Paul Thomas Anderson

RECENT CREDITS
There Will Be Blood (FILM)  Dec. 26, 2007
Henry Rollins Show (TV)  May. 13, 2006
Punch-Drunk Love (FILM)  Oct. 11, 2002
Magnolia (FILM)  Dec. 17, 1999
Boogie Nights (FILM)  Oct. 17, 1997
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HIGHLIGHTS
Father was voice-over actor Ernie Anderson, best known for narrating The Love Boat (ABC, 1977-86).
Father gave him a Betamax camera when he was 12; he and his friends used it to make amateur films.
As a child, engaged his friends in a pie-making contest and filmed it. The resulting pies were so bad they ended up having the family's Shetland pony sample them.
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All Credits

Film Name / TV Show Name (Episode Name)
Role
Category

There Will Be Blood  2007
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Film


Punch-Drunk Love  2002
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Film


Magnolia  1999
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Film


Boogie Nights  1997
Director, Producer, Screenwriter
Film


Hard Eight  1997
Director, Screenwriter
Film




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Highlights

Father was voice-over actor Ernie Anderson, best known for narrating The Love Boat (ABC, 1977-86).
Father gave him a Betamax camera when he was 12; he and his friends used it to make amateur films.
As a child, engaged his friends in a pie-making contest and filmed it. The resulting pies were so bad they ended up having the family's Shetland pony sample them.
Made The Dirk Diggler Story, the forerunner to Boogie Nights, when he was a senior in high school.
Attended NYU film school for only two days; dropped out because one professor panned Terminator 2, while another gave him a C on an assignment he copied from a David Mamet work.
Once worked as a production assistant on a children's game show called Quiz Kid Challenge.


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