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Ron Shelton
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Director, Producer, Screenwriter, Executive Producer Born: September 15, 1945 in Whittier, CA Biography:Californian "Ron Shelton" toyed with a sculpting career before answering the clarion call of the sports world. A basketball star in college, Shelton spent five years as a baseball player in the Baltimore Orioles' farm system. He closed out his diamond career with the Rochester Red Wings at age 25. After a series of "joe jobs," Shelton decided he needed a bit more education to survive, and went on to earn an MFA degree at Arizona State. Still drifting from one dead-end job to another, Shelton began writing screenplays, his favorite being a semi-autobiographical work about a minor league catcher titled A Player to Be Named Later. Failing to make a sale, Shelton signed on as a rewrite man and second-unit director for director "Roger Spottiswoode"'s "Under Fire" (1983). Impressed by the results, Spottiswoode gave Shelton another second-unit assignment in the 1985 football comedy "The Best of Times", ... Full Biography
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