Terrence Malick Biography

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NAME: Terrence Frederick Malick
OCCUPATION: Actor, Director, Producer, Screenwriter
BIRTH DATE: November 20, 1943 (Age: 68)
EDUCATION: Harvard University, Magdalen College, Oxford
PLACE OF BIRTH: Ottawa, Illinois

ZODIAC SIGN: Scorpio

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Terrence Malick is a film director, producer and writer who is best-known for his films Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line.

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Terrence Malick is a film director, producer and writer. He initially studied philosophy at Harvard and later pursued a PhD from Oxford. He then went on to produce what many critics hail as some of the best films ever made, including Badlands (1973), Days of Heaven (1978) and The Thin Red Line (1998), which was nominated for two Oscars. His fifth feature, The Tree of Life, was released in 2011.

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Writer, director, producer. Born November 30, 1943 in Ottawa, Illinois.

In 1973, Malik wrote and directed the acclaimed film Badlands, which starred Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek as a young couple on the run after a murder. Malik also wrote and directed 1978's Days of Heaven, the story of a Depression-era drifter who with his sister and girlfriend finds work on the farm of a lonely landowner. The film featured Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, and Sam Shepard.

Malik received two Academy Award nominations--one for Best Director and one for Best Screenplay-Adaption--for his 1998 film The Thin Red Line. This film, which starred John Cusack, Nick Nolte, Sean Penn, and John Travolta, was based upon a novel by James Jones and told the story of the men of "Charlie" Company during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal.