Ron Shelton was born on September 15, 1945 in Whittier, California, USA. Growing up in Santa Barbara, a graduate of Westmont College, where he gained fame as a basketball player, he played for baseball teams for five years. At the age of 25, Shelton decided that for all his successes, he could not beat out in the stars of big sports, and entered the University of Arizona, where he thoroughly studied sculpture and received a master’s degree in fine arts. Then he moved to Los Angeles, where he took
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Ron Shelton was born on September 15, 1945 in Whittier, California, USA. Growing up in Santa Barbara, a graduate of Westmont College, where he gained fame as a basketball player, he played for baseball teams for five years. At the age of 25, Shelton decided that for all his successes, he could not beat out in the stars of big sports, and entered the University of Arizona, where he thoroughly studied sculpture and received a master’s degree in fine arts. Then he moved to Los Angeles, where he took up sculpture, achieved notable success, organized a solo exhibition. In addition, he began to write scripts, which, however, showed little interest. Ron Shelton eventually joined the crew of Roger Spottiswood's film Under Fire (1983), where he worked on the script and was the second director. Spottiswood liked Shelton’s work and invited him to work on his new film. In 1988, Shelton managed to shoot a picture on his own script - "Durham Bulls", with a small budget, turned out to be an unexpected box office hit, turning Kevin Costner into a star, and the director brought an Oscar nomination for the script. Shelton's next work was the love story Blaze (1990), starring Paul Newman and Lolita Davidovich. A significant response from the public was caused by the sports film "White Can't Jump" (1992). In 1994, Ron Shelton acted as a producer and screenwriter of William Friedkin’s film Gambling and as a director of the baseball film Cobb, with Tommy Lee Jones in the title role. In 1996, the attention of Shelton attracted golf - and he put the picture "The Tin Cup", with Costner and Rene Russo in the lead roles. Shelton then made a road movie about boxers, Blow to the Bone (1999), with Antonio Banderas and Woody Harrelson. In 2001, the director for the first time put the film not according to his script - the action movie "The Cursed Season", with Kurt Russell in the title role. In 2003, the police tape "Hollywood Cops" was released, in this adventure comedy, along with veteran Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, who is gaining popularity, starred.