Oliver Stone Biography (1946-)

Full name, Oliver William Stone; born September 15, 1946, in New York, NY; son of Louis (a stockbroker) and Jacqueline (maiden name, Goddet) Stone; married Najwa (some sources cite Majwa) Sarkis (a political attache), May 22, 1971(divorced, 1977); married Elizabeth Burkit Cox (a film production assistant),c. June 7, 1981 (divorced, 1993); companion of Chong Son Chong (an actress and model); children: (second marriage) Sean (an actor), Michael Jack; (with Chong) Tara Chong. Addresses: Office: Ixtlan, Inc., 2425 Olympic Blvd.,Suite 660, Santa Monica, CA 90404.; Agent: David Styne, Creative Artists Agency, 9830 Wilshire Blvd., Beverly Hills, CA 90212.; Manager: Geyer Kosinski,Industry Entertainment, 955 South Carrillo Dr., Third Floor, Los Angeles, CA90048.

Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupation: Director, producer, writer, actor
Birth Details: September 15, 1946; New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

CREDITS
Film Director
Street Scenes (documentary; also known as Street Scenes 1970), 1970
Last Year in Viet Nam (short film), 1971
Seizure (also known as Queen of Evil), American International Pictures, 1974
Mad Man of Martinique (short film), 1979
The Hand, Warner Bros., 1981
Platoon, Orion, 1986
Salvador, Hemdale, 1986
Wall Street, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987
Talk Radio, Universal, 1988
Born on the Fourth of July, Universal, 1989
The Doors, TriStar, 1991
JFK, Warner Bros., 1991
Heaven & Earth (also known as Entre ciel et terre), Warner Bros., 1993
Natural Born Killers, Warner Bros., 1994
Nixon, Buena Vista, 1995
U Turn (also known as Stray Dogs and U Turn--Ici commence l'enfer), TriStar, 1996
Any Given Sunday (also known as Gridiron, The League, Monday Night, On Any Given Sunday, and Playing Hurt),Warner Bros., 1999
Film Executive Producer
Iron Maze, Academy Entertainment, 1991
South Central, Warner Bros., 1992
Zebrahead (also known as The Colour of Love), Columbia, 1992
The Joy Luck Club, Buena Vista, 1993
The New Age, Wechsler Productions, 1994
Killer: A Journal of Murder (also known as The Killer), Republic, 1995
Freeway, August Entertainment, 1996
Any Given Sunday (also known as Gridiron, The League, Monday Night, On Any Given Sunday, and Playing Hurt),Warner Bros., 1999
The Corruptor, New Line Cinema, 1999
Film Producer
Sugar Cookies, Troma Films, 1973
(With Gerald Green) Salvador, Hemdale, 1986
(With A. Kitman Ho) Born on the Fourth of July, Universal, 1989
(With Edward R. Pressman and Michael Rauch) Blue Steel, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1990
(With Pressman) Reversal of Fortune, Warner Bros., 1990
(With Ho) JFK, Warner Bros., 1991
(With Ho) Heaven & Earth (also known as Entre ciel et terre), Warner Bros., 1993
(With Ho) Natural Born Killers, Warner Bros., 1994
Nixon, Buena Vista, 1995
The People vs. Larry Flynt, Columbia, 1996
Savior, Budua Productions, 1998
S.W.A.T., Sony Pictures Classics, 2003
Film Work
Other
Cinematographer, Street Scenes (documentary; also known as Street Scenes 1970), 1970
Editor, Seizure (also known as Queen of Evil), American International Pictures, 1974
Coeditor, The Hand, Warner Bros., 1981
Film Appearances
Cliff, The Battle of Love's Return, Troma Films, 1971
Last Year in Viet Nam (short film), 1971
Bum, The Hand, Warner Bros., 1981
(Uncredited) Army officer in destroyed bunker, Platoon, Orion, 1986
Trader in office, Wall Street, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987
Reporter, Born on the Fourth of July, Universal, 1989
(Uncredited) Film professor, The Doors, TriStar, 1991
Himself, Dave, Warner Bros., 1993
Himself, The Last Party (documentary), Triton Pictures, 1993
(Uncredited) Narrator during closing credits, Nixon, Buena Vista,1995
Himself, One Vision, 1998
Tug Kowalski, Any Given Sunday (also known as Gridiron, The League, Monday Night, On Any Given Sunday, and Playing Hurt), Warner Bros., 1999
Television Work
Movies
Executive producer (with Janet Yang, Abby Mann, and Diana Pokorny), Indictment: The McMartin Trial, HBO, 1995

Executive producer, The Day Reagan Was Shot, Showtime, 2001
Producer and director, Comandante, HBO, 2003
Producer and director, Persona non Grata, HBO, 2003
Executive producer of the movie From Hollywood to Hanoi, Cinemax.
Other
Executive producer (with A. Kitman Ho, Michael Rauch, and Bruce Wagner),Wild Palms (miniseries), ABC, 1993
Executive producer, The Last Days of Kennedy and King (special; also known as Assassinated: The Last Days of Kennedy and King), TBS, 1998
Television Appearances
Specials
Welcome Home, HBO, 1987
The New Hollywood, NBC, 1990
Himself, Beyond "JFK": The Question of Conspiracy, 1992
Himself, The Kennedy Assassinations: Coincidence or Conspiracy, syndicated, 1992
Himself, Oliver Stone: Inside Out (also known as Oliver Stone), Showtime, 1992
Himself, Our Hollywood Education, 1992
1993: A Year at the Movies, CNBC, 1993
Together for Our Children--M.U.S.I.C., syndicated, 1993
Himself, Empire of the Censors, 1995
The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies, HBO, 1995
Himself, Frank Capra's American Dream, 1997
Himself, AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Movies, CBS, 1998
Himself, John Wayne: The Unquiet American, Arts and Entertainment,1998
Himself, The Warner Bros. Story: No Guts, No Glory: 75 Years of AwardWinners, TNT, 1998
Himself, The Warner Bros. Story: No Guts, No Glory--75 Years of Blockbusters, TNT, 1998
Narrator, Censored!, American Movie Classics, 1999
Himself, Full Contact: The Making of "Any Given Sunday," 1999
Our Century, The Learning Channel, 1999
Himself, Hollywood, D.C.: A Tale of Two Cities, Bravo, 2000
Himself, 20th Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years, American Movie Classics, 2000
The Inside Reel: Digital Filmmaking, PBS, 2001
Himself, Jim Brown: All American, HBO, 2002
Himself, John Ford Goes to War, Starz!, 2002
(Uncredited; in archive footage) Who Is Alan Smithee?, American Movie Classics, 2002
Himself, AFI's 100 Years ... 100 Heroes and Villains, CBS, 2003
Himself, Hollywood High, 2003
Awards Presentations
The 44th Annual Golden Globe Awards, 1987
The 1990 MTV Video Music Awards, MTV, 1990
Presenter, The 48th Annual Golden Globe Awards, TBS, 1991
Independent Spirit Awards, Bravo, 1991
The ALMA Awards, ABC, 1998
Also appeared in other award show presentations, including the Academy Awards.
Episodic
Firstworks, The Movie Channel, 1988
The Story of Hollywood (also known as Talking Pictures), TNT, 1988
ABC News Nightline (also known as Nightline), ABC, 1991
Naked Hollywood, Arts and Entertainment, 1991
"Who Killed JFK? On the Trail of the Conspiracies," Investigative Reports, Arts and Entertainment, 1992
American Cinema, PBS, 1995
Narrator, "D. W. Griffiths," Sex and the Silver Screen, Showtime,1996
Himself, The Kennedys: Power, Seduction and Hollywood: The E! True Hollywood Story, E! Entertainment Television, 1998
Himself, "The Naked and the Dead," Great Books, The Learning Channel, 1998
Himself, "Al Pacino: Inside Out," Biography, Arts and Entertainment, 2001
Himself, "Charlie Sheen," Biography, Arts and Entertainment, 2001
Appeared in Oliver Stone: The Directors, Encore; also appeared inepisodes of Backstory (also known as AMC Backstory and Hollywood Backstories), American Movie Classics; and McLaughlin, MSNBC.
Other
Himself, Wild Palms (miniseries), ABC, 1993
Himself, Der Klang der Bilder, 1995
Comandante (movie), HBO, 2003
Persona non Grata (movie), HBO, 2003
RECORDINGS
Videos
Himself, The Road of Excess, 1997
Himself, Oliver Stone's America, Warner Home Video, 2001
WRITINGS
Screenplays
Seizure (also known as Queen of Evil), American International Pictures, 1974
Midnight Express (based on Billy Hayes's autobiography of the samename), Columbia, 1978
The Hand (adapted from Marc Brandel's novel The Lizard's Tail), Warner Bros., 1981
(With John Milius) Conan the Barbarian (based on the works of Robert E. Howard), Universal, 1982
Scarface (adapted from Howard Hawks's 1932 film of the same name),Universal, 1983
(With David Lee Henry) 8 Million Ways to Die (based on the novel of the same name by Lawrence Block), TriStar, 1985
(With Michael Cimino) Year of the Dragon (based on the novel of the same name by Robert Daley), Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1986
(With Richard Boyle) Platoon, Orion, 1986, published in OliverStone's Platoon and Salvador: The Screenplays, Vintage, 1987
(With Boyle) Salvador, Hemdale, 1986, published in Oliver Stone's Platoon and Salvador: The Screenplays, Vintage, 1987
(With Stanley Weiser) Wall Street, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1987
(With Eric Bogosian) Talk Radio (based on Bogosian's stage play ofthe same name and Stephen Singular's book Talked to Death: The Life and Murder of Alan Berg), Universal, 1988
(With Ron Kovic) Born on the Fourth of July (based on Kovic's autobiography of the same name), Universal, 1989
(With J. Randall Johnson and Ralph Thomas) The Doors (based on John Densmore's book Riders on the Storm), TriStar, 1991
(With Zachary Sklar) JFK (based on the books On the Trail of the Assassins, by Jim Garrison and Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, by Jim Marrs), Warner Bros., 1991, published as JFK: The Book of the Film; The Documented Screenplay, Applause Theatre Books, 1992
Heaven & Earth (also known as Entre ciel et terre; based on Le Ly Hayslip's memoirs When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace and Child of War, Woman of Peace), Warner Bros., 1993
(With Richard Rutowski and David Veloz) Natural Born Killers (based on a story by Quentin Tarantino), Warner Bros., 1994
(With Stephen J. Rivele and Christopher Wilkinson) Nixon, Buena Vista, 1995, published as Nixon: An Oliver Stone Film, edited by Eric Hamburg, Hyperion, 1995
(With Alan Parker) Evita (based on the musical of the same name byAndrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice), Buena Vista, 1996
(Uncredited) U Turn (also known as Stray Dogs and U Turn--Ici commence l'enfer), TriStar, 1996
Any Given Sunday (also known as Gridiron, The League, Monday Night, On Any Given Sunday, and Playing Hurt),Warner Bros., 1999
Teleplays
(With Bruce Wagner) Wild Palms (miniseries; based on the comic strip by Bruce Wagner and Julian Allen), ABC, 1993
Comandante (movie), HBO, 2003
Novels
A Child's Night Dream, St. Martin's Press, 1997
Nonfiction
(With Michael Singer) Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth: The Making of an Epic Motion Picture, Tuttle, 1994

Further Reference

OTHER SOURCES

Books

Authors and Artists for Young Adults, Volume 15, Gale, 1995
Encyclopedia of World Biography, 2nd edition, Gale, 1998
Kunz, Don, editor, The Films of Oliver Stone, Scarecrow Press, 1997
Riordan, James, Stone: The Controversies, Excesses, and Exploits of aRadical Filmmaker, Aurum Press, 1996
St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, St. James Press, 2000
Toplin, Robert Brent, editor, Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History, Controversy, University Press of Kansas, 2000

Periodicals

Atlantic Monthly, July, 1997, pp. 96-100
Cineaste, fall, 1996, pp. 33-37
Empire, May, 1998, pp. 64-65
Entertainment Weekly, August 6, 1999, pp. 26-27; February 16, 2001, p. 77
Esquire, December, 1997, pp. 38-41
Flicks, May, 1998, p. 35
New Yorker, August 8, 1994, pp. 40-55
New York Times, January 2, 1990, pp. C13, C20
People Weekly, January 22, 1996, pp. 105-108
Premiere, December, 1987, pp. 33-34, 37-38; January, 1996, pp. 62-65; January, 2000, pp. 78-81, 979
Sight and Sound, Volume 6, number 3, 1996, pp. 6-9
Time, October 6, 1997, p. 109; November 9, 1998, p. 94
Vogue, December, 1987, pp. 166, 172

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