George Plimpton
George Ames Plimpton was an American writer. He is known for his sports writing, for helping found The Paris Review, as well as his patrician accent. He was known for "participatory journalism," including accounts of his active involvement in professional sporting events, acting in a Western, performing a comedy act at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, and playing with the New York Philharmonic Orchestra and then recording the experience from the point of view of an amateur.
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🎬 Movies
The Capote Tapes
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2021
Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself
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2012
Soul Power
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2009
Infamous
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2006
Thomas Pynchon: A Journey Into the Mind of P.
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2003
Bullet in the Brain
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2001
Just Visiting
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2001
Sam the Man
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2001
When We Were Kings
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1996
Just Cause
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1995
Little Man Tate
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1991
A Fool and His Money
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1989
Volunteers
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1985
Reds
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1981
The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover
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1977
Rio Lobo
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1970
The Detective
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1968
Beyond the Law
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1968
