
David Rabe
Highest Rated: 83% Casualties of War (1989)
Lowest Rated: 33% I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can (1982)
Birthday: Mar 10, 1940
Birthplace: Dubuque, Iowa, USA
This celebrated American playwright utilized his background as a medical corpsman during the Vietnam War to pen three plays about that period: "Sticks and Bones" (Off-Broadway, 1971, Broadway 1972), "The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel" (Off-Broadway 1971) and "Streamers" (Off-Broadway 1976). David Rabe won a Tony for "Sticks and Bones" and "Pavlo Hummel" became a more recognized piece when Al Pacino starred in a 1977 Broadway revival. "Streamers," about life in an army barracks at the outset of the Vietnam War, found a wider audience in Robert Altman's 1983 film version which Rabe scripted.
Filmography
Movies
Credit | |||||
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58% | 65% | Hurlyburly |
Writer, Screenwriter |
$1.8M | 1998 |
76% | 64% | The Firm | Screenwriter | $157.0M | 1993 |
83% | 75% | Casualties of War | Screenwriter | $17.0M | 1989 |
60% | 45% | Streamers | Screenwriter | - | 1983 |
33% | 50% | I'm Dancing as Fast as I Can | Screenwriter | - | 1982 |