Person · Open Library
- Works
- 34
Top works
- it's all a about a ball
- African-American Biographies
- Saigon Sunset
- Peppa Pig : Me Reader Jr
- Peppa Pig
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1962-06-27
Discography
- Michael Ball1992
- A Christmas Spectacular of Carols and Songs1992
- Always1993
- One Careful Owner1994
- First Love1995
- Christmas1999
- The Movies1999
- This Time... It's Personal2000
- Centre Stage2002
- A Love Story2003
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 156
- Total plays
- 714
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Alan+Ball">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
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· 2000 · cited 36,361x
- MEGA6: Molecular Evolutionary Genetics Analysis Version 6.0
· 2013 · cited 34,709x
- The ERA5 global reanalysis
· 2020 · cited 22,827x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,056x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,520x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- Alan Erwin Ball , ( 1957-05-13 ) May 13, 1957 (age 69) , Marietta, Georgia , U.S.
- Education
- University of Georgia Florida State University
- Occupations
- Screenwriter, director, producer
- Known for
- Screenwriter of American Beauty
- Television
- Six Feet Under , True Blood , Banshee
- Partner
- Peter Macdissi
- Awards
- Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay , American Beauty (1999)
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Image
- BALL Allan-24x30-2008b.jpg
Show 3 more facts
- Commons category
- Alan Ball
- date of birth
- 1957-05-13
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
via Wikidata · CC0
~4 min read
Article
Alan Erwin Ball (born May 13, 1957) is an American writer and director for film and television. Ball is best known for writing the screenplay for the dramedy film American Beauty (1999), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay at the 72nd Academy Awards ceremony. He also created the HBO drama series Six Feet Under (2001–2005) and True Blood (2008–2014), and served as an executive producer on the Cinemax action drama series Banshee (2013–2016). He wrote and directed the films Towelhead (2007) and Uncle Frank (2020).
Early life