Early career as a journalist included 4 years as the rock music critic for the San Diego Union (the city's major daily).
Former journalist for Rolling Stone magazine.
Son of Alice Marie Crowe.
Went to Westhill High School in Stamford, Connecticut.
Attended University of San Diego High School.
Attended Indio High School.
Attended San Diego City College.
His wife is Nancy Wilson from the rock group Heart.
Wrote liner notes for the album "Frampton Comes Alive".
Wrote liner notes for Led Zeppelin's "The Song Remains The Same" live record.
Often refers to the novel "To Kill a Mockingbird" in his films.
Steven Spielberg did a cameo in Crowe's "Vanilla Sky" and Crowe did a cameo in Spielberg's "Minority Report", both films starred Tom Cruise.
Admires Billy Wilder very much and uses a lot of what Wilder taught him in his films. Also, his favorite movie is a Wilder movie, The Apartment.
He and his wife have 4 springer spaniels.
He wrote the screenplay to Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982) based on his book. He wrote the book after posing as a student at his old high school to see how student life had changed.
Five of the films that he directed (Say Anything, Singles, Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous, and the upcoming Elizabethtown) have scenes with characters on airplanes or walking through airports.
Wrote the liner notes for "Anthology: Through the Years" by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Wrote the liner notes for "Biograph" by Bob Dylan.
Cameron Crowe Detailed Biography
Cameron Crowe (born July 13, 1957) is an American writer and film director.
He was born in Palm Springs, California to James Crowe and Alice George. He was raised in San Diego and began working as a music journalist when he was 15, later becoming a contributing editor for the music magazines Creem and Rolling Stone. He currently resides in Seattle, Washington.
He married the Heart guitarist Nancy Wilson in 1986 and they have two children.
In 1999, Crowe published Conversations with Billy Wilder (ISBN 0571201628), a book of interviews with the film director Billy Wilder, then in his early 90s.
He compiled the Anthology collection of the works of Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers in 2000.
