Robert Bernard Altman (February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director and screenwriter known for making films that are highly naturalistic, but with a stylized perspective. In 2006, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences recognized his body of work with an Academy Honorary Award. His films "MASH" (1970), "McCabe & Mrs. Miller" (1971), "The Long Goodbye" (1973), and "Nashville" (1975) have been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry.

Filmography

• 2025Breakdown: 1975 — (archive footage)
• 2024Daedalus — Sampled Interview (voice) (uncredited)
• 2006A Prairie Home Companion — Director, Producer
• Tanner on Tanner — Executive Producer, Director, Creator
• 2004Words in Progress
• 2003The Company — Director, Producer
• 2001Gosford Park — Director, Producer, Idea
• 2000Dr. T & the Women — Director, Producer
• 2000Gun: Fatal Betrayal — Producer
• 2000Trixie — Producer
• 1999Cookie's Fortune — Director, Producer
• 1998Killer App — Director
• 1998The Gingerbread Man — Director
• 1997Afterglow — Producer
• Gun — Director, Executive Producer
• 1997Jazz '34 — Director, Producer
• 1996Kansas City — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1994Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle — Producer
• 1994Prêt-à-Porter — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1993Black and Blue: A Musical Revue — Director
• 1993Short Cuts — Director, Screenplay
• 1992The Player — Director
• 1990Vincent & Theo — Director
• Vincent & Theo — Director
• Tanner '88 — Director, Executive Producer, Creator
• 1988The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial — Director, Producer
• 1987Aria — Director, Writer
• 1987Basements — Director, Producer
• 1987Beyond Therapy — Screenplay, Director
• 1987O.C. and Stiggs — Director, Producer
• 1985Fool for Love — Director
• 1985The Laundromat — Director
• 1984Secret Honor — Director, Producer
• 1983Streamers — Director, Producer
• 1982Before the Nickelodeon: The Cinema of Edwin S. Porter — Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)
• 1982Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean — Director
• 1982Precious Blood — Executive Producer, Director
• 1982Rattlesnake in a Cooler — Director, Executive Producer
• 1981Endless Love — Hotel Manager
• 1980HealtH — Director, Producer, Writer
• 1980Popeye — Director
• 1979A Perfect Couple — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1979Quintet — Director, Story, Screenplay, Producer
• 1979Rich Kids — Executive Producer
• 1978A Wedding — Director, Story, Screenplay, Producer
• 1978Remember My Name — Producer
• 19773 Women — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1977The Late Show — Producer
• 1976Buffalo Bill and the Indians, or Sitting Bull's History Lesson — Director, Screenstory, Screenplay, Producer
• 1976From the Prairie to the Palace
• 1976Welcome to L.A. — Producer
• Arena
• 1975Nashville — Director, Producer
• Saturday Night Live — Director
• 1974California Split — Director, Producer
• 1974Thieves Like Us — Director, Screenplay
• 1973The Long Goodbye — Ambulance Driver (uncredited), Director
• 1972Images — Director, Writer
• 1971Brewster McCloud — Director
• 1971McCabe & Mrs. Miller — Director, Screenplay
• 1970Events — Bob
• 1970M*A*S*H — Director
• 1969That Cold Day in the Park — Director
• Premiere — Director
• 1967Countdown — Director
• Omnibus
• 1967The Happening — Second Unit Director
• 1965The Kathryn Reed Story — Self, Director
• 1964Nightmare in Chicago — Director, Producer
• 1964Pot au feu — Director
• Kraft Suspense Theatre — Director
• 1963The Long Lost Life of Edward Smalley — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1963The Party — Director
• Combat! — Director
• The Gallant Men — Director
• Bus Stop — Director
• Cain's Hundred — Director
• Kraft Mystery Theatre — Director
• Route 66 — Director
• Surfside 6 — Director
• The Roaring 20's — Director
• Bonanza — Director
• Hawaiian Eye — Director
• The Troubleshooters — Director
• Bronco — Director
• Lawman — Director
• U.S. Marshal — Director
• M Squad — Director
• Maverick — Director
• Sugarfoot — Director
• 1957The Delinquents — Director, Writer, Producer
• 1957The James Dean Story — Director, Producer, Editor
• Whirlybirds — Director
• 1956Corn's-a-Poppin' — Writer
• The Gale Storm Show — Director
• 1956The Magic Bond — Director
• Alfred Hitchcock Presents — Director
• The Millionaire — Director
• 1954The Dirty Look — Director
• Omnibus
• 1952The Sound of Bells — Director
• 1951Modern Football — Director
• 1950Honeymoon for Harriet — Writer, Editor
• 1948Bodyguard — Story
• 1947The Secret Life of Walter Mitty — Man Drinking (uncredited)

Appearances as themselves (46)

• 2022Each Day in a Moment — Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 2020Return to Sweethaven: A Look Back With Robin And The Altmans — Self (archive footage)
• 2018Nothing Like a Dame — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Altman — Self (archive footage)
• 2014Return to the 5 & Dime: An Interview with Ed Graczyk — Self (archive footage)
• 2013What Is Cinema? — Self
• 2005A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin — Self
• 2005Elio Petri: Notes About a Filmmaker — Self
• 2004Fact & Fiction — Self
• 2004Looking for Sophia — Self
• 2004On the Set: Alex’s Loft — Self
• 2004On the Set: Loews Theater — Self
• 2004Robert Altman and Garry Trudeau — Self
• 2004The Politics of Docs — Self
• 2004What’s Happened Since ‘88 — Self
• 2004Why Tanner, Why Now? — Self
• 2004Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession — Self
• 2003A Decade Under the Influence — Self
• 2003Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex 'n' Drugs 'n' Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood — Self
• 2003Imagining Images — Self
• 2003Twentieth Century Fox: The Blockbuster Years — Self
• 2002Heart of the Festival — Self (archive footage)
• 2002Rip Van Marlowe — Self
• 2002Robert Altman in England — Self
• 2002Robert Altman on 'Rashomon' — Self
• 2002The Making of Gosford Park — Self
• History vs. Hollywood — Self
• 2000Altman on His Own Terms — Self
• Backstory — Self
• 2000Enlisted: The Story of 'M*A*S*H' — Self
• 1999Hitchcock: Shadow of a Genius — Self
• The Directors — Self
• 1997Frank Capra's American Dream — Self
• 1996Robert Altman: Giggle And Give In — Self
• 1995The First 100 Years: A Celebration of American Movies — Self
• American Cinema — Self
• Intimate Portrait — Self
• 1993Luck, Trust & Ketchup: Robert Altman in Carver Country — Self
• 1993Made in the USA — Self
• 1992Robert Altman's Players — Self
• 1990Hollywood Mavericks — Self
• The South Bank Show — Self
• Film '72 — Self
• The Dick Cavett Show — Self - Guest
• The Oscars — Self
• 24 Tracks: Robert Altman's Nashville — Self