Ron Shelton (born September 15, 1945) is an American screenwriter and director.
He started out as a minor league baseball player, playing infield for teams in the Baltimore Orioles minor league organization from 1967 to 1971. After that, he moved on to screenwriting, first as a partner with director Roger Spottiswoode on such movies as Under Fire, and then Shelton decided to make a movie inspired by his days in minor league baseball, and as a corrective to the sports movies he saw, and disparaged, that were coming out of Hollywood at the time. The result, Bull Durham, is often called the best baseball movie ever made. Shelton has gone on to direct and/or write many other sports-related movies, including White Men Can't Jump and Tin Cup.
He is married to actress Lolita Davidovich, whom he met on the set of the film ''Blaze'' in 1989, and who has appeared in a number of his other movies.
Films directed and/or written by Ron Shelton with their own pages:
- Under Fire (1983) (writer only)
- The Best of Times (1986) (writer only)
- Bull Durham (1988)
- White Men Can't Jump (1992)
- Cobb (1994)
- The Great White Hype (1996) (writer only)
- Tin Cup (1996)
- Dark Blue (2002)
- Hollywood Homicide (2003)
- Bad Boys II (2005) (writer only)
