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 ).

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.

, Mirkin will write, direct and co-produce a biopic of businessman Richard Branson, based on his memoir Losing My Virginity.

Music TV channel VH1 have announced plans to produce a biopic based on the group, with Watkins and Thomas signed up as consultants and executive producers.

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.

In 1988, both Tina and Ike signed away their rights to have their lives dramatized in a biopic based off Tina's book.

In June 2004, based on the popularity of the " Rick James " sketch, it was announced that Chappelle was in talks to portray Rick James in a biopic from Paramount Pictures ( also owned by Viacom ).

* 2007, a movie biopic, The Great Debaters, based on his work with debate students at a predominantly black college, Wiley College, Marshall, Texas, was released.

Kaufman also penned the screenplay for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, a biopic based on the " unauthorized autobiography " of Chuck Barris, the creator of such popular game shows as The Dating Game and host of The Gong Show.

In 2009 at the age of 19, Keough was in the independent biopic The Runaways based on the 1970s all-girl rock band of the same name.

In 2002 he directed the biopic Auto Focus, loosely based on the life and murder of Hogan's Heroes actor, Bob Crane.

Bettie Page: Dark Angel is a biopic based on the last three years of the short career of Bettie Page, a famous American 1950s pin-up and bondage model.

After this trilogy on rural oppression, he made a biopic, Bhumika ( The Role ) ( 1977 ), broadly based on the life of well-known Marathi stage and film actress of the 1940s, Hansa Wadkar ( played by Smita Patil ) who led a flamboyant and unconventional life.

Basquiat is a 1996 biopic / drama film directed by fellow painter Julian Schnabel which is based on the life of American postmodernist / neo expressionist artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.

Beginning in 1986, Barry Levinson intended to produce and direct a biopic based on the life of Bobby Darin with funding from his own production company, Baltimore Pictures.

Some of his works include music videos for Depeche Mode's " Enjoy the Silence " ( 1990 ) and Nirvana's " Heart-Shaped Box " ( 1993 ), as well as the Ian Curtis biopic Control ( 2007 ), George Clooney's The American ( 2010 ), and A Most Wanted Man ( 2013 ) based on John le Carré's 2008 novel of the same name.

In 2009 he also had a small part in the film Telstar, a biopic based on Joe Meek's life in which Leyton himself was portrayed by Callum Dixon.

Frye's strong resemblance to former Secretary of War Newton D. Baker helped land him what would have been a substantial role in the biopic Wilson ( 1944 ), based on the life of U. S. President Woodrow Wilson, but he died of a heart attack while riding on a bus in Hollywood a few days before filming was to have begun.

Films shown in roadshow format before 1953 included silent epics such as The Birth of a Nation ( 1915 ), Intolerance ( 1916 ), The Covered Wagon ( 1923 ), The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1923 ), The Ten Commandments ( 1923 ), Ben-Hur ( 1925 ), The Big Parade ( 1925 ), and other films such as The Phantom of the Opera ( 1925 ), the first Oscar winner Wings ( 1927 ), the very first feature length part-talkie The Jazz Singer ( 1927 ), the silent film Chicago ( 1927 ) ( based on the play that inspired the Kander and Ebb Broadway musical and Oscar-winning film ), Show Boat ( 1929 ) ( a part-talkie based not on the 1927 stage musical but on Edna Ferber's original novel from which the musical was adapted ), The Desert Song ( 1929 ), Rio Rita ( also 1929 ), Cecil B. DeMille's The Sign of the Cross ( 1932 ), the all-star Oscar winning Grand Hotel ( 1932 ), the Oscar-winning biopic The Great Ziegfeld ( 1936 ), the classic films Lost Horizon ( 1937 ), Gone with the Wind ( 1939 ), Fantasia ( 1940 ), For Whom the Bell Tolls ( 1943 ) and The Song of Bernadette ( 1943 ), the wartime tear-jerker Since You Went Away ( 1944 ), Samuel Goldwyn's Oscar-winning postwar epic The Best Years of Our Lives ( 1946 ), the flamboyant Western Duel in the Sun ( also 1946 ), and the biopic Joan of Arc starring Ingrid Bergman ( 1948 ), as well as some other DeMille epics, such as Samson and Delilah ( 1949 ).

In June 2000, the director sought to direct the biopic based on a script by Frank Oz while at the same time, director Francis Ford Coppola was developing Flipping the Mark which had been in development hell.

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 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.

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.

Other roles include: starring opposite Jim Carrey in the Andy Kaufman biopic Man on the Moon ( 1999 ); as Joan Vollmer in Beat ( 2000 ) alongside Kiefer Sutherland ; and a leading role in Julie Johnson ( 2001 ) as Lili Taylor's lesbian lover, for which she won an Outstanding Actress award at L. A .' s Outfest.

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.

Notable American films from the war years include the anti-Nazi Watch on the Rhine ( 1943 ), scripted by Dashiell Hammett ; Shadow of a Doubt ( 1943 ), Hitchcock's direction of a script by Thornton Wilder ; the George M. Cohan biopic, Yankee Doodle Dandy ( 1942 ), starring James Cagney, and the immensely popular Casablanca, with Humphrey Bogart.

Due for release in 2012, the biopic Évocateur: The Morton Downey Jr. Movie will touch upon Downey's upbringing and formative years in radio and politics before launching into the history of The Morton Downey Jr. Show and Downey's influence on trash TV.

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.

Jennifer Hudson played her in the biopic film, Winnie, directed by Darrell J. Roodt, released in Canada by D Films on 16 September 2011.

* 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.

* The 1955 film The Phenix City Story ( directed by Phil Karlson ) is a biopic film noir focusing on the rampant crime and corruption in the city ( then called " the wickedest city in the United States ") and the 1954 murder of newly-nominated Alabama Attorney General candidate Albert Patterson.

In 1999, Giamatti played Bob Zmuda ( and Tony Clifton ) in the Andy Kaufman biopic, Man on the Moon.

* by Chazz Palminteri in Boss of Bosses, a 2001 film on the TNT network and in the upcoming John Gotti biopic Gotti: In The Shadow Of My Father.

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.

He is perhaps best known for his roles as Morpheus in the Matrix science fiction film trilogy, as Cowboy Curtis on the 1980s television show Pee-wee's Playhouse, and as singer-musician Ike Turner in the Tina Turner biopic What's Love Got to Do With It.

Schiavelli's aptitude and distinctive angular appearance soon provided him with a steady stream of supporting roles, often in Miloš Forman films, namely One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Amadeus, The People vs. Larry Flynt, Valmont, and the 1999 biopic Man on the Moon.

A Kolchak biopic, titled Admiral ( Адмиралъ ), was released in Russia on 9 October 2008.

Another biopic, 1946's The Jolson Story with Larry Parks and Evelyn Keyes, was started in black-and-white, but when Cohn saw how well the project was proceeding, he scrapped the footage and insisted on filming in Technicolor.

A biopic of his life, The Babe, was released in 1992 and starred John Goodman in the title role.

The circumstances of his life were heavily edited and romanticized for the 1948 MGM biopic Words and Music.

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.

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.

* 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.