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Gus Van Sant
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer, Editor Born: July 24, 1952 in Louisville, KY Biography:A director who is capable of crafting both deeply unconventional independent films and mainstream crowd-pleasers, "Gus Van Sant" has managed to carve an enviable niche for himself in Hollywood. Since debuting in 1985 with "Mala Noche", Van Sant has become one of the premiere bards of dysfunction, populating his films with a parade of hustlers, junkies, psychopathic weather girls, homicidal teens, and troubled geniuses. Following his first major success, "Good Will Hunting", Van Sant directed a remake of one of the classic paeans to dysfunction, "Alfred Hitchcock"'s "Psycho".
The son of a traveling salesman who rapidly worked his way up the corporate ladder into middle-class prosperity, Van Sant was born in Louisville, KY, on July 24, 1952. Due to his father's job, the family moved continuously during Van Sant's childhood. One constant in the director's early years was his interest in painting and... Full Biography
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