FILM DIRECTOR

Alan Ball

1957 - Today

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Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer and director for film and television. Ball is best known for writing the screenplay for the dramedy film American Beauty (1999), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. He also created the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2001–2005) and True Blood (2008–2014), and served as an executive producer on the Cinemax action drama series Banshee (2013–2016). He wrote and directed the films Towelhead (2007) and Uncle Frank (2020). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Ball is the 1,183rd most popular film director (down from 1,136th in 2019), the 8,416th most popular biography from United States (down from 7,351st in 2019) and the 313th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alan Ball ranks 1,183 out of 2,041. Before him are Jacques Baratier, Shunji Iwai, Luise Fleck, Roy Ward Baker, Mark Herman, and Herschell Gordon Lewis. After him are John Pilger, Giorgi Shengelaia, Gerry Anderson, Nick Park, Franz Antel, and Francis Girod.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1957, Alan Ball ranks 341. Before him are Laura Innes, Márta Sebestyén, Alexander Dityatin, Heather Thomas, Kenyu Horiuchi, and Gediminas Vagnorius. After him are Sainkho Namtchylak, Pietro Paolo Virdis, Andrew Cuomo, Yelena Kondakova, Arkadi Ghukasyan, and Arto Tunçboyacıyan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alan Ball ranks 8,418 out of 20,380. Before him are Robert Bacon (1860), Paddy Chayefsky (1923), Noah Wyle (1971), John Casper (1943), K. Eric Drexler (1955), and Herschell Gordon Lewis (1926). After him are Haley Joel Osment (1988), Henry Dearborn (1751), Robert Goulet (1933), Jesse Plemons (1988), Kal Penn (1977), and Michael Badalucco (1954).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Alan Ball ranks 313. Before him are Dominic Sena (1949), Abraham Polonsky (1910), Rebecca Miller (1962), Sidney Franklin (1893), Carl Foreman (1914), and Herschell Gordon Lewis (1926). After him are Trey Parker (1969), Joe Ranft (1960), Byron Haskin (1899), Buddy Van Horn (1928), Busby Berkeley (1895), and Archie Mayo (1891).

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