Robert Altman filmography

Robert Altman in 1983

Robert Altman was an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is known for such films as M*A*S*H (1970), McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), The Long Goodbye (1973), California Split (1974), Nashville (1975), 3 Women (1977), A Wedding (1978), Popeye (1980), Secret Honor (1984), The Player (1992), Short Cuts (1993), Gosford Park (2001), and A Prairie Home Companion (2006).

Filmography

Short films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1950	Honeymoon for Harriet	No	Yes	Also editor
1952	The Sound of Bells	Yes	Yes
	King Basketball	Yes	Yes
1954	The Dirty Look	Yes	Yes
1955	The Perfect Crime	Yes	Yes
1956	The Magic Bond	Yes	Yes
1964	The Party	Yes	No
1965	The Katherine Reed Story	Yes	No
1967	Pot au feu	Yes	No
1987	Les Boréades	Yes	Yes	Segment of Aria

Feature films

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer
1957	The Delinquents	Yes	Yes	Yes
1968	Countdown	Yes	No	No
1969	That Cold Day in the Park	Yes	No	No
1970	M*A*S*H	Yes	No	No
1970	Brewster McCloud	Yes	No	No
1971	McCabe & Mrs. Miller	Yes	Yes	No
1972	Images	Yes	Yes	No
1973	The Long Goodbye	Yes	No	No
1974	Thieves Like Us	Yes	Yes	No
	California Split	Yes	No	Yes
1975	Nashville	Yes	No	Yes
1976	Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson	Yes	Yes	Yes
1977	3 Women	Yes	Yes	Yes
1978	A Wedding	Yes	Yes	Yes
1979	Quintet	Yes	Yes	Yes
	A Perfect Couple	Yes	Yes	Yes
1980	HealtH	Yes	Yes	Yes
	Popeye	Yes	Yes	No
1982	Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean	Yes	No	No
1983	Streamers	Yes	No	Yes
1984	Secret Honor	Yes	No	Yes
1985	Fool for Love	Yes	No	No
1986	O.C. and Stiggs	Yes	No	Yes
1987	Beyond Therapy	Yes	Yes	No
1990	Vincent & Theo	Yes	No	No
1992	The Player	Yes	No	No
1993	Short Cuts	Yes	Yes	No
1994	Prêt-à-Porter	Yes	Yes	Yes
1996	Kansas City	Yes	Yes	Yes
1998	The Gingerbread Man	Yes	Yes	No
1999	Cookie's Fortune	Yes	No	Yes
2000	Dr. T & the Women	Yes	No	Yes
2001	Gosford Park	Yes	No	Yes
2003	The Company	Yes	No	Yes
2006	A Prairie Home Companion	Yes	No	Yes

Documentary films

Year	Title	Director	Producer	Notes
1957	The James Dean Story	Yes	Yes	Also editor

Documentary shorts

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Notes
1951	Modern Football	Yes	Yes	Also editor
1953	The Last Mile	Yes	Yes
	How To Run a Filling Station	Yes	Yes
1954	The Builders	Yes	Yes
	Better Football	Yes	Yes

Acting roles

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1947	The Secret Life of Walter Mitty	Man Drinking	Uncredited
1967	Pot au feu	Player	Short Film
1970	Events	Bob
1973	The Long Goodbye	Ambulance Driver	Uncredited
1981	Endless Love	Hotel Manager

Television

TV series

Year	Title	Director	Writer	Producer	Notes
1953	Pulse of the City	Yes	Yes	No	Episode: The Case of Capt. Denning
1957-58	Alfred Hitchcock Presents	Yes	No	No	Episodes "The Young One" and "Together"
1958	M Squad	Yes	No	No	Episode "Lover's Lane Killing"
1959	Hawaiian Eye	Yes	No	No	Episode "Three Tickets to Lani"
1958-59	The Millionaire	Yes	Yes	No	13 episodes
	Whirlybirds	Yes	No	No	20 episodes
1959-60	Sugarfoot	Yes	No	No	2 episodes
1960	The Gale Storm Show	Yes	No	No	Episode It's Magic
1959-60	Troubleshooters	Yes	Yes	No	14 episodes
	U.S. Marshall	Yes	No	No	15 episodes
1960	Bronco	Yes	No	No	Episode "The Mustangers"
	Maverick	Yes	Yes	No	Episode "Bolt from the Blue"
1960-61	The Roaring 20's	Yes	No	No	9 episodes
	Bonanza	Yes	No	No	8 episodes
1961	Lawman	Yes	No	No	Episode "The Robbery"
	Surfside 6	Yes	No	No	Episode "Thieves Among Honor"
	Peter Gunn	Yes	No	No	Episode "The Murder Bond"
	Route 66	Yes	No	No	Episode "Some of the People, Some of the Time"
1961-62	Bus Stop	Yes	Yes	No	8 episodes
1962	Cain's Hundred	Yes	No	No	Episode "The Left Side of Canada"
	Kraft Television Theatre	Yes	No	No	3 episodes
	The Gallant Men	Yes	No	No	Episode "Pilot"
1962-63	Combat!	Yes	Yes	Yes	10 episodes
1963-64	Kraft Suspense Theatre	Yes	Yes	Yes	3 episodes
1965	The Long, Hot Summer	Yes	No	No	Episode "The Long, Hot Summer"
1968	Premiere	Yes	Yes	Yes	Episode "Walk in the Sky"
1977	Saturday Night Live	Yes	No	No	Episode "Sissy Spacek/Richard Baskin" (Segment "Sissy's Role"
1988	Tanner '88	Yes	No	Executive	Miniseries
1990	Vincent and Theo	Yes	No	No	Miniseries
1993-97	Great Performances	Yes	Yes	Yes	3 episodes
1993	Gun	Yes	No	Executive	Episode "All the President's Women"
2004	Tanner on Tanner	Yes	No	Executive	4 episodes

TV movies

Year	Title	Director	Producer
1964	Nightmare in Chicago	Yes	Yes
1982	Rattlesnake in a Cooler	Yes	Executive
	Precious Blood	Yes	Executive
1985	The Laundromat	Yes	No
1987	Basements	Yes	Yes
1988	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial	Yes	Yes

Music videos

Year	Title	Production company	Artist
1966	"Girl Talk"	Color-Sonic	Bobby Troup
	"The Party"		Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass
	"Speak Low"		Lili St. Cyr
	"Ebb Tide"

Stage Productions

Year	Title	Author	Venue	City	Notes
1952	Hope Is the Thing with Feathers	Richard Harrity	Resident Theatre of the Jewish Community Center	Kansas City
1981	2 By South	Frank South	Los Angeles Actors' Theater	Los Angeles	Double bill of two plays, Rattlesnake in a Cooler and Precious Blood
			St. Clement's Theater	New York City
1982	Come Back to the 5 & Dime Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean	Ed Graczyk	Martin Beck Theater
1983	The Rake's Progress	Igor Stravinsky with libretto by W.H. Auden and Chester Kallman	University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance	Ann Arbor
1987			Opéra de Lille	Lille
1992	McTeague	William Bolcom with a libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Robert Altman	Lyric Opera of Chicago	Chicago	World premiere
2004	A Wedding
2006	Resurrection Blues	Arthur Miller	Old Vic Theatre	London	West End premiere