Composers and their stage works 


(Albert) Horton FOOTE (Jr.)

Born in Wharton, Texas, 14 March 1916.

Stage Works

  1. Wharton Dance (produced 1940)
  2. Texas Town (produced 1941)
  3. Out of My House (produced 1942)
  4. Only the Heart (produced 1942). 1944
  5. Miss Lou, and The Girls (produced 1943)
  6. The Lonely (produced 1943)
  7. Goodbye to Richmond (produced 1943)
  8. Daisy Lee, music by Bernardo Segall (produced 1944)
  9. Homecoming, In My Beginning, People in the Show, The Return (produced 1944)
  10. Themes and Variations (produced 1945?)
  11. Celebration (produced 1948)
  12. The Chase (produced 1952). 1952
  13. The Trip to Bountiful (televised 1953; produced 1953). 1954
  14. The Oil Well (televised 1953; produced 1991)
  15. The Midnight Caller (televised 1953; produced 1958). 1959
  16. John Turner Davis (televised 1953; produced 1958)
  17. The Dancers (televised 1954; produced 1963)
  18. The Travelling Lady (produced 1954). 1955
  19. A Young Lady of Property. 1955
  20. The Old Beginning
  21. The Death of the Old Man 1956
  22. Expectant Relations
  23. The Tears of My Sister
  24. The Trip to Bountiful
  25. Flight (televised 1957)
  26. Old Man, adaptation of a story by Faulkner (televised 1958)
  27. * Roots in a Parched Ground (as The Night of the Storm, televised 1960)
  28. Tomorrow, adaptation of the story by Faulkner (televised 1960)
  29. Gone with the Wind, music and lyrics by Harold Rome, adaptation of the novel by Margaret Mitchell (produced 1972)
  30. * Courtship (produced 1984)
  31. * 1918 (televised 1984). 1987
  32. * On Valentine's Day (televised 1985). 1987
  33. Tomorrow (television play) and Tomorrow (screenplay) 1985
  34. The Road to the Graveyard (produced 1985). 1988
  35. Blind Date (produced 1986). 1986
  36. * Lily Dale (produced 1986). 1988
  37. * The Widow Claire (produced 1986).1988
  38. The Man Who Climbed the Pecan Trees (produced 1988). 1989
  39. Dividing the Estate (produced 1989)
  40. Talking Pictures (produced 1990)
  41. * Cousins
  42. * The Death of Papa

* = Included in the 9-play cycle entitled The Orphan's Home

SCREENPLAYS:

  1. Storm Fear, 1955;
  2. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1962;
  3. Baby, The Rain Must Fall, 1964;
  4. Hurry Sundown, with Thomas Ryan, 1966;
  5. Tomorrow, 1972;
  6. Tender Mercies, 1983;
  7. 1918, 1984;
  8. The Trip to Bountiful, 1985;
  9. On Valentine's Day, 1985;
  10. Courtship, 1986;
  11. Convicts, 1989;
  12. Of Mice and Men, 1991.

TELEVISION PLAYS:

  1. Ludie Brooks, 1951;
  2. The Travelers, 1952;
  3. The Old Beginning, 1952;
  4. The Trip to Bountiful, 1953;
  5. A Young Lady of Property, 1953;
  6. The Oil Well, 1953;
  7. Rocking Chair, 1953;
  8. Expectant Relations, 1953;
  9. The Death of the Old Man, 1953;
  10. The Tears of My Sister, 1953;
  11. John Turner Davis, 1953;
  12. The Midnight Caller, 1953;
  13. The Dancers, 1954;
  14. The Shadow of Willie Greer, 1954;
  15. The Roads to Home, 1955;
  16. Drugstore: Sunday Noon, 1956;
  17. Flight, 1957 (UK title: Summer's Pride, 1961);
  18. Member of the Family, 1957;
  19. Old Man, 1958;
  20. Tomorrow, 1960;
  21. The Shape of the River, 1960;
  22. The Night of the Storm, 1960;
  23. The Gambling Heart, 1964;
  24. The Displaced Person, from a story by Flannery O'Connor, 1977;
  25. Barn Burning, from the story by Faulkner, 1980;
  26. scripts for Gabby Hayes Show, 1950-51;
  27. Habitation of Dragons, 1991.