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Colin Higgins (28 July 1941 – 5 August 1988) was an Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film Harold and Maude , [ 1 ] and for directing the films Foul Play (1978) and 9 to 5 (1980).
UCLA film school student Colin Higgins wrote Harold and Maude as his master's thesis. While working as producer Edward Lewis's pool boy, Higgins showed the script to Lewis's wife, Mildred. Mildred was so impressed that she got Edward to give it to Stanley Jaffe at Paramount. Higgins sold the script with the understanding that he would direct ...
Colin Higgins – writer and film director Harold and Maude, Silver Streak, Nine to Five, Foul Play, etc. Marc McDermott – actor on stage and screen; Gregan McMahon – actor and theatrical producer; Andrew O'Keefe – presenter of the Seven Network's Deal or No Deal and Weekend Sunrise; former intellectual property lawyer
9 to 5 (titled Nine to Five in the opening credits) is a 1980 American comedy film directed by Colin Higgins, who wrote the screenplay with Patricia Resnick, and starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton, Dabney Coleman, Elizabeth Wilson, and Sterling Hayden. It tells the story of three working women who live out their fantasies of getting ...
Foul Play is a 1978 American romantic neo-noir comedy thriller film written and directed by Colin Higgins, and starring Goldie Hawn, Chevy Chase, Dudley Moore, Burgess Meredith, Eugene Roche, Rachel Roberts, Brian Dennehy and Billy Barty. [3]
Diane is a young woman (played by Belinda Montgomery) who attends the funeral of her mother. One of her mother's old friends, a wealthy woman named Lilith (Shelley Winters), introduces her to a Satanic cult (her mother was part of this cult before leaving it while Diane was a baby).
Colin Jost has been writing for Saturday Night Live since 2005 and co-anchoring the sketch comedy series' Weekend Update segment alongside Michael Che since 2014, and he's got the net worth (and ...
Turnbull's book provided material for a 1975 play called The Ik by Colin Higgins and Dennis Cannan. [13] [14] Directed by Peter Brook, the play premiered in Paris in 1975, [15] and was produced in London in 1976 by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The group toured the United States in 1976 as a bi-centennial gift from French tax-payers.