After a year at Santa Monica College he went on to earn his BFA at California Institute of the Arts under the mentorship of director Alexander Mackendrick and illustrator and pioneering digital animator Ed Emshwiller. In 1973 his family moved to West Los Angeles where he attended Emerson Junior High and University High School. He grew up surrounded by his parents eclectic and eccentric group of friends Austrian philosophers, American Indians, FBI agents, members of the Hollywood Ten, Eastern European refugees, Thai aristocracy, mysteriously talented dealers in primitive art and a wide array of writers, from Ray Bradbury to Jim Thompson.īeau attended West Hollywood Elementary School. Throughout a good deal of his youth Beau lived in West Hollywood, an unincorporated section of Los Angeles county, known as a center of counter-culture and beatnik life. His mother was Katherine Adams, the daughter of a silent movie actress and a southern California real estate developer. His father was Louis L'Amour, a well known author of magazine and paperback fiction. Beau L'Amour was born in Los Angeles, California.
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