Writing

Richard Alan Shapiro

Known for

Writing

Credits

9 titles

Known for

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday poster
5.1

Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

1976

Intimate Strangers poster
5.0

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

Intimate Strangers

1977

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic poster
5.7

Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

1975

Blood Ties poster
4.9

Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just one minor difference, the Carpathian Americans seem to have a predilection for drinking human blood.

Blood Ties

1991

When We Were Young poster
7.0

A group of young people in 1959 get ready to set out on their journey to adulthood.

When We Were Young

1989

The Colony poster
7.5

An arrogant Malibu tycoon frantically tries to locate the files of a murdered psychotherapist before his enemies get their hands on them and destroy him in this failed pilot from the creators of "Dynasty."

The Colony

1996

Behind the camera

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday poster
5.1

Sam Longwood, a frontiersman who has seen better days, spies the gold-mine partner, Jack Colby, who ran off with all the gold from a mine they were prospecting fifteen years earlier. He tells his other partners from that time, Joe Knox and Billy, and they confront Colby demanding not only the thousand dollars he took but an addition fifty-nine thousand for their trouble. After being thwarted in this attempt, they, and a would-be named Thursday, hatch a plan to kidnap Colby's wife, Nancy Sue, who is coincidently Sam's old flame, but find that Nancy Sue is not the sweet girl that Sam remembers.

The Great Scout & Cathouse Thursday

1976

Intimate Strangers poster
5.0

The pressures of problems at home and at work are taking a tremendous toll on a middle-aged husband, and he begins to take it out on his wife.

Intimate Strangers

1977

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic poster
5.7

Finding herself unable to cope with the divorce of her parents and the stress of daily life, 15-year-old Sarah Travis starts drinking in secret. At first, alcohol provides comfort and release. Then it sends her life spiraling out of control.

Sarah T. - Portrait of a Teenage Alcoholic

1975

Blood Ties poster
4.9

Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just one minor difference, the Carpathian Americans seem to have a predilection for drinking human blood.

Blood Ties

1991

When We Were Young poster
7.0

A group of young people in 1959 get ready to set out on their journey to adulthood.

When We Were Young

1989

The Colony poster
7.5

An arrogant Malibu tycoon frantically tries to locate the files of a murdered psychotherapist before his enemies get their hands on them and destroy him in this failed pilot from the creators of "Dynasty."

The Colony

1996

Minstrel Man poster
NR

Two black brothers in a traveling minstrel show in the early part of the twentieth century have two different goals. One brother is determined to succeed in a field that is dominated by white performers in blackface, and the other is a composer fighting to break away from the stereotypes associated with black minstrel performers.

Minstrel Man

1977

The Cracker Factory poster
9.3

Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.

The Cracker Factory

1979

The Cracker Factory poster
9.3

Drama depicting the problems of a suburban housewife suffering from fits of depression and alcoholism, and her stay in a psychiatric center after a feeble suicide attempt.

The Cracker Factory

1979