William Faulkner
Known for: Writing
Born: September 25, 1897
Died: July 6, 1962
Place of birth: New Albany, Mississippi, USA
William Faulkner, one of the 20th century's most gifted novelists, wrote for the movies in part because he could not make enough money from his novels and short stories to support his growing number of dependants. The author of such acclaimed novels as "The Sound and the Fury" and "Absalom, Absalom!", Faulkner received official screen credits for just six theatrical releases, five of which were with director Howard Hawks. Faulkner received the Nobel Prize for Literature for 1949 and he received two Pulitzer Prizes, for "A Fable" in '1955 and "The Reivers", which was published shortly before he died in 1962.
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Filmography
36 movies · 2 TV shows, newest first
2.0
The Past Is Never Dead: The Story of William Faulkner
2023
5.8
As I Lay Dying
2018
1.0
Mississippi Requiem
2018
5.0
The Sound and the Fury
2015
5.2
As I Lay Dying
2013
6.2
Two Soldiers
2003
7.0
The Arsonist
2001
6.4
Old Man
1997
3.9
The Leg
1991
5.5
The Long Hot Summer
1985
6.5
A Rose for Emily
1983
6.6
American Playhouse
1982
6.0
Tandis que j’agonise
1980
5.4
Barn Burning
1980NR
The Bear
1980
6.7
Tomorrow
1972NR
Beatrice Kolding
1971
6.4
The Reivers
19699.0
William Faulkner's Mississippi
1965
5.4
Sanctuary
1961
6.8
The Sound and the Fury
1959
NR
Old Man
1958
7.0
The Long, Hot Summer
1958
6.8
The Tarnished Angels
1957
6.4
Land of the Pharaohs
1955
NR
Impressions of Japan
1955
NR
William Faulkner on his native soil in Oxford, Mississippi
1952
7.3
Intruder in the Dust
1949
6.8
Adventures of Don Juan
1948
7.6
The Big Sleep
1946
6.6
The Southerner
1945
7.5
To Have and Have Not
1945
6.1
Northern Pursuit
1943
6.7
Background to Danger
1943
5.1
Slave Ship
1937
6.5
The Road to Glory
1936
6.5
The Story of Temple Drake
1933
6.3
Today We Live
1933