Jim McBride is an American television and film director, film producer and screenwriter.
Richard Brody, writing for The New Yorker, named McBride as one of the twelve greatest living narrative filmmakers, citing David Holzman’s Diary as a “time capsule of sights and sounds, ideas and moods, politics and history”, and “one of the greatest first films.”
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Jim McBride Biography / Wiki
| Name | Jim McBride |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | New York City, New York, USA |
| Date of Birth | September 16, 1941 |
| Age(as in 2023 Feb) | 81 |
| Deathday |
Jim McBride Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| My Girlfriend’s Wedding | Himself | 1969-01-01 | Director Jim McBride’s “liberated” English girlfriend talks candidly about her life and her reasons for marrying another man. The awkward city hall ce… |
| Pictures from Life’s Other Side | Himself (uncredited) | 1971-01-01 | A sequel to My Girlfriend’s Wedding. Pictures from Life’s Other Side focuses almost entirely on a later cross-country trip, this one also including… |
| Alan Jackson: Small Town Southern Man | 2018-10-16 | The feature-length documentary chronicles Alan’s life from his upbringing in Georgia in the 1950s and ’60s to his Hall of Fame induction in 2017. … | |
| Last Embrace | Man in Cantina | 1979-05-04 | Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum,… |
| He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life | Self | 1986-02-22 | A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas…. |
| Birth of a Nation | Self | 1997-08-06 | Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades…. |
Jim McBride Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Breathless | Director | 1983-05-13 | Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way, he shoots a police officer. When he makes it to L.A. he stays … |
| The Big Easy | Director | 1986-11-27 | Remy McSwain is a New Orleans police lieutenant who investigates the murder of a local mobster. His investigation leads him to suspect that fellow mem… |
| Great Balls of Fire! | Director | 1989-06-30 | The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unc… |
| The Wrong Man | Director | 1993-09-05 | US merchant sailor Alex Walker (Kevin Anderson) is stranded in Mexico, penniless and wanted by the police. He meets and joins up with an unlikely coup… |
| Glen and Randa | Director | 1971-09-19 | Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know not… |
| The Informant | Director | 1997-03-15 | A former Irish Republican Army fighter, Gingy McAnally (Anthony Brophy), is reluctant about being called back into service after serving time in priso… |
| Uncovered | Director | 1995-01-04 | While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, pa… |
| David Holzman’s Diary | Director | 1967-10-09 | A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precur… |
| My Girlfriend’s Wedding | Director | 1969-01-01 | Director Jim McBride’s “liberated” English girlfriend talks candidly about her life and her reasons for marrying another man. The awkward city hall ce… |
| Hot Times | Director | 1974-12-06 | Wild sex romp loosely based on Archie Comics characters… |
| Blood Ties | Director | 1991-05-27 | Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just … |
| Welcome to São Paulo | Director | 2004-07-16 | All the feature is given prestige to by the narration in Caetano Veloso’s voice, that also signs one of the segments of the project. São Paulo is the… |
| Pictures from Life’s Other Side | Director | 1971-01-01 | A sequel to My Girlfriend’s Wedding. Pictures from Life’s Other Side focuses almost entirely on a later cross-country trip, this one also including… |
| Dead by Midnight | Director | 1997-11-23 | Just when he’s beginning to take his perfect life and marriage for granted, John (Timothy Hutton) discovers that he’s the result of a failed governmen… |
| Pronto | Director | 1997-06-08 | Harry Arno is a Miami Beach bookie who finds himself in trouble with his mob bosses for reasons he can’t quite figure out. When an assailant attempts … |
| Meat Loaf: To Hell and Back | Director | 2000-01-05 | “Meat Loaf” Aday is an overgrown Texas youngster, the son of a gentle woman dying of cancer and an alcoholic, abusive father. Tormented by his father … |
| My Son’s Wedding to My Sister-in-Law | Director | 2009-04-10 | A short documentary by Jim McBride…. |
| Director | This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or… | ||
| Director | The story of Kevin Arnold facing the trials and tribulations of youth while growing up during the 1960s and 70s. Told through narration from an adult … | ||
| Director | Fallen Angels is an American neo-noir anthology television series that ran from 1993 to 1995 on the Showtime pay cable station and was produced by Pro… | ||
| Director | A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business.Â
When death is your business, what is your life? For the … |
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Jim McBride Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| David Holzman’s Diary | Producer | 1967-10-09 | A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precur… |
Writing
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Breathless | Screenplay | 1983-05-13 | Jesse has to get out of Las Vegas quickly and steals a car to drive to L.A. On the way, he shoots a police officer. When he makes it to L.A. he stays … |
| Great Balls of Fire! | Screenplay | 1989-06-30 | The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unc… |
| Uncovered | Screenplay | 1995-01-04 | While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, pa… |
| Hot Times | Writer | 1974-12-06 | Wild sex romp loosely based on Archie Comics characters… |
| My Son’s Wedding to My Sister-in-Law | Writer | 2009-04-10 | A short documentary by Jim McBride…. |
| Glen and Randa | Screenplay | 1971-09-19 | Teenagers Glen and Randa are members of a tribe that lives in a rural area, several decades after nuclear war has devastated the planet. They know not… |
| David Holzman’s Diary | Writer | 1967-10-09 | A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precur… |
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| My Son’s Wedding to My Sister-in-Law | Editor | 2009-04-10 | A short documentary by Jim McBride…. |
| David Holzman’s Diary | Editor | 1967-10-09 | A young filmmaker decides to make a movie about his day-to-day activities in an attempt to understand himself and get his life back in order. A precur… |
| My Girlfriend’s Wedding | Editor | 1969-01-01 | Director Jim McBride’s “liberated” English girlfriend talks candidly about her life and her reasons for marrying another man. The awkward city hall ce… |
Credit: TMDB
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