Oliver Stone
William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Stone came to public prominence between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s for writing and directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an infantry soldier. Many of Stone's films primarily focus on controversial American political issues during the late 20th century, and as such that they were considered dangerous at the times of their releases.
Stone's films often combine different camera and film formats within a single scene as evidenced in JFK, Natural Born Killers, and Nixon. Stone has received three Academy Awards for his work on the films Midnight Express, Platoon, and Born on the Fourth of July. He was presented with the Extraordinary Contribution to Filmmaking Award at the 2007 Austin Film Festival.
Early life
'Oliver Stone' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:
Oribâ Sutôn to Hiroshima (2013)
Actors: Tatsumaru Kaki (actor), Oliver Stone (actor), Maho Kuwako (actress),
Genres: Documentary,Killing Tarantino (2009)
Actors: Elliott Branch Jr. (actor), Dave Cobert (actor), Patrick John Hurley (actor), Christopher Purdy (actor), Warren Farnes (producer), Norman Lesperance (producer), Norman Lesperance (writer), Norman Lesperance (writer), Julian Beeston (composer), Valerie Rego (costume designer), Norman Lesperance (director), Jamie Clarke (editor), Kathryn Dudenhausen (editor),
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Short,Taglines: What if his life was the inspiration for his movies...
Quotes:
Jules: Don't make me go Bruce Lee on yo' ass.Tales from the Crapper (2004)
Actors: Albert Alvarez (actor), Chad Bernhard (actor), Stephen Blackehart (actor), J.D. Brown (actor), Elwood Carlisle (actor), Kevin Eastman (actor), Joe Fleishaker (actor), Joe Fleishaker (actor), Gabriel Friedman (actor), Gabriel Friedman (actor), Gabriel Friedman (actor), Gabriel Friedman (actor), Mark Gagliardi (actor), Jorge Garcia (actor), Ramzi Abed (actor),
Genres: Comedy, Horror,Quotes:
Jimmy: Hey! I wanna show my cock to somebody!James Gunn: People say bad things about the dark lord, but I say he's a swell guy. Praise Satan!
Dad: Oh sorry, son. I blew all your college tuition. Hey, cheer up. It's no big deal. You don't care if you don't get an education or ever have sex, do you? You don't care if your life and dreams all go down the shitter and you're a penniless bum with no life for the rest of your life! All right, I'm off to the gay bar.
500 Pound Candygramm: Let's get freaky!
Jewish Party Goers: The strippers are vampires!
Travis Dance: Do you know anything about the killings?::Larry: Shh! Don't talk, just listen!
500 Pound Candygramm: That's what I call disco!
James Gunn: I'm now a famous Hollywood bitch, I mean I had to sacrifice a small baby for Satan, but things are so much better now.
[gets 40 dollars for his friend's college money]::Racoon Head: Yeah, that will totally pay for college!
Michael Herz: She was a part of our reggae group!
Dave (1993)
Actors: Frederic W. Barnes (actor), Bob Bergen (actor), Lexie Bigham (actor), Frank Birney (actor), Ronald Brownstein (actor), Dan Butler (actor), Tom Bysiek (actor), Tory Christopher (actor), Paul Collins (actor), Chris Dodd (actor), Tom Dugan (actor), Kevin Dunn (actor), Robin Gammell (actor), F. Pierre Gatling (actor), Parley Baer (actor),
Plot: Bill Mitchell is the philandering and distant President of the United States. Dave Kovic is a sweet-natured and caring Temp Agency operator, who by a staggering coincidence looks exactly like the President. As such, when Mitchell wants to escape an official luncheon, the Secret Service hires Dave to stand in for him. Unfortunately, Mitchell suffers a severe stroke whilst having sex with one of his aides, and Dave finds himself stuck in the role indefinitely. The corrupt and manipulative Chief of Staff, Bob Alexander, plans to use Dave to elevate himself to the White House - but unfortunately, he doesn't count on Dave enjoying himself in office, using his luck to make the country a better place, and falling in love with the beautiful First Lady...
Keywords: affair, airforce-one, barber, bicycle, body-double, bodyguard, boss-secretary-romance, budget, cabinet-meeting, campaign-headquartersGenres: Comedy, Romance,
Taglines: In a country where anybody can become President, anybody just did Dave Kovic was an ordinary guy who was asked to impersonate the President. When they gave him a chance to make the country better...he did.
Quotes:
[singing in the shower]::Dave: Hail to the chief / He's the one we all say "Hail" to. / We all say "Hail" / 'Cause he keeps himself so clean! / He's got the power, / That's why he's in the shower...Bob Alexander: I'm going to kill him.::Alan Reed: You can't kill a President.::Bob Alexander: He's not a President. He's an ordinary person. I can kill an ordinary person.::Alan Reed: Bob!::Bob Alexander: I can kill a hundred ordinary people!
Ellen Mitchell: Why couldn't you die from a stroke like everyone else?
Dave Kovic: She's great. She's really exotic! She's a princess! She's Polynesian - well, half Polynesian, and half American. She's... Amnesian.
Dave: I don't want to tell some eight-year-old kid he's gotta sleep in the street because we want people to feel better about their *car*. Do *you* want to tell them that?::Secretary of Commerce: [quietly] No sir. [sits back in his seat and reflects] No I sure don't.
White House Tour Guide: And we're walking, and we're walking, and we're stopping.
Dave: According to the OMB, we have seventeen defense contractors who are delinquent in their contracts. Is this true, Frank?::Director of OMB: Uh, I believe so, yes.::Dave: So, even though they're late, we keep paying them on time?::Director of OMB: Well, in a sense... yeah.
Dave: The president and the first lady... what is that? How long has that been going on?::Duane: I can't say.::Dave: You mean, you don't know, or "you can't say"?::Duane: I can't say.
Dave: You know, I've always wondered about you guys. You know, about how you're trained to take a bullet for the president?::Duane: What about it?::Dave: Is that really true? I mean, would you let yourself be killed to save his life?::Duane: Certainly.::Dave: So, now that means you'd get killed for me too.
Alan Reed: Bob, at some point we're gonna have to call the Vice President.::Bob Alexander: Don't call the Vice President.::Alan Reed: What?::Bob Alexander: Just don't call him, Al.::Alan Reed: The guy's in a coma, Bob!::Bob Alexander: I don't give a shit.::Alan Reed: Bob!::Bob Alexander: This is mine, Alan. All mine. I made him, I built him. And no Boy Scout is going to come in here and take it away from me, just because he happens to be Vice President of the United States.
Living It Up (1954)
Actors: Edward Arnold (actor), Art Baker (actor), Walter Baldwin (actor), Bobby Barber (actor), Richard Barron (actor), Don Bender (actor), Stanley Blystone (actor), Frank Branda (actor), Jack Bruce (actor), Bill Cartledge (actor), Lane Chandler (actor), Fred Clark (actor), Charles Collins (actor), Booth Colman (actor), John Alderson (actor),
Plot: Pretty Wally Cooper, a reporter for the New York Chronicle convinces her editor to let her do a series of articles on Homer Flagg, a young man from New Mexico who is believed to be dying as a result of radioactive poisoning. Before she arrives out west, Homer learns from his doctor that the diagnosis was a mistake and he's perfectly healthy. That doesn't stop them from accepting Wally's offer of an all- expenses paid trip to New York. Everyone in New York takes pity on Homer, while Homer and his doctor try to keep up their pretense.
Keywords: atomic-testing, bad-doctor, based-on-play, basset-hound, boy-scouts, bronx-new-york-city, building-ledge, caucasian-actor-playing-asian-character, fraud, hangoverGenres: Comedy,
Taglines: THEY'RE LAFFIN' IT UP! (original print ad - all caps)
Quotes:
Homer Flagg: I wish I could go to New York with yuh.::Isaiah Jackson: Now, Homer, you're gonna be fillin' my shoes, stationmaster of Desert Hole!::Homer Flagg: [dejectedly] Yeah.::Isaiah Jackson: [optimistically] In exactly 52 years you'll be getting your pension. Then you'll be on your way to wine, women, and song.::Homer Flagg: In 52 years who'll be able to sing?Oliver Stone: What if this kid doesn't die in three weeks? What if he just keeps on living?::Wally Cook: Why, I wouldn't let him do a thing like that to you, Oliver! [Oliver does a reactive take]
Wally Cook: [to Oliver Stone] And there's always politics, Oliver. Think what it means to be a senator! Your mail goes for free.
Oliver Stone: Waiter! Bottle of ginger ale for Mr. Flagg!::Waiter: [disappointed that it's not champagne] Bottle of ginger ale for Mr. Flagg.::Oliver Stone: Domestic!
Homer Flagg: [to Dr. Harris as he sees a skeleton in his office closet] You probably thought nothing was wrong with him either!
Homer Flagg: [running excitedly around his expensive hotel suite] Another bathroom! So shiny, so clean you gotta wash up before you go in there!
Dr. Steve Harris: [flirtatiously on board a plane] Now you tell me where you live, and i'll pick you up.::Wally Cook: My dear doctor, I live on the front page of the Morning Chronicle.::Dr. Steve Harris: On the what?::Wally Cook: [Louder] On the front page of the Morning Chronicle, and you can pick me up for seven cents! Now climb back in your horse and buggy and try your bedside manner on someone else!::Dr. Steve Harris: [Hearing the screech of the wheels touching down on the runway] What was that?::Wally Cook: We just came down to Earth!
Wally Cook: [to Homer] They'll boil you in oil in Macy's window after they marinate you for a week in Gimbel's.
Wally Cook: Oh, come on, Oliver, where's your sense of humor?::Oliver Stone: [after she laughs] You were going to marry him. He would have done to you what he did to the paper. [she stops laughing]::Wally Cook: [angrily] Why that two-timing little fraud!::Oliver Stone: Where's YOUR sense of humor?
Oliver Stone: ...in a couple of hours the whole city of New York is going to be banging at the door howling for your blood!::Homer Flagg: Why, I ain't got enough for everybody!
Nothing Sacred (1937)
Actors: Tommy E. Baughner (actor), Troy Brown Sr. (actor), Everett Brown (actor), Allan Cavan (actor), George Chandler (actor), Rudolph Chavers (actor), Walter Connolly (actor), Billy Diamond (actor), John Dilson (actor), Bill Dunn (actor), Frank Fay (actor), A.R. Haysel (actor), Louis Herbers (actor), Tenen Holtz (actor), Billy Barty (actor),
Plot: Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont receives the news that her terminal case of radium poisoning from a workplace incident was a complete misdiagnosis with mixed emotions. She is happy not to be dying, but she, who has never traveled the world, was going to use the money paid to her by her factory to go to New York in style. She believes her dreams can still be realized when Wally Cook arrives in town. He is a New York reporter with the Morning Star newspaper. He believes that Hazel's valiant struggle concerning her impending death is just the type of story he needs to resurrect his name within reporting circles after a recent story he wrote led to scandal and a major demotion at the newspaper. He proposes to take Hazel to New York both to report on her story but also to provide her with a grand farewell to life. She accepts. Wally's story results in Hazel becoming the toast of New York. In spending time together, Wally and Hazel fall in love. Hazel not only has to figure out what to do about her relationship with Wally, but also how to conclude her now very public story, which all of New York expects will be a public and imminent death. Others, however, may conclude the story for her.
Keywords: airplane, brooklyn-bridge, doctor, drunken-singing, fake-illness, foot-fetish, horse, key-to-the-city, native-american, new-yorkGenres: Comedy, Drama, Romance,
Taglines: See the big fight! LOMBARD vs MARCH. Selznick International's sensational Technicolor comedy
Quotes:
Oliver Stone: I am sitting here, Mr.Cook, toying with the idea of cutting out your heart, and stuffing it, like an olive!Wally Cook: For good clean fun, there's nothing like a wake.::Hazel Flagg: Oh please, let's not talk shop.
Hazel Flagg: It's kind of startling to be brought to life twice - and each time in Warsaw!
Dr. Enoch Downer: I'll tell you briefly what I think of newspaper men. The hand of God, reaching down into the mire, couldn't elevate one of them to the depths of degradation!
Wally Cook: You've lived here all your life?::Hazel Flagg: Twice that long.
Oliver Stone: Before I finish with that female Dracula, she'll know one thing: that Oliver Stone is worse than radium poisoning four ways from the jack!
Oliver Stone: Pneumonia... It's the finger of God if it's true.
Wally Cook: Listen, my dying swan, this is no time to stop faking! You're gonna have pneumonia and you're gonna have it good!
Wally Cook: You mean to say you stood there and let me beat a defenseless woman?::Oliver Stone: I did, Mr. Cook.::Wally Cook: Where's your sense of chivalry?::Oliver Stone: My chivalry? Aren't you just a trifle confused, Mr. Cook? You hit her!::Wally Cook: That's entirely different! I love her!
[last lines]::Dr. Enoch Downer: Hazel! Hazel!::Hazel Flagg: Yes, Enoch? What is it?::Dr. Enoch Downer: Hazel! Hazel! Run for your life! Run for your life! The hotel is flooded!
Stone, Oliver Filmography
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2016, role: director
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2016, role: writer
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2016, role: producer
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2015, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2015, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2015, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2014, role: director
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2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2014, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2013, role: producer
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Filmmaker
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2013, role: director
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself - Academy Award winning Director
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2013, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2012, role: director
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2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2012, role: director
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2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2012, role: director
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2012, role: actor , character name: Oliver
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2012, role: actor , character name: Interrogator
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2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Winner
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2012, role: writer
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2012, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2012, role: actor , character name: Himself - Interviewee
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: director
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2011, role: producer
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself - Guest
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2010, role: director
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2010, role: producer
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2010, role: writer
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2010, role: actor , character name: Investor
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself - Director
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2010, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2009, role: director
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2009, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2008, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2008, role: director
Stone, Oliver Filmography
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1998, role: actor , character name: Young Winterman
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1992, role: actor , character name: Prince Harry
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1992, role: actor , character name: Young Holmes
Stone, Oliver Filmography
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2011, role: actor , character name: Himself
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2010, role: actor
Famous quotes by Oliver Stone:
Oliver Stone
ALBUMS
- The Oliver Stone Connection released: 1998
The Oliver Stone Connection
Released 1998- Telephone & Rubber Band
- …on Natural Born Killers…
- Burn
- …on Leonard Cohen…
- The Future
- Ghost Town
- …on Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan…
- Taboo
- …on Choosing Composers…
- Heaven & Earth
- Wall Street (End Title Theme)
- …on Composers…
- Love Theme/Finale
- Born on the 4th of July
- JFK Theme
- …on JFK & U-Turn…
- U–Turn
- …on Platoon & Adagio…
- Adagio for Strings
Oliver Stone
ALBUMS
- Attomic Riddim released: 2005
- Summer Zouk released: 2003
- Special Request released: 2000
- L'Album released: 1998
- La fiesta del sol released: 1992
La fiesta del sol
Released 1992- Maldòn
- Niabe
- Wonderful World, Beautiful People
- Afro Latino
- Bounce De Ball
- Tout la simen
- Bougez tout le monde
- Dokte
- Sensation
- Makozouk
- Baissez pas
- Les Nuits créoles
- Burning Reggae
- You Can Get It If You Really Want
- De volta pro aconcheco
- Ao som do a amor
- Nila
- Musa do local
- Sopa de caracol
- L'Histoire du zouk
Oliver Stone
Oliver Stone, Oliver Stone
You really love the movies
Oh what a night for dancing with the one you love
Sunset hill, sunset hill
I really miss those parties
Oh what a life we lived then
I guess that's come and gone
But somewhere in space
There's a shimmering place
I need to find how that ladder's climbed
I'll catch a cab from there to witness your premiere
From London's Eye down Venice beach
Around the rings of Saturn
High over Yale my light sail
to find my shimmering dream
But somewhere in space
There's a shimmering place
I need to find how that ladder's climbed
I'll catch a cab from there to witness your premiere
Oliver Stone, Oliver Stone
I fear your sets have vanished
Oh paradise, you're a poltergeist
A thing that no one sees
But somewhere in space
There's a shimmering place
I'm still upset at that worthless tramp
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