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Paul Schrader

Writer, Director, Actor, Producer, Additional CreditsBorn July 22, 1946 (79 years)
Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became widely known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976). He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also directed 24 films, including Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Cat People (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017); the latter earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts troubled men struggling through an existential crisis that is then punctuated by a violent, cathartic event.

Raised in a strict Calvinist family, Schrader attended Calvin College before electing to pursue film studies at UCLA on the encouragement of film critic Pauline Kael. He then worked as a film scholar and critic, publishing the book Transcendental Style in Film: Ozu, Bresson, Dreyer (1972) before making the transition to screenwriting in 1974. The success of Taxi Driver in 1976 brought greater attention to his work, and Schrader began directing his own films beginning with Blue Collar (co-written with his brother, Leonard Schrader). His three most recent films have been described by Schrader as a loose trilogy: First Reformed (2017), The Card Counter (2021), and Master Gardener (2022).

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Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Affliction
  • Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
  • Forever Mine
  • Old Boyfriends

Known For

  • Taxi Driver
  • Raging Bull
  • First Reformed
  • Bringing Out the Dead
  • The Last Temptation of Christ
  • The Card Counter
  • The Mosquito Coast
  • American Gigolo
  • Affliction
  • Cat People
  • Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
  • Hardcore
  • Auto Focus
  • Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist
  • Light Sleeper
  • Rolling Thunder
  • Master Gardener
  • The Canyons
  • Dying of the Light
  • Blue Collar
  • Dog Eat Dog
  • City Hall
  • American Gigolo
  • The Comfort of Strangers

Featured Videos

    Filmography

    2024
    Oh, Canada · as Screenplay
    2022
    2022
    There Are No Saints · as Screenplay
    2021
    The Card Counter · as Screenplay
    2017
    2017
    2014
    Dying of the Light · as Screenplay
    2007
    The Walker · as Screenplay
    1999
    1999
    Bringing Out the Dead · as Screenplay
    1997
    Affliction · as Screenplay
    1997
    Touch · as Screenplay
    1996
    1992
    Light Sleeper · as Screenplay
    1988
    1987
    Light of Day · as Screenplay
    1986
    The Mosquito Coast · as Screenplay
    1985
    1982
    Cat People · as Screenplay
    1980
    Raging Bull · as Screenplay
    1980
    1979
    1979
    1978
    Blue Collar · as Screenplay
    1976
    Obsession · as Screenplay
    1976
    Taxi Driver · as Screenplay
    1974
    The Yakuza · as Screenplay

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