Quick Facts
- 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
Best Known For
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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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.
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