David Mamet: Summary

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BIOGRAPHY

Recent Role:
on The Unit
Birthday:
11-30-1947
Birthplace:
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Birth Name:
AKA:
Richard Weisz

American award winning playwright, director, poet and novelist, Mamet first made his mark with his early plays Sexual Perversity in Chicago (1974), The Duck Variations (1976) and American Buffalo (1977). Mamet gained wide success and his Pulitzer Prize for the play Glengarry Glen Ross (1984). Many of Mamet's plays have ben made into feature films, such as American Buffalo and Glengary...

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  • David's brother-in-law is actor Matthew Pidgeon.(edit)
  • David a has sister who is a producer/writer named Lynn Mamet. They are both often credited as the writers and producers on David's show The Unit.(edit)
  • David's height is 5'6" (1.68m).(edit)
  • When invited to appear as a guest programmer on cable channel TCM, Mamet picked the four following films: In Which We Serve, Island in the Sky, Le Jour Se Leve and The Killing. Mamet presented the films on March 22, 2007.(edit)
  • First script for film was in 1981 with a re-make of The Postman Always Rings Twice(edit)
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