Known For
Complete Filmography

Stanley & Iris
1990
Screenplay
An illiterate cook at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman. As they get to know one another, she discovers his inabili...

Murphy's Romance
1985
as Customer
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but...

Murphy's Romance
1985
Screenplay
Emma, a divorced single mother seeking to start her life over, moves to a small town in Arizona. She befriends Murphy, the older local pharmacist, but...

Norma Rae
1979
Screenplay
Norma Rae is a southern textile worker employed in a factory with intolerable working conditions. This concern about the situation gives her the gumpt...

The Spikes Gang
1974
Screenplay, Producer
Three teenage farm boys stumble upon Harry Spikes, a local bandit wounded in a gun battle. While Harry is recuperating, he regales the young men with ...

Conrack
1974
Screenplay
A young, white school teacher is assigned to Yamacraw Island, an isolated fishing community off the coast of South Carolina, populated mostly by poor ...

The Carey Treatment
1972
Screenplay
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.

The Cowboys
1972
Screenplay
When his cattlemen abandon him for the gold fields, rancher Wil Andersen is forced to take on a collection of young boys as his cowboys in order to ge...

The Reivers
1969
Producer, Screenplay
In turn-of-the-century Mississippi, an 11-year-old boy comes of age as two mischievous adult friends talk him into sneaking the family car out for a t...

House of Cards
1968
Screenplay
In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new world order.

Hombre
1967
Writer, Producer
John Russell, disdained by his "respectable" fellow stagecoach passengers because he was raised by Indians, becomes their only hope for survival when ...

Hud
1963
Writer, Producer
Hud Bannon is a ruthless young man who tarnishes everything and everyone he touches. Hud represents the perfect embodiment of alienated youth, out for...

The Dark at the Top of the Stairs
1960
Screenplay
In Oklahoma in the 1920s, Rubin Flood loses his job as a traveling salesman when the company goes bankrupt. This adds to his worries at home. His wife...

Home from the Hill
1960
Screenplay
The wealthiest man in a Texas town decides to teach his teenage son how to hunt to make a man out of him.

The Sound and the Fury
1959
Screenplay
Drama focusing on a family of Southern aristocrats who are trying to deal with the dissolution of their clan and the loss of its reputation, faith, fo...

The Long, Hot Summer
1958
Screenplay
Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

Run for Cover
1955
Story
An ex-convict drifter and his flawed young partner are made sheriff and deputy of a Western town.

Ten Wanted Men
1955
Story
When his ward seeks protection with rival cattleman John Stewart, embittered, jealous rancher Wick Campbell hires ten outlaws to help him seize power ...

The Lone Hand
1953
Story
Zachary Hallock and his son Joshua are farmers who live in a frontier town that suffers the assaults of a band of outlaws. After the murder of a Pinke...

Vengeance Valley
1951
Screenplay
A cattle baron takes in an orphaned boy and raises him, causing his own son to resent the boy. As they get older the resentment festers into hatred, a...

The Outriders
1950
Screenplay, Story
Late in the Civil War, three Confederate soldiers escape from a Union prison camp in Missouri. They soon fall into the hands of pro-Confederate raider...

Living in a Big Way
1947
Writer
A World War II pilot (Gene Kelly) comes home to a bride (Marie McDonald) who, spoiled by her father (Charles Winninger), now wants a divorce.