Paul Schrader

Personal Info

Birthday

July 22, 1946

(79 years old)

Place of Birth

Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA

Also Known As

Paul Joseph Schrader

Paul Schrader

Biography

Paul Joseph Schrader (born July 22, 1946) is an American screenwriter, film director, and film critic. He first became widely known for writing the screenplay of Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver (1976).

He later continued his collaboration with Scorsese, writing or co-writing Raging Bull (1980), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Bringing Out the Dead (1999). Schrader has also directed 24 films, including Blue Collar (1978), Hardcore (1979), American Gigolo (1980), Cat People (1982), Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985), Light Sleeper (1992), Affliction (1997), and First Reformed (2017); the latter earned him his first Academy Award nomination. Schrader's work frequently depicts troubled men struggling through an existential crisis that is then punctuated by a violent, cathartic event.

Known For

Dog Eat Dog

Filmography

2022
1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever!
as Self
The Book of Harth
as Self
2020
The Beauty of Horror: Paul Schrader on The Comfort of Strangers
as Self
Clapboard Jungle: Surviving the Independent Film Business
as Self
Paul Schrader: Man in a Room
as Self
2019
What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
as Self
2017
We Blew It
as Self
2016
Dog Eat Dog
as El Greco
Ken San
as Self
2015
Hitchcock/Truffaut
as Self
2013
Richard Pryor: Omit the Logic
as Self
Milius
as Self
2011
Eames: The Architect and the Painter
as Self
2010
Godard Made in USA
as Self
2009
The Rules of Film Noir
as Self
Tales from the Script
as Self
2008
Murnau, Borzage and Fox
as Self
Schrader's Exorcism
as Self
2007
God's Lonely Man
as Self
Influence And Appreciation: A Martin Scorsese Tribute
as Self
2006
Film Noir: Bringing Darkness to Light
as Self
2005
Budd Boetticher: A Man Can Do That
as Self
Raging Bull: Before the Fight
as Self
2004
Männer im Trenchcoat, Frauen im Pelz
as Self
Sam Peckinpah's West: Legacy of a Hollywood Renegade
as Self
2003
Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
as Self
A Decade Under the Influence
as Self
Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood
as Self
2002
Cat People: An Intimate Portrait by Paul Schrader
as Self
1999
Making 'Taxi Driver'
as Self
1995
Untitled: New Blue
as Himself (uncredited)
1993
Talking with Ozu
as Self
1990
Hollywood Mavericks
as Self
Preston Sturges: The Rise and Fall of an American Dreamer
as Self
Pictures of Europe
as Self
1985
Inside Mishima
as Self
1984
The Road to Bresson
as Self