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John Dahl
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Director, Screenwriter
Born:
Billings, MT
Biography:Reserved Montanan "John Dahl" gravitated toward cinematic stories that bore little resemblance to his peaceful roots and made a name for himself as a superb neo-noir director in the 1990s.

Raised in Billings, MT, where his youth included a stint as a Boy Scout with his father as his Scout leader, Dahl studied music at the University of Montana before switching to film at Montana State. Dahl subsequently moved to Los Angeles to attend the American Film Institute. Entering the movie industry however he could, Dahl directed music videos and did storyboard art for "Jonathan Demme" before he finally got a break when his script P.I.: Private Investigations (1987) was made into a TV movie.

Dahl moved to feature direction with the independent crime movie and his first neo-noir "Kill Me Again" (1989). Written by Dahl as well, "Kill Me Again" starred Joanne Whalley-Kilmer as a Mob-scamming femme fatale who... Full Biography

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