Cormac McCarthy(1933-2023)

Writer
Producer

Cormac McCarthy in The Sunset Limited (2011)

Set in a New York tenement apartment, the story focuses on two very different men Â– a deeply religious black ex-con (Samuel L. Jackson) who thwarts the suicide attempt of an asocial white college professor (Tommy Lee Jones) who tried to throw himself in front of an oncoming subway train, The Sunset Limited.

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The Sunset Limited (2011)

Cormac McCarthy was born on 20 July 1933 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. He was a writer and producer, known for The Road (2009), No Country for Old Men (2007) and The Counselor (2013). He was married to Jennifer Claire Winkley, Anne DeLisle and Lee Holleman. He died on 13 June 2023 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.

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Awards
- 1 win & 1 nomination total

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Known for

The Road

7.2

Writer

2009

No Country for Old Men

8.2

Writer

2007

The Counselor

5.4

Writer

2013

All the Pretty Horses

5.8

Writer

2000

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Writer

Red West
7.4
Short
- novel
- 2023
The Counselor
5.4
- written by
- 2013
Child of God
5.4
- novel
- 2013
The Sunset Limited
7.3
TV Movie
- play
- written by
- 2011
Outer Dark
6.3
Short
- novel
- 2009
The Road
7.2
- based on the book by
- 2009
No Country for Old Men
8.2
- novel
- 2007
All the Pretty Horses
5.8
- novel
- 2000
Visions
5.9
TV Series
- written by
- 1977

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Height
- 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Born
- July 20, 1933
- Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Died
- June 13, 2023
- Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA(natural causes)
Spouses
Other works
Novel: "No Country for Old Men" (filmed as No Country for Old Men (2007))
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Trivia
Literary critic Harold Bloom considers him one of the four major American novelists of his time, along with Thomas Pynchon, Don DeLillo, and Philip Roth.

Quotes
[on Terrence Malick, whom he admires] It's so strange; I never knew what happened to him. I saw Richard Gere in New Orleans one time, and I said, "What ever happened to Terry Malick?" And he said, "Everybody asks me that." He said, "I have no idea." But later on I met Terry. And he just - he just decided that he didn't want to live that life. Or so he told me. He just didn't want to live the life. It wasn't that he didn't like the films. It's just, if you could do it without living in Hollywood...