Robert Altman research

Robert Altman was an American Film Director born on the 20th February 1925 but died on the 20th November 2006. Some of the films that he has been involved in over his career are M*A*S*H, Nashville and McCabe and Mrs Miller. A way that Altman directs was that his films were highly naturalistic but with a stylized perspective, he was also referenced as an actor's director, been able to work wih large casts of well known actors. Robert Altman came to direct M*A*S*H when he was offered the script to i and he agreed to direct the project. Altman was 45 when he came to direct M*A*S*H. Prior to directing M*A*S*H he had done a lot of television work working on TV series such as Bonanza and Combat!, he did do some film directing before M*A*S*H, a 1969 film which was called That Cold Day In The Park, which was not successful. Things that were said about Altman in regards to M*A*S*H was that he frequently encouraged that they talk over each other, he seemed to have a style of making people talk over each other. 20th Centur Fox was the studio that produced M*A*S*H and the estimated budget was 3.5 million pounds.