Ted Tally

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Nationality: American
Birthdate: 04/09/1952
Birthplace: Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

biography

A screenwriter and playwright whose work has often been laced with high psycho-dramatic tension, Ted Tally won an Academy Award for his adaptation of "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991), forever emblazoning the name of Hannibal 'the Cannibal' Lecter in the annals of American screen villains.

Tally had a distinguished theater background prior to breaking into motion pictures. A graduate of Yale's prestigious theater school, he devoted the late 1970s and most of the 80s to the stage. His "Terra Nova" premiered at the Yale Rep in 1977; its 1984 NYC production earned the writer an OBIE Award. Tally Continued

Credits

Screenplay
2002
screenplay
2000
Screenplay
2000
Associate Producer
2000
screenplay
1996
screenplay
1996
screenplay
1991
screenplay

milestones

Year
Milestone
1977 
Taught playwriting at Yale University
1977 
First produced play, "Terra Nova", at Yale Repertory Theatre
1978 
First New York production, "Hooters", at Playwrights Horizons
1983 
Was named master artist in residence at Atlantic Center for the Arts
1983 
First produced teleplay, "Hooters", adapted for the Playboy Channel
Continued

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