Highest rated movie: Temple Grandin (2010)
Lowest rated movie: Beneath the Darkness (2012)
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Movies starring Richard Dillard have generally received mixed reviews and hold an average score of 57%.
Temple Grandin - released in 2010 - is Richard Dillard's highest rated movie, with a score of 84% based on 460 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Richard Dillard is Beneath the Darkness - released in 2012 - with a score of 34% based on 93 reviews.
Richard Henry Wilde Dillard (born 11 October 1937) is an American poet, author, critic, and translator.
Born in Roanoke, Virginia, Dillard is best known as a poet. He is also highly-regarded as a writer of fiction and critical essays, as well as one of the screenwriters for the cult classic Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster.He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Roanoke College and went on to receive of a Master of Arts (1959) and the Ph. D. (1965) from the University of Virginia. While at the University of Virginia he was both a Woodrow Wilson and a DuPont Fellow. He is considered something of an institution at Hollins University where he has been teaching creative writing, literature, and film studies since 1964. Dillard has been the editor of the Hollins Critic since 1996. He also served as the vice president of the Film Journal from 1973-1980.
He is the winner of numerous awards for his writing including the Academy of American Poets Prize, the O. B. Hardison, Jr. Poetry Prize, and the Hanes Award for Poetry. In 2007, he was awarded the George Garrett Award for Service to Contemporary Literature by the Association of Writers & Writing Programs. Dillard influenced many contemporary writers including both his ex-wives Annie Dillard and Cathryn Hankla. Others include the likes of Henry S. Taylor, Lee Smith, Lucinda MacKethan, Anne Jones, Rosanne Coggeshall, Wyn Cooper, Jill McCorkle, Madison Smartt Bell, and Julia Johnson.
Richard Dillard has acted in films with Brady Coleman, Jeff Gibbs, Brandon Smith and Brad Leland.
Richard Dillard has worked with these film directors: Richard Linklater, Andrew Stevens, Peter Berg and Terrence Malick.
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