An American director, screenwriter, editor, and actor, born in New York in 1950. He is one of the prominent icons in independent and international American cinema. The movie Return of the Secaucus Seven, which he directed in 1979, is a milestone in the field of directing. He is best known for writing Eight Men Out (1988), and Men with Guns (1997), and also directing Amigo (2010), and Honeydripper (2007). As an actor, he appeared in The Normals (2012), and In the Electric Mist (2009).