David Mamet

David Alan Mamet (born November 30, 1947) is an American playwright, screenwriter, director and poet born to a Jewish family in Flossmoor, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, Illinois. Educated at the Francis W. Parker School and Goddard College and a founding member of the Atlantic Theater Company, Mamet first gained acclaim for a trio of off-Broadway plays in 1976, The Duck Variations, Sexual Perversity in Chicago, and American Buffalo.

Filmography

• Edmond (due for release December 20, 2005)
• Spartan (2004)
• Heist (2001)
• Hannibal (2001)
• Catastrophe (2000)
• Lakeboat (2000)
• State and Main (2000)
• The Winslow Boy (1999)
• Ronin (1998)
• Wag the Dog (1997)
• The Spanish Prisoner (1997)
• The Edge (1997)
• American Buffalo (1996)
• Oleanna (1994)
• Vanya on 42nd Street (1994)
• Hoffa (1992)
• Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
• Homicide (1991)
• We're No Angels (1989)
• Things Change (1988)
• House of Games (1987)
• The Untouchables (1987)
• About Last Night... (1986)
• The Verdict (1982)
• The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)