Richard Stratton

Richard Stratton

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Personal Details

Spouse
  • Kim Wozencraft

    ( Oct 19, 1991 to May 30, 2006 )
  • Antoinette Stratton

    ( Jul 8, 2025 to Jul 8, 2025 )

Biography

Richard Stratton is an award-winning writer and filmmaker with a diverse range of feature film and documentary credits to his name. His feature film work includes writing and producing SLAM, which won the Grand Jury prize at Sundance and the Camera d'Or at Cannes, and Whiteboyz for Fox Searchlight. For the 25th anniversary of SLAM, the film was digitally remastered and screened on opening weekend at Sundance 2023.

Stratton's documentary film credits include Gotti: Godfather and Son, a four-part series he directed and executive produced for A&E based on his magazine article, Godfather and Son, which won the New York Press Club award. Other documentary credits include America's War on Drugs, which aired on the History channel in 2017, The Execution Machine: Texas Death Row, Thug Life in D.C., which won an Emmy in 1999, and Gladiator Days: Anatomy of a Prison Murder, all produced for the America Undercover series on HBO. He also produced the documentary Crude, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in 2009 and has won numerous awards around the world, including the Peace Prize at the Berlin Film Festival in 2010.

In addition to his work in film, Stratton was the creator, executive producer, and showrunner of the dramatic TV series Street Time, which aired on Showtime. He wrote and directed The Whole Truth, the Season Two finale of Street Time.

Stratton's writing has appeared in numerous magazines, including GQ, Esquire, Details, Newsweek, Rolling Stone, Spin, Playboy, and Story Magazine. He has written several books, including Altered States of America: Outlaws and Icons, Hitmakers and Hitmen, Smuggler's Blues: A True Story of the Hippie Mafia, published in 2016, and Kingpin: Prisoner of The War on Drugs, published in 2017. In February 2020, the third volume of the trilogy, In The World: From The Big House to Hollywood, was released. That was followed by DEFENDING ALICE, a novel of love and race in the roaring Twenties, published worldwide by Harper Collins on November 22, 2022.

Stratton has also appeared as an actor in Wall Street 2: Money Never Sleeps and other films. He lives in New York with his wife Antoinette and is the father of five children.

Career

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2001
Wendigo
Wendigo as Earl
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Slam
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2012
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1999
Whiteboyz
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1998
Slam
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