Richard Dillard

Richard Dillard

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Richard Henry Wilde Dillard (born 11 October 1937) is an American poet, author, critic, and translator.

Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Dillard is best known as a poet. He is also highly-regarded as a writer of fiction and critical essays, as well as one of the screenwriters for the cult classic Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster.He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Roanoke College and went on to receive of a Master of Arts (1959) and the Ph. D. (1965) from the University of Virginia. While at the University of Virginia he was both a Woodrow Wilson and a DuPont Fellow. He is considered something of an institution at Hollins University where he has been teaching creative writing, literature, and film studies since 1964. Dillard has been the editor of the Hollins Critic since 1996. He also served as the vice president of the Film Journal from 1973-1980.

He is the winner of numerous awards for his writing including the Academy of American Poets Prize, the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, and the Hanes Award for Poetry. In 2007, he was awarded the George Garrett Award for Service to Contemporary Literature by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Dillard influenced many contemporary writers including both his ex-wives Annie Dillard and Cathryn Hankla. Others include the likes of Henry S. Taylor, Lee Smith, Lucinda MacKethan, Anne Jones, Rosanne Coggeshall, Wyn Cooper, Jill McCorkle, Madison Smartt Bell, and Julia Johnson.

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Song to Song
Title: Song to Song
Character: Father (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 2017
Type: Movie
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of seduction and betrayal.
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Men, Women & Children
Title: Men, Women & Children
Character: Coach
Released: October 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Follows the story of a group of high school teenagers and their parents as they attempt to navigate the many ways the internet has changed their relationships, their communication, their self-image, and their love lives.
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The Last Stand
Title: The Last Stand
Character: Irv
Released: January 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Ray Owens is sheriff of the quiet US border town of Sommerton Junction after leaving the LAPD following a bungled operation. Following his escape from the FBI, a notorious drug baron, his gang, and a hostage are heading toward Sommerton Junction where the police are preparing to make a last stand to intercept them before they cross the border. Owens is reluctant to become involved but ultimately joins in with the law enforcement efforts
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Beneath the Darkness
Title: Beneath the Darkness
Character: Doctor
Released: January 6, 2012
Type: Movie
After watching their best friend get murdered, a group of teens struggle to expose a local hero as the vicious killer and keep from becoming his next victims.
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Angel Dog
Title: Angel Dog
Character: Seth
Released: March 19, 2011
Type: Movie
This heart warming film is about a dog named Cooper who is the lone survivor of a terrible car accident. Jake, a family patriarch, loses his wife and children in the accident. Not being a dog person, Jake is angry and resentful toward the dog for even surviving. However, eventually Jake bonds with Cooper, and this bond ends up being the one thing that gets him out of bed in the morning, the one thing that helps him to go on living after such a tragic loss.
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Beatdown
Title: Beatdown
Character: Kent
Released: August 31, 2010
Type: Movie
Brandon, a respected street fighter, is forced to flee the city after his brother is murdered and the money that was supposed to be paid back to a local gangster is stolen. While lying low at his father's house in a small Southern town, Brandon soon gets involved in the local underground cage-fighting circuit. With the help of Drake Colby, a former MMA champion, Brandon devises a scheme to bring a massive payday, if they are able to survive.
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Temple Grandin
Title: Temple Grandin
Character: Don Micheals
Released: February 6, 2010
Type: Movie
A biopic of Temple Grandin, an autistic woman who has become one of top scientists in humane livestock handling.
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Stop-Loss
Title: Stop-Loss
Character: Sheriff Boudreaux
Released: March 28, 2008
Type: Movie
A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.
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Elvis & Anabelle
Title: Elvis & Anabelle
Character: TV Doctor
Released: March 10, 2007
Type: Movie
A small-town beauty queen and an unlicensed mortician set out across the Texas plains on a journey of self-discovery.
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Walking Tall: The Payback
Title: Walking Tall: The Payback
Character: Charlie Prescott
Released: February 20, 2007
Type: Movie
A man goes back to his hometown that is now overrun with crime and single-handedly takes justice into his own hands.
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Infamous
Title: Infamous
Character: Man on Street
Released: October 13, 2006
Type: Movie
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
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Title: Friday Night Lights
Character: Grady Hunt
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: TV
The trials and triumphs of life in the small town of Dillon, Texas, where high school football is everything.
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Friday Night Lights
Title: Friday Night Lights
Character: Reporter
Released: October 8, 2004
Type: Movie
A small, turbulent town in Texas obsesses over their high school football team to an unhealthy degree. When the star tailback, Boobie Miles, is seriously injured during the first game of the season, all hope is lost, and the town's dormant social problems begin to flare up. It is left to the inspiring abilities of new coach Gary Gaines to instill in the other team members -- and, by proxy, the town itself -- a sense of self-respect and honor.
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Warning: Parental Advisory
Title: Warning: Parental Advisory
Character: Senator Sam
Released: April 20, 2002
Type: Movie
The story of the 1985 Senatorial hearings to place "Warning: Parental Advisory" labels on music albums with 'obscene' lyrics and themes - and the rockers who tried to fight it.
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Slap Her... She's French
Title: Slap Her... She's French
Character: Sam Fuller
Released: February 7, 2002
Type: Movie
Welcome to Splendona High School, Texas, where football players, cheerleaders and beauty queens rule the hallways. And Starla Grady, the most popular girl in school, is on top of it all. That is, at least until Genevieve LePlouff, a French foreign exchange student arrives and turns her life upside down.
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RocketMan
Title: RocketMan
Character: The President
Released: October 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Fred Z. Randall is geeky and obnoxious spacecraft designer, who gets the chance to make his dream come true and travel to Mars as a member of the first manned flight there.
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The Secret She Carried
Title: The Secret She Carried
Character: Walter
Released: October 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Ellen, a happily married young teacher is raped and beaten by a man who threatens her and her husband if she goes to the police. She is admitted to the hospital and reports the rape to the police. The police in turn go after a suspect, Lewis Snow. Meanwhile, Ellen finds out that she is pregnant, however, she doesn't know if it's her attacker's baby or her husband's.
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Texas Justice
Title: Texas Justice
Released: February 12, 1995
Type: Movie
When a Texas millionaire marries his mistress, a bitter divorce battle, two deaths, an FBI sting operation, and criminal trials ensue.
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Dazed and Confused
Title: Dazed and Confused
Character: Pickford's Dad
Released: September 24, 1993
Type: Movie
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
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A Taste for Killing
Title: A Taste for Killing
Character: Mr. Sloan
Released: August 12, 1992
Type: Movie
Two college students get a summer job on an offshore oil rig. They are soon approached by a co-worker who had earlier befriended them, and who now tries to draw them into a plot to murder the rig's crew chief.
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The Last Prostitute
Title: The Last Prostitute
Character: Ben Lake
Released: September 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Two 60s teenagers find work rather than pleasure when it turns out that the prostitute they desire now owns a horse farm.