Watch Horton Foote Videos

Albert Horton Foote, Jr. (March 14, 1916 – March 4, 2009) was an American playwright and screenwriter, perhaps best known for his Academy Award-winning screenplays for the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird and the 1983 film Tender Mercies, and his notable live television dramas during the Golden Age of Television. He received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1995 for his play The Young Man From Atlanta. In 1995, Foote was the inaugural recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award. In describing his 3-play work, "The Orphans' Home Cycle", the drama critic for the... MORE

amazon

Web Links

Horton Foote Videos

The Carpetbagger's Children Director's Interview

Music titled "Genesis" is by artist Bert Jerred. "The Carpetbagger's Children" by Horton Foote directed by Mark Ramont January 21- February 13, 2011 In a series of charming, humorous and poignant vignettes, Horton Foote's "The Carpetbagger's Children" weaves a captivating tapestry of family secrets, small-town lives and private tragedies. At the center of the play are sisters Cornelia, Grace Anne and Sissie, daughters of a Union soldier who moved south after the war. The sisters' bonds are challenged as they seek to preserve the family's Texas plantation in an era of startling growth and change. Director of Theatre Programming Mark Ramont ("The Rivalry") directs this powerful and thoughtful exploration of one family's life in the Post-Reconstruction South. Washington favorites Nancy Robinette, Kimberly Schraf and Holly Twyford star in the Ford's Theatre premiere of a play by one of the nation's most prolific writers for stage and screen. The New York Times called Horton Foote "a major American dramatist whose epic body of work recalls Chekhov in its quotidian comedy and heartbreak, and Faulkner in its ability to make his own corner of America stand for the whole."

Horton Foote

4:33min
LOVE ON ITS OWN TERMS
A Love Once Known Never Dies One Love to last forever in a heart that suffers quietly While the fire of love goes on burning for a lifetime Sandra Hammel "A Trip To Bountiful" (1986) can be purchased for $10.49 US at www.amazon.com Mrs. Carrie Watts at 1:...
1:36min
2008 07-01 Broadway Deals - Pal Joey - Horton Foote's Dividi
* 4th of July deals on Broadway. * Pal Joey to hit Broadway. * Horton Foote's Dividing the Estate begins in October. * A Catered Affair to close. Read more at BroadwayBulletin.com
4:52min
Softly and Tenderly Jesus Is Calling
Softly And Tenderly Jesus Is Calling, Cynthia Clawson, vocalist. Music from the beginning and closing of the movie Trip To Bountiful (1985), which is based on a screenplay by Horton Foote.
1:44min
Horton Foote's America
Pulitzer prize winning playwright Horton Foote and director Michael Wilson from the American Theatre Wing's TV show, Working in the Theatre - this episode, Horton Foote's America. For more go to www.americantheatrewing.org
10:01min
Scene from THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL By Horton Foote
Scene from THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL by Horton Foote. Directed by Marshall Mosely. Featuring John Thompson as Ludie Watts, Elaine Hartel as Mrs. Cassie Watts and Barbara Marks as Jessie Mae Watts.
8:17min
Horton Foote - Archive Interview Part 7 of 7
Segment of Horton Foote three-and-a-half hours interview. In the full interview, Mr. Foote discusses his work writing for live television dramatic anthology series. He talks about his relationship with producer Fred Coe who started him in TV and later wor...
2:15min
Horton Foote and Robert Duvall at the 2002 Austin Film Festival
Horton Foote, recipient of the Austin Film Festival's Distinguished Screenwriter Award, talks at the Tender Mercies Q&A during the 2002 festival about meeting Robert Duvall
2:20min
Monologue from 1918 by Horton Foote--Christa Cannon
Pay no attention to the bird's nest on top of my head!
30:24min
Horton Foote - Archive Interview Part 6 of 7
Segment of Horton Foote three-and-a-half hours interview. In the full interview, Mr. Foote discusses his work writing for live television dramatic anthology series. He talks about his relationship with producer Fred Coe who started him in TV and later wor...