Ernest Thompson was born on Richard Ernest Thompson; November 6,1949 and is an American writer, actor, and director.
15 Facts About Ernest Thompson
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Ernest Thompson won an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay for On Golden Pond, an adaptation of his own play of the same name.
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Ernest Thompson spent his early years in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Maine, moving to Maryland as a junior high school student.
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Ernest Thompson won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 1981 as well as awards from the Golden Globes and the Writers Guild of America.
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Ernest Thompson is quoted as saying that The West Side Waltz came about after a telephone call he received on behalf of screenwriter George Seaton, creator of movies such as Miracle on 34th Street, offering Ernest Thompson "the only George Seaton grant" to write a new play for the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles.
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Ernest Thompson wrote and directed a television version based on the play, premiering on Thanksgiving night 1995, starring Shirley MacLaine, Liza Minnelli, Kathy Bates, and Jennifer Grey.
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Ernest Thompson portrayed Ranger Matt Harper on NBC's 1974 series Sierra and Dr Phil Parker on ABC's Westside Medical.
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Ernest Thompson appeared on the NBC soap opera Somerset as Tony Cooper, son of Rex and Laura Cooper, and in the television films The Rimers of Eldritch and F Scott Fitzgerald and The Last of the Belles.
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Ernest Thompson wrote the screenplay for the feature film Sweet Hearts Dance, directed by Robert Greenwald and starring Susan Sarandon and Don Johnson.
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Ernest Thompson directed 1969, starring Kiefer Sutherland, Robert Downey, Jr.
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Ernest Thompson directed and acted opposite Shirley MacLaine and Jennifer Grey in The West Side Waltz and co-wrote and directed the Emmy-nominated movie Out of Time, starring James McDaniel and Mel Harris.
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In 2000, Ernest Thompson directed The Penis Responds, with Richard Gilliland.
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In 1993, Ernest Thompson married Kristie Lanier at his home in New Hampshire, where he raised daughters Heather and Danielle.
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In 2008, Ernest Thompson co-founded Whitebridge Farm Productions with partners Morgan Murphy and Lori Gigliotti-Murphy.
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Ernest Thompson wrote, directed and starred in the company's first two movies, Heavenly Angle and Time and Charges, both of which were primarily filmed in the Granite State and offered by Whitebridge Farm Productions.