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Art Linson is an American producer, screenwriter, and author. [ 1] Life and career. Art Linson has produced movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Into the Wild, and Melvin and Howard .
Art is an award winning producer, author, screenwriter, and director. Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner. Yellowstone premiered on June 20, 2018, on the Paramount Network.
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- Producer, Writer, Director
- Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Art Linson
Art is an award winning producer, author, screenwriter, and director. Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone, starring Kevin Costner. Yellowstone premiered on June 20, 2018, on the Paramount Network.
- March 16, 1942
Art Linson (born 1942) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. His directorial debut was the 1980 comedy, Where the Buffalo Roam, which was loosely based on stories by Hunter S. Thompson and starred Bill Murray as the writer.
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Full name, Arthur Larry Linson; born March 16, 1942, in Chicago, IL; married second wife, c. 1995; children: John (a producer). Education: University of California, Los Angeles, law degree, 1967; also attended University of California, Berkeley.
Film Producer:
(With Michael Gruskoff) Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins (also known as Rafferty and the Highway Hustlers), Warner Bros., 1975. (With Gary Stromberg) Car Wash,Universal, 1976. American Hot Wax,Paramount, 1978. (With Don Phillips) Melvin and Howard,Universal, 1980. Where the Buffalo Roam,Universal, 1980. (With Irving Azoff) Fast Times at Ridgemont High (also known as Fast Times), Universal, 1982. (With Cameron Crowe and Phillips) The Wild Life,Universal, 1984. The Untouchables,Paramount, 1987....
Film Executive Producer:
(With Barrie M. Osborne and Floyd Mutrux) Dick Tracy,Buena Vista, 1990. Singles,Warner Bros., 1992. Lords of Dogtown (also known as American Knights and Dogtown Boys), TriStar, 2005.
Film Director:
Where the Buffalo Roam,Universal, 1980. The Wild Life,Universal, 1984.
Videos:
Himself, The Making of "Casualties of War" (short), Columbia/TriStar Home Entertainment, 2001. Himself, The Untouchables: The Classic(short), Paramount Home Video, 2004. Himself, The Untouchables: Re-inventing the Genre(short), Paramount Home Video, 2004. Himself, The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast(short), Paramount Home Video, 2004. Himself, The Making of "Heat," Warner Home Video, 2005.
Video Work:
Still photographer, The Making of "Heat," Warner Home Video, 2005.
Screenplays:
(Story) American Hot Wax,Paramount, 1978. (With Cameron Crowe) The Wild Life,Universal, 1984. (Story) Sunset Strip (also known as Untitled Sunset Strip Project), Twentieth Century-Fox, 2000. Wrote the screenplay Cover Me.Provided the stories for other films.
Teleplays; Pilots:
(With William Finkelstein) What Just Happened? (based on his book What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line), HBO, c. 2008.
Nonfiction:
A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Europe,Grove Press, 1993. What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line,Bloomsbury, 2002.
Pages in category "Films produced by Art Linson". The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes.
Art Linson has produced movies in every decade since the seventies including Fight Club, Heat, The Untouchables, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Into the Wild, and Melvin and Howard. Linson was an executive producer on the long-running FX television series Sons of Anarchy (2008-2014), as well as Yellowstone , starring Kevin Costner .
