Randall Wallace

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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer
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Tennessee, USA
Biography:"Randall Wallace" planned on becoming a minister or a songwriter, not a filmmaker. After leaving the seminary to write music, he worked as a novelist and television scribe before penning the award-winning script to "Braveheart" (1995) and embarking on a directing career. Raised in Tennessee, "Wallace" began writing stories at the age of seven. He majored in religion at Duke University before joining a seminary, but took various writing classes all through school. He even opened his own record company to release his original songs, which were played on local radio stations throughout the Carolinas and Virginia. After exiting the seminary, "Wallace" moved to Nashville to try his hand at a music career. He ran the animal shows at Opryland while trying to establish himself as a songwriter. Unfortunately, because he did not write country music (the city's primary genre), he experienced very little success.... Full Biography
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