Narrator
Ronald F. Maxwell is the son of a World War II veteran and
a French war bride. He grew up in New Jersey where he
graduated from Clifton High School. During his high
school years, Maxwell founded the Garden State Players
where he wrote, produced and directed dozens of plays and
musicals. Maxwell enrolled as a theater major at New York
University College of Arts and Sciences where he was a
member of the Hall of Fame Players and the Green Room
Honor Society. At NYU, Maxwell acted in plays and musicals,
including the title role in Hamlet. His work in
NYU's theater program earned him an invitation and
scholarship to attend the New York University Graduate
School of the Arts, Institute of Film and Television. In
1970, Maxwell completed his graduate film thesis, writing and
directing an adaptation of Albert Camus' The Guest.
Upon graduation, he worked in Spain as Charleton Heston's
personal assistant in Heston's directorial debut, Antony
and Cleopatra.
In 1974-1978, Maxwell worked at
WNET-13, in New York City, and was
one of the producers of the Emmy and
Peabody Award-winning series
Theatre in America. At WNET he
produced Sea Marks, starring
George Hearn and Veronica Castang.
In 1978, he produced and directed
Sissy Spacek, William Hurt, Sally
Kellerman and Howard da Dilva in
Verna: USO Girl, for which he
received an Emmy nomination for Best
Director. Maxwell was then "drafted"
to Hollywood where his first
theatrical film, Little Darlings,
opened at #1 on Variety
Magazine's Top Hundred Grossing
Films and has since become a classic
of the genre. Subsequently, he
directed The Night the Lights
Went out in Georgia, Kidco
and Parent Trap II.
Maxwell wrote and directed the
landmark film Gettysburg
which has been hailed as one of the
greatest war movies in the history
of film when it was released in
1993. In the summer of 1994, it was
broadcast over two nights on the TNT
Network where it established the
all-time highest rating for a
dramatic film on cable television.
The video and DVD have sold millions
of copies. Since then, Maxwell has
produced, written and directed the
film Gods and Generals, the
prequel to Gettysburg.
Gods and Generals was released
in theaters February 2003, and the
film was released to the home video
market on July 15, 2003 as the #1
selling video in America, with over
600,000 sales in its first week. He
is currently in development on two
major motion pictures, The Last
Full Measure, the final part of
his Civil War Trilogy, and Joan
of Arc, The Virgin Warrior.
Inecom Entertainment is pleased to
partner with Ronald F. Maxwell on
the following films:
www.ResistenciaFilm.com
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