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Also Known As Richard Stuart Linklater
Born July 30, 1960 (age 66) • Houston • Texas
Awards And Honors Golden Globe Award (2015)
Notable Works “A Scanner Darkly” • “Bad News Bears” • “Before Midnight” • “Before Sunrise” • “Before Sunset” • “Bernie” • “Blue Moon” • “Boyhood” • “Dazed and Confused” • “Everybody Wants Some!!” • “Fast Food Nation” • “Hit Man” • “It’s Impossible to Learn to Plow by Reading Books” • “Last Flag Flying” • “School of Rock” • “Slacker” • “Tape” • “Waking Life” • “Where’d You Go, Bernadette”

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Director Richard Linklater gestures while speaking with Christian McKay among green theater seats on the set of the film Me and Orson Welles.
Patricia Arquette as Olivia Evans sits at a table writing in a notebook, with light from a window behind her, in a scene from the film Boyhood directed by Richard Linklater.
Mike White, Joan Cusack, and Sarah Silverman stand together indoors, each with a different expression, in a scene from the film School of Rock.
Jack Black stands with legs wide apart, holding an electric guitar and pointing upward, with children dressed as rock musicians behind him and the School of Rock logo above.
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