He succeeded Elliott Gould, who had played the character in the Robert Altman movie MASH, and was himself succeeded by Pernell Roberts on the M * A * S * H spin-off Trapper John, M. D ..

The script of the latter earned him an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, but Lardner would later distance himself from the film due to the fact that director Robert Altman changed the script so much.

Although Rhoden was officially the producer, Altman did most of that type of work himself.

There was one particular incident where Altman was ready to shoot a scene in which Laughlin was supposed to appear physically exhausted, and Laughlin excused himself with, “ I've got to get in the mood now ”.

* His song " L ' Edition Speciale " was featured in the 1987 film Broadcast News, in which the character of Aaron Altman ( Albert Brooks ) plays it on his record player and sings along.

Sue Scott plays " Donna, the Makeup Lady " in A Prairie Home Companion the movie based on a screenplay by Garrison Keillor and filmed by Robert Altman at the Fitzgerald Theater in Saint Paul, Minnesota during the summer of 2005.

Altman and Rhoden also came back from California with soundman Bob Post and camera operator Harry Birch.

Publishers, Editors and writers for Creem included Connie Kramer, Lester Bangs, formative early editor Dave Marsh, Billy Altman, Bob Fleck, John Morthland, Ben Edmonds, Ed Ward, Richard Riegel, Ric Siegel, Robert Christgau, Richard Meltzer, Nick Tosches, Greil Marcus, Jeffrey Morgan, Richard C. Walls, Rob Tyner, Patti Smith, Peter Laughner, Cameron Crowe, Linda Barber, Charlie Auringer, Judy Adams, Jaan Uhelszki, Penny Valentine, Susan Whitall, John " The Mad " Peck, Robot A.

Alumni of WBAI include Margot Adler, Abraham Aig, Jan Albert, Chris Albertson, Nancy Allen, Matt Alperin, Archie Altman, Lindsay Audin, Robbie Barish, Deborah Begel, Olenka Bohachevski, Delphine Blue, Peter Bochan, Bunny Bruce, Janice K. Bryant, Doreen Canto, Pepsi Charles, Frank Coffee, Candy Cohen, Janet Coleman, Neal Conan, Pat Conte, John Corigliano, Deloris Costello, Liza Cowan, Larry Cox, Joe Cumo, Ken Davis, Barbara Day, Ife Dancy, Dick Demenus, Kathy Dobkin, Mike Edl, Barika Taheer Edwards, Matt Edwards, Dick Elman, Bob Fass, Mike Feder, Charlie Finch, Richard Fioravanti, Paul Fischer, John Fisk, Sara Fishko, Joe Frank, Gary Fried, Jim Freund, Paul Gorman, Joanne Grant, Jeff Greenfield, Edward Haber, Doug Henwood, Lex Hixon, Charles Hobson, Milton Hoffman, Mary Houston, Susan Howe, Jimmy Howes, Rob Hunter, Timothy Jerome, Reggie Johnson, Larry Josephson, Sam Julty, Citizen Kafka, Jesse Keyes, Glo Kirby, Robert Knight, Alen Pol Kobryn, Chris Koch, Robert Kuttner, Richard Lamparski, Andy Lanset, Julius Lester, Al Lewis, John Lithgow, Sari Locker, Leonard Lopate, The Mighty G-Man, Ann MacMillan, Marian McPartland, Samori Marksmen, Margaret Mercer, Frank Millspaugh, Dale Minor, Kathy O ' Connell, Andrew Phillips, Betty Pilkington, Charles Pitts, Steve Post, Charles Potter, Robert Potts, David Rapkin, Desiree K. Robinson, David Rothenberg, Jay Rothman ( Zeke ), Charles Ruas, Eric Salzman, Lynn Samuels, Bill Schechner, Baird Searles, Judy Sherman, John J. Simon, Miles Smith, Peter Cedric Rock Smith ( aka: Rocky ), Jay Smooth, Bruce Soloway, A.

After just two episodes, Altman resigned due to differences with a producer.

In 1981, finding Hollywood increasingly uninterested in funding and distributing the films he wanted to make, Altman sold his Lion's Gate studio and production facility to producer Jonathan Taplin.

The program was created by Sophie Altman, who continued as executive producer until she died on May 24, 2008.

* Brad Altman ( born 1954 ), American producer

Altman employed his friends and Calvin co-workers on the crew, including Reza Badiyi as assistant director / associate producer and his sister Joan as production manager.

* TCM Remembers 2006: Marian Marsh, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Anthony Franciosa, Tamara Dobson, cinematographer Sven Nykvist, Red Buttons, Alida Valli, Mickey Spillane, director Gordon Parks, director Gillo Pontecorvo, Robert Donner, Darren McGavin, Mako Iwamatsu, Robert O. Cornthwaite, Richard Bright, producer Joseph Stefano, Barnard Hughes, Adrienne Shelly, Chris Penn, Vincent Schiavelli, Arthur Hill, art director Henry Bumstead, Jane Wyatt, Jack Wild, Paul Gleason, composer Malcolm Arnold, songwriter Betty Comden, director Vincent Sherman, Fayard Nicholas, Moira Shearer, Ken Richmond, writer Peter Benchley, Robert Earl Jones, Dennis Weaver, director Richard Fleischer, Don Knotts, Jack Palance, Peter Boyle, Maureen Stapleton, Bruno Kirby, director Robert Altman, June Allyson, Glenn Ford and Shelley Winters

There still was no interest even when Altman came on board as producer.

* In the 1987 romantic comedy film, Broadcast News, about a virtuoso television news producer ( Holly Hunter ), who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter ( Albert Brooks ) and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival ( William Hurt ), a young Aaron Altman ( played by Dwayne Markee ) states, " You're never gonna leave South Boston and I'm gonna see the whole damn world.

In March 2005, Scott moved from Brooklyn, New York to Amelia Island, Florida, to care for her ailing elder sister Carol Anne, a producer who worked on many Robert Altman films and who went by the name Scott " Scotty " Bushnell.

He was also joined for some of the storyline by Nick Cotton ( played by John Altman ), who was imprisoned for a different offence.

He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most innovative and influential film directors and he epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, that includes Martin Scorsese, Terrence Malick, Robert Altman, Woody Allen, William Friedkin, Philip Kaufman and George Lucas, who emerged in the early 1970s with unconventional ideas that challenged contemporary film-making.

Shortly after, Gardner, who at the time was a student at Atlantic Christian College, traveled to New York to be interviewed at MGM's New York office by Al Altman, head of MGM's New York talent department.

Altman was born in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of Helen ( née Matthews ), a Mayflower descendant from Nebraska, and Bernard Clement Altman, a wealthy insurance salesman and amateur gambler, who came from an upper-class family.

Sidney Altman ( born May 7, 1939 ) is a Canadian American molecular biologist, who is currently the Sterling Professor of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and Chemistry at Yale University.

The original script was written by Joan Tewkesbury, who had collaborated with Altman on several of his films, including McCabe and Mrs. Miller and Thieves Like Us.

Jane's best friend and frequent collaborator, Aaron Altman ( Brooks ), is a gifted writer and reporter ambitious for on-camera exposure, who is secretly in love with Jane, and embittered by her rejection of him.

The Avanti model name, tooling, and plant space were sold off to Leo Newman and Nate Altman, who owned a Studebaker dealership in South Bend.

Both Vic Morrow and Reza Badiyi were close friends of the director Robert Altman, who later directed Leigh in two movies, Short Cuts ( 1993 ) and Kansas City ( 1996 ).

The first ribozymes were discovered in the 1980s by Thomas R. Cech, who was studying RNA splicing in the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila and Sidney Altman, who was working on the bacterial RNase P complex.

The first commercial building on Fifth Avenue was erected by Benjamin Altman who bought the corner lot on the northeast corner of 34th Street in 1896, and demolished the " Marble Palace " of his arch-rival, A. T. Stewart.

Raver joined Season 6 of Grey's Anatomy in a recurring role as Dr. Teddy Altman, a cardiothoracic surgeon brought in by Dr. Owen Hunt, who served with her in Iraq.

One of the policemen helping to chase and kill the werewolf is John Altman, who would later achieve fame as " Nasty " Nick Cotton in EastEnders.

So, in the spring of 1956, he raised $ 63, 000 with the help of other local businessmen in Kansas City, decided his first teen film would be about troubled teens, thought up a title for it and nothing else, and hired local filmmaker Robert Altman ( who knew Rhoden Jr. casually and had been directing industrial films and documentaries for the local Calvin Company ) to write and direct the film.

The movie was directed by Robert Altman and stars Neve Campbell, who also co-wrote and co-produced the film.

In September 1959, Frenzel was passed on from Molnar ( who was promoted to deputy director of the StB for his work with Frenzel ) to a new controller, a man operating under the pseudonym Franz Altman.

Despite suffering wounds to the leg and head, Altman was able to join a group of approximately seventy-five resistance fighters who left the ghetto on 10 May in a daring sewer escape.

Cox ( renamed Cort, since the name Wally Cox was already taken ) was discovered in a revue by director Robert Altman, who subsequently cast him in two of his movies, MASH and Brewster McCloud, in which he played the title role.

Many critics who reviewed Spellbound singled out Altman ( speller # 8 ) as its most interesting " character ".

In 1992, Rudolph attended a Fourth of July party hosted by filmmaker Robert Altman who introduced him to actress Jennifer Jason Leigh.

Cameraman Charles Paddock said that, just before beginning filming on The Delinquents, Altman advised him to watch the film The Asphalt Jungle and imitate that style of lighting.

* 1949 – John Altman, British film composer

* Kansas City ( film ), a 1996 film by Robert Altman

* Nashville ( film ), 1975 American musical film directed by Robert Altman

* Foreign rights to the 1975 Robert Altman film Nashville, are currently owned by ABC through Walt Disney Pictures but Paramount still owns North American rights ( both Paramount and ABC share copyrights ).

* February 20 – Robert Altman, American film director ( d. 2006 )

Robert Bernard Altman ( February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006 ) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective.

In February 2012, an early Calvin film directed by Altman, Modern Football ( 1951 ), was found by filmmaker Gary Huggins.

Altman directed some 65 industrial films and documentaries before being hired by a local businessman in 1956 to write and direct a feature film in Kansas City on juvenile delinquency.

Two years later, Altman was hired to direct the low-budget space travel feature Countdown, but was fired within days of the project's conclusion because he had refused to edit the film to a manageable length.

Though some critics thought it a failure, the film made money, and was the second highest-grossing film Altman had directed to that point.

Altman was still developing new projects up until his death, including a film based on Hands on a Hard Body: The Documentary ( 1997 ).

The film director Paul Thomas Anderson dedicated his 2007 film There Will Be Blood to Altman.

The radio program inspired a 2006 film of the same name, written by Keillor, directed by Robert Altman and featuring Keillor, Lily Tomlin, Meryl Streep, Lindsay Lohan, Tommy Lee Jones, Kevin Kline, John C. Reilly, and Woody Harrelson.

Robert Altman directed the film, which is a fictional representation of behind-the-scenes activities on a long-running radio show that has unexpectedly been canceled.

McCabe & Mrs. Miller is a 1971 American Western film starring Warren Beatty and Julie Christie, and directed by Robert Altman.

and sneaked Foster into the screening ; Foster liked the film and agreed to have Altman direct McCabe ; the two of them agreed to wait until M. A. S. H.

Altman reported that an official in the Presbyterian Church called Warner Brothers to complain about having its church mentioned in the context of a film about brothels and gambling.

Altman countered that since those were the only scenes left to film, it was best to start since there was nothing else to do.

For the distinctive cinematography, Altman and Zsigmond chose to " flash ' ( pre-fog ) the actual film negative, as well as use a number of filters on the cameras, rather than manipulate the film in post-production ; in this way the studio could not force him to change the film's look to something less distinctive.