Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino

Born 03/02/1939
New York City, New York, USA

Died 02/07/2016 (77 years old)
Los Angeles, California, USA

Biography (1)

Michael Cimino (b. 1939, New York) studied art, architecture, and art history. Although he first worked in advertising, in 1971 he moved to Los Angeles to begin a career as a screenwriter. Thanks to Clint Eastwood he gave his debut with the crime comedy Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974). The solid success of this debut helped Cimino put through the first of his purely authorial projects, the legendary The Deer Hunter (1978). Its popular and critical success was… (more)

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Movies
2007

Il Pianto della statua - short story

1985

250.000 Mücken im Pappkarton (TV movie) - short story