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Norman Mailer
Director 1923 - 2007

Norman Mailer

Long Branch, New Jersey, USA

Norman Kingsley Mailer (January 31, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, activist, filmmaker and actor. In a career spanning over six decades, Mailer had 11 best-selling books, at least one in each of the seven decades after... Read full bio →

Directed Films

Every film this person directed

4 titles
Tough Guys Don't Dance

Tough Guys Don't Dance

Norman Mailer 1987 1h 49m 4.5

Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.

Maidstone

Maidstone

Norman Mailer 1971 1h 46m

Over a booze-fueled, increasingly hectic five-day shoot in East Hampton, Norman Mailer and his cast and crew spontaneously unloaded onto film the lurid and loony chronicle of U.S. presidential candidate and filmmaker Norman T. Kingsley debating and attacking his hangers-on and enemies.

Wild 90

Wild 90

Norman Mailer 1968 1h 22m

Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.

Beyond the Law

Beyond the Law

Norman Mailer 1968 1h 50m

Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.

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