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HARRISON TEXAS - 8 TELEVISION PLAYS BY: HORTON FOOTE
HARRISON TEXAS - 8 TELEVISION PLAYS BY: HORTON FOOTE
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Albert Horton Foote Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009[1]) was an American playwright and screenwriter. He received Academy Awards for his screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird, which was adapted from the 1960 novel of the same name by Harper Lee,[2] and his original screenplay for the film Tender Mercies (1983). He was also known for his notable live television dramas produced during the Golden Age of Television.
Foote received the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play The Young Man From Atlanta. He was the inaugural recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award. In 2000, he was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[3]
Foote moved to California, where he studied theater at the Pasadena Playhouse in 1931–32. He began his career as an actor, but was also writing plays. After getting better reviews for his plays than for his acting, during the 1940s he focused on writing. He became one of the leading writers for American television during the 1950s,[5] beginning with an episode of The Gabby Hayes Show.
His play The Trip to Bountiful premiered March 1, 1953 on NBC with the leading cast members (Lillian Gish, Eva Marie Saint) reprising their roles on Broadway later that year.[6][7][8] The play was later adapted as a feature film of the same name.
Throughout the 1950s, Foote wrote for The Philco Television Playhouse, The United States Steel Hour, Playhouse 90, Studio One, and Armchair Theatre, among others. He continued into the 1960s with ITV Playhouse and DuPont Show of the Month.[9][7][10]
He twice adapted William Faulkner's "Old Man" to television, in 1958 and 1997.[11] Each received an Emmy nomination. In 1997 Foote won Outstanding Writing of a Miniseries or Special).[12]
