William Todd Field is an American actor and filmmaker who is known for directing three feature films: In the Bedroom (2001), Little Children (2006), and Tár (2022).
Born in Pomona, California, he became interested in performing sleight-of-hand and later music at his early age. Field attended Centennial High School on Portland’s east side.
After high school, he briefly attended Southern Oregon State College (now Southern Oregon University) in Ashland on a music scholarship.
Field left the school after his freshman year and move to New York to study acting with Robert X. Modica at his renowned Carnegie Hall Studio.
He started performing with the Ark Theatre Company as both an actor and musician. He received his Master of Fine Arts from the AFI Conservatory.
Field has worked in varying capacities as an actor, director, producer, composer, and screenwriter, and began making motion pictures after Woody Allen cast him in Radio Days (1987).
In his 2015 Ioncinema piece “Top 10 American Indie Filmmakers Missing in Action”, Nicholas Bell wrote, “It is time for Field to throw one down the middle.
Field’s latest film, Tár, starring Cate Blanchett as the fictional conductor/composer Lydia Tár, premiered at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, where it competed for the Golden Lion and Queer Lion, with Blanchett winning the Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
The film had a limited theatrical release in the United States on October 7, 2022, before its’ wide release on October 28, 2022.
What movies has Todd Field directed?
Todd Field has directed many movies including Tár, Little Children, In the Bedroom, Eyes Wide Shut, The Creed of Violence, Ruby in Paradise, Twister, The Battered Bastards of Baseball, Radio Days, Gross Anatomy, Stranger than Fiction, Walking and Talking, The Haunting, Sleep with Me, Broken Vessels, The Second Front, Net Worth, New Port South, Student Exchange, Rip It Off, Once and Again, and more.