Art Linson

Art Linson

Art Linson (born 1942) is an American film producer, director and screenwriter. He was born in Chicago, Illinois. His directorial debut was the 1980 comedy, Where the Buffalo Roam, which was loosely based on stories by Hunter S. Thompson and starred Bill Murray as the writer. He also directed 1984's The Wild Life. Linson has produced many films including Car Wash, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Fight Club, Melvin and Howard and the Brian De Palma films The Untouchables, Casualties of War, and The Black Dahlia. He has worked with Michael Mann, David Mamet, and Cameron Crowe. He produced Sunset Strip with his son John. His writing credits include the film American Hot Wax and two books, What Just Happened? Bitter Hollywood Tales from the Front Line (ISBN 1-58234-240-7), which was adapted into the film What Just Happened, and A Pound of Flesh: Perilous Tales of How to Produce Movies in Hollywood (ISBN 0-8021-3551-X). He is an executive producer for the FX drama series Sons of Anarchy. Linson produced a film based on the band The Runaways, with his son John Linson as a co-producer.

  • Title: Art Linson
  • Popularity: 1.995
  • Known For: Production
  • Birthday: 1942-03-16
  • Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, USA
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Art Linson Movies

  • 2004
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    The Untouchables: Re-Inventing the Genre

    The Untouchables: Re-Inventing the Genre

    1 2004 HD

    Cast and crew members from The Untouchables recall the production.

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  • 2004
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    The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast

    The Untouchables: The Script, the Cast

    1 2004 HD

    Brian DePalma and Art Linson discuss how the 1987 film "The Untouchables" came together.

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  • 2004
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    The Untouchables: The Classic

    The Untouchables: The Classic

    1 2004 HD

    Brian DePalma, Art Linson, Charles Martin Smith discussing "The Untouchables."

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  • 2005
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    The Making of 'Heat'

    The Making of 'Heat'

    6.5 2005 HD

    Behind the scenes documentary on the classic Michael Mann heist film.

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  • 1999
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    Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    Reliving Our Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    5.7 1999 HD

    This documentary is featured on the Collector's Edition, High School Reunion Edition, and Awesome Special Edition DVDs for 'Fast Times at Ridgemont...

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  • 1987
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    The Untouchables

    The Untouchables

    7.767 1987 HD

    Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname...

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  • 1999
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    Fight Club

    Fight Club

    8.438 1999 HD

    A ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a slippery soap salesman channel primal male aggression into a shocking new form of therapy. Their concept catches...

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  • 1995
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    Heat

    Heat

    7.9 1995 HD

    Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna...

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  • 1993
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    Point of No Return

    Point of No Return

    6.2 1993 HD

    Hardened criminal Maggie Hayward's consistent violence, even in police custody, ends in the execution chamber. However, top-secret US government...

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  • 1989
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    Casualties of War

    Casualties of War

    7.133 1989 HD

    During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

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  • 2004
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    Spartan

    Spartan

    6.195 2004 HD

    U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get...

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  • 1992
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    Singles

    Singles

    6.371 1992 HD

    A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on love and face all the challenges of adulthood.

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  • 1989
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    We're No Angels

    We're No Angels

    6.153 1989 HD

    Two escaped cons' only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.

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  • 1993
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    This Boy's Life

    This Boy's Life

    7.13 1993 HD

    When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to...

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  • 2006
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    The Black Dahlia

    The Black Dahlia

    5.626 2006 HD

    In 1940s Los Angeles, two former boxers-turned-cops must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer...

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  • 1997
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    The Edge

    The Edge

    6.841 1997 HD

    The plane carrying wealthy Charles Morse crashes down in the Alaskan wilderness. Together with the two other passengers, photographer Robert and...

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  • 2008
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    What Just Happened

    What Just Happened

    5.42 2008 HD

    During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to...

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  • 1980
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    Where the Buffalo Roam

    Where the Buffalo Roam

    5.9 1980 HD

    Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

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  • 2005
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    Lords of Dogtown

    Lords of Dogtown

    7.112 2005 HD

    The radical true story behind three teenage surfers from Venice Beach, California, who took skateboarding to the extreme and changed the world of...

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  • 1999
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    Pushing Tin

    Pushing Tin

    5.871 1999 HD

    Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.

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  • 1988
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    Scrooged

    Scrooged

    6.8 1988 HD

    Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after...

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  • 2010
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    The Runaways

    The Runaways

    6.448 2010 HD

    Joan Jett and Cherie Currie, two rebellious teenagers from Southern California, become the frontwomen for The Runaways -- the now-legendary group...

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  • 1982
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    Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    Fast Times at Ridgemont High

    6.803 1982 HD

    Based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe, Fast Times follows a group of high school students growing up in Southern California....

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  • 1984
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    The Wild Life

    The Wild Life

    6.2 1984 HD

    Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.

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  • 1998
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    Great Expectations

    Great Expectations

    6.6 1998 HD

    Loosely based on the Charles Dickens' classic novel, "Great Expectations" is a sensual tale of a young man's unforgettable passage into manhood, and...

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  • 2000
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    Sunset Strip

    Sunset Strip

    5 2000 HD

    A day in Hollywood, 1972, with young people looking for the 24 hours that will change their lives. Zach will open that night for a British rocker at...

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  • 1984
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    The Wild Life

    The Wild Life

    6.2 1984 HD

    Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.

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  • 2001
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    Heist

    Heist

    6.308 2001 HD

    Joe Moore has a job he loves. He's a thief. His job goes sour when he gets caught on security camera tape. His fence, Bergman, reneges on the money...

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  • 2008
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    What Just Happened

    What Just Happened

    5.42 2008 HD

    During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to...

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  • 2008
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    What Just Happened

    What Just Happened

    5.42 2008 HD

    During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to...

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  • 2018
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    The Outsider

    The Outsider

    6.186 2018 HD

    A former American G.I. joins a yakuza family after his release from prison in post-World War II Osaka.

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  • 1975
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    Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

    Rafferty and the Gold Dust Twins

    5.9 1975 HD

    Hapless driving instructor and former Gunnery Sergeant Rafferty, living in squalor near Hollywood, California, doesn't put up too much of a fight...

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  • 1980
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    Where the Buffalo Roam

    Where the Buffalo Roam

    5.9 1980 HD

    Semi-biographical film based on the experiences of gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

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  • 2016
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    The Comedian

    The Comedian

    5.692 2016 HD

    An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to...

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  • 2016
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    The Comedian

    The Comedian

    5.692 2016 HD

    An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to...

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  • 1978
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    American Hot Wax

    American Hot Wax

    5.6 1978 HD

    This is the story loosely based on Cleveland disc jockey Alan Freed, who introduced rock'n'roll to teenage American radio audiences in the 1950s....

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  • 1970
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    The Challenger

    The Challenger

    1 1970 HD

    The story of the late astronaut Christa McAuliffe, centered on the 1986 Space Shuttle disaster.

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  • 1990
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    Dick Tracy

    Dick Tracy

    6.139 1990 HD

    The comic strip detective finds his life vastly complicated when Breathless Mahoney makes advances towards him while he is trying to battle Big Boy...

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  • 2016
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    The Comedian

    The Comedian

    5.692 2016 HD

    An aging comic icon, Jackie Burke, has seen better days. Despite his efforts to reinvent himself and his comic genius, the audience only wants to...

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  • 1980
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    Melvin and Howard

    Melvin and Howard

    6.4 1980 HD

    The story of hard-luck Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have received a will naming him an heir to the fortune of Howard Hughes.

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  • 1976
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    Car Wash

    Car Wash

    6 1976 HD

    This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of...

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  • 2007
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    Into the Wild

    Into the Wild

    7.804 2007 HD

    After graduating from Emory University in 1992, top student and athlete Christopher McCandless abandons his possessions, gives his entire $24,000...

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  • 2004
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    Imaginary Heroes

    Imaginary Heroes

    6.495 2004 HD

    Matt Travis is good-looking, popular, and his school's best competitive swimmer, so everyone is shocked when he inexplicably commits suicide. As the...

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  • 1970
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    8.195 1970 HD

    Follow the violent world of the Dutton family, who controls the largest contiguous ranch in the United States. Led by their patriarch John Dutton,...

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  • 1970
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    8.257 1970 HD

    Follow the Dutton family as they embark on a journey west through the Great Plains toward the last bastion of untamed America. A stark retelling of...

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  • 1970
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    8.104 1970 HD

    Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the...

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  • 1970
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    8.426 1970 HD

    The Sons of Anarchy (SOA) is an outlaw motorcycle club with many charters in the United States as well as overseas. The show focused on the original...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A heartfelt study of grief and human connection following a New York City family in the Madison River valley of central Montana.

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