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Colin Higgins

Film Director / Screenwriter / Film Producer / Writer / Playwright / Theatre Director / Actor | * 07/28/1941 († 47, 08/05/1988) | Nouméa, New Caledonia (France)
Colin Higgins (28 July 1941 – 5 August 1988) was an Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film Harold and Maude, and for directing the films Foul Play (1978) and 9 to 5 (1980). ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Comedies | Thriller | Romance / Love

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The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also li ...

Harold and Maude

PG

1971 | 3.8/5 | 1h 31min
Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
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A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some inv ...

Silver Streak

PG

1976 | 3.4/5 | 1h 54min
Comedy, Crime, Romance / Love, Thriller
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A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church. ...

Foul Play

PG

1978 | 3.1/5 | 1h 56min
Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
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Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and p ...

Nine to Five

PG

1980 | 3.5/5 | 1h 50min
Comedy
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Movies with Colin Higgins as Actor(2)

as Actor in a Hostage Film1985 Into the Night
as Un policier américain (uncredited)1965 The Gendarme in New York

Movies with Colin Higgins as Crew(10)

Directing/Director1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Writing/Screenplay1982 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Directing/Director1980 Nine to Five
Writing/Screenplay1980 Nine to Five
Directing/Director1978 Foul Play
Writing/Writer1978 Foul Play
Writing/Writer1976 Silver Streak
Writing/Writer1973 The Devil's Daughter
Production/Producer1971 Harold and Maude
Writing/Writer1971 Harold and Maude

Full Name: Colin Higgins
Born: Monday, 07/28 1941 (July) in Nouméa, New Caledonia (France)
Died: Friday, 08/05 1988 (August) in Beverly Hills (aged: 47)
Zodiac sign: Leo (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: English (EN, native language)
Educated at: Stanford University, University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Other names for Colin Higgins (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Colin Higgins (Drehbuchautor)"
Colin Higgins frequently works together with these people:
Dolly Parton (4x, Actress)
Edward K. Milkis (4x, Crew)
Thomas L. Miller (4x, Crew)
Jean Girault (3x, Crew)
Lynn Stalmaster (3x, Crew)
M. James Arnett (3x, Crew)
Pembroke J. Herring (3x, Crew)
Jacques Vilfrid (3x, Crew)
Peter Masterson (2x, Actor)
Patricia Resnick (2x, Crew)
Shirlee Strahm (2x, Crew)

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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:1347551, Added: 09/03/2019, Last updated: 04/22/2024