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biopic and life
In 2006 Chris Noonan directed Miss Potter, a biopic of Potter ’ s life focusing on her early career and romance with her editor Norman Warne.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, numerous media reports emerged that plans were underway to do a biopic based upon Haley's life, with Beau Bridges, Jeff Bridges and John Ritter all at one point being mentioned as actors in line to play Haley ( according to Goldmine Magazine, Ritter attempted to buy the film rights to Sound and Glory ).
In March 2005, the British network Sky TV reported that Tom Hanks was planning to produce a biopic on the life of Bill Haley, with production tentatively scheduled to begin in 2006.
A biopic based on the life of Preston Tucker and his attempt to produce and market the Tucker ' 48, Coppola had originally conceived the project as a musical with Marlon Brando after the release of The Godfather Part II.
The circumstances of his life were heavily edited and romanticized for the 1948 MGM biopic Words and Music.
Towne also wrote and directed Personal Best ( 1982 ), a fictional drama of female track-and-field athletes, and Without Limits ( 1998 ), a biopic based on the life of distance runner Steve Prefontaine.
In 1997, Claude Berri produced the biopic Lucie Aubrac based on the life of the Résistance heroine of the same name, which was criticized for its Gaullist portrayal of the Résistance and over-emphasis on the relationship between Aubrac and her husband.
The Last Emperor is a 1987 biopic about the life of Puyi, the last Emperor of China, whose autobiography was the basis for the screenplay written by Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci.
* In " Ray ," the motion picture biopic about the life of musician Ray Charles, a fictional character named Oberon is featured as a dwarf that is the M. C.
The biopic Ray, released in October 2004, portrays his life and career between 1930 and 1979 and stars Jamie Foxx as Charles.
A biopic, Champion details the life of Duk Koo Kim, South Korea's most popular boxer, who, in his rise to international fame, faced the reigning lightweight champion Ray Mancini at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada on November 13, 1982.
In October 2008, Warner played the role of Lord Mountbatten of Burma in the BBC Four television film In Love with Barbara, a biopic about the life of romantic novelist Barbara Cartland.
In 1997, in spite of his lack of experience in dramatic roles, Bana was approached by director Andrew Dominik to appear in the film Chopper ( 2000 ), a biopic based on the life of infamous Australian criminal Chopper Read.
* Champion-a South Korean biopic about Kim's life, released in 2002.
Cradock's life has also been the subject of two biopic dramas: Doughnuts like Fanny's by Julia Darling and Fear of Fanny by Brian Fillis.
The Spanish public television filmed a biopic series to commemorate his life.
Recognition has included biographies, a historic plaque at his birthplace, and a 1999 biopic about his life by the director Richard Attenborough.
Planet Kuchar, a biopic of the life of George Kuchar, is being developed by Los Angeles production company Automat Pictures and producer Jeffrey Schwarz.
A biopic of his life, The Legend of Alfred Packer, was made in 1980.
Another biopic about her life, " Vida y poesía de Julia de Burgos ," was filmed and released in Puerto Rico in 1978.
Daniel is collaborating with Allen Nalasco on a biopic of his father's life titled " DeWeldon-The Man Behind The Monuments ".
In 2006, it was announced that Sandra Bullock was slated to star in and co-produce a biopic of Metalious ' life, but this film never went into production.
Later he got some recognition when he depicted Fidel Castro in Steven Soderbergh's biopic Che ( 2008 ) on the life of Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara.
Along with Christian Keller as film director and Mexican entrepreneur Max Appedole, Osborne is preparing a major Latin hit with the production of " Trevi " a biopic about the life of Mexican star Gloria Trevi.

biopic and Babe
In 2006, she took a supporting role in Miss Potter, a biopic of children's author Beatrix Potter from Babe director Chris Noonan, with Ewan McGregor and Renée Zellweger, and also in an adaptation of Thea Beckman's children's novel Crusade in Jeans.
Some scenes in the 1991 made-for-TV Babe Ruth biopic, starring Stephen Lang as the Babe and with a cameo by Pete Rose as Ty Cobb, were filmed there.

biopic and was
In 2003, while promoting X2, Hugh Jackman mentioned in an interview on UK television morning talk show This Morning that he planned to make a biopic of Bill Bixby, that he had been drawn to the project by Bryan Singer and that it was a project he loved.
Love worked with director Alex Cox on her first two films ; she gained a small part in the Sid Vicious biopic Sid and Nancy ( 1986 ), and was then given the leading role in his following film, Straight to Hell ( 1987 ), which caught the attention of artist Andy Warhol.
Punjabi biopic Jatt Jeona Morh about the noted dacoit, Jatt Jeona Morh, was made in 1991, also in the same year came, Jagga Dakubased on a noted outlaw and dacoit during British Raj, Jagga Daku.
The biopic starred Richard Hatch as Jan Berry and Bruce Davison as Dean Torrence, with cameo appearances by Dick Clark, Wolfman Jack, Mike Love of the Beach Boys, and Bruce Johnston ( who at that time was temporarily out of the Beach Boys ), as well as Berry himself ( near the end of the movie, he can be seen sitting in the audience, watching " himself " ( Richard Hatch ) perform onstage ).
In 2007, a 165-minute biopic of Brando, Brando: The Documentary, produced by Mike Medavoy ( the executor of Brando's will ) for Turner Classic Movies, was released.
Crash is also featured on the cover of the film, a scene taken from their performance which was later recreated for the Rodger Grossman's Germs biopic What We Do Is Secret.
Sex, Lies, and Videotape was followed by a series of low-budget box-office disappointments: Kafka, a biopic mixing fact and Kafka's own fiction ( notably The Castle and The Trial ), written by Lem Dobbs and starring Jeremy Irons as Franz Kafka ; King of the Hill ( 1993 ), a critically acclaimed Depression-era drama ; The Underneath ( 1995 ), a remake of Robert Siodmak's 1949 film noir Criss Cross ; and Schizopolis ( 1996 ), a comedy which he starred in, wrote, composed, and shot as well as directed.
Eisenstein was thence able to ingratiate himself with Stalin for ' one more chance ', and he chose, from two offerings, the assignment of a biopic of Alexander Nevsky, with music composed by Sergei Prokofiev.
In 1993, HBO began development of a Walt Disney biopic, directed by Frank Pierson and produced by Lawrence Turman, but the project never materialized and was soon abandoned.
Their affair was depicted in the HBO Pictures biopic, Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, in which Preminger was portrayed by Austrian actor Klaus Maria Brandauer.
It was purchased and renovated by the Italian director Pupi Avati when he filmed portions of his biopic Bix ( film ) | Bix: An Interpretation of a Legend there during the summer of 1990.
For a time, Lean was interested in a biopic of Gandhi, with Alec Guinness to play the title role and Emeric Pressburger writing the screenplay, but Lean eventually lost interest in the project.
* Essex was played by Sam Reid in the 2011 film Anonymous, a fictional biopic that posits that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the true author of William Shakespeare's plays.
A theoretical connection between the Kennedy assassination and the Watergate Tapes was later referred to in the biopic, Nixon, directed by Oliver Stone.
" DiCaprio's last film of the year 1995 was The Basketball Diaries, a biopic about Jim Carroll.
Nico was portrayed by Christina Fulton in the 1991 biopic The Doors.
* 1993: The biopic Sardar was produced and directed by Ketan Mehta and featured noted Indian actor Paresh Rawal as Patel ; it focused on Patel's leadership in the years leading up to independence, the partition of India, India's political integration and Patel's relationship with Gandhi and Nehru.
* Hearst's 1982 autobiography, Every Secret Thing, was made into the biopic Patty Hearst by Paul Schrader in 1988, with Natasha Richardson portraying Hearst.
Fox's story was dramatized in the 1983 biopic The Terry Fox Story.
Perkins was portrayed by Johnny Saint Holiday in the 2005 Johnny Cash biopic Walk the Line.

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