Biography

Masterson often worked with his cousin, writer Horton Foote. Acting from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, including 1975's The Stepford Wives as Walter Eberhart, since then he has concentrated mostly on directing and producing. The actress Mary Stuart Masterson is his daughter and she appeared with her father in The Stepford Wives as one of the Eberhart's daughters.

Masterson co-wrote (with Larry L. King) the books for the hit musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1978) and its short-lived sequel The Best Little Whorehouse Goes Public (1994). In 1985 he directed The Trip to Bountiful, for which Geraldine Page won the Academy Award for Best Actress.

His other work in film includes Night Game (1989) Lost Junction (2003) and Whiskey School (2005).

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