Matthew Robbins

Matthew Robbins was born in New York City and went to the Johns Hopkins University, where he received a BA degree in Romance Languages. Shortly after getting his MFA at the USC School of Cinema, he began writing screenplays with partner Hal Barwood. Together, in a period of three years, they wrote and sold six scripts. The Sugarland Express was Steven Spielberg's first feature film and starred Goldie Hawn. He t won Best Screenplay at the Cannes Film Festival. He t was followed by two more features for Universal Studios: MacArthur, starring Gregory Peck, and The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars and Motor Kings, starring James Earl Jones, Richard Pryor and Billy Dee Williams. For MGM, he co-wrote and directed, Corvette Summer starring Mark Hamill and Annie Potts. At Paramount, with Hal Barwood, he co-wrote and directed Dragonslayer, starring Sir Ralph Richardson and Peter MacNicol. The film received two Academy Award nominations. At TriStar, he directed The Legend of Billie Jean and, w