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Ronald Wayne Shelton (born September 15, 1945) is an American film director and screenwriter [1] [2] and former minor league baseball infielder. Shelton is known for the many films he has made about sports. His 1988 film Bull Durham, based in part on his own baseball experiences, earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Screenplay.
Ron Shelton was born on 15 September 1945 in Whittier, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Bull Durham (1988), Hollywood Homicide (2003) and Tin Cup (1996). He has been married to Lolita Davidovich since 1997.
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Jul 16, 2022 · Ron Shelton, a former minor leaguer himself, of course, wrote and directed the film I won't diminish by calling it a classic. And he now has a memoir about its making, "The Church Of...
Feb 14, 2020 · This time that awesomeness is Ron Shelton. He achieved fame as the writer and director for 1988’s Bull Durham, certainly one of my favorite films of the decade. His screenplay (which was amazingly his first draft done without any notes or outline) deservedly earned him an Oscar nomination and firmly planted him on the Hollywood map.
Jul 7, 2022 · A genre I’ve admittedly invented out of thin air and which contains, roughly speaking, three exuberant movies about fallen souls on the lookout for companionship—Bull Durham, White Men Can’t Jump, and Tin Cup—all written and directed by the same man, Ron Shelton, the onetime minor league ballplayer turned filmmaker.
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Ron Shelton was born on September 15, 1945 in Whittier, California, USA. He is a writer and director, known for Bull Durham (1988), Hollywood Homicide (2003) and Tin Cup (1996). He has been married to Lolita Davidovich since 1997. They have one child.
Jul 17, 2022 · Director Ron Shelton says he loves the scene in “Bull Durham” where players gather for a meeting on the pitcher’s mound to discuss buying a wedding gift for a teammate.
