiction, Fantasy, Action, Adventure
Themes Films about animals, Films about magic and magicians, Monde imaginaire, Middle-earth films, Films about dragons, Children's films
Actors Ian McKellen, Martin Freeman, Richard Armitage, Benedict Cumberbatch, Cate Blanchett, Lee Pace
Roles Bombur
Rating77% 3.897953.897953.897953.897953.89795
Thorin and his company are being pursued by Azog and his Orc party following the events of the previous film. They are ushered along by Gandalf to the nearby home of Beorn, a skin-changer who can take the form of the bear. That night, Azog is summoned to Dol Guldur by the Necromancer, who commands him to marshal his forces for war. Azog then delegates the hunt for Thorin to his son Bolg. The following day, Beorn escorts the company to the borders of Mirkwood, where Gandalf discovers Black Speech imprinted on an old ruin. This coincides with a telepathic message from Galadriel urging him to investigate the tombs of the Nazgûl. He warns the company to remain on the path and leaves them. Upon entering the forest they lose their way and are ensnared by giant spiders. Bilbo then sets about freeing the dwarves with the help of his recently acquired invisibility ring. He subsequently drops the Ring and first begins to understand its dark influence after he brutally kills a centipede-like creature to retrieve it.
Woman on Trial: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story, 2h7
Directed by Sandor Stern
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Tatum O'Neal, Bruce Greenwood, Peggy McCay, Colin Fox, Kenneth Welsh, Catherine Disher
Roles Deputy-Inspector
Rating60% 3.002053.002053.002053.002053.00205
C'est l'histoire vraie de Laurie Bembenek, accusée d'avoir assassiné l'ex-femme de son mari.
Deceived
Deceived (1991)
, 1h44
Directed by Damian Harris
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Actors Goldie Hawn, John Heard, Beatrice Straight, Robin Bartlett, Jan Rubes, George R. Robertson
Roles Tony
Rating60% 3.0477053.0477053.0477053.0477053.047705
Adrienne Saunders (Hawn) is happily married to her art dealer husband, Jack (Heard). They have a daughter named Mary (Peldon). Adrienne hears from a friend that she thought she saw Jack in town when he claimed to be on an out of town business trip. Adrienne confronts him, but he denies being in town, and their lives continue. Soon after a museum curator is mysteriously murdered, and a relic that Jack bought for the museum is revealed to be a fake. Jack is placed under suspicion, and then Adrienne receives word from the police that Jack perished in a car accident. In trying to wrap up Jack's affairs, Adrienne begins to suspect that her husband had switched identities with a high school classmate, Frank Sullivan. When she sees a high school yearbook picture of her husband attributed to Sullivan, she is convinced.
A New Life
A New Life (1988)
, 1h44
Directed by Alan Alda
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Actors Ann-Margret, Alan Alda, Hal Linden, Veronica Hamel, John Shea, Mary Kay Place
Roles Ultrasound Doctor
Rating57% 2.894842.894842.894842.894842.89484
Steve Giardino, an abrasive, workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back into the dating world in middle age and in search of a new life.
Bullies
Bullies (1986)
, 1h36
Directed by Paul Lynch
Origin Canada
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Actors Jonathan Crombie, Janet-Laine Green, Olivia D'Abo, Stephen Hunter, Bernie Coulson, Dehl Berti
Roles Clay Morris
Rating53% 2.6558252.6558252.6558252.6558252.655825
The peaceful Morris family moves to a small town and buy the town grocery store, only to run into the Cullens, a family that's been bullying the townspeople for years, and they begin to torment the Norris every chance they get. Matt Norris (Jonathan Crombie) begins seeing a girl named Becky (Olivia d'Abo), whose last name is unfortunately Cullen. In this Romeo and Juliet-esque relationship, Matt and Becky have to keep their relationship a secret, but when the feuding families find out, harassment is elevated to vicious assault.

Scriptwriter

Shooter
Shooter (2007)
, 2h4
Directed by Antoine Fuqua
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Assassinat, Political films
Actors Mark Wahlberg, Danny Glover, Ned Beatty, Michael Peña, Tate Donovan, Kate Mara
Roles Novel
Rating71% 3.550053.550053.550053.550053.55005
Bob Lee Swagger reluctantly leaves a self-imposed exile from his isolated mountain home at the request of Colonel Isaac Johnson, who appeals to him to help track down an assassin who is planning to shoot the president. Johnson gives him a list of three cities where the President is scheduled to visit and Swagger assesses a site in Philadelphia as the most likely. This turns out to be a set-up; while Swagger is working with Johnson's agents to find the rumored assassin, the Ethiopian archbishop is instead shot while standing next to the president. Swagger is then shot by a police officer but manages to escape. The agents tell the police that Swagger is the shooter and stage a manhunt for the injured sniper. However, he meets a rookie FBI special agent, Nick Memphis, disarms him, and steals his car.