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Ron Shelton. Highest Rated: 97% Bull Durham (1988) Lowest Rated: 0% Spaceman (2016) Birthday: Sep 15, 1945. Birthplace: Whittier, California, USA. Former slick-fielding, light-hitting minor league ...
Ron Shelton (September 15, 1945 in Whittier, California) is a U.S. film director and screenwriter, most notable for making movies about sports. Shelton is an alumnus of Santa Barbara High School and of the University of Arizona and Westmont College.
Nov 22, 2018 · Indeed, Bull Durham is a film that Shelton was destined to make. He was born Ronald Wayne Shelton on September 15, 1945, in Whittier, California. A shortstop-second baseman, the 6-foot-1, 185-pounder was taken by the Baltimore Orioles in the 39th round of the 1966 major-league June Amateur Draft.
Former minor leaguer Ron Shelton hit a grand slam with his directorial debut, one of the most revered sports movies of all time. Durham Bulls devotee Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon)—who every year takes a new player under her wing (and into her bed)—has singled out the loose-cannon pitching prospect Nuke LaLoosh (Tim Robbins), a big-league talent with a rock-bottom maturity level.
Jul 1, 2022 · The Church of Baseball: The Making of Bull Durham by Ron Shelton is available for preorder from Penguin Random House The problem was that Columbia Pictures, where Thom Mount had his production ...
Jun 14, 2018 · Ron Shelton has always told the truth about baseball. Before a morning spring training game in Winter Haven, Florida, in the early 1970s, the Orioles farmhand noticed Red Sox All-Stars Carl ...
Jul 16, 2022 · His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. Scott Simon speaks with Ron Shelton, who wrote and directed "Bull Durham." Shelton's new ...
